Dark Souls 3

The Pontiff boss is retarded. He can literally do 6 attacks in a row and you have to dodge them all or you take half life damage. If you take damage, you get staggered long enough that he can do it all over again. Or you get lucky and he does shitty attacks that whiffs and you can take a few shots at him.

Parry is your friend~!

Nah he's legit a pain in the ass. Hardest of the non-Lords in the game.

Soygen said:

Yeah, Pontiff was one of the tougher bosses for me.

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As a pyromancer I disagree! Well to be fair Pyro was my second play through but I think he was easier with sword and board overall.

Pontiff is definitely a fight that punishes over-aggression.

Parrying trivializes him once you have it down though. I think that is kinda an issue with parrying though. Its total garbage on lots of stuff and then completely trivializes other things. Also not nearly enough indication and consistency on what is parryable and what isn't. Trying to do an almost all-parry playthrough was so retarded on that count.

Soygen said:

If this is your first Souls/BB game, you will be bad. All I can say is stick with it. There are so few games that are as rewarding to finally overcome a challenging area/boss.

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Yeah it's my first one. I played through a bit then burned through Uncharted 4, since I've wanted to play that for a while. But I am coming back. It was a lot of fun, even if I did get my ass handed to me. A lot more strategy than I thought at a glance, I just waded in with my big ass axe and found out real quick, that's not this game apparently.

Chanur said:

I played a little bit of DS3 and the guys that morph into the giant tentacle monstrosities were a bit of a pain.

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The secret is to kill them before the transform.

I never found Ludwigs all that good, preferred the good old saw blade for max aggression. Everyone raves about it though so i guess its good, just not for me. Dunno if it trivialises all content, id imagine ebrietas being a pain with whatever weapon youre using. Although again thats probably just a 'me' issue, too impatient to wait for her head drop so I die a million times, then one shot orphan of KOS.

On a side note, I played through the entire BB game without parrying a single thing, didn't even know you could do it until I was complaining about gascgoine to a friend, being a pain in the ass and feeling out of place and he (having played all the soulsborne games) said 'oh hes there to make sure you parry'. Mind blown.

I still dont parry that much though, prefer the dodges.

I beat Aldrich, Yhorm and Dancer yesterday. Finally at the final stretch of the game.

Aldrich wasn't that hard, Yhorm is a push over with Onion bro (didn't even know about storm ruler), and Dancer was pretty easy (only boss I killed first try).

Aldrich was the hardest boss in the game for me. By, like, a lot.