Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Man, when they nerfed Radahn like a week after I beat him, I wanted to cry a little.
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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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Rykards Rancor completely fucks this boss over (as well as the Scorpion Centaur bitch to a degree). But if your timing and aim suck, Giants Flame Take Thee works pretty well, too. Melee wise, the flame perfume bottle with the right stats and buffs completely trashes the shit out of it as well.
Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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They went back and expanded his hit boxes, which did nothing to hamper casters but made melee against him a lot harder (not release levels, but pretty tough). I think Mirizaki hates watching naked dudes with the Rykard Spear no hitting shit or something.
Bald Brah
Silver Knight of the Realm
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But that was also with pre-nerf rotten breath so you could actually kill him 2x faster back then.
Kirun
Buzzfeed Editor
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This.
I had 2-3 runs of getting sniped like a little bitch before I understood what was going on. But once I found the NPC sigils and nailed him with Rot, he was a joke. He was sooo much easier for me to kill than Rykard. I fucking goddamn hated that piece of shit and mostly because how horrible the camera/targeting is for him as a melee.
Grizzlebeard
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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With the spear you get in the arena at 6+, flame resist, and mimic tear he’s pretty easy. Especially if you run to his left and target the open wound on his side.
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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Alright I'm just gonna say it:
The boss mechanics in the DLC are often lazy, uninspired, and bordering on just being plain bad. The humanoid bosses have all been sweet, but stuff like the lion/putrid knight/hippo etc? Fucking awful.
It's all the worst aspects of problem bosses in souls just amped up to 11 - awful camera problems (forget using lockon entirely), massive arenas that bosses just fly around at lightspeed leading to 30 second sprints just to hope to be in range for a swing, seemingly infinite attack chains/combos that have actual 0 downtime in between them. It's like they watched a meme video from the base game about oneshotting bosses with comet azure and just decided no one would ever get to stand still and swing a weapon or cast a spell ever again.
The boss mechanics in the DLC are often lazy, uninspired, and bordering on just being plain bad. The humanoid bosses have all been sweet, but stuff like the lion/putrid knight/hippo etc? Fucking awful.
It's all the worst aspects of problem bosses in souls just amped up to 11 - awful camera problems (forget using lockon entirely), massive arenas that bosses just fly around at lightspeed leading to 30 second sprints just to hope to be in range for a swing, seemingly infinite attack chains/combos that have actual 0 downtime in between them. It's like they watched a meme video from the base game about oneshotting bosses with comet azure and just decided no one would ever get to stand still and swing a weapon or cast a spell ever again.
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Seananigans
Honorary Shit-PhD
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Gotta say, your proclivity for turning these games into Barbie dress-up is weird!
I mean there's the FashionSouls nickname, but that's more like "armor doesn't matter much in these games, wear something that looks cool and fun."
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cabbitcabbit
NeoGaf Donator
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I unga - bunga'ed the base game with a Ruins Greatsword in right hand and Grafted Blade Greatsword in my left hand. I do not recall any of the OG bosses giving me any problems. This DLC is a different issue. I was way over level as I went in blind and thought there was a max level. STR was in the 80's LOL
Chris
Potato del Grande
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Finally jumped into the DLC and my parry skills are still pretty decent, Nameless Graveyard Gaol Knight down after a few attempts. No scooby-doo fragments yet but damn it feels good to be back. Hoping the next From game is even better.
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Falstaff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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I was +6 the first time I tried Messmer I think? Also felt l got to him way too early. Came back at +11 and beat him in 4 or 5 tries. Also used the npc summon and I use mimic.
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That's what I did the time and I think maybe it took me two goes to beat him.
OU Ariakas
Diet Dr. Pepper Enjoyer
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Fuck no. We don't need this as a shitty show or series that doesn't understand fuck all about the game. FromSoft games do not have a story or plot in any way conducive to TV or movies.
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If his slow fat ass has anything to do with it, it would never get written anyhow.
Scooby-snack lvl 10 , just beat Messmer 1st try! The set up / morph video intro's were awesome! Heading to a finger reader to try out this spear I keep reading about.
3-4 days ago I was lost as hell, could not find how to get around the map and almost ready to go to another game. Now I'm loving it! FINALLY unlocking all the map helped immensely
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