He is brutally hard at first, but as you get better, as you get to know his attacks and recognize what he is going to do, you are easily able to triumph over him. I just fought him and didn't take damage once. Feels great to triumph over someone who hurt you so bad over and over before.
Posted Jun 12, 2016, 1:11 AM UTC
And then just when you think you've got him under control and it's going to be a cakewalk fight like all the others, NOW THERE'S TWO. ^^welcome ^^to ^^dark ^^souls
Jup, I was laughing the entire time during my first NG+ run whenever I encountered the persuer
Untill I reached drangleic castle ...
it was on this moment I discovered the power of poison. Also if you exit the room when 1 of 2 is doing that ranged curse attack, only the one thats not in attack animation disappears, the one still casting the attack stays if you run back into the room fast enough.
If you beat him, the next time you return, only 1 spawns.
That sounds pretty cheesy. I love cheese.
I think you misspelled "welcome to fucking dark souls"
While I agree with you, it's also a fact that you level up. Fighting him with more agility stamina and other stats makes the fight a lot easier by itself.
Nah I always kill him asap on new characters, before even dragonslayer
Ah, fair enough, he's a fun fight early on and back in a day was a monster
I think he meant in more playthroughs. I used to have a ton of trouble with him, because I wasn't used to the wonky animations and controls of 2 compared to 1. After a bunch of playthroughs, I don't consider pursuer a threat any more, I usually flawless him on the plateau where he drops down on you.
Wait till you discover how weak his ultragreatsword attacks are against a shield. Try out a greatshield & just blocking his basic dash attacks & strikes. He can't combo, since his greatsword bounces off your shield like it has zero force behind it. (it also takes less stamina then rolling 2/3 times)
XD
In my first playthrough he wrecked my shit over and over. Now I can consistently beat him without taking a hit. I love that they made him a recurring miniboss in Scholar of the First Sin.
He is the most entertaining. And even when you can beat him if you let your guard down you will be beaten. I must have died like a gindred times untill i got to the point that i rush to the cardinal tower bonfire and right on to fight him with my each new character
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i love playing him after a couple run throughs with my brother and watching him panic and lose his shit... ahh good times. we also had a friend who had notorious trouble with him so we kept routing him into future possible encounters with him while in voice chat
You can avoid him in lost Bastille. Enter the area where he spawns, let him spawn, then go back until he disappears again. Then enter the area. He won't come back again until you died.
In fact, he should'nt be a really hard fights now. If he is, you'll get lots of problems later on and you should try leveling up first. (I was at SL~55 when I went to Lost Bastille).
oh my friend had issues with him, im pretty decent. wed just lure him into encounters and listen to him panic on disc haha.
Where do you find him in Lost Bastille? Or is that only in SotFS?
me too, and it was one of my fondest memories (that's saying A LOT) when The Pursuer did his big stab+curse attack and hit my brother and my brother screamed over skype so loud that it turned his volume down automatically as he is being held up, completely impaled and flailing on the middle of his huge sword LOL best thing ever
i love playing him after a couple run throughs with my brother and watching him panic and lose his shit... ahh good times. we also had a friend who had notorious trouble with him so we kept routing him into future possible encounters with him while in voice chat
i hate him so much, i avoid him even at endgame
He goes from Pursuer to Purse user.
I just saw I answered the wrong comment. Time to git gud I guess.
SotFS only :) He's pursuing you there through the game as a mini boss.
I'm excited, I'm getting it later today!
I love fighting pursuers because once you get the rhythm it feels just like in Punch Out when you figure out how to perfect fights. It's the one thing I really don't like in 3 how most of the large enemies wail like hollows. It catches you off guard, but you just roll back. No dodging or weaving.
First encounter all I had was a broken sword....
Mmm, when I first fought him, he was tough. Then I learnt how to cheese him easily and then his moveset became trivial after a while... guess I just played too much drks2
When you kill him in the first encounter on the ledge forest of giants you feel like a god
I remember my first encounter with him there. I was low on estus and lifegems, and having quite a bit of trouble with most of the enemies. I climbed up the ladder, and saw something big falling from the sky at me. Wanting to stay clear of it, I rolled to the side, and accidentally fell off the edge. When nothing chased after me, I climbed back up to see what it was, and there was nothing there. It wasn't until my second playthrough that I discovered that the Pursuer attacked us there.
So that's what was going there. I remember something flew overhead so I rolled and fell off. I headed back up and there was nothing. Well now I know. We will meet again Pursuer.
I was confused, the first time I successfully killed him there I was expecting his boss fog to be there later in the Forest. Turns out if you kill him there his boss encounter doesn't happen.
If you kill him there, does he still appear before the crow's nest?
no
Well said
YUP
I totally get the Neo vibe from that fight, after enough repeat playthroughs I'm familiar enough with him to not get hit.
Like this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfo_sbhI5oY