When you fight a boss for the first time and then you're afraid to enter the fight a second time
Posted Apr 16, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC
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*Traverses fog
*Instantaniously dies
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*capra demon flashbacks intensify
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Reminds me of fighting quelaag, 3 playthroughs of dark souls 1 and I'd somehow never seen her jump attack so she jumped, I fluffed the roll and then immediately died to the lava. Good times
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I love it when the boss pulls out a new move and it’s like 4+ try’s in. It seems like it happened to me in 3 more than any other. Though in 2 the regular mobs would do it all the time. I’d cleared Heides tower like 10 times and then the spear knight busted out something I’d never seen. Fuck that Knight.
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Just today I was helping people beat Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne and found out that the boss, who've I've fought at least 50 times, has a massive AoE lighting field that insta-killed me. I wasn't salty because there's nothing wrong with getting killed by a move you've never seen before.
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I love it when the boss pulls out a new move and it’s like 4+ try’s in
I had seen ODK dozens of times by trying/playing/watching people doing it. Then on my boxing pyromancer run I decide to poison+fireball this fucker, so I keep my distance quite a lot. And then he proceeds to whip out a 7/9 hit combo with his mace each time. It was wild.
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Those dogs are literal cancer
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Lol
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Get your souls and immediately homeward bone out lol
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I was under the impression that homeward bone dropped souls when used... I can't believe I've never tried using it for this...
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You're thinking of darksign.
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Which, at least in DS1, doesn't drop your souls... they disappear instantly.
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Does the same in ds3. But I mean, it's just semantics.
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I think you're iframes start as soon as you start the animation too!
You can also use one of those life protection rings that break when you die during a retrieval and you'll get a 2nd chance to recover!
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I spam it every time I get surprised by a boss encounter. In ds3 I never return my coiled sword fragment and have a permanent escape method. In ds2 I use the aged feather.
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You can return the coiled sword fragment?
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Wait, you can do this from inside a boss fight? If so, I've probably lost millions of souls from not knowing this.
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You bet dude it works in all three souls games. Sometimes I do it when I know I'm going to lose and hand the boss another L
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I mean, where do you think this item is supposed to be the most used?
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I use it all the time when I'm relatively far from a bonfire and low on estus in order to keep my souls.
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You can also just quit game/close application in boss fight after you grab souls and you will restart right outside of the boss fog all souls in hand.
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Gotta hit the ball sack things on the tree. And watch out for his hand.
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thanks i did it on my second try
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Nice
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Good job skeleton.
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Can the fight bug out? I fought the tree a little while back and when we dropped down, the arm wasn't there. I killed everything I thought possible on the outside (might have missed some things on the elbows, no idea) but the boss wasn't dead. Also because his arm never spawned, he didn't do several of the moves he would normally do, like the standing-up-flopping-down thing.
Had to do something IRL and when I tried him the second time, the arm was there and I killed it.
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You probably just killed it faster than it could get to that stage. Happened to me a few times.
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Yeah I was very ecstatic the one time I killed him as it dropped so it was just his dead body flying down and hitting the ground lol
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Me and my brother are playing the game for the first time and had to beat that guy together. Once you hit his balls enough times and go into the pit you can keep your distance until he stands up. Then he falls and if you are on his left side you can hit his limp hand over and over until he gets up. Rinse and repeat ez pz
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Bloodstains OUTSIDE the Capra Demon room are funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhgHGK4K0gQ
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oof
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I probably suck but I always cheese him.
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I know how you feel. Dark Souls Remastered is my attempt at redemption, I've cheesed every cheesable boss in DS1 and never really tried to really git gud til ds2.
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I only ever beat DS2, though I've played through all three. So right now I'm starting from the beginning and am about 50% through DS 1.
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Same. I've gotten platinum for DSII, SotFS, DSIII, Nioh, and I'm one boss away from completing Bloodborne. I beat demons souls on a friend's ps3 but never owned it. Can't wait to return to where I cut my teeth.
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Nioh
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Yeah. The good ol' fireball trick. I've beat him tons of time regularly but I just don't enjoy the fight.
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I throw turds
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Well I'm just a pussy.
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Ah, tree balls, or some say the almighty nutsack...
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Pmsl so many times...
The strategy is to collect my souls and scope out hiding spaces for future near death experiences...
Shit he's right on me.....fuuuuuuck offfffff
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I know that grind.
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When you (I) realize you will never Git Gud.
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Traveses fog Gets souls Closes the game
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Put a Northern Helm on with that Mirrah set and you have my absolute favorite look in the entire game.
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I just put that setup on last night, it’s my first play through and I was like, damn that’s sexy. Lol
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Always go for Lucatiel's mask. Never forget.
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I think the Herald helmet looks great with the Mirrah set.
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Souls are temporary and plentiful, just focus on getting the boss and don't get worried about potentially losing them. It will just hold you back.
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the first time i fought him i killed him without ever popping his nutsack. The fight was only one stage
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I'm fairly certain it's impossible to do this. He doesn't take damage anywhere else, not even small amounts. So you have to attack his sacks, and you definitely can't do enough damage to them before they break to kill him outright - unless you cheat, that is.
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nah i used the greataxe. Id go in for 2 hits and back up. i was waiting for them to blow up but they never did
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I’m not so sure, it might have glitched, but I just beat him for the first time last night on my third try.
I was flame swording the crap out of his nether bits and they never popped, and I killed him in stage 1. The whole time I kept expecting the drop and it didn’t happen.
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Definitely some kind of glitch. Never heard about it back when the game was more active, even though I recall people were trying to figure out how to do this, but couldn't. Weird that people are having it happen now.
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That looks like the tree, beside tutorial boss thats like the easiest boss in the game, maybe the series
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But Deacons tho....
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Happened to me with pontiff Sulyvhan, I got killed almost instantly so I noped the fuck outa there, did the entiredy of Irithyll dungeon, went back to finish smouldering lake, came back hours later... and beat him on my first go. Such is life.
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I like going in a third time all confident that this time I'll get far, and then I blink and find myself at a bonfire with 0 souls
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Pick up the souls them homeward bone. Or use the coiled sword fragment
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You can save right before the fog. Close the game and go to the ps4 settings, choose, save data management, upload the save to your cloud. Then if you die just go back and download the save from the cloud.
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i'm on pc and the button prompt is xbox btw
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I'm stupid. I was not thinking and for some reason assumed Bloodborne and it being a PS game. Sorry
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Hi stupid, I'm dad!
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lol dont worry bro im glad my lowest settings ds3 looks like bloodborne
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This reminds me of Midir except also on the 247th time I entered the fog wall
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Shit Midir doesnt have a fog wall
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Take every death as a lesson. Every loss as an important piece of a puzzle.
Then, once all the knowledge is there, you DESTROY THEM.
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I have a ritual for tough bosses where I spend all the souls I can, suicide away the rest, and don't kill anyone on the way to the boss, so I can clear my head and not worry about retrieval.
That's funny. I seem to play better under pressure. And I also thoroughly kill everything. So when I get to a boss fog with 100k souls I'm kind of forced to play well and learn it's moves fast.
EDIT: That's not to say I play well. I lose that 100k often.
If y’all didn’t know, you can homeward bone/ coil sword fragment out of a boss fight given that they don’t interrupt you. You won’t have fun trying to port out of twin princes tho
Why not twin princes?
He will never let you breathe. Go through the fog and he’s already in your face. Can’t get hit when porting out and he will try his damnedest to stop you
For any like Princes, you can quit the game once you have the souls. It's quicker, no animation to get through and puts you just outside the boss fog when you load the game back up.
It's possible if you get the attack timing right and keep your distance.
I agree, this does seem possible.
Meh 100k souls... chump change :P
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Dude how do you even get that many souls?! (Newer player.lol)
I was over level 200 on my first play through, any more its nothing to get 10m souls in just a short while
I can get 20k in a decent amount of time but 100k would take at least an hour!
I always use the "1 hit kill or half my health" rule.
If it winds up for even half a second, assume it's instant death when it finishes. If it is anything assume it can 1 to 2 shot you.
I'm a pussy, yes, but it can be helpful.
That's just being sensible.
When I play dark souls I make it my mission to get my souls when I die. Even if it's 100 souls. It's tradition at this point.
I do that too lol