This doesn't work for me. He just starts using the crystal breath over and over. And sometimes I seem to be free from the AoE, but other times I get caught in it, and I have to drink immediately or die (and sometimes it seems I can't recover and get that drink off in time).
You must be going for the wrong tail. If you are going for the right one even if he does breath, which happens sometimes, you should take little if any damage.
It's possible I am not staying far enough to the side. I have tried both tails. I am finding, though, that eventually they seem to wag forward of his center torso and I get caught in a crystal breath aoe. It's sort of up in the air as to weather I can survive that or not.
If you maintain that position for the whole fight, you will not get hit by anything and he probably won't even attempt to use his breath.
I maintained that position (to the point where I accidentally slipped behind the tail a couple of times and he went slappy on me), but he still used his crystal breath all the time. I think this happened sometimes because I missed an attack on the tail as he started to it away from me, and I was just long enough before resuming persuit to trigger it, but this wasn't true all of the time) and he still caught me in it at one point even though I appeared to be way off to the side, and I could not stand up and get a potion quaffed before dying (why I can't always do it is beyond me). I got him to half, for what little good that did me. Break time.
Stay more towards his front than the tip itself. There's no real bonus to being at the tip. I found that I would just run against the tail while I was waiting for stamina, attack once or twice, repeat.
Lost 35k souls and 10 humanity to spazzing out and getting hit by those stupid blades at Sen's AGAIN on my retrieval run. It was not my best moment. Some cursing may* have ensued. *most fucking definitely
Bags, howcome that guy you fought O&S with got the "You defeated" message? I thought that particular piece of engrish had been edited out.
So I tweaked my gear some more and decided to go full antiquated. Upgraded the chest to +5 and the gloves to +4. Switched to the crest shield. I mostly, mostly am ok if I get caught in the crystal breath some, which I invariably do because apparently my version of the boss works differently than everyone else's (he even caught me in the AoE when I was to the right of his left-hand tail, basically just on his side proper). The problem with this is that I'm much weaker against physical attacks. Because the clipping on this boss is entirely fucked, I sometimes wind up moving through the tail when attacking it. If he decides to do the slappy dance, I'm usually screwed as one hit drains all my stamina and the next hit will leave me with a sliver of life left. In the current fight - where I got him to halfway again but it probably took 5-10 minutes - I clipped to his side and he started doing the slap, and he knocked me down. By the time I got the potion quaffed he was doing it again, so I just got through it and got the potion quaffed and he was doing it again. I tried to roll to the left but either failed or didn't get far enough and I was finished. I did farm up enough souls to buy many more spells though (doing anor londo from the princess bonfire).
I think it's a mod, although actually "YOU DEFEATED" was patched back with PtD/AotA, but without the stuff underneath.
If you're having that much trouble (which is weird), maybe it'll help if you stick to that side, which at least appears safer, and blast his body with some spells? He's immune to crystal magic but ordinary Soul Spears should still hit him pretty hard.
I am on the PC and using DS Fix (and who knows what problems that could cause?). I'll try some normal magic I guess. I at least have 2x soul spear and 2x homing mass now (not sure if I'll have enough time to cast that much, though; maybe I'll take greater soul arrows in). Might try summoning help again but don't want to try it again tonight.
Damnit, I am such a sucker. I fall for it every time. Boss weapons!!!! *Shakes fist* I decided to try out the Abyss Greatsword, completely fubarring my strength build in the process. (I really don't need 18 faith. And that 18 int is only marginally useful) And after fully upgrading the sucker, and stocking up to 10 humanity, it still does quite a bit less damage than my lightning zweihander or my dragon's tooth + 5. And my Fire Large club +10. In short, boss weapons disappoint yet again. And now I have a build that's kinda messed up. Guess I'll have to start another alt That isn't fubarred. I will say this, though. The Abyss Greatsword's moveset looks super cool. I'm not convinced that it's good, per se, but I do feel like a bad-ass while wielding it. Of course, I actually *am* a badass when wielding any of my other weapons.
Clean sweep (no deaths, all items gotten) of New Londo (sans 4 Kings), now hanging out in front of Sif's door waiting for a summons to see how the heck heavy armor can do this fight. After I have my ring, 4 Kings time. I also got the boss weapon bug, but in case of the claw - Dragon Fist sure sounds cool! But, no. I can't even land a hit on anything with range that short - it's probably a dev prank like many others. :P However, my now +11 (from New Londo ember) Large Club can 2-shot the Anor Londo giant guards (not sentinels, the ones in front of the gate). That makes me happy. :D Perhaps I will be able to put out decent DPS on 4 Kings yet!
I just thought of something. Forget about Seath for now, do the DLC (you go the pendant, right?) and get the dark sorceries. They might be better against Seath. I can't say for sure since I haven't used them yet against him.
Just left 200k souls with Nito because I fell off the ledge where the bone towers pop up. This just happened to me before, and since I'm using HCSM to kill them I just need to walk towards them, so I think it's a glitch. Sigh.
No, not yet. I see I can at least initiate the sequence that leads to her dropping the pendant but the tomb of giants seems pretty far away.
So I've taken to leaving my main right hand empty most of the time now to save the weight and I've just practiced equipping the BKH relatively quickly from the menu for the times that I do need it, which are very few. I'm kind of surprised by how good pyromancy is with all the trimmings and especially how effective the combustion line of spells is as an alternative to melee combat. With my flame not quite maxed out yet, I was able to clear Oolacile Township very easily last night by one-shotting everything with ordinary Combustion and Fireball. Didn't even have to break out the higher level spells at any point, although I do expect that I'll use them for Manus when I get around to him.
Unless you're planning on doing significant PvP/Coop with this character there's no build mistake that can't be fixed by simply spending more souls. Your experiment might have turned out to be a waste of souls but that's about the worst of it.
That guy sure is pleased with himself for figuring out Havel's set plus Wolf Ring. Also he's taking hits from a katana, which requires... 21 poise.
Yeah but it's fun. Looking at poise drain values, he would need to be hit three times by an ultra greatsword to be interrupted.
What does he do against non-terrible players who exploit his unbelievable slowness instead of trying to interrupt his swings? I did enjoy the video along the lines of the other wacky PvP build videos that I've seen, but it would have been a lot better without the commentary that indicates that he thinks he's a stone cold Dark Souls genius for coming up with this invincible setup.
Who knows! But I bet you not a lot of people have said "I'm wearing Havel's, you know what I need? MORE POISE!" Credit where credit is due, man!
The sanctuary guardian is tricky. I've alternately tried pretty good lit resist/<25 armor builds and even better lit resist <50 armor builds but I'm more or less one shottable if he gets me with my guard down. It doesn't always seem possible to anticipate what his next move will be, and eventually I need to quaff (blocking the lightning blasts hurts enough that I eventually have to do it; dodging them doesn't always seem to work because sometimes he does horrible camera flying attacks). The homing soul mass spells are unfortunately too unreliable (but they hit hard when they hit, to be sure). I should try greater soul arrow maybe. I find this fight somewhat tedious because I'm mostly blocking a lot and waiting for a slim opening. And yay, 5 minutes trying to summon someone to help with Seath and like 15 failures and now all the signs are gooooooone. It's really too bad this code is a mess.
No. If you die, you simply reset at your last bonfire with souls and humanity intact. If you succeed or the summoner dies/sends you back, you just go back to wherever you were.
It really is an ideal way to scope out a boss risk free and learn it before committing yourself. Well, assuming people are around to summon you.
