Salt and Sanctuary Bosses: Ranked Easiest to Hardest
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- All mandatory bosses in Salt and Sanctuary, as ranked by you! If you missed out on the polling, I'm sorry, I posted it just about everywhere I could think of.
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the first time i saw cursejaw i was falling from the sky
Me too, i fell and actually lived then had to fight
@@TheeSilly im assuming you won the fight because carsejaw is a jome
@@TheeSilly joke*
@@campa8937 hell yeah i did
The difficulty in each boss is clearly gonna change depending on your loadout, stats and abilities, so of course you'll personally find some things on the list questionable
Like the nameless god. From my experience, you pretty much need to have a light roll, otherwise his attacks pacing is almost impossible to dodge. This is, at least, what I found. Some bosses I found were mainly about learning and anticipating the moves. First time around The Third Lamb was real difficult for me, but second time I knew all it's moves and the windup to them so i beat it with little trouble. Personally the easiest boss for me was the Untouched Inquisitor, purely because of how much you can dodge by being under it and the fact that all you do is press roll the moment the windup ends and the blades start moving and you are pretty much guaranteed a dodge for almost all attacks.
Yeah, like I personally found The Nameless God kinda difficult cuz I was stubbornly going for the heavier knight loadout in my first playthrough :P
For me i have to say the Queen of Smiles was hardest, but that was probably because it was my first playthrough... and It was a no shield run :>) SHIELDS ARE FOR THE WEAK, YOU COWARDS!
Sam McArthur The only time I used a shield was against her on my first run. On my NG+ playthrough I didn't though and I was happy.
I feel like i'm the only one who has never used a shield...
Just two-handed the largest weapon I could carry
That witch with the fucking machine_gun killed me 12 times
Killed me 9 times
Silveer .Craft I must be the only one who kill her at the frist try, no joking
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUSSSSSS?
Parzival what were you wearing and what weapon and rigs were you useing?
well...I dont remember everything but this is what most help me:
the silver shield IV
The Doppelsoldner armor IV
the faithfull ring
sparkling ring
and the impen charm (because her weeknes is fire)
the trick is to always stay close to her, especially Under her. and if she use that fucking machine_gun thing xD you just jump
she is very easy actually, you just have to be quick
I hopes that helps
The Third Lamb....so many nightmares
He's easy if you over-leveled yourself to shit and did an unnecessary amount of damage
like me
+Oscar of Astora me too I was way powerful when I faced her?...it? whatever
he is easy if you are not a block head, and actually went with fast weapon.
For mages...ohh god I never wanna go back
And also guess what...my first time I was a spell sword never knowing about different spells and wasn't spending points into mage but other classes like swords and shields and heavy armor and stuff...mistake made I was like doing 5 damage to everything
the witch killed me 112 times, that's what you get when you fight her while being sleepy at 2 PM
Ibnziyad Tariq do you mean AM
Charlie Nelson yea sorry i wrote this comment while it was 1 AM
Ibnziyad Tariq git gud dude 😂
Me too I play this game at night too...uhhh....theres gonna be school tomorrow huh.....shiiit....only 3hrs of sleep
Lemmings-Gaming i know the feeling, its like when someone is trying to suicide, you don't give a f***
Where are the spindle beasts on this list?
They're #0. Hardest bosses in the game without a doubt.
Alice Edgeworth can you parry those cretins? God, I died ten times before managing to kill all three with magic and my greatsword- _-
Man i hate those things.
Yup fortunately there are only three in the entire game (that I've seen) unfortunately you have to get past them to continue with the game.
Alice Edgeworth ? What are you talking about ?
Everyone's list is going to be pretty different their first time through the game because many of the bosses are weak or strong to different player builds. For example, the tree of men's head has 5 times the amount of slash resistance as blunt, so players using a mace or hammer will do a lot more damage to it than someone using a sword. Fighting that thing, the dried king and the coveted with a blade weapon will feel like you're hitting them with a toothpick.
Yeah the Dried King took so fucking long, also the Kraken Wyrm.
Oh yeah, the coveted with a poleaxe was a big time consumer. During the fight, i looked often on my clock.
Yep definitely fortunately for me, I use regular swords, the dried kings attacks are petty easy to dodge and the coveted are optional (there are a lot of optional bosses on this list)
I had to use the stained paper to do arcane damage so I could beat the coveted. I had a dex build with the taichi. I ended up beating the game with a taichi IIV.
@@sablonanime650 Tachi IIV? That would be just Tachi III lol, I gues you mean Tachi IV
10:50 'i don't get why he was voted so high?' - lvl 90 greathammer build
kraken wyrm 4? wow. didnt even hit me. just rush to the side he's coming from and his flane will go in front of you, giving you free hits. i love how this and souls is so unique. one boss may be easy mode for one guy, and hardest boss in the game to another. I think strategy and style having such a large impact indicates good boss design.
Tony614 His problem is that he's so random. His fire breath attack and tail swipe are close to each other on animation and come out quick. Which means that if you guess wrongly you could get one shot. He's a punk all around if he decides to not fly.
Kirokill Honestly, for his ground fire breath and his head swipe, I was in the air and hitting him with a lightning infused sword
the thing that got me alot with the kraeken wyrm was the fires hitbox existing after the animation finished, locking me in place for one of its melee attacks.
Tony614 The Wyrm was one of the funniest bosses for me. My first playthrough, I went with a spear/halberd focused build, using it onehanded with a gun or twohanding it with a simple stamina regen charm. I think I died at least 15 times, as I was learning its moves.
Then come my second playthrough, which I decided to do using daggers. I beat him on my first try, and I don't think I got hit more than once or twice.
when i fought him on my second character he killed himself lol
This game got progressively easier as it went on for me, I exclusively used two handed greatswords with heavy armor and in the latter half of the game I would routinely kill bosses on the second or even first try, including the forgotten king which was surprisingly a breeze
The witch was also easy as hell once I learned to avoid the murder rays, only died twice
Hardest I can remember was probably ronin cran, for some reason his attack pattern kept catching me off guard
Lazypackmule 2 handed sword with heavy armor for the win! The complete opposite of my Souls play style, ironically
Sodden Knigt Boss Sword, and never switched to another weapon after I was able to handle ist. More or like spamming square-button with a bit of rolling.
The dragon guy just kinda fukin flew around as I beat him to a pulp.
I don't get what you mean with optional bosses, I mean you can skip A BUNCH of these bosses, the ones you called optional are the ones I guess I would call secret, or whatever. I mean, I've heard you don't need the brand that makes you go through the red walls, there is nothing behind Carsejaw... Etc
The tree of men is skippable, first playthrough I came at him from the wrong side.
I came up behind the bloodless prince, he is skipable
The queen of smiles is completely skippable
Snickering Tortoise behind carsejaw is the knight (if you follow his storyline) which if you talk to him he'll give you 1 kings orders and a trophy
Yeah, I worded that pretty poorly, I meant to write "There is nothing essential behind Carsejaw." or something like that.
Seems like mace weapon is op in this game. I used spears and that was hard. No stuns and pretty low dmg vs bosses. ~25 hits for final boss and atleast 15 tries.
Greatscissors are my favourite. The two handed strong attack is fun, strong and chains together quickly, very good for stunning bosses. Even in NG+ I could almost stunlock some bosses, were it not for the occasional attack that breaks through and the stamina cost.
My friend that is on NG+7 said you can stunlock all the boss using Trinity Scepter. Imagine if you upgrade it too VII with Bloodflower charm and ring while wearing it as a 2-handed. I looked at the list for hammer because Flanged Mace was counted as a Hammer category. I would say Greathammer, Greatscissor & Greatsword when it comes to strength build. It's not the weapon that is "overpowered." It's the build of the class and by far, Mage is the most overpowered class in the game. Go research for the facts if you want to know more about it.
Skourzh should be pronounced like "Scourge" is what I think. Zh is used as a soft j sound in Chinese transcriptions, and I don't know of any other use for it.
Yeah, I am familiar with the Chinese 'zh' (I use it everyday, lol) but it is totally anachronistic with the rest of his name then
The claymore is called Kureimoa in this game so I think this is probably a solid explanation
why does everyone think The Third Lamb is so hard.
It took me 3 tries whereas the Husk took about 15
I am great at spacing, so 3rd lamb was easy and fun af. if someone is bad at spacing then i am sure the third lamb will be nightmare to deal with
How to win:
1. Get the Great Sword in the Village of Smiles
2. Join the Water Cult
3. Do a quest to get the Page of Light
4. Roll Heavy Armor, at endgame I wore the White Set from the guy you give the Bag of Earth (Say your looking for peace but haven't found it) you only need 34 endurance to tote this and the Jaws of Death and fast roll
4. ???
5. Profit, stun lock and heal through damage to win
Idk if the White Set gives magic/fire defense, but I could actually take any of the Witch of the Lakes spell volleys and have the time to heal after
Also, use Guardian Blade to add massive poise damage
How to win..use salt glitch or join the betrayers cult as mage then ur op!!!!
Or watch her booty, stay begin dat phat ass and beat it hard, dont jump...
Xiruslol The fuck is the water cult?
one time the kraken dragon fell through the floor and was stuck, this happened two times!
“One time this thing happened two times”
Kraeken Wyrm will sometimes glitch himself and fly off the screen, giving you a quick, easy victory.
Sadly much of this list isn't relevant for magic users - many bosses that are resistance to melee are weak to magic and vice versa. Mages may need to reverse a lot of this list.
Mages shoulda' voted then.
Lolz ikr...btw how dafuk is the lake of the whatever hard??? U guys do realize u just have to out the wardens shit on to arcane defense with that one ring then use holy magic or poison...or just pick up a great sword and keep close to her and when she's gonna attack dodge to go behind her and hit her and do not ever jump!!!
Across 3 playthroughs the witch killed me 180 times. Second place was the Disembowled Husk at only 2 deaths... Everything else in the entire game killed me either once or not at all.
MrDrProfessor4 WHAT!!! 180 I I WOULD HAVE COMPLETELY GIVEN UP BY THEN!
Oh wait... I see... across three playthroughs.
Witch actually isn't so bad if you have the Dart Brand: the red ball that explodes into homing shots can be jumped over at the tail end of it. The barrage is pretty much your opening to wail on her, and it won't even touch you if you hug the bitch. She beat me twice: once was the obligatory learning phase, second I got cornered.
the witch killed me 2364 times thought out 14 play thoughts it hurts.
There aren't enough swear words in the English language to describe my rage during Witch of the Lake....that was pure rage.
I've beat this game like 100 times through by now and I've legit never seen Saltless Prince's belly flop. I mean I might have and just forgot but tbh I always thought he was one of the easiest. I also think Murdiella Mal is one of the much harder ones, just because she takes up like half the screen, teleports, and her attacks are a lot of barrages that are really annoying, especially with lower balance.
You can avoid quite a few of Third Lamb's attacks by jump attacking when they attack, and following to a roll if it's a delayed attack.
ins't the Kraekan Cyclops optional since there is a way to pass him without defeating him or you have to kill him to continue the game?
I killed the Third Lamb first try with a whip dexterity build almost completely in surprise. Am I god or super lucky?
Filip Grodzicki super easy for me as well
I apparently fought him a bit early, and character basically uses the tachi two handed to wreck everything so far. I use the whip for its range when travelling between dungeons, but I've never really used the whip too much in boss fights. Just feels too slow on recovery to make it useful. Plus the extra range means nothing when its a boss who can hit you basically everywhere on the map.
Usually, most of the dex weapons are kind of useless when it comes to NG+ and above.
Third Lamb can be easy to just overpower or blitz/heal through... but if your going for a technical fight... let's say "no-dmg" it probably gets my vote for hardest, or Tree of Men.
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I believe spears with attack reach charm will work especially they're on dex category and are dex type. Either you add an elemental buff, prayer buff or incantation buff against the Tree of Men.
Murdiella mal is still my #1 hardest to this date. Having an upgraded two handed greatsword with a warhorn makes every other boss a joke. But this one boss, regardless of how much dmg i can dish out i would still have to dodge through everything perfectly since her dmg aint a joke
If you can get an Armor Guardian to drop the Iron Rampart with the required skill to use it, it trivializes almost every boss once you upgrade it a bit. 100% resistance to _EVERY_ damage type at Upgrade level 4.
Real surprised to see third lamb so high up. Took way less tries than most other bosses so far. Maybe it was just from attacking at a distance via whip the whole feet keeping me out of burst range? But I didn't have much trouble dodging once I learned the attacks
A good number of the bosses in the main list here are also completely optional: That Stench Most Foul, Carsejaw The Cruel, Bloodless Prince, Queen of Smiles, The Coveted, Tree of Men and Disemboweled Husk.
Mad Alchemist, False Jester and Kraekan Cyclops are sort of optional as well, although you do have to kill either the cyclops or the other two.
2:14 i actually got a way better one: on my first playthrough i went onto the area and saw the boss candle and i was "Ok, heres the boss, so im going to explore a little bit so that i dont miss anything", then i went for some exploring and 4got about its existance for the next 2 minutes.
After theese 2 minutes i was about to enter a room when my controller's battery went out, so i reached for it and inocently walked right, that was the other way around the fight entrance and the clueless me was immensely jumpscared by this thing jumping at you out of nowhere(there was no boss introduction nor music when this happened).
Funnier as it was, i immediately went back the way i came and actually leaved the boss room, and the dammed jester followed me outside, i was shocked and ran back into the room to fight it, then the boss intro went in and i was "oh thats the boss i ignored a while ago" but i was so scared and confused that i almost died to him, only to realize it had a easy moveset and kill him with 1 hp left. I wish i had recorded that.
I don't remember much of Salt and Sanctuary aside from getting the giant iron shield from the huge knights right before the dragon boss fight early on, leveling it up to almost full damage negation, and running with that for the rest of the game. My memory might be failing me, but I think it blocked pretty much all damage of all types. I didn't even wear armor, for it being so heavy.
My first Souls game was Bloodborne, so I instinctively build my guys in SAS for evasiveness and constant pressure over defense. A lot of these guys like the Husk become a LOT easier when you can roll through all their attacks.
with the mad alchemist, he always just jumps to one of the edges for me and dies about ten seconds later since i don't have to deal with the slimes.
to me, the sodden knight was pretty hard.
Christina Lucero-Macafee first bosses are always tough fot new playets in souls games. kind of a skill check, and also forces you to learn to dodge and block properly. same as gundyr in DS3. i love em
It's the same with every first boss in a new game. like black knight in shovel knight, I am generally good at games but black knight destroyed me. First bosses are like a skill check to make sure you have the skill to make it through the rest of the game.
Tony614 Yea literally
Dave_of_Spades 69 What made the fight hard to me was when he spammed the combos in the second part of the fight.
he tells you : welcome to this island!!!
90% of this list is voted by 2 handed users and shield users, you can see that those hard bosses are the ones that punish going the easy route and using heavy gear. As a dagger user with no shield, the worst boss is the Dragon(not the wyrm) as you cannot roll into it fast enough and end up being screwed. Yet i do recommend, play with a dagger or a whips, it will be the most fun you will have in a while, tatic's change a lot, best exemple is the Stench Most Foul, as you won't be killing the minnions, you will have to position them so that when they deactivate, they will not stay in the middle of the stage, but on the sides.
Raphael Merino Making the game harder for yourself is not what I would call fun
I've been running a two handed tachi most of my game so far, and I do remember the Kraekan Wyrm absolutely wrecking me, but that was because his fire swoop move stopped happening half way through the field and right at the edge, where I had gotten used to hiding. That fight was a pain, and I am so not looking forward to the Squid Dragon. I NEED MY ROLLS.
I was shocked to see nameless god as second, since magic literally invalidates him lol
Raphael Merino Poorly statted wizard wielding an arcane great sword here; surprised by a lot of these bosses, including those that were said to be a counter to bladed/melee users. Then again, may have simply been due to good with roll.
Witch and dragon surprised the most; kinda felt like nothing to dodge them. Third Lamb was probs my hardest boss.
The mad alchemist and the Disemboweled husk seems very weak to lightning damage. I think on my 2nd try with the Alchemist there was a bug where I died first and then he died a second after from poisoning and got the 4000 salt but the salt did not dissappear when I revived at the watching woods sanctuary but still got another 4000 salt when I did finally kill him.
not sure if its 4k salt but I did get his salt reward two times.
Holy crap, can't believe tree of men is so high on the list; he was probably one of the easiest bosses I faced (I was even surprised how easy he was at that stage in the game).
I guess it depends what equipment you have on, cause I had a decent fire resistant shield and some other fairly decent fire resistant equipment, so although I was semi-constantly trying to dodge the flames and his strike attack, if the fire hit me sometimes, it didn't do much.
I guess it goes to show that most people's boss and enemy rankings will be different based on their equipment and loadout; so it could vary wildly from person to person/build to build probably.
J. Devitt that's funny, Tree of Men was the only road block that actively frustrated me...
(2 handed sword, heavy armor, no shield, faith run)
Absolutely true. As a mage, the witch of the lake was the easiest shit in the world, just stick under her and pelt her with lightning and fire a few times and she's dead. she has stupidly low magic resist for a magic user...
The witch of the lake is one of the best fights and really clever design. At first she seems tough but after you learn her moves it becomes a really fun fight. No Shield is best.
I agree with the disibowled husk and the bitch of the lake
But (maybe I was over leveled) I didn't find the nameless god that hard he hit like a truck but died really fast
I thought that was how it was supposed to be because the sad music, his sounds of pain, his story,
I thought he was intentionally easy to reflect on his character
I was way overleveled a big part of the game I think, found that spot where the Saltless spawn right of the village and grinded on them for a it. Plus once I joined The House of Splendor and got access to the Goldenwine, I was even more OP.
I've also already been a shield user in the Souls games, so I was here as well, and some of those Tower Shields are just so powerful, they can block pretty much anything.
if you use heavy armor for the bloodless prince and just block with a good shield, he can't hurt you. Even if he depletes your stamina with pounds, when you get stunned it doesn't hurt you for some reason.
Saltfin creature really takes the cake every boss i did on first try
Let try NG+ and your rank will changed.
Anton Katz True, Carsejaw was really hard for me, Tree of Men was all the terror from the first playthrough all over again, Kraekan Wyrm lives forever, Witch of the Lake killed me all the time with a maximum of 4 particles at full health, Nameless King(s) lived forever and ever and Emboweled Husk needed super precise rolling
Difficulty is never a constant factor in this game, for the ones the bosses are harder for the others they are weaker, their difficulty depends on the players unique mood, conzentration, skill and way of approaching so its clear that this list only fits some of the players
Currently doing a run using bow only on bosses which is really fun. The tree of men is really tough with only a bow.
The trick to the Tree of Men is to not worry until the second phase. Take all the time you need to avoid the flame-throwing guys and kill them. Use the charm that increases your reach if you are using a melee build. Learn the timings on when the flames shoot out vs when the light appears.
The key to the second phase, which is the phase that always killed me, is to stay in the upper left two platforms. The top left and left middle platforms are where you need to be. If you stay there, you can coerce the Tree to do his slamming attacks, which you can then jump over. Then you have time to hit him.
If you try to do pretty much anything else, the Tree quickly becomes very chaotic in concert with the fire spurting everywhere. I recommend staying in the upper left and jumping when he swings his arm, and just focusing on getting the timing down to avoid the fire and his arm swings. It's the safest tactic.
I only got past the witch of the lake in the Ng+1 with my friend because of bugs, since he had magic and she got stuck outside of the arena
I found Carsejaw and the Coveted so easy on my first playthrough, but then on NG+ the coveted was a bit of a challenge and Carsejaw's triple downward stab attack seemed nearly undodgeable. I'd guess maybe this is due to the difference in strength in the runs. My damage compared to the boss's health was probably a lot higher in the first run, especially seeing how I was using the same weapon. (the greatscissors are awesome)
I beat the Kraeken Wurm first try, but only because a few seconds after I walked into the arena, he got glitched in the floor, where he couldn't hit me. I also got the Coveted to throw the axe outside of the arena, and the ghosts stopped attacking me, so I just spammed throwables until I killed it. When I got to the false jester fight, I was really confused because before I even knew there was a boss there, he jumped at me through the door and started attacking me, so I kind of just ran in the opposite direction, and never even realized that he was a boss until I watched this video.
I beat the Nameless God on my first try as well, although, I think it was mostly because I was spamming a shitload of healing prayers. It took me like seven minutes to kill him because my character isn't geared to equip Class 3 or above heavy weapons at the time (I was more of a magic user)
The boss that I cursed the most was the Mad Alchemist as a pure mage in my first playthrough without faqs or wiki. I only knew that there was a sanctuary near him after I beat him. Died dozen of times and respawned at the Village of Smiles. Any worst experience than mine?
I also did not know that Phial sleeve would extend the stamina again so I always use melee (with magic stats) till half the boss' hp then nuke with lightning bolts.
Anyway great game, had fun shouting curses at bosses.
I killed bloodless prince, witch, Lamb and many other by turtling-up like behind my almost max-out Iron Rampant sheild. That soak-up all the damage but because of its weight I had a hard time dodging the small doll ceramic-like knife weilding that looks like the "The Cruel" sword and unicorn that somehow goes through my almost unreachable sheild.
i dont get how the third lamb was so high up the list same with the wyrm i found them to be super easy but its probably because of my dark sous experience or my build it couldn't have been my level cause i was only level 27 at the time and if your wondering what my build was it was a full strength build and the weapon was the chitin obelisk. but it could have been both an op build and my experience if some one is reading this and you have salt and sanctuary please try the build cause i need to know if its op or not.
The first time I fought the witch of the lake I was an Order of the Betrayer mage build and I had been tainting sanctuaries and had level 3 devotion, so I threw a potion of defilement at her and used the arcane spells to almost instantly kill her, and overall she was one of the easiest bosses I had fought.
Is im the only one that experience the moment where Kraekan Wyrm jump outside its boss arena and make himself killed?
Arshana 40 I had that happen. Saved me about 8 minutes of struggle.
7 years later, he still glitches out of the game.
For the Nameless God, I found a bug in the fight. If he gets you in that grab hold when you're hugging the far left wall, he can punch you inside the wall, where you'll be stuck. Boom. Instant death.
Most the ones I remember as being insane were near the top.
Personal thoughts and contributions:
Kraekyn(sp?) wyrm was my original "Holy shit this is hard!" fight... but only because I was stupid and stubborn. First time playing I played a Str build. Big two handed swords for damage that far outclassed any other weapons I could use at the time, plus lots of stagger. Offense > defense, and I just trusted myself to dodge. Dodge... not block. I was very bad at blocking, worse at parrying, and didn't get the hang of using it against certain enemies until future playthroughs.
So I didn't change my strategy when fighting this guy. He's a CAKEWALK if you pick up the fireproof shield you can find shortly before him... but I didn't do that. No, I stubbornly tried to fight him while just AVOIDING all his fire. The fire that would melt you in seconds, and frequently cover most of your arena. It took a LOT of attempts to get some perfect fight against him where my heavy armor wearing ass could chop him enough times before getting burned to death. Yay for fighting bosses on unintentional hard mode? (future souls-like playing has shown I do that a lot, kicking myself in hindsight.)
Disembowled Husk was my first thought on 'hardest fight'. I forget which path I took, but apparently it wasn't the 'right' path to get to that point. I fought through some area I was apparently VERY under leveled, and managed to get through it and beat the boss. That was hard. But nothing compared to this guy. The other area might have 'supposed' to be harder, but this boss was FAR harder than the other, and I was still under leveled. I just couldn't beat him. Period.
It's not that he made me rage quit the game, but I still hadn't beaten him by the time I got sidetracked and stopped playing the game for a while. When I came back to the game, I decided to start over from the beginning (and beat the kraeken wyrm the easy way that time). It was a BIG accomplishment for me when i beat him this time around and progressed past where I left off.
Witch of the Lake... yeah, I agree. She's the hardest. Husk might have been my bane first time through, but SHE is the real hardest in the game. Those spells are just unfair. They're not the hardest things to dodge, but one you want to be closer to her for, the other far. If you get too much distance from her she'll almost always punish you by using her machine gun spell while you're at a spot with no way to dodge. And really it just takes one slip up and you're one shot.
Nameless God. I kinda agree he shouldn't be #2, but I'm not oblivious as to why. If you just fight him legitimately, he could be called the hardest fight in the game. Even over the Witch. His attacks aren't THAT hard to dodge, but they can be unrelenting, and punishing. Like the witch, small slip up and you will get HURT, unless you're just wearing all the armor in the world. The reason he's not THAT hard is because a few popular builds make short work of him. If you go big two handed str builds (like my first run), well he staggers REAL easy for a final boss. Keep the pressure on him and he's not really that hard. And if you run an evil caster build, you can melt him in mere seconds. Like.. quickest fight in the game he'll just die that fast. Anti-climactic after all the buildup.
But, if you just use some random sword or something and try slugging it out with him... yeah, he's a proper souls-like boss. You'll spend more time dodging than anything and just be trying to whittle his health a few hits at a time.
at this point, the barage from the witch of the toilet sounds like an mg42, im getting d-day flashbacks help
Most of these bocome really easy when you're under 25% equip load.
Not really, you need to gear up when you're in NG+ and above.
Beating the witch 101: 1- Put an alchemist in Siam Lake Sanctuary (Mag res Up), 2- Put gear with high resistance to Arcane but low in weight to still allow for quick movement, 3- She is stupid weak to Fire, Holy and Poison so if you stack for example a fire wpn with Impen charm+Pitchfire buff, she'll be dead quickly.
Very interesting! I agree with most of the list, although I found the witch and husk much easier, and the alchemist much harder. My first play through was a dodgy ninja sword guy...good at dodging, bad at getting hit. The witch and husk I both beat first try as I was fast enough to avoid all the attacks. The alchemist messed with the environment so much that I had a hard time avoiding all the attacks.
Since you said you didn't understand, I think anyone who was in my position would have a difficult time beating the last boss. I was dodging in the 25-50% range, and it's just too slow to properly avoid attacks, but doesn't provide enough protection to avoid getting two shot. Someone on reddit suggested going naked and I beat him first try after that...just increasing the rollspeed was enough.
I was on the other end of the spectrum. I was sometimes even going fat-rolls with something like 88 - 90+ percentage, and I crushed him. Dodging was hardly an issue, I just tanked the damage and kept on smackin' him.
What is the best boss in the game?
Why are so many bosses resistant to slash damage. I might just be focusing on the bosses that are resistant to slash and therefore it seems like there are more but seriously its annoying since I basically just tickle a lot of bosses, I use regular swords. Its extremely extremely annoying with the nameless god since I just can't keep upvwith his insane damage ,it was ok with bosses like th coveted that didn't do that much damage back, but with the nameless god because of the fact that I have to heal whenever I take a hit theres nothing I can do.
Played a dexterity build focusing on light armor and a spear/shield combo. Hardest boss for me was Nameless God because of his speed. The key was to play defense until he does his spinning blade attack and then try to stagger block him.
Ng++++ how god help me I hate myself
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Get blood magic from the betrayers and get fire and sky creed and get the two non healing items. Its the only way
How on earth was witch of the lake number 1? I killed her on my second try on my first playthrough, first time she got me offguard with a flamethrower, second try she never even hit me. She telegraphs everything so hard, it's pretty easy to just dodge and hit, rinse and repeat.
She can be RNG BS when she wants to be. There were a few times where she flew off the screen where I couldn't see her and did her machine gun attack. There was literally nothing I could do.
why wasn't the fairy boss included? the one that does holy damage to you? (ill edit in the name if i remember it)
Iron Rampart (VI) - It negates all attacks that it receives from the enemy except it can't block the type of enemies that grabs players. It's like part of the newbie set. It can be obtained from Armor Guardian from Castle Storms.
You can see a lot of information in the menu about the loots of the enemies that you've slained in the game itself. It records the enemies that you've slained and how many times you've have been killed by a specific enemy.
Note that it can block the enemy's attack from behind even though you're blocking while facing away to the enemy. It's like a glitch and is the most strongest shield in the game. Indeed, it's the heaviest shield among them all. Well, I'm not sure about the items from the Cat Merchant from Floating Island that is isolated from the start of the game. Because they removed it from the story of the game. There's also Wolf Armor Set (unknown) that cannot be obtained through story but can be obtained through the Cat Merchant. Which can only be reached the island by using ladder glitch to get there or using the glitch method from this link: ruclips.net/video/rH4xL2snRXw/видео.html
I honestly had the most troubles with the false jester..it was probably since I was playing an archer.
I'm pretty sure Carsejaw is also an optional boss. Never fought him in my 1st playtrought.
I glitched the fight with the witch of the lake by using pessmud, which killed her as I died. It sucked because it gave me the salt and everything but it was still there when I went back.
The witch of the lake only took me 4 tries. Than again, a dex build with light armor and a great against air targets reaper can come in handy.
How is the sodden knight harder than the queen of smiles? I literally just picked the grenades nearby up, rolled through him, spammed the grenades, and cleaned him up with a few hits. I honestly found him a welcome change of pace from the unspeakable deep (I'm on my first play, and I was determined to beat it so I reset like 10 times cause I suck)
David Griffith lmao you beat unspeakable deep first playthrough? That explains why sodden knight wasn't too tough
Experience Sodden Knight in NG+, you get why the boss can be hard at that point
Wait till you get to NG+ above. Sodden Knight won't be easy peasy using grenados.
Mikko Tonichi never replied oops but ng+5 and still think he's free af, in fact I find him easier with my build fleshed out than before, don't even need grenades
Also my build is a naked (no armor) mage focusing on dark magic, so literally everything one shots me. Even tho Sodden Knight one shots me I still don't think he's hard at all
I killed that tentacle dragon 2 times!!! first he killed me by died by poison just when the "Obliterated" section finished, I was happy till I went back and found it again.
With a mage build, I found Skorzsh (?) the hardest. With a daggers / light armour / no shield build I struggled with Carsejaw and the Third Lamb. I think it really depends on your approach because some bosses are a piece of cake if you use a shield and/or heavy armour but need really accurate dodging if you don't (and vice versa). Currently attempting an SL1 run so we'll see how that goes!
My next character will be a light armor melee character too. Sounds like it's going to be a blast :)
+GamesBrained yeah, it was a bit of a struggle in the middle of the game but by the end I was blasting through bosses because I didn't need to spend anything on Endurance, just pure willpower and dex
I myself kinda moped the floor with the forgotten King by just wearing Titan Armor (Save the Helmet) And just Messing them all the hecc up with mah Greatsword.
The Tree of men and Mal killed me the most times.
the thing about SAS bosses is that every build has different experience with the battles and more importantly they attacs are quite random and do not usually follow up, so for exapmle fi you are lucky (like I was in my last playthrough) then the mad alchemist will jumt to side of the arena and just throw the poison guys over and over again down to the smaller arena... you can just oblitera him right there with no problem and the boss would end on the last spot, but if you are unlucky (like I was in my first playthroug) then the bos will fuck the poison guys and spawn the black, blue and red potions one after another and that will obliterate you without many chances to heal and trade :D same goes for the witch, you can be lucky and she wont use her machine gun magic when she is far from you and same goes for all the other bosses, the nameless god can rip you apart if he will do his light spawning attack often with the grab, but if he will do the sword throw often, then you will take him down easilly... murdiealla mal is the same example, she has hard to dodge and easy to dodge attacs... it goes for almost all bosses the same... BUT when the boss hass lots of HP then he is more likely to use all his attacks enough, that is the case of Skourzh, you have to deal a lot of damage before you takehim down you you probably will have to deal with the lightning ball and his dragon breath, and the most funny thing that proves my point? That stench most foul has an insane attack almost nobody ever saw... but if he eventually does it, and you are caaught in it, then you are just gone :D he killed me out of the blue this way :D I think the developers wanted to balance him to have this attack but not to live too long so he wont spray you with it... that is good, but they should add feature that ensures he does the attack when he is around 40 or 30 HP, that would be great for all the bpsses to be certain, they will use all the atacks they have... enough of my SAS blabering :D (check out saltandsanctuary pictures on deviantar, I am making series of all bosses there :-) )
I was struggling with The Nameless God and Third Lamb, I was surprised by the witch on first place. I actually beat her on first try not even prepared.
Tree of Men had me seething, it was my only major road block
We all have a diffrent experience and its very based on what build we went personaly i went with a pure str build and some where piss easy while others where neverending frustration (cough witch of the lake)
I think the boss difficulty really depends on what gear you use... I use the straight sword and the witch was one of the easier bosses for me. Hardest was either the Kraken Wyrm or Tree of Men, those took me like 20 tries because of how bad the sword's range is, and I was doing like no damage to them at all for some reason.
The secret to beating the Witch of the Lake is chiefly to run the fuck away from her when she's loading up to machine gun the crap out of you, as the fireballs tend to lack ranged accuracy. Still she kicked my ass probably more than forty times.
actually i somehow killed the witch of the lake on my second try on my strength character.
i dont remember her doing like any spells and she just floated around until she died
Even though 2H sword+Heavy Armor (what I use on my first char) is basically the games easy mode, Kraeken Wyrm is the boss that gets the most kills on me every time.
so I beat the game and half of these bosses I dident fight, Did i do something wrong?
Lifeshock Some of them you can just skip by. False Jester, Mad Alchemist, Kraeken Cyclops, Queen of Smiles, and Carsejaw the Cruel to name a few.
ok nice ,thanks
Queen of smiles? More like the queen of my nightmares. Dex based dagger user with mainly dodge focus. That cartwheel attack of hers was driving me crazy... I had to switch to spear for that fight, then I found out from expeence, that dagger builds are bad for early bosses. Still not as useless as some say they are. Also had trouble with the coveted (huge flying axe) I am using a tachi and slash dmg is not that good agains that monstrosity :c beat him through a glitch of sorts, if you go around him and come into his arena not from the temple side but from below where those charger things are the 2nd spectre won't spawn :"D but then I beat him in ng+ the intended way 2on1 great game, great video!
Really depends on the weapon and build. My first play through was a holy build with great hammers. Was pretty easy, but my second play through was holy (again) with the poleaxe. Much harder.
one time I stayed up till' 12A.M fighting the tree of men.Helpful fact! use the type 46 tower shield during the disembowelled husk fight!
And those without shields just have to get lucky or get good. Now excuse me while I have more nightmares about that freaking Husk fight.
The third Lamb and the pirate were pain pain in the ass
Welp, the thing that makes Nameless God harder is his glitch attack when he grabs you and slide forward and put you inside a wall and then you are stuck and then you die unable to dodge his attacks. I hope that glitch will be fixed someday, otherwise it's not that annoying if you dodge his grab attacks or if you are far enough from the wall when he grabs you, you wont have problems with him.
The unspeakable deep is easy as hell. Get naked and watch him miss all the things with a simple tap of the roll button. He is just exhausting to fight with some starting classes.
I one shot the Witch without knowing anything about her... she hit me once or twice. I just rolled through her magic. Granted I was using the Jaws of death and Creed Pitchfire.. so every strong attack I did took a great big chunk out of her health. I was like... that was it? Maybe I got lucky. Everytime she was out of reach I ran away from her so her magic was more spread out by the time it got to me so it was easier to roll through. Dark souls taught me how to deal with filthy magic users. Distance is their strength but too much distance is a weakness. I do the same with the third lamb if I know I won't get close fast enough when he starts charging up his laz0r.
Also I was surprised Soden was that far up. He has never killed me. You can throw anything at him when he is jumping at you to make him not reach you which is pretty funny.
I HATED the mad alchemist when I first fought him. I didn't realize there was a sanctuary next to his arena so every time I died (which was like 6-8 times) I had to run back from the Smiles Sanc... I got really good at that area though. lol Also the Wurm really chapped my ass I don't even know how many times he killed me. But now I can reliably one shot him. I didn't realize you could jump over his flames/tail attack and my weapon did PITIFUL damage.
Mad Alchemist is one of my favorites, but damn that experience of yours sounds terrible. That's how I felt on the run to the Husk over and over. I got good at the area, but the Hager's Cavern I eventually just started trying to skip all the enemies I could to preserve my healing for the fight.
I don't really know if Sodden should be that high either. I suppose it can be a shock for people who aren't as used to Souls/Salt levels of necessary focus. I am surprised about your story with the witch, I tried sooo many different ways to take her, but I have to admit the thing I didn't do was put more range between us.
Very interesting, I may try that next time myself.
+GamesBrained with The Husk, I found him easiest on my fastroll / dex character because if you time it right you can get through his forward shot with your invisibility frames. As far as the route to reach him, I found it so much easier to get the dart brand first so you can skip across to the platform with the armor mite and you don't need to go down to where the banshee and shield skeletons are.
I took the Witch of the Lake first try first playthrough. Really no idea how people's experience with the difficulty varies so greatly from person to person. The Nameless God took me the most tries for sure
GUYS! GUYS! GUYS! Melee characters can pretty easily cheese the Tree of Men!
Step one, get class 3 swordfighter
Step two, transmute a great sword into the shrouded bulwark, and get it upgraded to at least level 3 or 4
Step three, use an attack range charm
Step four, one hand the sword(hence class 3 skill) and have the Phoenix rondache as your shield
After you kill all the hanging caged men, and he goes into stage 2, stand on the left side of the stage on the second platform from the top. Whenever he uses that attack where he slams his arm across one of the platforms, he'll pull back slightly before he swings. Stay on the platform, and watch for whenever he pulls back to launch that attack. Once he does that, the attack will go through on whatever platform you're standing on when he starts the windup, but can't change if you move to a different platform before he executes. Simply watch for the wind up, then jump up to the next platform and swing at his head which should be almost level with your sword. If jumping up will cause you to get fireblasted on that platform, jump up anyway and immediately block, as the fire jet might stop before the boss raises his head again and you might be able to get in a swing or 2. Remember, you will still block the damage if your guard is up even if you take it from the back
Cool Video.
I don't know about everyone else but I'd rank the Coveted and the Third Lamb above the witch of the lake, I don't know if it was because I had holy damage on me but she took me only three tries.
I was the same with the nameless god XD beat him on my first go... and second, because I immediately jumped into the well when I wanted the dominion ending(so I had to restart the game before it saved and re-rekt his ass). I also agree with the disemboweled husk boss being a pain in the ass(but then I found out you can go there without getting damaged even once by rolling of the solid not disappearing platform above the two skele-archers to avoid fall damage)
Once you realize the witch is stupid weak against fire, she becomes a lot easier. What I actually hate about her is when she flies off screen, that being said, her magics are dodgeable (what can I say, after dying 50 something times on your first play through, you live and you learn), and she gives you SO many open windows to just bash her pointy hat into oblivion. I admit at first she was THE hardest boss, and an actual road block for a while, but as of now, with the experience I have with her, if she gets to kill me once on a playthrough, she's lucky in her RNG or I played like shit. On the other hand, one boss that still kicks my ass once in a while is the third lamb. So in retrospect, Witch would rank in the easiest (seriously now I just can't believe I died so much to her on my first playthrough) and Third Lamb the hardest.
the tree of men was a bit easy if you concentrate enough to know your environment. The kraekan wyrm also is placed too high though different players use different playstyles but still its easy. Disemboweled husk too was placed higher than expected. Tip: just be versatile and you can beat these bosses with relative ease
this is why I like being a mage hybrid my list changes quite a lot of places (with nameless being my hardest since he so resistant)