With Master Carpenter you can reduce the difficulty of the fight by not hitting him when he's building something. If you hit him when he does it then he summons a Demon Lord. If you leave him alone, he builds a chest that contains the item that he can normally drop.
@@Contrary22 The boss is designed to make that strategy really obvious. That's why there are spikes on the ceiling. Plus, like, half of bosses require using the invert shard after you get it to dodge attacks. Gremory is probably the best example, and it's mandatory for that race.
@@Contrary22 if the game gives you the things you need to make the boss easy without having to grind, then yes, the boss is easy. Although, craziest thing to me is that I didnt even use aegis plate or invert, I just walked up and stabbed with the dagger.
You're honestly very underrated. You deserve way more subs. You're naturally funny and so chill with it. I really hope you get the success you deserve !!
Just finished the game. I think that OD is more of a final boss than Bael. The King of Kings, controlled by the Fallen Exorcist, stood no chance against me, while OD took days to defeat.
#2 was the hardest for me. The final boss is much easier if you only attack the head that she is resting in and use invert rather than jump over the heads and it makes the lava dodging not even needed.
I've been WAITING for this vid and i was not disappointed lol. The made up names made it even better lol also it should be noted that the different heads of Bael actually have 3 different HP values and the only one that matters to kill is the human shaped one.
Alfred Boss Fight was the hardest for me in hard difficult. I found a way to make this with Teps oceus shard. The Gambler and the final boss you can defeat it with Invert to escape the attacks and you can Hit without taking damage
I found Zangetsu for the first time and Bael. For Zangetsu I hadn't gotten used to the game yet and wasn't using potions. Bael was annoying to me. I really liked your list for Nioh and this game!
Bloodstained's systems are really easy to exploit if you are willing to farm, a lot. By the end of the game my character was unkillable. I took out the final boss so fast that when I watched a video of someone else fighting it, I didn't recognize most of it's attacks because I killed it before it could use any of them. Not only are there items that increase your attack based on how many enemies you've killed, but you can double up on money buffs with a ring and a passive shard. Plus, any passive shard you max out will remain permanently active so you can technically have every passive ability active at once if you farm enough (which is what I did). What's funny about Pokerface is that I was rich as shit going into the fight, but I killed him before he could heal, so it wasn't a problem. You can also just equip the stupid anti-spike armor (which like Sunburn I had to look up to find), invert the room and just slash him in the face until he dies. The hardest boss for me was Zangetsu part 2. I think I died maybe 4 times before I got the hang of his pattern. O.D. wasn't a problem only because I was a god by that point. I will add that I 100% agree about touch damage. It's fucking stupid, unless the enemy is on fire or covered in spikes or something. Or you're Mario :P
This is very much how I felt about the game. Watching him fight later bosses, doing the damage he was confirmed for me that, yes, yes I WAS very over-leveled for much of the game. 90% of my 'strategy' for the latter half of the game was 'tank hits and keep swinging that greatsword'.
@Sunburned Albino, just wanted to let you know if you want to beat OD or Carpenter easier, use the Inverted Shard. Have the Heavy Metal Shard(Rocker chick can't remember the spell) on either one and OD isn't much trouble with it, as you said go to the corner when time is about to stop. As for the Carpenter same set up and stay above him and just clean up the monsters he summons. Also another way to beat Dominique is use poison shards or weapons. She is extremely weak to it. The sword I run plus the shard I do about 120 dmg over time and 550 per strike. Hope it helps anyone playing the game too.
I use shadow tracers for all the boss fights. They do not last 30 seconds not even in nightmare mode. The shadow tracers have to be positioned right thought.
Yeah, shard builds make all of this highly subjective. Invert trivializes a good number of bosses. Directional shield does, too. Plus, the Recycler Hat makes guns broken. Good thing, for balance, that it's not available too early.
Invert won’t work on the 8-bit demon. It’ll send waves of fire if you try to cheese it like that. You can use it for limited evasion, but it’s not perfect.
@@cameronharding6055 True. But Directional Shield stops everything else it tries. You can fully ignore every fire wave pattern, since the shield blocks everything.
The hardest part of the gebel fight is trying not to kill him. Half the time he dies before the moon even turns red. Also hardest boss is 1st zangestu. Especially onthe harder modes, might as well be the Julius belmont fight but you dont get any shards to deal with it. Meanwhile, the final bosses in this game are absurdly easy.
@@mapes2572 if you're playing on hard or nightmare mode I 100% agree with you alfred is way overtuned and also super annoying to fight, just running for 80 hours while he hits you with attacks that spawn directly on top of you, having access to every status and having a confusing 3d arena that makes stuff even harder to dodge. Nowadays i can do zangetsu 1 pretty easily on any difficultly but he still clearly has illogical hitboxes and overturned early game damage.
@@isuckatgaming1873 i was playing on normal but i think i was underleveled now i beat alfred easily with both miriam and zangetsu atleast in normal difficulty (havent tried the other characters)
At 2:00, the abyssal guardian, the only boss he has ever seen died to a pedicure. I thought that the Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2 was also killed by pedicure.
Millionaires bane can be one hit killed if his slots roll a triple seven. It also is guaranteed to drop one of the materials that lets you craft one of two most powerful weapons in the game if it dies to that. I also managed to fight the blood boss much earlier by bouncing off candles. Edit: The game also has a compendium that shows you every boss/enemies name along with their drops and drop rates.
They are only a certain amount of people that actually know how to play this game. You are one of them. I never tried to fight the blood lady by jumping using the candles or enemies but I always this method to get items at the begining of the game. It takes me 30 seconds or less to beat all the bosses in nightmare mode.
Masked Masters Doing it in 30 seconds is easy for some bosses and difficult for others. My best example for 30 seconds would be Millions Bane and the example for the most difficult would be Alucard due to his high health pool. Although 8-bit Demon is close if only because some of his attacks require you to prioritize evasion over smashing him harder than my ex. Did you know if you use inversion in that fight he’ll purposefully call a wave of flames on the ceiling just to get you down and he’ll do it every time? He can’t be ceiling cheesed like some of the late game bosses and way too many enemies (my first playthrough was blind, I cheesed and I’m ashamed of it). Although I’m trying to find methods to kill every boss in under 30-45 seconds in a typical run with only the amount of grinding the average player would do for each boss. My best so far has been getting a hard mode 5-6 second kill on the first boss by maxing out the dullahammer head familiar and reaching something close to level 16-18 when I should’ve been around 7-9... My logic was if it’s a hard mode playthrough most people would want a good familiar before the first boss so I used that mindset and their high exp yield for that point in the game was simply an unnecessary but very welcome bonus. Edit: The candle bouncing combos into double jumps. Essentially, if you have enough flying objects or even enemies, you can sequence break various parts of the game to get certain shards or items early. I got this idea because in dawn of Sorrow I always used the flying kicks to get around until I get the black panther soul at the end of the game. I essentially applied all I learned from that game during my playthrough because RotN is essentially Dawn of Sorrow 2.0.
I know you probably don’t take requests, and you played it a while ago, but maybe a darkest dungeon boss ranking? If you do it with the dlcs, you have your next 3-4 boss rankings.
Maybe it was just me, but I had absolutely no problems with the final boss. I killed both phases in under 2 minutes each with a Gunman build. Betelgeuse w/ Diamond Bullets (Easy to farm diamonds from ice elementals to craft bullets) Gunslinger's Hat (Double bullet consumption for HUGE damage buff) Flame Mail (Kinda just winged this slot, STR based armor for more damage I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Traveler's Ring (Should give between 9.5-10% damage buff depending on map completion, which should be almost done by then) Silver Power Ring (Again, should be a considerable buff by the time you fight final boss) Gunman's Scarf (Rate of Fire increase) R9/G9 Firearm Expertise (Damage & RoF bonuses) Did between 300-350 damage per shot. Literally never even knew Baal spawned lava, never even saw it that's how fast the fight was. Other shards don't matter much, I used Carabosse for auto heals and Reflector Ray for dodges if needed.
I loved this game so much and i cant figure out why even though i played this game a year ago on game pass( the game is no longer on game pass). I downloaded this game having very low exceptions. I thought it would be another game i play for 30 mins and quickly uninstall it from my xbox but i was wrong i became addicted to it. I not even a serious gamer and just like to play video games for fun( so i usually don’t involve skill into my gameplay) but even i didn’t find the game too hard to play and would play this game from day to night even though i usually only play video games for 1-2 hours a day due to my short attention span. This game has secret crack in it i swear. Everyone should play it
The bloodlady will heal now complete when she regenerates, her getting hit and her attacks generate enough blood for her to heal completely. You can defeat her only after she healed that one time
I disagree with Dominique/Bael. Dominique can be reliably beaten with Parry spam and Bael goes down by cheesing Reverse. I also found the rolly polly lion to be OP against Bael but haven't done the math to confirm. I completely agree with everything else though. Also thanks for showing me the high level Dullahead. I thought it was a useless familiar but oh boy that's a spicy meatball.
Did you forget that Bael can be stopped with "Standstill". The fact that the supposed "King of all Demon Kings" has no personality, lame design, controlled by that traitorous bitch of a supporting character, and can be stopped by time makes it a really disappointing final boss. It ain't compared to Dracula of Castlevania series.
Bael is a joke compared to O.D all bael attacks are easy to dodge but O.D has a lot of hard to dodge attacks and the ice spikes + time stop combo is extremely difficult to dodge if you are in a bad placement Still good video
Fjunbollen13 That’s less a clue and more a description of its effect on Gremorys moon. Likely another attempt to make the katanas intended use clearer.
Is only hard if you haven't farm like a maniac for every single damn thing. Iga please forgive me, my level was over the top by the time I reached many of this bosses.
Decent list. I personally finished the game on hard 3 weeks ago, and found out that the game has a pretty consistent reverse difficulty curve. My own hardest boss was the second fight against Zangetsu, followed by Bloodless (Vampire lady) and 3rd spot is Alfred. Zangetsu moves overall faster on hard difficulty, therefore it's almost impossible to get behind him. And he gets an attack that homes in onto you and always does damage equaling 200% of your maximum HP. I managed to beat him with the Summon Hellhound shard combined with Directed Shield. Bloodless is actually not as hard when you know that she takes increased damage from piercing attacks (spears and rapiers) and she isn't immune to poison damage. Just bring your Stinger rapier to the fight. Poison does percentual damage over time, helping greatly. Directed shield helps blocking her attacks you're out of position to evade. Alfred gets obnoxious when he creates the slowing power-circles and doubles down on teleportation. You simply have to poison him one way or the other right after he starts that phase, or you'll never do enough damage. Orlok Drakul's most dangerous attack is NOT the time-stop (because it can be blocked with the directed shield/beast guardian) but his bite-attack. One where he turns into mist, grabs and keeps biting Miriam until he does damage equaling a 100% of her HP (you can still use a healing item while he's nibbling at her, and that's the only way to stay alive if he catches you). Diamond bullets do the trick, combined with Summon Hellhound. The shard he drops completely trivializes the fight against Bael (final boss). Just freeze time when a head is in your line of fire and unload a bunch of critical and/or diamond bullets into it. Peace of cake. Edit: the Master Carpenter is also much easier if you use a weapon/spell with poisoning effect. Also, Directed Shield or Beast Guardian makes the fight against Gremory pretty easy, as she telegraphs every major attack.
My doppelganger didn't use any of the same shards I used I had the lightning great sword the fearie, the void ray and the paintings she used faire balls and summoned a fucking dragon ALOT she also used a quick slash katana Wich I don't use
I can't want for you to play nightmare mode where none of these strategies work and directed shield is a requirement for later bosses since they all kill you in 2 hits and change their attack patterns. It's a good time but it really forces a lot out of you.
@@cameronharding6055 Sorry, youtube never gave me the reply. Biggest changes are the bloodless boss, O.D. Iga and second zangetsu fight, second zangetsu gets an instant kill that he can use starting fire phase that you either use directional shield to survive or somehow slide out of, he also gets a super move for each phase using his talismans. I say super move but it's more like chip damage that puts you in 1 shot range of most of his attacks. Bloodless, when you go into phase 2 on normal gets amped up and changes her attacks, nightmare mode starts with her amped up attacks and spams them much more while doing less jumping. She fights more like a mage and less like an Olympic long jumper. Shoot her with guns. O.D. gets effects to some of his sword attacks, like a 1 shot explosion and ice blasts that will also 1 shot you if you notice them too late, he also tries to hit you with his grab a lot more which is also a 1 shot. Iga is much more aggressive, he's faster, teleports more, his spells are changed up to be harder to avoid, his whip comes out with less warning. He becomes an actual super boss similar to O.D. in difficulty. Honourable mention goes to the train boss. Zangetsu doesn't help you fight it on nightmare so you actually have to learn his patterns. I recommend sitting at the bottom of the coal and shooting him with a gun, and when he starts any attack just run behind the coal so he can't hit you. Other than them, the tower of twin dragons boss seems to have a set pattern that it will always follow, making it the easiest boss in the game. Before that all the bosses are pretty much just waiting for your familiars to kill them while avoiding their attacks since you do no damage. Alfred seems to mix and throw potions faster. Gebel can hit you on the ceiling with more of his attacks, the fast boy boss's gimmick is nearly unavoidable unless you're already in a safe place making it more RNG reliant. Since you don't gain levels in nightmare you generally need to abuse boss element weaknesses if you can since they actually do make a slight difference, and the game as a whole is much more grindy since later on you need to turn most passive souls into skill souls to really have any hope of winning, at a minimum, your weapon expertise of choice, a maxed out optimizer and augment strength will get the job done, but getting maxed augment constitution, drain, and the one that sometimes gives you 0 MP costs are extremely valuable too. Most bosses I didn't mention I either killed too fast late game after grinding to actually notice differences, or are pretty much the same but with the ability to 2 shot you with anything.
Firancil Okay thanks for arming me with this knowledge. Some idiots have been saying this games too easy and Nightmare will likely be a cakewalk. I also am doing a preemptive run on Hard Mode where I get grinding strats down. So far my grinding strategy is to grind Dullahammer heads for EXP early game on the ship and then use the heads shard that I will inevitably end up at grade 9 with to grind bigger enemies for stuff like sword expertise grade 9 which can later on become ‘insert weapon’ expertise for the final bosses and the post game bosses.
@@cameronharding6055 Honestly you only need to really start grinding once you get to the second zangetsu fight. Other than that something you should know is that O.D. only lets you have 2 books in nightmare instead of the 3 in normal. For normal gameplay (not farming) pick up the luck book and either STR or familiar STR books. Familiar STR book should only be used till you get weapons that give give you 40 attack which is generally around the gebel fight. After that switch to the regular STR book since at that time your attacks will finally out damage your dulla heads. For grinding, from personal experience, if you can get gear to get you to 11 luck during the first few areas then you're doing good for drop chances on everything. The second you get to bridge of evil, farm some lili ears to make bunny ears. Those with the rest of your gear and the luck book will give you around 20 luck, which from my own experience again, is really good for early game farming. After that just pick up a ribbon from the titania in hall of termination, get the valkirie dress from tower of twin dragons and get the 2 plunderer rings, eat as many desserts as you can and use both luck books. By late game you'll be sitting on 55-60 some odd luck to farm everything else you need. As for farming sword expertise, wait till you get to O.D. to get your familiar STR book, your 5 dulla heads won't kill the lion on their first attack rotation alone on nightmare which will open you up to losing most of your health when he walks at you and is too big to jump over. It's better just to farm the lion when you never have to go near him so you have no chance of dying and losing an hour of your time. As for weapons in general. Don't be afraid to switch weapons. the dulla heads are easiest to fight with jumping attacks using the whip since it can hit them a bit below the ground. The first Zangetsu fight is trivial with good use of a gun. Orobas is made easy with the ayamur which you can farm a few areas earlier since he has -50 blunt resistance. Most early bosses require you to just dance around them while familiars do the damage, only reason that strategy doesn't work against Zangetsu is because he can unsummon all of them for the entire fight. Don't limit yourself to 1 weapon type or strategy. All bosses (except craftwork) require a strategy and good movement to get through. Generally by the time you get to the oriental sorcery lab you have the gear and food stats to get away with using a single weapon type from then on, but until then feel free to experiment with different things on different bosses to see what works best. That's the best way we can discover more optimal nightmare pathing and boss strats. Good luck with nightmare mode when you get around to it. It's really rough at the start, but by mid game you'll be having a proper blast. So don't give up!
Firancil Oh trust me, as a huge fan of dawn of sorrow this game tickles me in all the right ways so I’ll probably try to 100% it on all difficulties just to get every drop of gameplay I can squeeze out of it. Although I won’t rest until I even clear the future Zangetsu dlc I’ve heard of. Maybe we’ll get lucky and get Alfred and Gebel dlc. Fun fact: You can use the double jump flying kick to get to Bloodless early by bouncing on candles and even farm materials from the stronger enemies there early. You can also use some flying enemies in tandem with the bounce to bypass and reach good items early. It’s risky but very rewarding when you master it. More fun facts: It’s not actually possible to cheese 8-bit demon with invert because it will always send a column of flame at you to get you down. It’s clearly a developers intention to ensure you only use the ability when necessary to evade attacks. Invert also works wonders on Millionares Bane because crouching in the middle of the ceiling makes you practically untouchable by most of its attacks. Useful fact: You can make early game farming easier by getting grade 9 dullahamer heads early on hard mode just before the water lady boss. During the grinding process you’re guaranteed to reach somewhere between level 16-20 just by killing them because their shard drop rate is low. Even then, grinding them is still useful because their exp rate is great for how low their health is. Another fact: It’s possible to get to Gebel before even getting Invert which I believe is the intended way to get to Gebel. I think I may have even killed bloodless before the twin headed dragon although I may be misremembering my first playthrough. ... My first playthrough was a trip, okay? I’ve seen some shit.
Ah.. bosses rank easiest to hardest in normal difficulty. Just gonna wait and see how are the bosses ranked in hard mode. Nightmare mode can be skipped since its hard mode + level stuck at level 1 (including your familiars).
Revelation 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
I would put the dragon as the easier because when I first found him despite him being behind a boss door I had no idea he was a boss. I killed him in 2 hits with one spell. I didn't even get to see a single attack from him lol. I didn't even use my weapon on him and I wasn't overleveled either. Also you missed one boss.... Kinda. It won't be on PS4 until tomorrow because of some kind of delay. It is on PC and Switch, I think.
Literally why do you not use their real names? They are listed in the guidebook and in the playthrough. Ps. How is Bael tough? Just use the stop time spell and beat the shit out of it.
The Doppelganger entry more than makes up for the fact that you make up their names despite them literally being in the bottom right corner.
Me fighting Zangetsu the second time: "Oh he's at his fire attacks. I'm half way there- oh god why is he attacking with lightning now?"
With Master Carpenter you can reduce the difficulty of the fight by not hitting him when he's building something. If you hit him when he does it then he summons a Demon Lord. If you leave him alone, he builds a chest that contains the item that he can normally drop.
For the Carpenter, just invert and use a great sword. You can attack freely without any damage from the carpenter and very little from the demons.
The Gambler is the easiest boss in the game. You just weren't fighting him right. All you have to do is invert while wearing the Aegis Plate.
If you have to use a specific ability to make a boss easy. It's not the easiest boss. Easiest means its easy no matter how you approach it.
@@Contrary22 Those abilities and items are mandatory. You can't not have them at that stage.
But the same spam factor is still a thing. I just don't agree that spamming an op move or ability is a good measure of how easy something is.
@@Contrary22 The boss is designed to make that strategy really obvious. That's why there are spikes on the ceiling.
Plus, like, half of bosses require using the invert shard after you get it to dodge attacks. Gremory is probably the best example, and it's mandatory for that race.
@@Contrary22 if the game gives you the things you need to make the boss easy without having to grind, then yes, the boss is easy. Although, craziest thing to me is that I didnt even use aegis plate or invert, I just walked up and stabbed with the dagger.
You're honestly very underrated. You deserve way more subs. You're naturally funny and so chill with it. I really hope you get the success you deserve !!
Just finished the game. I think that OD is more of a final boss than Bael. The King of Kings, controlled by the Fallen Exorcist, stood no chance against me, while OD took days to defeat.
made my day with your humor alongside the game
#2 was the hardest for me. The final boss is much easier if you only attack the head that she is resting in and use invert rather than jump over the heads and it makes the lava dodging not even needed.
Craftwork is harder.
@@amyroberts1210 It’s been so long since I last played I don’t remember anything lol
That stained glass hand thing moved way faster for me wtf.
Sooooo where is the sekiro ranking?
ruclips.net/video/0dXVOjbjHYI/видео.html :3
Literally what i was about to ask after watching the vid . Good one mate you beat me to it :)
It's already out
@@raimetfk1428 no, we mean the real one.
@@raimetfk1428 My fume knight boi, that Was a loony toons game albino played on the channel
I've been WAITING for this vid and i was not disappointed lol. The made up names made it even better lol also it should be noted that the different heads of Bael actually have 3 different HP values and the only one that matters to kill is the human shaped one.
I like how you don't know most of the bosses names even though they appear on screen as you fight them.
Plus there's a Bestiary, which you think might be useful to look at before making a video like this.
Alfred Boss Fight was the hardest for me in hard difficult. I found a way to make this with Teps oceus shard. The Gambler and the final boss you can defeat it with Invert to escape the attacks and you can Hit without taking damage
“We have fun here,”
Lol best random vid I’ve found all year!
You’re hilarious sir
I found Zangetsu for the first time and Bael. For Zangetsu I hadn't gotten used to the game yet and wasn't using potions. Bael was annoying to me. I really liked your list for Nioh and this game!
Name of the boss: *appears on the screen*
Albino: This sign can't stop me because I can't read
My man's doesn't know the official names to these bosses.
Press F
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Bloodstained's systems are really easy to exploit if you are willing to farm, a lot. By the end of the game my character was unkillable. I took out the final boss so fast that when I watched a video of someone else fighting it, I didn't recognize most of it's attacks because I killed it before it could use any of them. Not only are there items that increase your attack based on how many enemies you've killed, but you can double up on money buffs with a ring and a passive shard. Plus, any passive shard you max out will remain permanently active so you can technically have every passive ability active at once if you farm enough (which is what I did). What's funny about Pokerface is that I was rich as shit going into the fight, but I killed him before he could heal, so it wasn't a problem. You can also just equip the stupid anti-spike armor (which like Sunburn I had to look up to find), invert the room and just slash him in the face until he dies. The hardest boss for me was Zangetsu part 2. I think I died maybe 4 times before I got the hang of his pattern. O.D. wasn't a problem only because I was a god by that point. I will add that I 100% agree about touch damage. It's fucking stupid, unless the enemy is on fire or covered in spikes or something. Or you're Mario :P
This is very much how I felt about the game. Watching him fight later bosses, doing the damage he was confirmed for me that, yes, yes I WAS very over-leveled for much of the game. 90% of my 'strategy' for the latter half of the game was 'tank hits and keep swinging that greatsword'.
@Sunburned Albino, just wanted to let you know if you want to beat OD or Carpenter easier, use the Inverted Shard. Have the Heavy Metal Shard(Rocker chick can't remember the spell) on either one and OD isn't much trouble with it, as you said go to the corner when time is about to stop. As for the Carpenter same set up and stay above him and just clean up the monsters he summons. Also another way to beat Dominique is use poison shards or weapons. She is extremely weak to it. The sword I run plus the shard I do about 120 dmg over time and 550 per strike. Hope it helps anyone playing the game too.
"How much damage is that in butts?"
Grimory doesn't do anything because she's the resident "Death" boss fight from Castlevania.
Amazing and hilarious reference to one of my favorite songs 😃
Could not stop laughing at that one
Loved the fuckin Green Day reference with the shadow boss fight
You're welcome to do the whole Castlevania series now :) Or at least Curse Of The Moon
Was watching this with subtitles, and it decided Zangestu either "Zhang gets who?" or "Zen get pseudo", both of which are amazing.
Any chance you'll be giving Symphony of the Night a look at, kind sir?
For the money skeleton man, just equip the trapproof armor and fight him from the ceiling. His grab attack can't even reach you.
There is a prequel game to this where a lot of the bosses come from (train guy, Alfred, Gambler dude, ect ect) it's pretty neat
I use shadow tracers for all the boss fights. They do not last 30 seconds not even in nightmare mode. The shadow tracers have to be positioned right thought.
I Burst every boss in like 10 seconds with the flamethrower and mana pods xD
Yeah, shard builds make all of this highly subjective. Invert trivializes a good number of bosses. Directional shield does, too.
Plus, the Recycler Hat makes guns broken. Good thing, for balance, that it's not available too early.
Invert won’t work on the 8-bit demon. It’ll send waves of fire if you try to cheese it like that. You can use it for limited evasion, but it’s not perfect.
@@cameronharding6055 True. But Directional Shield stops everything else it tries. You can fully ignore every fire wave pattern, since the shield blocks everything.
The hardest part of the gebel fight is trying not to kill him. Half the time he dies before the moon even turns red.
Also hardest boss is 1st zangestu. Especially onthe harder modes, might as well be the Julius belmont fight but you dont get any shards to deal with it. Meanwhile, the final bosses in this game are absurdly easy.
nah zangetsu first wasnt even near the hardest for me it was alfred xd
@@mapes2572 if you're playing on hard or nightmare mode I 100% agree with you alfred is way overtuned and also super annoying to fight, just running for 80 hours while he hits you with attacks that spawn directly on top of you, having access to every status and having a confusing 3d arena that makes stuff even harder to dodge.
Nowadays i can do zangetsu 1 pretty easily on any difficultly but he still clearly has illogical hitboxes and overturned early game damage.
@@isuckatgaming1873 i was playing on normal but i think i was underleveled now i beat alfred easily with both miriam and zangetsu atleast in normal difficulty (havent tried the other characters)
At 2:00, the abyssal guardian, the only boss he has ever seen died to a pedicure. I thought that the Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2 was also killed by pedicure.
Yeah, but the ancient dragon has the hp of marianas trench ( is that how you say it )
Millionaires bane can be one hit killed if his slots roll a triple seven. It also is guaranteed to drop one of the materials that lets you craft one of two most powerful weapons in the game if it dies to that. I also managed to fight the blood boss much earlier by bouncing off candles.
Edit: The game also has a compendium that shows you every boss/enemies name along with their drops and drop rates.
They are only a certain amount of people that actually know how to play this game. You are one of them. I never tried to fight the blood lady by jumping using the candles or enemies but I always this method to get items at the begining of the game. It takes me 30 seconds or less to beat all the bosses in nightmare mode.
Masked Masters Doing it in 30 seconds is easy for some bosses and difficult for others. My best example for 30 seconds would be Millions Bane and the example for the most difficult would be Alucard due to his high health pool. Although 8-bit Demon is close if only because some of his attacks require you to prioritize evasion over smashing him harder than my ex. Did you know if you use inversion in that fight he’ll purposefully call a wave of flames on the ceiling just to get you down and he’ll do it every time? He can’t be ceiling cheesed like some of the late game bosses and way too many enemies (my first playthrough was blind, I cheesed and I’m ashamed of it). Although I’m trying to find methods to kill every boss in under 30-45 seconds in a typical run with only the amount of grinding the average player would do for each boss. My best so far has been getting a hard mode 5-6 second kill on the first boss by maxing out the dullahammer head familiar and reaching something close to level 16-18 when I should’ve been around 7-9... My logic was if it’s a hard mode playthrough most people would want a good familiar before the first boss so I used that mindset and their high exp yield for that point in the game was simply an unnecessary but very welcome bonus.
Edit: The candle bouncing combos into double jumps. Essentially, if you have enough flying objects or even enemies, you can sequence break various parts of the game to get certain shards or items early. I got this idea because in dawn of Sorrow I always used the flying kicks to get around until I get the black panther soul at the end of the game. I essentially applied all I learned from that game during my playthrough because RotN is essentially Dawn of Sorrow 2.0.
I know you probably don’t take requests, and you played it a while ago, but maybe a darkest dungeon boss ranking? If you do it with the dlcs, you have your next 3-4 boss rankings.
Maybe it was just me, but I had absolutely no problems with the final boss. I killed both phases in under 2 minutes each with a Gunman build.
Betelgeuse w/ Diamond Bullets (Easy to farm diamonds from ice elementals to craft bullets)
Gunslinger's Hat (Double bullet consumption for HUGE damage buff)
Flame Mail (Kinda just winged this slot, STR based armor for more damage I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Traveler's Ring (Should give between 9.5-10% damage buff depending on map completion, which should be almost done by then)
Silver Power Ring (Again, should be a considerable buff by the time you fight final boss)
Gunman's Scarf (Rate of Fire increase)
R9/G9 Firearm Expertise (Damage & RoF bonuses)
Did between 300-350 damage per shot. Literally never even knew Baal spawned lava, never even saw it that's how fast the fight was.
Other shards don't matter much, I used Carabosse for auto heals and Reflector Ray for dodges if needed.
Lol, it takes me less than 30 seconds on nightmare mode.
Bro. The my shadow part had me crying laughing good shit
I loved this game so much and i cant figure out why even though i played this game a year ago on game pass( the game is no longer on game pass). I downloaded this game having very low exceptions. I thought it would be another game i play for 30 mins and quickly uninstall it from my xbox but i was wrong i became addicted to it. I not even a serious gamer and just like to play video games for fun( so i usually don’t involve skill into my gameplay) but even i didn’t find the game too hard to play and would play this game from day to night even though i usually only play video games for 1-2 hours a day due to my short attention span. This game has secret crack in it i swear. Everyone should play it
The bloodlady will heal now complete when she regenerates, her getting hit and her attacks generate enough blood for her to heal completely. You can defeat her only after she healed that one time
Dont forget that after healing she will now get a few new attacks. Blood raining from the ceilling can instakill you.
I disagree with Dominique/Bael. Dominique can be reliably beaten with Parry spam and Bael goes down by cheesing Reverse. I also found the rolly polly lion to be OP against Bael but haven't done the math to confirm. I completely agree with everything else though. Also thanks for showing me the high level Dullahead. I thought it was a useless familiar but oh boy that's a spicy meatball.
5:48 you missed the chance to call it "Konami's Wife"
Does SA know about the bestiary?
you should do the dmc series plenty of bosses there
Wow, I found Dominique really easy, I was happy I did it first try
Sick Green Day reference
Ohhh, so that's why everyone says this game is easy. That Welcome Company and Dulahammer Familiar combo just brutalizes everything.
How is he doing that purple dash thing? I've beaten this game and I don't recognize that move
look up the ninja race in the den of behemoths
When went into the room with gebel. The moon was already red. I didn't have to swing more than once just cut the moon.
You played it on normal or easy. Lol.
Did you forget that Bael can be stopped with "Standstill". The fact that the supposed "King of all Demon Kings" has no personality, lame design, controlled by that traitorous bitch of a supporting character, and can be stopped by time makes it a really disappointing final boss. It ain't compared to Dracula of Castlevania series.
Dragons are zero effort. Just infinite chain dive-kick onto their wings
How funny! You inspired me to want to make a boss ranking on the first BS
I didnt love this one personally!
I found Bael to be one of the easiest fights. I just spammed the Rapier special attack every time Dominique was close to the ground.
Is this game complete yet? I've been waiting to buy it when the updates are done and the bugs are fixed.
Bael is a joke compared to O.D all bael attacks are easy to dodge but O.D has a lot of hard to dodge attacks and the ice spikes + time stop combo is extremely difficult to dodge if you are in a bad placement
Still good video
The only boss which gave me any challenge in this game was OD. Its the only boss you cannot cheese.
I haven't watched much of this series, but I know this video will be good.
I was able to cheese bloodless with the buer soul and a mace. Just throw the soul and spam the mace. So much damage
on the 2nd easiest boss 'fondler' the name of the boss appears at the bottom right of the screen
Richter? You mean Simon? That one is beyond obvious haha.
first play through is tough after that all fights become easy even nightmare.
I didn't know the zangetsuto did that to gremory, should've guessed though
During the boss the sword always hits criticals, too. It’s literally guaranteed to crit when hitting Gremory.
The weapons description gives a clue. It says that the name means ”moon cleaver/cutter” or something.
Fjunbollen13 That’s less a clue and more a description of its effect on Gremorys moon. Likely another attempt to make the katanas intended use clearer.
the two hardest bosses are the optional ones not the last boss.
I found a way to cheese master carpenter and beat him with no damage.
Ummmm. Anyone e else realize that the Flame inverter is literally shin Godzilla. Both in design and powers
megaman2000ish In what way is Orobas Godzilla?
@@oopsiexistnow look up shin Godzilla and you will find the similarities striking
Is only hard if you haven't farm like a maniac for every single damn thing. Iga please forgive me, my level was over the top by the time I reached many of this bosses.
Are Ye gonna rank the Bosses on hard mode? Bosses has new attacks.
Decent list. I personally finished the game on hard 3 weeks ago, and found out that the game has a pretty consistent reverse difficulty curve. My own hardest boss was the second fight against Zangetsu, followed by Bloodless (Vampire lady) and 3rd spot is Alfred. Zangetsu moves overall faster on hard difficulty, therefore it's almost impossible to get behind him. And he gets an attack that homes in onto you and always does damage equaling 200% of your maximum HP. I managed to beat him with the Summon Hellhound shard combined with Directed Shield. Bloodless is actually not as hard when you know that she takes increased damage from piercing attacks (spears and rapiers) and she isn't immune to poison damage. Just bring your Stinger rapier to the fight. Poison does percentual damage over time, helping greatly. Directed shield helps blocking her attacks you're out of position to evade. Alfred gets obnoxious when he creates the slowing power-circles and doubles down on teleportation. You simply have to poison him one way or the other right after he starts that phase, or you'll never do enough damage.
Orlok Drakul's most dangerous attack is NOT the time-stop (because it can be blocked with the directed shield/beast guardian) but his bite-attack. One where he turns into mist, grabs and keeps biting Miriam until he does damage equaling a 100% of her HP (you can still use a healing item while he's nibbling at her, and that's the only way to stay alive if he catches you). Diamond bullets do the trick, combined with Summon Hellhound. The shard he drops completely trivializes the fight against Bael (final boss). Just freeze time when a head is in your line of fire and unload a bunch of critical and/or diamond bullets into it. Peace of cake.
Edit: the Master Carpenter is also much easier if you use a weapon/spell with poisoning effect. Also, Directed Shield or Beast Guardian makes the fight against Gremory pretty easy, as she telegraphs every major attack.
The boss in the train is not there
My doppelganger didn't use any of the same shards I used I had the lightning great sword the fearie, the void ray and the paintings she used faire balls and summoned a fucking dragon ALOT she also used a quick slash katana Wich I don't use
bael is super easy, and if you get the heatseaker gun its damn a cheese fight, actually the gun makes all bosses easy.
Yeah I stomped the whole game with Ravha, don't judge me.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
"At least you're still part of the threeway." LMAO
to me if you poison the bosses then almost all bosses becomes easier
Are you ever going to actually do a sekiro ranking?
@@MazeMaker4Life why is that
8:39 you deserve an oscar for that
I can't want for you to play nightmare mode where none of these strategies work and directed shield is a requirement for later bosses since they all kill you in 2 hits and change their attack patterns. It's a good time but it really forces a lot out of you.
Can you elaborate? I’m genuinely curious and would like to know the differences in attack patterns.
@@cameronharding6055 Sorry, youtube never gave me the reply. Biggest changes are the bloodless boss, O.D. Iga and second zangetsu fight, second zangetsu gets an instant kill that he can use starting fire phase that you either use directional shield to survive or somehow slide out of, he also gets a super move for each phase using his talismans. I say super move but it's more like chip damage that puts you in 1 shot range of most of his attacks.
Bloodless, when you go into phase 2 on normal gets amped up and changes her attacks, nightmare mode starts with her amped up attacks and spams them much more while doing less jumping. She fights more like a mage and less like an Olympic long jumper. Shoot her with guns.
O.D. gets effects to some of his sword attacks, like a 1 shot explosion and ice blasts that will also 1 shot you if you notice them too late, he also tries to hit you with his grab a lot more which is also a 1 shot.
Iga is much more aggressive, he's faster, teleports more, his spells are changed up to be harder to avoid, his whip comes out with less warning. He becomes an actual super boss similar to O.D. in difficulty.
Honourable mention goes to the train boss. Zangetsu doesn't help you fight it on nightmare so you actually have to learn his patterns. I recommend sitting at the bottom of the coal and shooting him with a gun, and when he starts any attack just run behind the coal so he can't hit you.
Other than them, the tower of twin dragons boss seems to have a set pattern that it will always follow, making it the easiest boss in the game. Before that all the bosses are pretty much just waiting for your familiars to kill them while avoiding their attacks since you do no damage. Alfred seems to mix and throw potions faster. Gebel can hit you on the ceiling with more of his attacks, the fast boy boss's gimmick is nearly unavoidable unless you're already in a safe place making it more RNG reliant.
Since you don't gain levels in nightmare you generally need to abuse boss element weaknesses if you can since they actually do make a slight difference, and the game as a whole is much more grindy since later on you need to turn most passive souls into skill souls to really have any hope of winning, at a minimum, your weapon expertise of choice, a maxed out optimizer and augment strength will get the job done, but getting maxed augment constitution, drain, and the one that sometimes gives you 0 MP costs are extremely valuable too.
Most bosses I didn't mention I either killed too fast late game after grinding to actually notice differences, or are pretty much the same but with the ability to 2 shot you with anything.
Firancil Okay thanks for arming me with this knowledge. Some idiots have been saying this games too easy and Nightmare will likely be a cakewalk. I also am doing a preemptive run on Hard Mode where I get grinding strats down. So far my grinding strategy is to grind Dullahammer heads for EXP early game on the ship and then use the heads shard that I will inevitably end up at grade 9 with to grind bigger enemies for stuff like sword expertise grade 9 which can later on become ‘insert weapon’ expertise for the final bosses and the post game bosses.
@@cameronharding6055 Honestly you only need to really start grinding once you get to the second zangetsu fight. Other than that something you should know is that O.D. only lets you have 2 books in nightmare instead of the 3 in normal. For normal gameplay (not farming) pick up the luck book and either STR or familiar STR books. Familiar STR book should only be used till you get weapons that give give you 40 attack which is generally around the gebel fight. After that switch to the regular STR book since at that time your attacks will finally out damage your dulla heads.
For grinding, from personal experience, if you can get gear to get you to 11 luck during the first few areas then you're doing good for drop chances on everything. The second you get to bridge of evil, farm some lili ears to make bunny ears. Those with the rest of your gear and the luck book will give you around 20 luck, which from my own experience again, is really good for early game farming. After that just pick up a ribbon from the titania in hall of termination, get the valkirie dress from tower of twin dragons and get the 2 plunderer rings, eat as many desserts as you can and use both luck books. By late game you'll be sitting on 55-60 some odd luck to farm everything else you need.
As for farming sword expertise, wait till you get to O.D. to get your familiar STR book, your 5 dulla heads won't kill the lion on their first attack rotation alone on nightmare which will open you up to losing most of your health when he walks at you and is too big to jump over. It's better just to farm the lion when you never have to go near him so you have no chance of dying and losing an hour of your time.
As for weapons in general. Don't be afraid to switch weapons. the dulla heads are easiest to fight with jumping attacks using the whip since it can hit them a bit below the ground. The first Zangetsu fight is trivial with good use of a gun. Orobas is made easy with the ayamur which you can farm a few areas earlier since he has -50 blunt resistance. Most early bosses require you to just dance around them while familiars do the damage, only reason that strategy doesn't work against Zangetsu is because he can unsummon all of them for the entire fight. Don't limit yourself to 1 weapon type or strategy. All bosses (except craftwork) require a strategy and good movement to get through. Generally by the time you get to the oriental sorcery lab you have the gear and food stats to get away with using a single weapon type from then on, but until then feel free to experiment with different things on different bosses to see what works best. That's the best way we can discover more optimal nightmare pathing and boss strats.
Good luck with nightmare mode when you get around to it. It's really rough at the start, but by mid game you'll be having a proper blast. So don't give up!
Firancil Oh trust me, as a huge fan of dawn of sorrow this game tickles me in all the right ways so I’ll probably try to 100% it on all difficulties just to get every drop of gameplay I can squeeze out of it. Although I won’t rest until I even clear the future Zangetsu dlc I’ve heard of. Maybe we’ll get lucky and get Alfred and Gebel dlc.
Fun fact: You can use the double jump flying kick to get to Bloodless early by bouncing on candles and even farm materials from the stronger enemies there early. You can also use some flying enemies in tandem with the bounce to bypass and reach good items early. It’s risky but very rewarding when you master it.
More fun facts: It’s not actually possible to cheese 8-bit demon with invert because it will always send a column of flame at you to get you down. It’s clearly a developers intention to ensure you only use the ability when necessary to evade attacks. Invert also works wonders on Millionares Bane because crouching in the middle of the ceiling makes you practically untouchable by most of its attacks.
Useful fact: You can make early game farming easier by getting grade 9 dullahamer heads early on hard mode just before the water lady boss. During the grinding process you’re guaranteed to reach somewhere between level 16-20 just by killing them because their shard drop rate is low. Even then, grinding them is still useful because their exp rate is great for how low their health is.
Another fact: It’s possible to get to Gebel before even getting Invert which I believe is the intended way to get to Gebel. I think I may have even killed bloodless before the twin headed dragon although I may be misremembering my first playthrough.
... My first playthrough was a trip, okay? I’ve seen some shit.
Creaking Skull
U should play DMC 5
I hate the tower-dragons, only boss I can't seem to win without being hit...
Baal is not immune to the standstill ability
wait you're supposed to use Zangetsuto for that flying bitch? shit...
iga is the hardest boss, zengetsu 1 is 2nd easiest, use attack shield and blocks his attacks
Its not zombie ricther its more simon or trevor
I'm assuming a Waifu ranking of all characters and enemies is coming soon?
or you can just use the rhava velar
Bruh thats not Richter. Thats Simon
Tell that to Sakurai.
Just use the bunny shard and then they'll all be easy
Unfortunately, some people will still find ways to die with that strat.
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Bro the fondler stood still the ENTIRE fight for me. Didnt move even once.
Sounds like a bug
Ah.. bosses rank easiest to hardest in normal difficulty. Just gonna wait and see how are the bosses ranked in hard mode. Nightmare mode can be skipped since its hard mode + level stuck at level 1 (including your familiars).
IGA?
Revelation 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
😂gotta go fuckin buy it now, Been debating, now I'm sold.🤣
Do Monster Hunter!!
I would put the dragon as the easier because when I first found him despite him being behind a boss door I had no idea he was a boss. I killed him in 2 hits with one spell. I didn't even get to see a single attack from him lol. I didn't even use my weapon on him and I wasn't overleveled either.
Also you missed one boss.... Kinda. It won't be on PS4 until tomorrow because of some kind of delay. It is on PC and Switch, I think.
Is just me or your audio was downgraded
For me it is craftwork Iam level 18 sill can,t beat it.
Literally why do you not use their real names? They are listed in the guidebook and in the playthrough.
Ps. How is Bael tough? Just use the stop time spell and beat the shit out of it.
What, no love for the Iga boss?
He played on PS4 and the Iga boss won't be on there until tomorrow
@@Zangril Awww, that's disappointing.