What is the hardest boss in dark souls?

Manus or O&S

>>377594741
Unironically Stone gargoyles

They are fucking horrible as a knight, and if you don't summon

Even O and S are better

Kalameet

whoever you use the lock-on function on

>>377594741
Honestly every multi enemy boss is just cheap as hell, except for maybe O&S

>>377594741
Gwyn without parrying

>>377595521
Gwyn dies like a bitch

>>377595026
AI reading player inputs due to lock-on is a meme

>>377595772
Fucked up camera is true

>>377595996
And rolling

Four Kings on anything past NG

>>377596082
>Four Kings NG+++
>get fukked DEXfags, the boss

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I beat all 3 in offline mode because I pirated, and the only boss I summoned an npc for was Smelter Demon. Maybe it wasn't the "hardest", but it was the one I was most annoyed with to break my no cheating rule.

>>377596082
just wear havels / giantdad, smack them with lightning zweihander and keep chugging estus and its still autowin at NG+

>>377596139
every dexfag just followed some shitty guide anyway, because nobody would focus on this stat of his own accord
you deserve to get fucked

>>377596800
When you have to fight you

Manus
No discussion

I've been playing Dark Souls with hardly no points placed in extra vitality.
And I've been cursed forever, never played in human form and never summoned help on bosses.
I accidentally hit an NPC in the sewers because I thought she was a piece of evil fuckin' beef jerky, but she wasn't.

>walked around corner
>see beef jerky
>immediately attack because it looks like ALL the others in the area
>regret

I don't know how in the hell I beat half the bosses I've beaten, including OS

orstein and smough if u kill the fat one first

>>377594741
Manus is imo
He's the only boss that I'm worried will actually kill me whenever I enter his room.
Typically I'll get greedy and get hit by his wombo combo or one of his hexes when I don't have the pendant equipped.

Gwyn is learn2parry: the boss
Artorias is learn2roll: the boss (also don't let him power up)
Kalameet is simple enough once you learn where to position yourself.
O&S are easy to separate so you can focus on whichever one is closer, and neither are tough when it's 1v1.
4 Kings I just stack magic resistance and spam R1.
>>377594885
Gargoyles can be tough if you can't kill them quickly (which mostly depends on your level.) But zweihander+gold pine resin will annihilate them regardless of level.

Midir.

>>377597079
NPC in the sewers? Quelana?

>>377598435
I think so.
The one that sells the cure for being cursed.

>>377597079
>>377598435
the only friendly hollow female I can think of is the merchant lady with the moss

>>377598435
Anon probably means the waterway merchant.

>>377598435
The moss Gurl. But she was behind bars how do you even kill her? And the talk prompt is fucking gigantic

Can I beat the game with base halberd. I fucking love that weapon, it's at 4+ already.

>>377599169
People have beat the game with the starting broken dagger.
Upgraded it to +15
Gopher it

>>377599257
I mean it don't want it to be too hard for myself, I'm not a HAARDDDCORE fag

I just want to know if it is comfortable to use

>>377594741
Bed of Chaos isn't the hardest per se, but it's definitely the most fucking frustrating. It's a long-ass walk back to the boss every time that requires you to go through lava even with the shortcut, so you either keep the orange ring on or spend a stupid amount of time switching it on/off every time you get past the lava parts. Not to mention that falling in holes and instantly dying is fucking ridiculous.

with nitos gravesword every boss is easy af

>>377600363
Anything that's not
>a whip
>a dagger
>a fist weapon
>clearly shit (straight sword hilt, broken straight sword)
can be used to beat the game by the average player.
Other weapons might be bad compared to others, but with the right build, pretty much anything is viable for beating the game.

Upgrade that halberd whenever you can, invest points mostly in dex and a little in str and you'll be fine.

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>>377600781
Wouldn't he need enough endurance to not fat roll errwhere?

>>377600906
Yeah I guess I should've mentioned other stats.
30 vit and enough end to keep below 50% equip load is enough for NG. Havel's and FaP rings are universally helpful too.

DS: Manus
DS2: ?
DS3: Gael

>>377594741

Ancient dragon. Everything is a 1hko and he can literally do flame attacks that are impossible to avoid if you're unlucky.

>>377598279
This. Only boss that I haven't beaten thanks to massive hp and camera issues

DS: Trying to cut Kalameet tail
DS2: LMAO 2 TIGERS
DS3: Demon Prince

>>377601270
Midir is easier than demon prince. His health is actually 80% of the hp bar since you can reposte 20% of it to finish him off.

Git gud.

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>>377601284
>Demon Prince
wut

>>377600473
I agree.

I beat these games without using shields, parries or summons and the hardest was probably Champion Gundyr (definitely the most exciting).

I don't know why but i always struggle with Centipede Demon. During my SL1 playthrough he was such a bitch

>heard Capra demon is hard and bell gargoyle is insultingly easily
>beat Capra demon in 6 tries and bell gargoyle in 16
Wtf I hate IGN wikis now

>>377601284
>Kalameet
>hard
get out of this thread and go back playing Animal Crossing

>>377596745
God damn smelter demon gave me more shit than fume knight. I was so fucking mad when i found out there was another one in the old iron king DLC.

>>377601284
>The boss so timed out it could be a minigame in rhythm heaven.

Midir exists, you know.

>>377601450
>I can't read
Kalameet isn't hard, cutting his tail is.
Fuck off illiterate underage nigger

>>377601521
Midir is easy as fuck.

No one has ever beaten Ceaseless Discharge legit.

I've beaten every boss in all 3 games without summons with the exception of Ancient Dragon in DS2, because I was playing pre-patch and he was broken and shit, and I have to say that the only boss fight that took me more than 7 or so tries would be Fume Knight.

>>377601665
???
>roll when he starts to swing
>attack limb
>repeat

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>ITT

>>377601946

Bloodborne is even more like that, some people have problems with bsb but can beat amelia or the one reborn easily, for some people it is the other way around

>>377601449
I can beat all 3 souls game with ease and the capra demon still shits on me regularly

>>377599096

He probably just hit her without killing her, likely poked her with a spear
It causes her to run deeper into the sewers and shit talk you from far away
Oswald can fix it, of course

>>377594741
>DeS; Maneaters
>Das: Manus
>Das2: Fume nigger
>Das3: Midir
>BB: Orphan

I thought Manus was really fucking hard because he was moving around and shaking so much I never understood his moveset.

Ornstein and Smough killed me like 50-60 times in a row but after I beat them the first time, I never died to them ever again when running the game through multiple times.

>>377602369
>Orphan
how can so basic bitch looking enemy be so difficult?

>>377602369
>Midir
the only hard part about that fight is learning the hard way that hitting its legs is the worst you can do and sticking in his face the whole time makes the fight easy

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>>377602190
>mfw played DaS dozens of times
>never have died to capra demon not even when I was absolute shit on my first playthough without knowing the games mechanics
>so shit in fact that I died to gaping dragon 26 times
I still have no clue why people complain about capra

>>377600473
>Wanna play Dark Souls again
>remember I'll have to fight Bed of Chaos again
>nah, fuck that

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Before I beat him the first time, Manus' fight was intense just trying to find Sif's summon sign.
Having her distract him was the only way I could beat him before actually gitting gud.

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>>377602369
>DeS; Flamelurker
>Das: Manus
>Das2: Fume nigger
>Das3: Demon Prince
>BB: Pthumerian Descendant
I will never forget that sickle wielding mother fucker and his i dont run out of stamina bull shit, i almost stopped doing chalice dungeons right there

>>377602881
It's just RNG, if his first attack is the leap attack and the dogs aggro you before you walk through the fog, you get stuck in the corner before the steps and there's not really a ton you can do about it. At least that whole thing is optional with the key.

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How hard is Gael? I haven't bought the DLC yet but just from seeing a few tiny bits of the battle makes my palms sweat already.

>>377602689
Even at 99 insight your brain just can't conceive how swole af he actually is

>>377603091
its not that hard but its fun as fuck though, the whole fight keeps you on your toes and tests how good youve gotten at rolling. Its long as shit too it was like 20 mins for me

>>377603091
He's the hardest in the game. Three phases, lots of health, good positioning and timing required to dodge some attack chains. But obviously once you learn his patterns he goes down like anything else.

>>377603162
>>377603241
>they dont know

>>377603616
Don't know what? To cheese him with poison?

>>377603809
no
how to insta kill him with the cinematic

>>377603876
that's boring

>>377601449

Capra Demon fucks over anyone fat rolling or not stupidly over-levelled.

Once you get past the first five seconds without being stunlocked to death, he's easy.

>>377604212
To this day I haven't beat Capra Demon without running up the stairs like a little girl.
Shit moves way too fast for me to even think about killing the dogs before one of them stuns me and Capra just fucking tees off.

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I beat Capra demon on my first try.

Learn 2 roll

>>377604212
I just shield tanked my way through, and poked it with my halberd. The dogs go down in one spin, so there you go

Knight 4 lyfe

>had a lot of trouble with quelaag and gaping dragon
>beat O&S second try and Four Kings on first
I'm not the only one, right?

>>377604689
>roll
I never rolled once during the fight LOL
I'm new to DaS and I'm at the depths. I don't think I rolled once successfully the entire game unless I am spamming it. Will I be forced to Git Gud later?

>>377604832
I'm like the opposite

O&S fucked me hard, Queelag was my bitch

>>377604907
Yes. You should force yourself to play without a shield for a while so you git gud. Das1 should have really forced you to learn how to roll before giving you a shield. In das2 most starting classes don't even have a shield and in das3 you need to learn how to roll to beat the first boss. From realized their mistake when lots of das1 players would get stuck 25 hours in because they never learned how to roll early on.


Anyway yes, learn to roll. It makes the game more fun and knowing when to block vs roll is half the game.

>>377605176
Awww fuck where is a good place to practice? As I said I am stuck in the depths now

>>377603876
Why would you want to do that?

>>377605248
The depths is a decent place to practice as all you fight are hollows, rats, and those giant frogs. The best place to practice is probably undead burg just because the enemies are so easy.

>>377604832

I've never had any problem with Quelaag so long as I don't get sloppy and fail to spot her jump attack

>>377596745
blue smelter is just plane unfair.
>bloated hp
>arena wide hit box with buff
>immolation
>that fucking 5 year delay swing

>>377594741
Four kings on NG+++ fucked me up pretty hard

I had an easy time with Manus, Kalameet gave me far more trouble.

>>377603876
wait what how

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>>377594741

Capra Demon if you are

>new
>bad
>Slow guy with STR build

Huge mofo casual filter


And the Anor Londo archers

Kalameet.

>>377601449
capra demon is only hard if you're still in the "omg DaS hardest game ever everything that mvoes kills you" mindset.
When he charges up his swings there is a delay while he spins in place to track the player, if you roll as soon he raises his weapon your invicincibility runs out the moment he actually attacks, if you already learnt to actually roll when you're about to get hit instead of falling for every windup he's piss easy.

>>377604832
I first timed Queelag and O&S altho in the latter I was down to having to use 2 (two) humanities to survive. I beat capra the first time too, so far the gargoyles were the worst. And I get assfucked in that transient curse area bullshit. And the Ceaseless Discharge killed me so I dropped it for now.

I don't think I am very far in at all, I wanted to go kill the tranny moonfag and the wolf but I am unable to travel. I haven't finished the game yet and Im 35hrs in I think. I'm in the archive's cell I think unfortunately.

Am I anywhere near the end?

I wish there was an arena like feature where we can just fight bosses for the hell of it.

>>377607229
>pick a strength-based class at start of game because you don't know any better
>you are now a casual apparently
Really, the hardest boss in dark souls is the fucking community.

>>377608036
Would be cool as fuck

>>377607229
>im all 3 but killed him first try
As soon as I saw dogs I went for them. Only a retard doesn't go for the cliche motherfuckers meant to fuck you over when a boss is easy 1o1

Anyone have issues getting a DS4 controller to work for the Prepare to Die edition on Steam? I use DS4Windows and a DS4 with a USB, but when I get into the game, the controls are retardedly sensitive.

I've never played, read, or watched anything about the souls game so I'm looking forward to going in blind for the first time, but my god damn controller won't work

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>>377601284
ya lmao two tigers gave me the hardest time

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>hardest boss
>you literally just need to dodge and hit all of them
>hardest boss

Your only problem is the healthpool.

>>377608115
t. did darkroot garden and acquired wolf ring first

lmao 2 cat

>>377607592

If you don't avoid the dogs in the first few seconds, you get boxed in and attacked from 3 sides. There aren't any other bosses in the series that do this (even rat authority gives you a big space to deal with the adds and you are the one initiating the fight).

Avoiding the dogs at the start is near impossible fat rolling and most people won't have the poise and stamina to tank through the dogs long enough to kill them.

>>377608213
I'm >>377607948 and I was too dumb to open the door or even find the bonfire behind the wall next to where you're supposed to put the crest

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>>377594741
I'll say magnus, it was intense
>unfair hard
capra demon, that arena is way small yet gives you stairs for a bullshit fight
ceaseless discharge, even after a lot of updates, hitboxes are still shit and everyone knows where to hide
>gimmick hard
bed of chaos, bullshit, just give me a giant witch demon
gyndolyn, he's weak and fight like a coward, I understand that, but still
ceaseless discharge, hide behind that rock or make him fall
kalamit without meeting the giant archer
>skill hard
ornstein and smoug, one fast other slow, just think it trough
gaping dragon, very powerful but very slow, teaches you to take your time
nito, sith, gyn, all 3 demons, iron golem, four kings, centipede, priscilla, wounded kalamit
invading lautrec and his crew, seems unfair but they are stupid
>BONUS "why does nobody told me about that" hard
artorias, wait there's a way to stop his buff?
magnus, wait what amulet are you talking about?
taur demon, what plunging attack?
there's a what doing what to the gaping dragon?
you save solaire by doing what to who?