u/Zealousarchmage

I was thinking of doing a gimmick fight for this but ended up deciding my idea was dumb, so I wanted to do my no aux kill better. I'm much more familiar with this weapon than I was with FKGS, and the crits on this thing are really good. It's basically like having a high stance damaging misericorde for a main weapon.

+25 I like RKR because of the crits + decently quickly CR2s but +0 you can't beat Flaming Strike/Lightning Slash/Sacred Blade. Lightning Slash also givers you that Dragonslayer Greataxe from Wish/Temu vibe which is a plus. Anyways, hope you enjoy (or don't, I'm not your boss).

Scarlet Aenoia is such trash lmao. Without using Rot Grease at the start, a full Aenoia on the first stagger isn't by itself enough to proc Rot. Rotten Butterflies can do so (by itself) both the first time, and the second with heightened status resist (plus it's quicker and 33 faith is actually much easier than 35 without the physick). PFBT because it has flower in the name, Butterflies because they tend to like flowers in my experience.

I was gonna do it with the headpiece being the St. Trina purple flower but I really needed 33 faith, so haligtree knight it is. Getting to 33 without the physick and +2 from helmet would've meant needing Dragonscale Flesh to get to 28 Strength, then using Grafted Blade 2handed for Oath of Vengeance, to then use Fingerprint Nostrum (replacing flesh) to make up the additional faith - whilst retaining the flower aesthetic, of course. In other words, yeah fuck that.

Anyway, you can actually use Scarlet Aeonia to dodge Bayle's nuke, but it's both a stupid idea and incredibly unsafe to do so. But it is very funny to me, at least. I could have shaved off like 30 seconds from the fight time by going for Sunflower to finish the job at the end, but didn't notice in the moment immediately.

Yes, I am that crying wojak meme rn, why do you ask? I haven't been this disappointed since Halo 4.

Was going to be NG+7/+0/SB0/No Aux, but my controller had other ideas.

I was going to use Scarlet Aeonia at phase 2 transition for rot application, but after the first one with butterflies it isn't even enough to reapply. 2 butterflies is enough and is fast enough . PFBT was both for damage and ending the first rot early to reapply for phase 2. Shoutout to Scouring Black Flame, you're a real one for this.

Finally decided to get Tarnished Tool so I could lower by Scooby Snacks to 0. Literally been over 1k in game hours since I fought Midra since I didn't feel like doing Jori. Peak boss, but I'm not very experienced with him. Tried to learn some strafes and jumps, will fight some more later maybe.

>!Does anyone actually read all my thoughts consistently? Madness, if you do. Thanks.!<

Just using Carian Slicer is faster lmao. It's stupid broken

No parries this time. I actually did a fight like this without parries before the parry kill (didn't upload) but I wanted to have a faster, better kill that's actually worth sharing. This is what I got, it's 1.5 minutes faster than the first attempt and I guess it's played well enough.

Good luck to u/andreaguardian for attempting to no roll her; I no rolled Pontiff Sulyvahn, maybe you can no roll female Pontiff.

Black Flame go brrrr

Ella Mayo. I hope whoever signed off on this got testicular torsion. Anyways, I guess Albinauric Pots make it not no aux, but this same thing works if you let him heal (just takes a little longer). If you notice him doing Scarlet Aeonia early enough, you can knock him out of the air with a charged Carian Piercer (or Giant Hunt if going with that strat) and that allows you to effectively stunlock him until out of FP/Stamina.

>!Still a better father than I had, somehow.!<

But fools seldom differ. I imagine the UT99 announcer saying "DOUBLE KILL" after this.

NG+7 +0 for what it's worth. Video didn't come out the highest quality, unfortunately.

God, I fucking love Maliketh. Fucking hate the CR2s on the Grave Scythe, too.

Just some edgy flavour text for this silly kill:>!When Death itself tires of its imprisonment, it calls forth an emissary to set it free. Death comes for us all eventually, but today it comes for the Black Blade.!<

I did a quick new playthrough to get video of an easy script for this rather contentious SL1 boss for u/Taggle_. You can script this fight in other ways (parries, circling around soulmass) but this is easy and a less utilized method. You can do more damage with RTSR instead of Sage Ring, but Sage Ring helps with consistency and RTSR requires Dancer to be beaten early - no problem for some of us, but she's one of the harder ones for newer onebros.

This only requires beating Abyss Watchers to get Sacred Flame and Witch Ring, but they shouldn't take more than 2 minutes on a good +0 run. Use good fire resistant armour (Fallen Knight/Conjurator/Black Iron), Red Bug Pellets, Ember and Flash Sweat to cross the lava (and keep chugging estus the way through). Might as well get Toxic Mist if you're gonna do this as well.

Dedicating this to u/MrCarnage, because he loves +0 mages. He likes to use a lot more spells than I do, but of all the things I've ever been called, creative isn't one of them. So, I used only 2 spells unfortunately. If you're ever stuck on an RL1 he really is one of the best people to ask, he has a build and strategy for everything.

This was something I wanted to do so that hopefully Taggle_ can have something to go by for this boss when he gets there. Soul of Cinder would absolutely be considered insanely hard if he had SB0 PCR levels of health and damage, but at SL1 it's possible to kill him in 1 min at base NG and 2 mins NG+7 - he also doesn't hit hard, meaning only SL1 players and no hitters realize what a monster he can be.

Sorcery phase is a pushover and you can just RNG your way into beating him with high damage though. Pyro phase is the least engaging, but there are more punishes than most people realize. I don't like fireball as a punish and don't recommend it personally, but it technically is one. Don't attack him too much when staggered in this phase btw, he can parry and riposte you. Spear phase you should either play at range and bait charges or stay close strafe right; quick pokes are an R1 punish but only if strafed, delayed are 2 R1s if strafed and 1 if rolled. Duel charms will remove the HoT if he manages to heal, but won't prevent the instant health gain from it. The Greatsword phase reaction check is best avoided by using your roll for the first hit to space the quick follow up and maintain your roll for if he uses the delayed mixup instead. Humping his left (to your right) leg will cause him to not follow up most combo strings in this phase, but always wait before punishing or he may still follow up.

Phase 2 is easiest when baiting the jumps into delayed slam and thrust punishes. The harder way is staying close the entire time - most combos will either be 3 hit combos or end with delayed slam/thrust. The kick is a hard reaction check to manage and so I recommend for most people to stay at mid range and bait the jumps. Get a running R1 after the wombo combo, but wait before going for a second punish; if he idles, you can go for another one but give it a second to confirm or he can be sneaky like the last time in this fight where he didn't idle immediately after. Never assume he will idle, take the half a second or just play it safe and only get the running R1.

Don't be stupid like me and attack him from neutral, it's not a good idea even though it can work if you know what you're doing. An R1 isn't worth a respawn, people. Interestingly, Firelink Greatsword (when embered) actually does more damage +0 than Storm Ruler does (NG+ only obviously) but it can be hard to get a good opportunity to reapply. Bundles give a higher increase to AR than Resins do, btw, for anyone who doesn't know.

I hope at least someone finds this useful/entertaining. Now, onto XCOM for me.

I'm gonna go play some XCom for now after this. Enemy Within and 2, then I wanna play the originals. Then maybe some Total Warhammer 3, the Skaven seem like fun. My girlfriend also wants me to play Pokemon Yellow since I've never played any of them before. Got lots of games to get through, basically.

Still going to lurk of course, but I am getting old and don't have as much time for this anymore either in addition to clearing out the backlog. I didn't have the patience for Phase 2 that I did for Phase 1, so I used aux for it. I also happen to not be a +0 runner as I find longer fights don't mesh well with my ADHD (even though I'm more than capable of doing it).

I have many more fights with so many gimmicks and under so many different restrictions that I could legit upload every day for a month or 2 and still have more lol. Most I find deeply uninteresting though, unworthy of people's time and so they stay in the archives.

Handing out glintblades like some sort of ER Oprah Winfrey, "You get glintblades and you get a glintblade and you get a glintblade."

Did Loretta +0 and oh boy, if there are 2 things in this game I love it's boss reuse and glintblade spam. What I mean to say is, she's Tree Sentinel but somehow made boring - so I needed to face the original peak to cleanse the palate.

I feel like I've been uploading a bit too much lately so I hope yous can forgive me this one for now. Maybe you even learned something or could teach me something, that'd be awesome.

I dedicate this kill to the lovely u/andreaguardian. This kill is nowhere near as good as yours. The strats are almost certainly suboptimal because I didn't watch kills from other, better players to figure any of this out. This was just me fucking around and finding out what I could make work.

Deleted the other one because it was pretty suboptimal and I wasn't proud of it. This one has better strafes and is more than twice as quick.

That guy who makes a million Elden Ring ranking videos might always talk about fire damage resetting frost procs, but DS3 did it first.

Not my cleanest or fastest fight, but I managed to show off getting yourself the Secret Oath buff from the hollow (NG+ only as you need Scholar's Ring, but you can do it NG for Oceiros if you hold out long enough).