u/Zealousarchmage

Dumb ending

Fire is strictly better for this fight than lightning as her highest fire resist (10 in water) is the same as as her the lowest lightning resist (10 in water) but is otherwise 20% lower when out of water. I also happen to not care for this fight at all, else I would have done lightning strike for the Dragonslayer Greataxe from Temu look if I cared enough for the fight to take even longer with slightly less damage.

Sub 10 minutes with these restrictions, yeah baby. As I said, Tattoo set is a sleeper for +0 (especially no aux). Pickaxe is just great for stance breaking this asshole, too. Godfrey Icon might've been even better, but I didn't think of it at the time. For NG, just use a single Gravel Stone Seal and whichever Seal gives the highest Spell Buff to do the actual casting (Dragon Communion Seal or Finger Seal, I'd guess?).

I didn't bother with Lightning Slash since the pickaxe was used entirely for stance damage and I didn't set to increase it's damage as I was mainly using ADLS for damage, but you could possibly get a little more efficiency if you used it. I imagine doing this, at base NG it's possible to get within ~5 mins largely due to significantly quicker stance breaks due to 3 CR2 getting the job done as well as 18k or so less HP to contend with (esp. Phase 2).

Haven't used sleep before and won't again. But this is pretty quick, all things considered

Let me know if this build is getting stale or boring to you all, I'll stop. I like it though because while it sucks really bad, it's distinctly Zealous and you can't find that elsewhere (for good or bad).

Otherwise, Godfrey is next because you can use Aeonia/Butterflies to jump his stomps and phase transitions while applying super rot.

There's absolutely never a reason to use Aeonia over butterflies - it is worse at applying rot, is significantly slower and 33 faith is much less annoying when the physick runs out than 35 at RL1. That said, I used it since it's the one that's an actual flower instead of just butterflies which are more tangentially related to flowers.

The breath attacks can be jumped and since Butterflies and Aeonia both have jumping frames, they can be used (as can PFBT) to avoid the attack and apply rot. Aeonia can't safely be applied on the triple spinning breath attack, only on the single spin follow up to his triple attack (Phase 1, Lightning and Ice phase also work but not Wind as it doesn't follow up with the breath) - Butterflies can be used on both. That said, don't be dumb like me and if you want to be serious about it, use a rot weapon or rot pots instead.

Wooden Jello suggested something of the sort ages ago, but I didn't do a Mohg cosplay. Hope this is enough for you, mate.

Under 6 minutes, which I think is not too bad.

I remember this comment from MrCarnage a while back saying this fight was guaranteed under these restrictions to come in over 10 minutes long. I figured this wasn't true after my NG+7 kill came in at 15 mins so I wanted to see if I could get it faster. I don't think PCR is getting much faster though and I hate the fight. This is for you, u/MrCarnage if you end up watching this; you inspired me to see what I could do with this time.

Phase transition aside, I think she's just very mid. A boss that exists, if you will. Unlike Romina fans, I'm not particularly a fan of standing around with my thumb up my ass waiting patiently while she casts Rotten Butterflies or uses Romina's Putrefaction for the hundredth time in the fight in Phase 2. Definitely a boss that's okay but gets much worse at low damage (like Gaius, but for different reasons - he's also much better as a boss).

Anyway, as a friend of mine said on my last Romina fight - girl gets poise checked even at NG+7. Executioner's Greataxe is my beloved.

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.

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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