Oh man. Old Demon King (15/20) A lot of his attacks deal a lot of damage and have short tells. Lorian's magic attack however does a good amount and Lothric's spears do a lot as well. Another exclusive DLC enemy with a lot to say. GG. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. of Dark Souls is the Fextralife wiki. 381k. Soul Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 But let’s keep it short in … I also feel like your reaction time has to be on point if you don't parry. Killed him 1st try. So I'll preface this by saying that I'm new the the Dark Souls series. Also those arrows. He s for sure 17/20 for me, i have to do 44 attempts to kill him. And not only is the plot of Dark Souls deeply convoluted, but the gameplay is exceedingly tricky. He was very hard to kite (could just be because I was still learning the game) and those damn charges killed me. Whatever, sue me. Other than that he's a complete joke. Off-hand Saint-tree Bellvine for max casting speed and go to town on her. In fact I found it kinda cheesy. Bosses are significant enemies in Dark Souls III. The Crystal Sage is either a complete joke or total BS and I can’t figure out why. So without further ado, here is my list of bosses in DSIII from easiest to hardest as a sorcerer. His boss arena is also the biggest in the entire series. Boss Soul Weapons in Dark Souls 3 are obtained by Soul Transposition.You may also obtain spells and rings from them. This guy only took me a few goes. Iudex Gundyr: It's widely believed that Dark Souls bosses are the epitome of difficulty in video games. Dark Souls 3 Boss difficulty from a Sorcerer's POV. There are two different stages in this boss fight. There are two different stages in this boss fight. I found him quite difficult on my 1st playthrough, I'm not sure if a casual player is gonna be opening the Pontiff fight with a parry. Very satisfying win. Rankings are out of 20 with some justification. Black Fire Orb makes her reasonably easy to deal with, too. I've vaguely known about them from friends but never gotten into them before. Upon defeat, all bosses … In Phase 2 he's actually pretty easy to dodge at range, so it's just a matter of waiting for an opening and then getting a hit in. Second phase lightning attacks catch you off guard as well. What about champion Gundyr? Dark Souls 3’s The Nameless King is arguably one of the best yet hardest bosses out there. That and soul arrow at this point in the game still took a long time to cast so more often than not I'd get hit by a stray fireball and cancel the cast. So I'll preface this by saying that I'm new the the Dark Souls series. Don’t let him eat your soul! High damage makes him a pretty formidable foe nonetheless. If I free cast spells they home in on Lorian and do no damage. Like seriously, as a caster just switch to a raw weapon and go to town on him in melee. Most are defeated as part of the mandatory story progression, with the rest optional. And honestly phase 2 isn't that much harder to stay alive and hit Lorian, it's still a hard fight, but I could handle it. Added advantage: You'll have a high damage Chaos Bed Vestiges to beat phase 2 in only a few casts. She was unbeatable until two re-specs and farming for an obscure covenant spell (Great Deep Soul). Champion Gundyr- is pretty tough for me since I suck at parrying. Add to that as a sorc I had a very small stamina bar, so quite a few times I ran out of stam while sprinting and died to the arrows because I just couldn't run far enough. Yhorm (9/20) The storm ruler makes quick work of him, but at the same time he does pretty well to stop you from using it. Killed him 1st try. Friede was the best journey for me. The thing that made this fight the absolute worst for me though was that when I finally gave in a summoned a sunbro for help he did the fight in about 20 seconds by just spamming R1 the moment he got in. Anyways lets get into it. Also the boss that convinced me I needed to put points into vigor (man the game got easier after a bit of hp investment). One is super passive and just lets you beat him down quickly, the other zips away instantly before you can do damage and his clones all have aimbots. Edit 2: I did some looking around on forums and Reddit, and the general consensus is between 10-20% more health per summon. This is one of the few bosses where I'm on the same page as everyone else. I was ok at phase 1 but just kept scrabling to stay in alive in phase 2 and dying. I did kill him with a mate in jolly co-op though so I imagine it's a bit harder solo. Gael (20/20) He doesn't hit too hard, just very quickly. He has a stupidly high health bar and 3 phases with all unique attacks. The Beacons of the Deep – The Hardest Bosses in Dark Souls 3. This is my first Souls game. Dark Souls 3 just was released in the rest of the world and with it came Iudex Gundyr, the first boss of the game. Any of the Demon bosses (Stray, Fire, etc) (12/20) Deals pretty high damage but health pool isn't anything significant. Likewise, Dragonslayer Armor is tame enough solo, and he is still easily beaten with 1 summon, but bring 2 (Eygon + Sirris), and suddenly he's a real boss. More annoying than anything. Deacons of the Deep (killed in co-op): Especially in phase 2. Yhorm the Giant: As the first boss that you encounter in the entire Dark Souls series, it should be no surprise that the Asylum Demon is also one of the easiest. Having Sword Master might have actually made the fight more challenging, by increasing Vordt's HP. Leave a tip with your vote on my Paypal! This mod will turn the camera from a third-person perspective to a first-person one, making you only able to see your hands and … Support my videos via my Patreon page. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Apparently this means I have had a VERY different experience of the game to most people, which has become most evident when hearing about what bosses are considered easy and hard. I get that you said casual, but on Vordt my dude? The Souls series is notorious for punishing its players. Dark Souls 3 makes it all so, so much more manageable with shorter journeys between bonfires, easily grokked equipment upgrades that won’t punish you for experimenting and generous resource drops. The Souls Series (that consisting of Dark Souls 1-3, Demon’s Souls, and Bloodborne in this case) are known as some of the most difficult yet amazing games in the industry today. Second phase is an endurance fight, if you screw up once you'll pay for it. Also there are obviously spoilers in the descriptions. Oceiros (11/20) His resistances are pretty low and his damage isn't much to talk about. Pretty much you just stand at the right angle and hope they hit. Lothric/Twins (killed in co-op): I had to actually sleep for it. The first boss I had to actually ask my buddies for help with (instead of just happening to kill them while playing together for fun). I'm pretty casual, and I learned to parry in Irithyll and beat Pontiff mostly by parrying. Ashen Ones. Turns out you just need to get her to jump. ???? Just gotta get good at dodging and only use quick casting spells. Playing Dark Souls 3 with a friend in co-op is one of the game’s lesser-used features. Exactly! Pontiff Sulyvahn (killed in co-op): I barely even noticed this guy was a boss until he died. I died in co-op. Just wow. I've vaguely known about them from friends but never gotten into them before. Curse-Rotted Greatwood (10/20)- First phase is annoying at worst, but second phase can get you pretty easily with the grabs or when he spins around for really high damage. However getting parried can end the fight for you. 1 Description 2 Main bosses 3 Optional bosses 4 Minibosses Bosses usually control access to other areas throughout the game. In the time it takes to circle around and then get a cast off from the right angle Lorian has already rezzed and spun around to start attacking. It can be defeated through the ol’ bow… For the Dark Souls page, see Boss. This will trigger a fight against Iudex Gundyr, Dark Souls 3's first boss. The polearm phase gave me the most trouble, but the rest were ok to kite. I decided to make a brief ranking of how difficult I found the bosses of DS3 based on my first playthroughs. Abyss Watchers (14/20) Very fair and balanced fight, the second phase is arguably easier than the chaotic first phase. tl;dr Boss Difficulty from easiest to hardest as a sorcerer for my 1st playthrough (NG not NG+): EDIT: fixed a few typos, formatting and made it clearer this was for a NG run not NG+. Honestly this would be much higher if this was a second run-through, but by the time I got to SoC I was much better at dodging stuff. For example, Sage with a +4 Weapon is a joke. Defeating a boss earns the player souls, restoration of Ember and unique Boss Souls which can be transformed into powerful Weapons , Spells, or Items via Soul … Vordt of Boreal Valley. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. Basically one hit would put me down to 30% hp and then he was aggressive enough to make estusing difficult. Halflight PVE (13/20) Keeping the painting guardian away makes the fight a breeze as halflight doesn't have notable defenses. My winning strategy was to just nuke him so I might have just gotten lucky. Vordt: Seriously, trying to solo him as a sorcerer was ridiculously hard. ;). GG. Old Demon King: the hardest boss for me on my first playthrough was probably either dancer or lorian/lothric. Yep, I killed him in like 6 or 7 hits with a Heavy Great Club +4. Took about 8 tries (almost always dying to the polearm phase) but once I got him to Phase 2 I just killed him. Aldrich, Devourer Of Gods. Gravetender & Greatwolf (12/20) Getting the Gravetender dealt with is the most important part of this, as the Greatwolf hits pretty hard and is pretty fast. After polling the community, we've got our ranking of the hardest, easiest, worst, and best Dark Souls 3 bosses. Aldrich (18/20) Without adequate magic defense this fight is incredibly stressful. Also because the plunging attack was with a sword I suppose you could say I didn't kill him as a sorcerer. The run to his boss fight is pretty stressful as well if you didn't turn off the ballistsa. I died to this bastard 3 more times in co-op with a friend helping before finally getting him down. Maybe next time I'll try to do it solo with soul arrow as a challenge. During phase 1 I found he could be kited around the pillars in the rooms. This made it trivial. I'd read about the plunging attack method before getting to this guy so it was pretty easy. Forgot him and champion gundyr. Dragon Slayer Armor: Abyss Watchers. It was fairly easy to dodge so it was just a case of dodge then shoot. With Dark Souls 3‘s final DLC coming out soon, I thought we could reminisce on the bosses that got us throwing our controllers across the room throughout our playthroughs. Iudex Gundyr (Died quite a few times, but he was my first ever dark souls boss) Vordt (I died a few times but quickly learned rolling under him was legend tier cheese) Greatwood (died quite a few times) Sage. You can Perry most of his move but I find his second phase super aggressive and challenging to dodge. This is the first fight that got me to 'git gud' and a big turning point in how I played against bosses. He has a lot of gap closers so kiting is hard. Aldrich (actually made me quit for a few days) Pontiff (made me quit for a good week) I got caught in a corner so many times, I got smacked down so many times. A great wiki to use for information about the lore, mechanics, etc. He wasn't that hard to dodge, but your soul arrows don't track to his sacks and targetting them is terrible. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I honestly have no idea about this guy. Join. Basically you can't keep backing up or you hit a wall and die, you can't go to either side or you just die, you cant get caught in his breath or you just die. This is the only boss that took me more than 1 try in co-op. You simply can't hit the one guy you want to hit unless he happens to be standing out on his own because soul arrows track to the nearest guy. Slave Knight Gael – This is a great ending boss fight for the entire Dark Souls series. Dark Souls 3 Boss difficulty from a Sorcerer's POV. So anyway, thanks for staying this long, as you might have noticed this list is VERY different from what I feel is the general consensus on what bosses are easy and what bosses are hard. I think I got to phase 2 twice on my own, only to die to the creeping darkness because I just couldn't get clean hits off quickly enough. These are based off of how difficult they are proportionally to how strong I was when I first fought them. It's better to … Midir (20/20) Extremely high health bar, super high damage and in some cases he can easily hit you with spin attacks. He hardly ever attacks at all, and tries not to aggro, the opposite of what summons should do. And prepare to die ALOT. Thanks for reading this, and I hope it helps somebody! Looking back Farron Flashsword would have been very useful on some fights, but its pretty much just a longsword. I might have died once, cant remember, I'm hoping he's more memorable the second time round. Bosses in Dark Souls 3 are powerful foes which constitute some of the most challenging experiences in the game. He has really good magic resist so every precious spell you manage to hit with does barely any damage. He's mainly in the hard section for me because he was the first boss, I didn't know how to play, and my god to spells cast slowly at the starting level with no gear. To transpose a soul, defeat the respective boss, then take the soul to Ludleth of Courland. I honestly can't even remember the fight properly. I recently rolled a pure strength character, on my first encounter with him I beat him first try no problem, only used one flask and probably didn’t even need it. Abyss Watchers: Without knowing anything about the series I started as a sorcerer. He does have a ranged attack, but it's broadcast pretty well, so overall he's just a case of dodge/kite and win. Dancer of the Boreal Valley. Crystal Sage (14/20)- Magic damage galore. This is pretty much always my experience, he’s either the easiest boss in the game or surpassingly annoying. Demon Prince (15/20) With at least one phantom the fight is pretty easy in the first phase. Champion Gundyr: Old Demon King. Top posts february 10th 2019 Top posts of february, 2019 Top posts 2019. help Reddit App Reddit coins Reddit premium Reddit gifts. Crystal Sages (killed in co-op): This is my first Souls game. Ill add them asap. Those charges. Dark damage goes off the charts. Better than Great Deep Soul imo since it casts faster and staggers her more easily. Deacons of the Deep (2/20)- They're weak to all physical damage, and use of alluring skulls makes the battle a cakewalk. Asked a friend for help and we killed him 1st try. But it is so fucking hard to do damage to Lothric instead of his brother. Times. I was tempted to put this guy into the easy bosses section, but I did die 3 times to him. Many. Cookies help us deliver our Services. (Note that this is also from the perspective of a brand new blind playthrough, most are much easier in NG+ thanks to a mix of better gear/level and me simply git(ing) gud(er) at the game). Created Jan 20, 2013. The hardest boss for me was Friede. God did that make me feel shit. This boss will … Embered. You forget about dragon slayer armor. Dancer (later) (14/20) Overall she doesn't hit too hard and the only thing is that her attacks are relatively quick. Satisfying win. The Dancer is the definition of unpredictable. Dancer (early) (20/20)-You basically get 1 hit, maybe two and you're dead. Edit: Boss damage, resistances, and weaknesses do not change. I've only just started a melee character so I'm excited to see how different it will be. He has a good mix of ranged spells and gap closers so you can't just kite him. Ancient Wyvern (10/20) The biggest threat here is the big man-serpent at the end, but ultimately it's a puzzle boss. I was more refereing to the Lion Knight, cause he takes aggro, I would say curse rotted great wood is like 5th easiest just don’t be greedy, Like I said, this was based off of when I first encountered them, when I was relatively new to the series. I think I killed Lorian about 5 times in one fight, would have been about 30 odd times all up, but I just could not hit Lothric for the life of me. Pontiff Sullyvhan (16/20) Open up the boss fight with a parry, then just be pretty spot on with rolling and he's not too bad. Soul of Cinder (16/20) He isn't too bad although he can combo you with relative ease. As a side note I've since killed him with a melee character and getting under him made the fight a piece of cake. One of the optional bosses, the Ancient Wyvern is surprisingly simple to defeat. First and foremost, you have to contend with him while he’s on his incredibly gigantic dragon, Stormdrake, who doesn’t look that pleased to see you. Boss Souls and other special souls in Dark Souls 3 are powerful items that can be converted into new Weapons, Magic, or Items via Soul Transposition from Ludleth of Courland. Aldrich (killed in co-op): The arena is smaller than Nameless King or Gundyr so you don't have as much room to kite and I rolled off the edge once (whoops). Pretty chaotic during the second phase but at the same time there are lots of openings to get damage in. For me I'd have to say, Champion Gundyr, NK, and Midir. Ocirous (killed in co-op): Killed him 1st try. http://www.patreon.com/ai_and_games Can't Use Patreon? He has no ranged attacks and no gap closer so he is insanely easy to kite. I swear to god before you first encounter him the game picks from two versions of him. High Lord Wolnir: The kind of fight that I died a few times figuring out what he does, then killed him fairly easily. 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