Does Crucible Knight deserve a nerf?

[redsky]

The Crucible Knight is the type of boss that is both defensive and aggresive, just like a combination of Gundyr and Dragonslayer Armour. As a sole Strength player, I found him very frustrating to fight. His attack window on phase 2 is little, and most of the type he wipes his tail whenever I'm trying to go for a quick hit. This particular tail wipe is very inconsistent. Aside from parry, I've never had a chance to riposte him before, despite going after Strength. My build is a sole axe, tried greatsword before but not possible. In the end I beat him but wasnt that satisfied, considering how painful it was

P/s: try to not tell me to do sorceries or spirit, because the game encourages all playstyle

[RetraBlaze]

I parried him to death. wasn't to bad. Godrick was at least 10x worse.

[RealDealBreaker]

no

[1]

His slow ass attacks are easy to parry. You will get it after 10 20x or so.

[Coyote]

no.
He wasnt that hard, the only thing that pissed me off was his forward thrust attack hitbox went out beyond the model of his sword.

But he was VERY predictable otherwise.

Beat his ass at level 24 with a spear and shield combo.

[CzarDeaner]

Let me tell you a story, there's a few spoilers but it has a point that helps reinforce the Crucible Knight being too powerful. I'm also using a Great Axe, strength build btw.
I went to Castle Redmane and fought my way though (before I went past the north gate up to the Stormy plains) got to the boss and realized it was just the same boss from Castle Mourne, so I preceded to curb stomp him (that boss is pretty easy) but Crucible Knight hops in halfway though and I can't even honestly fight the guy. I can kill the first boss before Crucible Knight even shows up to the battle and still can't deal with him solo at lvl 43.
So I quit trying and go north, find the Gaol pad and use it and who should pop out? CRUCIBLE KNIGHT! I was trying to get away from this boss, any ways I still can't beat that weaker version the storm plains.
I'm taking a few hours to get my head back on straight, he's way too cruel. Thanks for letting me vent though

[CzarDeaner]

I've had him down to needing one more hit three times now, I almost had him and then learned that Elden Ring, unlike the other games where you get a pop-up, kicks you all the way to the main menu when you get a connection error.
The Golden Title of Elden Ring was literally red in colour I was so angry.

[chosenxeno]

Champ Gundyr is my favorite Souls Boss(can't parry so he was really hard lol). So this boss is going to Punish me and give me the pleasure I seek? You'd better not be teasing me..

[CzarDeaner]

@chosenxeno It seems to be down to your build at this point, if you're a poise-breaker strong arm smash and bash type like myself (with a little bit of faith cause you gotta have faith, faith, faith) then you're going to have a bad time... or good time if you're masochistic.

[Ashtrails]

worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss so far: either boring as hell since you just spam ripostes or extremely annoying. definitely unsatisfying.
Had some solid runs with countering him with the other gaol knight's curved sword but didn'd get him under 30% with that and eventually just cheesed him with pyromancy.

His reach is insane and punishing him in very small openings in phase 2.5 was nearly impossible for me.

To add insult to injury, the drop seems pretty garbage too (don't have the stats yet, maybe it's amazing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[NELLY]

Originally posted by CzarDeaner:

Let me tell you a story, there's a few spoilers but it has a point that helps reinforce the Crucible Knight being too powerful. I'm also using a Great Axe, strength build btw.
I went to Castle Redmane and fought my way though (before I went past the north gate up to the Stormy plains) got to the boss and realized it was just the same boss from Castle Mourne, so I preceded to curb stomp him (that boss is pretty easy) but Crucible Knight hops in halfway though and I can't even honestly fight the guy. I can kill the first boss before Crucible Knight even shows up to the battle and still can't deal with him solo at lvl 43.
So I quit trying and go north, find the Gaol pad and use it and who should pop out? CRUCIBLE KNIGHT! I was trying to get away from this boss, any ways I still can't beat that weaker version the storm plains.
I'm taking a few hours to get my head back on straight, he's way too cruel. Thanks for letting me vent though

Stuck on those to guys as well, lmk if you want to duo it

[CzarDeaner]

I think they're the first boss I've found where there's no way to summon other players, also I'm playing offline now due to the events described in my second post.

[redsky]

Originally posted by chosenxeno:

Champ Gundyr is my favorite Souls Boss(can't parry so he was really hard lol). So this boss is going to Punish me and give me the pleasure I seek? You'd better not be teasing me..

He is pretty much Gundyr 2.0, a little bit more tolerable due to his shield. The point is that he is very aggresive and love spamming his tail, just like how gundyr love using his karate kick. Very unfair as a heavy Strength player. I think he deserve a poise nerf, since I cant riposte him unless parrying.

[CHROMONOS]

im using the greatsword pure dodge and melee. my tips is Find his Openings!
here are the openings if you want to know now
he is safe at
-After Tail sweep he is open then
-Shield bash has kinda long recovery (spam dodge ASAP after your attack to avoid tail after)
-After Full Ground AOE combo (ends at 2 spinning swipes ) he is open then
-Flying attack is the best time to heal, he has no follow up when he flies away
-Maybe the 2 big Tail Sweeps... but im always to far from him to hit him

[CzarDeaner]

Okay so spoilers, but this is the location of an amazing strength build weapon hidden outside of Castle Mourne.

There's a little black mine symbol on the map in the valley east of the Minor Eldtree there. In that mine, if you can defeat the boss there's a rusted anchor that scales better than the great axe for strength, swings faster and comes with a talisman for powering up barbaric roar

[b_b_yogi]

Originally posted by CHROMONOS:

im using the greatsword pure dodge and melee. my tips is Find his Openings!
here are the openings if you want to know now
he is safe at
-After Tail sweep he is open then
-Shield bash has kinda long recovery (spam dodge ASAP after your attack to avoid tail after)
-After Full Ground AOE combo (ends at 2 spinning swipes ) he is open then
-Flying attack is the best time to heal, he has no follow up when he flies away
-Maybe the 2 big Tail Sweeps... but im always to far from him to hit him

I think it's worth noting that depending on your weapon and how early you dodge, the tail sweep can be unsafe at times to punish. I fought it with my curved greatsword and sometimes if I reaction dodged later than I usually do on the tail sweep I would roll attack and I would get hit without being able to get away.