Putrid Crystalians...

[MrFrengLitch]

Wow. Im literally shaking. Three of them at the same time. THREE!

Most frustrating fight in the game so far. Im level 75, I got the rot armor with 30 vigor. Im pretty godd*mn tanky id say and it took me like 20-25 tries to beat it. Maybe even more.

You have no window to do anything at all and if you hit them, your character bounces back like hes hitting a wall because you have to break their armor first before doing any kind of damage. Not only that, but they do rot damage on hit so you have to do this fight while rotted. Its basically a race against time to beat them. And then this mage dude has this undodgeable missiles attack. The only way to potentially dodge it is to run as far as you can and jump over and over OR try and run behind him. Good luck doing that with this melee dude always on your a**. You will still most likely get hit doing that anyway.

One tip I can give to others if they do this fight is to focus the mage first. Also if you do not know, you can run and attack them without bouncing back.

Ugh... Im need a break.

EDIT: Hey FS, make sur to have 4 of them at the same time next time. Or even 5. Its obivously not enough. And make sur we have literally 0 window to attack.... (Im JK btw)

[urabe mikoto]

Woah, three??? I only fought 2 of them and it was the worst boss fight so far

[MrFrengLitch]

Yes. 3 of them at the same time.

1 mage, 1 spear and 1 dude that keeps throwing circular blades and stuff. And they all do rot damage. Its really insane.

[Lian "Smexy" Kinnidy]

What makes this bad is not only the fact, that they don't work together in a single arena, but you are basically forced to use 1 specific damage type to have a decent chance of winning, because the whole gimmick is their armor and you are supposed to break their poise for their armor to break as well. So the only types of weapons in question are strike weapons.

So the best strategy is to either use spirits or use strike weapons. Everything else simply punishes you beyond believe.

[Izuzul]

use a mace or hammer on em and they don't bounce back your attacks. they are weak to their damage

[MrFrengLitch]

I did it with the moonveil and the meteorite katana. Wasnt easy. Atleast once you break their armor they always stagger everytime you hit them. So my dual katans were staggering them fast. But yeah, was no joke.I didnt enjoy that fight much.

[Bradley_Dragonkick]

use a summon and 2 hand your weapon. you WONT BOUNCE if 2 handing.

[Dollmaker]

Ah yeah that boss... i lost like 20k Runes cause of them, my advice? summon a player and have one of the two kill the Caster while the other kites around the other two.

Once Caster is out, just take them one on one.

[CaiphasCain]

This boss has made me ENRAGED.

[Mepho]

Personally, I started by focusing the caster while kiting the spear dude.
I died twice like that. It felt like I was gonna be stuck here a long time.
I figured I'd switch it up and get rid of the spear first. I died once because dumb, and did it on the second try.

Once the pressure from the hopping ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is gone, it becomes exponentially easier.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Is that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the spear one of them?

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idc how many times it took me to kill any other boss...that thing literally drove me insane

We all know the stratagy...it takes a couple times but that spear ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ noise still haunts me

[Capt. Aredyn]

Just jump attack should suffice to break them easily

[SleepyEyez]

My kill order: Spear (parry + riposte) > Staff (backstab) > Ringblade (backstab).

The AI of this gank squad is rigged like that of Mad Max, i.e only any 2 of them can attack at the same time. I ran along the edge of the area to kite the Spear and baited out its poking attacks for parries. This running movement also helped evading Staff's projectiles that have weaker tracking. I dodged Ringblade's projectiles since those track better.

After the Spear was dead, I baited out and dodge Ringblade's attack to put it in animation lock and then ran to backstab the Staff who was in the middle of channeling a spell.

[Chili Enthusiast]

Barricade and guard counter spear dude with a blunt weapon (or parry if you can get the timing down), a few counters and his poise breaks, after that spam R2 on him, he'll open up for a crit every 3 hits or so. Once he's down, the other two are super easy to backstab repeatedly. Summons are useful for splitting aggro, but it can be done solo.
Some sort of regen effect (bestial vitality is pretty good for very little faith investment) and some rot cure items are also important.

[Drey]

Why exactly are u guys necroing this post?
Just 2hand a heavier weapon (blunt is best) and they become ez af.

[SpaceWombat]

critical hit hp recovery charm + literally any weapon that can backstab = win. I frames baby, just fish for backstabs.