Rykard is Worse than Bed of Chaos

[of Anwyl]

Title.

[Casval Zem Daikun]

Originally posted by ROGUE AI:

Originally posted by Casval Zem Daikun:

Poise and hyper armor aren't the same thing. jfc

It's not? Is there some other additional effect poise does this time around other than hyperarmor frames?

Have you ever played a Souls game?

[Skeleton Minion]

Originally posted by Casval Zem Daikun:

Originally posted by ROGUE AI:

It's not? Is there some other additional effect poise does this time around other than hyperarmor frames?

Have you ever played a Souls game?

Aside from weapons arts and not staggering from arrows I still get staggered from footsoldiers in heavy armor.

[of Anwyl]

I don't know how anyone can like this boss. Even if you like his attack patterns or whatever being forced to use a different weapon all of a sudden unless you are massively overleveled for the area is the opposite of fun. Likewise I will at least take humor in knowing no hit runs are doomed from the start in this game since he has an undodgeable attack in the first phase. I will admit the boss looks nice and all but it is just too much to be either fair or fun.

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by of Anwyl:

You can partially dodge the lava by rolling to the side but even with almost 40 vigor it did half my health bar in. Also I have beaten the boss but it is still the worstr thing i think i have ever seen in any souls game. Being forced to use a weapon that isnt the one you put time and effort into getting used to and upgrading is icing on the cake for how awful the boss was.

You don't need to upgrade the weapon at all. It does good damage at +0. I've seen no difference in +0 and +6 with the L2.

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by ROGUE AI:

Originally posted by Casval Zem Daikun:

Have you ever played a Souls game?

Aside from weapons arts and not staggering from arrows I still get staggered from footsoldiers in heavy armor.

Poise is passive stagger resistance, hyper armor is active stagger resistance where, if you're in an animation, it won't stagger you. Older games had it too, but starting with DS3 it was renamed to "poise" and old poise was removed entirely.
Mind you, ER also has actual hyper armor it seems, I've been playing naked with 3 poise for the entirety of my 80 hours and I often trade blows with enemies who have huge weapons. Beyond a certain point, with bigger weapons, you seem to get actual old hyper armor back, without the need for "poise". I doubt I could ever trade blows if I were to play with a dagger and 3 poise.

[Dragon]

complaining about the storm ruler fight?

i died to the skull storm first time and then killed him second try. the fight really boils down to if you have enough stats to easily stagger him with the spear.

thats it.

[The Siberian Express]

yeah the map was aids/him shooting those skulls while attacking while coming near to to make you unable to move+lava doing dmg toyou was ass, but i managed to kill him with a tiny bit of health and no pots, so happy don't want to see him again for a while

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

i thought so at first too, then a grew a brain and said "oh yeah i got a spear thats supposed to wombo combo him" so i reset my stats to max out strength, equipped the spear, summoned my mimic, and we proceeded to stunlock him to death in 10 seconds for the first form, and 20 for the 2nd.

[krougan]

help me with that sh1t :(

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by krougan:

help me with that sh1t :(

jesus man turn on the steam overlay so you can see that you have a friend request.

[Casval Zem Daikun]

Originally posted by Dragon:

complaining about the storm ruler fight?

i died to the skull storm first time and then killed him second try. the fight really boils down to if you have enough stats to easily stagger him with the spear.

thats it.

Fun fact: Stats don't affect staggers.
You can easily test this yourself.

[No Exit]

As others have said - the best way to beat him is with running power jumping attacks (space+F and then adding shift+left mouse) at a good distance away - you need to get a feel for how far away that spear can make attacks. I lifted that spear to +5 and adding the talisman for increased jumping power attack damage - including talisman for STR+DEX. I then just kept whomping with it with the running power jumping attack
First round becomes relatively easy then - just having to dodge the one-hit killshots, and guard the unavoidable ground break (a bad game design decision) - but eventually the snake gets stunlocked and you can whomp him some more until dead

The second is still painful.
Did they really see the need to implement those flaming skull spam? I question Miyazaki's judgement on that one - it made the fight unneccessarily NOT fun.

I only managed to win by pure luck - or maybe because I kept whomping with the same jumping attack after Rykard got distracted enough with my summonned ashes. The skull spam was about to start but he got stunlocked and I finished him off. I just can't survive the skull spam - absolutely ridiculous.

[Alfi3]

In the end it was possible to lock him from evening summoning the skulls, he does an attack half way through his healthbar where he groans and then summons them, if you keep using your art just before he finishes the move he'll get stunned, and you can keep stunning him until he dies, and he wont do any other attacks.

[Scuzz]

Once you get how the sword works it is not that bad. Not easy, as you can still die if you don't move around and avoid his stuff but not difficult. It is like the Giant boss in Dark Souls 3 in that once you figure out how to use the sword he is a push over.

[Aphex]

Originally posted by of Anwyl:

And this boss is just a combo jumbo boss considering he will rapidly thrust his sword into you while also haviing homing skulls from above while also having fireballs floating around.

Don't forget the exploding ground.