Rennala Rant

[Kraehe]

I need to vent right now, Rennala has to be one of the worst designed bosses ive encountered in any game in a long time.
Literally everything about her is annoying tedium.
To start with, there is no grace close to her. Afaik the closest one is in the room where you fought the red wolf. So everytime I die I have to run aaaall the way across that stupid ramp and to the elevator just to get to her. This alone always takes a couple of minutes.
And the "shortcuts" you unlock here are barely shorter and come at the expense of having enemies in the way, so might as well just run the normal path.
Then there is phase one, where you have to listen to those singing c**ts over repeat the same three lines over and over while you run around the room to kill the ones that keep the actual boss afloat, all the while getting ♥♥♥♥ flung at you.
And then the phase after that is probably fine if you have magic of your own or ranged attacks. But for me this is trying to get close to her so I can get a hit or 2, all the while she keeps spamming her spells, most of which are homing to some degree.
And then halfway through that ordeal she starts summoning ♥♥♥♥, and not normal ♥♥♥♥ like the occiasional wolf or whatever, no, minibosses, giants, dragons, all the fun ♥♥♥♥.

TL:DR Rennala is annoying, nothing about this fight is fun and I hope I can end this suffering soon.

[Maelos]

I mean, she staggers really easily, is generally squishy and is considered the easiest Shardbearer Boss in the whole game. I understand that this is a vent-rant, but she shouldn't be that bad. I did just use moonveil on her first phase and rock sling on her second though, so I might just have gotten off easy.

As a tip: if I'm not mistaken, her summons despawn after some time.

[MOSLEY]

Yikes. It's a 30 second runback and an easy boss my dude. You're going to have fun later...

[A1 Steaksauce]

Originally posted by MOSLEY:

Yikes. It's a 30 second runback and an easy boss my dude. You're going to have fun later...

[Dagný]

Originally posted by Kraehe:

To start with, there is no grace close to her. Afaik the closest one is in the room where you fought the red wolf. So everytime I die I have to run aaaall the way across that stupid ramp and to the elevator just to get to her. This alone always takes a couple of minutes.

It is a little throwback to how the series used to be.
We once even had to fight hordes of enemies to reach a boss every single time

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

Originally posted by Kraehe:

To start with, there is no grace close to her. Afaik the closest one is in the room where you fought the red wolf. So everytime I die I have to run aaaall the way across that stupid ramp and to the elevator just to get to her. This alone always takes a couple of minutes.

It is a little throwback to how the series used to be.
We once even had to fight hordes of enemies to reach a boss :singingsheslime:

*run past hordes of enemies

[Retrox]

For her second phase, keep running in a circle around her as you get closer to her, like a corkscrew. Once you're in melee range you can basically stun lock her. Also save your Lone Wolf Ashes for her second phase, they'll stun her a lot too.

I honestly didn't even know she could summon stuff until later as I ended up curb stomping her before she was even able to.

[Malevolent Tapir]

she died in like 5 seconds in my game. probably over leveled since i was 100%ing everything but i was kind of sad because that arena and her spells are cool

also i was playing blind and it took me like a day to figure out a way into the dang academy

op upgrade your weapon and spam r1 on her is what im saying

[Craig]

I beat on my first try, she is a very classic video game pattern styled boss. The projectiles her henchmen throw don't even do that much damage and she is squishy as hell, I don't even wanna call her a glass cannon because that would imply she's volatile or dangerous. Just use a scythe or spear of your choice.

[Amused]

nah some big fire guy late game kicked my ass for afew days

[frowningmirror]

Rennala is very easy if you can stun her. Also you want to run to the side for a bit to get them to curve in another direction and then roll through her spells, not away.

Furthermore, you shouldn't having to run through any enemies on the way over to her, you can stop the boulder from rolling and then run up to her boss room from there. Look around that house a bit more, there should be a jump you can do on the side of the building, then crawl up the ladder.

[Noma]

Easiest boss in the game. Git gud.

[bustamanteverde]

stagger her. As melee use the wolves summon or skeletons. As mage use rock sling and wolves and do not let her cast.

[tim.]

I'm definitely appreciating a boss with a semi-interesting gimmick over the same Fast Guy Fast Attack Lots of Health formula over and over,

Hard agree on the grace though, it's not that it's too far, it's just the RNG of the wizard enemies that annoys me though. Getting a cheap shot in the back just before the elevator is BS.

[Watermelons]

I did her pure melee on my first try. Granted it was a close, fun, and intense attempt where I ran out of Estus and Physick. But after surviving a few swipes from the wolf summons I realized they don't last all that long. And her laser beam, maybe I had the benefit of using the Soul Stream in DS3 all the time because I immediately recognized it and avoided it.
She tries to keep pressure on you but she staggers easily, so she's forced to relocate often instead but she simply does not move enough to get away from hyper aggressive players.

She is almost objectively the easy shardbearer in the game, just keep trying.

[DanteBrane]

Crazy how different experiences can be. On my pure STR character, I wiped the floor with her. Then on my other character that is like a INT and dual whip character, she was wiping the floor with me.