How the hell do you beat the crystalians?

[Roy]

The 2 bosses in a dungeon full of sorcerers, one of which has a spear and the other is spamming magic.

As an int/melee hybrid build i'm dealing about 14 damage to these bastards at a time, barely even moving the healthbar.

I've done multiple attempts now both as a summon and with a summon, in both cases none of us seem to be so much as scraping the surface on these bastards.
I've noticed they're pretty easy to backstab, but that only stalls them for a little bit because it also does next to no damage.

Am i missing something?

[p00se2]

2hand your weapon

slap them until staggered

after that - they should take decent amount of damage

i usually hit and run with jump attacks if possible

[Kingmelonshark]

Yeah smack them a bit and when they get staggered, pressure them like hell and theyre done

[Freak4Leeks]

poise break them

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

Gravity stones/magic. Strike damage does good damage, too.

[[LZ]Icy]

Jep , Ur missing the fact u can break their superarmor if u keep smashing it while 2 handing a weapon (some magics can do it too , Havent tried magic) Just keep 2 hand hitting them (their armor will break they will start taking huge damage and also stagger after every single hit from that point on)

[Edifier]

Basically any melee weapon will work when you do this.

Do a jump attack using heavy strike.

About 3 maybe 4 times and they will break and after that you'll deal normal damage to them.

You hear when they break because you hear that parry sound being made.

[Zer0]

Pierce damage is 100%. Everything else is 90% reduced. Or just whack them until armor breaks.

[Balditum]

being you a sorcerer I suggest use night maiden's mist, you'll devastate them

[MULTIPASS]

You're missing strike damage, they're nearly immune to magic and other types of physical damage. Use the pillars to block the caster, and backstab the spear with a mace until its health is about 50%, then you can use jumping attacks and chain stagger him. Once the fight is 1v1 with the caster, just go for easy backstabs and jump attaks.

[Tikus Tycoon]

Parry

[Nonomori]

Actually I never realized you can stagger them in order for your swords or katanas to do normal damage, I used a greatsword on my first Crystallian and after seeing that Im doing 40 damage, I switched to hammer lol. And apparently they are weak to Strike damage from the start.

[aristateles]

I always have 1 strike type weapon in my inventory. And I use Nightrider's Flail because it looks cool

[Roy]

Thanks guys i finally did it, my summoned buddy started spamming R1 on one of them while i was trying to do the other one and i noticed it's healthbar started dropping after i heard him break his poise.

That's a super weird mechanic and it doesn't really make sense why they do take damage after breaking poise once, especially since they behave and look the same after doing that.

Thanks for the tips lads!

[Senpai]

use weapon that does Standard or Strike, use ashes to aggro, and defeat the spear one first its spear attacks are super annoying, poke poke poke jump poke.. once you poise break the enemy it will start to take more damage.

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by Roy:

That's a super weird mechanic and it doesn't really make sense why they do take damage after breaking poise once, especially since they behave and look the same after doing that.

Consider that as breaking their "outer shell" lol.