Tips for Fire Giant?

[Saint Agrius]

I've hit a really big roadblock here and after multiple rebirths I'm almost ready to put the game down, closest I've gotten to beating him is around 1/3 of his HP left but I just can't avoid getting stomped (both figuratively and literally), after the rope on his leg gets destroyed I can't progress much further and have only seen his second phase once. Right now I'm using the degenerate bleed build with Varre's mask but can't get close to beating him. I've tried tanking, I've tried spirit ashes, I can rarely find a furled finger to help out but they either get disconnected or die within the first minute and I'm left dealing with his buffed HP. I'm not asking for anyone to wait outside the area to be summoned in, I know the multiplayer allows for it, but I don't want to be carried through the fight, I just need to know what I'm missing here so I can finally kill this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and progress through the game.

[Mystic Man]

cheese him with fall damage

[Zero Signal]

My issue was that he runs away too much. Just be persistant, you can roll through his side rolls. Umm also, I saw someone beat him easily riding Torrent. Made me smack myself in the head like an idiot when I realized you can use the damned horse. I havent done ranged on him yet, but my guess magery/archery would make it pretty easy to kill.

[Asd]

I tried to this boss with mage build but it was tough because he moves a lot and it is hard to damage him from long distance, so I was forced to almost close combat with magic to properly damage boss. Then I respec my stats and tried heavy buid with a lot HP with golden halberd - somehow succeded, it was way easier but still I had like 20 attempts. Learned his moveset and was aacurate and not greedy.

[Who Dat]

Originally posted by WAYNELORD:

I've hit a really big roadblock here and after multiple rebirths I'm almost ready to put the game down, closest I've gotten to beating him is around 1/3 of his HP left but I just can't avoid getting stomped (both figuratively and literally), after the rope on his leg gets destroyed I can't progress much further and have only seen his second phase once. Right now I'm using the degenerate bleed build with Varre's mask but can't get close to beating him. I've tried tanking, I've tried spirit ashes, I can rarely find a furled finger to help out but they either get disconnected or die within the first minute and I'm left dealing with his buffed HP. I'm not asking for anyone to wait outside the area to be summoned in, I know the multiplayer allows for it, but I don't want to be carried through the fight, I just need to know what I'm missing here so I can finally kill this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and progress through the game.

the fall damage thing has been patched so you are aware.

helped some dude on this boss the other night from the forums, but i understand you are not looking for a handout. if you are doing a heavy roll you might want to consider going naked for the extra invulnerability frames, some of the flame moves on his second phase arn't as easy to dodge as his super slow and telegraphed moves on the first phase.

bleed is def the way to go as he has such a high health pool, if your having difficulty with melee on the second phase try crafting some blood arrows and get a shortbow with the barrage ash of war you can spam arrows from a distance on his second phase to have more of a safety net.

[Terratrox]

It's mostly just a 'chase after him, get behind his foot and go to town' fight. Bleed works, as does frostbite. But it's a long, drawn out fight full of chasing him down. It's... not great. Using Torrent in singleplayer to chase him helps a lot.

[Amused]

His moves are very easy to dodge, 2nd phase gets harder. What I did was stay under him constantly besides when the fire was under him, I just ran away and looped back. The fight is only hard because of his large heathpool taking forever to kill, you will get it with enough tries if you got him to phase 2.

[Mystic Man]

if you use maliketh's black blade, black blade spell, or the black knife, you can melt his HP. those deal damage based on total HP percentage

[pcdeltalink]

1st phase I didn’t really have a strategy. Just summoned Oleg and went nuts on him (greatshield user so blocking wasn’t a problem). No bleed either as at the time I didn’t have one upgraded.

2nd phase realized I could use Torrent and doing hit and run was what brought me victory.

[ledge]

Do you have Alexanders quest up to that far so you can summon? I had a hell of a time with him, looking up all the cheeses and strats. FInally i just stopped summoning players because it gets WAY tanky, and killed him playing the way i usually play. That said if you are a build that is not well set for him like others mentioned: bleed. He has flesh, he'll bleed. I let alexander and mimic take aggro about half the time, i found having them in phase two was important so dont sacrifice them too soon. Also cannot recommend enough bloodhound step. if you dont have it i might have another one.

[shinami]

Ok, I'm going to share some stupidly gross amounts of bleed knowledge. Uchigatana with Seppuku Ash of War dual-wielded with Rivers of Blood backed by the talisman, Lord of Blood's Exultation. Walk through the fog, two-hand Uchigatana, use Seppuku, heal up, eat 1 Exalted Flesh(?), and switch back to dual wielding. After that, use the horse to get close while jumping over the shield avalanche stuff and go ham on that leg to rapidly stack bleed with both Uchigatana and Rivers.

Naturally, neither weapon is worth much if they're not upgraded. Upgrades not only increase their damage but also increase the amount of bleed they stack per hit. This is especially true with the Uchigatana as you can use different Ashes of War and those flint thingies that allow you to mess with a weapon's scaling/elemental affinity by changing the upgrade path. Be sure to set the Uchigatana to the Blood upgrade path for 82~ bleed per hit at an upgrade level of +25.

Sidenote: Arcane scaling with Rivers of Blood damage is flat out broken and outpaces Dex. I haven't checked this out but a Blood Uchigatana+25 may show similar scaling. Bleed weapons with Arcane scaling will see their +Bleed effect scaled up slightly by Arcane.

Now, why Seppuku? You use Seppuku to damage yourself for a bonus to your attack power(iirc, only to Uchi). Seppuku causes Blood Loss, triggering the talisman to buff the attack of both weapons. Each bleed proc will also trigger the talisman's effect as well. Stack the Exalted Flesh consumable for another damage bonus. The rest of talisman slots are up to you.

Poison and Rot are good to stack small but constant damage on this guy. Hitting Phase 2 will remove any Poison and Rot, meaning you'll have to reapply them. You can stack poison with 2-3 of those craftable jars you throw. Every little bit helps, right?

[Pozzy Vibes GGHF :)]

I did it easily with mimic tear, you and your clone building up bleed and double rivers of blood was too EZ

[TotalTriscuit]

Attack his balls. Those are his weakspots. Well, technically, his balls are the safest place I found to attack... If that doesn't work, try finger but hole.

[Big boyi]

Phase 1: hit his left leg
Phase 2: hit his leg if u use melee only, if u use magic or sth then hit his hand.
Otherwise try tongue pit ahead

[Snooze Juicer]

im not sure on why ive heard he is big hurdle for people. took me 3 attempts to get him. first phase is super easy. just stay under him and dodge the stomps. second phase i just stayed behind him and hit his thighs and when he does his fire stuff run away. compared to other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bosses in this game he was easy

[The Bull]

Fight him on your horse, and take out his weak ankle.