5h just today on Black Blade Kindred

[RhodosGuard]

I am struggling to find the motivation to kill him, just to get a weapon I wont be able to use enchants on, and which's weapon skill apparently is garbage according to the wiki comments.
best run he was at about 33% but with so many of his attacks being one-hit I am tired of having to near perfect him for it.

[tallgeese]

Use you spirit ash.

[Monk]

Of you are being 1 shot, your build needs work.

If any boss takes you more than a dozen or so attempts, I'd say you need to walk away and really evaluate your build and approach.

Id suggest removing scarseals and boosting your damage reduction to atleast 40-50% with 40 vigour.

[urabe mikoto]

Ez boss

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by lowly criminal:

Use you spirit ash.

I am. It makes him less predictable. Sometimes he targets the ash then does full 360° turns to me, which is unfortunate when most of it just takes me off the plate immediatly.
They serve as a distraction so I can get a few more hits in when I use BFB, since I have to 2hand the BrickHammer to wield it at all, so I gotta cast BfB, switch to 2h and hope that he is focusing the summon right now.

Originally posted by Vortikon:

5 hours is way too long... Just come back to him later.

I'll try again tomorrow. Coming back later is lame.
I am already in full Banished Knight Armor. SO all I could do is spam more in Vigor, and even then I'd need like 5-10 more levels to have it make a difference at all. Either that or I need to do the 20 level ups that would compensate so I can get rid of soreseal, which is the only reason I can even use my current Strike weapon.

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by urabe mikoto:

Ez boss

much productive, very help wow

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Monk:

Of you are being 1 shot, your build needs work.

If any boss takes you more than a dozen or so attempts, I'd say you need to walk away and really evaluate your build and approach.

Id suggest removing scarseals and boosting your damage reduction to atleast 40-50% with 40 vigour.

He's immune to all status effects, and is only explicitely weak to strike.
So the entirety of what I can do is... put more in Vigor and Strength. There is nothing about the build to evaluate, because he's supposed to be brute forced.

[tallgeese]

Originally posted by urabe mikoto:

Ez boss

you're ez too. stop putting out so often.

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Vortikon:

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

I am. It makes him less predictable. Sometimes he targets the ash then does full 360° turns to me, which is unfortunate when most of it just takes me off the plate immediatly.
They serve as a distraction so I can get a view more hits in when I use BFB, since I have to 2hand the BrickHammer to wield it at all, so I gotta cast BfB, switch to 2h and hope that he is focusing the summon right now.


I'll try again tomorrow. Coming back later is lame.
I am already in full Banished Knight Armor. SO all I could do is spam more in Vigor, and even then I'd need like 5-10 more levels to have it make a difference at all. Either that or I need to do the 20 level ups that would compensate so I can get rid of soreseal, which is the only reason I can even use my current Strike weapon.

I suspect spirit ashes are hurting people from getting better tbh. You don't need anything to beat him but dodge rolls and a weapon.

I dont regularly use them though. I use them if I fail too often to see which bosses become trivial with them, and on bosses where I feel like "getting better" is not worth wasting even more hours on a fight to "learn it"

By which I mean: I am not trying to become a Soulsborne pro and challenge runner who does level 1 wretch stuff. I am just trying to have fun beating the game. Sometimes Ashes make it easier to have fun beating the game.

[Storm]

What level are you? You might just be too low of a level. Black Blade Kindred is a lvl 80-90 boss.

[Myredhulk]

If you're desperate to just kill him and move on, you can cheese him by taking potshots from inside the bestial sanctum or whatever it's called. It turns the battle from a melee into a firefight, and he only has one ranged attack.

If you haven't gotten inside already, you can find a Deathroot and give it to D, and he'll mark a summoning gate to get inside on your map. Or, you could find it without getting a deathroot, it's still there.

[Codester]

.....lol what???? I killed him 1st try.
A big Git Gud to you.

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Codester:

.....lol what???? I killed him 1st try.
A big Git Gud to you.

A many people do many a things on their "first try" at it, yet they dont expect you to do it.
Like how some people manage to be actually good human beings on their first try, while you clearly struggle witht he concept-

[Arlen]

My advice - re-evaluate your build, tactics, and strategy. If something is too hard, no shame in comming back to it later after you put a coupla more levels into your character. level your weapon stats only to the level required to use them, and get your vitality to 40, endurance to 25 or so. That 65 levels not including what is required for your weapon of choice.

[f00b]

I would come back to him later once you got your vigor/endurance up so you can at least eat one hit.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

Originally posted by Monk:

Of you are being 1 shot, your build needs work.

If any boss takes you more than a dozen or so attempts, I'd say you need to walk away and really evaluate your build and approach.

Id suggest removing scarseals and boosting your damage reduction to atleast 40-50% with 40 vigour.

He's immune to all status effects, and is only explicitely weak to strike.
So the entirety of what I can do is... put more in Vigor and Strength. There is nothing about the build to evaluate, because he's supposed to be brute forced.

You could always learn to dodge his moves instead. If not, then you will need Vigor.

Yes, just Vigor. Not 'Vigor and Strength'

How much health and Vigor do you have? The game expects the player to have maybe 40-50 Vigor at that point. Anything less and you will have a harder time.