Crucible knight duo gone wrong :(

[KAgeRO_XD]

Seriously, I don't know what's going on with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crucible knight duo anymore !

I had heavy armor and buff for defense, lightning katana with unsheathe and carian retalation parry for medium shield for parry ! I had everything prepared but I failed everytime (30 failures so far) !

What have I gone wrong ? Do I lack something ? I need answers !

[Tiasmoon]

Using a summon is the best tool for any duo boss combo. If you want to fight them 1vs2 it will be hard regardless, unless you are really good at parrying.

[KAgeRO_XD]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Using a summon is the best tool for any duo boss combo. If you want to fight them 1vs2 it will be hard regardless, unless you are really good at parrying.

I wish ! No matter the summon I use, it dies too quickly.

[Tiasmoon]

Well, duo knights are some of the harder fights around. You could ignore it untill later or dont do it at all.

For Summons, some are better then others. Crystal summons have high defense, so they could be good if you have one. Mimic is only good if its build is also good. Whatever you use, for a fight like that it would also have to be leveled up pretty high.

[Sabaithal]

That fight is a bit excessive, yeah. Especially since they don't take turns (dammit FROM, you had this right in previous games, why did you screw this up?).

I generally summon a good tank summon such as Lhutel, kristoff, greatshield soldiers, or Leyndell soldiers to distract one of the knights while I deal with the other one (most other summons don't last very long, not even mimic). Then its just a race to see if you can kill one of them before your summons eventually die.

You could also try skeletal militia, but make sure they aggro on the spear knight. The reason being the shield knight is the most likely to kill them via collateral damage.

Last resort strategy...backpedal circles around the room while waiting for openings to get the occasional hit in one whichever one is in front (both will approach you, but only one will be really aggressive about it, the other will kind of hang back).

[CourtesyFlush09]

It's a fight that kinda proves ER's design philosophy of summoning. You can still beat them both by yourself, but hitting one of them, waiting for the other to attack, dodging, and repeating is incredibly boring.

[NotForMe]

Originally posted by JokerSAMA:

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Using a summon is the best tool for any duo boss combo. If you want to fight them 1vs2 it will be hard regardless, unless you are really good at parrying.

I wish ! No matter the summon I use, it dies too quickly.

Do you have the Mimic? and or at least tier 8 rats, or a bigger horde ash at a higher level.

Mimic will hold out far longer than most individual summons, while ashes that summon hordes, do really well on spreading out the damage.

My mimic would get the other crucible knight down to about half health before it dies, while I beat on the other, most times I didn't kill one fast enough, and got overwhelmed, but after learning a few attack patterns it went down fast.

[Zeep]

Learn to parry. Crucible knights are a joke if you parry them.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by JokerSAMA:

Seriously, I don't know what's going on with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crucible knight duo anymore !

I had heavy armor and buff for defense, lightning katana with unsheathe and carian retalation parry for medium shield for parry ! I had everything prepared but I failed everytime (30 failures so far) !

What have I gone wrong ? Do I lack something ? I need answers !

Good positioning + Good engage moments + Dodge and attack + Separating both
There is where you went wrong (tho I believe maybe you find a ultra super defensive set and build that may tank you through it.

[Citizen of Zozo]

If you're completely out of options just search "Crucible Duo Hitless" and you can do that on pretty much any boss. Somewhere I promise you someone has posted a video of doing the fight perfectly. Probably naked at Level 1 to boot.
While you might not be able to replicate what the person in the video does exactly, watching how they do it can dispel a lot of mystery of what to do in order to succeed.

[Nightflash]

I didn't do many of the optional bosses, but with these I spent couple hours. The way I did it was actually the old fashioned way of getting good at the fight I suppose. Heavy strength weapon, no summons, just waited for openings to punish I knew I could get away with.

[Leziropav]

when the pride preventing you to summon spirit ashes

[Abnorc]

Even with spirit ashes, this boss was a huge pain in the butt. Most of the time my summon would die in less than a minute and not do much damage at all. (I tried the ancestral follower and the mimic tear + 6).

I ended up getting lucky when the one with the spear did it's big jump attack three times in a row. It got him far enough away from the other one enough times that I could get rid of him. Then I summoned the mimic tear and it was a 2v1 fight. Still, if I hadn't gotten that lucky, I don't know if I ever would have beaten them.

[causality]

Originally posted by JokerSAMA:

Seriously, I don't know what's going on with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crucible knight duo anymore !

I had heavy armor and buff for defense, lightning katana with unsheathe and carian retalation parry for medium shield for parry ! I had everything prepared but I failed everytime (30 failures so far) !

What have I gone wrong ? Do I lack something ? I need answers !

This boss fight like most gank fights are the classic "do you know how to space your enemy" simulator from O&S and Living Failures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsW123m23o