Caelid Bell Bearing Hunter

[Selvokaz]

Did this guy get buffed, his damage is is insane, even with 50 vigor im getting nearly 2 shot, ive tried the stay close strat and he will at midpoint just aoe close up with the blade and take me out.

[Sato]

boild crab should help, try to rot and poison with pots
I can drop a sign if you want as well

[Rain]

It's a Dragonbarrow Boss, so he is pretty much endgameish.

[PhyrixisGaming]

Could always lead him sneakily over the the golem archers. They stun him, then you just riposte him off a cliff. GGEZ

[opus132]

Dragonbarrow is a late game area. Everything there is super beefed up and it's scaled for people with 60 vigor and SL100+.

Why they put it right next to regular Caelid, i don't know.

You can always come back when you have a maxed character. Or you can try to learn his patterns until you can roll-fu through his attacks with 100% success rate. It's not impossible to do.

Another good option is parry.

[DAWN OF THE DEAD]

Always stay close to him, don’t get greedy with attacks, you can try to abuse his shield smash, he likes doing it when you are behind just remember after you see him doing his shield smash don’t instantly attack wait a moment to see if he doesn’t start “explosion”. His pose breaks pretty “easy” just don’t do crit attack from behind he recovers faster, oh and don’t insta crit attack him after pose break give a moment to mid-max for you stamina after crit attack is the best moment to heal. He isn’t that hard just kinda agro thus even doing everything right you can run out of stamina.

Or you can cheese him on roof of shack

[P.]

He's stronger than the original bell bearing hunter (Elemer of the Briar).
Btw, buy arrows, use the donkey to jump up on the shack roof, and cheese him.

[Myrmuz [IRL]]

Use the horse to get onto the roof, kill him with ranged attacks.

[Selvokaz]

thanks for all the strats.

[Selvokaz]

ill give it another shot later

[NaRRator]

that guy getting buff evry ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ patch

[opus132]

I think parry is still the easiest way to deal with those guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8VXUWZ96Zg

Like i said you can roll-fu him with 100% success rate if you practice enough but the fight lasted a long longer than the above when i tried that.

Parry is an underrated tool in this game. Whenever a boss does a combo that feels unreasonably difficult to roll through it is likely because FromSoft intended you to do something else, and usually attacks with a long wind up are a big give away you are supposed to parry them.

Bonking works well with him too but you still need to learn how to roll through his combos if you go that route.

[Selvokaz]

i coped out and use the cheese and used scar rot on arrows from the roof tops. the guilt will eventually pass.

[zab]

he has always been fairly strong

[Basarab Laiota]

Those bell-bearing hunters are always a pain, lol. Every single one I've fought has killed me at least half a dozen times. When I saw how the one in Caelid killed me in one swing, I just gave up. I know when I'm beat! I'll come back later... WAY later.

[LuckyCheshire]

Yeah, he's tough. There's a pretty big window right when as he appears where he just stands in place, which you can punish the heck out of.