Money's worth...

[Sling Young]

Is there anyone who can help me cheese last boss, or just beat it. My buddies gave up and they had a "Let Me Tank Him" build help but I just can't find one. I get second phase every time and I've gotten him down to about 2-3 hits before he does the "Entire arena gets nuked" AOE attack and game ends me before I even have a chance to inhale my next breath lmao. I just want my 60 dollars worth and then I'm done with this studio and these games. Pls help

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Dog:

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

Well i guessed right lol

And you dont need to summon Throllier either.

If you did their quests to the point of being able to summon them for Promised Consort, then youll get their items after the boss is done, regardless if you summoned them or not.

Any tips for summoning mimic tear? I keep getting pressured so hard I feel like the nerdy kid behind the school.

I dont use Spirits either so... i cant help with that lmao.

But i largely relied heavily on Scarlet Aeonia to do most of the dmg in both phases, while stacking Holy Defense, with the talismans and the Incantation.

Plus Golden Vow and some healing spells.

[Sling Young]

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

Originally posted by Dog:

Any tips for summoning mimic tear? I keep getting pressured so hard I feel like the nerdy kid behind the school.

I dont use Spirits either so... i cant help with that lmao.

But i largely relied heavily on Scarlet Aeonia to do most of the dmg in both phases, while stacking Holy Defense, with the talismans and the Incantation.

Plus Golden Vow and some healing spells.

Tough ♥♥♥♥ for me then, I've used all of my larvals and I'm pure strength arcane. Saving my very last one for endurance madness build but I doubt that'd be any effective against filter boss #342.

[Sling Young]

I just want what I paid for and that's the ending to this DLC but it's locked behind some really cheesy and purpose-built frustration.

[Tpue_Miabc]

you still need help?

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Dog:

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

I dont use Spirits either so... i cant help with that lmao.

But i largely relied heavily on Scarlet Aeonia to do most of the dmg in both phases, while stacking Holy Defense, with the talismans and the Incantation.

Plus Golden Vow and some healing spells.

Tough ♥♥♥♥ for me then, I've used all of my larvals and I'm pure strength arcane. Saving my very last one for endurance madness build but I doubt that'd be any effective against filter boss #342.

If you play on PC you could use a mod to give yourself more Larva Tears.

I dont think Grand Merchant is currently working, but a copy called Glorious Merchant is, which is basically the same, and you can get pretty much anything in the game for free with that.

Its safe to use as long as you lauch the mod through ModEngine2, and dont buy any Cut Content items and go online with them.

[Tpue_Miabc]

but dont get your hopes up as it took me 3 hours to beat him solo

[Sling Young]

I'm not a hardcore gamer and I never really have been, I've always made it through these games with a little difficulty but for what I usually lacked in skill I always made up for in thought. There just doesn't feel like there's any way to be tactile with this, you just have to have a little luck, a purpose built character specifically for the boss and, some insane reaction timing and response timing. I commend all those who were able to beat it without summoning but for some of us more casual enjoyers of these games, we've been left in the rain. It's definitely a "git gud" situation, but maybe some of us have things outside of the game that prevent us from spending that quality time with it. Maybe some of us just want a little challenge and a good story, not hand and finger cramps. Maybe some of us enjoy these games from a storytelling and RPG standpoint, not a sweaty-♥♥♥♥-measuring need to be better than everyone standpoint. It's just disappointing and part of the reason I say I probably won't be shopping at FromSoftwares stores anymore, we just aren't part of the target audience any longer and I wish I knew that prior to jumping on this DLC. I've played all of the souls games and their DLC's on console and absolutely loved every moment of it, they weren't without their flaws but they felt good. This DLC is the single most hardest thing I've ever experienced and it feels like FromSoftware was taking the soyboys "Game too easy" to offence. Oh well, I guess we just deal with "Sadness, try jumping".

[Sling Young]

Originally posted by Tpue_Miabc:

you still need help?

Yesssss

[Sling Young]

Originally posted by Tpue_Miabc:

but dont get your hopes up as it took me 3 hours to beat him solo

Dw I been at this all week

[Tpue_Miabc]

alright placed my sign down by the entrance and the password is chicken right?

[Sling Young]

Originally posted by Tpue_Miabc:

but dont get your hopes up as it took me 3 hours to beat him solo

Also ONLY 3 hours? XD I'm messing but I'll be at divine gate if you wanna throw your sign down, PW is chicken all lowercase. <3

[Smufius]

60 vigor
60 str
40 end

Vedrigis armor + Vedrigis talisman
Best physical resistance talisman
Greatshield talisman
Opaline tear + Deflecting hardtear
Flame Grant Me Strength + Sacred Wov
Heavy Giant Crusher with Lion's Claw

Don't roll. Don't use a shield. Just the hammer and your incantation caster. Just block (try to do as many perfect blocks as possible to minimize damage). Spam Lion's Claw. He will get staggered with every 3-4 hits. Riposte him, repeat. Heal when low on health. Ez pz.

[Sling Young]

Originally posted by Smufius:

60 vigor
60 str
40 end

Vedrigis armor + Vedrigis talisman
Best physical resistance talisman
Greatshield talisman
Opaline tear + Deflecting hardtear
Flame Grant Me Strength + Sacred Wov
Heavy Giant Crusher with Lion's Claw

Don't roll. Don't use a shield. Just the hammer and your incantation caster. Just block (try to do as many perfect blocks as possible to minimize damage). Spam Lion's Claw. He will get staggered with every 3-4 hits. Riposte him, repeat. Heal when low on health. Ez pz.

I know the meta build now, but I only got 1 tear left and there is a build I wanted to try out instead of that. I suck at this game lmao I just wish that it was like previous games where you were allowed to be a little bit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ at the game. No leniency with this guy though.

[Narm]

If you want an alternative cheese and you have the mats for ironjar aromatics, try stacking defense with endure. I cheesed him while drunk with my sorcerer build, but it'll work for anyone with access to bleed (I used the new thorn sorcery). Actually, you don't even need bleed, it just speeds things up a lot.

Talismans: dragoncrest greatshield talisman, best holy negation talismans, that new talisman that gives you extra 10% negation at heavy load, and old lord's talisman, NOTE THAT YOU'LL WANT TO BE AT HEAVY LOAD, WE'RE NOT DODGING ANYTHING.

Armor: bullgoat armor or tree sentinel. Any of the heaviest armors is probably fine though.

Physick: +10% negation tear.

Ashes of war: endure on your primary weapon, consecrated ground on a secondary.

Now the bread and butter of this cheese is ironjar aromatic, consecrated ground, and endure. Stacking all these things with the physick, armor, and talismans will get you 90-something % negation, and ironjar + endure makes you immune to stagger. As long as you keep the buffs up, you can ignore the boss and just keep swinging. Consecrated ground gives both a negation buff and health regeneration.

Before you enter, sip physick, pop ironjar, enter boss arena, endure, use consecrated ground, endure, swing once or twice, endure, repeat. Endure before every action, rebuff or sip instead of attacking when needed.

The final boss is really susceptible to bleed, and since it's % health damage, it also offsets the health increase from summons if you use any. If you use mimic, it can be good to equip frost pots to your equipment bar (frost proc increases damage taken temporarily, on top of a % health damage) for the mimic to use.

Or you can try a bleed shield poke with fingerprint and that new talisman that increases non-physical blocking negation. Otherwise, there's always git gud.

[Narm]

Originally posted by Dog:

I know the meta build now, but I only got 1 tear left and there is a build I wanted to try out instead of that. I suck at this game lmao I just wish that it was like previous games where you were allowed to be a little bit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ at the game. No leniency with this guy though.

You know there's some tears in the DLC, right? You can only get them at night so people have been missing them.