Commander Gaius is stupid easy...

[RealSalmonTaco]

Not ragebait. I expected him to be a major pain to kill, but I beat him on my second try with the Deflecting Hardtear. Maybe I just fought Gyoubu too many times in Sekiro, but he wasn't challenging at all. Did he get nerfed in this last patch? I feel like it can't have been this easy with how big of babies everybody was about this boss.

[Dollmaker]

His hitboxes were fixed in the last patch, his charge attack was almost impossible to dodge for example.

I still defeated him on my second try in my first run, so he isnt that challenging tbh, just had dumb hitboxes.

[Zoid13]

the sekiro parry tear is awesome fun for bosses :D

[MidnightMist]

Top tier bait man. Subscribing to see who gets hooked.

[Lucaine]

Originally posted by Frostburn:

second try with the Deflecting Hardtear

If I compare this to using a shield against him, shields (especially with barricade shield on them) also made him pretty simple, the only thing to watch out for was his charge attack.

My guess is a lot of people just don't play with shields/deflect much, or don't want to (I can understand not wanting to be forced to play one way), but a lot of bosses in the DLC are made much easier by blocking/deflecting.

[Anatolius]

Bullied him with flame skewer.
His moves can take you by surprise, but once you know them - he's actually not difficult.

[Zoid13]

you can also cheese him like no other if you really dont like him... with mohg's spear.

run around the corner of the castle wall when he charges and hell be stuck charging into the wall at which point you can just bleed him to death through the wall with the spear lol

[RealSalmonTaco]

Originally posted by MidnightMist:

Top tier bait man. Subscribing to see who gets hooked.

Not even bait. Was genuinely ready for a miserable boss fight from what everybody online has said about Gaius, and beat him second try (forgot to use my physick on the first try)

Plus the reward he's guarding is INSANE

[RealSalmonTaco]

Originally posted by Zoid13:

the sekiro parry tear is awesome fun for bosses :D

It really is. I've just been parrying with the Rakshasa Katana and smoking everything

[Ashtrails]

I relied pretty heavy on stormblade and the buzz-saw rings incantation for a lot of fights and both just _refused_ to connect with his hitbox unless I'm right in his face.

the hard tear really was a gamechanger, wasn't as painful as expected, but still by far (so far) my least favorite fight in the DLC

[toughnails]

You can just pop Ironjar Aromatic and facetank if your build isn't made out of toilet paper.

That's what ChaseTheBro did in his playthrough lol, he outright said "I'm not dodging that BS".

[Fineous🔥]

They even "fixed" his starting position......you pretty much spawned on top of the boar tusks before. That actually made the fight more enjoyable.

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by MidnightMist:

Top tier bait man. Subscribing to see who gets hooked.

me

[Echorion]

Yeah he was nerfed, but tbf they were more bug fixes than anything, so you are getting closer to the intended fight rather than less so.