Rykard is entirely not fun.

[TheDude]

Yes, I know, git gud. But when I can see literally nothing because the skull spell blocks my entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera. Dodging does nothing. Blocking does nothing. This fight is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[CAPITANULLOA]

Originally posted by Daynov:

You serious? Of all boss battles this is the one you're having trouble with?

This is the one that gave me more headaches (now I'm on my way to Malenia) because I don't have strength or dexterity so the weapon was quite bad for me

[[JRE] Joe Rogan]

Don't worry OP I feel your pain I wanted to be stubborn and use my dumb daggers to do the fight for a while (didn't work out well after realizing there's a phase 2 lol)

Also I know what you mean about the skulls I was literally getting insta killed from getting stunned into them. I was manually trying to roll through each one when I watched a video I realized the dude just ran away the whole time. So that's what I did and it worked out basically you just have to disengage from the whole fight to live through that raining skull move.

Idk why people are spamming how easy of a fight it is when one your hand is forced into using a specific weapon for him and two he has moves that can autokill you very easily and require you to run around a massive arena to live and unlike Rykard or something you don't have a horse when you do it.

[[JRE] Joe Rogan]

Originally posted by THE IMPALER:

Its not even a "git gud" fight tho. You pick up a weapon at the beginning of the fight called Serpent Hunter. This weapon destroys the boss with disgusting enthusiasm. If you have the mimic using it too, it's pretty hard to not beat him unless you are brain dead

Not everyone uses Mimic tear, I understand ER players in general do not understand this but just doing what the game wants and it being easy does not mean its good design or that its actually easy. There's many ways to play the game but ER has a way of literally forcing the player to play how it wants you to play by limiting your choices or damage or what not so severely that you end up handicapping yourself trying to stick to whatever build you had at the time before you ran into X.

[Daynov]

Originally posted by CAPITANULLOA:

This is the one that gave me more headaches (now I'm on my way to Malenia) because I don't have strength or dexterity so the weapon was quite bad for me

Serpent Hunter doesn't have any requirements to wield, you just use it for its ash of war, which does more than enough dmg to make short work of this boss.

[Weedsmell]

rykard can be fun now and them specially if you use a build that allows you to kill him without the serpent hunter

that said i got summoned 5 times for rykard yesterday and i got so fed up with it that i just blocked the summoning pool (the only one i've ever turned off)... so yeah

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by MSFT Jeff Kaplan:

Originally posted by THE IMPALER:

Its not even a "git gud" fight tho. You pick up a weapon at the beginning of the fight called Serpent Hunter. This weapon destroys the boss with disgusting enthusiasm. If you have the mimic using it too, it's pretty hard to not beat him unless you are brain dead

Not everyone uses Mimic tear, I understand ER players in general do not understand this but just doing what the game wants and it being easy does not mean its good design or that its actually easy. There's many ways to play the game but ER has a way of literally forcing the player to play how it wants you to play by limiting your choices or damage or what not so severely that you end up handicapping yourself trying to stick to whatever build you had at the time before you ran into X.

Jeff, stfu about good design. You wouldn't know what that is if it sat on your face.

[Boss]

I see lots of the same suggestion to make the fight EASIER, but not necessarily to make it more fun.
I know i would love to not see the Storm Ruler or any form of it ever again in future games.

[CAPITANULLOA]

Originally posted by Daynov:

Originally posted by CAPITANULLOA:

This is the one that gave me more headaches (now I'm on my way to Malenia) because I don't have strength or dexterity so the weapon was quite bad for me

Serpent Hunter doesn't have any requirements to wield, you just use it for its ash of war, which does more than enough dmg to make short work of this boss.

I mean that having no str and dex doesn't increase your damage with the weapon, so its AoW doesn't hit that hard

Originally posted by Boss:

I see lots of the same suggestion to make the fight EASIER, but not necessarily to make it more fun.
I know i would love to not see the Storm Ruler or any form of it ever again in future games.

same

[CAPITANULLOA]

Originally posted by Daynov:

Originally posted by CAPITANULLOA:

This is the one that gave me more headaches (now I'm on my way to Malenia) because I don't have strength or dexterity so the weapon was quite bad for me

Serpent Hunter doesn't have any requirements to wield, you just use it for its ash of war, which does more than enough dmg to make short work of this boss.

But not having STR and DEX makes you deal a lot of less damage with the AoW

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by CAPITANULLOA:

Originally posted by Daynov:

Serpent Hunter doesn't have any requirements to wield, you just use it for its ash of war, which does more than enough dmg to make short work of this boss.

But not having STR and DEX makes you deal a lot of less damage with the AoW

That doesn't really matter. You still just destroy him.

[Weedsmell]

if you want to make the fight EASIER serpent hunter is the way to go
if you want to make the fight ''more fun'':
-try status build (frost/bleed works wonders, you can even kill him with just a pulley crossbow)
-try high poise build (or iron flesh) and go nuts in the lava
-use spells that cause multi hit and status (for mage builds)
-bait the snake's head and punish it with regular melee builds (this is really not fun)

[mpcgannon]

I actually agree with the title but because I find it a trivial experience. Once you get it, it isn't fun.

[mpcgannon]

Originally posted by Weedsmell:

if you want to make the fight EASIER serpent hunter is the way to go
if you want to make the fight ''more fun'':
-try status build (frost/bleed works wonders, you can even kill him with just a pulley crossbow)
-try high poise build (or iron flesh) and go nuts in the lava
-use spells that cause multi hit and status (for mage builds)
-bait the snake's head and punish it with regular melee builds (this is really not fun)

This is a great suggestion.

[CAPITANULLOA]

Originally posted by Weedsmell:

if you want to make the fight EASIER serpent hunter is the way to go
if you want to make the fight ''more fun'':
-try status build (frost/bleed works wonders, you can even kill him with just a pulley crossbow)
-try high poise build (or iron flesh) and go nuts in the lava
-use spells that cause multi hit and status (for mage builds)
-bait the snake's head and punish it with regular melee builds (this is really not fun)

I used frost + the spear and spiral shard to finish quickly. I got tired of the spear

[Betrayal]

Originally posted by TheDude:

Yes, I know, git gud. But when I can see literally nothing because the skull spell blocks my entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera. Dodging does nothing. Blocking does nothing. This fight is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

WTF even without using the new sword as a meele you can just walk right into the lava and hit the ♥♥♥♥ out of him. It's the easiest boss of all.