Putrid tree spirit in war-dead catacombs can literally die in a fire.

[Syro System]

Walk into the room, get hit by hit one shot attack before you can even pick up your runes.

Seriously, this boss can rot in hell.
Huge body who's basic movement is to spazz the F out constantly, making it nearly impossible to read it's bloody telegraphs, massive hitbox attacks, and a lunge that covers at least half the arena that takes all your hp if it hits AND puts rot on you that saps the rest before you can ever recover (I'm wearing Blaidd's armor set with the stone imp (wolf) helm and 36 vigor).
Also he completely ignores my summons most of the time, even when using the shield bro squad that has a taunt move.

[Ragnaman]

Try lobbing fireballs at it and dont engage in melee

"Except I'm in melee range and swing at him with a sword,"

yeah this, stop that

[❤ FL☰☰K⬤]

I melee all of them on their tail, on your right side, its left side. It kinda spins in a circle and just pushes you around but you still have to read his leaps from his tail, which actually isn't that hard to get used to since he arcs up and the tail is the last part to leave the ground, I just dodged right before his tail would lift up to follow his body.

These enemies are all c o c k s, and you have to beat them.

[Ulmace]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ragnaman:

Try lobbing fireballs at it and dont engage in melee

"Except I'm in melee range and swing at him with a sword,"

yeah this, stop that

can melee him totally fine, dodges dont even need to be timed very well

[jasonbarron]

The trick to killing bosses isn't to out tank them by boosting your hp pool, you'll always find bosses that can wipe you out no matter how many points you invest in vigor. The trick is once you get your Vigor to a reasonable level, around 30, go hard on your primary damage scaling stat, upgrade your primary weapon, equip talismans that are actually helpful and if you're an average player level your one favorite summon.

Every level you climb generally boosts many/most of your resistance stats which is far more useful than raw hp because you're getting hit for less damage, and if you get those resistance boosts while also increasing your damage dealing capacity you're going to get the fight finished faster without standing around being some bosses punching bag.

Again, if you're an average player and want to crutch on summons there's no shame. Summon, then focus on dodging until boss aggros on him then chug flasks, go for punishing strikes etc

[Syro System]

Oprindeligt skrevet af jasonbarron:

The trick to killing bosses isn't to out tank them by boosting your hp pool, you'll always find bosses that can wipe you out no matter how many points you invest in vigor. The trick is once you get your Vigor to a reasonable level, around 30, go hard on your primary damage scaling stat, upgrade your primary weapon, equip talismans that are actually helpful and if you're an average player level your one favorite summon.

Every level you climb generally boosts many/most of your resistance stats which is far more useful than raw hp because you're getting hit for less damage, and if you get those resistance boosts while also increasing your damage dealing capacity you're going to get the fight finished faster without standing around being some bosses punching bag.

Again, if you're an average player and want to crutch on summons there's no shame. Summon, then focus on dodging until boss aggros on him then chug flasks, go for punishing strikes etc

Yes I know all of this (and it's also obvious even if you haven't played a souls game before).
I'm saying the problem is the fact that the boss is a gigantic mess of a model that moves way to damn fast for it's size and who's tells are almost impossible to distinguish from it's movements when it's just moving around.

[Syro System]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ragnaman:

Try lobbing fireballs at it and dont engage in melee

"Except I'm in melee range and swing at him with a sword,"

yeah this, stop that

gotta love how people tell you to not keep your distance AND tell you to keep your distance at the same time.

[jasonbarron]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Syro System:

Oprindeligt skrevet af jasonbarron:

The trick to killing bosses isn't to out tank them by boosting your hp pool, you'll always find bosses that can wipe you out no matter how many points you invest in vigor. The trick is once you get your Vigor to a reasonable level, around 30, go hard on your primary damage scaling stat, upgrade your primary weapon, equip talismans that are actually helpful and if you're an average player level your one favorite summon.

Every level you climb generally boosts many/most of your resistance stats which is far more useful than raw hp because you're getting hit for less damage, and if you get those resistance boosts while also increasing your damage dealing capacity you're going to get the fight finished faster without standing around being some bosses punching bag.

Again, if you're an average player and want to crutch on summons there's no shame. Summon, then focus on dodging until boss aggros on him then chug flasks, go for punishing strikes etc

Yes I know all of this (and it's also obvious even if you haven't played a souls game before).
I'm saying the problem is the fact that the boss is a gigantic mess of a model that moves way to damn fast for it's size and who's tells are almost impossible to distinguish from it's movements when it's just moving around.

If it was so "obvious" you wouldn't have started a thread dedicated to complaining about an easy boss whipping your ass.

[Darqion]

I dont find those bosses THAT hard, but putting that spazzy and big prick in such a small room is a crime in and of it self. I beat it relatively easily, BUT i had no idea what was going on. It was not a fun experience

[Sabaithal]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Darqion:

I dont find those bosses THAT hard, but putting that spazzy and big prick in such a small room is a crime in and of it self. I beat it relatively easily, BUT i had no idea what was going on. It was not a fun experience

Perfect representation of life therefore.

[Ulmace]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Sabaithal:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Darqion:

I dont find those bosses THAT hard, but putting that spazzy and big prick in such a small room is a crime in and of it self. I beat it relatively easily, BUT i had no idea what was going on. It was not a fun experience

Perfect representation of life therefore.

as is often the case in these games

[Syro System]

Oprindeligt skrevet af jasonbarron:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Syro System:

Yes I know all of this (and it's also obvious even if you haven't played a souls game before).
I'm saying the problem is the fact that the boss is a gigantic mess of a model that moves way to damn fast for it's size and who's tells are almost impossible to distinguish from it's movements when it's just moving around.

If it was so "obvious" you wouldn't have started a thread dedicated to complaining about an easy boss whipping your ass.

The fact that you aren't suppose to tank a boss' hits is as bog standard as it gets in any game ever made so yea, that is obvious.
The problem isn't what you're suppose to do, it's HOW you're suppose to do it. Something that this boss is an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥ about with it's spazzing out no matter what it does.

[Noquid]

I think the OP is talking about the centipede-looking tree spirit in the bottom of some dungeon (can't remember which). Kicked my butt, I left and will go back later if I ever find it again. And btw, if I had one complaint (other than dying all the time) about Souls games is you have to have a walkthrough up all the time otherwise you miss some item that you have to hit the secret door, turn left at the rock that looks like a bear, dodge roll into dragon's butt and grab the item from his colon.

[jasonbarron]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Syro System:

Oprindeligt skrevet af jasonbarron:

If it was so "obvious" you wouldn't have started a thread dedicated to complaining about an easy boss whipping your ass.

The fact that you aren't suppose to tank a boss' hits is as bog standard as it gets in any game ever made so yea, that is obvious.
The problem isn't what you're suppose to do, it's HOW you're suppose to do it. Something that this boss is an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥ about with it's spazzing out no matter what it does.

So quit talking and go beat it Mr. Obvious.

[Ulmace]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Noquid:

I think the OP is talking about the centipede-looking tree spirit in the bottom of some dungeon (can't remember which). Kicked my butt, I left and will go back later if I ever find it again. And btw, if I had one complaint (other than dying all the time) about Souls games is you have to have a walkthrough up all the time otherwise you miss some item that you have to hit the secret door, turn left at the rock that looks like a bear, dodge roll into dragon's butt and grab the item from his colon.

all you need is to just, look around

[Syro System]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ulmace:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Noquid:

I think the OP is talking about the centipede-looking tree spirit in the bottom of some dungeon (can't remember which). Kicked my butt, I left and will go back later if I ever find it again. And btw, if I had one complaint (other than dying all the time) about Souls games is you have to have a walkthrough up all the time otherwise you miss some item that you have to hit the secret door, turn left at the rock that looks like a bear, dodge roll into dragon's butt and grab the item from his colon.

all you need is to just, look around

yes, and when an NPC moves to a new location, you aint finding it again unless you stumble upon it through sheer luck because nothing indicates where it went.