Is the Abiding Defender fight supposed to be an endless slog?

[Autre31415]

I've been having a lot of fun with this game so far and basically whipping through the bosses without too much trouble until I got to these. For some reason their health seems out of control for being a double fight with a revival gimmick. In my best attempts it takes me like 5+ minutes to kill the first one, and then I only have 30 or so seconds to land a couple hits on the second before the revival happens.

I'm sure I'm not playing all that great, I take hits and miss parries here and there, but man it's like an endurance challenge of having to play as good as possible for 10 minutes in hopes I don't get some bad sword pattern that ends the run. Been stuck on this one for days.

[Redeemer]

Its a bit of a puzzle; The key is when the one goes down, wail on the other as much as you can. Once you get the 2nd one's health really low, once you down the 1st one, the 2nd should go down and you win. Took me a min my 1st time to figure that out also.

With the HP reductions now, they go down WAY WAY faster than ever before.. I dont like it honestly. Like, yes, the fight was a dog slog before, but now its a stroll in the park blindfolded..

[Autre31415]

I did end up beating it. I got a very good pattern on the second one after downing the first one and was able to take a lot of health out so I only needed to down the first one more time.

It's wild to me that this was post nerf, the health pool on this boss is dramatically higher than anything I fought so far, I really had to wail on them to get them down, and even in my winning attempt it was over 5 minutes of fighting to knock them out. Maybe I'm underleveled or something, I'm level 45 with a +5 weapon, but it's not like I haven't taken every opportunity to level at this point.