I think Pieta is a little too strong for a first boss

[lElysiuM]

Im very medicore in souls games. But ive always been good enough to usually beat most of the souls games solo, some bosses sometimes take a few hours, or even days. But piete feels kinda off, its the first real boss in the game and im trying for 2 days now, i even tried to overlevel a little bit (im level 26) and i still cant kill her.

[Tassiie]

its not.
she is just annoying. i killed her by the 5. time :D

[Carlos]

2 days? Like...continuously?

I thought she's p. challenging too, needed about 15 runs at her which is a lot for me but it was mostly because I stubbornly wanted to parry everything instead of just dodging.

[Ryan]

Pieta is quite simple if you watch her and be calm during her fight. wait for openings. she will leave you with an opening to attack after a swing combo. These are usually 3 swings. When she summons those golden angels watch where they go so you don't get in their attack. Also, outside of the boss arena there are some butterflies just before the door to the left, you can summon an NPC helper here for the fight.

[ko]

Took me several tries for sure. Pretty challenging for a first boss, I agree. But it shouldn't take two days to get her moves down and learn to parry and punish.

[PostalGibbon]

Just dodge, i'm rusty as can be and beat her in first try. Last time i played souls like was elden ring. First boss really give me multiple deaths was Hushed Saint.
Atm i'm on burned city last boss killed was inferno enchantress.

[LLIaMaHa]

She is not too strong, she just teach you how to use perfect block (parry). Parry her in melee and just dodge everything else, and you will be fine. A bit boring but easy strategy to beat her

[Shinkiro]

Nah she was easy, you just need to watch and learn her parry and dodge timings of her attacks. Took 2 tries to beat her.

[LukeAGK]

I've done multiple tests on this boss with all starting classes. This is a parry check to see if you understand the parry mechanics. It will be very hard to fight her without parrying since you can stagger her with about 5-6 parries.

[Morgul]

she is a skill check. When you pass it, the worst is behind you. well for a few hours^^

[Kondra]

I haven*t beaten her yet, but she seems easy enough. Basically attack, dodge, attack, dodge. Avoid few annoying attacks and repeat.

[M.T. Fish]

Originally posted by LukeAGK:

I've done multiple tests on this boss with all starting classes. This is a parry check to see if you understand the parry mechanics. It will be very hard to fight her without parrying since you can stagger her with about 5-6 parries.

That just makes me not want to parry her. I get that they didn't want parries to be overpowered like in DS1 where you could cheese the final boss with a buckler but having to parry 5-6 times really makes it not feel worth it to me.

[Kondra]

Originally posted by LLIaMaHa:

She is not too strong, she just teach you how to use perfect block (parry). Parry her in melee and just dodge everything else, and you will be fine. A bit boring but easy strategy to beat her

You can parry in the game? Haven't learned that. I did start with Condemned ^^

[M.T. Fish]

Originally posted by Kondra:

Originally posted by LLIaMaHa:

She is not too strong, she just teach you how to use perfect block (parry). Parry her in melee and just dodge everything else, and you will be fine. A bit boring but easy strategy to beat her

You can parry in the game? Haven't learned that. I did start with Condemned ^^

It's more of a perfect block. If you block right when their attack hits it reduces how much damage you take and it damages their stance meter and eventually opens them up to a crit.

[Kondra]

Originally posted by MagnificentTunaFish:

Originally posted by Kondra:

You can parry in the game? Haven't learned that. I did start with Condemned ^^

It's more of a perfect block. If you block right when their attack hits it reduces how much damage you take and it damages their stance meter and eventually opens them up to a crit.

Good to know, but I don't think I can afford to take damage. She basicly kills me in two hits. Got her HP down to 15% so far and now im having preformace issues after latest patch :(

[LuckyRaphi]

She's definitely one of the harder first bosses, similar to Margit maybe but you can over level for him easily.

Usually at the first boss you don't understand the game and once it clicks it will become easier. She seemed very strong at first but after I tried parrying it took like 3 more tries. Dodging against her sword attacks sucks so parry it, except the last one where she slams on the ground, I could never parry that.