wtf is seath

[w h a t !]

went in to room couldnt even attack him, died. ♥♥♥♥ this game wtf

[w h a t !]

oh

[Groen90]

Mandatory death, don't worry.

[sekai]

Yeah you have to die to him on your first encounter, he was invincible there for a reason which you'd find out about why later.

In Seath's first encounter, the fog door is actually 2 directional (the only bi-directional boss fog door in this game), so you can just leave, but you have to come back to die at some point in order to proceed. Have your Ring of Sacrifice equiped so you don't have to come back to pick up your souls.

It's not the best boss encounter, it fact that's a little lazily designed but hey whatever. The worse part is still the Crystal Cave you'd about to visit after Duke's Archive.

[w h a t !]

Originally posted by Groen90:

Mandatory death, don't worry.

so I just lost 20k souls huh. rip

[Groen90]

Well if you don't die again, you can go back and pick them up.
But 20k souls are nothing so just... screw that, who cares

[sekai]

Originally posted by samuelhowden:

Originally posted by Groen90:

Mandatory death, don't worry.

so I just lost 20k souls huh. rip

You can go back to the room to pick up the souls after you've made it out of the dungeon you're currently in since one of the shelves that was originally blocking you from accessing the rest of the archive would be opened and you can walk to the previous section from there.

Seath would remain in that place you just met him until you trigger the cut scene in Crystal Cave so if you want to pick up your souls right away you'd have to face him in the exact same spot once more. But as I've said above, the fog door is 2 directional, so just walk in, pick up whatever you'd dropped there and get out.

[Sage]

you will get hundreds of thousands of souls later, don't worry

[Pirate]

If you die and do not repawn at the last bonfire you rested at, then it was a scripted encounter used to both show you a taste of what you are up against and to get you to a new location for a specific experience (a jail break of sorts in this case)... but why were you in jail instead of just killed? Why, to be experimented on of course. ;)

If you were online, you should have seen a bunch of messages before the fog saying "need ring" and "beware of curse" or the like. In this case the ring they are refering to is a ring of sacrifice, so you can keep your souls and (depending on the ring) prevent cursed status.

But yeah, it can be a shocker to enter a scripted no-win fight at this point in the game, but there it is. You will get that 20k back with interest very quickly though. Good luck! :)

[majikthise.uk]

TBH you should just wear the rare ring to prevent curse, or just a base ring and take off your armour to die faster without curse.

As others have said it's a scripted death it's also unusual in terms of a boss fight as it's the only fog gate you can actually run back out of it, this was proberbly done so you can prepare for it.

As for why he is invunrable an NPC will tell you why that is the case later in the Archives

[❤ FL☰☰K⬤]

Didn't you find it a bit curious that you respawned at a waypoint which wasn't the one at which you last rested? I considered that my first hint!

[♫Doctor Diddlerino♫]

I don't understand how you guys managed to get cursed, anyways. I find that Seath's curse aspect rather easy to avoid.

[w h a t !]

Originally posted by 12 GUYS IN TRUCKS (DOWNTOWN):

Didn't you find it a bit curious that you respawned at a waypoint which wasn't the one at which you last rested? I considered that my first hint!

ha no i made this post before i respawned i was so mad.

[Groen90]

Originally posted by samuelhowden:

Originally posted by 12 GUYS IN TRUCKS (DOWNTOWN):

Didn't you find it a bit curious that you respawned at a waypoint which wasn't the one at which you last rested? I considered that my first hint!

ha no i made this post before i respawned i was so mad.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=598027962

[sekai]

Originally posted by ☣Fear☣:

I don't understand how you guys managed to get cursed, anyways. I find that Seath's curse aspect rather easy to avoid.

You can get cursed rather easily if you encounter him in Crystal Cave.

But not so much in the Archives.

[♫Doctor Diddlerino♫]

Originally posted by Blue World:

Originally posted by ☣Fear☣:

I don't understand how you guys managed to get cursed, anyways. I find that Seath's curse aspect rather easy to avoid.

You can get cursed rather easily if you encounter him in Crystal Cave.

But not so much in the Archives.

The crystal caves is what I was referring to. I remember curse being a non-factor in that fight.