Worst boss of Dark Souls 2

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Hi there,
i want to ask you, which of all those bosses you've killed was the worst one for you, and i don't mean the most difficult, or the boss you hate the most because he/she/it kicked your ass over and over again. i mean the boss, who just sucks, because he is no fun

my number 1 pick is the ancient dragon. the design of the boss itself is epic, however thats all positiv i can say about this fight... the arena is a boring stone-plate, the boss itself has like 4 or 5 different attacks and is slow as ♥♥♥♥. he would be one of the easiest bosses of the entire game, if from didnt do the most cheapest tactic to make a boss hard: he has a ridicolous amount of health and oneshots you. seriously from....that's just poor.
this cheap trick makes his fight extremely boring in my eyes and, even if you finally kill him, is no fun at all.
from showed with kalameet that they're able to do a funny, yet tough dragon boss, but they just failed with this one...

[El Fuerte]

Royal Rat Minority so far. Absolutely no reason to put 3 insta-toxic enemies in the boss area just for the sake of cheapness. At least is an optional boss.

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Originally posted by Bob's axes:

Dragonrider. If timed correctly he kills himself best 3 seconds of my life.
Covetous Demon. Can be killed in 20 seconds and looks disgusting and boring.
Royal Rat Garbage. Soul appease and darkfog makes the fights go for 10 seconds if that.
The Congregation. For the above reason
The Old iron king. For being such a big let down.
Guardian Dragon. You kill the damn thing before it gets up half the time

Decent boss fights.
Old Dragon Slayer.
twin Pursuers. This can be frustrating
Ancient Dragon. Doing this co-op is probably the Hardest boss in the game
Gargoyales. was awesome taking on 4 saying "how the hell am i suppose to do this" the fight lasted forever as i eventually picked them off 1 by 1
Ruin Sentinels. if your doing it at a low SL

w8 w8 w8....let me get this straight...you like the ancient dragon?
the ancient dragon is a freakin joke...he is hard indeed, but because of the cheapest of all design indeas....ridicolous amount of hp and onehit attacks. he is ridicolously slow and his entire fight is just boring is ♥♥♥♥, because he has like 4 attacks-.-

i atcually liked the guardian dragon somehow.
from your comment i read that you used magic....try those bosses with pure meele....you can't kill them within 10 sec then, because magic is pretty broken and cheap in pve.
i totally agree with the others, though i would count looking glass knight and velstadt as decent bosses aswell.

EDIT: darklurker is a decent boss aswell...forgot about him :D

[Empress Misery]

Originally posted by Swiftrunner:

i atcually liked the guardian dragon somehow.
from your comment i read that you used magic....try those bosses with pure meele....you can't kill them within 10 sec then, because magic is pretty broken and cheap in pve.
i totally agree with the others, though i would count looking glass knight and velstadt as decent bosses aswell.

There are quite a few bosses easier with melee (especially parrying) than magic.

The run i've found the easiest sio far has been the pure STR melee based. There's quite a few boses where magic attacks like soul arrows do basically no damage, but you can rush them and slash them apart with a UGS, tanking hits using the extra health and stuff gained from not spending points in lots of extra catagories. :D

[Komaru]

Throne watcher & Throne defender was more annoying than hard. Just a crappy boss desing.

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Originally posted by Empress Fluffles:

The run i've found the easiest sio far has been the pure STR melee based. There's quite a few boses where magic attacks like soul arrows do basically no damage, but you can rush them and slash them apart with a UGS, tanking hits using the extra health and stuff gained from not spending points in lots of extra catagories. :D

atleast, you can't 2 hit bosses with pure meele. you can actually kill the darklurker within less than 10 sec using pyromancy....

and that tanky thing works in ng...but in ng+ you'll get yourself killed when you try to tank away those bosses, while the easy-peasy "shoot nashandra with lightning-spears tactic" kills her without you even getting in danger and within seconds....i mean i got 30 faith right now...and i can 8-hit her using great lightning spear in ng+2???

[CatastrophicallyObesePanda]

The Old Iron King was just plain boring. Royal Rat Authority too. Scorpioness Najka was somewhat copy and paste Quelaag from DS1. Giant Lord wasn't all that fun. Neither were the throne watcher/defender, dragon riders, skeleton lords... even Vendrick

However, there were some interesting and fun ones. Like The Rotten, Mytha in the room full of poison, The Sinner... The Pursuer was legitimately fun, but that glowing stab could have used a little more range and speed.
I think my two favorites were the Looking Glass Knight and the Darklurker though. Each of those fights was rather intense and had their own "oh god, what's he doing now?" moments.

[Empress Misery]

Originally posted by Swiftrunner:

Originally posted by Empress Fluffles:

The run i've found the easiest sio far has been the pure STR melee based. There's quite a few boses where magic attacks like soul arrows do basically no damage, but you can rush them and slash them apart with a UGS, tanking hits using the extra health and stuff gained from not spending points in lots of extra catagories. :D

atleast, you can't 2 hit bosses with pure meele. you can actually kill the darklurker within less than 10 sec using pyromancy....

and that tanky thing works in ng...but in ng+ you'll get yourself killed when you try to tank away those bosses, while the easy-peasy "shoot nashandra with lightning-spears tactic" kills her without you even getting in danger and within seconds....i mean i got 30 faith right now...and i can 8-hit her using great lightning spear in ng+2???

You can't 2 hit bosses with magic either, unless you're seriously overlevelled. If you were overlevelled in melee you can 2hit bosses too. :p). For every Demon of Song, there's a Smelter Demon.

It's not so much tanking, but if you have spent a bunch of points of Faith and Int and Att, you're liely going to have much less vitality and other healthy things (like for example instead of spending 50 points in Str, you have to spend 60 in Int and 40 in ATT, so thats an extra 50 points floating aorund that can be piled into health). Meaning that your mistakes will be less of a punishment, and youll have more of everything.

Playing as Str is much much easier. Especially in PvP. You cause over 1500 hp per shot with 30 faith on a 42 faith spell? :p

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Originally posted by Empress Fluffles:

You can't 2 hit bosses with magic either, unless you're seriously overlevelled. If you were overlevelled in melee you can 2hit bosses too. :p). For every Demon of Song, there's a Smelter Demon.

It's not so much tanking, but if you have spent a bunch of points of Faith and Int and Att, you're liely going to have much less vitality and other healthy things (like for example instead of spending 50 points in Str, you have to spend 60 in Int and 40 in ATT, so thats an extra 50 points floating aorund that can be piled into health). Meaning that your mistakes will be less of a punishment, and youll have more of everything.

Playing as Str is much much easier. Especially in PvP. You cause over 1500 hp per shot with 30 faith on a 42 faith spell? :p

i played a pure meele str build, who used ultra-greatswords and greatshields, a dex-dualwield and a int-faith hybrid....and the int-faith hybrid was by far the easiest run. killing bosses within 10 sec without even getting in their hitrange. for example darklurker...for meele builds one of the hardest bosses...for caster...well go to him...use chaosstorm 2 times and he's at 10% hp or, if you'r lucky, he's dead....

[Vagrant]

Royal Rat Authority up to now. Can't set up my summon sign, so I have to go in there alone and get my ass raped by these toxic dogs and pretty much not being able to do anything at all. Great, grand ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right there.

Don't even get me started on how I ended up there and got summoned as a gray spirit to get assraped by some scumbags.

[Empress Misery]

Originally posted by Swiftrunner:

i played a pure meele str build, who used ultra-greatswords and greatshields, a dex-dualwield and a int-faith hybrid....and the int-faith hybrid was by far the easiest run. killing bosses within 10 sec without even getting in their hitrange. for example darklurker...for meele builds one of the hardest bosses...for caster...well go to him...use chaosstorm 2 times and he's at 10% hp or, if you'r lucky, he's dead....

You don't think the boss of a covenant intended for magic/hex users (theres no real point joining as a melee) isn't going to be easier, when likely intended to be fought with magic? :p

[M0S5Y.ctn]

Royal Rat Authority for me. I don't mind the little rats, but the thing itself is just a worse version of Sif. His model is way too big, his moves are annoying, the camera is going ape wether you're using lock-on or not, and he can trap you in a corner from where you cannot escape anymore.

After that it's the Prowling Magus/Congregation and Covetous Demon because they are mind-numbingly dull.

[y u do dis Fromsoft?]

Originally posted by Empress Fluffles:

You don't think the boss of a covenant intended for magic/hex users (theres no real point joining as a melee) isn't going to be easier, when likely intended to be fought with magic? :p

there is a point...i like fighting the darklurker with a meele char. it's fun to fight him aslong as you don't use cheap tactics. and fun is in my eyes the most important point of a game...when it's fun i do it (this counts atleast for pve). but killing every boss without any chance of dying (casters) is no fun at all and easy

[Empress Misery]

Originally posted by Swiftrunner:

there is a point...i like fighting the darklurker with a meele char. it's fun to fight him aslong as you don't use cheap tactics. and fun is in my eyes the most important point of a game...when it's fun i do it (this counts atleast for pve). but killing every boss without any chance of dying (casters) is no fun at all and easy

Without summons, which boss gives you no chance to be killed as a caster? Loads of bosses can't hit you if you know how to parry and have a 100% physical resist sheild. :D

[kakoka]

Covetous Demon or Ruin Sentinels.They are just terrible.

[subs]

All of them are bad/ rehashes besides dark lurker