How to beat those two Pursuers in Drangleic Castle NG+?

[Blackened Halo]

It seems almost impossible to me :DD

[DU-wang]

If you're going magic, you can nuke one down ridiculously fast with sun spear/GRS/etc. If you're melee, you can parry them.

If all else fails, just summon someone.

[Baron01]

I tried it a lot but I could not do it solo as melee. Even if I go turtle behind +10 Towershield with rapier or spear, I sooner or later run out of stamina from blocking or rolling away. My longest attempt was nearly 7 minuts but I only took 20% of their HP and got killed.

I normally you Dark Claymore +10 and Defender shield but that setup is useless against them. I have 36/36 INT/FTH but my spells are not doing enough damage to burn one down fast enough.

I can parry one but it is risky. Hopping for parry on two of them is just too random.

I skip them until very end of NG+ where I will be close to SL280 so I hope to prevail at that time.

[Beel]

I just stay at super low weight with a Cloranthy+2 and a spear (have to have Bracing Knuckle+2 and maybe a backup spear or theyll break)

It takes -ages-, but it works, eventually, and its safe

[Tpyn]

You can allow any of them to use the piercing attack on you. Second Pursuer will despawn. Kill the remaining one, rest at bonfire, return to the throne room and finish Pursuer who despawned earlier.

[Beel]

Originally posted by Tpyn:

You can allow any of them to use the piercing attack on you. Second Pursuer will despawn. Kill the remaining one, rest at bonfire, return to the throne room and finish Pursuer who despawned earlier.

This happened to me in NG+

Every time since (on NG+7 now) I've killed them together, but ty for the explanation of why that happened

[Nicholas Steel]

If there's a boss available at Throne of Want, just summon the NPC summon and then run back (I dunno if there is a fog wall that prevents this)..

[Zvy]

Many things work fine but Great Club seemed the most effective to me.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by Tpyn:

You can allow any of them to use the piercing attack on you. Second Pursuer will despawn. Kill the remaining one, rest at bonfire, return to the throne room and finish Pursuer who despawned earlier.

Holy cow! I'm going to try this "trick" tonight. Thanks for bringing this up.

[Archon]

Had no idea that the grab makes the second one go away. Seems like pretty big oversight on the designers part :P

I stumbled on this by accident, but you can actually fight them one by one without getting hit - what happened was that one of them started the long combo with the twirly flight at the end and i dodged it by rolling trough the door of the throne room. The other pursuer was just floating around and when he saw me exit, dissappeared in that puffy black smoke effect he does.
I got back in before the first one finished the combo, and he stayed in the fight. Killed him, rested at a bonfire, came back, and just the second one spawned, allowing for another easy one-on-one fight.

Maybe it's cheesing it, but the fight is really just tedious otherwise.

[Killerdoll]

FUGS deals around 750 dmg to them maybe thats worth a try