Poise breaking Darklurker

[Crombell]

So I've wasted about 15 human effigies (all I have) on both reaching the darklurker, and then throwing my limp body at him and himself.

What I'm getting at is, I have read that you can poise break him to avoid him splitting into two. I really wanna do that, because his double fireballs and dark orbs make me cry. A lot.

I want to know if my weapon has enough poise break to make his cloning cancel out, and I don't have a whole lot more effigies to waste (though there are a few merchants I haven't plundered yet), so I can't really experiment a lot.

So far when I have hit him, he hasn't even been batting his nonexistant eyelids. But I am wondering if it is easier when he is trying to split up?

I'm using a crypt blacksword +5

[Zeto]

Should work fine

[Beel]

Man I haven't even tried that covenant or boss.

What's the reward for him? (or Boss Soul)

[Muffanzo]

get the stone ring you should be able to do it, supposedly double giant club is the way to go, I just cheesed it with firestorm when he split.

[cooperman]

Mace's/hammer type weapons do huge amounts of poise dmg (even if an enemy has a great sheld up)

[Crombell]

Originally posted by Beel:

Man I haven't even tried that covenant or boss.

What's the reward for him? (or Boss Soul)

Darklurker's soul, which you can trade for the hex called "Lifedrain patch".

You also get the high tier hex "Climax" from the covenant master, but even if I have all the souls in the world, I'm not too interested in that.

[Beel]

Oh. Hexes.

*Avoids it like the plague