witch of the lake HELP

[4coursemil]

What's the best equipment for this fight? As a knight, she completely ripped through my armor and shield. Switched to paladin armor for now, what's the best shield?

Also, how do you dodge the red ball laser attack? From what I've seen, you get hit, you get animation locked, you get f*cked.

UPDATE: I ditched the shield and managed to beat her. Dodging (and sheer dumb luck) was the key!

[Spectral B4dger]

If you have Ashen Effigy Greatshield use it. then sacrifice to the RNGods, pray and roll, roll and pray.

[clcman]

The Witch has a... reputation for a reason. Pretty much everything she has is Arcane or Lightning damage, so try to find armor that counteracts that. Really, though, the key is to avoid getting hit by her super attacks, so switching down to a lower-weight armor set to be more mobile is often a smart choice. Consider dropping the shield entirely so that you can better two-hand a fast-swinging, long-reach weapon like a greatsword.

I believe the Witch is weak to Holy damage (like pretty much everything is), so that's something to try. She's also weak to Fire and Slash. The prayer Ethereal Intervention (I think that's the name - it's the version of Divine Armor for magic) will help you a bit if you can cast it. Even if you're not the best mobility fighter, use the Dart Brand's air dash power to keep away from her. Most of her attacks other than the lighting laser thing can be dodged by simply jumping over them.

The first time I beat her, I used the weapon charm that adds heavy poison to attacks while also poisoning you, and that worked pretty well, since the poison kept burning through her HP even while she was flying out of my reach.

Overall, the Witch is meant to encourage you to mix things up and use a different style than with previous bosses. That said, I also beat her on New Game Plus with a fully upgraded set of Titan Armor and the Iron Rampart.

[!?!]

Equip the merchants armor for arcane resist and get the magic resist buff if you haven't already so you can survive 1 mistake.
She doesn't like fire and holy so put those on your weapon.

I do not understand your concept of "shield" since I never use those so I can't help you with that.
Dodgerolling does the trick... until she flies off-screen and does her barrage thing leaving you no room to dodge to in which case you just lose and have to try again.

A mage destroys her in 5 seconds using fire attacks btw.

[clcman]

Originally posted by chris:

Dodgerolling does the trick... until she flies off-screen and does her barrage thing leaving you no room to dodge to in which case you just lose and have to try again.

If the Witch goes offscreen, run as far as you can in the opposite direction as fast as possible. All of her attacks have a limited range, so if you can get far enough without being smote, you can lure her back into view.

(It's generally a good idea to stay in the middle so that she won't drift offscreen... much.)