How the F*** do you beat the toad prince?

[Mattee]

This boss is ridiculously hard, harder than anything else in this game by far. Any tips on how to make this fight a bit simpler on death march? Builds, poisons, etc.

EDIT:
I just beat it by speccing into igni melt armor and quen shield bubble. The melt armor igni actually does quite a lot of damage if you hit him with a quick burst and then a sword attack, then when he throws all the poison on the ground you can use bubble quen to walk into it and regen health rapidly. Using this tactic I beat him in about 2 minutes.

[newman]

I just used Northern Wind on him. I didn't really have any problems with him at all.

[thedruidknights]

i used the shield power. I then used fire power. My best swrod and armor. It did take a while

[Mattee]

Really? Both northern wind and igni don't seem to do anything to him for me.

[bukkie661]

Golden Oriole is your friend. The toad gets physically trapped in Yrden. Two free attacks as he fights to break free.

[Trackur]

use advanced golden oriel so poison heals you and just stick and move. I am playing on Death march and it took a long time but was by no means difficult.

[Mark]

I feel you, death march NG+, this thing is by far the hardest boss of the game (till now)
Those quick jumps are annoying the crap out of me, I get killed in 3 hits and it looks like I'll need 50 or more to kill it
It also breaks the sh** out of my quen

[bukkie661]

Originally posted by Markinho:

I feel you, death march NG+, this thing is by far the hardest boss of the game (so far)
Those quick jumps are annoying the crap out of me, I get killed in 3 hits and it looks like I'll need 50 or more to kill it
It also breaks the sh** out of my quen

Pop Yrden and roll to kite the toad in it. Yrden traps him locked into place for a 2 attack window. As the toad indeed breaks Quen, it's pointless to waste stamina casting it. Use Yrden instead.

[Mark]

I know, but that stays quite hard, as soon as I get close that thing jumps and takes a good chunk of my life, half of the yrdens just miss because of that. Plus my build is adrenaline-centric, I never ever used signs in this playthrough and now I'm forced to revisit the whole thing
Thank god for golden oriel, if I had to deal with poison too... I can't even imagine that

[bukkie661]

Originally posted by Markinho:

I know, but that stays quite hard, as soon as I get close that thing jumps and takes a good chunk of my life, half of the yrdens just miss because of that. Plus my build is adrenaline-centric, I never ever used signs in this playthrough and now I'm forced to revisit the whole thing
Thank god for golden oriel, if I had to deal with poison too... I can't even imagine that

Yeah, you know how it is with games that have 'freedom', devs like to show off everything that they included so there will be bosses that need a cookie-cutter build you didn't pick.

[z_King]

Originally posted by Markinho:

I feel you, death march NG+, this thing is by far the hardest boss of the game (till now)
Those quick jumps are annoying the crap out of me, I get killed in 3 hits and it looks like I'll need 50 or more to kill it
It also breaks the sh** out of my quen

hahhaha then you justwait to see thougher bosses that makes you wish to fight that toad again even though the toad is a hard boss

[Mark]

Originally posted by z_King:

hahhaha then you justwait to see thougher bosses that makes you wish to fight that toad again even though the toad is a hard boss

I played enough Dark Souls to believe what you're saying

Originally posted by Merdakah:

Yeah, you know how it is with games that have 'freedom', devs like to show off everything that they included so there will be bosses that need a cookie-cutter build you didn't pick.

It's certainly doable with a pure combat build, but I'll need a lot more familiarity with its patterns, it might be faster to adapt myself

[Mark]

Oh, any idea what oil, if any, is effective here?
I have something like 5 oil specific skills equipped, if that's useless I'll just throw some different buffs in there

[bukkie661]

Originally posted by Markinho:

Originally posted by z_King:

hahhaha then you justwait to see thougher bosses that makes you wish to fight that toad again even though the toad is a hard boss

I played enough Dark Souls to believe what you're saying

Originally posted by Merdakah:

Yeah, you know how it is with games that have 'freedom', devs like to show off everything that they included so there will be bosses that need a cookie-cutter build you didn't pick.

It's certainly doable with a pure combat build, but I'll need a lot more familiarity with its patterns, it might be faster to adapt myself

It sure is. I'm on a full combat-build too. Though I wished that I had buffed Yrden a bit. But that's actually something I noticed before. Yrden is quite helpful.

[z_King]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/481115363877762305/

maybe this will help a similar topic opened by me

[Zeretrelle]

Originally posted by Mattee:

Really? igni don't seem to do anything to him for me.

I burned him alive using igni. He could actually get burning status.. But I had like 270+ intensity + 100% burning igni upgrade.Maybe it helped.

Originally posted by Markinho:

Oh, any idea what oil, if any, is effective here?
I have something like 5 oil specific skills equipped, if that's useless I'll just throw some different buffs in there

cursed oil