The Rotten

[Maybels]

Is this boss mandatory, because if he's not then i'm skipping Black Gulch.

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I can help to kill him. and it's important to kill him.

[myoptic]

you can kill the rotten and the other 3 great soul bosses, or farm 1 mil souls.

You also get access to one of the DLC areas behind his boss chamber.

The rotten isn't hard once you get a handle on his moveset. Its black gulch that sucks

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once servers online, feel free to invite

[Mr.Slevin13]

Its mandatory.And if you skip him, you might as well want to skip the whole game because he is a medium difficulty boss.
There are more hard and annoying to come.

[crystalgatedh]

I'd classify The Rotten as an easy difficulty boss even within Dark Souls 2 standard. Maybe I missed one of his moves, but my experience is that it slowly attacks once and then gives you ample of times to get a hit or two in. Most bosses at least attack quicker and/or more than once.

[Slaskel]

If it's the path towards the bossfight that's giving you trouble, know that there's a hidden bonfire not too far from the fog gate. I'm not going to say more unless you don't mind having the joy of exploration taken away from you.

[EXPLODENSTEIN]

If Roten gives you trouble then just forget about the rest of the game and don't even think about the DLC.

[Bricky strong]

GET HELP FROM A FRIEND

[crystalgatedh]

I'm going to assume it's the Black Gulch that's the problem and not The Rotten. Heck, in this game, the stages are almost always harder than the bosses. If it indeed is the Black Gulch, then a Raw Heavy Crossbow helped me a lot there.

Getting a million soul memory should not be hard though. I got it way before beating all greater soul bosses.

[Maybels]

Its not The Rotten thats hard its just gettingt there with the poison statues respawning everytime you die.

Originally posted by rawrk:

you can kill the rotten and the other 3 great soul bosses, or farm 1 mil souls.

You also get access to one of the DLC areas behind his boss chamber.

The rotten isn't hard once you get a handle on his moveset. Its black gulch that sucks

Why would they put the DLC areas behind what is as far as I can tell the worst area in the game? Also why would they put a mandatory boss in the massive hole in Majula?

[EXPLODENSTEIN]

Originally posted by Sir Fox III:

Its not The Rotten thats hard its just gettingt there with the poison statues respawning everytime you die.

Originally posted by rawrk:

you can kill the rotten and the other 3 great soul bosses, or farm 1 mil souls.

You also get access to one of the DLC areas behind his boss chamber.

The rotten isn't hard once you get a handle on his moveset. Its black gulch that sucks

Why would they put the DLC areas behind what is as far as I can tell the worst area in the game? Also why would they put a mandatory boss in the massive hole in Majula?

You are seriously asking this question?

[Bricky strong]

call [phone] Namco wants to hear you ask for the servers to go back up. Then summon a friend to help you.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Sir Fox III:

Its not The Rotten thats hard its just gettingt there with the poison statues respawning everytime you die.

Originally posted by rawrk:

you can kill the rotten and the other 3 great soul bosses, or farm 1 mil souls.

You also get access to one of the DLC areas behind his boss chamber.

The rotten isn't hard once you get a handle on his moveset. Its black gulch that sucks

Why would they put the DLC areas behind what is as far as I can tell the worst area in the game? Also why would they put a mandatory boss in the massive hole in Majula?

Yeah, ♥♥♥♥ that. Why put mandatory bosses across the map? ♥♥♥♥ that, boss rush modes are better. Dark Souls sucks. I can't gid gud. Ew.

[Mr.Slevin13]

Originally posted by EXPLODINSTEIN:

If Roten gives you trouble then just forget about the rest of the game and don't even think about the DLC.

Exactly this.

[Bricky strong]

I died on rotten many, many times when I firs got the game years ago. You can cheese him by running towards him in effort to get him to do his forward strike then attack and run away rinse repeat, it works if you are really having trouble.