HARDEST BOSS IN DARKSOULS 2 SOTFS

[Beermancer]

I think Darklurker is the hardes ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss i beat him once but that was so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard now im playing ng+ and that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss taking blood from my ass is there any way to beat him easily or is there any way to stop him while he is cloning himself and can anyone tell me why darklurker is hardest boss even nashandra or aldia...

[Zann]

If you can, cast Profound still. It will trivialize the boss.

If you can't, stack elemental resistances from robes (they usually have the highest) and rings, particularly dark and fire. This will nerf his damage a lot.

[PvH]

Pyromancy.

[TrueArchery]

Dark Rebel Shield.
B-button for the fireballs (for running to the side of course, dodging is lame and so 2014).

A handful spells, doesn't matter which magic school.

Boom, trivialized.

[Megaweapon]

Darklurker is weak to fire and lightning, (but more weak to fire), also all his attacks are dark.
So , get a weapon like smelter sword or heide spear, and get some pyromancies, and also if you have the stats for it, use profound still.

[Sareth]

Originally posted by PvH:

Pyromancy.

Lightning also.
Great Lightning Spears will absolutely ruin his day.
You can stagger him while he's cloning, but it's not all that helpfull. He'll try to do so again any given moment.
Great Magic Barrier can help migitate the damage even further.

It's an optional boss and many of the optional / DLC bosses are a lot harder than the story bosses. Nashandra especially is a cakewalk... Aldia isn't much of a threat either.

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

A handful spells, doesn't matter which magic school.

You say that... then there's hexes. Don't use hexes. Any other (i.e. magic, miracles, pyro) will work.

[Sunny Top]

The hardest boss is technically Remmie, but in fact it's Elana, 'cause she generates intense dynamic combat situations instead of having some easy to remember attack patterns.

The darklurker is hard only for physical builds that are weak in ranged combat and have low magical defense.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

If you let the boss to be at its highest potential (NG+7) and yourself too (any build, any stats), definitely Elana. Either you get lucky RNG or go full glass cannon DPS race, but it's tough like hell anyway. But you won't see it usually, NG Elana is a joke, you can kill her before she finishes summoning her weapon. In that case, Darklurker is indeed one of the hardest, at least its 2nd phase.

[Vantris]

You can cheese the boss using great fire orb which you can farm in the memory of the old iron king.

[Pyramid Bread]

He also takes decent dmg from magic iirc. If you cast soul greatsword a couple times during the split you do damage to both, and soul spears can also be really good if you line up both lurkers for crazy dmg

[Carlos Danger]

Yeah, I have a full strength build, and I found Darklurker to be by far and away the toughest boss in this game (maybe even Dark Souls 1 as well). When I started Darklurker attempts, I had about 25 effigies, and by the time I killed him, I had about 4. Don't think I've ever come CLOSE to that many attempts before a first kill on any other Souls bosses.