The Slave Knight epitomizes everything wrong with DS3.

[Nathanx42]

Hyper Armor
Each attack taking >500 HP, no matter the armor you're wearing
Attacks that go through shields

Parry windows with less than 20 activation frames

Oh no, rolling is bad and not usable either. Chain attacks mean you can't even escape. Screw that.

Gonna wait for the obvious git gud comments but you have to be blind to see that this is unfun garbage of DLC.

[Quickshooter]

untrue, his attacks a mix of physical fire and dark
just use the shield of the want
hyper armor? that's every boss in the game

[gackie]

You seem to be the only one having a real problem with him, so it looks like it might just be you.

[GrayHound]

Git gud.
Seriously, though, I can roll through everything pretty easily (far easier than with SoC/Pontiff). I can also tank the whole fight on NG+5. Plus he has little to no HA compared to other bosses, you can actually stunlock him with the paired UGS, which you can't with other bosses.

[TyresTyco]

At start you are kinda right. But everything is easy to dodge. At low hp .. his combo attack with flying bolts is a bit tricky.. but tbh.. panic roll works wonders against that.

Also the Greatshield with the most balance works wonders. I defeated him with only dodging without shield.. and without dodge and greatshield. Both is doable.

Both bosses... midir and gael.. a lot of attacks can be dodged with just walking backwards. Try it.

[Hunubul]

I beat him seconds try because he's so easy to dodge. In the second try I only got hit twice, because my dodge was either a little bit too soon or a bit too late. Both in second phase, because of his red skull ghost version of his attacks. Oh and once I accidentally walked into a lightning. But that's it.

And no, I don't mean that I'm so good. I mean it's so easy that even I could kill him second try. I don't like boss fights, but Gael did not annoy me at all. Midir on the other hand...

[nooblet]

What ♥♥♥♥ are you smoking, all of his attacks are very telegraphed and you can literally stagger him in 3-4 hits with a curved greatsword.

[MundM]

Really? I found him to be one of the best fights in the whole game. All his attacks are very fair because the way they build up before he does it. Took me about 4 tries, which are 3 more then 90% of the main game bosses.

[AshenHollow]

Eh, my only problem with him was the amount of flipping health he had, or at least his defense rating, my UGS was only doing like 300 damage per swing and it's AR was 675.

[Vinyltavia]

Seriously? Am I the only one with am arbalest at level 120+ because it's cost efficient and the ranged weapon for non dex users?
People take ranged for granted especially in boss fights

[Serrassi Effect]

The OP epitomizes everything wrong with the DS3 playerbase.

Slave knight was an amazing boss fight and simply requires some skills to beat. Nothing he does is unfair and just requires to figure out his move set, when to attack and when to dodge or block.

[GrayHound]

Originally posted by Vinyltavia:

Seriously? Am I the only one with am arbalest at level 120+ because it's cost efficient and the ranged weapon for non dex users?
People take ranged for granted especially in boss fights

I beat him with arbalest, too. It makes the fight trivial.

[Cheungy]

Gael is piss ez git gud for real noob.

Midir is the hardest boss out of the 3 but still ez

[The Relentless]

i agree with everyone above. it's you who lack skills. no dark souls 3 boss is even remotely hard for any self respecting souls veteran. midir is ARGUABLY the most annoying boss in the game, with namelss king beeing a close second, and maybe elfriede beeing third ( and not even that if it wasen't a 3 stage boss fight ) but none of them is difficoult at all after memorizing the patterns. gael is soul of cinder level of difficulty, maybe slighlty higher. nothing more.

[Melusca]

Originally posted by Nathanx42:

Each attack taking >500 HP, no matter the armor you're wearing

Just use estus instead of attacking during your next opportunity?

Originally posted by Nathanx42:

Attacks that go through shields

Do you mean like this 10% HP chip damage he can do in the third phase? Do people really die from that?

Originally posted by Nathanx42:

Oh no, rolling is bad and not usable either. Chain attacks mean you can't even escape. Screw that.

You can roll through or away from every single one of his attacks, including the super telegraphed 6-hit he does in the first phase. Except if you've got 10 Endurance maybe.

I don't consider myself a very good player but I found this boss perfectly fair and he actually epitomizes everything a good DS boss battle is: learn his moveset, when to strike, what to stay clear of, or you'll get destroyed.

[Kleerex]

Using shields against bosses is a rather bad idea in DS3. You could easily get guardbroken and wrecked.