Is it just me or is the Curse Rotted Greatwood boss pretty tough at the beginning of the game.

[Skull]

I know, unpopular opinion, but I've been playing Dark Souls 3 for a while now and I only ever see posts about the Curse Rotted Greatwood being stupid easy and overall a bad boss fight. I will agree with the bad boss fight part but I seem to struggle with this boss every time I start a new game. Like Pontiff Sulyvahn is easier imo because at least you can parry him into the 10th dimension. Maybe it's because it's attacks have such a big AOE and that the grab attack is really hard to time for me for some reason idk.

Edit: Nevermind it was just me being bad at upgrading my stats correctly, been doing different builds recently but did this as a knight with 19 vigor and 2 phantoms and it literally was a cake walk.

[Sack Sleigher]

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I can quite literally do this boss fight with an unupgraded dagger and 3 phantoms sitting in a corner, it's that easy.

[Scaryowl]

he's "difficult" in that it attacks so infrequently that you might get hit while you blow up his testicles.
and its also has annoying moves that take a million years to end that protect its weak points

[Scheneighnay]

It's easy if you bring a ranged weapon, but still tedious.

In the second stage, you never have to be in front of it (and it's easy to stay behind it) if you swatted all of the weakspots correctly.