Sister Friede

[Abaddon]

That was ABSOLUTELY the best boss fight I've had in the whole series, including Demon souls. I died like 25 times, every attack was so epic (except the first phase, that's just boring and probably meant to peel some estus from the player before the real deal).

Seriously, 10/10 From for this DLC. Mazes, hard enemies, tough bosses cool AF weapons, slabs and every item can be picked from the ground (except armors, you need to loot some armor sets dammit).

Awesome. Period.

[BeefoTheBold]

I feel like the tracking on her invisibility attack is a little to much given she has three stages.

Even knowing it is coming it is really hard to evade because you can roll and she'll just spin around and catch you with that two part attack anyway.

Maybe I just don't have the timing on it down yet. Or maybe it's because I'm playing on New Game++ but this is the only boss in a while that I'm having a hard time soloing.

[Washing Machine]

Down she goes. Pras the Lightning Blade'd Lothric Knight Greatsword. Phase2 Father takes huge damage from zap and can be nonstop visceraled. Heal him all you want toots, I'm outdpsing you.

[SOLOMON]

Messaggio originale di BeefoTheBold:

I feel like the tracking on her invisibility attack is a little to much given she has three stages.

Even knowing it is coming it is really hard to evade because you can roll and she'll just spin around and catch you with that two part attack anyway.

Maybe I just don't have the timing on it down yet. Or maybe it's because I'm playing on New Game++ but this is the only boss in a while that I'm having a hard time soloing.

Quick tip- stay close to her as much as you can. When she goes invisible, you can still see her when you're nearby.

That said, as soon as she goes invisible she'll jump to a different location so if you're close you can actually see the direction she moves too- follow her, find her and hit her, this completely negates the invis attack as it knocks her out of stealth immediately.

[BeefoTheBold]

Messaggio originale di Severen:

Messaggio originale di BeefoTheBold:

I feel like the tracking on her invisibility attack is a little to much given she has three stages.

Even knowing it is coming it is really hard to evade because you can roll and she'll just spin around and catch you with that two part attack anyway.

Maybe I just don't have the timing on it down yet. Or maybe it's because I'm playing on New Game++ but this is the only boss in a while that I'm having a hard time soloing.

Quick tip- stay close to her as much as you can. When she goes invisible, you can still see her when you're nearby.

That said, as soon as she goes invisible she'll jump to a different location so if you're close you can actually see the direction she moves too- follow her, find her and hit her, this completely negates the invis attack as it knocks her out of stealth immediately.

Appreciate the tip. Just managed to beat her by a combination of being ultra aggressive in the first phase to defeat her invisibility, ignoring her completely in the second phase in favor of lighting attacking father and then continuously going for the backstab and trapping her back against a wall in the third phase.

Probably a bit harder than it otherwise might have been given I'm playing on New Game++ but I finally managed it.

She's definitely one of the tougher bosses in the series. Died more than a few times on her.

Another tip that helped was going in unkindled and using an ember for extra healing in the first phase to conserve estus.

[Mepho]

Messaggio originale di Washing Machine:

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Unlike Priscilla she's not fully invisible, you can see her when close enough.
If you watch her animation you can see the direction of the jump, but easier yet you can see where she lands as she raises dust (and even breaks object).
You can catch her in her chargin animation and stagger the attack.

P.S.
For extra context on my previous post it took me something less than 20 minutes to get her. Got to phase 3 only in first and last try, curiously.

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Oh it's been already said, should have read to end.

[Metric Guard]

Messaggio originale di Infighter:

Friede is nightmare for Strength and heavy weapons in general.

Her frostbite, evasion, and in addition that your stamina is depleted so fast with str weapon and you can roll only like once, makes this boss bit stupid for str, imo

I personally never had too tough of a time with my Zweihander character, not even with the third phase. Sure I died more than 20 times (more than I did when first fighting Nameless King), but once you get used to the attack pattern, it's not that hard.

Father Ariandel in particular is obviously meant for heavy weapon characters to fight, so focusing on him during the second phase makes the fight a lot easier.

[Washing Machine]

Messaggio originale di Mepho:

You can catch her in her chargin animation and stagger the attack.

Fo sho? I tried that once and she just poised through my swing like it ain't no thang.

Giant mutt boss seems more annoying. Reminds me too much of Sulyvahn beasts aka the-camera-is-the-real-boss-you-can't-see-wtf-is-going-on-with-this-giant-ass-on-screen-and-crap-everywhere.

[Infighter]

Messaggio originale di MuteGuardian7:

Messaggio originale di Infighter:

Friede is nightmare for Strength and heavy weapons in general.

Her frostbite, evasion, and in addition that your stamina is depleted so fast with str weapon and you can roll only like once, makes this boss bit stupid for str, imo

I personally never had too tough of a time with my Zweihander character, not even with the third phase. Sure I died more than 20 times (more than I did when first fighting Nameless King), but once you get used to the attack pattern, it's not that hard.

Father Ariandel in particular is obviously meant for heavy weapon characters to fight, so focusing on him during the second phase makes the fight a lot easier.

Zweihander isn't a Str weapon

[Mepho]

Messaggio originale di Washing Machine:

Messaggio originale di Mepho:

You can catch her in her chargin animation and stagger the attack.

Fo sho? I tried that once and she just poised through my swing like it ain't no thang.

I think I even backstabbed her during it a couple times. Will get back to you has I have 2 5mins shadowplays of the fight.

Much later in the night tho.

[Washing Machine]

Messaggio originale di Mepho:

Messaggio originale di Washing Machine:

Fo sho? I tried that once and she just poised through my swing like it ain't no thang.

I think I even backstabbed her during it a couple times. Will get back to you has I have 2 5mins shadowplays of the fight.

Much later in the night tho.

Ye I landed parries and stabs on her prty easy, but the few times I attempted to just wait until she does the swing and smack her out of it when she comes, she just tanked the hit. NG+2 if that affects it.

So the wolf boss doesn't let you have fun with faith builds either.
Game, you gave me buffs to use. LET ME USE THEM. STOP GIVING ME MULTI PHASE BOSSES AND THEN NEVER GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECAST.

Ooo Mutt can be visceral'd. Good life.
Ya ain't no Sif you stupid frost breath dog, get outta here.

[Metric Guard]

Messaggio originale di Infighter:

Zweihander isn't a Str weapon

http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Zweihander

Requires 19 STR, 11 DEX. At +10 it has C scaling for STR, D scaling for DEX.

Yep, totally not a STR weapon.

[Infighter]

Messaggio originale di MuteGuardian7:

Messaggio originale di Infighter:

Zweihander isn't a Str weapon

http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Zweihander

Requires 19 STR, 11 DEX. At +10 it has C scaling for STR, D scaling for DEX.

Yep, totally not a STR weapon.

It's a quality weapon, you dummy

[N33T_1337]

Since when was I fighting a Kingdom Hearts boss in Dark Souls 3?

[Abaddon]

I see many people are having trouble, I'll leave my tips:

- Phase 1: Stay at range, wait for the invisible jump, track her down looking where the snow flies to (reminds me of crossbreed priscilla, where you had to use snow to see her paws), you can see where she goes and smack her before she can do the grab. I didn't get hit more than once if I was very sloppy, or if I would stay in melee to her combos, quite a mixup.

- Phase 2: Basically focus fire the big guy, backstab her when she tries to heal, critical hit the giant once you stun him. Easy game.

- Phase 3: Pray you don't get hit by the snake + combo, or the crash + followup because those are pretty close to instakills. Pound her as soon as you connect a hit.

Pro tip: The helper phantom is only good if you aggresively help him, don't let him tank damage if you can help it.

[DarkFenix]

Why are people complaining about time to re-buff? The beginning of both the second and third phases are slow and calm enough that I had plenty of time to renew all 3 of my buffs without running the risk of being hit.

Phase 1 and 3 are just about learning her patterns, very much a typical challenge for the series, albeit one that requires better timing and endurance than 99% of it.

Phase 2 can be nasty, since two bosses always have the chance that their patterns will overlap badly and put you in a position where you can't possibly evade. That's where the NPC phantom can come in, let him distract Friede while you go 100% aggression on Ariandel. The NPC won't survive the last stage so will probably make it harder, but if you do a bit of phantoming for others you can get a lot of free observation on all her moves, once you've seen her do them a few times from different angles you'll realise they're a lot easier than they look to dodge.

But yeah, I'm not sure if this was the best boss fight in the series, but it's certainly right up there with the best. Extremely difficult without being cheesy or unfair, fantastic animation (I just wish the player could do even half of that ♥♥♥♥ with the scythe) and again some nice evoked memories of DS1.