deacons of the deep

[icon_of_sin]

a few questions about deacons of the deep

1) what are they weak/strong against - currently i have a fire sword, should i get something else?
2) thay have a dark spell which goes right thru walls. can this be interupted

[Tendril, Knight in Yellow]

In mass, they are weak to WIDE SWEEPING ATTACKS.
ZWEI

[*D4rKsKy*]

Originally posted by Tovarishch Tendril:

In mass, they are weak to WIDE SWEEPING ATTACKS.
ZWEI

FUME

[Cabbage]

Just push everyone out of the way and backstab the special ones. Since they can't hit you while backstabbing it's a pretty easy way to take them out.

[CHAO$$$]

they are really weak to being hit with anything

[Ibadgrammar]

boss pretty easy dude i can help if you want

[Disarray]

anything with a sweep attack is good. just keep hitting the possessed one in p2 and it cancels any black ♥♥♥♥ or curse they start to cast

[icon_of_sin]

do longswords havs sweep attacks

[ImHelping]

Yeah, the primary difficulty is if you have no "crowd control" so to speak.

Even a +2 raw weapon with enough size can let you clean house on the deacons. I went through with a +2 Flamberge myself.

If you don't have the stats to wield even a low stat greatsword, halberd, etc, Two handing most straight swords will give you some horizontal slash action on your R2 attacks.

As for their spells, you're better of dodging. If you can spare the time and stamina, take a few swings at anything near you (not not quite kill them) in the first phase. This way, when it transfers bodies, it's now in a guy who was already half dead.

In theory he is "Quite easy", but in practice depending on your build it can be a rough time even if you are a "better" player.

See also, Crystal sage. Gee no wonder my summon sign was grabbed by so many Archer and Sorcerer style players.

[Tendril, Knight in Yellow]

Originally posted by *D4rKy*:

Originally posted by Tovarishch Tendril:

In mass, they are weak to WIDE SWEEPING ATTACKS.
ZWEI

FUME

CHAOS INFUSION
NO CONTEST

[Mico]

The great hammer from dagon armor boss makes this fight too easy, use the weapon art 2-3 times and they all will be dead and after just follow the marked one and do the same, i use this even in ng+6 and its faceroll

[Kornelius]

I had a pretty easy time using paired weapons and the pontiff rings. Using a spinning attack in the crowd got the buffs immediately, healing any damage from the fireballs and letting me cut through the mob with fast, sweeping attacks. Not that Deacons are very hard to begin with...

[Hunubul]

If you have a problem use alluring skulls.. But you shouldn't have problems at all. It's one of the easiest bosses in the game, and that's really hard to achieve (meaning there are lot's of easy bosses). I for one didn't even know only 1 is the boss, so I just killed them all till boss died.. They attack once per minute, are weak to anything, and it's really just hitting them until they die while they do nothing.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Mico:

The great hammer from dagon armor boss makes this fight too easy, use the weapon art 2-3 times and they all will be dead and after just follow the marked one and do the same, i use this even in ng+6 and its faceroll

What's that? A "Lategame" boss soul weapon easily kills an early game boss? Nooooo.

Next you'll tell me the Sunlight spear is better than lightning spear.

[Sati44]

http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Alluring+Skull this sweet thing will murder them

Just throw the skull to the side and they will all go after it. You will have an easy acces to the current host. Rinse and repeat. And like other have said any weapon with wide swing arcs will be good but you want to swap to something that will focus the deacon once he is up.

[icon_of_sin]

Originally posted by Sati44:

http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Alluring+Skull this sweet thing will murder them:claugh:

Just throw the skull to the side and they will all go after it. You will have an easy acces to the current host. Rinse and repeat. And like other have said any weapon with wide swing arcs will be good but you want to swap to somethiong that will focus the deacon once he is up.

guessing i should save that until the 50% mark (when the target ramains the same)