Darkroot Basin lake -- fell through??

[The Counter of Strikes]

Am I missing something here? I was trying to get close to the hydras, they did some attack that didn't hit me, next thing I know I'm plummeting through the floor...
Some sort of glitch? Does the water have invisible pitfalls?
If so what am I supposed to do with the hydras... I was planning on running close and baiting out heads then hitting them after they stagger.

[L9 dorothea]

theres a pit in the water, you need to use ranged attacks from the beach

[The Counter of Strikes]

edit: to avoid spamming... I think you're right, I was going way too close. I'll leave my initial reply below.

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I think I was eaten actually lol... since I could run all the way up to them, then only after an attack I bascially disappeared... pretty sure it's some sort of 1 hit ko move... Honestly I'm not sure. I'm running both rusted iron and havel's for max movespeed.

[Lumina]

There are two safe spots to wait for the hydra's attack until it puts down the heads.
Either go a bit into the water and stay close to the item there. Or wait behind the rock close to the beach ( there you need a shield to block the ranged attacks).
You can cut off the most heads with melee weapons, but don't go to far into the water.
For the last head you should use some ranged attacks, firebombs, bow....

[Clail]

You can melee the hydra, in fact I prefer it to ranged spam as it's easier to block their heads than their projectiles. Just watch very carefully for the deep end.

[yds]

What Lumina said. Hydra stopped being a problem at all for me once I started staying at the item. No ranged attacks and the heads are easy to block. Also agree that for the last head ranged attacks are best, because it never goes near the item.

If you have rusted iron ring, wear it. Would make the fight much easier.

[The Counter of Strikes]

I wanted to be a cavalier and ran up to it, trying to bait out the heads and going in close so it couldnt fire the water shots at me.

But ya, really cool fight once I realized what was going on.

[CB]

i wonder if maybe the hydra did the launch-heads-at-player attack and one of them maybe forced you down through the floor.

[The Counter of Strikes]

Originally posted by CB:

i wonder if maybe the hydra did the launch-heads-at-player attack and one of them maybe forced you down through the floor.

I think what happened was either I rolled off (since I walked up pretty much underneath them), or during one for the attacks it hit me and knocked me closer into the pit. I didn't know I could stand so far back which is how I eventually beat it,

[CB]

my thing is you said 'plummeting through the floor.' i would ask you to describe it a bit further. like did you fall for a longer time than you'd expect? this game uses kill planes to terminate players before they fall below the map and have to wait a minute before the game auto-kills them. it might not be a minute. but if you find yourself stuck in a falling animation you will suddenly die and that is why. how long did it take?

[Apathy]

Like others have said the lake has a pit in it that is a death drop. The Hydra can swim over it but you can't, so it knocked you into it and you died. You can either fight him on the shore as suggested or use the nearby ladder to climb up and shoot Greatbow Arrows at it's heads.

I'm not sure why no one ever suggests sniping it with Great Bow arrows anymore. I suppose you could use a bow and Hawk ring as an alternative if you're not on a quality build.

[The Counter of Strikes]

Falling into that pit has fond memories. I ended up fighting the footclan in the anor londo church, and made the mistake of examining the giant painting, and now I fell into that with no way out -- I couldn't resist touching the bonfire then realized my mistake.