Shroud was my 1st BOSS

[Kangarillapig]

I was expecting this to be tough, but not this hard. I entered and immediately got his AOE bomb on my head and died. I then tried for 11 hours (yes you heard me) and failed miserably. It was non stop Root Rot gas explosions no matter where I went and his AOE bomb every 10 seconds. I even got attacked while I was at the crystal before I had even entered his arena. I made 11 trait points trying. My son who had Gorefist ? as HIS 1st boss came in, walked up to Shroud and stood there using mele hitting him for 200 damage a hit while he just stood there, killed him and said " See Dad, I told you you were doing it wrong" Kids pft.

[Mad Thumps]

Lmfao. I know that shroud fight is tough beans.

[Badmood91]

My first boss was gorefist. Died 20+ times until I finally killed him.

[Deagroth]

LOL, that's a great story thanks for sharing your experience with everyone.

[[Wahr] Eogard]

11 hours on a boss with 2 attacks ? Must be a troll

[Harry101UK]

The key for Shroud is to just KEEP MOVING. Never stop. Equip your shotgun and run like hell. Shoot him when he appears near you - repeat. I beat it Solo on Hard after about 5 tries last night, and it wasn't too bad once I realised you need to constantly move.

[Dregora]

I think the difficulty is mostly due to how much stuff it throws at you to manage. Two debuffs (bleed and infection), infection just gets in the way especially since moving is key, he constantly throws AoE's at you that force you to move and on top of all that ,adds. One of the most frustrating things for me were the fact there is unit collision, so you can't dodge through enemies, which made me scream at times.

Then I upgraded and nuked him.

[Kangarillapig]

I made a new char and once again got Shroud as my first boss. I went into the arena and killed him 1st try and only used 1 heal. Maybe I had some kind of bug because I didn't have loads of clouds of gas and didn't get AOE bombed every 5-10 seconds.

[Drae_gon]

Every boss gets a random Affix. The gas bombs that leave the spore clouds behind is the enchanter affix and it is by far the worst to get with Shroud. Then you have to dodge the root adds, gas bombs and the clouds they leave behind, plus Shrouds normal bleed attack, and finally his AoE from the sky attack. I reset my campaign after fighting him multiple times. Solo it's just too dam much and all rng based(Shroud spawning close to you) if you can beat him or not.

[Gaddo]

The Gas Bombs are just because I got unlucky? Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me... I have spent 5 hours trying to beat this boss, the AOE Root is just bs against him, so many things I have to manage to dodge.

[Tashrinbackup]

The shoud is also nerfed from when the game was released. The clouds used to come a bit faster. Was also my very first boss too and getting the enchanted version to boot.

Learn the patterns the sounds and react accordingly, you'll get her, the shroud will die.

[[DeusVult] Eisengrind]

The whole game is a piece of cake on normal. The only boss that is really annoying is Ixillis...

[Zephkiel]

Gorefist is a ♥♥♥♥♥ 1st boss 1st run. Shroud? A joke. you just have to keep moving, nothing he throws at you is hitscan, and his add might aswell not exist.
Gorefist is harder on every front, and his add are obnoxious. As a first boss, Gorefist is almost on Gundyr's level if you played DS3.

[Tashrinbackup]

Originally posted by Zephkiel:

Gorefist is a ♥♥♥♥♥ 1st boss 1st run. Shroud? A joke. you just have to keep moving, nothing he throws at you is hitscan, and his add might aswell not exist.
Gorefist is harder on every front, and his add are obnoxious. As a first boss, Gorefist is almost on Gundyr's level if you played DS3.

Gorefist I found was a walk in the park, shroud teleports, and her adds don't hurt her most of the time. While Gorefist is always trying to be in your face, making it far easier to see him coming, and even time killing his fart bags so they hurt him instead.

Much easier then a teleporting boss with explosives going off everywhere and adds that don't do much damage to each other lol.

[Shizofrend]

damn. id hate to see u try owl father boss fight in sekiro cuz this is baby mode compared to that

[Kangarillapig]

Made this post last year. But as I said I was bugged and didn't realise at the time as it was my first boss I encountered. I stuck at it and as I said it took me 11 hours. Then I started another play through, got the same Shroud and did it in a couple of minutes. Funny though.