ITT: Post bosses that are considered very hard but for you turned out suprisingly easy.
For me pic related, I was pretty scared at first but it was more because of his reputation than how actually hard it was. I beat him in the end in maybe 5-6 times. Sure, he attacks strong but usually there is quite a bit space between so you I would just slam him with Ludwig two times charged up with physical damage blood stones.
Here's a recent. SS Isshin. I fucking loved the fight, but I managed to bring him down in about 6 tries.
Four Kings was somehow really easy to me, didn’t even think that they could be considered hard. Afterwards I made the realization that some people took more time to realize that it’s a pure damage race, and the kings don’t do that much damage on the first playthrough so you need to be aggressive as fuck.
I died 2 times to Isshin's first phase, what feels like 15 or more times on his second phase but aced his third phase first try. I don't get why he fell for the lightning meme.
I beat him 2nd try only using like 3 health vials (I forgot to do him and immediately rushed to fight on ng+) the wiki said equip all the runes for extra health vials since you *will run out*. Scrubs!
OP you're going to get called a casual fuck for using probably one of the best weapons in the game.
Well, if that's the case it's the creators fault not mine.
Found them easy as well, but they're not really considered hard. Bosses considered hard from DS1 would be ones like Manus, Artorias, Kalameet or Ornstein & Smough.
This guy can be annoying until you watch a speedrun and realise that you can just throw deku nuts at him to stun him and then jump slash him; do this just a few times and he dies.
Bloodborne DLC is considerably easier if you do it at the end of regular NG with a fully leveled character with decent gems. You can survive so much stuff and just tank the fights with all your vials. For example Ludwig's phase 2 is incredibly hard when you're underleveled or on a high NG, but most people think it's easier than the first phase because they do it effectively overlevel and just heal through all the damage. It gets insane if you're in a very high NG or if you're underlevel. And if you're BL4, it's one of the hardest fights in the game, while phase 1 is super easy with practice, regardless of the cycle or your level. It just goes to show how much Souls difficulty varies with person to person and context in general.
I beat Bloodstarved Beast on my first try by figuring out how to dodge left. It's amazing how many people still struggle with it.
You were overleveled
I beat Chained Ogre on my first try, but beat SS Isshin after 30+ tries
The Saw Cleaver/Spear is even more easy mode. I still frown on people using Ludwig's on their first playthrough however because it's a shitty boring weapon. I mean the Saws are also mindless, but at least you get to use transformation attacks which take advantage of BB's special gameplay. Ludwig's is just some unga bunga dated Souls weapon that you use in 2h and just r1 spam enemies down with insane damage and stagger from samey attacks. I actually used it on my first playthrough so I know how much more boring it makes the game. The Hunter Axe is so much more fun, since you get the charged r2 to cheese some enemies, L2s for massive damage and crowd control, good r1s and great rally, encouraging you to take advantage of that system. Ludwig's just turns everything so damn one dimensional. More than they already are, I guess.
I wasn't overlevelled for NG+
What does that even mean? Am I supposed to not level up in this game? The game is really charitible with blood echoes, you get a ton from exploration and bosses.
I'd say it's fun because it's more diverse than the Saw Cleaver. You sacridice something with going 2handed and it's not always the better option. With Lady Maria, Logarius or Gehrman it was a lot better to parry and attack them with one handed Ludwing. It's just the Orphan that had incredibly long wind-ups.
really didn't see what the big deal was
I used Ludwig's for a while but ended up using Blade of Mercy the moment i got it desu.
The endgame scythe is fun as fuck. I used the rune to get the burial blade at the begginning of a game and I loved it
nameless king is ez beat second try on blind playthrough.
yadda yadda hardest boss in derk suls 3, fucking really.
also FUCK whoever had the idea of webps
Gaping dragon, didn't get hit once
Although I think a lot of people have problems with him because fromsoft hitboxs but I was using magic.
It's really fun. Very similar to the Axe in playstyle, somewhat worse 2h, better 1h however, which is nice. It also looks and feels much cooler.
>gaping dragon
>considered hard
uhhh?
no?
Whirlgig Saw and Church Pick are more braindead
*screeches loudly*
bloodborne's bosses were fucking annoying.
>Dancer
1 try just by going around her booty
>Logarius
Bait his scythe attack in his second phase and back way when he pulls the sword
>Vicar Amelia and BSB
Just stick to their sides
>Father Gascoigne
Just parry
Most "hard" bosses are actually really easy to me but I have hard times in weird bosses like dying to Capra demon at least 20 times in DS1 and that blob thingy in DS2.
Nameless King. I died a few times but it was nothing special.
On the other hand, Soul of Cinder (final boss) kicked my ass a lot more times...
are the last 2 a joke?
i don't believe i've ever heard anyone say they were difficult.
>Logarius
Holy fuck this nigger is a pain in low BL, no parry runs.
BSB and Father Gascoigne? I've seen many people having trouble with them, if you're not used to play agressive and turtled in Dark souls you might have a hard time.
He's also piss easy to parry
Most BB bosses are at Prowling Magus & Congregation levels, I don't know why I see so many people claiming it's harder than DS2.
>Dancer
>First try
What about the opposite, bosses that were supposed to be easy but gave you a lot of trouble? The one I can think of is Amelia. On my first playthrough I found her before Hemwick and Old Yharnam and my weapon upgrade level was so pathetic that she had astronomical amounts of HP. Instead of realizing I was doing something wrong I just kept trying and trying and I died dozens of times, probably the hardest time I ever had with a Souls first playthrough. I was also playing locked on all the time and being overall terrible. Oh and I didn't use Numbing Mist.
Skipped him in NG and then beat him first try in NG+
BB is the hardest Souls game, because it's like Dark Souls 3 except rolls are less spammable and you take like 20-30% more damage if you get roll caught. Demon's Souls is the easiest, Dark Souls 1 is in the middle and Dark Souls 2 depends on if you know what ADP does or if you are completely blind. I still remember release date DS2, weeks had passed and people still thought ADP was the new Resistance and there were more people saying it was placebo than there were others saying it worked to make rolls better.
DS2 DLC in general
beat fume knight second try despite Yea Forums saying it's literally impossible to beat him
beat most of the bosses first or second try
died a few times on one boss because my weapon kept breaking, because DS2 is shit
>w-w-well you must have been overleveled!!!
i made a new character for the DLCs and never grinded or did any online
That darksouls boss on the wall i like 4 shotted him with a sub optimal build the first time i ever played the game
And the Capra demon died once to him and shrekt him right after
>Souls shit
The games' AI is braindead and you can circlestrafe everything. No idea why people have such a hard time understanding this.
This bitch, on the other hand, wiped my ass all over the jagged crystals of Elder's Recess.
most of sekiro really
demon of hatred, ss isshin and owl (father) are the only bosses that took me more than 2 tries
the experiences people have with Souls games is extremely erratic
I found m'anus piss easy and while finding Taurus demon ballbusting hard on my first playthrough
the real baseline for difficulty is the SL1 runs, and I think DaS2 takes the cake for being the hardest, with BB closely behind
I had more trouble with the normal Bloodletting Beast for some reason. Chalice Rom was also pretty easy too.
>he thinks the Dancer is hard
Fume Knight is the most overrated boss fight in terms of difficulty. Everyone struggles with him and I beat him within 3 or 4 tries first time and afterwards I always beat him in the second try at most doing the DLC pretty early on. Maybe I was just lucky but I got the strategy very easily, the first phase is trivial if you walk away from him and punish every time he uses the big sword (which is the end of every combo) and the 2nd phase is just about rolling and there aren't any dangers aside from those super delayed followups that trick you into thinking his combo ended but he does one more swing. If you have decent ADP and don't get greedy this phase is easy. I don't know if everyone else was a shieldfag or didn't know how to roll or what, but so many people hype that boss as one of the hardest in the series and I really can't explain why. I have cooped that boss a lot too and everyone dies and I am left here confused. Even Blue Smelter is harder.
Pontiff Sulyvahn and Dancer. I wanted to finally play a pure pyro build, and it basically counters them.
Laurence. I remember talking about how tough Ludwig was only for some anons to tell me Laurence is even worse. When I got to Laurence he only took me like 4 tries to beat, as opposed to the dozens of times Ludwig took.
AT Lunastra's supernova is pretty unfair. I love the rest of the fight but that attack is insane and sometimes there isn't much you can do to avoid getting one shot unless you bring shit like Negate Wind Pressure. I usually ran HP Boost and Fireproof Mantle to help survivability a bit.
*difficulty gauging
sekiro is pretty easy in subsequent playthroughs, even with demon's bell and no kuro's charm
That noble guy in Sekiro. Only died to him a couple of times before I realised all you had to do was stay on the offensive. No idea how anyone had trouble with him tbqh.
>even with demon's bell and no kuro's charm
that is a lie, go play the game faggot.
ng+ is significantly easier than ng, its been this way in all souls game. ds2 had few ganks that could fuck you up though. owl 2 in ng has as much hp as doh.
If you aren't trying to speedrun and aren't bad enough to be in danger of a time-out, Farcaster out. Yeah it'll take you a minute to run back but it's better than a cart.
I want to get into MHW but early games feels so boring
Laurence final phase is the hardest boss in Bloodborne for me. I have done several early DLC runs (pre-Forest) and I know Ludwig's first phase like the back of my hand. Second phase is quite insane when you have low HP and damage, and is a thrill. But Laurence's final phase is so stressful and annoying in a bad way, he still has a fuckload of HP left since there are so few opportunities to hit him and sometimes he just doesn't want to shoot lava and spams those AoEs over and over again. It's a shame because I actually really love the first phase and he has so many new moves compared to Cleric Beast.
Orphan is also really hard at lower levels but he feels more fair than Laurence's last phase.
It's worth noting that if you have low damage and low enough HP Living Failures become a massive slog, a terrible endurance test that makes you want to quit playing the game forever.
I had him cast lightning at me 5 times in a row, kinda underwhelming compared to his 2nd phase, but he cheesed himself.
no not really, DaS2 SL1 and BB BL4 are much harder
I found Ludwig to be way harder than Orphan. It took me about 50 tries to beat Ludwig the first time whereas Orphan only took about 5.
I got tired of MHW when I got to the point that the only way to upgrade my character was getting weapons from AT Kulve Taroth which meant grinding for what is essentially a lootbox that can drop like a hundred different weapons instead of the one you need. Then you factor in the times the randoms fail, the game dcs or whatever bullshit happens causing you to waste like 20 minutes of work, it just became annoying. It's a great game but I stopped before it started to feel like a job.
I killed Laurence pretty easily on my first try and genuinely thought he was intended to be a mercy killing kind of encounter and not a real challenge. I'm not claiming to be great at the game either because Ludwig and Orphan took me what was probably a normal number of tries.
Yeah the mist noble is pretty easy once you get the hang of the fight, only died about 10 times to him.
then play ng no bead, charmless w/ bell. no one fucking said sl1 is easy.
>find out after 200 hours you can plunge attack tartarus demon
Fuck im so dumb
Bloody Crow, how did people go on about the 10+ times they died to an NPC hunter
it's because apparently nobody listens for audio cues
Ludwig was always easy for me outside the second phase which has very difficult to dodge mixups, but on a regular character it’s not enough to kill you before you dps him down so people think that phase is easier than the first.
beat him fifth try, kept missing the phase 1 backstab
Bloody Crow is legit hard until you figure out NPC hunters cannot dodge charged attacks.
I beat Genichiro on my 2nd attempt iirc, so I never figured out whats hard about him. I never reversed his lightning either, i just dodged or mist raven'd.
Orphan took me forever man, I was stuck on him for like two weeks. Just the biggest rush when I finally killed him though.
That said, don't think I would again. As a one-time, first-time experience it was incredible, but when I think about going back I mostly remember the stress and think "Nah, I'm good, I'v done my bit."
For an easy boss, nobody told me he would be hard, but I was totally expecting Nito to fucking murder me my first playthrough but I got him pretty easily without even pulling any skeletons.
Nobody has trouble with fake tachibana, they're talking about the side mission duel
I guess for me it would be Logarius since he was the hardest boss in the game for me.
In Dark Souls hard to say, Sister Friede was incredibly hard for me. Hardest Soulsborne boss. I know she is generally considered hard, but usually people find other bosses more troublesome, for me she was the worst.
Out of Bloodborne, Dark Souls 1 and 3 I easily found Bloodborne the easiest. You've got tons of vials, you're faster, can regain health and parrying is a lot easier plus you get visceral attacks. The bosses aren't as much of a pain as some of the Souls bosses either.
Beat Maneaters and Flamelurker on my second tries and False Allant on my first try, to be fair I had like a billion hours of DS1 experience when I went into DeS though.
Can confirm - recently did a pyro run and it trivialised dancer I beat her first try with CBV and some r1 spam from a LS
Pontiff as well, in fact pyro basically destroys most bosses (either through dark or fire). Midir is the only boss that busted my balls a bit