Even though I can read every of Kos’s moves, I can’t get the parry timing down.
yeah sometimes I parry him but he hits me anyway, othertimes I parry him cleanly and othertimes he just plows right through kicking my ass. 2nd form wasn’t that bad for me though.
Now trying to finish off Laurence the first vicar.
Other enemies will be stunned if you shoot them at the end of their wind up or sometime before they hit you. Most of the time you can time it such that you trade blows and regain your hp through the visceral attack.
This boss does not follow the same timing or rule though it is still possible to parry it. On the charge, the parry window is early. The easiest is when it does a downward smash. That one move is just regular timing. The other moves I tried really early, really late and everything in between. The parry window is really small. I wasn’t able to parry it on the jump attacks.
Parry windows in phase 2 seem pretty short. Your best bet for viscerals is after certain attacks.
This video is fucking great, by the way. I lol’d multiple times.
Well finally finished the DLC. Just gotta farm blood stone chunks to max out the rest of the new weapons. Just need like 150 more of them >.<
I really hate this motherfucker right now.
I got really close twice today and yesterday, but no cigar. Might as well change my Facebook status to fucking rekt.
Gonna tag this under spoilers again since some people active in the thread haven’t beaten the game yet.
Final boss spoilers
Spoiler
So I JUST NOW noticed that when Gehrman does his huge AOE explosion attack in the fight, he always turns to the moon, and the moon begins to illuminate and shine its rays on him. I never really noticed that before. Damn. I love subtle little details like that.
yep, love that shit… it’s like he’s praying to the moon… which grants him the attack haha (it’s also a good opportunity to wreck him really hard)
The joy of a blind playthrough is discovering the ONE way to NOT get a weapon that the game basically throws at you otherwise.
So yeah, I managed to completely miss a certain Moonlight weapon. Grargh. At least I wouldn’t have used it, since I’m mainly specced for Strength with Arcane second, but still! I would’ve liked to at least be able to TRY it!
That DLC was aces, though. Especially hilarious that a lot of the enemies and secrets are designed specifically to trip up those familiar with how the rest of the game works.
So at midnight I opened my game and started playing.
At 1 AM I was still trying to kill the first wolf.
Googled and found out that I don’t need to use my bare hands to do so…it made me a better fighter, and helped me understand combat a little better, but I’m still effing pissed. I haven’t sworn like that in a long time “WTF he’s got not bleeping health, this muthableeper can suck my muthableeping bleep, son of a bleep”.
So far not sure how I feel about the game. I don’t even know why I’m doing what I’m doing. Humans so far are easy peezy, everything else just feels like tons of trial and error and a hint of luck.
- Unreall
@Unreallystic - The first lesson to learn in the game is to dodge into/around single enemies rather than away. This puts you behind them, where they’re open to be countered.
Okay, scratch that… The FIRST first lesson you learn is to look around and check stuff out before you move on. If you’d done that, you might have, y’know, found those weapons and all that in the Hunter’s Dream 
I was afraid I was going to “miss content”…so I was trying to finish the first “area” if you will.
- Unreall
You can’t miss content in the game unless you just literally never go to a place. Only exception is after you beat the last boss, the game automatically sends you to NG+
Welllll. This IS a From Software game, so you can easily miss stuff like NPC quests. My first, blind playthrough of the main game had me complete exactly none of the NPC bits and also lock myself out from any chance of getting the most elusive ending.
But part of the charm is accepting that. Like me with that one DLC weapon I now can’t get until NG+. Harrumph.
Ah yeah, true I wasn’t thinking about that. But then they’re convoluted enough that it seems pretty obvious that you’re not expected to see all of them in a single playthrough. I was thinking more of just locations and things than quests
I missed the Crow costume but somehow I got it after downloading the DLC.
I got my Old Hunters guide in the mail today. Its just as well done as any of the other ones. There’s a really good lore guide in the back too.
I finally beat him.
FUCK. THAT. GUY.
Oh, and I beat the Moon Presence too. All in a work’s day.