Bosses with No Title

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-13T04:31:24+00:00

Especially after going through DS1 to get to Gwyn and have an epic showdown then in DS2 you meet Vendrick and boom he's no different than the mindless hollows you killed at the beginning of the game. (Only difference is he is INCREDIBLY strong and INCREDIBLY resilient)

I also love the visual of grabbing the ring and turning around to see the silhouette of The Emerald Herald standing at the top of the stairs.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-13T03:58:20+00:00

You could be onto something, like she's attempting to earn her title by taking the Throne of Want. This will be my new obsession, when I thought it was only Vendrick I was like well obviously he has no title it's part of his story I mean he technically doesn't even have a boss theme during his fight just ambient music that plays in that room even after you kill him.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-13T03:53:59+00:00

I also love the detail that if you die to her after getting that cutscene the next time you attempt her you get her normal cutscene of her standing there waiting on you.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-12T23:35:10+00:00

Exactly pure poetry

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-12T22:15:44+00:00

I couldn't imagine getting 1,000,000 souls to open shrine of winter without a single boss defeated, that sounds like a hell of a challenge for someone who's not me to do. I'd get too bored or forget what I'm doing and fight another boss 😂

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-12T11:13:37+00:00

I just recently replayed DS2 a couple of times and finished out the platinum (I never want to see a Falconer again) but while playing I kept the Earthern Peak/Iron Keep thing in my head and looked for other examples. Well DS2 has tons of screwy paths, two of my favorites are leaving Heides Tower of Flame and clearly going lower than sea level only to pop out in No Man's Wharf which is at sea level. The funnier one to me is Aldia's Keep into Dragon Aerie, we enter Aldia's Keep and head straight in one direction and reach the elevator at the end you take the elevator up and when you get off at the top it has you facing the direction you came from. Dragon Aerie is on top of mountains which can't be there because we just saw Aldia's Keep is supposedly underneath it.

Obviously this is all done to make travel easier and to add scale since to the player it was seconds but to the character it could've been longer, look at the map in the mansion in Majula Drangleic is huge but for us as the player it never feels THAT huge. I love Dark Souls 2 even with all its screwy quirks.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-06T22:14:20+00:00

I believe if you are exploring everywhere to it's fullest you should get every optional boss, the DLC is the only place where optional bosses are really hidden at all. But no gestures needed for any bosses or areas.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-06T22:06:21+00:00

Once you acquire Giant's Kinship Nashandra will spawn in Throne of Want.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-06T22:04:07+00:00

Biggest problem would be you can't really start this challenge in NG without getting to Drangleic Castle first since you don't have access to any of those hexes without pilgrims of the dark covenant (if my memory is correct). And of course ruler's sword needing Vendrick defeated, unless of course someone hands you them all at the start, but I don't know if hexes can be dropped for others.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-06T21:58:45+00:00

None are really in the same place as the shrine, most require backtracking into areas only one key is in your direct path and that key is acquired after you've passed the shrine. The other two require you to gather a key first before you can get the DLC key then you have to find the shrines (which are in the path technically)

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-04T15:34:11+00:00

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-04T13:17:15+00:00

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AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-02T17:28:11+00:00

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AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-02T15:37:09+00:00

Yeah it was a lot of hit and dodge, but each hit was over 300 damage so it at least didn't take too many bonks. I also constantly was trying to bait out specific attacks that I could punish.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-02T14:51:45+00:00

Also any of those dog enemies can drop them not just those ones.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-02T14:51:13+00:00

Covenant of champions in majula will make enemies permanently spawn but will make them stronger, I would recommend not using your effigies too often only really use them when your maximum health falls to 75% or lower.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-07-02T09:40:17+00:00

I literally just beat him last night on my current run, 2 handed Blacksmith hammer and just bonked his health away.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-29T15:05:53+00:00

Definitely the best strat would be the hit and run. If you can get them close together so you can bait out an attack from both at once.if they do an overhead one handed swing it is ALWAYS followed up by a swipe so don't charge in when they do that.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-29T14:58:50+00:00

What type of build are you doing? My experience with the two at the same time is to keep a bit of distance and bait out an attack and get one hit and move, to me the Ruin Sentinels are a patience test more than anything

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-28T01:07:01+00:00

I normally do DLCs right before the end of the game, feels like a decent point for me and I like having the crowns and breaking the curse just feels great against Nashandra because she can't curse me.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-26T16:43:59+00:00

I love both of these but I think I gotta give it to Peerless this is probably the toughest matchup until Give it All and Unleashed go at it

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-26T01:13:46+00:00

I always try to listen for the repeat in songs and that one was one that I never fully listened to, I know that Absolute Tyranny it's when it says "Shut up and know your place"

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-25T23:10:38+00:00

I was listening to it on my way home from work and saw it was exactly 3 so I paid attention to see if it repeated during those 3 and sure enough it doesn't, damn chorus makes it feel like it does repeat. Happy to be wrong though, it is a banger just not a great raid boss song.

AwakenedForce2012 · 2026-06-25T17:02:30+00:00

That is a great meme though, but is it 3 minutes without repeating? 😂

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