Dark Souls Without the Required Stats - Using a Demon Great Hammer that I Cannot Wield

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right the Asylum Demon the tutorial boss of Dark Souls and arguably the first death most new players encounter right after spending about an hour creating their character but although he is meant to be circumvented and then taking down by jumping down using your class specific starting weapon there is an interesting reward for those who managed to slug through a 15-minute endurance test using the Straits of tilt or by simply using black firebombs as a stunning gift and that reward is a massive wooden hammer but I can tell you from experience that having massive wood is hard to handle and requires a ton of experience points in the form of souls to meet the stat requirements meaning it would take a while before you can actually use it well even so at least you can walk like a badass logging this massive log in your shoulder [Music] ancient legend it is dated my tiny little nipples went to France but what if we ignore the strength requirements altogether while trying to beat the game using only this weapon for damage yeah the problem with that is that it kind of doesn't do any damage and rather than your character swinging a weapon it's more like it's the weapon swinging your character around yeah that's not going to work so let's first collect any poppable Souls so that we can upgrade it now fortunately although we don't have access to this weapons full moveset meaning no strong or rule attacks but we can still backstab with it which is usual at least when buffed with the power of gravity and speaking of Buffs you're probably thinking that this will be similar to my Straight Sword healed only guide where practically all the damage came from the magic weapon spell but what if we don't use that nor sunlight or Darkman blade not even resins not even as a restriction it simply wouldn't even be the best approach to begin with although it is quite understandable that you would think that because even after we collect enough souls to buy Titanite charts upgrading the weapon wouldn't increase the damage by any significant demand because of the damage penalty meaning we still have no functional way to attack but we can rely on expertly dodging enemy attacks in the meantime doesn't mean we can neglect upgrading a weapon but for this one it's quite expensive so we'll need even more souls to consume yeah that sounds weird consuming Souls kinda makes you wonder what consuming Souls would even taste like maybe lemon flavored well while we're here anyway given how slow I swing and how massive and happy my wood is meaning that protection as an armor is not feasible I thought I would pick up the wool strength for boys unfortunately that would require us to use blunt force minus the actual force behind it to cut through a tree which I suppose is how the ax was invented in our ancient past I mean I can just imagine my ancestor behind the tree and and some other tribes and it was like yeah perhaps adding a sharp blade to that stick would be a slightly more pragmatic addition to the size shape materials and forces in question and then the first guy responded by saying don't get [ __ ] out of here I'm not chopping wood I'm trying to take a [ __ ] regardless the wolf's ring can not only prevent our own very slow attack from getting canceled but can also help us move through areas while under attack without having a viable attack of her own Although our obvious priority is to change that but not from the help of Soul Santa here nor vamos or the giant but rather from a fourth blacksmith who is so easily forgotten namely record of venine now up to plus 5 will not make any difference but if we go down into blytown and pick up green titanite it will be a different story on top of that there are some very nice expensive solo pops here and if you go down into the great hollow not only can we pick up the quarantine ring which is helpful when The crashgrass Shield is too heavy but in this area there are several titanite chunks and it's specifically the blue chunks that we're after and yes there are two of them it's easy to miss the second one but it's located near a group of basilisks and no not to worry you can just hover the bone back after picking up a excuse me what what the [ __ ] okay so an additional challenge to this run is apparently that we're also playing with only half a live bar damn it and no cling ring inside oh I suppose we just have to make do for now but at least when we go back to record we can upgrade to plus six down the magic path but how would that actually help us well because of how the damage penalty works when adding split damage to a weapon because the lack of damage comes from not meeting the strength requirements but this weapon does not have any intelligence requirement so the magic damage you add which then skills with intelligence is not penalized meaning we have a melee weapon that almost exclusively does magic damage [Music] obviously not as good as it would normally be of course but it does make up for the very lengthy and unwieldy swing of this weapon of course anytime we miss we are completely vulnerable due to the extreme recovery animation whereas when you hit your target you bounce off and you at least recover much quicker although still quite slow so now all we need to do is go back down into blytown and farm the leeches so that shouldn't take too long right oh [ __ ] okay maybe this will take a little longer than I thought ah so after finally getting the upgrade Stones we needed we can reinforce our weapon all the way to Magic plus five so basically the equivalent of a standard plus 10 weapon however we can take it even further Beyond and although that doesn't require us to scream for several minutes straight it will require us to buy the crest of Victorious which costs a whopping 20 000 Souls fortunately the straight demon drops exactly that number and we will have to go back to the Asylum anyway because that allows us to easily cure our curse by trading a red cracked orb for a stone of ephemeralize or whatever it's called in this game or maybe not so easily because even with a shield our attack still takes ages to come out and let's face it only gravity is more powerful than a torch Hollow so maybe we can actually use that to our advantage because you can affect sort of circumvent them in a way that I honestly never even really thought about before well with the curse keywords we have our full health bar back but it's still at base level Vitality fortunately the straight demon is very easy to deal with but there is a little bit of an issue fighting this boss with a strength weapon you like the strength requirements for when it comes to a dexterity weapon you fill the stats for it will almost work the same using this method of relying on split damage the only difference then is that you cannot combo because each time you attack your weapon will bounce but the actual attack animation is the same however with a strength weapon if you miss you go through a very lengthy recovery animation leaving you completely vulnerable so there's not merely a strict timing issue because the swing speed is already very low but it's Paramount that whatever you do do not miss your attack and that's unfortunately easier said than done because you will have to consciously position yourself towards the enemy as merely locking on or just pointing your character in the general direction is not always enough as you will see throughout this entire playthrough experientially at least it feels a bit like you're attacking to your site rather than directly in front of you but in case of the stray demon the overhead explosion gives you just enough time to safely get an attacking and the same applies for the butt slam although the timing is a bit stricter because of the lingering headbox and the quick attack simply shouldn't be used for an attack of your own and hey for a boss with a lot Health pool our damage output is definitely more than sufficient so with a little patience we can acquire a 20K to increase our damage even further and we're definitely going to need that given the high risk that we take with each attack when your attack is this awkward you definitely want to make it count and get as much damage out of it as you can and with the crest of a Taurus we can use the blue titanite chunks that we picked up earlier by grabbing the enchanted Amber from the chest guarded by some mushrooms which is quite poetic in a way that through mushrooms you will get to have a magical experience although of course the downside is that you will end up with a massive headache as a result now speaking of blue titanite chunks in principle we could get to plus 9 by farming the blue crystal Golems but they are incredibly magic resistant so not easy to farm however you can get the Hydra to water the field so that you can harvest the results although there weren't any results unfortunately because the drop rate is low and after the green titanite farming session I wasn't exactly in the mood to try again but to be fair upgrading that high is kind of Overkill anyway in fact despite Havel's magic resistance we can still easily acquire Havel's ring by making use of Paris as reposting just like backstabs are still available attacks despite our limited moveset so unlike with my previous Dark Souls 1 challenge the pie charts only run I was at least hopeful this time for the final confrontation in this playthrough so after visiting record we had the equivalent of a plus 12 weapon although not with the comparable damage output of course but at least without even fighting a single mandatory boss regardless what would be useful other than Havel's ring would be the Fab ring so that we have enough endurance to fast roll while also having the crest shield on our back and of course some additional Health that allows us to First focus on intelligence over vitality and endurance until later now of course you could get no track to free himself by defeating the Cardinals first but by freeing him ourselves we can get the ring before fighting the goggles and gaining a lot tracks respect in the process well not sure if you would want that and I'm even less sure that he would bow down in respect but he will at least take a knee so then it was finally time for the gargles and with a plus death weapon we could at least do a lot of damage however the real issue was attack speed or battle said the lack thereof leaving me vulnerable even when getting hit in and even more vulnerable whenever I miss and have to wait longer than for an average woman to get ready to go anywhere while her husband fell asleep waiting in the car and speaking of going anywhere because I smashed so slowly it's quite likely for the gargles to dodge away in time well in a sense it's still better than the bike shots since they didn't even need to dodge that one given that most of the time it didn't even go in that general direction to begin with but at least this time when I managed to hit them I would hit them very hard because of all the prep work foreign [Music] of course this dams output is not going to last since it's still only about half what this weapon is capable of doing so since I had to go back to blytown anyway I wanted to pick a power within for the late game bosses especially the DLC ones with their High magic resistance although it turned out that it wasn't necessary yet despite quillax High metric resistance which turns out to be actually not as high as I thought and because he is slow getting attacks and wasn't as difficult although when you miss it can lead to some very close calls mainly the extended version of The Witch's lava puke was my best opportunity while the spiders lava puke I mean she is fused so I was actually meant to be part of her body that turned into a spider or maybe it was another daughter of chaos and they refused to get hmm oh heck maybe the spider is the actual witch and she's just attached to it meaning it's like the chaos witch and quillac turned into one being I mean the fair lady is obsessed or so is she a witch but then wouldn't their brother also be a witch or well sorcerer I guess well but if the spider was another witch then quillac is actually Two Witches or you know what oh no oh one of them is not and the Proud Lady may not be one either God damn it even when I'm not playing bloodborne I still cannot tell which which is which which oh I think about it one easy solution is to just exterminate them that you no longer have to worry about who or what they are hey it's not like the fair lady can see it coming now of course smashing their waifu will make the Sims feel sour oh hi Angie yeah I'll see you later because first I need to quickly go clubbing with ceaseless although Shy Guy SES he will need a little incentive to hit the floor all right then now we can walk back again and there we have another Angie well it's the same one obviously although it would have been nice if there were two of them because then we would have NG and NG plus oh by the way don't use Queen like soul but feed it to friend instead because he will give you more souls in return that you would get from popping it yourself now after 30 end you will get slightly diminished returns so it might be better to focus on a bit of extra health and endurance first because it won't be long until we have to face ons and on scene speed versus our slow attack while at base level health is not the most Pleasant combination especially because we still can hardly wear anything at all in order to be light enough to fast roll not even with Devil's ring although mid-roading is at least fine enough when going through the areas between bosses but when it comes to taking damage although these mechanical Contraptions were the ones designed to do damage to me but it was actually the design of the walls which make me take damage either unintentionally or working as intended yeah it's hard to make sense of this Fortress now even though I didn't need a title I chunk I couldn't resist giving the Giant on top of the Fortress a good spanking and then it was time to at least make the Iron Golem sit on his ass or battle yet of course make him tumble over the edge altogether speaking of wet at least compared to the pie charts only run this time there should be no danger of me accidentally launching myself right off the bridge well then again using an awkward attack like this does feel a bit rough around the edges so um my damage was actually really good given that the Iron Golem has a very high physical defenses but not so much against Elemental damage and on top of that his attacks are about as slow as mine well almost so it should be quite easy to stay out of his hitboxes all to get what the [ __ ] that's something that belongs in the next game I don't agree with that at all yeah I guess it's good that I do quite a bit of damage because I don't know if not meeting the stat requirements has an effect on Poise damage but the Golem just wouldn't stagger and even though his attacks are slow if you attack him from the front he can still manage to hit you before you have the chance to get away but at least it's easy to get out of his reach if you need to drink what the hell I don't agree with that either [ __ ] me is this guy ever going to stagger well I suppose not so we're just tediously progressing with the speed of taking the ankle Express oh now we staggers at the very till end of the fight oh my god well to throw in a little bit of Douglas for my fellow country man among my audience when it comes to the Stagger mechanic at this point I was bailing like a stagger alright now for a riveting time on the Rafters fortunately one-handing makes very little difference in this context anyway so I can happily block with my shield and then I launched myself into the abyss okay maybe that doesn't really work also my sacred actually saved the falling painting Guardian as well isn't that nice well not to worry near the foregrall you can avoid the final one by jumping if you press the jump button at least which is not the x button yet in this game okay forget about that then I do still have a shield after all and the final Guardian is on a much wider beam so there's little chance that I will launch myself over the edge especially if he uh if he kills me before I even get the chance to attack ah well I'm sure this is fun for you guys at least because you can't spell sadistic laughter without rafter okay second try and oh [ __ ] quit out hey oh what the hell okay that is new I'm honestly not sure if I've ever been here before well apparently there's at least a stackage over there I mean I was afraid that I painted Guardian myself with a quarter what the [ __ ] oh there's actually a chest here huh not a mimic fortunately that would be something oh really another one of these [ __ ] okay well let's hear what you have for me I mean the floor is all yours huh that's not what I had in mind but sure well that is something I like about this game that the environment allows you to cut Corners oh come on are you serious right now oh you son of a mother yeah if [ __ ] this I'm done with this area Ah that's right my souls are still up there damn it he's still chasing me well jokes on him because the moment he reaches the top of the ladder I will Hammer home that I'm not okay KKK with this kind there finally wow you know I can't believe I actually managed to survive that so I then made my way to the next bonfire and no photo obstacles given that we could bury the silver Knight Archer just like we did before with heavil and speaking of heavil I went down to where his armor set can be found and I attacked the mimic there and how did that not hit oh come on dude I can literally see that my hammer is connecting with the mimic well it turns out that way you don't meet the stat requirements you cannot do damage to sleeping mimics your weapon will simply bounce off well I've said this many times before you are never done learning in a Souls game because all these years I never knew about that unfortunately we don't need that mimic to begin with and for the other two upstairs ways to hold valuable coins we can simply obtain those by using a Lloyd Talisman and in fact the people thinking ahead will realize that that's actually very important well to be fair I suppose I should have looked ahead because it would have been better if I went to pinwheel before analondo because now I had to face ons with a slow attack with an even slower recovery animation meaning that I would likely need every drop from my Asus flask especially because the only way for me to fast roll and have the additional stamina regeneration from The grassroot Shield is to where uh nothing at all nothing at all nothing at all and on top of that I would be using power within to make up for my slow unwilly weapon that I can't build by making my attacks really count however that also drains my valuable health bar meaning I have to be extra careful oh fuckalicious well that's a nice start oh yeah that's a really nice start great camera as well oh yeah yeah yeah definitely exactly what I wanted well at least my slow swings have some really massive impact however when your weapon whiffs you wind up getting walloped by smokes even more unwieldy weapon God damn it I need a drink ah come on yeah in life you don't always get what you need which means that facing such a massive threat that your life is hanging on by a threat okay final hit oh [ __ ] not final it [ __ ] when a close call is this close it's like a collect call because you're the one paying the price and yes I realized that you young Whipple Snappers watching probably don't even know what that means anymore well second phase at least guess I should have picked up the red tearstone ring but fortunately against ons the O Metals more than the S because you can easily beat his ass by making him jump over you or running towards him so he goes over a half requires a little strict of timing than usual but it means that it's just a matter of patience rinsing and especially repeating so pound for pound for pounds the fat man hits the ground or something I don't know I want at least alright so now it's time to collect the Lord Souls but I realized that I definitely need to save the Four Kings for last even until after the DLC because not only will I need to max out my damage and get enough Vitality for tanking but I wouldn't even be able to tank with hevel's armor if I didn't have enough endurance to even Federal without Havel's ring although if really necessary I could use the stone armor instead by the way even the isolef set makes me mitral speaking of which apart from that it belongs to a witch I although I don't know which witch and given that I'm becoming kind of an old man already I actually have some useless data for you the Isle of grim reaper Hood covers only one solar specifically the one you carry your weapon on and therefore protecting your solar so that reminds you that you don't have to shoulder this burden alone or some far-fetched motivational crap like that however what was even more far-fetched and kind of demotivating was what happened next I obviously went to the Duke's archives first given that there I can acquire the final blue Titanite I need but after letting the swine swoop and swing I swung for not so swell damage yeah that's not gonna work so I simply made a run for it after all it says in the official Dark Soul strategy guide that these bores are designed to not follow you up the elevator and turn back to their starting position however they did not take into account that armored metallic apparently magic resistant boars are not exactly known for their reading abilities meaning they weren't aware of what was written in the official strategy guide and I thought getting stuck in an elevator with someone who ripped a giant fart was the worst thing that could happen however someone acting like a disgusting pick is nothing compared to an actual pick who is disgusted by your audacity of trying to stay alive without his strict written permission although in fantasy wouldn't be able to read it so therefore I followed through on that audacity if that's even proper English and made it to the next elevator Duke's kept on the first attempt just wanted to emphasize that and then made it to the next bonfire well even though they are boars they are not boring at least and it just goes to show how you can run into some peculiar design quirks in this game in fact I immediately encountered another example there is not enough room to move through here unless you move the other way around because that magically means there's more space available right well speaking of magic now we could finally pick up the magic stones to max out our magic stick and in turn speaking of picking up Stones there's a set of 20 prism stones that can come in handy on the Meandering invisible walkways towards the blue titanite slab but before that if you continue forward down the normal route rather than going left there's a chunk behind the second Golden Golem and if you turn around after dropping onto the walkway towards sieve you can get more crystals from the crystal lizard oh [ __ ] ah [ __ ] this is going to be a problem well if you turn around we can just create oh okay let's go for the slap first it's a complicated route but you can easily make it across using the prism stones and okay so as I was saying we were killing Crystal lizards and [ __ ] me yeah it's too long ago to get heal and to defeat most bosses but uh we have to tie tonight's lap although now we need to make our way back again but when you think about it it's just the same thing in Reverse there's no additional danger oh uh what the [ __ ] can you just fall off how did the AI suddenly become smart enough to follow an invisible pathway not that these guys have eyes or anything ah [ __ ] this we have to quit out anyway to respawn the crystal lizards oh my God this sucks huh okay it killed itself by falling through the floor well that does give me inspiration damn it I hate these fakes next time I see a crystal lizard I will make sure to get my revenge basically they are the insects of this world I fundamentally disagree with them existing whether they serve a valuable purpose or not but even though my weapon was fully upgraded now my asses was still at a Max of 10 even though it was actually easy to double that although not so easy to get there in the first place son of a [ __ ] biscuit well actually pinwheel was not as easy as you would expect given how slow I attack now granted it was nothing compared to the absolute Mayhem that ensued in my bike charts only run but they will got at least a chance to do his patented flamethrower attack which based on the responses I got on the bar charts video was apparently not even widely known that he had that ability in the first place even less known is that he has a second phrase and I don't know maybe in the oldest patches of this game that wasn't even a thing yet and I'm never a fan of when they add patches to a game but I am a fan of the silver pendant so I acquired a light source for when we inevitably reached the DLC but we're not going there yet first it was obviously time to get rid of sieve and I thought he might pose a problem because he is incredibly resistant to Magic and we can only inflect almost pure magic damage and yes indeed the damage was not that impressive moreover I could only attack once per opportunity but regardless this fight was no problem at all it only took a very long time and that's because even though Sif is highly important to the story as a bossy is not exactly much of a threat with his very limited moveset I mean I guess that's why he's called see if the skillers so long story short the fight was long but there wasn't much to it but hey that's okay because we're not only collecting souls to progress but also to increase our stats for the boss fights that will prove to be an obstacle so it's best to get the easier ones out of the way first and therefore I went to isilif Next in fact because I was in human form I got invaded by Captain Kirk and defeating him grants you way more souls than you would expect from a simple NPC invasion and on top of that for those who are PC exclusive and are still waiting for bloodborne you may not be able to use the kirkhammer but at least you can Hammer Kirk and when it comes to the boss fights here I can be very short because the demon fire stage is basically the same as the straight even before although a little bit more of a spacing and therefore a timing issue because of the arena and the centipede was particularly jumpy today not surprising I guess when you smash someone's toes although I'm actually smashing his ankles and therefore it is surprising because good luck jumping with broken ankles well whatever may be the case despite their slow attacks I still managed to take down this boss without getting hit a single time in the process yeah who cares about stats I know exactly what I'm doing which makes me Invincible oh [ __ ] I forgot to equip the ring dead and I huh well I'm sure that's the only time something like that will happen in this playthrough and that it wouldn't be a precedent for another rare ring related ruination of the rear end although speaking of which the Bed of Chaos otherwise known as the marriage bed but also the name of the upcoming boss fight would not be different from a regular playthrough but that merely entails that it's the same amount of [ __ ] like it always is oh by the way while we're here anyway let's backstab the daughter of K no I said backstab not stab your mother is the identity of the Bed of Chaos and it sure is very bad and very chaotic God damn it yeah I don't feel so lucky anymore on this playthrough but now I get another opportunity to backstab the NPC so maybe I can turn things around no not you turning around I didn't even have to begin with yeah well I would want to say three times a ship right but then I realized that I already made it done with joke in the script so so let's just ignore the NPC and then I finally uh first write about chaos would have been one hell of a kick in the Nets by the way if you would swung just over the chaos back but fortunately they were saving their bad head detection for the next installment although they should have done the same thing with the Iron Golem's grab attack I suppose now although I didn't need any upgrade materials anymore after the crystal lizard Shenanigans from before it was time to get my rivet so the way I handled Nito is by simply tanking through the fight with the stone armor instead of using my usual ring of fork and slumbering ring strategy where I sacrificed the Feathering to prevent heavy to deal with the skeletons actually in principle it would have been possible to get a second demon great hammer and give it a Divine infusion because you can affect trade a butcher sack with the crows for a Demon Hammer but the I didn't exactly feel like handling anyone's sack today but of course another thing that is unpleasant to handle is the sadness of beating a lovely dog like dear old safety death within a way the added insult that as long as you stand underneath him it's not even that much different from fighting him under regular circumstances so to preserve the understandably fragile mental state of the audience I will beat a bottle of Sif instead [Music] hey that was really stupid but at least it was way less depressing oh it's limping well something that will definitely make me feel better is to finally get revenge on the crystal so it was time to now enter the DLC and although the Hydra was surprisingly not that much of an obstacle except for the final hats of course which always seem to land inconveniently far away from you but at least I did really good damage against it however that did not apply to the golden Crystal Golem apparently its magic resistance is through the roof turning their slightly beefed up enemy into an actual boss fight this time in fact this has to be the first time in all these years that when fighting this Golem that I even had to resort to using Humanity because I ran out of Estes wow that was one hell of a fight just to access the DLC would be a real kick in the Nets if I would now accidentally hit the R1 button in front of Dusk and lock myself out of the deals that's not what I wanted [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] I I didn't want to smash him like that oh please tell me that this doesn't actually lock me out of the DLC right well at least after a slightly less lengthy fight the blue Crystal Golem did still drop the broken Bandit so now it's a moment of truth would I finally get my revenge on the crystal lizard but would I be able to access the DLC and yes yes I could definitely Dodge the bullet there although it would have been better if dusk simply dots my very slow moving Hammer wouldn't exactly have been that hard to do I mean if enemies can do it why can't she and speaking of which now we're in the DLC there are no more easy fights ahead because these bosses have much shorter Windows of opportunity for attacks and another problem is that not fighting with lock-on is usually helpful in these fights in my experience at least but in this case that can easily result in swinging in the wrong direction and having to deal with the actual long recovery animation moreover Windows of opportunity don't mean the same thing when your attackers is slow because what is safe near the start of the animation is not necessarily safe near the end of it but before you can move again also not the same attack opportunities apply like after the forehead combo fortunately the sanctuary Guardian doesn't have the same Elemental defense as the other three bosses have nor a similar large Health pool so when taking advantage of the few attack opportunities you do get you can in fact inflict massive damage headbutts especially after allowing you to get struck by the non-damaging wave given that you can react just in time despite getting staggered by it which is essentially always the best opportunity and after the swoop as long as the angle is right you can actually still kind of still you know with a with a blunt object and afterwards you can be even more blunt by bunking his bottle oh or maybe you should at least ask first before doing something like that so yeah it's definitely more Awkward than finding on the normal circumstances as he will cover often before you can but at least you have damage opportunities to work with and a very decent damage output and also very important you at least get some safe opportunities to heal but I know of a certain someone who doesn't really like to play by those rules of course first we need to actually get to him and perhaps unlike with dusk I can press R1 a little less accidentally in front of Elizabeth to get my hands on those precious mushrooms I mean she doesn't really serve any other purpose after all yes [Applause] what the [ __ ] uh why is she already dead could it perhaps be because I killed dusk even though that happened in the future I mean this is not the order of events that should take place but you know time is convoluted and I still get my mushrooms so for anyone who would have gotten angry at me for killing her you can be happy now because she killed herself yay well against authorious even though he would be the one doing all the killing it was my slow attack and specifically the slow recovery time that basically turned this into pure suicide although my damage was surprisingly High given artorius's defenses but in all fairness it simply didn't matter because there were no safe attack opportunities other than just getting lucky where a tourist test happens to not attack you even though he had every opportunity to but at any time he could counter-attack immediately after I got damaging or he could simply Dodge my attack and I would be stuck in the recovery animation giving him enough time to watch The Godfather Trilogy first and I definitely couldn't tank my way through the fight because it would take at least two attacks to break his buffing animation which wouldn't be possible so here I was in my underwear not exactly looking buff while he kept stacking buff upon buff not even have his armor would be able to help me here however there was one attack that I could almost consistently punish namely his somersault but only if he would do it at least twice or if he would do the sludge attack afterwards well even that was not 100 safe but at least in this case a counter attack was actually rare unfortunately that meant that I not only had to wait until he did his somersault attack which he doesn't spam that much to begin with but specifically the version where he follows up so that's even less common now fortunately you can actually influence this a bit by positioning yourself in front of him however that does mean that if your spacing is off you will get squashed by the follow-up instead of out strafing it yes I have definitely had lengthy authorious fights before but this was the first time where the fight took over 15 minutes while doing over 230 damage per attack so you can imagine that I ended up doing a somersault myself when the fight finally came to an end [Music] foreign there was a problem lurking around the corner namely the kresky hidden inside the mimic given that I would not be able to do damage to the mimic just like before an analondo but fortunately I still have Lloyd Talisman in my inventory so that would give me access to calamit but for Menace I made sure to pick up the silver pendant I'm often asked why I always use that one only for the forward moving projectile barrage but not for the other two dark attacks well I will explain that in a few minutes but then something unexpected happened one of the sorcerers dropped a catalyst a ridiculously rare drop like over a year ago I wanted to do a run Focus around poison so I wasted literal hours farming for the Catalyst but they never dropped it and now randomly I happen to get it in a run where I had no use for it there was definitely no poison more intense than the entire concept of random drops in my opinion regardless now it was time for the worst Menace since then is there and again damage output wasn't as bad as you would expect however this boss has won a hell of a massive Health pool and although it was nowhere near as bad as against notorious but having a slow attack with a long recovery did change how I would have to handle my attack opportunities some which you would expect to be viable were not like the giant Wombo Combo that couldn't be safely punished anymore or you might literally not even connect in time but even his regular hand slime attacks required me to turn the camera and aim for the actual hands in order to hit it when he was about to pull it back again although later on I noticed that dodging to the left gives you a slightly larger window of opportunity and speaking of turning around in order to punish the uppercut I had to specifically aim my character towards Madness before attacking otherwise there was a high likelihood that I would swing in the opposite direction remember that you don't have a roll attack when you don't meet the stat requirements so in the first phase I had to be more patient than usual since attack opportunities were less frequent and more Awkward to punish effectively and in the second phase two of his three dark attacks are not punishable at all however that's the same as always and just like in a normal playthrough the circle one is still punishable even with a slow attack because Menace always growls after he does that move so since that is an attack opportunity that's why I never use the silver pendant against that move I only use it for the forward moving barrage and in case you wonder why I always outrun the dark rain rather than use a Talisman for that well that's because this can happen where a projectile can get stuck upon your defensive aura and then when it dissipates it can still fall down upon you I mean you can already easily expand some really close calls in this fight without doing that so there's definitely no need to create even more so afterwards I mean this is in the past after all dusk is on the ground and well it was an accident before but seriously so I can hit her by accident but not intentionally huh well I guess that preserves the timeline because it looks like she's going to survive that psych it's just recorded the right angle waifu abuse well the DLC is not over yet until Calum meets his hand unfortunately despite my damage output being okay-ish given his massive resistance to Magic the fight turned quickly into quad Calamity because the long recovery time even when you successfully get a hit in might still be too long to get out of the way in time thank you but all in all I was getting drunk on Estes and given how long the fight takes like this I was getting dangerously close to running out when timing becomes this precise calamit will hold two feet to the fire now you can get the most damage in when he stands upon his hind legs but if you thought his height was iron his claws Spears and his wings a hurricane then his balls are made of solid steel apparently at the very least after the swoop you can still get hit and by instead of going for the till you simply Bonk his bottom but apparently nothing could save me from reaching the bottom of my own flask oh the humanity well with the DLC done there are still one obstacle left that I purposely say for last because I wanted to make sure that I can handle the DPS race against the Four Kings but first I acquired two more fire keeper souls to upgrade my asses and then I hoveled my way through the ghost house because I'm obviously not able to kill England from a distance but over where you get here after the Lord vessel you don't need to kill him anyway but something that I would probably need is power it in to maximize my damage output however as I learned back in my stress Hotel run power within cannot be used when transcended curse is active so you have to wait for it to wear off before jumping down into the abyss yeah learn that hard way but I'm aware now and I'm not going to forget something like that alright so now I can go down and uh [ __ ] I forgot to equip the ring didn't I well it's not the only thing about rings that nobody is paying attention to lately and I guess at least I have all of my asses flash now and it's a good thing I saved this fight for last because my damage outfit was good but speed obviously was not however that's where the heavel strategy comes in in order to tank my way through it although that still requires you to actually hit the Kings and for some reason I would miss seemingly randomly and no idea what causes this but out of these circumstances you would more consistently hit the boss if you're not locked on and because I didn't realize that initially this did cause me to waste a lot of time so now I definitely had to make haste or battle Seth simply hope for decent RNG because that was not exactly much I could do to speed things up anyway well it's not exactly uncommon for the Four Kings fight to be about pure RNG in a challenge run foreign foreign [Applause] well I hate to end things in an anti-climactic way but unlike the bike charge only run where we end it with the hardest fight because we couldn't repost but that is one thing that this time our handicap moveset does allow us to do and I didn't even have to awkwardly two hand after a Parry in fact under these circumstances that wouldn't have increased the damage anyway and evidently doing almost pure magic damage is more effective than physical damage heck given the lack of scaling that fire infusion has it even seems to be the better choice despite gwyn's weakness to fire so yeah that's it bit of an anticlimactic ending but yes the demon great hammer is very awkward to use like this making it not exactly a great hammer but you can at least call it the Demon's decent hammer if you enjoyed this video consider liking subscribing and leaving a comment below and if you want to support the channel you can become a channel member or support me on patreon and of course check out the Discord server to hang out with our fine Community thanks for watching and I will see you all next time my Lord bless thy Sacred Heart [Music] we are here [Applause] foreign

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Length: 46min 59sec (2819 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 22 2022