Heide Knight |
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| HP | NG: ~1250 NG+: ~2,125 NG+7: ~ 5,200 |
| Weakness | ? |
| Resistance | ? |
| Respawns | No (Yes in Heide's Tower of Flame) |
Heide Knight is an enemy in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). They are first encountered after climbing a ladder beyond the The Crestfallen's Retreat bonfire. Enemies have their own behavior and unique attacks, killing enemies provide various drops that reward players with items and souls.
Dark Souls 2 Heide Knight Information
"Heide Knights served as protectors for the ancient Heide kingdom. However, their land sunk into the sea long ago, and only time distortion could explain their presence in Drangleic.
Heide Knights' equipment is made of a special alloy that is incredibly durable. Even after thousands of years, weapons and armors found in game have not deteriorated.
Heide Knights are non-hostile until attacked by players.
Heide Knights have high HP, swift attacks and movement, and deal significant damage. They can surprise and stagger players with their combos.
Heide Knights, although proficient in close ranged combat, have no ranged attacks. They can also be parried and backstabbed. "
Heide Knight Location in Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 2 Heide Knight Drops
- Forest of Fallen Giants - Heide Knight Sword
- The Lost Bastille - Heide Spear
- Shrine of Winter - Heide Lance, Heide Great Lance (NG+)
- Heide Knight Set - Drops from Heide Knights on NG+ also when you've used a Bonfire Ascetic (Can also be obtained on first playthrough with Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +1)
- In the DX11 version, the Heide Knights are now a regular enemy and can drop the Heide Knight Set, as well as the Heide Knight Sword, the Heide Spear, or the Heide Lance in NG (depending on what they're wielding)
- NG: 3,000 Souls,NG+ 6,000 Souls, NG+7: 12,000 Souls.
Heide Knight Strategy Tips in DS2
- The Lost Bastille: Don't let him fall off the edge. If you do, the item drops in the water and you can't get it.
A good strategy for beating them is to bait their attacks and get in a couple swings, as well as back stab fishing when an opening is available. You can also try using a guard break as your opening attack on the knight; if it lands he will stand up and begin to stagger away in a dazed state, leaving him wide open for an easy backstab. Or you can back off from him, and when he start running to get you, you do a power attack staggering him and then roll away from him.
DS2 Heide Knight Move Set
- Sword Move Set:
- Slash: usually comes in two's and three's. they swing around clumsily but also fast.
- blockable
- Backslash: If you stand behind them, they will quickly slash behind as well. They also do this after backstabs.
- blockable
- Slash: usually comes in two's and three's. they swing around clumsily but also fast.
- Spear Move Set:
- Jab and Spin: They will jab once before spinning with their spear
- blockable
- Swing and Stab: they with swing twice before jumping forward to stab you with the spear
- blockable
- Jab and Spin: They will jab once before spinning with their spear
Dark Souls 2 Heide Knight Notes
- In Scholar of the First Sin, they appear in Heide's tower, and, while generally non-hostile to begin with, some do attack on sight, and the rest will become hostile and roam the area after the Dragon Rider is killed. They no longer have a 100% drop.
- They attack fast but its easy to get backstabs on them if you keep moving right. Its also really easy to parry their swings. Unless your weapon can stagger them this is a really easy way to kill them without getting hit.
- Quite strangely, despite the fact that they wear armor, they have high resistance to strike damage, but not to thrust damage. Using 2H rapier power attack makes them an easy target (SotFS).
Heide Knight Trivia in Dark Souls 2
- The breathing noise they make is the same as that of King Vendrick. It is unknown what this means lore-wise.
AnonymousPretty sure the same breathing sound can be heard outside Artorias's arena, provided you died to him and have to approach the fog again in DS1 DLC.
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Their double backwards slice attack has one of the most awkward attack animations I've seen in a Souls game. There's no angle from which it looks natural
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I got the armor set, and the sword +10, and no Im not taking it off, you cant make me
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These enemies are literally tougher individually than the boss of this area. Great game design
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Not going to lie for the second area the player is supposed to go to these enemies are sort of ridiculous. High health, damage that’s insignificant in the reality where they don’t stun lock you in a combo, and they all suddenly become hostile after the dragonrider fight? If you’re going to make them that strong they should just be an enemy that’s sitting there if you want to challenge it like they are pre dragonrider, making them hostile after the fight makes no sense and just hinders the player in reaching cathedral of blue
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Farming these guys for there armor is such a pain been at it for 3 hours and only have the pants
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Why is there so NPC summon with a golden aura wearing his armor?
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I think they were put into the game to see which maniac would assault a fellow hollow, who trusts you enough to just sit in front of you, grunting as you mill about with a weapon, to see whether or not you'd leave him be or just farm him for armor
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Recently found out that you can riposte these guys after staggering them with 2-handed Ultra-greatsword r2s and running r1s , it's kinda finicky to pull off consistently though as there is no major indication of when you're supposed to press R1 to riposte them
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Somehow infinitely stronger and tankier than the giant green Sentinel knights that are twice the size of them.
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I find them to be super easy to parry. The main attack they do is the starting overhead swing which is easy to parry. Gotta do the parry as soon as the attack starts. After that you can farm them pretty damn easily for their drops early game. Two parry's with a starting dagger will kill them.
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He does not drop 3000 souls, at least not the Heide's Tower of Flame one.
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SotFS here, they are not in Forest of Fallen Giants and The Lost Bastille.
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After using a Bonfire Acetic on the Upper Gutter bonfire on a new game cycle, bringing intensity to level 2, and after killing the Heide knight in the gutter, it only dropped the Heide Iron Mask.
Did not drop a second lance or great lance. Was wearing Jester hat, tatters, and covetous +2.
What even drops the Great Lance in SOFTS?
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jumping attack with craftsman's hammer immediately followed with rolling back seems to do the work
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They have insane health, poise, and speed compared to any other early game enemy. They don’t do a lot of damage per hit, but every attack they do staggers you, usually leading to you getting hit multiple times. If you get behind them they attack immediately, making backstab attempts useless. The only effective strategy against them is just to kite them around and use spells or projectiles. Strangely designed enemy, if you could halve their HP and damage they would still be much more difficult than the big knights
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They do more damage to me than the old Knights three times their size
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I swear their hp scales, I came back here and they took way more hits to kill even though I was stronger than before
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i can't speak for the original version but in sotfs you can get armour drops off them, though its extremely rare
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A deranged sunbro. Looks how mindless he is and how he can randomly slash you in a heartbeat.
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If they randomly stop moving to just stand still, they will do a buggy teleport and attack move of some sort. It looks really weird and is almost scary
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Very strange enemy. A few of their attacks are incredibly hard to read and it makes their animations just look flat out broken. Parrying them is a game of luck. I just circle around them with a decent shield and hit them after they attack 3 times personally.
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Backstabbing is awkward but don't rely on it as even a dagger took 1/3rd of his health. Best bet is magic or lightning infusion.
That or stop being a casual and duel fairly with a longsword :3c
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I've farmed for this mfs sword for the past 4 hours and my results have been no swords a large tendency to kill myself
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"The breathing noise they make is the same as that of King Vendrick. It is unknown what this means lore-wise." these lore freaks really sit in front of their pc wondering about the LORE significance of fromsoftware not making an individual breath.ogg for every single enemy in the game
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These guys can **** right off. Their attacks have wild levels of tracking and basically no tell.
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i feel like it couldve been better if FROM didnt add so many of these guys to heide's tower in SOTFS, or at least didnt remove the one in forest of giants. that one was so cool and adding hordes of them just kinda ruins the impact
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For the Gutter one - don't die before picking up the item because it disappears completely. Just had this unfortunate incident occur where the knight died of poisoning, but got a fatal stab on me before going down. He was not there when I ran back and the item was gone. Also - thanks, B team. I love this game, but that's a crummy function.
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I’ve seen a few comments complaining about how this enemy is unfair, I’m glad the Heidi knights weeded out those filthy casuals
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Tried multiple times to backstab, my character animation starts then heide knight just turns and slashes me. haven't been able to land a single backstab so not sure they are able to be backstabbed.
Funny enough I got their sword on my first try to kill them in my 1st playthrough...
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I need the drop rate on the Armor, i've been farming the tower for 2 days straight and it wont drop i've even used 2 bonfire ascetics
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I'm only 10 hrs in, and the one with the spear killed me more times than all the bosses combined.
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These guys are terrifying... Seeing them just chilling and suddenly breathing heavily while walking towards you like freckin possessed zombies is just awesome! Also, why are they impaled by arrows? Some Lore theories?
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This showed up when i typed sanic. the spear one right before the red dragon is quite fast
Why us the quote quoted. That's clearly not all in-game quotes.
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Perhaps someone should add the neutral stance to quick slash attack? Would be more than helpful for newer players to know about that one.
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Can u get the sword if you died before picking it up after killing the first heides knight in the forrest of the fallen giants?
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This enemies moveset along with its poise is grossly unfair. His attacks have no wind up making it impossible for the player to react. Very bad enemy design but what else do you expect with DS2.
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Staggering them in SOTFS doesn't work, just stick to throwables if you can't kill them. I just tested this, also their attacks don't bounce off of shields.
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In Sotfs edition, one can be found in the Gutter, and another can be found in Sinners Rise.
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I farmed the ones in the tower to extinction. They’re super easy to parry when using swords.
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Aaaagh! I have been farming these guys for hours, just give me the crusader helmet already!
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I have the SOTFS edition but the hide knights still don't appear in the tower of flame
In my first play through the Heide Knight did not show up in the Forest of the Giants.
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Got the full set(and sword+spear) by joining the Champion Covenant and grinding the Tower for a few hours using Merchant Hat and Watchdragon Parma. Basically free of hassle provided you can defeat the enemy over and over.
Anyone notice the annoying cape bone behind the left arm of the armor?
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This page on Heide Knights is incredibly underdeveloped
it doesn't tell you what their weaknesses or resistances are as well as not telling what move set they use and the strategies are pretty bad, they only work on certain knights with certain weapons
I mean c'mon it can't be that hard to get the information of what they're what they're weak to
I came to this page for the sole purpose of finding out what they're weak to so I can exploit it because I'm having trouble with one of the knights and I want those souls baby
so basically I give whoever made this page a 2/10 you sir, are a lazy-ass and I swear to god you better update this cause I need those exploits
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farming these guys for their armor is a pain in the ass now, ive clocked in over 24 hours of killing them, gained 3 swords, 1 spear, 2 helms. 1 chest, and 3 legs but not a single arms... based off what im seeing however, their drop rate is somewhere in the 5-10% range
Their moveset is really weird.They look like they are posessed by the curse.
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The first one is super easy to kill at Forest of Fallen Giants no matter what level he is on, I just climb the ladder and fire arrows down at him all day, but warning, when you use 4 bonfire astetics, he will starting dodging you so hope your a good shot!
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The knight in the lost Bastille can drop the lance on a rare drop
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Thereis an error in drops: "Forest of Fallen Giants - Heide Knight Sword, The Lost Bastille, Shrine of Winter". I'm very sure that it doesn't drop the lost bastille or the shrine of winter.
Heide Knights: "Tis but a scratch!"
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