Smelter Demon |
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| HP | 5,970 | 8,358 (NG+) |
| Weakness | Strike |
| Resistance | Fire |
| Immune | Bleed |
| Respawn | NO |
The Smelter Demon is a Boss in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). The Smelter Demon awaits as a potential initial boss encounter within the Iron Keep. Although optional, tackling this formidable adversary might be more feasible after gaining some game experience. Leveraging poison becomes an effective strategy, as the Smelter Demon is susceptible to poison arrows, swords, resin, or the Toxic Mist pyromancy. Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Smelter Demon Information in Dark Souls 2
Smelter Demon is a boss in Dark Souls 2. This can be the first boss encounter in the Iron Keep. He is optional so if you have trouble dealing with him, it is better to come back to him after some time. If defeated, returning to his room will result in a Pursuer fight.
- The Old Iron King's life was taken by a mass of iron that had been given a soul. Was this metal goliath there from the beginning, or was it a product of the king's conceit?
Dark Souls 2 Smelter Demon Location
- The first boss of the Iron Keep.
Smelter Demon Drops in DKS2
- Smelter Demon Soul
- Souls: 32,000 (Standard Game) 64,000 (NG+)
DKS2 Smelter Demon Attacks
Fight Notes:
- During the fight, once you manage to chip a quarter/third of his health, he will roar and stoke his fire*, this will add a constant low damage burning AOE to his person, additionally the room becomes darker and he becomes brighter. After depleting a half of his health, he will stab himself with his sword doing no damage to himself but lighting his sword on fire. This greatly increases the damage his sword does.
- Melee attacks done to him during his kindling or sword ignition animation do about half the damage.
- Arrows shot during his kindling or sword ignition animation do no damage. However, if the bow has magic damage you can deal very minuscule damage. (tested with Dragonrider bow)
- Sorceries shot during his kindling or sword ignition animation do greatly reduced damage.
- Be wary of rolling into the walls as sometimes you glitch and get stuck partially in the wall unable to move. Using a gesture that moves you, like pumped up, may free you from the glitch.
- Additionally the boss can physically box you into the wall with his body. You are not glitched into the wall but you will be unable to roll away and escape.
NPC Summons
Lucatiel of Mirrah can be summoned for this fight, provided the player has exhausted her dialogue at three locations and received the Ring of Steel Protection +1. Her summon sign is located near the fog door, against the wall to the right.
- Caution: Lucatiel will often not enter the boss area as a glitch. This is more likely to happen if you summon another player along with NPC Lucatiel for the boss fight. While this is more common when you have another player phantom helping along with Lucatiel, it has been reported to occur when just using NPC Lucatiel.
Manhunter O'Harrah (Her summon sign is just before the entrance to the boss battle in the room with the fire and spike wall traps), only in Scholar of the First Sin . (she is intended to be summoned for the Old Iron King, but she can be led back through the previous area to fight the smelter demon). This strategy makes the boss fight cake.
Strategy
Smelter Demon is easiest to fight if you dodge to the left rather than the right. Be careful not to get pinned to the wall as his wide frame can easily trap you. For your armor and shield, use something with high flame defense (recommended using the Gyrm greatshield as it has 100% physical and fire resistance) and you may also want to the Flame Quartz Ring or cast Flash Sweat before going in. Using a Small Orange Burr can also help you defend against his fire. He has high armor, so magic is most effective. Aromatic Ooze or Gold Pine Resin really help in this fight. If you have a Pyromancy glove and Toxic Mist or green pine resin, it is also worth using especially while he is recovering from attack or buffing himself (poison does 15 dmg and it ticks quite fast, taking roughly 15% of his health). All in all, your best bet is to keep dodging to the left, circling around him and attacking when there's an opening. While he's catching his sword on fire you have a moment to heal or apply a magic to your weapon as well (if you didn't before the fight). Then keep the same strategy going. Be very careful about his Jumping Plunge attack as he often does an explosively devastating AOE afterward. When making some distance from him, be careful as he will shoot fire from the end of his sword as he slams it on the ground.
Overall, what makes this guy so difficult is the overwhelming amount of fire damage that he can inflict (which is often too much for most NG players to tank at this point). Coupled with his aggressive attacks and constant lingering fire damage in his third form, most attempts that do not kill the player outright can often end through attrition on the part of the boss being able to constantly rip through the player with fire damage. Flash Sweat (available from Rosabeth of Melfia) is a definite help that almost everyone has easy access to, along with the flame resist rings. The miracles Magic Barrier and Great Magic Barrier are also helpful if you have access to them. This guy is one of the more difficult bosses of the game, so don't be afraid to get whatever help you can.
To make the fight a little easier if you are fighting solo as mentioned earlier Flash Sweat, Magic Barriers and Fire Resistance rings are very helpful. If it's not enough you might have picked up Alonne Captain Set that drops from the enemies in Iron Keep. That armor offers very high fire resistance and this will help you greatly. Alternatively if you only have the Alonne Knight Set it still offers high fire resistance but not as much as the Captain Armor. His fire damage over time (or DoT) will continuously drain your health. Even with high fire resistance this can still be a problem. Equip the Ring of Restoration if you have it, this will either stop the fire damage from draining your health or make it drain much slower. With all that fire damage will no longer be a problem, allowing you to focus on dodging attacks and taking your window of opportunity to attack when you have it. But a word to the wise, when he does his thrusting down attack with his sword always get as far away as you can. He might not do his AoE attack after but once he's buffed that AoE wave attack can one hit kill people with high health. Don't risk it just get away.
To reduce his damage to a manageable amount, try rolling in the water provided by the Pharos lockstone next to the archer above the walkway next to the boss door. (You will need to do several jumps over lava) This will provide a massive buff to fire resistance . You will know that the buff has been applied by the fact you have wet footprints behind you as you walk. This along with flash sweat will prevent almost all fire damage.
If you summon help, survive until the phantom dies at all costs. Do not engage the boss unless you are absolutely sure you will not die, as phantoms summoned for Smelter Demon often experience their hosts' death more than the bosses'.
Solo Melee strategy
this boss can be very difficult if players are NG and primarily dedicated to Melee, due to the fact that he focuses attacks on whatever is closest to him (if there are more than one Melee players in the room, eg- lucatiel's phantom, he will prioritize the last attacker) and his high armor doesn't help either. However it is possible to slay him solo melee with relative ease, if you apply some effort. since his attacks are a sword with fire damage, you will need a set of armor with a nice armor-to-fire resistance ratio, I used Vengarl's set with the tower great shield (gyrm great shield would be better, but the tower great shield can be found earlier and has a decent fire resistance). for added protection, the flame quartz ring, ring of restoration and flash sweat are recommended, as well as rolling in the water at the pharross's contraption. as long as you have water on you, you should take next to no fire damage for a couple of mins, allowing you to keep health restoration items for the end of the fight.
the actual strategy to combating this behemoth by yourself is fairly basic. as soon as you enter the room, lock on and begin strafing left around him. try to stay behind him, but make sure you are on his left, as his attacks are more likely to hit you on the right. keep your shield up at all times and keep an eye on stamina. try to bait his more powerful grand slamming attacks, as he will need to pull his sword out of the ground. this will give you time to throw in a couple of hits from a great sword (i used Drangleic +2). wait for openings and keep strafing left around him. also try to keep him in the center, as this will remove the chance to box you in the corner. whenever he kindles his flame or ignites his blade (and if necessary when he is recovering from a heavy attack) estus up and try to use flash sweat. keep rinsing and repeating, chipping away at his health, avoiding his AoE attacks and it should only take 3-5 mins to take him out.
Easy Solo Sorcery Strategy
The easiest method to beat this boss solo, far and away, is to summon Lucatiel of Mirrah primarily to act as a distraction. You may need to fight/dodge the boss for a few seconds (dodge left for the best chance at avoiding his wide sweeping attacks), but then let Lucatiel start hitting him so he focuses his attention on her. Then just back off to almost max range and let rip with spells; if you stay far away his focus will stay on Lucatiel the entire fight. The odd long-range attack may still hit you so be ready to dodge, but otherwise just shoot him to bits.
Solo Pure Sorcery Strategy (no Hex/Pyromancy/Miracles)
Recommended gear:
Rings: Clear Bluestone Ring (faster casting), Flame Quartz Ring (more fire protection), Chloranthy Ring (more stamina for blocking and casting spells), Covetous Silver Serpent Ring (more souls obtained)
Armor: Hexer’s Set (obtained from Felkin or dropped by him) or any other fire-resistant armor that does not terribly slow down the player. Hexer’s Hood also increases spell uses.
Staff: Staff of Wisdom (if you can wield it), otherwise any staff with a high casting speed, like Sorcerer’s Staff
Spells: Soul Spear, Great Heavy Souls Arrow
Shield: Gyrm Greatshield
Preparation
This strategy requires the player to attain 16 points in strength, enough to TWO-HAND Gyrm Greatshield, which has the ability to completely block all the boss’s attacks in both phases. For a Sorcerer as a starting class, the player will need to spend 13 levels to equip the shield, a seemingly discouraging number. However, with the use of a single Soul Vessel, the player can easily re-stat the 13 points any time they want, and unless they insist on never using a shield or raising stats irrelevant to a mage, this strategy will really benefit them as it can save them a lot of time and frustration.
Smelter Demon is weak against magic, and depending on your INT and the level of your staff, you are unlikely to run out of spells during this fight. I suggest buying as many Great Heavy Soul Arrows as you can before attempting the fight. Also, leveling up your staff dramatically increases your magic damage. If the run-up to the boss fight depletes your spells, remember that you can always consume herbs to replenish your spell uses just before the fight.
Battle
The idea here is to only attack the demon during his longest recovery animation: Jumping Plunge. An important skill to master is how to switch between two-handing a shield and casting spells, all without taking hits. In order to two-hand the shield (assuming you have equipped it in the left hand) HOLD the two-hand button for about 1 second, the same way you would enter Power Stance. You can still block with L1 like before. Keep close to the demon and circle around him, baiting him to do Jumping Plunge. As soon as he jumps, step back and take a safe distance from him, firing 2-3 spells before two-handing the shield again. Remember to stay well away in case he triggers the AOE explosion. Alternatively, just equip the shield in your right hand and instead of holding the two-hand button, you only need to press it normally, eliminating the time risk at the cost of confusing the attack and defense buttons.
Although it is tempting, trying to punish the boss after his other attacks will more likely than not result in the player being punished himself. This is because you need extra time to two-hand your shield, and the other attacks simply do not provide you with such risk-free opportunity as the Jumping Lunge does. I tried to sneak in a spell after his Vertical Cleave two times, and barely survived his swings with a timely dodge that nearly gave me a stroke. In both cases, the boss was quick to react to my vulnerability, so my advice is to not give in to temptation and only attack him after his Jumping Plunge.
NOTE:
This guide is for dedicated sorcerers, which rules out the use of Dark Fog, Poison Mist and Toxic Mist since they are either Hexes or Pyromancies. If technicality doesn’t matter to you, for an even easier time, use these spells instead and the boss becomes laughably easy. Remember that Smelter Demon, like many other enemies, can be inflicted with poison and toxic AT THE SAME TIME. As soon as one of them starts working, inflict him with the other for a crazily rapid life drain.
Smelter Demon Video Strategies in DKS2
Smelter Demon Hints in Dark Souls 2
- Gyrm Greatshield has 100% fire resist and makes this fight a lot easier. (Rebel's Greatshield can be obtained a lot earlier in the game and has 100% fire resist when infused with a Firedrake Stone but not 100% physical.)
- He is susceptible to poison so using poison arrows/sword/resin or the Toxic Mist pyromancy works well.
- When he lights his sword on fire, it deals far less physical damage, using flash sweat at this point will make most of his attacks harmless.
- After defeating the Smelter Demon, reset the area and a Pursuer will appear in the empty boss room. Defeat this Pursuer to obtain the Ring of Blades+1.
- His attacks are quite easy to dodge, try rolls, until he lights his sword on fire. At that point, be VERY careful when / where you roll as fire will shoot out in a straight line from the end of his sword.
- * If enough damage is dealt to Smelter Demon early on, he may skip the stoking of his fire and go straight to lighting his sword on fire. You can then continue the fight with no fear of his passive fire damage.
- Appears to target characters who use melee attacks against him or characters closer to him.
- Summon Lucatiel and avoid engaging him. Let her pull aggro and move as far away as possible and range him. NG+ whole fight took under 1 min 10-15 Great Lightning spears. Stamina ring and shield, Sun Seal, Clear Bluestone Ring and Ring of Knowledge. I had extremely miserable time using melee on my first play through.
- Summon Lucatiel, bring toxic mist and around 40-50 Hexing urns. Let Lucatiel tank his attacks. Start with the poison, and pelt him with the urns. May take a few tries, but worth it if you can't use miracles or sorcery.
- The Hexer Set offers extremely high fire resistance (higher than the Alonne set) and is very lightweight. If your character does not meet the stat requirements to have Felkin give you the set, Melentia will sell the set once Felkin is killed.
- Commonly referred to by the community as the "Strawberry".
Dark Souls 2 Smelter Demon Bugs
- While fighting the boss player may get stuck near the walls. (The decorum lining the walls can make it easy for the boss to pin you up against them. When this happens, the camera also gets pinned up against the wall making it extremely difficult to see what is going on. This however, does not constitute a bug, only poor mechanics). Note: Whilst it is possible for the boss to trap the player against the wall as described above, a bug does exist that causes the player glitch into the wall, making them 'bounce' vertically and unable to move. It usually occurs following his 'stabbing lunge' attack. As of 13/05/2014, this has not been fixed in the PC version .
- Lucatiel can become stuck and never enter the fight. Happened to me twice during my first play through. She has to be directly behind you to enter. If she moves to your right when facing door there's a good chance you'll die alone. Note: that happened with me as well, noticed that there was a Alonne Knight that will rush you from behind when you get close to the "mist door". Wait for him, kill him, and Lucatiel won't get distracted.
- Sometimes if the world master summons Lucatiel, but enters the boss room before she finishes summoning, it will tell any phantoms the person summoned (players), "The world master has left the area, returning to your world." And force them back to their world. (Confirmed on PC)
AnonymousHahahaaha, getting Manhunter O'Harrah to fight this boss with you is not trivial.
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Toxic mist and flash sweat. That is all takes. Don't complain about this being hard if you haven't tried that yet.
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My favorite 1v1 fight in the base game, his appearance makes him look like a braindead brute. But when you fight him he delays attacks and speeds some up. Not the hardest fight in the game (Mainly because he's not an gank.) but very fitting when it comes to his lore of the Iron King thinking the demon didn't have a mind of it's own.
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Hard runback: Use shield and run past all the bros, roll when katana strike, you will have to use estus flask when entering the arena
hard boss(sorcerer): learn to switch between shield and staff, and use sorceries when he boosts into the other phases.choose to roll in or out smelter demon
hard boss(melee); use shield, apply magic, lighting to weapon whatever one will do the job.stay either close range roll in to him or roll out.
Note:
-use LifeGem
-use fire resistance stuff
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Actually, it will be much better for you if just skip this boss and head straight out to the Belfry Sol bonfire and clear that area. Yeah, if you die later you are gonna have to run through the entire Belfry Sol section, but it is still much better than doing it the regular way. You should return and do the fight when you are more leveled up, so you can use Lucatiel too.
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If he's hard, use a shield. If the runback is hard, use a shield. What's wrong with you people?
We had a rematch in ng+ and I learned some things:
1.When he is still off at the first you should apply a poison mist or toxic mist or even dark fog,it takes a few seconds for him to wake up and if you keep close he gets poisoned. Worth it
2. Very resistant to slash damage.
3.Cast flash sweat(if you don't have it just eat an orange burr) and wear your best fireproof set plus flame quartz ring.
4.Ring of restoration.
5.Don't stay far. HUG HIM! And circle clockwise(to left) and roll when he attacks.
6.When he does harakiri just stay at his left leg and spam attacks,Same for all of the phase transitions.
7. If you are a mage and want to twohand gyrm shield,put it in right hand and put your staff in left hand to twohand it faster.
8.have a high amount of faith,in yourself I mean
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Sure does make sense that this giant flaming iron golem-like Demon is susceptible to poison.
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Try just circle around or walk away or smthn, strafing instead of rolling saves a lot of stamina which is really helpful for this fight
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beat this boss first try, actual cake. it's the runback to the boss that made me want to THROW MY ****ING PS4 OUT THE WINDOW LIKE HOLY ACTUAL ****ING ****
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This boss caused me a lot of problems on my first playthrough. I died at least 50 times to it, cause I was heavily underleveled. I started NG+ and now I 1st tried him.
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Super fun fight, his moveset is relatively easy to dodge, but the constant damage from the fire keeps you on your toes. Super, SUPER satisfying to beat.
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I really liked the boss and wanted to fight him legitimately, but the runback was absolutely infuriating and wasted too much time. I got fed up and just summoned Lucatiel and it was an easy win. I hate that whenever there's an interesting boss that I enjoy fighting they completely ruin all the fun and insert a terrible runback.
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As a sorcerer the boss was not that hard... maybe 5 or 6 attempts. But the path to the boss was such a pain! It was impossible to rush (when I reached the fog I got killed during the animation), and these knights... they can see you at 50 km distance and they run faster that Sonic. I had to repeat the path a lot of times until enemies stopped respawning. Not very cool.
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Am i the only one who thinks he bears a small resemblance to Nightmare from Soul Calibur?
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I had so much trouble with this boss, until I started to roll only to my left (when rolling to the right I usually got hit anyways, especially after his sword gets buffed)
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Did they seriously have to give one of the toughest bosses the worst runback known to man in the Scholar of the First Sin version? You have to fight through a literal army of Alonne Knights to get back to this mf's boss arena
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"Smelter Demon is weak against magic" The page does not say that
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"After depleting a half of his health, he will stab..." He did beforw half
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Gotta love how in Scholar of the First Sin edition, they gave one of the hardest base game bosses, an absolutely abysmal runback full of huge Alonne Knight gank-squads, par of the course for it, very few of the changes in terms of enemy placement were for the better
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I have more attempts on the run back than I do on any boss in this game
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died over 39 times to this boss, one of witch was the actull boss fight
youll never guess what killed me 39 times
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Honestly, the hardest boss I fought yet? I think every boss I fought up until Smelter Demon I did it first try.... (Not counting the gargoyles though). Even if that was the case, the boss was kinda easy... I'm using the greatsword and put poison resin on it. Did the drink, bonk him into an std that slowly killed him.
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The worst thing about this boss was a path to him. It's not long, but there are 15 dark knights in the way, that annoyed the **** out of me. Beat the boss in 3 tries, so thank goodness he wasn't that hard
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This is a required boss because there is 3 miles between the first and third bonfires making you have a 99% chance of death
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lucateil died before i enterd in and her summon sign is gone feelsbadman
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Damn, Smelter Demon's damage is no joke. 23 VIG, Ring of Steel Protection +1, Flame Quartz Ring +1, Silverblack Shield and Alonne Knight Armor + Drangleic Armor. Even with all that, he was able to 2 shot me. He also would not stop spamming that huge jump attack.
Those goddamn Alonne Knights with the greatbows are a much harder threat than 2 Smelter Demons combined
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A generous amount of iron flesh, a bit of poison, a dash of toxic and you can say pyromancy killed a fire boss
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Smelter Demon boss music ends... Greatsword boss music plays.
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Thank god this Vagina Face is skipable, i rather go through the entire Iron keep without fighting this Cuunt head just for that fuucking bonfire :)
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poison can make your life easy here, just play like a ***** once that health starts draining
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I beat him with my cave man build and gotta love the knight before the boss
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Gotta love it when the Knight-dudes inconsistently aggro you when you enter the keep... Makes trying for that Demon SO damn enjoyable.
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Playing ds2 for the first time, beat him first try blind- dont see the hype behind him. But that entire area is probably the most infuriating in the ENTIRE trilogy..
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The hardest boss in the game is optional.. i like ds2 but the lack of hard bosses bothers me a little
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Im lucky a **** ton of sun bros put their signs down at the start of the level, even if it's the only actual co-op ive had in this game. I only helped him kill some knights along the way, and then he dealed with this boss FOR me. Thanks random sun bro, I wouldnt be able to finish this stupid ****ing game without you.
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Please tell me there's a mod to make the trek back to the boss bearable
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I swear, he is weak to fire. I was doing more damage with a charcoal pine resin than a gold pine resin, and I have quite a bit of faith, if that effects resins.
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i dont understand why people hate this guy so much, i thought the fight was sorta fun
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Summoning both Lucatiel and Manhunter O'Harrah makes the fight a lot more manageable. Lucatiel can take quite a bit of punishment from the boss, but YOU cannot. So if you're worried about her dying here (for quest purposes) I'd be more concerned about getting killed yourself. The boss does a surprisingly huge amount of damage if he connects with any of his strikes (especially after his sword is on fire.) Good luck!
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It's amusing to me, Genocidal Archer, people complaining about the run back. It's very easy if the enemies have been exhausted. DS2 most 'Peaceful' Souls Game, KilledthemPermanently/10
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Good fight, but holy ****, that amount of both health and damage is an awful lot. This might be the most trouble I've had with a boss so far.
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This fight makes me want to throw my console out the window solely because of how atrocious the runback is
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If your looking to kill this boss, grab a lot of souls, and the great resonant soul spell along with the summons before the fight and a lot of stuff to restore spell uses. Then just sit back while the summons tank the damage and you shoot spells at him. Killed it within about 7-8 minutes
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10 out 10 boss. Has a challenging fight that’s fun to do and a kick ass theme.
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fun and relatively challenging boss, completely ruined by that runup. who tf thought putting that many enemies was a good idea????
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great boss, godawful runback. same with the blue counterpart. just save yourself the headache and back up your save before the fog gate.
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xbox3: the different phases are based off time in the boss fight, not health.
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Just fought the smelter demon, and for some reason instead of the second phase he skipped straight to the 3rd, had fire on his sword but didnt inflict passive damage. (xbox 360, calibration 1.13) This hasnt happened on any of my other playthroughs
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I've been playing Dark Souls back to back for my first play through of each game.
I beat Dark Souls 1 and went straight to 2.
So far, this Smegma, I mean, Smelter Demon has given me the most trouble of ANY Dark Souls bosses.
Aside from the Bridge Wyvern, I still never killed that Jerk.
This demon is a tough boy.
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did you know you can pancake this thing? try it out for yourself
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So folks, what I'm writing here sounds crazy, but it's true. I swear and may an eternal curse come over me if I lie. But after I was flattened and burned for the estimated thirtieth time by this flaming fiend suffering from chronic heartburn and burning hemorrhoids, my PS4 overheated to the point that it literally burned out. Has that ever happened to anyone or was it just a one-off, crazy coincidence?
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Says weak to poison. Ha wrong my poison sword does crap damage and its +10. My fire sword does more damage
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I still get PTSD where I got stuck in the wall for like 6 times fighting him.
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Running up to the boss let ya run out of spells? *looks at lvl 105 sorcerer with lvl 40 attunement* Ya sure?
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You know what? Up until this fight, I liked the fact that you could be attacked during an opening animation. You'd take damage when opening a chest or a door, but why in Gwyn's name is there an enemy right in front of the boss door? And why does it take so long to enter boss fog? The smelter is nothing. That jackass with the bow is the real boss
Took me so many tries to defeat this dude until i even pulled my hair out
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You don't intimidate me in the slightest, Smelter Demon. Wanna know why? Because I ain't afraid of no roasts!
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Faced the boss with a pure pyro character using only toxic and poison mist. The fight ended faster than I dreamed. I had taken on him a lot of times before with different builds (all major pains in their own way!) and this one turned out to be the easiest. I will explain why. A high attunement (75) coupled with clear bluestone ring greatly helped with casting speed, reducing the risk of getting punished during the casting animation. To further prevent punishment, I only cast poison and toxic after he was recovering from the jump attack, which he tends to do a lot if you stay very close to him. After that, all you need to do is stay back at a safe distance and cast poison and toxic. By the way, as with all other enemies, Smelter Demon can be inflicted with BOTH toxic and poison at the same time. I would also recommend wearing hexer hood, which increases spell casts and ensures you never ran out of spells. LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, farm some gyrms in Doors of Pharros for a Grym greatshield, which is a must for maximum safety from the demon’s every attack. My character had 16 Strength (enough to one-hand Drangleic Shield) while Gyrm greatshield requires 32 Strength. But I could still block efficiently by two-handing gyrm greatsheild. I hope it helps. :)
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Page hasn't been updated in so long that the Notes section says something about using "10-15 Lightning Spears", that's been patched out of the game for what, 4 years?
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Was pulling my hair out until I learned he has a hard time hitting you if you hug him. With butcher knife and quartz ring, hard boss becomes easy boss. Hug OP
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"return to this arena later to fight an enemy similar to the Smelter Demon" Did the person who write this have no idea what the Pursuer is?
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Idk but he was just another slow heavily amour guy to me. I just dodge left all the time and beat him 1st try, meh.
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Broken Hitbox the boss fight Annoying boss, Annoying path to boss and *****ing retarted moveset, just equip fire-resistance, the red tearstone ring, use the Brightbug and R1 spamm his ass until hes dead, chug estus like a retard when hes on a phase transition and keep spamming R1, It will be over before you know it Or go and play Dark souls 1 or 3, those are way better than this one
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Magic Demon Smelter is faster and stronger than the Smelter Demon, no matter what equipment you have, it is useless. The scene is always too dark.
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I tried to use the black scorpion stinger with poison damage but it didnt seem to do anything. Why is this
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Beat this guy on my first try thanks to the forewarning on the wiki. This is definitely the best page on the DS2 wiki.
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The run-up to it is pretty tedious, but the fight itself is one of the better ones I've had in this game. It starts slow, just so you get to know its moveset, and it builds up as you keep fighting it. It punishes turtling enough as to incentivate you enough to know its moveset, and after that it becomes a matter of timely dodging (although the big overhead smash is tricky to get used to, and I got hit by the first horizontal swipe a whole buncha times). It gives enough window for you to heal, particularly after the jumping attack, and that window gets bigger the longer the fight goes on. He kicked my ass a whole bunch of times, but I have to admit, this has probably been the best straight-on boss fight I've had so far in the game.
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The Lucatiel summon and magic resin makes this fight a breeze. Lucatiel is a damage sponge. All you need to do is dodge a few attacks until the demon aggros on the phantom and cowardly swing a few times into its backside and retreat while you recover stamina. Demon was beating on her mercilessly and I never saw her health drop below half.
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NG i got 28,800 souls from him with a silver serpent ring +1. i earlier learned that it gives +20% souls, meaning he drops 24,000 souls, not 32,000. consuming his soul grants an extra 8,000 souls.
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I have extreme trouble dodging his moves,finding Windows to heal,finding Windows to attack,and I suck at dodging the AOE when he does the jumping plunge,and I have a +10 Lighting Bluemoon Greatsword,but the only boss I have more trouble with so far is the Looking Glass Knight
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
The Smelter Demon (both Blue and Red) will only do the AOE explosion IF THEY LAND IN THE MIDDLE CIRCLE OF THEIR ARENA
- Anonymous
DISCLAIMER: this fight is for melee players only, sorry caster and pyromancers you will have to figures something out yourself.
Easy strategy for smelter demon. This strategy relies on the player killing the old iron king first. But if you can wait that long and level up your health and stamina this fight will be even easier.
1. Use Havel's set. It is not necessary to roll if you use the Gyrm great shield. By default he doesn't take to much stamina away from you when he hits your shield, and reinforced to +5 ( if possible) he won't even take more than 20 stamina away form you when you are guarding he's attack, plus 100% fire resistance will make this fight a cheese.
2. Ring of life Regeneration. for the second phase when he's fire take your health slowly, this ring plus the armor will great reduce this DMG.
3. get a good weapon. I used a Greatclub on +5 with lightning pine resin( not sure gow much STR i had). i was doing about 330 DMG per hit.
Play defensively, walk around him and keep him as close to the middle of arena as possible.
Doing this the fight will be a cheese.
- Anonymous
I fell in love with the armor and weapons.(not important)
I really love hearing more about the smelter demon since it is my favorite boss!!
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