Darklurker |
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| HP | 5,770 | 6,924 (NG+) |
| Weakness | Lightning, Magic |
| Resistance | Dark |
| Immune | Poison, Bleed |
| Respawn | ?? |
The Darklurker is a Boss in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). The Darklurker, a celestial being with four arms and two wings, engages in combat within a pit in the Dark Chasm of Old. Its lower arms remain folded across its chest, shrouded in mystery. Notably vulnerable to pyromancy and lightning, it is advisable to equip a maxed pyro flame along with several pyro spells for an effective encounter. Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Dark Souls 2 Darklurker Information
Darklurker is a boss in Dark Souls 2. This boss is only accessible by joining the Pilgrims of Dark covenant through Darkdiver Grandahl and completing its questline. It's the final progress stage of the covenant. A four-armed, two-winged hooded angel fought in a pit in the Dark Chasm of Old. Its lower arms are constantly folded across its chest. It is not yet known who or what it is. The Dark Chasm used to access this boss doesn't matter; as long as all three zones have been cleared, dropping into the fog at the end of each chasm will land you in the Darklurker's boss fight arena.
Darklurker Location in Dark Souls 2
- Secret and optional boss of Dark Chasm of Old (accessed by joining the Pilgrims of Dark Covenant and lighting all 3 fires in the 3 Dark Old Zones, and jumping into the hole that usually is the exit in any of the 3 maps).
Dark Souls 2 Darklurker Drops
- Darklurker Soul
- Souls: 35,000 (Standard Game) 70,000 (NG+)
Darklurker Attacks in DKS2
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| Soul Greatsword | A blade of souls extends from its left arm, before Darklurker strikes out. Can strike once or twice in succession, usually a slash then a thrust. | While locked on, strife to the left. No dodging required. |
| Soul Spear | The Darklurker will raise its left arm then thrust it forward, from which a spearhead of light will be thrown at the player. The spear has minor homing properties. This attack happens very quickly, and can catch you by surprise if you aren't looking for it. | Can be dodged by rolling sideways. |
| Soul Bolt | Used when the player is at a distance, the Darklurker flies up in the air out of melee reach and fires a beam towards the ground while rotating slowly to face the player. The beam only moves outward and sideways. | Can be avoided by standing underneath Darklurker. |
| Turn Invisible | The Darklurker can turn invisible temporarily and will drift away from its previous location. Can still be locked on to, but will not take damage while invisible. | |
| Teleport | The Darklurker opens a large portal, and disappears (breaking player lock on). The Darklurker will then reappear some distance away in a puff of smoke. | |
| Dark Soul Bomb | The Darklurker opens a small dark portal with a white ring of light around it, and a second portal opens up somewhere above and off to the side of the player. The Darklurker then casts a dark orb through one portal, which exits the other portal and moves towards the player making a screaming sound. The orb has minor homing properties and explodes on contact with the player or ground for heavy damage, making it difficult to evade. | Can be dodged by rolling or running sideways to the orb's trajectory. |
| Dark Explosion | The Darklurker will arch backwards with its wings spread and two arms outstretched, before closing tight on itself and emitting a massive explosion of dark magic in front of itself. | No sound warning is given, it is recommended to roll backwards quickly. |
| Mitosis | At approximately 50-60% health, the Darklurker will create a bright light and close its wings around itself. The Darklurker will then split into two, each with the same abilities. Both Darklurkers remain for the rest of the boss fight and share the same health pool. This breaks lock-on, but the two can still be hit before the animation is completed. | It is possible to stagger Darklurker preventing it from ever splitting. |
| Fire Orb | The Darklurker raises all four arms over its head and opens a dark portal ringed with fire, then casts three Forbidden Suns at the player. They don't always fly directly at the player, and can be tricky to avoid if you aren't watching them. This can happen after Mitosis and with both Darklurkers casting at the same time, each casting three fire orbs for six total. This can also be cast before Mitosis, though not as often. | Can be dodged by rolling or running. At distance you can stand in front of him and when the 2 first orbs are out just run on his side. |
NPC Summons
There are no NPC summons available for this encounter.
Strategies
Darklurker is extremely weak to lightning, and spamming Lightning Spear or Great Lightning Spear will finish him off quickly if you have a fully upgraded lightning-infused chime. Just wait for him to use his Soul Bolt, then run under and start throwing lightning bolts. Heavenly Thunder will deal heavy damage if he uses Mitosis, due to it hitting both copies and both of them sharing the same life pool.
It is also very weak to fire.This enemy can easily be defeated through the use of powerful pyromancies (such as Flame Swathe) and a +10 Pyromancy Flame. If you have long range attacks like a bow or spells you'll want to have them ready when you start the fight because, like most bosses, you'll be able to get in a few hits before the Darklurker does anything, if you have a bow make sure to use fire or lightning arrows. When Darklurker uses Mitosis, it is recommended that you cast an AoE pyromancy, such as Firestorm, Fire Tempest, or Chaos storm. The pyromancy will hit both of its copies for massive damage, sometimes even killing it instantaneously on the first playthrough. Some luck is needed to hit both of them, but even getting one will result on some good damages.
Melee builds who are struggling can consider either using a weapon with lightning damage such as the Thorned Greatsword or Defender Greatsword, or a weapon with fire damage like the Smelter Sword or Iron King Hammer. Alternatively, you could respec with a Soul Vessel and put points into Int and Fth to increase your dark/fire defense and boost your own fire damage.
Since all but one of its attacks deal pure dark damage, equipping armor with high dark defense, rings that further boost dark defense, and consuming Dark Troches can make the fight much easier. At around 800 dark defense, you'll barely even see your HP bar move when hit.
All builds can benefit from using a fully upgraded and dark-infused Transgressor's Leather Shield, since it blocks 100% of dark damage.
The chime hex Profound Still (sold by Darkdiver Grandahl) is absolute cheese against the Darklurker, since he's a primarily spellcasting boss. It will disable all but his Soul Greatsword attacks for its duration, making the fight much less complicated. (Edit: Doesnt make the fight as easy as it seems. The hex only lasts 30 seconds and he will likely hit you with a soul sword whilst being cast. Doesn't prevent mitosis and doesnt last long enough to do any real substantial damage since you'll spend most of the effect dodging his sword.)
Strategy: Strength Build
He is super weak against fire. I had a Greatsword +10 imbued with fire. And a Dark Pyromancy Glove+9 [not a strict strength build] (obviously plus 10 would be even better). Having an upgraded Rebel Greatshield would help out tremendously, but I only had a Havel Greatshield+5 at the time, still not a problem. Do what you need to get two attunement slots. Go in with the spells Great Fireball(3 uses) and Flame Swathe(2 uses). The only move he does that gave me issues is the dark orb one. It constantly wants to go behind you and I had too big of an equipment burden to roll forward, away from it. So anytime he shot that. I just ran, put my back against a wall, located it, and blocked it. 99% of the time he will follow with his sword which is a great opportunity to get behind him and strike. Just keep circling when he does his shield, and only attack with two swings from behind when he does his sword swing. The two safest times to heal with an Estus is behind him after his sword move, and when he does his airborne laser(making sure you are safely out of its slowly moving path, off to the side generally). Just be patient and wittle him down to half health with your firesword. When he splits, switch to your pyro glove, and get in a flame swathe while they are recouping from being separated. Target whichever one is closer, but make sure you have enough time to cast, so pay attention to his moveset(I'm sure you fought him enough to learn it, I know I did). Always keep your eyes on both of them. Using those five spells with at least a +9 Dark Pyromancy glove will take way more than half his health. So if you can save them until he splits, you are gauranteed victory if you just dodge his stuff. Using those spells will make the "second half" of the fight go by very quickly. I did a lot of planning to come up with this method and it worked out wonderfully. The biggest thing is to get out of your head about having "possibly" limited times to fight him. If you need effigies you can buy three off the merchant in the forest, one off the merchant in iron keep, and 13 off the vampire in the undead crypt!! Killing the three old hags and innocent maid from the beginning will net you 9 of them! Or you can also equip the snake ring, traveling merchant hat, and prison garb and farm them off the big knights in Heide's Tower of Flame, the spider people in Tseldora, and the puppies in Bastille/Belfry Luna/No-mans Warf. A good spot to farm them is the puppy pit down the ladder near the bonfire by Belfry Luna. Also, by using bonfire ascetics in Majula, you can farm the skeleton(s) under the mansion (the number of skeletons increases with more bonfire ascetics); each skeleton seems to drop an effigy with nearly 100% drop rate.
You can also farm effigies near the Tower of prayer. The dogs/humans drop them fairly often.
On the bright side as long as you use the same portal the enemies will disappear if you have killed them the required times(15 I believe). I recommend using the portal under the castle as it is the shortest.
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Strategy: Faith Warrior
Credit: Theo
I have killed Darklurker on NG+ before he split in two. He only managed to cast his Soul Bolt (laser beam) at me (which is easily dodged by going under him) and started his Whisper of Despair cast but didn't even finish it as he was already dead. I have used 4 Sunlight Spears and 1 Great Lightning Spear to bring him down. When you start the boss fight you have quite some time to shoot your spears as the lock distance is great and the boss takes his time to initiate any attack. I had the impression that boss is vulnerable to lightning. My build is Lightning Dragon Chime +5 / Lightning Defender Greatsword +5 / Faith 50 / Clear Bluestone Ring +2 / Chloranthy Ring +2 / other stats and gear are irrelevant.
Strategy: Faith/Great Lighting Spear
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I killed him before he could even split into two. You can use great lightning spear and tear him a new one. With a faster cast(Clear Bluestone ring +1), lightning priest chime +10 and fast roll(below 70%). At the very beginning of battle cast great magic barrier. If he runs after you he will use his two swords dodge them and throw lightning. If he cast the skulls run and dodge. If he does his beam get below him and wait for him to start coming down(You will have to re-lock on.) then throw lightning. When he brings his arms out and starts to split spam lightning. Took 7 great lightning spear hits with 32 faith(lowered the faith to use it.) -CalamityGami-
Strategy: Club Dual-Wielding + Stone Ring
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The Darklurker can easily be defeated using two Clubs and wearing the Stone Ring. When using this equipment, the alternate dual-wield stance plus the left handed heavy attack will effectively stun the Darklurker. A Chloranthy Ring might be needed to increase stamina recovery fast enough to keep the Darklurker stun-locked for the entire fight. (50 STR 10 DEX dual mace, this was the easiest that fight has ever been for me)
Strategy: Pure Pyro
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Now, my build is a Quality PvP build, though I have 2 ATT slots just for some quick pyro punishes in case anyone tries to estus. I wanted to fight all bosses, so my strategy for the Darklurker was a +10 Pyro Glove equipped with Chaos Storm and Great Combustion. You start off woth the Chaos Storms to hit him hard, and that should drop him below 50% health then and there. Then, just spam Great Combustion while he tries to Mitosis, and he dies before he can even split. It's super quick and easy, and the hardest part is timing the Chaos Storms...but other than that, a mere 2 ATT slots can make the Darklurker a super easy fight.
Strategy: Sorcerer
This is quite an easy boss if you have Soul Geyser and the Hexer's Hood. First bring him down with Soul Spears or similar (I actually used Flame Swathe but it does not do that much damage when he's moving around) and when he splits in two, immediately lock on and cast Soul Geyser. This should instantly kill him and if not, cast another one. As always, Lions Mage Set plus Clear Bluestone Ring helps a lot.
Strategy: Light Melee
The boss himself is not really hard until he splits. I was using +8 Blacksteel Katana with 47 DEX and a Havel's Greatshield under 50% burden (Greatshield with good Dark, Magic and Fire resist is a must for this battle, as you can block his most damaging skills fairly easy). Any light armour will do fine as you are mostly going to dodge his attacks and block only hard ones when dodging is not an option. Engraved Gauntlets is also a very good item to equip, as it works on every enemy. When you drop down to fight location immediately use Charcoal Pine Resin and run towards the boss and stick behind him. When he uses Soul Greatsword, dodge it (or just walk behind him), 2H your weapon and do 2-3 attacks (depends on your stamina. Note: always save enough stamina to do at least one roll). When he does nothing, you can try doing some one handed attacks but be very careful. When you see that the boss is charging his fire spell, you can either run in circles to dodge it or run towards him and try cheeping some damage (he can fire a second barrage, so do not risk your life if you are not sure about it). If he starts to do his flying attack, run directly underneath him and when he lands, 2H and attack 2-3 times.Whe he uses his Dark Explosion, you can either run away or just block it (assuming that you have greatshield). And if you block, he is going to be vulnerable for some time. Repeat until he splits.
After splitting, one will attack you with melee attacks and the other will fire magic at you (or they can both magic or both melee). Dodge all their attacks and when one is using his aerial attack you can attack the other one and strike the attacking one when he lands. Also, try to group them and bait their Soul Greatsword attack. This way they will likely stand very close to each other and you can strike both at time dealing double damage. Just do not forget to dodge/block their attacks and do not be too greedy, as they can easily kill you.
I noticed a weird thing (need someone to confirm this, maybe he just bugged) I was running away from them for approx. 1 minute, waiting for a chance to strike. But then I noticed, that the copy (or original, I can't distinguish them) was just staying still and not doing a single thing. If that happens, you can easily kill the other one (which attacks you). I didn't try hitting the bugged/stunned/staggered one though. I am playing on PC, latest steam version.
Video Strategies
Darklurker: Ranged, Sword & Board and Power Stance
Pyromancy(SL1)
2H Greathammer
(Fantasma702) Sorcerer's Guide
Darklurker NG+ done with a bow and pyromancy
Darklurker Notes in DKS2
Darklurker can be respawned through burning a bonfire ascetic in the underground Drangleic bonfire.
If you are playing on NG+ and want to kill Darklurker after having already killed him on NG you must talk to Darkdiver Grendahl in 3 locations (to rejoin the covenant - note that your rank is not reset). Then you must clear all 3 Dark Chasms and set light in the big stone vessels. In the third Chasm you will get to Darklurker after jumping down into the abyss at the end of the cavern if you have done everything right. Burning a bonfire ascetic as stated above won't work in NG+ if you have already killed the boss on NG - you HAVE to go through the process again.
Dark Souls 2 Darklurker Hints
- It's possible to hit both Darklurkers with aoe pyromancies like Flame Swathe when they split, or when they both come in for a melee attack on you.
- His melee attack can be avoided by simply circling to the left. No dodging required.
- Note if you beat the boss and any of its spells kill you, you will have to redo the whole boss fight over to gain the rank in the covenant.
- He is super weak against lightning and very weak against fire.
- Profound Still silences all but one of his attacks.
- High dark defense and a shield with high dark reduction will trivialize the fight, since his only non-dark attack is the fire orb spell.
- If you die fighting him, your souls will be waiting in the chasm you came from, before the hole. It means that if you decide to go to him through another chasm, you won't get your souls back.
- If you're really having trouble beating him; magic immunity is a thing. Dispelling Ring+1 + GMB + 30 int/faith= roughly 510 elemental defense before armor. Quartz rings to 660. You now have 70% dark/fire reduction. Add in armor, even weak armor, and spells bounce right off with an 80%+ damage reduction. Havels would get you to 820. 820x0.11=90.2 Black which gets you ~860 (a 96% dr) fire and just over 900 dark, complete immunity. You can soul vessel to it/back again as necessary. (credits: Forum_Pirate).
Darklurker Trivia in Dark Souls 2
- May be loosely modeled after the Four Kings from Dark Souls.
- The projectile moveset of this boss and the fact it can clone itself is however a throwback to Nineball from the original Armored Core.
- The Soul Greatsword is also a reference to Laser Blade from Armored Core, which is often attached onto left arm until Armored Core 5.
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There are bearers of the curse that struggle with dark lurker?
O, you don't have the right!
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just beat darklurker, i feel awesome, its still a ***** ass wanker though
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darklurker is a wanker ass *****, it needs to become two to beat you, also most of the 'advice' about its weaknesses becomes worthless in NG++ so my advice is destroy it on NG
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Use lightning.
Great message.
2 hand demon great hammer, about 6 r2s n dead.
Killed me 3x before death by lightning enchant.
Chaos set for resistance with warlock mask.
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holy **** i tried using chaos storm and it took off 48 dmg.......
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Might be the hardest boss in the game along side Fume Knight
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One of my favorite gank bosses (aside from going through the chasms and offering a humanity every time). Gank bosses are only done well when they aren't overcomplicated, and have slower windups. It allows you to realistically keep track of both at the same time.
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Ds2 Game Designers: Dark Souls hard, therefore we make tedious also
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lost half of my effigy stash just to get to this guy. Now I have to give more just to try and fight him each time? now that's some bs.
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Having to spend an Effigy just to be able to enter the Dark Chasm of Old & attempt to fight this boss is one of many reasons why it's really hard for me to like Dark Souls 2.
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bosses like this are the reason soul vessels exist. melee users should spec into int/fth since elemental damage, except for dark, deal substantial damage. Too bad if you are on a restricted run though
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No magic Pure Dex Dual wield katana build - I upgraded my hunters bow to +10, infused it with lightning, bought lightning arrows from wellington at drangleic castle entrance - and just played the dodge/shoot arrows strat.
I had 50 vit / third dragon's ring / life ring 3 so a lot of hp for it but it worked out pretty easily. If you're stressedabout needing to farm humanity's, this is how I got around having to try more than 2 times.
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you can just shut him off with dark quartz +3 and great magic barrier, unless you get hit by his fireballs
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**** this boss and **** this whole level, such ****ing bullshit design. And yes, I just ragequit the game.
Honestly, the problem with this boss is not the difficulty of the fight, nor having to kill all the enemies on the way to unlock access to his arena and not even having to do the path itself, the problem is having to consume Human Effigies for each try.
Let me explain, in the rest of Souls games, even the most screwed up bosses that require you to make a long path full of enemies, are not that bad since you can just run without stopping until you reach the boss and you always have infinite attempts, Darklurker on the other hand he is a boss that has all the bad elements of other bosses, with the addition that you must spend an important and scarce consumable item to even TRY to fight him, so when you run out of effigies you must interrupt your game session to start farming, killing all interest in the boss.
Thank goodness they never repeated a boss like this again, they learned from their mistakes.
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After playing Sekiro, DS1, DS3, and Elden Ring, I don't think any boss has filled me with more rage than this f*cker. Having to lose a human effigy and run past havel and that annoying ricard's rapier dude is just extra salt
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this is ****ing agonizing and i hope a boss like this never returns
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There is nothing more heartbreaking than killing him but a spell from his clone kills you right after so it doesn't count and you have to do the runback and the fight all over.
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Took me more than 100 Human Effigies (counting all tries in Dark Chasm of Old) but I finally defeated him!
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This boss was weird for my hex run. I could not hurt him much but he also didnt hurt me much. Slow but safe.
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He's a very fun, unique and challenging boss and all, but good god is getting to him annoying, not to mention having to give Wheelchair Grandpa your effigies everytime you die seriously sucks if you haven't been hoarding a bunch of them.
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After he divides he won't stop spamming! I can't beat him with sword and shield.
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Sometimes he splits when the HP is over 60%. And I never managed to stun him into not splitting.
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Did anyone got this weird bug when you get him in a specific location in the arena where he just stop doing anything and just let himself die?
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"Darklurker is very weak to fire." Why is this not on the top of the page?
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Absolutely love this boss, the design and the moveset are so cool. But if it wasn't for those phantoms before the fight, this boss could have more appreciation by the community for sure, kinda kills the enjoyment for some people and I don't blame them, it's another example of artificial difficulty
"Omg this is the hardest boss in the game"
4 Crystal Soul Spears later: *****ing dies*
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Easiest boss in the entire game with 700+ dark def. Using lightning spears and running from the fire attack that can stunlock, plus any fire sword or a dragon tooth fire infused I heal after 5-10 hits on NG cycles.
Respec and grab armor for free from merchants, use some herbs in fight maybe. Do not take physical Def armor for the fight, this boss does not make physical dmg! Shields are irrelevant if you have a chime on left hand, and pyro is hard to hit even at medium range.
The fire dmg per orb is like 500 points raw, but you just lock-off and run.
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The key to avoiding the phantoms in the run back is to die so many times to the boss that they eventually disappear.
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A fun fight itself absolutely ruined by the run back. I don't mind having to pay an Effigy every time, that's fine, but why do I have to kill the phantoms over and over ?? Hard to practice a moveset when each attempt against the boss is spaced out so far, and when you also have to worry about formidable opponents along the way who you HAVE to kill to progress ..
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Finally beat this guy. Hard with melee but you can learn his movement first phase, then when he split you have to run more avoid both until you can hit, do a single hit and roll, keep both on your screen to see when they do spells. Also if you are close when he do the sword attack you can heavy attack and the he will miss the first hit, like titanite demons on ds1.
On low life both are going more melee, easy to avoid but hard to hit them, use pyromancy from afar
One of the most intense boss fight so far... 1 on 1 easy-peasy, but having to melee one while avoiding the ranged attack of the other, not that easy.
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Is Darklurker resistant to dark damage? I plan on fighting him with a pure hexes spell caster build so I wanna make sure I maximize damage
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I came into the fight with 12 Soul Spears and Profound Still. Just stayed at range and hit with the Soul Spears. Good ass damage. When the split happened, I hit Profound Still and got both of them. You'll know when it happens when he folds his wings over himself. After that it was just a case of staying away and hitting those spears. The reward? A boss soul you can trade for a hex spell called Climax which requires 4 attunement slots, 30/47 int/faith, and it uses all of your souls when cast. Also a dragon chime. >.>
This looks more like a villain from Kingdom Hearts.
It feels very out of place for a Dark Souls game.
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After beating all 3 dlcs he was just the victory lap for me. When he splits it was extremely helpful cause I got to do double the damage with Soul Spears
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I killed him pretty easily with Bucher's Knife +5, 50 STR, and gold pine resin.
Buff weapon when he does the laser attack once you go under him.
I would not recommend buffing while there's two of them. Pull out your trusty Dragonslayer's crescent axe if you run out of buff mid-fight. And don't lock on.
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Sure do love having to give up a limited resource every time I want to fight the boss only to start the fingt with half my weapon durability gone. Such a fair punishment for not killing the boss first try.
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i was running a hex build but made sure to collect pyromancies and upgrade my glove for this, using all the AoE pyros like Chaos Storm, Firestorm, makes this fight not too bad, esp if you can cast while standing between both copies of him. Also it seems like the casting animation when you crouch down makes him miss you a lot.
If you're a pyromancer just cast Fire Whip at point blank on this boss. It deletes his health bar at a silly rate.
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Seems like a cool boss, but the runback is just silly. Almost got it on first try, and on second round died instantly when trying to buff my weapon. Honestly, can’t find the time for this because of the runback, so just gonna kill Grandad.
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Trying to use Pyromancy after he has split is impossible. For me, they never stop spamming Fire Orb and Dark Soul Bomb...like, ever. They both just keep casting it over and over and it takes so long to cast a pyro that you can never get it off before you're hit. It's especially hard to avoid when the orbs track you AND have massive explosions that catch you super far away. Even with upgraded Velstadt armor, Dark Quartz +3 and Fire Quartz +3, they do huge damage. It's insane. This boss is a great example of why I absolutely despise multi enemy boss fights. If it was just the 1 Darklurker, I'd like this fight. But when he splits it just becomes cancer. Especially having to run back through the chasm, AND having to waste 1 or 2 Effigy's every single attempt.
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getting killed by his clone after you killed him still prompted a defeat. i learned that the hard way
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The runback to this boss shows how anti-fun ds2 is. WHY DO I HAVE TO KILL ALL THE ENEMIES EVERY TIME I WANT TO FIGHT THE BOSS???
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Pyromancy shreds this boss. Almost killed him before he could even split himself. Other tip is wait until finishing DLC to fight him.
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When you don't know how to design challenging fight just duplicate the boss/ennemies for artificial difficulty. Dark souls 2 in a nutshell. Here we go for the hit and run.
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was great until the gank began, can you actually stagger this mf? never had it work
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FYI, anything you apply to your weapon (such as pine resin) isn't active once you reach the arena. Do it afterward.
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Pretty fun boss, but requires patience so don't do it when you're frustrated. Much easier when wearing light load, fast-medium weapon, and sticking close to one of the copies at all times to bait melee attacks (circling clockwise does the job). Stamina management was very important.
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You should probably wear some slash-resistant armor because this boss is really edgy.
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Why is EVERY boss a pain in this game? My weapon that does 800dmg to normal enemies and bosses does 230 on him...yeah no thanks imma cheat, git gud fromsoftware
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After years of beating every dark souls boss but one, I bought SotFS, replayed DS2 (with Somme minor changes) and only today beat the Darklurker. I have finally after 8 years beaten every Souls boss, I am over the moon!
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two Clubs and wearing the Stone Ring .... alternate dual-wield stance plus the left handed heavy attack will effectively stun the Darklurker. 50 STR 10 DEX dual mace
Just tried - zero effect on boss, at all!!! 100% bullshit
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Honestly easy ass boss, only has like two attacks that are completely bs, when he chains 6 fire balls and the soul hex explosion. Other than that he’s cake.
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are the soul attacks actually magic damage, or are they dark versions? like dark soul greatsword, dark soul spear etc., i would expect something so strongly dark themed to have hexes. could be tested using 100% magic reduction shields vs 100% dark reduction shields
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Edgy oc boss
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