Cerah the Old Explorer, Ancient Soldier Varg and the Afflicted Graverobber |
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| HP | 3110 (Standard Game), 7001 (NG+) |
| Weakness | ? |
| Resistance | ? |
| Respawns | NOT IF ALL KILLED |
The Graverobber, Varg, and Cerah is an enemy in Dark Souls 2.
The Graverobber, Varg, and Cerah Information.
A boss fight consisting of three hostile npcs found within the Cave of the Dead. Each one of them fights uniquely with their roles but not names complementing each other. There is no description of them for no Boss Soul is acquired.
Location
- Sanctum Walk, Priestess' Chamber bonfire. Optional Bosses of the Cave of the Dead, accessed after the Priestess' Rest bonfire.
- Accessible through the locked door near the Tower of Prayer bonfire (also in Sanctum Walk). Requires Eternal Sanctum Key. Simply travel by the thin bridge and then by the larger bridge guarded by two guards with lances and then proceed into the building. The door will appear on your left.
- Be wary of Rockshield Baldyr who will invade you right before the bonfire leading to the cave within which the boss fight will be fought.
Drops
- Souls Awarded: 60,000 (Standard Game) 120,000 (NG+) [needs verification]
- Drops 3 Twinkling Titanite, 3 Petrified Dragon Bones, and 1 Titanite Slab.
- Immediately after them the Flower Skirt and Dark Greatsword can be found. (Note: Dark Greatsword can be obtained before defeating this boss by walking off the elevator next to the Priestess' Chamber bonfire.)
Attacks
| Attack Name | Attack Description |
| Ancient Soldier Varg | Dragon Tooth's Moveset (Includes Jumping, Rolling and Running attacks) |
| Afflicted Graverobber | Berserker Blade's Moveset (Includes Jumping, Rolling and Running attacks) |
| Cerah the Old Explorer -- Ranged | While out of range he will shoot Greatarrows that will knock you down. |
| Cerah the Old Explorer -- Melee | Estoc's Moveset (Includes Jumping, Rolling and Running attacks) |
Strategy
Phantoms can split the enemy's attention, which transforms the boss fight into a brawl consisting of multiple lesser duels.
Solo Strategy
"Afficted Graverober" moves with the highest speed of all three and usually attacks first before Varg and Cerah. Use this to your advantage and attempt to deal damage to him before his allies can arrive. Use parrying and backstabbing to deal a significant amount of damage without the need to expose yourself to Varg's and Cerah's counterattacks due to the resistance given during the execution of the critical hit. Be wary though of Graverobber's quick attacks for though they cannot one shot you they can still deal a noticeable amount of damage. In fact damage dealt by the Graverobber just might be the perfect amount to get finished off by Varg's hammer or Cerah's Greatarrows.
"Ancient Soldier Verag" has the highest health pool, noticeably high poise, slow but high damage with his hammer ,but he moves the slowest of all three. Do not exchange hits with him, nor do not get greedy because the Tooth can easily oneshot you. Instead focus on taking down his colleagues whilst he is away due to his slow speed. Once he is left alone do not parry for it is probably impossible but instead attempt to backstab. You can also try to wear him off with a spear, but be wary of his high lightnining resistance.
"Cerah the Old Explorer" will attack you from distance with the usage of a Greatbow. Once up close he will attempt to jab you with his Estoc which can also perform swinging attacks. The best way to take him down is to attack him after killing the Graverobber and whilst Verag is too far to retaliate for harm you are causing. If it comes to attacking him, use the fact of his low poise to your advantage and attempt to parry his Rapier. He has the lowest health pool of all three which is noticeable. To avoid his Greatarrows you can either hide behind walls, leave him slowed down within the lake or roll into them.
Under the main area of the fight there is a watery area filled with statues. Beyond it forcing you to move more slowly and having an animated statue slug, it's tight and difficult to fight within. This area is exitable, simply move to the left (orientation: face forward from the boss entrance) and look for a ramp that will lead you upward.
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Hints
- Each one of them can be made to bleed or/and be poisoned.
- The water within the area under the main one slows the squadron as well, one can use this fact to make them split.
Trivia
- "Varg" is the Swedish word for wolf.
- The squadron can be referred to as the "Gank Squad".
- This boss may be a hint to the player of how the PvP could look like without the latency issue.
- Their names do not seem to fit one another. Perhaps these people are just totally unrelated hollows who had bumped into themselves within the cave.
- Varg seems to be cosplaying as "Havel, the Rock", having his full set, his Greatshield and the iconic Dragon Tooth.
- Cerah has somehow acquired a Lucatiel's Mask, Black Leather Armor and leather gloves and leggings. He wields an Estoc and a Dragonslayer Greatbow.
- Graverobber wears Alva's armor and dual-wields Berserker Blades. He will powerstance with said blades.
AnonymousHaving at least one summon will distract them to give you plenty of opportunities for backstabs.
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Chain-gank the havel wannabe with your highest damage weapon before Andrei dies (Alfis is only useful to buy time), then counter gank the ganker 2v1 (do it where the archer can't hit you easily), then slowly torture the last one because that's the true reward for this god forsaken area
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Weakness: standing behind a certain rock and killing them softly with ranged attacks
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Just flatten them with big bonk. Cast away your silly swords and magic, become bonke.
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If Varg is truly a Havel Knight, and not just some imposter/random who's using Havel gear, I'm sure Havel would be very disappointed in him, No true Havel Knight worth his salt would team up with a band of graverobbers and gank you like a cowardly slimeball
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This boss is pretty easy with ranged battle (sorcery/pyromancy/faith/hexes/arrows) Kite the two idiots chasing you, dodge the arrow shooter, lure in water and keep kiting. Kill the shieldless one first (graverobber) and make your choice on who to kill next Havel's fan or the archer guy (he is easier to kill, less hp no shield). Then the boss is now easy pickings.
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Just as bad as lud and zallen, A Havel wannabe with infinite poise, a douche who snipes you across the map and has a rapier that straight up ignores poise and is guaranteed to stagger you, even if you're wearing heavy high poise-having armour he staggers you as easily as if you were a butt naked caveman, And a dual-katana weeb who bleeds you in seconds
This fight is just so, ughhhh...
Doesn't help that it's in black gulch 2.0 with petrify statues instead of poison statues, and an assload of enemies.
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Terrible fight - forces you to use chicken strategies. Once one of them dies, it becomes a breeze though.
Run in a figure eight down to the waterpools and run up the ramps. Graverobber will attack first. Roll, attack run. Rinse and repeat.
When Greaverobber is dead, Varg can be beaten easily by backstabbing him to death (backstabbing also makes you almost invulnerable to the greatarrows). After that, Cerah is a breeze.
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Spent all my soul vessels respecing to fight these things and learned they take no damage at all.
80 INT Spell spammer build with fully upgraded Magic Staff of WIsdom + Great Heavy Soul Arrow = 96 damage to archer, or 33 to Havel wannabe
80 STR Heavy Greatsword slammer = 160 to archer, 76 to Havel wannabe
Any dex just dies to arrow stagger and Havel onehits...
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The only real way to beat this boss is to play like an absolute pussy, circling round the edges, running after getting hit and going in for a few hits before fleeing again. Having Hexes or Spells definitely helps, and the chip damage most hexes do can give you a fighting chance. Good Luck Skeleton
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this is in my opinion the easiest of all the dlc bosses, since it's the only one I didn't get stuck on (in NG+ since I just bought the DLC)
literally the hardest boss in the game just beat it with great club pancake strats
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Surprisingly it only took me 2 tries with no summons. I was just circling around the ledges, dropping to the water then going up again while they chased me. Whenever one of them was separated from the other two I would give him a couple hits then repeat the process.
I never do PvP so this was quite the experience.
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The two summoning signs are shortly after the bonfire, since nobody seems mentioning it.
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Probably the worst boss if we aren't considering runbacks, incredibly boring to fight and simulates elden ring pvp experience. Only good thing are rewards in form of upgrade mats but even that is hardly worth the trouble considering they can be farmed easily. If you are having trouble do the following:
- kill the archer first
- use magic, bows and other ranged stuff whenever you can
- go to Gavlan and buy 30+ poison knives
- bait them to lower floor often as that can give you 5 seconds of breathing room because they are slowed by water as well
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broke all the statues on the way to gank just to find out that they respawn. ****
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as others have mentioned, definitely bring the summons along, and a way to heal them. go 3 v 2 with Graverobber and Vargh and try and get some backstabs on them, kill em fast. Then gangbang Cerah.
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Well, with the two summons I actually enjoyed the ensuing 3v3. Felt like a fair fight. Would never try to solo, though.
Havel is easy to backstab. Bow dude is easy to parry or stunlock.
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This fight, and in particular the area before it, is the reason I didn't finish all 3 games before getting to Elden Ring like I wanted to. **** the completionism, this dogsh!t fight is not worth another second of my time.
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I love when they put impossible bosses in ds2, there was no chance that miyazaki was at the studio when they made this
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Shouldn't be hard if you summon the 2 npcs. Also, you can endlessly farm 3 ascetic 3 twinkling 3 petrified and a slab. So, 3 vs with all of this is more than fair and I farmed there multiple times.
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A bow spammer whose thrusting sword breaks poise...
A weaboo who can inflict bleed in two hits and ignores summons...
A Havel boyscout who miraculously gets 1-hit backstabs when he's in front of you...
Yep, sounds like a measly 45000 souls worth of work to me!
soldier varg was probably in havel army for his armor and title, and in the gutter there is a body with havel equipment so i assume two havel soldiers went exploring the gutter or shulva
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Just bring in the summons, and fight the melee guys 3v2, easy. They seem to naturally be drawn to the phantoms anyway so you can just go for backstabs. The archer barely hits anything so don't worry about him until the other 2 are dead.
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Here's the strategy that worked for me:
-= Things you will need =-
>No Phantoms! These only will makes things more difficult since the Gankers could (and will) focus on you out of nowhere in the middle of the battle
>Big Ass Weapon! I'm talking about Zweihander/Greatsword type, preference on +10 with some imbuing (Fire, Dark or Lightning)
>Light rolling
In the beggining of the boss battle, wait for Fake Havel and Fake Alva to advance, go to the pit on the right as soon as they're close, run upwards as soon as you hear the two gankers falling on the water.
Then run to the archer ****er and swing your sword at him. Sometimes you will hit once or twice, sometimes you will miss, the thing is DON'T GET GREDDY. Despite being on heavy armor Havel Fake run fast as hell and he ONE SHOTS YOU with some moves.
After hitting the archer (or not) run to the left, (right beside where he will be on the start) and fall in the pit again, be aware that there are LOTS of **** spitting statues there and the way to climb up is pretty narrow and easy to miss, roll until the middle of the way and locate the climb (drink some Estus if you need) once you're up again, go to the fog gate and wait for the two melees two aprouch and repeat this until you kill the archer shiter Lucatiel fake ass *****.
Once you done with him, things will get more complicated, you will repeat the same process until Alva Fake reaches you before Havel Fake. Trade one or two hits with Alva and run as soon as Havel aproaches, DON'T GET GREEDY ON THIS, it will take some time and patience.
Once you finished Alva Fake is time to get on x1 with Fake Havel, go to the middle of the arena and prepare! His hits are ****ing lethal and if you get caught on his R1 combo it's ****ing over. If you get hit, roll out immediately, and do the race throught the pits of water as before to get time to heal and once done, go back to the same place.
Despite his hits being ****ing lethal, it leaves a great room for atacks and backstabs if you roll correctly!
And that's it! This was the one that worked for me, at least...
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Damn, ds2's director could see the future. This bossfight is basically every ds3 invasion you ever attempted.
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Graverobber: Stole Alva's drip and went into hiding because of how recognizable the armor is
Vaarg: Misheard Seath to Sinh but it's still a dragon so Havel approves
Cerah: Silver Knight trainee that didn't get accepted because she failed the height requirement
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we were fighting but then varg escaped from the arena? he literally got out from the fog gate and then his HP bar went 0 did this happened to you?
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The summons actually help here immensely, as long as you fight with them (as in, gank them as much as they gank you). Take out the Graverobber guy who two-shots everyone first, then the bow guy and Havel cosplayer are a lot easier.
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Ok. I was ready to say I never died to this boss due to the water and me circling around these guys to take out the Lucateil fake. But alas on my fourth playthrough Havel backstabbed me. At least I can say I never died to the area but my strategy is to play duck duck goose with them and take out the archer first, then the knight, and finally the havel wannabe.
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Save yourself the headache and summon the two npc's at the beginning. Yeah the bosses will have higher hp but they'll also be distracted by your "renta-friends" which gives you some breathing room. Watch out for Havel, hes like a dog with a bone... and you are the bone. He was the one chasing me while 2h'ing Dragon's Tooth (phrasing) AND somehow outrunning the one in Alva armor! Still, beaten is beaten, next!
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just disgusting. I dont know why fromsoft enjoys putting unfair bosses behind unfair paths
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Is this boss objectively harder than many others? Probably not. Is it the most tedious? Oh, yes. Yes it is.
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Man, this almost made me quit the game. I'm enjoying DS2 but this was just too mutch bullshittery in one arena for a dex user. My build is for 1v1s not for a Havel wannabe and a ****ing akimbo-samurai to show up. And I didn't even mention the guy with the Dragonslayer bow. This fight is... overwhelming. My tip is to use a polearm (I personally used a maxed-out Partizan for this fight, great weapon) and because the 2 melee guys are following you, just go backwards and stab towards them with the spear. This will eventually hurt both the Graverobber and Varg. But first take out the archer. He is target #1.
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Ancient Soldier Varg was one of the most famous bards in Lordran, until one day he stabbed the Lute player of his band to death and was thrown in the King's dungeons. After his release, he settled in Drangleic, taking up a life of making increasingly erratic poltiical statements is almost entirely Hollow by the time of Dark Souls 2.
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So this is where they got ideas for the dungeons and field bosses of elden ring
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First beat this about 2 years ago in my first "do everything" save, on NG. Two-handed the Dragon Tooth, wore no armor but the Jester Robes for the weight under 30% for light-roll, and just R2 pancaked everybody, Alva-cosplayer first. VERY satisfying to pancake Havel-cosplayer after all the times he did it to me! The archer, though, wouldn't stay still for me to hit, so I think I hard-swapped to a staff and cast a few Dark Orbs at her at the very end.
I must have died at least 50 times before developing this strat on my own, didn't use a guide. I reeeeeally should have used a guide. I had no idea about the poisoning strat, I am definitely going to try that next time. The NPC Summons were useless to me, they were dead before 10 seconds had passed.
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Yes, running around this left circkle and poking them sometimes with my poison Grand lance. The last the Havel guy was constantly healing but was poisoned eventually =D
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Stay with the group and fight the two melee, drag the group behind some rocks. The archer will continue to fire and hit terrain. Was super easy after I did that, also through in some poison while they were occupied.
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""Afficted Graverober" moves with the highest speed of all three and usually attacks first before Varg and Cerah."
absolute rubbish
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I have to say, a savior for traversing the path to the boss-fight are firebombs to take out the poison spitting statues (pack a bag of poison cures) and the Ring of Restoration helps for conserving resources. In the case of magic users or low vitality builds, this area is more than crippling for low health or low poison resistance, Iron Passage or Snow Fields may be the area you want to cover before the Cave of the Dead, as despawning enemies there is an option, not so much in CotD. Now as what I have to say for the boss-fight, take out Varg first as he is a heavy hitter, best way is to backstab as he has high poise, staggering with weapons Satiner's Spear is not an option. You get the back stab after he swings, you wait for the longest recovery attack, also buff the backstab just to squeeze out more damage when you prompt for it. Next is the Graverobber, either backstab him or stagger him hard, Satiner's Spear heavy 2-handed combo attack is excellent for doing so, you just need to make sure he doesn't attack you as he can combo you back. In the case of Cerah, the annoying archer during this fight, at times it's best just to magic blast him, but in the case of close-range, reach is your friend, so you a spear or ultra-greatsword and keep some small degree of distance, yet not enough to trigger the greatbow. On that note, spells like Homing Crystal Soul mass helps for getting damage in, when fighting off the Graverobber and Varg, seek to get out of sight of Cerah to engage. Summons here can help a lot on keeping off agro from you especially if you are fragile, but don't expect them to be able to do all the work, to an extent they are better as shields rather than damage.
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Why the hell did Ancient Soldier Varg told me to stop watching **** as he gave me the final blow ?
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This fight didn't bothered me at all, the ****ing path is what is frustrating to me, all those status and the lizards with a small hit box is bs
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Out of the three optional paths in the dlcs this one is the easiest, the NPC summons are smart and tanky, good at drawing agro, and all around pretty neat. The NPC bosses are decent, while I was hoping for a new boss, I will admit these three are refreshing.
If you need advice, summon the NPCs they’ll draw at least two of the guy’s agro. During this don’t go attack the archer man, he stays in back cause he’s smelly. Instead go for backstabs and completely DELETE their health in a matter of moments. Once both are killed, take your NPCs and show the arrow man how it feels to get ganked by three separate playstyles.
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On my first playtrough I ******* hated this boss fight.
But now on my second one it‘s extremely fun and refreshing.
You have to run like hell and do only one hit at a time, but very nice
why some don't like this boss? he's really tense and challenging, playing solo, and yes he's unfair, but i liked the unfairness, life isn't fair, and that's the lazy boss of dlc like lud and zallen and blue smelter demon it would be better if one of these guys was someone important, for example the real "alva", but even so the boss is good and the music goes very well, and the violin that I love
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This cancerous thing is tougher than invading gank hosts in ds3.
At least with invasions there's a whole map to run around and enemies to hide behind to catch a breather...
In an invasion my best play is to punish greed with turn and burn with an ultra weapon. But havel and alva stick together like glue, and their AI only changes when they get low on health and start being less aggressive.
Can't turn and burn Havel, the beast tanks my great club two handed R2 while standing in idle pose. I was powerstancing the great club and greatsword(ugs) and I couldn't interrupt his leap smash with my L2. Plus his leap smash has 180 degree tracking, which means panic roll is a death sentence. With katana man and rapier man L1 and R1 spamming, there's a chance for an inescapable situation, and it has happened to me a couple times...
Also, I don't know how the heck it happened, but rapier man managed to poise break my Greatclub 2H R2 mid swing, with a f*cking R1. I had 123 poise and had him isolated. Greatclub R2 mid swing, and it got stopped by a rapier R1...
Anyway, screw this boss.
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A decent attempt at recreating pvp without latency. My only complaints are that the bow guy should be using magic of some sort, and he shouldn’t attack you with estoc when you get close. Instead, he should run away like a typical magic user.
A lot of people will tell you to focus on the archer first. I found that with my particular setup, this was difficult to do. If you're having trouble with this, here's an alternative strategy:
Get a bunch of poison arrows or some other way to reliably inflict poison that works for you. Instead of rushing Cerah, start kiting the two melee guys around the path immediately inside the boss room. The way this area is set up, you can run across a little bridge to the left, around the pillar, and then back past the boss door to a cliff in a corner, which you jump down from and then start running towards the bridge again to repeat it.
Running around in this little circuit accomplishes two things: It lets you kite effectively while the others are poisoned, and it gives you two corners that have complete cover from Cerah's arrows. You can use them to heal and/or shoot in safety. This is a really easy (if somewhat slow) method to deal with them. Don't bother trying to poison Cerah -- her resistance is way too high. Once the two melee guys hit the dirt, you can go smash her face in. :)
Hope this helps, and good luck!
P.S. - Summoning the two phantoms for this fight isn't guaranteed to make it easier depending on your setup. It triples all of the bosses' health, but the ally phantoms don't do much damage.
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I managed to beat them in my first try (with help of the 2 NPC summons), somehow we all except the archer chik ended up in a some corner hidden from her doing or*y while she was shooting in the stone. Havel was the first one to fall, then the knight dude and finaly it was 3 on 1 gangbang. It was kind of fun
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Cancer boss fight. Exemplary of terrible game design. Nice to see they let the summer interns make a boss fight though.
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I think they did a pretty decent job at emulating the average Dark Souls invasion except they could've replaced the bow guy with a crystal soul spear spammer and give them some heals.
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Kill me a million times over for saying this, but I think I'm a little too positive for my own good. Because I enjoyed this fight somewhat.
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Incredibly unfair and frustrating fight, basically 1v3 pvp unless you bring summons. With 2x NPC-s on your side it's just about tolerable in NG, but in NG+ both your helpers will have seemingly the same HP as before, meaning they will both be vaporized before you even had a chance to kill 1 of the opponents. So enjoy the 1v3...
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On my no healing, two hand melee only save....this is the hardest fight in the game. I’ve died 80 times and counting.
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Used 80 poison arrows to kill them. Use a lighting bow, it staggers them when hit. Also focus the archer first, and the guy with havel set last, because he uses estus flasks and heals himself
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This has always been my least favourite boss in DS2, and I guess that's saying a lot, considering the amount of garbage bosses this game has. Anyways, I've always found this fight very frustrating, and I think it still is, if you're a melee guy, but as I'm going through with my hexer-build, this actually wasn't all that bad. My tips would be that you should make sure you have at least two sets of Dark Fog and banish summons at the door, since they're pretty useless and make the fight lot harder than it needs to be. What I did was that I went straight away right and used the little ledge there to make the two melee fellas stop for long enough for the fog to take it's effect. After that I just run around like a headless chicken evading attacks and arrows, and if possible, poison the archer as well. When the poison effect runs out, rinse and repeat. Eventually one of them dies (usually Graverobber), and the fight gets way easier, and by the time you get two of them to fall, you can just use your dark orbs or any attack you prefer on the last one. It's honestly not too bad of a fight if you do it the poisoner's way.
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This fight is really meant for ugs class and up. And boy oh boy is it fun to gank spank the **** out of them with a ugs. I slapped on the stone ring, buffed the zewihander and beat this boss fairly easily.
If you ever get the king's ugs, and buff it, then the fight is a joke. That havel monster will die easily and if you land a back stab then its game over for these guys.
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Funny how no one mentioned, but the titanite these chuckle****s drop is supposed to be in a room full of chests above Elana's boss arena, in one of the rooms with the rotating wheels - chests that are open & empty when you find them.
"Finders, keepers" where you kill the finders. Lol
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Did this first time with the help of the two NPC summons. Here's what I've done: I made sure that Alva and arrow guy aggroed me, while Havel aggroed the phantoms, i killed alva by using my Ivory king UGS, yes I was running a quality build, and with the help of the stone ring i could effectively stun 'em. Anyway, i killed alva while the other guy shot arrows at me, he didn't hit me most of the times, so he's not a big deal. After Alva i proceeded to parry and riposte arrow guy, he's really easy to parry, and then i dealt with Havel, already weakened by the phantoms, as he is really slow i could backstab him multiple times, killing him in less then a minute
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Ancient soldier Varg should be my friend because we are havel knights, i have havels set ( ful set even dragon tooth) are all +5!
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rush the archer and kill her as soon as possible while avoiding havel and the other one. then after you kill the archer poison one of the other 2 and kill them by running away from them while they are poisoned[i killed the graverobber first with poison arrows]. then poison the other one as well and shoot dark arrows at them to kill them.
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Fight isn’t difficult at all if you have the basic priority of killing the bowman ASAP. Then you can use the water to separate Havel and Alva and take out the next one of your liking, and finally backstab the remaining one
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This is just insulting tbh. Especially as a ****ing DLC boss. Anyone that didn't object to this at the FromSoft office needs to get 3-manned in an alley.
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Hell, after seeing so many people **** on this fight I was really worried about it. But i beat them first try and it was FUN AS ****. I know this comment will get downvoted to hell but I don't care. The only bad thing for me was the run leading to them , Those statues are annoying af
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Possibly the most difficult boss in the entire SOTFS depending on your play style. I am already in NG+, and both the difficulty and annoyance of this boss far exceeds any other boss I’ve encountered (which means all bosses except for the double king’s pet)
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-Poison them with:
a) Toxic Mist + Poison Mist or Dark Fog
b) Poison infused spear/piercing sword/lance pokes while your shield is up so you can trade hits with them. Recommend Black Scorpion Stinger. Crest of the Rat and Sanctum Soldier Gauntlet helps buildup a lot.
-Wear Jester's Robes or Ironclad Armor to not get backstabbed
-Take out arrow guy first
-Lure them in water to make them wet, and use a Lightning weapon (again, the weapon types mentioned above work well because of the shield poke)
-Utilize the little bridge over the water pit on the left shortly after the fog gate. They have a harder time getting to you, surround you or rolling away from your strikes
-2 handed strong attacks from Ultra Great Swords or Great Hammers is the only way to reliably stun them
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If you come into the fight with npc it is not so bad but dear god doing this fight alone makes it so much harder.
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why these npcs feel smarter than the pvp npcs? well built and they really know how to roll better.
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Did solo with no tips... I hated this fight. Took me 3 tries only, tho.
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Took me 3 tries. I just pancaked the greatbow guy repeatedly with Dragon Tooth then ran away when Havel guy and Alva dude caught up to me, then when he died I started pancaking Alva, then I just backstabbed Havel.
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Real facts: summon both npc's, focus on eliminating one enemy at a time, and equip lifegems and repair powder in your inventory. This is a marathon fight, not a sprint.
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whenever i fight against them and run circles i play benny hill theme
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Beat them on my second go. Not as bad after I read some tips and had some bois to help me.
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> This boss may be a hint to the player of how the PvP could look like without the latency issue.
LMAO
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