Prowling Magus and Congregation |
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| HP | 1,100x1, 900x2, 300x3, 280x5 |
| Weakness | Varies (Slash, Thrust, Fire, Bleed) |
| Resistance | Varies |
| Immune | None |
| Respawns | YES |
The Prowling Magus and Congregation is an enemy in Dark Souls 2.
Prowling Magus and Congregation Information
Prowling Magus and Congregation is a boss in Dark Souls 2. Perhaps the weakest boss in the game, located in Brightstone Cove Tseldora. Can easily be defeated with a wide-swinging weapon or AoE spell. Take out the Magus and the two undead clerics first, the rest of the Congregation will be child's play. Be sure to go back and summon Benhart of Jugo first if you want to complete his questline.
Location
- Perhaps the weakest boss in the game, located in Brightstone Cove Tseldora.
Drops
- Titanite Slab
- Souls: 7000 (Standard Game) 14,000 (NG+)
Attacks
NPC Summons
Benhart of Jugo can be summoned for this encounter, provided the player has exhausted his dialogue outside the Old Akelarre in the Shaded Woods. His summon sign is located in a tent in the village; his tent has an armor stand and a number of crates inside.
Strategy
The fight's difficulty comes from the large number of enemies in the room. Each individual enemy, however, is weak.
The clerics seem to throw their lightning bolts faster than the sorcerer seems to cast his spells on the player. Since the clerics also cast healing spells on the other enemies in the room, killing them should be a priority.
One strategy is to use a melee weapon with wide swings to hit/stagger multiple foes at once. Alternatively, some Pyromancy spells with large areas of effect, such as Flame Swathe and Firestorm, can end this fight in seconds.
Another possible strategy is to use Holy Water Urns, which you can buy in unlimited quantities from Blue Sentinel Targray in the Cathedral of Blue. You need roughly 10 to deal with this fight (NG).
Note: The Halberd's two-handed strong attack (the whirlwind-like attack) is very good for this fight. Running into the group and performing the strong attack with a decent melee build will nearly kill the Magus (over 50%+ of his health) and deal considerable amounts of damage to the rest of the congregation. (Needs Confirmation.)
Melee
This fight can prove difficult if you allow the congregation hollows to corner you but it can be quite easy if you circle around the room and take out the hollows first, the Magus himself is rather slow and his attacks are easy to dodge from range, the clerics on the otherhand may prove a bit more difficult due to their lightning spear miracle but these can be blocked with a decent shield or you can simply roll out of the way of them. Once the congregation hollows have been handled with its time to take out the Magus and the clerics the Magus is very quick to fall and will leave you with the two clerics who will not prove a challenge up close or vice versa.
Profound Still
If you are able to use profound still this fight is VERY easy as it blocks the 3 main threats in this fight, the casters. Use Profound Still just before entering the room and prioritize the hollows. Refresh Profound Still before it runs out and the fight is won in no time.
Video Strategy :
(two hand/strength)
Hints:
- Take out the two casters first and then the Congregation. The Magus uses a dark orb spell and a proximity spell, which are easily avoidable. The magus is easily dispatched once you are able to land hits on him uninterrupted by other enemies.
- If you have sufficient faith, the spell Soul Appease is great to use against this boss.
- The benches can be used to stop the crawling zombies. They are also high enough to block the lightning attacks by the clerics, and can therefore act as a useful buffer if you need to heal.
- The Bosses themselves seem to be able to be backstabbed.
- The Bosses are modeled after Fools Idol from Demon's Souls
- The Magus is initially Aldia Warlock, he wears Warlock Mask which doesn't drop here.
- Be careful not to roll into vases in the corner since water contained in them will make you wet. Wet condition drastically increase damage taken from clerics bolts.
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I defeated these poor lads by accident. I was just running away from peasants and spider swarm. What a joke, standing in my way lol.
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I like this boss. They hit hard on Ng+2, so kill those clerics ASAP.
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Teacher: Why didn't you go to the bathroom during the break?
Bathroom during the break:
If it wasn’t for the health bar, this ‘boss’ would’ve been dismissed as normal enemies, with maybe the Prowling Magus as a miniboss
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I feel bad for people who die against this boss. I really do.
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Only halfway through fighting this mob did I realize they had a health bar.
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Honestly this boss is harder than Covetous Demon 100% in my opinion, died more times to these guys than that blubberous demon. The HP scaling goes hard when you go up the NG cycles and the damage is lightning spear damage is no joke too, at least Covetous Demon is slower even if it deals more damage.
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So anyone else walk into this fight and immediately get lightning bolts jammed up teir ass cause that just happened to me everyone saying hes easy when i was one shotted lmao scorpion najka was easy this is b.s
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Mist noble's brother in law who also is related to pin wheel and the adjudicator in some way
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i do have to say i actually somewhat like the lore of this boss.
The clerics healing the poor guys and the Aldia Warlock going to them to **** **** up like everything else that comes out of Aldia's keep. It would have been nice that if you kill the magus and at least a cleric survives it would become an NPC with the random hollows becoming passive and maybe Cromwell moves down from that spider filled room that gives me the creeps.
Also for this bossfight Benhart would focus the magus only (which would have more HP, because otherwise you would just rush and stunlock it) and all the enemies in the room would have some hex fog around their eyes (similar to the redeye ring but black) that goes away if you the magus.
The cleric (clerics if you save both) would become merchants that sell some miracles (maybe taking some from cromwell, like 1 of each great heal and replenishment; another copy of GH excerpt) and items (limited goldenfrouit balms; 10 amber herbs that become infinite after you kill Freja; 10 twilight herb that become infinite with king's ring) and their own set (that cromwell sells in the game)
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Fun fact, this boss is a bunch of desperate people who are hiding from the parasitic spiders in a cathedral, also Magus and the priests are trying to heal the congregation, but then you arrive and kill them all, have fun you monster!
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The first time I walked in the boss room I nearly pooped myself bc I was not expecting a boss and 30 seconds of crushing later I walked out in tears of laughter. I look forward to seeing these poor bastards in ng+7
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I died to lost sinner 0 times. I died to this boss 10 times. Is that bad?
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Terrible boss fight but good for farming Benhart's gear. If Dark Souls 2 gets a remake they better fix this
Hardest boss in Dark Souls 2 and it is on the same level as True King Allant.
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This boss unironically killed me more than Slave Knight Gael.
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Cast toxic mist, do some gestures while everything in the room is wiped from existence in 12 seconds
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This boss is aids ive died about 150-200 times atleast.... still can’t beat it been trying for days now ;(
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This boss is intense, because if you die everyone will make fun of you.
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should this even be considered a boss its just regular enemy's by this logic the room with the knights and the giant in brume tower should be a boss all of iron passage should be a boss the courtyard in eleum loyce should be a boss THAT room in drangleic with the metric f ton of ruin sentinels should be a boss I'm done naming crap
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If you are an INT build go to the middle and spam soul greatsword, it will cover most of the area and finish the fight quickly, bring benhart/player summon with you too make this method easier
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This would actually be challenging if the entire game wasn't constantly throwing the player into rooms/halls packed with enemies, making us so used to crowd control fights we can pretty much just win by muscle memory
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Is there a way to get his staff and hat? They look rad as hell and i want to use them with my caster
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While this boss is a complete pushover, my first time playing I was completely caught off guard by these guys. Still wrecked them first try though, but that's nothing to brag about lmao
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Hardest boss Fromsoft has ever made with the second being mist noble.
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Sorry, at SL1, a mob with sorcerers is not easier than the dragon rider boss that commits suicide.
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If you want to inherit Benhart’s armor and sword this would be the best boss to do it for. Just get some Bonfire ascetics.
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I just have to say that this might have been one of the most riveting, emotional, challenging and intense boss fights of not just the Soul series but video games in general. I had goosebumps the entire time. The tensity and atmosphere was just out of this world. Definitely my favorite video game boss of all-time.
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A comedian and his audience of clowns. More like deacons of the dumb
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Proof that Miyazaki will never reach the big brain energy displayed by his ds2 team
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If you forgot to summon Benhart can you use a bonfire ascetic to do it again?
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The first thing Miyazaki fanboys bring up when talking about how "trash DS2 is". Yes, this fight is a laughingstock, but need I remind you that the Lost Sinner, Fume Knight, and Sinh exist? It'd be like if I said that Dark Souls was garbage and only provided the butterfly and Bed of Cancer as examples of bosses while sweeping O&S and Artorias under the rug. Just kill these goons, stop complaining, and move on!
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So i was doing a Caestus only run of D.S.2 and i was having a pretty good time until i got to this "boss", at this point i was powerstancing +4 Caestus and at ~SL 60, so i confidently entered the boss room, as i had already beat these guys many times with zero problems, only to find that while i did ~100 damage to one of the two Cleric guys, the other one only took around ~20 per hit (~70 per backstab). This made the "boss" much more difficult than i should have been because the "invincible" cleric kept healing everyone, i ended up dying so i said "***** it" and got Benhart to help me. Is one Cleric only taking a quarter of the damage a glitch or is this something that's supposed to happen, because i don't remember this happening the other times i fought them
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I had Benhart summoned because why not and he actually died during the boss fight. Needless to say I was incredibly disappointed in him.
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I actually beat them on my 10th attempt with Benhart summoned...
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A single cast of Poison Mist while playing solo (immediately after entering) can make this fight even more trivial.
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The game itself recognizes this isn't even a real boss fight. You don't even get a boss soul after it...
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Hard as a sorcerer or its just me cause I'm playing as a mage playthrough was ez asf in normal playthrough I use rapier +3 and I got no decent armor and my rspier 7 shots them but my staming isn't high enough rip
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Even on NG++ this fight is still a joke. I used a single forbidden sun and it brought the clerics and main magus to just under half health.
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I just ran in with a Greatsword+10 and one shot the whole room, didn't even take any damage I don't think. Easy AF.
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this area was kicking my *** too, but then i got a great demon hammer drop from the nest and it was over in under a minute. i just ran in and bashed my way around not even bothering to target anyone in particular and it worked bc they were so clumped together.
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weakest boss in the *****ing game my ass, pieces of***** two shot me with their attack.
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this boss is so terrible, that you don't even get a soul for killing him lol
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Easiest boss in the game my ass. The lightning can oneshot you, and the magus himself will use his force spell if you get too close to him. Spent highest amount of time on this boss.
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This boss has to be one of the most easiest boss in the game and I bet the Old Dragonslayer was harder than this crapy boss
Toxic mist will clear out both the clerics and the magus as well as most of the congregation. Cast as soon as you enter. Note: low cast speed will allow the clerics to hit you with lightning. 60-ish didn't work, but 80+ did, giving me time to roll away from their attacks. Done on NG, in covenant of champions.
The scariest (and perhaps only scary thing about this boss besides the fact that the Magus' and the Cleric's spells can hit shockingly hard on NG+ and above) part about this boss is assuredly the fact that people will make a mockery of you if you end up dying to it and likely never let you live it down, which can kinda make this fight oddly stressful in a way despite the fact that it's a total joke unless you underestimate the Clerics and focus the random hollows first for some reason.
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