Velstadt, the Royal Aegis |
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| HP | 6,290 | 8,177 (NG+) |
| Weakness | Strike, Lightning |
| Resistance | Dark, Poison, Bleed |
| Immune | None |
| Respawn | NO |
Velstadt, the Royal Aegis is a Boss in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). A knight donned in armor, equipped with a formidable metal hammer, safeguards the tomb of King Vendrick within the confines of the Undead Crypt. Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Velstadt, the Royal Aegis Information in Dark Souls 2
Velstadt, the Royal Aegis is a boss in Dark Souls 2. A knight wielding a great metal hammer, who defends King Vendrick's tomb inside the Undead Crypt...
This boss battle makes reference of the knight protecting Maiden Astrea in Demon's Souls, called Garl Vinland, he wears a similar helmet and has a massive hammer as Vinland did, plus his mission is to protect the King no matter where the king was heading to.
Velstadt was always at the King's side as if he were his lord's own shadow. After the King retired to the Undead Crypt, Velstadt followed, never to return. - Boss Soul description
Dark Souls 2 Velstadt, the Royal Aegis Location
- First boss in Undead Crypt.
Velstadt, the Royal Aegis Drops in DKS2
- Soul of Velstadt
- Royal Soldier's Ring +2 (Bonfire Intensity 2+)
DKS2 NPC Summons
Grave Warden Agdayne can be summoned for this fight, provided the player exhausts his dialogue near the entrance to the Undead Crypt. His summon sign can be found along the left wall, behind the row of square altars.
Devotee Scarlett can also be summoned for this fight; she's behind a pillar all the way back in the room with two Dark Witches after the first Imperious Knight (SotFS only).
Strategy Tips in DKS2
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He has two phases. The first phase he primarily uses melee. For this either block or strafe around to the sides of him. At about 50% health he switches to his second phase and uses magic. In the second phase, he uses long cast time attacks, denoted by dark purple clouds. When they are used run up to him and pummel him.
(Melee):
Take note when I fought him I was at SL 127 using a +10 Heide Sword and the Vengarl+1 set with my Stamina at 123 and using the Drangleic Shield+1.
Soon as the fight begins keep your shield up and get close to him and keep circling to the right. After he swings his mace you can get in 2-4 hits keeping just enough stamina to block a counter-attack. Once his health drops to roughly 50% and he ups his dark resistance. Keep enough of a distance from his that he prepares to fire his dark orbs. As soon as he starts his animation you can sprint up to and behind him and get in 5-6 hits due to his long-winded animation. This route takes a bit longer than normal but it is a rather easy solo.
Be sure to break in between strikes for just a moment to allow your stamina to get a quick recharge. The Chloranthy Ring+1 and a Green Blossom aids in this even more.Parry:
All of Velstadt's melee attacks can be parried. His thrusting attack doesn't give the usual parry sound, however, if timed properly, you won't get hurt and he will be stunned as usual. After each successful parry, you have time to safely attack him with 3 swings from a long sword or one swing from a UGS. Instead of an additional attack, use the time to regenerate stamina. In his second phase and high Ng's, if you fail to parry his two-handed overhead swing, he will most likely one-shot you, so some practice is in order. His moves are quite predictable, and once mastered, parrying Velstadt over and over again can be one of the most satisfying things to do in DS2. Due to his wide sideway swings, you sometimes even can parry him while standing behind him.
A note on co-op: The parrying player should wear the redeye ring. Even if parried, the sideways swings still seem to hit other players behind the parrying player (it looks like the swing is interrupted only graphically and still connects to everything on its way as unparried).
Hints
By standing far away after he is down 50% he will almost always use a long casting time ranged attack. You can run up to him and get a lot of hits in, then back off and repeat.
- At 50% health Velstadt casts hex, which acts identically as Sacred Oath miracle. It grants him damage reduction by half and few new attacks. However, with proper timing and a bit of luck player can avoid his going to the second phase.
- Weak to Lightning, Magic and Strike.
- Resistant to Fire, Dark and Slash.
- Most hammer attacks can be parried. This does not allow to perform a riposte, but stuns him for long enough to land 2-3 hits.
- His dark orbs don't seem to follow you at close range, so when he is about to fire them you can get behind him and he should fire them completely in the wrong direction while you can get a couple of hits in.
Move Set
- Hammer Slam
- Hammer Swing
- Dark Burst
- Kick
Dark Souls 2 Velstadt, the Royal Aegis Notes and Tips
- This boss is modeled after Garl Vinland from Demon's Souls. Coincidentally, they both are defending a defenseless being.
- Garl defends Maiden Aestrea, while Velstadt defends king Vendrick to prevent a greater evil from taking the throne.
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This bootlicker defeated my boi Raime,I respawned him and killed him with full Raime gear damnit
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i like how he stands there guarding over his dead king , what a loyal servant :'(
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Hard to imagine that Bonky-boi could beat up Fuming-boi once.
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Proly the best base game boss alongside Looking Glass Knight and Darklurker In my opinion ngl, love how he doesn't really do any fancy crap (besides the phase 2 buff and dark orb attack) just nothing but bonking the hell out of you with his Bell-on-Stikk
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"Weak to Lightning, Magic and Strike." The magic weakness is not mentioned on the top of the page.
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Devotee Scarlett is useful for this fight. Grave Warden Agdayne is a complete moron, but will take a few hits.
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I had no idea you could parry him, Idk about anyone else, but a massive 15ft tall knight clad in golden armour wielding a gigantic hammer that's the length of an entire school bus and hits like one doesn't really scream "Parryable"
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We hear so much on how Champion Gundyr and Godfrey are gigachads, yet not many give the og gigachad Chadstadt the recognition he deserves.
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for those who havent played vanilla, you need to count your blessing. i'm playing on ps3 right now, and the run back to this boss is complete trash. in fact of all the areas, the undead crypt on ps3/x360 is the only area so far that was toned down for the next gen upgrade. but the long room leading to velstadt is especially cheap, because there seven, count them. SEVEN Syan Soldiers standing at the steps to his room. so theres very little chance to juke the mob and hit the fog, because it takes 5 seconds for the transition to signal, so you just get beat out of the transition. and i couldnt agro all of them at once because the 2 closest to the door won't leave the steps, so basically you have to kite each one away kill it, and move on. these idiots all hide behind their shields, so all in all each run is like 10 minutes of circle strafing and back stabbing seven kited Syan Soldiers. its not that it's hard. it's just very tedious and time consuming. when i just want to run back to the boss and try again, instead i have to stop and meticulously kill 7 nights.
i may try to tomorrow see if i can just dump a cloud of poison on all of them and chill, but if you are melee, you are in for a lot of r1 spam.
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you could have summarized Adagnye's location by just saying "second to last left pillar" tbh
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I love dying repeatedly with 1 hit left, then 3, then 5, getting progressively worse until Alt F4
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I platinumed SotFS and didn't even remember this guy when I came across him in Vanilla... now he's handing my ass to me. This series always makes me question my inner workings.
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I love how this guy, who is ten times slower managed to beat fume knight in the lore
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"Hey Velstadt, what is your weapon?"
A L A R M C L O C K O N S T I C C
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Weak to strike they say. To slow any strike damage dealing weapon I have is
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So everyone is uppity about veldstat being copy pasted garl vinland, but then conveniently forget how many copy-pastes ds3 did with ds1? At least veldstat has animations and assets on his own.
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Worth it to bring Devotee Scarlett for this fight. Don't bother with the other NPC. Cannot believe how much better she is.
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I liked him up until the point Elana spam-summoned him in every attempt of mine against her.
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Beat him first try with a +10 greatsword was easy because I was lvl150 and +5 havels armor and a +5 black witch robe. he hit me a ton but I have 12 estus+5 and a million life gems along with 2 npc summons. why are the bosses so easy in this game? What do I do with all these souls???
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What? Garl vinland was better than me? Please, that casul needed a shield just like raime did.
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Does anyone know if you can prevent his 2nd phase hex powerup with Profound Still?
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I find his backstory cool. The loyal protector of king vendrik and his cutscene was badass. It is one of the coolest boss fights in ds 2 and a bit annoying. Because you have to run through an army of extremely powerful enemies to get to him. His attacks are easy to dodge but he hits very hard. After he activates his dark magic he could one shot you with his hammer and he have a lot of health. So patience is the key so dont get greedy.
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I’m pretty sure if you enter the fight wearing the Fume Knight armor set/helm he instantly goes into his Second Phase, I could be wrong though
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Biggest ****ing enemy in the fight is the damn camera and not even Velstadt himself.
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I had used a bonfire ascetic to get a second mace of the insolent. So I got some experience fighting Velstadt twice. Agdayne is absolutely useless for this fight. Dies super fast and doesn't really do much damage. Sometimes he won't even follow you into the boss arena. He's really not worth summoning unless you just really want to. I recommend making sure your AGI is high and your equip load low. Dodging is your best bet for beating this guy. You need that agility because his hammer hitbox is crazy and will hit you unless you're careful. Weapon is up to you but I was doing around 400 damage per swing with a +5 black knight halberd. Just dodge, get your attacks in, read his movements. I never parried him but you probably would benefit from it.
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For eaaasy access: In the great pillar room, kill the undead in the room right under the stairs, but DON'T hit the bell! Then quickly exit to the left and kill the undead that heads towards the bell. Enter bell room again and wait for the third undead to rise. Kill him as well without touching the bell. Now you have the whole hall without ghosts. Aggro the middle big boi in front of the fog gate with an arrow, he will come alone - and once killed, won't respawn. Now walk along the wall behind the pillars to the left until you are at the skeleton. If you want to summon help, you can now become human. The sign is two pillars further and you will aggro the two *****heads. Whether or not you summoned, run around the last pillar up the stairs and enter.
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*****, i piss off the Grave Warden Agdayne by bringing a torch to his place, and now i cant summon him, and i burred a bornfire to farm those witch and now i have to deal with this strong ass mother *****er with no help, oh boy, i died so many time
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I beat him FIRST TIME on SOTFS edition (PC) using THREE NPCs...Devotee Scarlet + Grave Warden Agdayne + another one with a name like "Funkilot", although not sure if that was a human phantom? Looked like a Jester... I just used Soul Arrows - the only downside was...my distance attack cowardice meant Grave Warden Agdayne died :-((
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As he is sitting with his back to the entrance and his face towards the stairs to the King, I guess he is rather watching him and preventing Vendrick from leaving as part of his oath to protect him. In his state, the King would harm or kill himself, so he is entombed with his dearest knight watching over him. I love this story and it fits perfectly in these sad little snippets the DS-Lore consist of.
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Oh I can dance around him all day. But after 20 minutes of battle my shield breaks and I cant do anything. He is not weak to lightning or magic or poison. What can I do here?
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To get to the boss easier, run behind the columns along the edge of the big hall to avoid the sorcerers, then you just have to make one roll past the knights to get to the door. Sometimes they'll charge up the steps fast enough to interrupt you, but usually this gets you right past untouched.
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annoying boss, especially the *****ing army he has you have to run through
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isn't there a weapon or armor that makes him go ape***** and keep his agro on you?
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Really fun boss if you didn't have to fight the *****ing velstadt gang chilling out front that can randomly summon like four other ghosties that just gangbang your ass..
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Remember to take your time. He can be quite the hard hitter so don’t get greedy. Do a couple hits, wait and then repeat!
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Machado de bandido +8 com resina eletrica. Fui com a armadura de alva numa run sem morrer e sem fogueira e sobrevivi
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Magic great club +10 w/ring of blades and 32 strength, along with 2 handing, I dealt just under 800 damage a hit.
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“Guards a defenseless being...” Umm... *cough* 11K *cough* HP
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By far the easiest boss I’ve faced
First try
+8 estoc (that I JUST decided to give a try. Normally I use smelt ham/craft ham/ rapier)
No help
No weapon buff
Guess I kinda had him figured from the hex throwing chick fight
If you can do both of them...
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This boss has the hardest moveset to dodge....getting to him isn't a cakewalk either
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Immune to poison. Poison infused stinger, and moon butterfly set had no affect on Aegis. The Agdayne summon is a glass cannon. If you keep the aggro, Agdayne can deal respectable damage. But do not let Aegis aggro Agdayne or he will be dead in the first minute. Unless you have a higher damage output than Aegis of course.
If in SOTFS bringing SCarlett summon AFTER you have already cleared the crypt, along with AGdayne, is HIGHLY reccommended. I run Havel full set, therefore I am a super turtle, but I cant seem to keep his aggro on me for Agdayne to deal damage.
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Easiest boss ever killed him on my first try with half estus and no summon . Only used demons great hammer +5 and no armor
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The picture of velstadt is wrong, its showing King Vendrick!
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After every single attack or end of sequence attacks, he makes a momentary stop, use that moment. Keep away, block or roll the other attacks.
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Silverblack Shield is very effective with the second phase since it can block the magic attack almost completely.
Velstadt NG+7 No Damage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSC1seSo2Q
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Well its just that, i speaked with some friends, and we have tested it, if you put his life under the 50% while he is attacking (you phantom XDD) tested whit the grave guard. He doesn't change. Just add this to the trivia or hints. Thx.
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I poisoned him with my weapon coated in Rotten Pine Resin while offhanding Mytha's Bent Blade. Both stack and can apply to him.
He's just a faster ruin sentinel tbh
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