Burnt Ivory King |
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| HP | 8,040 | 11,256 (NG+) |
| Weakness | Lightning |
| Weakness (Knights) | Lightning, Magic |
| Resistance | Poison, Bleed |
| Immune | None |
| Respawn | NO |
The Burnt Ivory King is a Boss in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). The Burnt Ivory King, a once benevolent ruler who sacrificed himself to the chaos for Alsanna, his beloved Child of the Dark. Encountered after descending through the hole within the Cathedral. Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Burnt Ivory King Information in Dark Souls 2
Burnt Ivory King is a boss in Dark Souls 2. Added by the DLC Crown of the Ivory King, the boss is also available to Scholar of the First Sin Edition owners.
- The once kind king who cast himself into the chaos for Alsanna, his beloved Child of the Dark.
Dark Souls 2 Burnt Ivory King Location
- Boss of the Old Chaos, found after falling through the hole inside the Cathedral.
Burnt Ivory King Drops in DKS2
- Souls Awarded: 92,000 (Standard Game) 184,000 (NG+)
- Soul of the Ivory King
Dark Souls 2 Burnt Ivory King Attacks
| Attack Name | Attack Description |
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| Sword Buff | Infuses his blade with magic. He gains two additional attacks while his weapon is buffed, the Crystal Pillar and his Charging Stab. All other attacks remain the same and his sword has no additional range, only additional damage. |
| Triple Slash | He starts with thrust attack and follows up with a slash then a jumping slash. |
| Quadruple Slash | He starts with a slash attack then moves into two additional slashes and finishes with a thrust. |
| Jumping Attack | Leap to air and slash or thrust. The jumping slash gives a great opportunity for healing or damage. |
| Sliding Slash into Jump Attack | Quickly slides past the player with a quick slash attack and then does a turning jump attack back towards the player. |
| Charging Stab | Used either after a back step from the boss or when too far away. Charges player at high speed and impales him/her. Then proceeds to throw player away with blade, dealing massive damage. |
| Crystal Pillar | Plunges the sword to the ground to emit crystals. |
Weakness
- Dark (somewhat stronger againsts the boss than lightning, tested with various weapons and spells on different NG stages)
- Lightning
Burnt Ivory King Resistance in DKS2
- Very high Poison resistance
- High Fire resistance
DKS2 Burnt Ivory King Strategy
*Strategies are a work in progress. Feel free to edit the page and add yours.
Recommendations
The "Shield Camper" strategy (works to about NG++ before you need to switch strategy or get a stronger weapon)
Note that this is a VERY EASY WAY TO BEAT THE BURNT IVORY KING WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT!!!
Note also that the Charren Loyce Knights drop Loyce Souls, which you need in order to get the Armor of the Ivory King (50 Loyce Souls, then talk to Alsanna)
1. Summons (for some reason not found from anywhere else in this page)
- Twiggy Shei can be summoned for this fight (summon sign is located near the altar in the Grand Cathedral)
- Lucatiel of Mirrah can be summoned for this fight (summon sign is located near Grand Cathedral bonfire, stairs up and look in the middle)
- The summons are just healthpools (and occasional staggerers) during the bossfight.
- It's highly unrecommended to summon NPCs for this BOSS, who has many AoE attacks that means NPCs are unlikely to absorb much damage for you. Altough, as always, NPC summons are useful to distract the boss, giving you time to heal or apply buffs.
2. Loyce Knights (they will help most in this battle!)
- There are 4 Loyce Knights, one provided by Alsanna, located in the room with the fog door leading to the Old Chaos.
- 3 Loyce Knights are scattered around Eleum Loyce, you should just explore and you'll find them. (you'll get a ton of cool sh*t while looking for em')
- Note that NONE OF THE LOYCE KNIGHTS ARE LOCATED IN FRIGID OUTSKIRTS.
- A brief guide is that each of the formerly frozen paths should lead to a knight. They're rather deep within the paths so try to explore thoroughly. There is only one knight in each path.
- The Loyce Knights will play an important part in the bossfight. 3 of the knights will seal the portals (that spawn infinite Charred Loyce Knights) and the remaining one (with a nice healthpool) will stay with you to fight the boss.
3. Weapon, shield, and armor. (great importance what you wear)
- The most important item in this bossfight is the shield (believe it or not) and the shield i used (and the one i suggest) is Havel's Greatshield, infused with Magic. (blocks around 98% of melee and magic, so the Burnt Ivory King's special attacks don't really deal any damage to you. Also very stable)
- The next most 'important' item (you don't need a weapon, only just the shield. APPLIES ONLY UNTIL NG+) You should pick a weapon that's long and quick, like Washing Pole, or Sir Alonne's Bewitched Sword. Also Avelyn with dark/lightning bolts or dark/lightning magic works perfectly)
- Any rapier with dark/lightning resin should work just fine. Do bring Repair Powders since it'll be quite a long battle.
- Armor... Not so much necessary for the boss, but if you're planning to attack, or just have low stamina and cant really block much, use armor like Havel's Set(melee def) or the Chaos Set(magic def)
- I suggest using Redeye Ring when there's only Charren Loyce Knights (remove the ring when the boss comes, unless you believe in your blocking skills enough)
- I suggest using Ring of Blades +2 which provides a good addition to your damage output.
- I also suggest using Chloranthy Ring +2 so you can quickly recover your stamina to block some mo'
4. Preparation
Now you probably wonder what's waiting for you behind the fog door, in the hole down there? It's Old Chaos, and it's full of nasty Charren Loyce Knights, some lava, and 3 portals that spawn those b**tards till they're shut. (yes, they just keep coming and coming if the portals aren't sealed)
- 3 portals that spawn infinite amount of Charren Loyce Knights (if killed enough of them without the portals being shut, the boss will spawn, and you'll be fighting a sh*t-ton of Charren Loyce Knights among the Burnt Ivory King. If you have 3 or more Loyce Knights, they will eventually (after killing like 5-7 Charren Loyce Knights) go and seal a portal (1 Loyce Knight per portal) (You'll notice they're preparing to seal a portal when their sword flashes in blue and a blue aura surrounds them)
- The Charren Loyce Knights are either Melee or Magic, the Melee versions using mostly swords and axes, and the Mages using only Pyromancies, mainly just Fireball, Fire Snake, and Combustion.
5. The pre-bossfight
Now, that you have the Summons behind you, the Loyce Knights polishing their weapons, and your armor, sword, shield and precious jewelry on, and you're gazing at that huge hole behind the fog, and you think, what am i gonna do when i go down there?
Just follow these instructions and it'll be a piece of cake.
- Start out by circling the arena when Charren Loyce Knights appear, using the Redeye Ring, the Charren Loyce Knights will focus on you, and leave your summons untouched. Keep on circling and blocking, and watch that stamina! You don't wanna run out of stamina or they'll all pound you like a poundhound. If you get hit, don't heal immediately, as THEY WILL KILL YOU if healing is not timed perfectly. Be patient, block, move, win.
Now, the portals should be closed, or at least 2 of them when a huge portal emerges from end of the Arena, from the middle of two portals. When this happens, you choose whether or not you can tank all of Burnt Ivory King's attacks or not. If not, then unequip the Redeye ring, as the boss will appear if you get close to the big portal.
6. The Boss Fight
You should (hopefully) now have Lucatiel of Mirrah, Twiggy Shei, and one Loyce Knight with full health or almost full health, and all 3 portals sealed.
If so, damn good job! The boss will be a piece of cake no worries there.
Get close to the portal, and you'll notice the Burnt Ivory King emerging... You need to make a choice:
(A) DEFENSIVE POSITION (Harder than offensive position)
If you chose the defensive position, you'll need to have your Chloranthy Ring +2 and Redeye Ring equipped, along with (preferably) Havel's Greatshield (gyrm greatshield might work too, i'm not much of a fan so i don't know)
Start out by blocking, as the boss will charge at you. Now, you don't have to mind about his attacks, just block and dodge when you're running out of stamina, as some of his hits drain quite a lot of stamina, then wait till you have enough stamina, and continue with the blocking.
The boss will be taken care of by your allies, all you need to do is tank his attacks.
A few things you should know:
- He will eventually 'enchant' his weapon with magic, which is very, very easy to notice, as his sword will begin to resemble a lightsaber. Attacks with the 'lightsaber' are very strong, and easily dodgeable by rolling backwards. Mostly blocking them is good, just mind the stamina.
- If he for some reason loses focus and attacks someone other than you, attack him a couple times and he should be all over you again.
- His 'lightsaber' charge won't last long, maybe a minute, tops, so you don't have to worry about it. He will rebuff, though. (not immediately after losing the charge)
Now, if you followed the instructions, he should be dead. Yay.
ONE LAST NOTE: Even though the wikipedia tells you that if you kill Alsanna with arrows you'll get the soul, don't do it. You will get the soul, but miss out on so much (you won't get the armor of the Ivory King nor the rest of Loyce Knight items)
(B) OFFENSIVE POSITION (the easy choice)
If you chose the offensive position, you don't really need to worry much... Just enough to know you're playing a game that doesn't quite like you, but not as much as that you're fighting a boss in that game. Stress-free.
You've now cleared out the Charren Loyce Knights, and the portals are shut. The boss is there, and you need to act.
- Unequip the Redeye ring. You will be sharing the damage with your teammates.
- Even though it seems Lucatiel of Mirrah will die (due to her bad healthpool), she probably won't. And if she will, don't worry, as the remaining Loyce Knight has a very nice healthpool, and Twiggy Shei uses Estus Flasks.
- Twiggy Shei uses a bow, and i've noticed he is able to stagger the Burnt Ivory King. He will most likely do this more than a couple times during the battle.
- The Burnt Ivory King, much like most bosses, hate healing, and when you're healing, they will target you.
Now that you know your team, and what they do, you need to know what to do yourself:
Target lock the Ivory King, with Havel's Greatshield equipped to the offhand, and a long weapon/magic(hexes/miracles)/Avelyn equipped to the right hand.
The Ivory King uses a series of strong melee attacks, which should be either blocked or dodged.
If you want this to be easy, you just block, that's all.
If you want this to be quick, you attack him when he's focused on your teammates. If using a weapon like Murakumo/Washing Pole/Sir Alonne's Bewitched Sword you should throw 2-3 hits at his back after he has performed an attack, and then continue blocking. His attacks are easy to dodge, so if you're low on stamina and for some reason he's attacking you that moment, use that little stamina of yours to perform a dodge when you notice he's performing an attack. The easiest way to dodge his attack is by rolling under either of his arms. Some of his attacks are similar to the Fume Knight's, so it's not really much of a hazzle dodging them.
If you're not very good at dodging just use blocking.
The boss isn't really so hard, and your teammates are strong enough to kill him.
Basicly, just try to stay alive there. Blocking is the best method.
ONE LAST NOTE: Even though the wikipedia tells you that if you kill Alsanna with arrows you'll get the soul, don't do it. You will get the soul, but miss out on so much (you won't get the armor of the Ivory King nor the rest of Loyce Knight items)
It's not a flawless strategy, but has worked for me for literally tens of bossruns.The boss may seem like much of a hazzle due to being the main antagonist of the DLC, but he's pretty much just a slower version of the Lost Sinner, or possibly a weaker Fume Knight. Just remove the fear-factor and you'll see him as a regular scorned guy.
1. It is recommended that you find and talk to the 3 Loyce Knights scattered throughout the DLC, one is already waiting for you, to get allies in combat and to close 1-3 portals in the boss area that spawn Charred Loyce Knight enemies in the area.
- Alternately you can put this as advantage for farming Charred Loyce Set. (I tried with only one knight and met the boss. After I beat a certain amount of enemies he appeared, but now you don't fight him alone).
- This can be considered pointless because after you kill the boss you can go in by yourself and fight the loyce knights (no shades or phantoms though) Note: Killing the Burnt Ivory King will significantly reduce the drop rate for loyce souls and the corresponding armor sets. So it is recommended to farm the Loyce Knights before kiling the Burnt Ivory King.
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2. Easiest with either full magic immunity + Gyrm Greatshield, or when using Havel's Greatshield imbued with magic, as the Gyrm shield + magic immunity will block elemental damage and also allow to block fire spells from minions. Havel shield will pass through 2,5% of physical dmg but block all magic. You can use armor for more fire resistance in this scenario.
3. Charred Loyce Knight at early NGs are vulnerable to Dark Crypt Blacksword +5 buffed with Dark Weapon, which can dispatch them within 3 two handed strong attack swings.
4. Boss seems to be completely resistant to poison. However his minions get poisoned with around 3 toxic clouds, so all 3 poison spells [poison cloud , toxic cloud, dark fog] and poison builds are viable here. (Boss can be poisoned, he has an extremely high resistance to poison, though. Needed around 15 hits or so with a Poison infused Spotted Whip at 50 ADP. Some more testing maybe?)
5. The boss doesn't seem to aggro on player who is casting healing miracles (offline player can summon both NPCs and focus on healing them during the boss fight)
- When I was doing it with my friend he always seemed to favor the world host over all else so I believe this needs testing
6. If the Boss is too close to one of the knights while the knight is sacrificing himself to close one of the portals, the ice explosion will instantly kill the boss. With a bit of luck, you can lure him into fighting next to the knight while this happens for an easy instant kill. (No longer works in SotFS)
7.If your weapons break too fast, consider using Raw or Enchanted Santier's Spear +5. Or have it as backup weapon just in case. Alternately, repeatly cast Great Resonant Soul while using Loyce Knights and NPC Phantoms as distraction.
Approaches:
I used a gyrm greatshield + dark barbed club for killing the charred knights. For the boss I two-handed a lightining ugs, doing around 280-300 per hit. He is not so hard to dodge.
Video Strategy:
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Dark Souls 2 Burnt Ivory King Hints
- Ensure you have at least 3 Loyce Knight to seal off the spawning gate, or reunite all four knights to leave one to distract the Burnt Ivory King.
- Alternately: summon all two NPC phantoms and reunite all four knights.
- The Loyce Knights only seem to seal the portals when they have sustained enough damage. Therefore, it is wise to let 3 of the knights fight until they seal the portal so that you don't have to deal with extra enemies when the Burnt Ivory King enters the area. ( Definitely not the case. The front left portal always spawns 2 Charred Loyce Knights, the right one spawns 3, and the far left one spawns 4. The Knights won't seal a portal until all the enemies have spawned from it, so the only way to prevent fighting a Charred Knight and the Burnt Ivory King at the same time is to make sure you don't kill them too quickly )
- PC DX11-Version: Both NPC-Signs will appear once you have gathered at least two Loyce Knigths.
- Gathering all four Loyce Knigths and the two NPC phantoms to battle the Charred Loyce Knigths repeatedly is a great late-game soul-farming opportunity. Even on Ng8 you don't have to do much work, just stay alive and finish of some strongly wounded enemies, feather out when the Burnt Ivory King appears (please don't do this when summoning other players, it's annoying). On Ng8 with some soul farming equipment this yields >100k souls in <5 min. However, if using bonfire ascetics, keep in mind that the Burnt Ivory King on high Ng cycles is a challenging enemy.
Burnt Ivory King Trivia in Dark Souls 2
- The Ivory King is from Forossa⁽ˣ⁾. It is not specified whether he was born there or just lived there long enough to become an extremely high ranking knight.
- The Ivory King share some strong similitudes with Gwyn, the Lord of Cinder: Both of them were powerful kings; both of them sacrifices himself in fire; both of them are "corrupted"; both of them are an "End Boss" (While Gwyn was the final boss of Dark Souls 1, The Ivory King seems to be the final boss of the DLCs... Or, at last, those who speak about the crowns!)... Oh! And both of them were followed by their faithful knights... and all of them burned! Plus, their move sets are quite close between each other: The slash combo, the jumping attack, The jump back dodge, the powerful grabbing attack, and the charge attack seems to work the same way.
- The Ivory King seems to "speak" while you're fighting him. He mumbles "Fire" sometimes when he attacks and at others, he yells out "DIE!!!". You need to have music and voice off as his voice only comes up in the sound effects.
- The Old Chaos has an almost identical visual appearance when compared with Lost Izalith in Dark Souls 1, where the Witch of Izalith generated The Flame of Chaos. It is arguably evidential that they are the same location in lore.
AnonymousAhh another boss with broken hitboxes. Dark souls 2 definitely deserves its title ass worst souls game
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Never knew before that he worked with Vincent De Moor before he sacrificed himself. Nice tune
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Cool boss, but the little mini scale war at the beginning gets annoying after a couple a attempts
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Had more struggle with this guy than with the Fume Knight tbh. But for nowadays, i've done him 3 times first try alrdy.. i'm disappointed of myself, but still love Ivory Chad
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It took me one attempt but man was it an epic fight. Almost like gwynn and soul of cinder really; kinda easy but the music , the arena and the atmosphere just makes it goated. While i like aldia as a character , i wish there was at least more spectacle to his fight like this one. Plus ths dude is an absolute
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He infuses his weapon with super sticky white stuff, Yui Tanimura told me.
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He killed my atleast 7 times with his knight army and that when i had enough of him decided to powerstance ugs chug down all of my divine blessings and power attack his ass until he was dead while tanking 5 enemies at the same time then i found out you could recruit more knights to close the gates but it was too late well im a bit stupid but ill try fighting him the legit way in my next playthrough
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The best part is that the Ivory King won, as you see in ds3 chaos has been extinguished
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I just beat this guy second try on SL1 (without summons) after not playing this game for years, and now I feel very accomplished. I used full peasent, Mad Warrior helm, homunculus mace, vessel shield, with RoB+2, Flynns, Chloranthy+2, and Embedded Ring.
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Extremely fun fight, but farming those 50 loyce souls for his armor is pure BS.
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"but he's pretty much just a slower version of the Lost Sinner" NOPE
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Of course he has an AoE attack. At least he does not use it very much.
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"...the ice explosion will instantly kill the boss" Any picture or video of this?
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About the shield strategy, the author forgot the boss has an attacks that is defenseless.
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"...who has many AoE attacks..." I thought he only had one (Crystal Pillar).
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"Note that NONE OF THE LOYCE KNIGHTS ARE LOCATED IN FRIGID OUTSKIRTS"
GOOD TO KNOW
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"...as the boss will appear if you get close to the big portal" The boss will appear whether you get close or not.
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"Strategies are a work in progress." Even after all theses years?
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I thought at least that the last boss would not have broken hitboxes.
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If using the shield strat don’t forget the baneful bird ring, it reduces stamina loss when blocking with a shield.
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Nothing like a gank fest boss to finish the gank fest dlc of the more gank fest game of the world!
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Does he appear after a certain time or after x knights are killed?
Damn the strategy section feels like a badass text-based RPG
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always loved the iconic fight against big dude in armor with a sword #7829 (i actually do really like this fight though)
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I want to think that I'm not the only one who thought that there were no summons to help you and that you were only going with a single knight. I felt like an idiot seeing how many allies you could have in this fight and not finding one.
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The anon below me is seriously forgetting the two most crucial things about armor, FASHION and poise,
also don't listen to them, unless you're fat-rolling the faster stamina recovery of being naked doesn't make up for the fact that all forms of damage will hurt way more, and you're gonna have zero poise and get stunlocked by everything even the tiniest and weakest things, which is especially bad if you're using a big heavy weapon, also Armor upgrading exists for a reason.
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If you are having trouble with the knights consider just removing your armor. The roll distance/stamina recovery helps more than whatever damage your armor will block. DS2 is a much more enjoyable game when you're naked.
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i had a very fun time with this boss fairly simple attacks just one v 1 I only had 3 loyce khigts i dont how to spell
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Ngl of all the badass kings in the series, the Ivory King is probably the biggest chad out of them all, man literally dived into basically Hell without hesitation to protect his Queen and his people.
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I love how goddamn majestic and dignified he is even after being in literally the Dark Souls equivalent of Hell for Gwyn knows how long and likely fighting entire armies of chaos demons alongside his brave knights, he looks so charred and worn out from being in the Chaos yet man's got drip and grace that can't be matched and has a ****ing lightsaber greatsword and comes striding in from the gates of pretty much Hell like he owns the place, such a badass boss.
Got it on my 4th attempt.
Died in my 3rd try to the knights because I got stun lock to death by 3 of them, so def. by careful during that phase.
The range and hitboxes of his buffed weapon are really annoying, so I kept my distance during that time, leaving the NPC summons to toy with him. I went back in when his buff wore off, and actually landed the killing blow when he was trying to buff it again.
Overall, not too difficult if you freed all the knights.
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1st boss that i hack. Well 2nd if you count the triple gank a boss. Not even ashamed of it. Dog **** fight. Boss is actually cool. Spending ~3min just to get to it is not. Just hack to kill all the stupit mob and fight with the actually boss.
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I tried this over and over again. It was agonizing. In the end i ended up with EXACTLY 500k runes. That's a lot of attempts.
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the stab attack is literally undodgable unless you time it right. There's no way of dodging it with reaction time. You have to memorize it completely.
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No shield is necessary. Not in this fight, not in any Souls game, take that nonsense out of your head. He has all of six or seven moves,easy to dodge.
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They did this fantastic boss dirty by adding the mandatory fight against 20 or so Charred Loyce Knights before the boss. Now, the knights are somewhat ok when playing as a heavy build, but absolutely nightmarish as any type of magic user, as they have such high resistances to everything that you kinda have to use a big bulk of your stock before the actual fight even begins. As a boss, BIK is really fun and fair, and I'd love for this to have been designed so that after the first time you fight the charred boys, you can jump straight away into the boss fight on the next try. As it is now, it's just such a shame, another victim of DS2's horsesh-t design philosophy of creating challenge by flooding the place with enemies.
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It's highly likely the Burnt Ivory 'King' was actually a woman. They hid their face as per their armour set description, and their armour set gives a health bonus when killing male enemies as a female, plus their armour is very feminine in design.
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A guy summoned me and the Ivory king reached the area before the second gate was closed, is that normal? We failed, but he summoned me a second time and we managed to win(some other dude died, but the host beat the boss), overall was a nice experience
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Too many enemies for way too long. Such a fitting end to this painful DLC
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Astonishing from spectacle point of view however a bit of a letdown for me. It took 5 flasks to get to him since in the last part after 2 knights sacrifice it’s likely a 4v2 and then i no hit the guy in like half a minute. I used +5 dark fume sword with 28 dex 28 faith and 48 int. I can’t say he was a bad boss tho the fight was very satisfying end to the DLC just wish he was a bit stronger.
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FWIW, the knights seem to stagger when I used a Stone Ring and a mace (Lightning Blacksmith Hammer). I suppose Stone Ring + any strike damage will do the same — breaks their poise with every hit. Considering you can’t backstab them this was pretty useful.
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I think we can all agree that this is a horrible boss right? Guy below seems like he agrees
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Thank you fromsoft B team, I really love the part where I only have 2 flasks left before the start of the ****ing fight becasue they portals reheat for an infinite amont of times, Incredible game design!
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My sincerest sympathy to all the the knights who died while defending me against their corrupted king :(
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Ivory "gigachad" King...
- Built a throne right above the gate of chaos.
- Married a shard of Manus to be his queen and make her a better person.
- Became the first line of defense from the chaos in order to protect his people.
- Had 3 giant magical beasts as pet.
- Sacrifice himself for the good of others.
- Put two of his pets in the blizzard to mercy killing undead exiles so they won't suffer freezing in eternity.
- Having one of the most badass entrance in souls series.
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Such a cool boss and a very satisfying ending to a pretty good DLC.
The summons made this fight a lot easier for me. Was getting my ass whooped trying to take him solo (last knight kept dying early), so I just said **** it, brought in both summons, got the knights to close the portals ASAP and then with both phantoms and the remaining knight all in good shape, we just ganked the **** out of the boss, GG.
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This would be a good boss, but bc of how agonizingly slow, lethargic and clunky ds2 is, it’s just an awful fight not to mention the shitty hit boxes. Honestly this boss would be better in ds3.
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This boss fight is an excellent place to grind for levels infinitely. Great XP, reasonably low danger. Managable enemy groups and no running around. Just go in, kill as many knights as you can and warp back. Repeat ad infinitum.
And for anyone who thinks you shouldn't grind for levels until you have 99 in all stats in NG I can only remind you that multiplayer level caps are only for people who care for MP and only for when the devs fix the MP which they won't ever.
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I struggled with him a lot in NG+, even after thinking he was easy the first time. Then i remembered i used a much lighter weapon and and a lighter equip load, i later beat him first try. Dont forget what you learn guys!
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man this fight would be one of the best in the franchise if the AI in phase one was tweaked a bit, , or if you could backstab the charred knights, as it is Burnt Ivory King along is probably the best fight in DS2 but getting ganked by 3 Charred Knights in phase 1 is really annoying, especially since they almost always prioritize the player over the Loyce Knights, even if the knights attack them.
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This page's tank strategy worked well for me. Use a fully upgraded Havel shield. Hold it with two hands and you'll never lose stamina. For the weapon use something you can poke around with if you're scared. Your job for the charred knights is to wear the Redeye ring, and just circle around to tank them. If you get a chance you can poke at them or finish off the ones with low health. If both your summons are still alive you're all set for the Ivory King. Just switch out the Redeye ring, and again block and poke when you get the opportunity. The Havel shield will tank all his normal attacks, and it will greatly mitigate his magic ones. Wear some armor with high magic defense if you need it.
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i played sotfs and in my playthrough before the fight the loyce knights were in a sitting position until you got close enough but i saw on youtube their just standing there are there any reason for this
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I'm trying to farm the Loyce souls before killing the boss and Holy SH*T THAT'S LONG! Only 5 of these for around an hour of farming, and I got around 40 of their damn equipment to top that off!! The area is magnificent and the boss is neat as hell but dammit I'm raging so hard trying to farm these damn Loyce souls!!(best place to farm souls to buy stuff/level up btw as it's infinite).
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very cool arena and boss fight. not as difficult as other dlc bosses but his moves so clean (no delay moves like sir allone charge, no broken hitboxes (SINH HELLO!!!!!!!)) imo - best boss soul weapon
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Hardest fight in a game for me, second was Fume knight. The problem isn't the bos itself tho but the muthertrucking charred knights. Fml, I spent 5 hrs for it. 90% of this time I spent on fighting charred knights. I think they were the bos, and not the King himself.
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Im sorry but this boss is so disappointing mechanically. He has a total of seven moves (6 if you dont count the sword buff), none of which are hard to dodge. His damage output does make up for it, but in a game where you have basically unlimited healing in the form of life gems, this boss is just not threatening. Honestly the charred loyce gank fight is more of a hassle. I'll give him style points on his entrance but thats about it. Its a shame because I feel like most of the bosses in Dark Souls 2 suffer the same problem, they dont have enough moves. Take Sir Alonne, hes a little challenging sure, but he has a total of like 6 moves. If your able to get midway into the boss in this game, youve basically already beaten the boss. And that just makes some boss fights feel so damn boring
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Care to explain why the duck people send you back right before this boss?
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Loye Knights are so stupid and weak. And you have to be SL300 or what so do any damage. Stupid design, just cheat in this trash game and be done with it
- Anonymous
Honestly, Vaati made me appreciate the Ivory King so much more.
- Anonymous
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- Anonymous
Thought Fume Knight and Alonne were dope, then this big bad motherf**ker comes out of the gigantic Gate in this beautiful lava boss area.
One of the most spectacular boss areas and fights in my opinion. Real cool Armor Set and Weapon too.
Hope Elden Ring has equally fantastic lava and winter areas.
- Anonymous
The Burnt Ivory King himself isn't very difficult, but the Loyce Knights are such a hassle even with all 4 ally knights helping you. For whatever reason, these bastards just would NOT leave me alone, despite there being 4 other viable targets attacking them. So I'd have to spend forever kiting around three or four of them while I wait for an opening to deal damage. Meanwhile, the allied knights really don't do much damage to them at all. So it can really take forever.
Here's a tip that helped me: The moment you hit the ground after jumping into the hole, rush to the closest portal and kill the first knight asap. This helps so much. Avoid the melee knights and try to single out the pyromancers next. They're a bit easier to just chop down than the others, which helps to get things moving towards the actual boss fight. The faster you kill the Loyce Knights, the more health your final helper knight will have going into the boss.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
A grandious and fun fight, my favorite out of the dlc fights.
But the king himself is too easy, probably because the knights drain your estus so they made him easier to make up for that.
His attacks have a bit of delay, but the 2 fights with the cats prepeare you for that so in the end his attacks are too easy to dodge, his buff also wears off just like zalen.
I beat him and his knights first try with a fire weapon (they are supposed to resist fire right?), so really the fight is too easy.
- Anonymous
Be smart and listen to the wiki regarding the loyce souls. Farm them early, before beating the boss. Just bone out or whatever it is you do, when the King is on his way. By then the knights will all be dead. It's a much less painful experience with the help of summons. And yeah, much better drop rate too.
Pro tip; You can skip the black separation crystal if using the miracle Homeward.
- Anonymous
the boss himself is fun to fight, but not the charred loyce knights.
- Anonymous
I really like this boss fight but the chore of getting the Frog Knights is always a bit tedious
- Anonymous
For this part, just to confirm:
"4. Boss seems to be completely resistant to poison. However his minions get poisoned with around 3 toxic clouds, so all 3 poison spells [poison cloud , toxic cloud, dark fog] and poison builds are viable here. (Boss can be poisoned, he has an extremely high resistance to poison, though. Needed around 15 hits or so with a Poison infused Spotted Whip at 50 ADP. Some more testing maybe?)"
Just tried to Dark Fo(k)g him with 8 fogs ready, Old Iron King's Crown and chugging Crimson Water, just for science. He did not seem to care at all after 30+ spam casts.
I guess he is actually immune to those and the only way to poison him is with really fast hitting poison weapons.
He's a joke for a dark build tho (as most of the game is ofc.)
- Anonymous
This boss has exactly two steps.
1) Going in blind and getting passed around like the prison b*tch.
2) Looking it up, then watching from the sidelines while the friendly knights sort it out.
Ngl you guys complain too much, you should instead simply git gud
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
when you order the fumew knight on wish you will probably get this fella here
- Anonymous
Honestly the entire DLC is just poorly made. Gank fights, whatever the outskirts is suppose to be, boss locked behind a game of hide and seek taking several hours, weird hitboxes on any of the tigers to fight where avoiding a hit feels more like rolling dice. Sure i would really enjoy beating the game, but i would much prefer playing a game, not working as a McDonalds employee and getting the order wrong kinda experience. Weak game, sotfs did not correct it.
DLCs feel like they belong to another game. The game DS2 was supposed to be.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Would be a real good fight if loyce bros had an actual brain, idk if im just unlucky but my knight just keep looking at them doing nothing lmao
- Anonymous
Its a really cool fight, just wish the charred knights weren't so tanky and the loyce bros so weak.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
By far one my most favorite bosses. It's such a unique fight that not even later games have tried to replicate. It almost feels more like a small scale war than an actual boss due to the first part of. Even years after beating him, I still remember him fondly
- Anonymous
If a boss is hard because of its quantity it means that devs refused to use their brains to make a hard solo and good boss. Shame on Fromsoftware for this chunk of **** of a boss.
- Anonymous
This brings me back to the year 2003 when I got my game tips from gamefaqs
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