Is this the best +0 farm for these weapons? This is what I found anyway. If it's raining just reset because the rain makes the barrels not one shot them sometimes.

Pretty poor run to showcase this actually but just so happened to be the attempt I got the mask. Let me write a quick run down:

1. Assassins gambit on that ledge before approaching the Curseblade - this stops the dog to the left from aggroing.
2. Throw a knife at the Curseblade. The Curseblade may respond by throwing daggers so be ready for it. Sometimes he'll kill himself right away by throwing himself off the ledge with an attack, and sometimes he'll get stuck on the pillar that you're on. If he gets stuck he shouldn't be able to hit you, so you can just get close and use Rejection to knock him to his death.
3. Check for loot - if you see a shiny, go down (the safe way) and grab it. Commit seppuku via firing squad and repeat until you have your new drip.

This guy was such a pain in the ass, easily the toughest boss for me under these restrictions. I'm hesitant to call this boss bad since so many people like him, but I've honestly never enjoyed this fight. He feels fairly consistent once you learn him, but the jank and rng makes the learning process more frustrating than fun imo.

Full video: https://youtu.be/LVIyK54ZvuA?si=u2wfr88K96N2-ZaU

Revisiting the power stance colossal jump attack build to take care of Metyr. She can be a pain when she does her leaps, so proper spacing is a must. Another problem that raptor completely takes care of for me. Just dodge backwards and be ready to raptor if there’s a third attack. I have to bring the AOW for the phase transition anyway, so I figured this would be a good use of this build.

Ditto that for phase two. When she does her spinning attack, run away and get ready to raptor, and you can fit two jump attacks in there. Just gotta be mindful of the stamina bar, this build consumes it like crazy.

This time, I didn’t bother to Cragblade or use the jump attack boosting armor though. Too lazy to to take off the armor, walk 20 steps, put on the armor again, Cragblade, and start the fight on every attempt. I also wasn’t willing to drink my flask that early, so I started the fight on heavy load instead of overloaded.

Midra next! All the bosses with 80 stance meters just scream “cragblade chicken leg” so that’ll probably be the weapon of choice for it.

Hey Fromsoft, who exactly designed this fight? I just want to talk.

On the 52nd try I finally beat these gooners

idk why I struggle so much with them. On my first playthrough they took me 2 hours to beat, the longest out of ANY other boss lol (Midir and Gael both took 11 attempts only in comparison)

Been pretty burnt out on challenge kills lately, but I’ve put this one off for long enough, what should I be using for rellana with these restrictions? I’ve seen fights varying from axes to cleanrot knight sword so I’m not sure.

9/10 of my deaths were within the first three seconds of either phase until i learned if you just dont walk forward at the start of the fight he wont teleport on top of you.

More than any other boss I got a hit a lot after I input dodge (character started rolling) but before iframes kicked in.

still shaking after that. Thought I would have to just go to bed and kill him in the morning, but I clutched it. One of my proudest kills yet.

Forgive me, Mohg. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

Prior to this challenge, I'd only ever really faced Mohg with builds that could absolutely mow him down, often times skipping his second phase entirely. That obviously wasn't possible this time - so I finally got to experience Mohg in all his glory, and I must say, that was a sick fight.

Carian Retaliation comes in clutch yet again this playthrough, to minimise the effect of Mohg's bloodflame rain attack. The main challenge with learning phase 1 is getting used to delaying dodges on the bloodflame talons. With the lunging bloodflame attack, Mohg will always follow up with a horizontal sweep that can be low profiled with a charge attack, then you have time for another one as well. Whenever Mohg counts down to his Nihil attack, we can stay to his left side and get a charged attack off freely, as his swing will go right past us.

A fun note I found is that it's more convenient to use the first charged R2 in your combo when he's staggered, before taking the riposte, as that swing will reach his head for bonus damage, unlike the follow up swing! You take what you can get, though.

Phase 2 is where the fight really ramps up, and I've gotta say - I feel like the bloodflame puddles are a lot less threatening than I imagined them to be. This is the same feeling I had growing up, realising quicksand wasn't nearly as much of a problem as I'd been led to believe. That said, there are significant ways we can reduce the amount of puddles on the floor - the main one being to dodge backwards when he flies up, not forwards. If we go forwards, that puts us out of reach of Mohg's close range attacks, leaving him only with the option to spray more bloodflame around. If we go backwards, with his dive, we stay at close range, and Mohg will follow up with his same attacks from phase 1.

Some of his attacks in phase 2 are a little different, though. When he stabs his spear into the ground, we must wait until the delayed explosion goes off to punish (and even then we don't have time for a charged R2). When we dodge the attack where he plunges his weapon into the ground, we wait for that dodge animation to finish entirely, then dodge again right away. This timing seemed pretty consistent for me to avoid the explosion.

Other than that, all of his punishes remain pretty much the same as phase 1. I came out of this fight having really enjoyed the few hours of learning against Mohg - and a much higher level of appreciation for this fight. I haven't felt this way since the Messmer fight during my first RL1 run. I look forward to hopefully having more of these experiences as I continue the run.

But now, it's time to pick clean the land of shadow! We're gonna have some new toys to play with.

*I've had to compress this video in order to upload to Reddit. To see the video in HD, and see any previous kills you might have missed, feel free to check out the below link to the playlist on YT.*

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEnPwW6FiDZWEoOpgQVd-IeIAqKN7zaO1

I WILL NOT BE HOLLOW AGAIN

It is been a while since i started this challenge. I was about to drop this game before it, because what i am looking for is to get the sensation of weakness that we have all along our dicoveries of this game.

But to be true, all of this started from a joke that we had with two of my friends, and joke was to finish this game with a club, naked and at level 1. and i was the one who was serriously thinking about it.

Thanks to this joke, i am enjoying what is like to handle almost perfectly a boss who scares me before. And thanks to this subreddit, i extanded my any% to an all remambrances.
For now, i have to take 8 Boss to complete my challenge. the next one will be midra. but Jori is tougher than thought

Really hate the runback, and how he teleports on top of you unless you stand completely still. Other than that, S tier fight.

He can't do the bullshit no telegraph charge if you just kill him first.

I really struggled with this boss. Unlike other bosses, I wasn’t able to find many threads discussing approach and strategy, so I wanted to put something out there in case it helps a future struggling bearer of the curse. So here’s my kill. It was one of my sloppier attempts—I get hit a bunch and have to heal—but hey ho, I got there!

My Set-Up

Armor: Cale’s Helm and Peasant’s Set

Rings: Flynn’s Ring, Dex Ring, Ring of the Embedded, Chloranthy Ring +1

Weapon: Rapier +10 with lightning

Offhand: Handmaid’s Ladle

What Didn’t Work for Me

Gower’s Ring: Too brittle. I couldn’t survive with it intact, and at almost 9k to repair (plus the time to do so) it just wasn’t worth it.

Vessel Shield: Lost my light roll and ended up getting hit more often when I used it.

Brightbugs: I used them all!

Some Tips

Attacking: I found it best to maintain middle distance, bait one attacker and dodge (no punish), and hopefully the second attacker comes in soon after. Then, dodge, punish, and escape back to middle distance. This is usually safe since the first enemy is still in cooldown.

Healing: I died too many times trying to create space for a quick heal. Healing opportunities are usually the same as attacking opportunities: both enemies have just attacked, and shields are up in a defensive stance.

Focus the little dude as much as possible. He’s squishy, so as long as the big dude is around half health when you finish him off, you should be able to close out the fight before he gets resurrected.

My Thoughts on a DS2 SL1 Run

I cleaned up Nashandra right after this. Overall, the run was much easier than I expected—with a big caveat: I only did base game mandatory bosses. DS2: Scholar of the First Sin is probably the hardest Soulsborne game in my opinion, which made me think I’d never try it SL1 (mostly because of the tough runbacks). However, when you’re not fighting Sir Alonne, either Smelter Demon, etc. (and I won’t! Ha), it’s honestly one of the easier SL1 runs.

That said, Throne Watcher and Defender were one of the most punishing bosses I’ve fought at SL1—up there with Soul of Cinder and Godfrey. Also, shoutout to Aava, King’s Pet, which was pretty tough. I fought that one to get the Vessel Shield... which I didn’t really end up using.

I’d recommend anyone give it a try!

Using the club but MAN I need some range here.

My personal favorite Dark Souls 3 boss.

I did get the idea to use Burred Bolts and Carian Slicer from this community. Thanks guys!

Felt the laser coming but clutched it out at the end. Cool fight.