it sucks that you can't just make friends with Nito after farming basilisks engaging in the very well-made gravelord covenent
let me make peace with the skeletons, inside and out
let me make peace with the skeletons, inside and out
Dark Souls nerds - what optional bosses do you always skip?
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I don't skip any. A run is all always all bosses to me. OK, maybe Ash Lake Hydra sometimes if that counts as a boss. Even in DS2 I always did the shitty DLC gauntlet run bosses.
Ceaseless Discharge 99 times out of 100 I do the scripted death rather than fight him because I've never found that fight particularly interesting, although it's been so long it might be a challenge since I can't remember what to do other than bait and dodge.
At some point I want to do a DS3 SL1 run with the goal of 'gitting gud' at the DLC bosses since they are all a huge black hole in my Souls gameplay, I found it all quite taxing and haven't played through the whole thing more than 4 or 5 times. If I could SL1 Friede, Gael, Demon Prince and Midir I would be really happy, but I kind of doubt I have the ability/patience to do it.
Ceaseless Discharge 99 times out of 100 I do the scripted death rather than fight him because I've never found that fight particularly interesting, although it's been so long it might be a challenge since I can't remember what to do other than bait and dodge.
At some point I want to do a DS3 SL1 run with the goal of 'gitting gud' at the DLC bosses since they are all a huge black hole in my Souls gameplay, I found it all quite taxing and haven't played through the whole thing more than 4 or 5 times. If I could SL1 Friede, Gael, Demon Prince and Midir I would be really happy, but I kind of doubt I have the ability/patience to do it.
Taurus Demon because I always go the back way to get to the Undead Parish and Priscilla because I am not a monster.
I have never played through the main games without beating all bosses. That would be four runs through Dark 3, six runs through Dark 2 and about nine-ish through Dark 1 and Remastered so far. I have beaten a lot of bosses! Some optional ones are among my favs, like Pursuer, Alonne, Nameless King and Midir.
On my replays of the DLCs for Dark Souls 2 I skip the special optional bosses tho.
That would be:
Afflicted Graverobber, Ancient Soldier Varg, and Cerah the Old Explorer
Lud and Zallen, the King's Pets
and (Blue) Smelter Demon
Have not replayed Bloodborne but beat all bosses on my first playthrough.
On my replays of the DLCs for Dark Souls 2 I skip the special optional bosses tho.
That would be:
Afflicted Graverobber, Ancient Soldier Varg, and Cerah the Old Explorer
Lud and Zallen, the King's Pets
and (Blue) Smelter Demon
Have not replayed Bloodborne but beat all bosses on my first playthrough.
Dark Souls: Kalameet. Dark Souls 2: Ancient Dragon. Dark Souls 3: I haven't played it yet, but probably another dragon.
This is true. Luckily I carry an emergency Seed of a Tree of Giants with me at all times. Even more fun to turn the whole place on the invaders.
Not a boss though.
If it doesn't have a big-ass healthbar with their name on it they're not a boss.
Dark Souls - Guess I always take the master key so I skip Capra and Gaping not because I particularly dislike them but I just don't find going through Lower Undead Burg and the Depths much fun.
Dark Souls 2 - Executioner's Chariot because I can't be assed to find the way to the colosseum in that damn forest. Belfry Gargoyles and Royal Rat Authority are such shit that everyone should skip them. Hate the Ancient Dragon too. DLC poverty boss gang isn't even worth talking about - Cool Ranch Smelter, Gank Squad and Lud & Zallen along with their areas shouldn't even exist.
Dark Souls 3 - Curse Rotted Greatwood and Champion's Gravetender. Would usually go out of my way to do Oceiros just so I could fight Gundyr. And at that point you might as well go bonk the Ancient Wyvern to fight the Nameless King. Game's full of great bosses, Greatwood, Gravetender and Wyvern are the only ones I'd consider duds.
Dark Souls 2 - Executioner's Chariot because I can't be assed to find the way to the colosseum in that damn forest. Belfry Gargoyles and Royal Rat Authority are such shit that everyone should skip them. Hate the Ancient Dragon too. DLC poverty boss gang isn't even worth talking about - Cool Ranch Smelter, Gank Squad and Lud & Zallen along with their areas shouldn't even exist.
Dark Souls 3 - Curse Rotted Greatwood and Champion's Gravetender. Would usually go out of my way to do Oceiros just so I could fight Gundyr. And at that point you might as well go bonk the Ancient Wyvern to fight the Nameless King. Game's full of great bosses, Greatwood, Gravetender and Wyvern are the only ones I'd consider duds.
If it's DS1 then I've gotta catch 'em all.
DS2 has plenty worth passing over, like all the co-op area bosses in the DLC, the ancient dragon and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
DS3, I don't think i'd bother doing darkeater Midir again.
If we're including Bloodborne, then I'm never dealing with the flailing vomit beast that is Laurence again!
I think the only bosses I've never beaten among the soulsbornekiro(i'm so sorry) lineup are Darklurker (never even faced, never went through the steps to access it), souped up Smelter and the double whammy of King's pets in the snow.
So basically some DS2 oddities keep me from my 100%, and I'm fine with that.
DS2 has plenty worth passing over, like all the co-op area bosses in the DLC, the ancient dragon and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
DS3, I don't think i'd bother doing darkeater Midir again.
If we're including Bloodborne, then I'm never dealing with the flailing vomit beast that is Laurence again!
I think the only bosses I've never beaten among the soulsbornekiro(i'm so sorry) lineup are Darklurker (never even faced, never went through the steps to access it), souped up Smelter and the double whammy of King's pets in the snow.
So basically some DS2 oddities keep me from my 100%, and I'm fine with that.
I'll never fight the Ancient Dragon again since one time was more than enough. What a slog of a fight.
Perfectly terrifying. The whole Dark Souls 2 DLC is one big trauma simulator with the sole purpose to leave you damaged.
Try Ceaseless Skip, it's so much more fun than both:
Or the other trick that skips Ceaseless:
Moonlight butterfly. It's not even a tough fight or anything just extremely boring. If I ever fight it, I just summon Beatrice and have her annihilate it in a few seconds while I just roll around.
If I ever play Dark Souls 2 again (I won't) I'll skip Ancient Dragon and Royal Rat Authority because that shit is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbage.
But I'll never play Dark Souls 2 again so it's all a moot point.
But I'll never play Dark Souls 2 again so it's all a moot point.
my main claim to fame among my friends is that i beat Moonlight Butterfly while the game had a glitch that made it so particle effects didn't display properly so most of its attacks were invisible or harder to see than usually
made the fight way more memorable to me
This so much. THE WORST AREA OF ALL OF SOULS GAMES. Bosses themselves are okay.
If we're making these memes, I actually haven't touched Demon's Souls in years and probably never will again unless the highly rumored Bluepoint remake happens and they change the movement to be more like recent From games. Demon's feels super dated at this point.
Only boss in the series I've never done. The area does not interest me at all
In Dark Souls 1 I have never killed Ceaseless DIscharge by actually fighting him. I usually skip the Depths and the Capra Demon and the Moonlight Butterfly.
Dark Souls 2 I'll skip anything that isn't necessary for progress, unless I need to kill it for some piece of equipment I want. I still haven't gone and killed the Darklurker or Sir Alonne, though I planned to when I replayed it a year ago.
Dark Souls 3 I usually go for everything except Midir.
Dark Souls 2 I'll skip anything that isn't necessary for progress, unless I need to kill it for some piece of equipment I want. I still haven't gone and killed the Darklurker or Sir Alonne, though I planned to when I replayed it a year ago.
Dark Souls 3 I usually go for everything except Midir.
I usually skip Taurus Demon in Undead Burg and Gaping Dragon in the Depths, since I just use the Master Key to get to Blighttown sooner.
Royal Rat Authority
That's literally it, just that one.
Edit: I forgot about Ancient Dragon, I also skip it.
That's literally it, just that one.
Edit: I forgot about Ancient Dragon, I also skip it.
Souls games are my favorite but I would skip every boss if I could. They're the least interesting part to me.
