Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Absolutely garbage kill, but at least I did it I guess. I'm going to be redoing this sometime in the future, while I really do not like the time on this kill I suppose it's still worth uploading since I'm now the 3rd or 4th person to ever kill this boss SL1 NG+7 CoC. I played passively and like dogshit in both phases, but it's mainly because I really didn't want to die and wanted to get the kill. Now that I have it, in the redo I'll feel more confident and okay with going for more risky aggressive tactics. One of my attempts just yesterday was going really good and I could've maybe landed a sub 10-11 minute kill, but made an absolutely stupid slip up.
Originally I was gonna sit down and break down everything I hate about this fight and shit on it super hard, but I'm lazy and don't feel like writing everything(there's a fuckton of stuff to write about) so I'll just put this instead: this fight is gay as shit and smells, fuck ds2. thank god it's over but at the same time no, since blue smelter and l&z might be just as bad if not worse.
If I were the game designer here, I'd do one thing that'd basically instantly fix this boss. Remove the knight phase. Unnecessary as fuck. You can still have the players collect the knights in the area, just have their function be different. Like, upon collecting all of them and visiting the grand cathedral, have them do something like sacrifice themselves to open the way to the boss room, where you then have a 1v1 with ivory from the start every time. No knight bullshit. A lot of my gripes with this boss only really come from trying to do it flawlessly, when I can make mistakes I think this fight's alright.
Absolutely garbage kill, but at least I did it I guess. I'm going to be redoing this sometime in the future, while I really do not like the time on this kill I suppose it's still worth uploading since I'm now the 3rd or 4th person to ever kill this boss SL1 NG+7 CoC. I played passively and like dogshit in both phases, but it's mainly because I really didn't want to die and wanted to get the kill. Now that I have it, in the redo I'll feel more confident and okay with going for more risky aggressive tactics. One of my attempts just yesterday was going really good and I could've maybe landed a sub 10-11 minute kill, but made an absolutely stupid slip up.
Originally I was gonna sit down and break down everything I hate about this fight and shit on it super hard, but I'm lazy and don't feel like writing everything(there's a fuckton of stuff to write about) so I'll just put this instead: this fight is gay as shit and smells, fuck ds2. thank god it's over but at the same time no, since blue smelter and l&z might be just as bad if not worse.
If I were the game designer here, I'd do one thing that'd basically instantly fix this boss. Remove the knight phase. Unnecessary as fuck. You can still have the players collect the knights in the area, just have their function be different. Like, upon collecting all of them and visiting the grand cathedral, have them do something like sacrifice themselves to open the way to the boss room, where you then have a 1v1 with ivory from the start every time. No knight bullshit. A lot of my gripes with this boss only really come from trying to do it flawlessly, when I can make mistakes I think this fight's alright.
