Duke's Dear Freja
Difficulty: 6.3
Status: Required
Expected Deaths: 3-10
Frustration: High
Epicness factor: low
Attacks:
Stomping Attack: She basically has a seizure and stomps her eight legs numerous times all over the room. Inaccurate but near impossible to predict and heavily damaging.
Lunge: Freja teeter totters back and forth, springing forward with her pincers and hitting for huge damage.
Dropping attack: Freja rears up on her back legs, then slams down again with her front legs. Telegraphs like a motherfucker, but deals tons of damage upon connection.
Web Spit: She spits up huge globs of web, which can lock you place until you either break out via button mashing or get hit by one of her attacks, which isn't fun.
Acid spit: Both her halves spit giant globs of acid in huge numbers, which go all over the place and hit for a large amount of damage.
Moonlight Beam (): What can I say? She gets high up on her feet, where you can't hit her, and shoots you with a fucking death ray, which sweeps around the area with infinite range for an easy Instadeath.
This boss isn't so much a threat as an… Annoyance. A gigantic, eight legged, high leaping, super damage-doing nuisance.
Unlike other bosses who can take you by surprise and are often used with tact, her attack patterns, save for the lunge, almost always involve blanketing large areas with damage with no precision whatsoever while her horde of Spiderlings skitter about and gnaw at your ankles relentlessly.
What? Can this fight get anymore tedious and annoying you ask? Why of course it can, not only does she spam ridiculous attacks that can kill you near instantly but take no skill to avoid or see coming, but she is armored.
I mean armored, she cannot he injured on any part of her body save for the face, where her only decent, accurate attack, the lunge, originates.
She is a goddamn nuisance and to make matters worse is actually tough enough to kill you multiple times, especially with the goddamn laser Shoop Da Whoop of death.
The best way to fight her is to summon Boyd to help you clear the horde of spiderlings, then gank her, one on each face to confuse her, and make sure to have the patience to deal with her bullshit :3
On that note, there is one thing you need to be wary of: There are three enemies, one before, two after, to watch out for. That's right, this boss is more annoying and less challenging than her entourage, and- she has a goddamn entourage!
The Peasant: Apparently TrollSoft has been watching Youtube alongside us. Seriously, the hat, the leather armor, the beard, the pickaxe, it's the goddamn Peasant!
"Out of the way Fukn noblmen, peasent comin thro!" he booms, murdering you with his pickaxe for the ten thousandth time, especially since he spams the hell out of his rolling attack that is near impossible to intercept since he has infinite stamina.
Okay, the fight itself is really cool, and I find keeping him at arm's reach with a halberd will disarm him pretty well.
Lord Tseldora: Fights with a regular Estoc, who you meet in his study after the fight. He's a joke, though it's fun to experiment with various forms of execution :3
Body of Vengarl: Considering you're likely worn out and low on, if not out of estus and inundated with tens of thousands of souls, seeing this monstrosity will likely make you shit bricks. I have never been hit by his attacks, but I can tell you they will hurt, and hurt a fuckton, so avoid them.
He is heavily armored and very fast, with huge combos on his red rust swords. The best strategy is to stay behind him or near the side, dodging his strikes and hitting him when the moment is right. You'll face worse, but he can do major damage if you aren't prepared :3