>>737730087
poor guy's been suffering recently.

imagine complaining that a co-op area isnt fair as a solo

>>737730087
Slumbering City's gank squads don't even need a co-op boss to be nightmarish compared to the rest of the game, lol. That entire area is gank squads, followed by reskinned dragon asses and a bunch of solo npc fights that also blow.

>>737730087
Learn how to parry, n00b.

The ost goes hard when it picks up.

>>737730267
git
gud

I'm a DS2 enjoyer but the optional side areas in the DLCs are the worst areas in the entire series and I would rather go through Lost Izalith four times in a row than do any of them again.

>>737730087
I beat DS2 only using crystal soulspears after I rushed them. I farmed DDF until I had like 90 of the fucking things and was so grossly overleveled the rest of the game was a cake walk.
DS2 is the best out if the series just for the bizarre and vulgar builds you can make.

My all tine favorite build is farm that one solo covenant and get the ring that makes your bare hands scale with strength, get the old iron turtle armor and run around 1 shotting everything as a rusty ninja turtle. Invaders never expect Donatello to jump out and beat the piss out of them and it leads to some really funny encounters.

>Iron Passage
Either alone or with NPCs it still sucks ass. If you do bring them dispel them before you start the boss because Blue Smelter sucks enough already, he doesn't need inflated multiplayer HP.

>Memory of the Old Iron King
Summon the NPCs, dispel them before the boss. Alonne Knights suck and they gank you hard here.

>Iron Passage
Either/or, really. Don't bring the NPCs to the boss fight, you need to kite those fuckers and it just gets harder with multiplayer HP.

>Frigid Outskirts
Absolutely DO bring the NPCs. All of them. The frozen reindeer are ass to fight alone, and they will gank you given enough time. The third building has a hot spring that recovers HP, you can kinda nudge your party into it to top off their health before the boss. And do bring them into the boss, it makes Lud and Zallen tag-team you less and it turns it into a proper brawl.

>>737730754
>>Iron Passage
>Either/or, really.
I mean Cave of the Dead.

>>737730754
>Memory of the Old Iron King
That's the one you can straight up run through, you don't have to fight any of them. They designed that one to be ignored while the rest wall you hard.
Also Alonne Knights are decent. Only enemies that truly, truly suck are the fucking fire lizards that spin on the spot and send you on a merry-go-round who the FUCK thought that was okay.

The classes in DS2 are so abysmally dogshit. I watched some old youtube reviewer do a retrospective playthrough of ds1 and he stuck with the starting gear for the whole game. I thought i would do that same challenge for myself in ds2, starting gear only.
>half the classes start with either a broken weapon or a dagger
>no shields except the steel parma
>no great-weapons
>no pyromancer
>only 1 ranged option, one catalyst, and one staff (attached to dagger LOL)
>most characters dont even have full armor
>only 1 ring and its magic resistance
I ended up going cleric because I remembered that strike damage was much better than slashing damage and the mace had decent stability while blocking. I cannot believe how dogshit the 2 hand moveset for hammers is. No crowd control, horrible reach, ganks were a nightmare. Throwing knife ended up being more useful than my chime throughout the game, i probably bought over 500 knives over the course of the game.

>>737731563
Would just stack lightning spears and get enough virtual dex to zip them off, they do pretty big dick damage. Lightning is secretly OP in DS2, like 2 bosses have any resistance to it and Sinh sucks regardless.

>>737731739
Lightning is OP in DS1 as well. Even regular Lightning Spear hits like a truck, and Great Lightning Spear and Sunlight Spear are nearly overkill.

>>737731917
It is, but it's annoying to get, whereas in DS2 you just buy like 10 stacks of spears from Lidia 10 seconds into the game and you're set, slap them in as you level attunement for many times more spears.

>>737730087
this is such a fun fight

>>737731563
>i intentionally gimped myself for the entire game for no reason!
>this game sucks!!!