mrsmr2 wrote:

Paarl has decided not to bow down in front of my awesomeness so I've moved on.

Found the rest of the Cathedral Ward area so ran around exploring there, avoiding a very likely boss door, fought an annoying rifle spear npc, and found a completely new area. Didn't find a new lantern so returned home and levelled up a bit.

Going to open the presumed boss door next.

Where was the completely new area? I've gotten tips to do that first, as it's not too hard and a lot of fun.

Paarl decided to bow down after all.

Used the black church armour (think) which I picked up earlier as it had a fair bit more bolt protection and did him on the 2nd attempt (the previous 1,000 or so attempts were merely practice runs). Instead of blindly trying to roll towards the head I tried to run to the side and get in. That was more successful and he kept falling over for me after that. Healed 3 or 4 times - still couldn't do it without heals.

Crap boss. Highlights the main criticism I have for Souls games - it's very hard to hit things without being locked on but then bosses appear that are harder when locked on, or do things to break the lock on, leaving you looking in the wrong direction (which is more of problem when using a shield with the other games).

VA done. 3 attempts.

mrsmr2 wrote:

VA done. 3 attempts.

Really? Is this your first playthrough? Damn. Boss difficulty weirdness continues. Paarl took me maybe 3 attempts but VA was a bitch.

Who put this in the game:

grr

Just sprint and hug the left wall. I've been hit by a jumping punch twice in many, many attemps. You can sprint by everything on the run from the lamp.

Edit: nevermind, I’m wrong.

Ah, I'll try that then... Might help.

Are you reading a Japanese thing? Their O is our X for selecting things. So sprint is likely swapped as well.

Why is this fight so hard for me? Been trying for 2 hours, plenty of kamikaze runs too where I refuse to heal if his health is above 50/75% (depending on how in control of the fight I felt).

I'm level 48 or 49, saw cleaver has +6 and it has 144 fire attack. I could change to physical attack, which will also be around 144.

My axe and hammer are +3, I've not decided yet which one I will use the twin blood shards on, I don't have an excessive amount of those yet.

I think the Forgotten Woods are after VA, and I haven't done it yet. I might farm the Snatchers a bit for twin shards, maybe I can get enough echoes to level up my stamina a bit too for Paarl.

Fire is through one of the weapon gems.

I have given up for now, not sure if I'll continue Paarl tonight, or try VA or a chalice dungeon.

Just hard for me to let go of trying to beat Paarl now, I feel I should be able to do it. And it was the last thing I wanted to do before going to VA and continuing the actual story.

Yeah but I had him down to 25% health a few times and I'm stubborn.

Might upgrade the axe with twin shards and see what that gives me, otherwise move on. Having more stamina would definitely benefit me here as I'm sometimes left with 0 when I finally managed to dodge underneath him.

I'm just happy I can get to him without really killing any enemies on my way there, so I'm not losing much apart from my time.

Go Nina!

Provide regular updates on Paarl’s annoyingness. He did 3 aoe explosions in a row without moving in one of my fights.

Decided i want Ludwig's Holy Sword or whatever it's called, gonna start by farming echoes from the two Snatchers a bit, then maybe have a look at the chalice dungeon, then back to Paarl.

I'm actually more annoyed with myself than the game at this point. Especially because B watched a few of my attempts and had to agree it wasn't just me that sucked, and I definitely had some bad luck.

Nina wrote:

Decided i want Ludwig's Holy Sword...

I used that for the majority of the game.