bringing the skull back where you got the eye pendent? I have fought 4 bosses and have the last fish area to go

Run in a complete circle to end up behind the big tomb. Try and hit the melee guy a couple times. Then repeat until he was dead. After that, I used a hybrid of that strategy and just trying to get close to the half melee half fire guy to take him down. After that, I rushed the fire guy and just hacked til he was done.

First phase. I used the axe (it's the weapon I've been using the entire game). Side stepping the spiders and using one R2 attack took care of each of them. Kill them all and then hack at Rom until he disappears.

2nd phase. Now he adds 2 attacks, but both you can anticipate. One in which he stands up tall. When he drops he is going to shoot icicles at you. When you see him get up, get off autotarget right away and just run in a straight line. The 2nd attack is where he rolls over. When he does that, a few icicles are going to come out of the ground near where you are standing. Just roll twice to get out of range. The trick is to always have an eye on Rom while you are taking care of the spiders, never let him leave your site. After they are all dead hack at him again to bring up the 3rd phase.

3rd phase. Rom adds a 3rd attack. If you are ever too close to him, he will roll up, and when he extends himself again, if you are near him you are going to take a ton of damage. Also, he uses the other attacks in succession sometimes. Same strategy as the 2nd phase, except you never want to get close to him until all the spiders are dead.

Overall, not as challenging as I would've expected from all the talk on this thread, but still a reasonable challenge.

Ludwig, who gave the eventual winner his closest match of the tournament. Orphan also made the semis, but that was probably down to a favorable draw. Maria and Gehrman got to the quarter-finals, the latter losing to Ludwig in a close one.

After you've unlocked the elevator, fall off when you are half way down the elevator and go on the rooftop to the alter and kneel to take you to a new location where if you go straight forward, defeat the bell ringer, and slide down the ladder, you're pretty much at the one reborn

Sprint to the back right corner and go up the stairs, and take out all six bell ringers. If they fall off, make note because when you go back down that will be your first priority, but hopefully none of them fall. After they are done, head back down, and run to the side of Reborn's body in between his legs and start hacking away until he falls, then run to his head to get some good damage in. After he gets back up, run to the other side of him and repeat. This takes him down to about 1/4 life. Then it's just a matter of avoiding the falling corpses, running away if he spills poison on the ground, and hacking away until he's dead. Overall Not that challenging considering the few bosses prior to this one

There's an altar after you beat the 2nd boss in upper cathedral that I can click on, but can't do anything with right now. What do I need to activate this altar? Thanks.

The altar is pretty optional. It's related to one of the few Covenants in the game. Basically there is a quest line which if completed results in death of the NPC covenant leader. You can use the altar to revive the NPC after the quest is over, so you can continue leveling up the covenant in that playthrough. It allows you to do the quest without permanently terminating that covenant.

My favorite fight of the entire game. Very unique type of fight, and not looking at any spoilers made this really a great accomplishment to finally take him down. The fight is split up into 4 phases. 2 mazes, and 2 fights.

Maze 1: This is pretty simple. Chase Mikolash around, don't try and kill any of the skeletons, and basically get it so he's standing next to the fight room, and then come at him from the side so that he runs into that room.

Fight #1: Kill the 2 skeletons first. Then you can basically walk around Mikolash until he attacks with his tentacles forward, and then get in a few shots. Wash, rinse, repeat, and when he gets down to 50% health, he'll disappear.

Maze 2: Chase Mikolash until he goes into the mirror. Go down a half level and turn right. Now you can look below and see Mikolash. Drop down and he'll run into the room that you can fight him in, but an iron door slams shut. Run up to the top again, where the mirror was, and now turn right and go around the side until you find a room where again you can drop down. Drop down and now it's time to finish him off.

Fight #2: One thing that took me awhile to figure out. Max out your arcane defense. This is critical as his new attack can one hit kill you. You can see him charge up this attack, and can actually interrupt it if you are quick enough, if not, it does a bunch of AoE and can really hurt you. He also has his tentacle attack, and another forward attack that doesn't do too much damage.

This fight took me a good 15 times or so to beat, but each time I felt like I was learning something so it wasn't that frustrating like the shadows fight for me.

I beat this on my first try, so I don't have a whole lot of strategy tips for this one. Basically get behind her and while you'll take some damage here and there, you can recoup that health pretty easily by hacking away or healing yourself. Not a very challenging fight.

3 phases

Phase 1, he's got a scythe. He can do really long range damage, so you gotta be able to dodge him. Also a couple of his attacks can be interrupted for a visceral, so time your shots appropriately, and you'll get some easy damage.

Phase 2, he's got a gun. Similar concept. You can visceral him if you interrupt his attack, otherwise try and dodge everything he throws at you and get in a few shots when you get close enough.

Phase 3, he's got an AoE attack. He switches between just the scythe and also having the gun, and does mostly similar attacks, but he can also charge up for an AoE that will likely one shot kill you if you are standing too close. This is the only time in the game that I used a fire paper, and it helped a lot. Basically once he entered the 3rd phase, I activated it, and it wore off only for my last couple of hits on him.

For the whole battle, use bullets and vials liberally. You might get lucky and stun him for a visceral, and if you get caught in one of his combos, it's gonna do a lot of damage so you always want to be above 2/3 health.

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