Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City Boss Ranking and Review
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Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City is finally here, and in this video I'll be doing a Ringed City review along with a ranking of all best and worst Ringed City bosses. It's been a long time coming, and I'm excited to bring you the final bits of Souls content very soon. I look forward to getting you all involved in the rankings, so be sure to subscribe for more great gaming content!
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I wish Gael was as badass as he is here when he was helping me with black flame freide
MadStatic He is the way he is because he consumed or was affected by the dark soul Of man, and he is addicted, your job is to take him down to complete his task of bringing the dark soul to the Painter girl.
well, he went to gym after that...
Unfortunately, he didn't do steroids until after the Demon Prince fight. Also unfortunately, the moment you do find him again is when he's in the middle of a roid rage soooo....he had to die.
He apparently realized how much he sucked and git gud afterwards
MadStatic Gael is when you can't beat a boss and go farm levels for a week and come back.
After two years I'm still thinking about how during Gael's fight the lightning strikes were blue instead of yellow, whereas throughout the entire series yellow lightning has been the manifestation of divine power.
It makes me feel like the blue lightning was supposed to represent that you really were standing at the end of the world, with all the gods dead and forgotten. The lightning, just like everything else, is now wild and untamed, formed of raw power rather than divine fury.
Or even formed of raw fury rather than divine power?
couldn't have said that any better myself :)
Filip Wolffs
Gwyn’s lightning has always been the manifestation of his power and faith, that’s why it’s yellow, the lightning in Gael’s fight is blue cause it’s normal lightning.
Holy shit
I think that the yellow lightning is synthetic ie "magic" lightning...but gaels blue lightning is natural lightning...
Gael's "second" second phase is probably the most epic thing in all of Dark Souls. This dude slashing you with his big ass fuck sword, a cape that hits you in the face, frontflip-auto-crossbow-into-mega-knockdown-strike, blood eruption creating a huge thunderstorm everywhere.
Like, how could you even top this? And I thought Friede's third phase was the most "OMG THIS IS SO AWESOME" thing ever. They really put a lot into making sure the non-meme bosses are absolutely excellent.
Warren Graham Don't forget the music in phase 2 😜
You should probably read berserk
Kael? Who?
That’s the same feel I got when fighting him the first time. I couldn’t focus on trying to sneak in some hits, but instead I kept dodging and kept keeping my distance watching him do cool moves
I don't mind Midir's HP. He's a legit Ancient Dragon. If he's not nearly as tanky as the one in DS2 he doesn't deserve the title.
And that one is actually a giant in a prop of a dragon.
Idk. I felt it should've been a little more limited since you smashed his face in to knock him off a cliff.
On ng+7 it took me 7 minutes with a 73 strength 65 dexterity 55 faith build with Lothric Knight GS with refined gem and lightning blade. And that build is very overleveled.
For me it was 10 min on Ng+7 with Profaned Greatsword and Llyod Sword ring, it depends on your position, if you are agressive and attack his face it will be a quick fight
Ng 7 practically doubles his health and is the highest difficulty you can achieve so his health come at no surprise. 73 strength is useless considering the cap is 60-66 and 65 dex is as well since you're using a mainly strength oriented weapon LKGS. Your damage is also heavily reliant on what kind of infusion you have. 55 faith for a buff build is not that good considering you should be fine with only 30 faith and lightning blade. 55 faith is suited more for spells like sunlight spear. Overall not a good way to try and say Midir is an unfair fight. @wooshi998
i love how the final boss is just guts. its fitting for dark souls honestly
Dikembe Mbenga they didn't even try to hide it, they even gave him the repeating crossbow
People forget about Angels Egg... for me Angel Egg's influenced Dark souls more than Berserk especially ringed city
Dikembe Mbenga He bares almost no resemblance to Guts...
PGSawesome hmmm lets see
1)A relatively big sword: CHECK
2)A cape that flows like paint: CHECK
3)A repeating crossbow: CHECK
4)Moveset similar to Berserk Armour Guts: CHECK
It'll happen to you too ahead, by the way guts.
speaking of soul of cinder I feel like that's the only boss in the series that if you listen to his grunts when he swings he sounds like he is in a rage
Hunter Trecartin pontiff
Hunter Trecartin pontiff too and i believe Lorian also
Champion Grundyr and the first boss...lots do
Hunter Trecartin Ironic considering he's one of a handful of bosses who clearly isn't meant to hate you, and he perfectly fits DS3's theme of resignation (to duty, to the cycle, to death, and to disappointment, amongst others).
PGSawesome it makes me wonder if he actually spoke I personally think it would be something like ermac to where all the voices speak at once
The way I see it, Midir is designed specifically to be fought face to face. Damage dealt to anywhere other than his head is minimal. Midir also makes a lot of turns so that he is facing you. His mobility and fire attacks he aims towards the ground discourage you from attacking his legs most of the time.
When you fight Midir with these things in mind and focus on attacking his head and facing him, you notice that a lot of his attacks have a small rest period after he's attacked where you can strike his head for good damage.
The fight (IMO) requires a lot of patience on your part as you dodge and wait for the correct openings.
Me personally, I LOVED this fight. It was incredibly tricky as he would 1 and 2 shot me a lot of times. This fight was so satisfying (don't get me started on his atomic breath, especially his finale beam attack) with the way it was paced. Easily one of my all time favourite dark souls bosses!
i feel like he is the best dragon fight (Darkeater Midir), alongside the best demon fight (Femon prince) and one of the best boss of dark souls (Slave knight Gael) this is the best dlc dark souls ever had (ignoring the pvp npc fights, those are always bad).
What if, at the end of the ringed city when you give the girl the blood. She says she is going to paint a new world. What if the new world she painted is Elden Ring?
Vaati mentioned it might be bloodborne
Btw does she ever paint anything? I got frustrated n killed her
@@wolfmelody2787 She does if you best the DLC *SPOILERS* the house she is in catches fire as does the world if I remember to warm it up from the cold, and she uses the blood from gale to paint the new and last world
@@oultasttheoutcast I mean I gave it to her and she was like thank u and ill paint this pic with Yr name on it. But thats it I rested an bon fire still nothing. Ohh well. Am just so proud I beat darksouls 3 solo without anyone help
@@astrosuperkoala1 Cold and dark maybe, but gentle?
I love how Slave Knight Gael is pretty much just Guts from berserk all the way down to the auto crossbow.
Inb4 death battle....
BrickHowesGaming The crossbow is literally the only similarity between Guts and Gael.
and the fighting style
Gael has an extra hand. But I love your comparison. The Hood, the Cape, Giant sword, Crossbow, 1st phase similar to the berserker armour, the nonchalant walk in the beginning.
That's awesome
Slave Knight Gael kinda reminds me of Ludwig. He starts off in a monster like phase then goes into a more human phase.
Haven't even actually played Bloodborne, only watched videos, and that's what I thought of the minute he changed phases. Surprised DMOD didn't mention it, since Ludwig is his favourite in the franchise.
LucTheEpicGamer - Heck, even the music changes to a glorious one after phase 1
Plus he is the only boss (that i know of) whose theme as well has 3 phases.
Except that Gael goes from human to hollow..
@@ghhjoglgogogmmc4725 refers to moveset i think
I actually went back to fight Midir as the last boss in a chronological order for myself. I tried a couple hours fighting him one day and just couldn't get him. I made sure I was the right level, I tried to exploit his weakness and even tried co op. I hopped on the next day and on my third attempt I finally downed him and felt like a god. Nothing has made me feel so satisfied in a video game as well as that victory. You truly feel like you're fighting a dragon raised by the gods in that battle. To me Darkeater Midir is probably my favorite and most difficult fight in the whole souls series. What a way to end it.
I agree completely, of course the bosses "difficulty" and experience is a personal thing based on skill and strategy but you just morded my feelings towards the most awesome dragon in the whole series :)
It's Kalameet... He is much more like a dragon and out of control at the same time... Midir takes a lot of inspiration from Kalameet... But the reason why he is loved more is because of his design and graphics... As a dragon boss fight Kalameet is the best ... Haven't played DS2 so not sure about dragons in that game
You can actually fight midir after defeating Gael? I want the Gael's greatsword but I don't wanna skip the dragon
Nayyar Rashid idk, I didn’t really like Kalameet. He runs into the problem I think a lot of large bosses do where when they attack, their entire body becomes a hit box. Idk, personal preference.
Midir is dogshit. Pure trash. Horrific camera (like every other large boss). You spend more time chasing him around the arena like every other dragon fight to get hits in (when possible). He does ridiculous damage. He has way too much HP. There's no real instinctive dodging to his moves, you essentially have to plan out what he's going to do so you'll be in a position to whack his head when he's finally done flailing around and shooting fire. He just plain sucks. There are fun and difficult fights, and then there are fights that are difficult for all the wrong reasons, and Midir falls into the latter category.
I went into this compeletly blind and i gotta say, it was amazing, breathtaking and jawdroping. I write this after fighting Midir, my last boss cause i couldn't find him even knowing deep down the encounter on the bridge wasn't our last, and i gotta say that Midir is the best Dragon in the series hands down. There are so many emotions that i feel right now, and the fight with Gael is an amazing send off as the last Souls content we might eventually get. I loved this DLC.
Yeah for a dragon boss battle in dark souls midir was alright. He wasn't THAT hard even though he was extremely tanky. A great dragon boss battle if you compare to others (ancient dragon and sinh)
Midir was okay, but not the best in the series. I was hoping he would stand equal to Kalameet, but he sadly stood a bit lower than Sinh the Slumbering Dragon. HOWEVER... Only "Dragon" boss that is god awfully made, is the Ancient Dragon boss in DaS2. Midir is a great boss, but hardly a challenge. He is just a long drawn-out fight of patience and observation, really.
Felkhan Whiteball Ehh Nah ds3 ancient dragon is still the worst, cuz it was even a fight, it was a platfomer
Soracool123 ds3 ancient dragon... oh right I completely forgot about that one. Yeah that is likely the worst, thanks for the heads up!
at least the option of defeating him the old fashion way is still there, making it possibly one of the most difficult bosses in the game if you decide to try and hack and slash.
What sort of awesome title is "darkeater"? That's freaking amazing.
A title belonging to a dragon who's sole mission was to combat the Abyss. (problem is the Abyss loves to corrupt)
ChaosBahamut The abyss loves to corrupt? haha what a joke! Artorias! Watchers! come here and tell this man he is wrong! guys?
@@carloscorrea6775 *pained unholy moans*
The dude literally eats the abyss for breakfast
You forgot to mention what I said last night. You can fight this boss as many times as you want if you REVIEVE adjudicator Argo
How so?
at the spears of the church covenant statue you can pay an assload of souls and revive judicator argo.
Tim Tom Ah, I see. Thanks.
Isn't the revival option at the Purging Monument?
Yup, found it. It's the greatest thing ever. Every time you fight him you always get one spear ornament and enough souls to revive him again. I've been doing nothing else since then. Great job, Fromsoft, finally an interesting, versatile and fun covenant in DS3.
I love the fact that Gael beat you to the final boss (the pygmy kings) and just eats them alive.
Slave Knight Gaels has 3 phases, the third phase when the storm starting to hit the ground randomly .__. And 3 phases music too
Yeah he is the only boss whose music has 3 phases as well. :D It makes him even more cooler!
Doesn't Friede also has 3 music phases?
No Friede's music is 2 phases. It just seems as 3 because of the fake out death between Fighting Phases 2 and 3
Actually the lightning strikes AREN'T random.
They hit where his orbs hit.
Midis is hard because hes a freaking everlasting dragon so yeah that might be why
Megahurts 63 plus his attacks are pretty hard to read given his size and also hard to avoid. You expect a dragon to NOT have a ton of health?
Straight Busta no, that’s not correct. He was an arch dragon child that Gwynn took on one of his hunts and raised to protect his daughter filianore
@@samuelfreeman2116 He cannot be an arch dragon since they were all killed long before Filianore...
Nayyar Rashid they kinda weren’t tho, in dark souls 1 we saw an everlasting dragon and it was a covenant and in ds3 we see one in arch dragon peak on a distant mountain. We also know midir is one because of the few item descriptions we have of him
Samuel Freeman As you said....no, that’s not correct. First of all, the dragon on Archdragon Peak is a corpse. Second, the dragon in Ash Lake is a descendant of the everlasting dragons, not one itself. Kalameet, Midir, Sinh are all Ancient Dragons/Archdragons if you like, dragons that most likely existed alongside the Everlasting ones but weren’t everlasting themselves. The only true Everlasting Dragon we meet at all in the series is Seath, while he lacked the stone scales he’s still an everlasting dragon by birth - just lacking the scales.
"I was level 92"
Wasnt this DLC recommended for soul level 110 or something? 20 levels makes quite a difference.
Me who completed the DLC at level 90: oh ffs 😭
Midir is definitely the coolest "large monster" boss I've fought in the series so far. Far from one of the hardest bosses, but I would say he pretty much represents the apotheosis of the dragon boss archetype. And Gael is undoubtedly one of the best bosses in the series, if not the best. He's tough, but the mechanics of the fight itself are so perfectly done. It's like an insane, rhythmic dance between two master fighters that steadily gets more and more chaotic and intense without ever losing that rhythm. It gets more complex, but never in an unfair way. Gael takes what makes bosses like Artorias fun and, similar to Midir, perfects the formula. You will probably die many times, but nothing will feel more badass than your final, victorious round with him.
Midir is dogshit. Pure trash. Horrific camera (like every other large boss). You spend more time chasing him around the arena like every other dragon fight to get hits in (when possible). He does ridiculous damage. He has way too much HP. There's no real instinctive dodging to his moves, you essentially have to plan out what he's going to do so you'll be in a position to whack his head when he's finally done flailing around and shooting fire. He just plain sucks. There are fun and difficult fights, and then there are fights that are difficult for all the wrong reasons, and Midir falls into the latter category.
This is the game that forces you to adapt. For that rather than give it minus points, it should give plus ones
Except its not stealth. Its literally saying hey here is am mechanic learn to overcome it as opposed to hitting your head against a wall and expecting it to work.
Not sure if it's an easter egg or not but when you defeat Gael he reaches out just like Lady Maria and Gehrman before hitting the ground.
I have to admit seeing an old man jump into the air, holding his sword in the one hand while he is shooting me with a machine gun crossbow with his other hand is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
Well, to defend a few of the weak points you mentioned... most of the gankfests and environmental hazards can be solved by observing and using your environment. The fucking angels? When they cast curse on you they reveal the position of their actual body. The harald knight gank stairs? Clearly positioned so you can plunge attack them (just like every other Harald Knight in the DLC except the one in the middle of the swamp), in most cases it one shots them. Still annoying, but mostly because of the fuckers who throw lightning at you. It can annoy you if it's not what you are expecting from the game, but to be fair they kinda needed a way to kill us who have hundreds or thousands of hours logged in the series, to remind us that feel of the first time where we used to hide behind our shields looking around every corner, behind, up and back, looking out for ambushes and ways to get past seemingly impossible threats, and at least for me they succeeded. The swamp is kinda meh (still better than every other swamp in the series because it doesn't fucking poison and slow you), but it's also not that big in comparison to other areas and leads to some cool stuff. And the Dragonslayer Armour is just there so we can all get that fashion souls and some lore implications regarding the timeline of the DLC.
I also want to say that, once you get rid of the environmental hazards, both the Dreg Heap and the Ringed City have some of the best exploration in the series. Places you can see, with items and enemies, but you don't know how to get to. Those moments like in DS1 when you get to a place and then see other place where you have been before, then realize there is a full part of the area you missed, or when you go full fucking circle back to a place you were 2 hours ago. That kind of thing is the exploration I like, and it's totally present here.
Oh, and the fun of the NPC boss is invading as the boss yourself. It's probably there because the feedback they got from the Gravetender, and I love it. I also love the other 3 bosses, Gael and Midir easely took some of the highest spots in my top, and the Prince is an excellent boss overall, just not as memorable IMO.
Everyone do yourselves a favor and buy the fucking thing, it IS amazing, and imo the best DLC on a Dark Souls game by far (not including Bloodborne since my PS4 died before I got to play The Old Hunters ;-;).
Edit: I've been playing a bit more as a Spear of the Church and I can say they do balance you when you get to fight against a host and phantom. You get more HP, the special item recharges faster (I think, not 100% sure) and... you get poise. Like actual, DS1 poise. Honestly with the special item, the kinda soulmass thing you shoot automatically, more hp and poise I felt like an actual boss. I only got one 1v3 but I'm sure I gave the host a hard time. Killed both his phantoms and I died when he was most likely out of estus and with like 100 health, and I'm not any sort of PVP master. In terms of 1v1 I think it's somewhat balanced. The painting guardians are not that hard to kill, and as a boss the advantages you get are the soulmass and item, but you can't estus, while the host most likely has his 15 +10 estus to chug.
Welcome to Valhalla I agree with pretty much everything you said there are also 2 other items that you can get for spear of the church fight not sure what they do but you get them through the covenant
ARTPOP Reign I already got the first item, the description says it enhances protection, so I'm guessing it gives more defense when you invade as a boss. I can't equip/use it so I guess it's just a permanent passive boost. 15 more wins to go for the second item, but I'm guessing it's another item you get to use during the fight.
True, I see a lot of people complaining about the angels when in matter of fact if you just kill their ground spirits they are not a problem anymore and you can explore and wander freely. It's just hectic at start.
Oh, the Pilgrim Butterfly things reveal their host position? (I wouldn't call them angels, since they are definitely not the angels that were mentioned in connection to Gertrude and Lothric, these have definitely feathers).
I missed that. Always scouted to find out, if I can catch some hint on the host position, like where the butterfly moves to when idle or so. But how do they reveal their body's position? I've never noticed any special effect or so.
Sephyrias I'm not 100% sure since it's not the way I located it, but I saw the last one from afar and waited for the thing to start casting curse on me so I could go for the run. When I got to the thing, it was covered in the same light that falls from the sky and cursed you, so I guess if you run to the open and scout the area when it starts cursing, you will be able to see the light above the main body from afar. Actually I'll look this up really quick and edit. Yeah I was quick on calling them angels, but the light beam they shoot to you leave some sort of feather trail once it hits.
EDIT: The moment they appear you can see a pillar of light illuminating the main body. I'll check myself later if the same pillar appears when they curse you, I'm pretty sure it does.
EDIT 2: It does appear when they curse you.
I love how Dreg Heap and Ringed City feel so different in comparison to the rest of the game and even Ariandel, its like I was playing completely new game.
11:42 Did Midir just pull a Shin Godzilla? That's it, I love this boss!
No thats gael
I love midir hes my faiforite but thats gael on the link
U mean Gael?
I think he means 12:38
hey Dmod if you think of midir from a lore perspective his crazy hp makes sense he is a one of the Immortal Arch dragons of old corrupted by the darkness to be slighty less immortal
chris cloud He's a fucking archdragon! Of COURSE he has a giant health pool. THANK YOU
Gael is so badass, he points you where to go to fight him.
I absolutely adored the "stealth Souls" you could take it slow, or you could speed through it (my preferred method) and it feels like a goddamn action movie. I love it. The fuck it lake I also enjoyed. Total endurance test that left me sweating profusely by the end of it.
i am kinda sad there's no aldia references in this dlc either :( .
There is one when talking to the weird fly men and they reference her in their cryptic speech near the big lake area
+Jared Ebbe him
he was kind of supposed to have been one of the biggest characters in the series
but they never mention him after ds2
nice storytelling there fromsoft
working as intended is it
Yeah it upsets me as well. Also no conclusion to Kaathe vs Frampt and we've never met the third "sable church" sister. Also: Is the Ringed City Londor? I haven't been able to find any hint towards it. Really weird, they just quit the whole main story and replaced it with the Painted World plot.
+Sephyrias
Yeah, I found that really strange how they never once say "londor" in the entire DLC, when all the prerelease content seemed to so heavily imply it was londor. It was just "here's another undead city, completely unrelated to the others, that's being ruled by retcons and confusion, and we're going to tell an uninteresting sidestory with no relevance to the overarching plot here.
you gotta take the time to appreciate the atmosphere of the game, this dlc punished you for being a spammy rush boi
Say what you will, Fromsoft does good DLC.
Great gameplay, visuals, fucking epicness: 10/10
Lore: meh/10
Let me explain why: we've never even seen what Londor is, we've never met the third Sable Church sister, we've never had an end to the Kaathe Vs Frampt fight and were instead left with a Painted World story.
@@quackquack8775 huge chunks of story being left out is nothing new for Dark Souls 😂
@@randomguy6679 well not really, DS1 and bloodborne missed literally nothing, so....
Quack Quack we don’t see a lot of the named places like Catarina or the ruins of Astora. You also don’t meet a lot of people mentioned like the blacksmith god. However I agree we should have seen frampy vs. kaathe resolved but I think whoever wins is just based on the ending you pick.
@@plugshirt1684 I mean, they were never meant to be seen. Its just like DS2 is only half of a world. Demon Souls is also only half. You don't need to see every place in a world to have a great story. Plus, we still know of those places, which makes the world feel more like... a world. You also don't need to meet everyone ever mentioned. But the fact that there have been heroes before you makes you feel like you're continuing something. That's not a plothole, it's building a world.
And yeah we need the kaathe v frampt
When you were fighting Midir in the stream for the first time and you dropped down the giant hole, I thought they were gonna pull a smouldering lake and it was going to be the old chaos from ds2 but destroyed
*Finally kills Gael*
Welp, time to come back in NG!
wow this looks so awesome i cant wait to get this dlc, i broke away from souls for a while but after seeing this HOLY SH*T Connor's coming back to souls baby
Great video, DeMod. It's been like ages since your latest souls video. Keep up the great work,
You narration fantastically, that's probably one of my favorite things about your presentation
I was craving this video! Thanks so much Dmod and keep up the good work!
lol thank you this account is no longer in use. Glad you made it here!
theDeModcracy also I have to agree with you that Slave knight is top tier as well, and also agree that he is better than nameless.
+theDeModcracy you are great you make videos especially about blood souls and I love them there are really only 3 rankings left I can think about and I hope you do them ranking of blood souls weapons, HARDEST npcs in blood souls and after those I think it is time.......to do it.......you know what I'm talking about..... A TOP 5 RANKING OF ALL THE GAMES TOGETHER and i must say this is mine from worst to best DS2,demon souls,DS1,DS3,BB
Dude you're a wordsmith, captured this DLC perfectly.
Gael is literally Artorias, even throwing a corpse at the screen.
Slave Night Gael=Top 10 Anime Betrayals
I don't know how you feel, but Gael's first stage is really reminded me to Artorias. In the second, as you saied, Orphan of Kos has mixed in it, and got a lot of suprise. That's a hell of a bossfight!
1: Gael (I mean come on..! Best DS3 boss🙌🏻)
2: Demon Prince (loved the struggle)
3: Midir (I'm not sure what to Think of him.. Feels Like he needs a nerf for his Health or a weakness to exploit)
4: Gank city (rather had a real boss, sorry.. Do Like the covenent linked to it but still)
Pretty sure you just using the wrong strategy against Midir
Just another black & white mickey Mouse I beat him on my first try on my second character just by staying in front of him, definitely my favorite boss and badass one
@@shogun2212 I like that every time he hits you with his tail or kicks you with his leg it takes more than half of you health, at first I thought it was unfair, but is a way of telling you that you are doing it wrong, definitely the best dragon fight
Damn this went up quick lol love the rankings you do
This video honestly made me tear up, It brought to my attention that this may be the last we ever see of an amazing series. The final boss was so heart touching due to how much he referenced the other malformed beasts and corruption we came across. It was pure ecstasy.
Gael's fight is basically amazing, dodging all of his attacks one and another time just feels like you're really having a duel. The arena, the epicity. Forgetting the fact that again we face an open end, It's an amazing way to finish one of the best franchises of gaming history
Dragon bosses throughout the series.
Kalameet: Fairly difficult yet a cool fight.
Sihn: Discount kalameet.
Midir: Internal screaming of pure agony seriously wtf even.
i was waiting for this video. dmod keep making great videos, we all appreciate thank you!
Beautiful review/ranking video and I'm going to miss the souls series if this is truly the end for it
And theDeModcracy, I REALLY gotta know that song when you're talking about Gael!
I beat the dlc! now I can finally watch this.
And before watching it fully, I have to say I absolutely love the final boss.
Seems fairly spot on. The only thing I have to disagree with is Midir. People always compare dragons in Dark Souls with Kalameet and honestly I think the comparison isn't really appropriate with Midir as the only similarities between Midir and Kalameet are that they are dragons and breathe fire/darkness into your face. I found Midir a lot better done to be honest. No crazy ass hitbox funkyness that resulted in conniptons and his pattern was a lot better and improved.
The only thing I didn't like was the instant charge to the face.
Regardless of this, the DLC is fantastic and I'm in love with it.
He always walks back a bit before charging.
To be fair though it took me a good while to notice that tell.
Conniptons huh? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I noticed that you primarily tried to attack Midirs legs and tail. If you instead only focus on the head the fight becomes way more enjoyable and is probably one of my favorite fights. For one the camera only struggles if it gets caught in Midir and if you don't stay under his belly it won't get caught in him. Secondly, you deal almost 2x as much damage if you hit his head and it is also way easier to tell the difference between his attacks.
For me this boss was really interesting since it is the only mostly physical huge boss I can think of that actually gets harder if you try and use the strategy of showing your face up it's ass and mashing the R1 button.
Instead it rewards methodical thinking and only going for the attack when you have the oppurtunity
Great video man. You can really tell that you have great passion for this game and that in turn gets me hyped up to press on with my Souls 3 journey. Nameless King.....here I come!
Will you re-do the ranking of Dark Souls III bosses from easiest to hardest including both DLCs?
Today my depression has been hitting me pretty hard off and on. Then i see the notification for this video and all of it just went away. Thanks Demodcracy! I needed a pick me up :D
Hope you pull through mate. I've been there myself. Wishing you the best! :)
Thanks. Honestly thank you. I truly appreciate it. I always look forward to your videos man, I enjoy your passion for them and truthfully they're very entertaining. Even if I've already watched the video. So thank you a lot and have nice day! I'll try to watch your streams if I'm not too busy with college work :D Regardless, keep rocking on Demodcracy! You're awesome!
Sasuke Uchiha no one likes you
Sasuke Uchiha First of all, Ancient Wyvern is worse. Second of all, I was saying that nobody likes you because you said that depression isn't real, and you didn't even reply to that! The people who do like you are fucking stupid
Sasuke Uchiha Also, learn grammar
5:00 Attack while he summons the giant sun, if you are lucky he will stagger
This is the most comprehensive review Ive seen so far! And thats a good thing.
Most other outlets, like Destructoid, obfuscate and says minimal in what the dlc offers.
does anyone knows which is the soundtrack that can be heard when he is talking about Gael?
It does seem kind of anticlimactic that the final DLC didn't give any information on what became of Ocelotte.
James Bevan I think ocelotte died. His father is carrying what seems like nothing, but the dragon children can become invisible (case and point Priscilla) and halfway through the fight oceiros slams his hands into the ground. There was originally going to be a crunching sound effect to even show ocelotte being crushed under the weight of his fathers hands.
_e _e I still think Ocelotte could possibly be Yorshka. Oceiros could very well be delusional after losing the child, and Yorshka is a half dragon, she is clearly young because she admits she knows very little of anything. Gwyndolin took her in as a sister and gave her her name.
Lance Ocellote can't be Yorshka. Literally everything points at her being Gwyn's last kid.
As for Ocellote, it seems like people miss the obvious thing about Oceiros being nuts. It's much more likely that Ocellote either never existed or is way dead that anything else.
PGSawesome How can Yorshka even be a legitimate child of Gwyn though? Gwyndolin was still his lastborn at the time when Gwyn was already cinder. When she says "father Gwyn and Sister Gwynevere", she is reciting the Darkmoon acceptance pact that Gwyndolin said in DS1 word for word. I don't think it is to be taken literally. She is young and her name was given to her by Gwyndolin.
+AllAboardTheDankMemeTrain
It's because of her name, someone on reddit pointed out that translating her name into latin means "Daughter of the Sun", and we know Gwynevere is the oldest, so she must be youngest.
i laughed so hard when you were trying to parry the astora greatsword! XD
I feel Gael is a combination of Nameless King and The Orphan. I think you nailed the description of the first phase, those sporadic attacks that I found damn hard to read but a stagger every 3-5 hits with the dragonslayer greataxe. And his next stage (which I still haven't beaten btw) is relentlessly agressive and hits like a truck to the point where if even one of your dodges isn't perfect you might as well give up (at least on NG+4. Dude hits like a freight train. 2 hit kills.) Truly in my opinion the best example of an endurance fight in the souls series.
Buttmunching Penguins I was on ng3 and didn't have any embers when I fought Gael. took me about 3 hours nonstop today to finally beat him. one of the most thrilling experiences I've had with dark souls. his final form can nearly 1 shot you if you can't dodge right. makes the fact that you feel like you have to be flawless that much better.
"Some parts are ganky stealth souls because I want to be able to just recklessly run through but I can't"
That's not a negative thing, that's YOUR fault for using a poor strategy.
They literally slap 3 Heralds on that staircase before the swamp and it's nearly impossible to aggro only one of them. Plus, I wouldn't wanna sprint through the entire area instantly if they actually made it fun to go through
@@twistedgwazi5727 you can easily pull them one by one with an arrow, just make sure to kill those thunder throwing hollows before you go near them. Also those bridges above you are meant to be used... You can jump attack them to pretty much insta kill em, but yeah it's a pretty unforgiving area to clear, to say the least.
when i first fought gael i was like "oh, this is orphan of cos!" i like the first phase more, because it's like a dance. once you learn the moves you can roll. i was getting through that phase without being hit once. on the second phase i died more, but it is waaay cooler in terms of style. and the third phase is the best for me. gael stops bsing with his spell and crossbow and only swag remains. love the boss fight
U earned a sub, my man!
Hey congrats on 100k I was here since probably 30k
Thanks for the longtime support Barry!
Try fighring Slave and Midir on
NG+9.... I have so muvh fun but i lost so many time. 2 days on each boss.
Now with all the bosses in the series, are you going to do another fan-voted poll for best and worst bosses? Maybe not worst as I doubt that would have changed much, but best on the other hand sure as hell will have changed with the DS3 DLC. Plus I still have an excel document with the results from the previous two polls (was a chore to type in), and I really am curious as to which bosses would lose votes and which ones would gain votes given how close the top two was.
I don't know if I'm just a nut for stats as well as a music nut, personally I could never play a souls game as I just don't have the paitence (have a somewhat short temper when it comes to games and RNG, I have a love-hate relationship with Pokemon thanks to the hax and can get pretty pissed off), but the music and watching the boss fights I get a kick out off. Plus I like reading the lore as well (have the wiki app on my tablet).
Instead of just doing the top ten I could see this being broken up into five videos for the top 50 (each video would count down ten starting at #50) with possibly the change in votes accounted as well. That way Demon Souls and Dark Souls 2 could make it given that Demon Souls was in the top 30 and DW2 was in the top twenty. It could be cut down to top 30 if need be. Just a suggestion when you have the time.
AceAviations2 play the games u wanna b
AceAviations2 worst boss has atleast changed for me.
Gravetender and queer of church are in top 10 fo sure
Gael was so amazing and thrilling that I played until 4 am because I couldn't go to sleep without finishing him. Definitely on of the best bosses in the series. R.I.P Guts.. I mean Gael
I seriously agree with your thoughts on the Gael fight. It was incredibly difficult, but every time I died, I didn't get angry or upset. I knew that I could overcome the challenge. I was using the new paired greatswords for my first few attempts and sorely missed my shield, so I switched back to my normal play style and after a couple more tries finally took him down. I was a little sad to find out that that was the end, but the secret invasion afterward as well as the link to AoA was great. All in all, I am extremely happy with this DLC
A shoutout to my fellow Ash who took on this DLC blind on NG+7. Let's just say I just finished the DLC a few hours ago.
Alberto Ocada Only did it on NG+5. I can't imagine what horrors await in +7. Midir took me an hour and a half, and Gael at least 45 minutes. Having said that, on my final run, I did both almost without getting hit (only took a couple tries before I could completely avoid damage on Gael's first phase, and I was mostly getting hit on the 2nd and 3rd due to bad roll directions).
PGSawesome Demons took me 3 hours, Midir took me like an hour and a half as well, but oh man, Gael took me like 5 hours lol. Especially since my main weapon was the Onyx Blade and I'm pretty sure he's like super resistant to Dark, and I generally don't like to switch around my builds but I did end up using other weapons. Not to mention I get one-shot by the Harald knights and two-shot by the Ringed Knights. I could just be bad though cause it shouldn't be that much worse than NG+5. It was fun nonetheless.
The ending with the painting woman must have been really funny to him.
NG+7 at SL105 was a goddamned nightmare.
I loved the Gael fight, just kind of wish he was the halfway point, not the last boss. For a DLC centered around the Dark Soul, and with all the talk of Angels and Londor and stuff..... there was a surprising little amount of that.
Vernula There's almost zero mention of Londor in the DLC or leading up to it. Londor is pretty much just an explanation for one of the endings. As for angels, that was all fan guesswork.
We didn't fight against two of the three Sisters of The Sable Church? Leaving one up in the air that we had no reason not to expect we were going to run into? This wasn't called the City of Hollows?
You can say there's zero mention of Londor, but the people who expected Londor can be legitimately pissed because this game franchise uses small clues to bring you in on the big picture. And ALL the small clues pointed to us going to Londor.
And it's not like the Sword of Avowal wasn't all over the fucking place in the DLC :P
I agree, I would have loved to fight something more suiting. For an example, manus. That felt more like a closure dlc, because we literly fought the father of the abyss and dark.
They say "the dark soul" so many times but it's of so little real relevance they might as well have been searching for the last can of anchovies
I love your content!
What you said for when you died to Gael, I had the same feeling when fighting the abyss watchers for the first time. I died with one hit left on second phase then but... it’s still a great feeling.
Anyone by chance know the song that plays in the background to gael?
Brody Barrie I too really want to know lol :P
I'd love to know as well.
Are you going to revamp this series when the add the new Souls-like game?
I think that they're 3 confirmed.
If there are ever new Souls-like games made by FromSoft I'll cover them!
theDeModcracy What happened to pokemon? lol
you mentioned that the ranking series is not quite over yet. just curious on the topics you have yet to cover. ds3 really has put some interesting areas on the plate😉
yeah I had a very similar reaction to fighting Gael, when I first got to the second phase and died, I was blown away by how cool the fight was that I wasn't even mad( much like how I felt on second phase of the abyss watchers), and this continued when I failed it my frustration was only with myself and how I was making mistakes not that the boss was unfair.
Why do you like O&S so much. The Demon Prince is much better IMO. Much more fair and less cheap. O&S is just hard because they're both so aggressive all the time and the second phase is easy as hell.
O&S is kinda a meme these days. They arent in my top 10 at all. If you dont just R1 R1 R1 them (like most people complain that they are so hard" they are pretty easy. You can even beat smough with just a bow and running from corner to corner in the second phase.
Phil W In the second phase, Smough doesn't even hit you with most of his swings if you're close to him. :P
The demon prince is more balanced yes, but Ornstein and smough is more awesome. I remember the first time fighting them and my jaw dropped. Demon prince is nice though.
O&S isn't even close to aggressive by modern Soulsborne standards, half the time you can walk away from Phase 2 Pikachu (would that be Raichu?) and use a fucking Humanity lol
I think it's not difficulty that makes it a top 5 fight, but just how fun it is, and how nice it is compared to... you know what, lets not even talk about most other gank bosses. *horrid flashbacks of TW&D and the cliff of doom*
I think nostalgia plays a large part too. It was the first time for many that they experienced something like that, so there was more hype. As time went on and there were more bosses like them the hype died for the newer ones, making O&S seem even better by comparison because of said nostalgia.
I love this dlc, the only problem I had was the same that you had. GANK ENEMIES, jesus christ how am I supposed to fight of 6 of those big curve sword guys? I miss more 1 vs 1 combat when you had to focus and learn the moveset, everything is a gank in ringed city even though there are some good enemies.
I know guys I'm fucking impatient as all hell but this is the only time where I got legit frustrated, not saying the dlc is bad it's great.
they are so bloody easy to lure out and separate tho, and once aloen they can hardly do antyhgina gainst you... first you go to the right and plunge the dude in hiding, then yuo draw the atention of one of the dudes below and go back up then kill him and just keep oging like that
The dlc would have been easier for me If I had my sorcery character instead, but I started playing on my dexeterity character soul level 104. I could have used long range attacks a couple of times.
Yeah I guess but I'm not really a bow guy I like spells, I hate having to equip arrows and bows plus equip load problems.
You could also think a bit before you run in, I was able to fight every single one of those guys 1 vs. 1
I just wanted to say, about the Spear of the Church boss, the health of the person you fight, NPC or not, is affected by how many people you have summoned to help you like a normal boss. they also get a base amount of bonus protections when summoned which can be increased by giving 10 spear ornaments to get the soul dew or whatever it's called. The boss is a bit lackluster to fight but being summoned is surprisingly fun, especially when you're fighting multiple people.
Literally my exact opinion. Except... fuck that R1 painting guardian.
There is also too much Bloodborne in this.
there's no such thing as too much bloodborne
Adam Windsor with this patch is better spaming r1 than L2 spam
How is there too much Bloodborne in this DLC? Like, seriously, please tell me because I didn't felt like that during my entire playthrough. The bosses didn't have that Bloodborne feel that Sister Friede had at all, and most of the enemies are as Dark Souls as it gets. The areas especially felt like DS1 more than ever. Maybe the insane moveset of the weapons, but that's kind of it's own thing, there aren't weapons like that in Bloodborne either.
Midir is bae
I Really Think Midir's boss design makes him one of if not the best in all of souls, since you can learn quite a lot of his attacks even before you encounter him for the first time due to his overworld encounters, which also provides a lot of hype and surprise for when you finally encounter him for an amazing bout. Midir is still at least a 9/10 in my eyes, although i do understand the gripes people have with the fight.
Gael is a mix of so many bosses : The Orphan (like you said); the intro and some moves remind of Artorias and even the Abyss Watchers (with the jumping-side-spinning attack); the long but predictable 5-6 moves combo like Manus, Soul of Cinder and Pontiff; the DragonSlayer Armor where you're bombarded by fire-like orbs; he also reminds me of Ludwig with a first phase beast-like and a second one where he (seems to) becomes more human
What your guys favorite top 5 dark souls 3 bosses, mines are
1: Nameless King (most badass looking boss in all of souls born, and the most difficulty yet fair fight boss, imo)
2: Soul Of Cinder (has the best variety of attacks, he reminds me of all the times I spend on the Soulsborne series, along with the best second phase of all time, imo)
3: Slave Knight Gael
4: The Abyss Walker
5: Champion Gundyr
1: Slave Knight Gael
2: Darkeater Midir (Maybe it's not as good or fair as the others, but I absolutely love the feeling of taking on by myself a huge dragon that feels like a damn raid boss)
3: Nameless King
4: Soul of Cinder
5: Champion Gundyr
I might change SoC and Gundyr for either Lorian and Lothric, the Demon Prince or the Dragonslayer Armor in a different day, though.
solomon kane 1. Gael
2. Friede
3. Soul of Cinder
4. Champion Gundyr
5. Nameless King
solomon kane
1.Friede
2. Gael
3. Twins
4. Soul of Cinder
5.Dragonslayer/Demon Prince/ Champion Gundyr(tied)
I like how nobody mentions the fume knight, everyone still must be salty from it.
OP asked for our favorite DS3 bosses. Fume is from DS2.
Is the last boss Guts?
yes
Are you still doing speedruns of DS3? I loved your World Record Commentary (even though your time got beaten in one day or so) and would like to see a complete DS3 run with Ringed City
I was having the same issues with Midir until i stopped going under him completely. I started just standing in front of his head, dodging backwards, and hitting his head (which takes double damage over his legs) and while it's still a long ass fight of endurance, it becomes much more manageable when you only have to worry about reading his tells and not about wonky camera issues. You also barely have to worry about his downward fire attack.
"bigger than aoa" "comparable to aota" but aoa is bigger than aota... this misguided nostalgia is killing good critique
ahmz1404 seriously, Artorias of the Abyss was short as fuck but no one gives a shit because it is from DkS 1 but when DkS 3 has a slightly longer DLC everyone goes fucking crazy and starts hating on it
Revan
I played ds1 and I thought it was shitty compared to the later games.
I'm not blinded by nostalgia goggles, and I can see through the slow bosses, cheap moments, bad pvp (really all he games have bad pvp but people think that ds1 has amazing pvp bcause you can poise through attacks oh wow), and it just felt kinda clunky to me
I know that was really hateful, but it's the way I feel. Bloodborne and ds3 are amazing games.
But apparently o&s is still the best boss ever.
Isaac Steele yeah, now we have fights like Nameless King and Gael but in the eyes of fanboys O&S are still better than them
Revan thats odd. my first playthrough was 10 hours long, and i fucking loved it.
D R Artorias of the Abyss took you 10 hours to complete?
Really? Lady Maria is one of the top 5? I mean she's great but I think Germhan is better.
Gherman is far too easy though. I've never died to him, but I *suffered* in my first playthrough of the old hunters
Lady Maria is not more difficult than Gherman
Andrew Cleary As what DeMod said, difficulty isn't everything. I would much rather prefer a boss that is fun and easy(Nameless King), rather than a boss just made to be hard but not fun(Darklurker). And if a boss manages to be fun and hard, than great(Ludwig). So how I would rate it would be based off fun, instead of difficulty, but I know other people have different values when it comes to bosses.
+Andrew Cleary I found Maria disappointingly easy, I didn't parry her once, she gets staggered extremely easily, she took me 6 attempts and most of the deaths came from not paying too much attention, Gehrman on the other hand took me 12. Next time I face Maria I'm not going to overstagger her to make it slightly more fair.
Aidan Silli nameless king easy. seems legit
Looking at Midir sends a shiver down my spine every time. I spent so much time trying to kill him but when I finally did, It was the best feeling of my life.
Oh my. I think I agree with you on that final boss. You weren't kidding at all when you said it doesn't feel cheap or BS.
Wombo combo? Demod, that ain't Falco.
So all your complaints are because you are either impatient or you aren't good at the game? that's fair.
Connor Thompson lmao how true
Darksouls u have been one of my fav games ever created and im sad to see it come to an end but u have brought us some of the most thrilling boss fights ever
Video starts: dramatic voice over and music and... is that dmod eating cereal? dmodLUL
I went into the Midir fight with a Level 802 character (sue me) on just NG+ and he still had a gargantuan health pool
Actually it was Cheat Engine. I didn't even know DS3 had a dupe exploit
he only has a ton of health if you attack his ankles but ofc you were in NG+ so that might be why...
You should've melted Midir with lvl 802 on new game plus lol.
Did you just pronounce “echelon” as “eckelon”
Loved the dlc and love your videos :D As almost always we disagree on some boss related subject but i do always like hearing an opinion with a mixture of facts and personal likings similar to my own.
One pretty interesting thing to note about Spear of the Church is that they balanced ganks slightly by giving you more defense the more players there are. With my 40 physical absorption build, I was summoned against 3 people and got 80 absorption along with some massive poise increases
Who wants bloodborne 2 cause i do
No thanks it whould be worst than 1 and kinda ruin the serries
Yes please
@@draw2death421 how could that ruin the series? Bloodborne 1 would still exist