Dark Souls: Iron Golem

Now of all the bosses to get to this must be the most annoying, since he is at the very end of Sen's Fortress, yeah the fortress isn't that bad but with all the items you can collect on almost every floor of this place and all the thin walkways and swinging pendulums that are ready to knock you off if your not careful, and if you some how survive being knocked down you will be caught in a battle with a few Titanite Demon's and running from them doesn't seem like the best option as the floor is sludge so the Rusted Iron Ring would be perfect for this place. if you happen to fall down anyway.  Now in here there are a bunch of items you can get the main one you want to try to get is the Slumbering Dragon Ring, its basically the Hush spell but as a ring mix that with the Fog Ring and you have the perfect invisibility mix seeing as you can cast Hush and Hidden Body at the same time. Another ring you want to try and get is the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring its special because it increases you item discovery by 200 points add in a few humanities those "rare" drops aren't so rare anymore. Lets not forget the hidden NPC you know him Big Hat Logan lets just say finding him has something to with stairs and the boulders that's a big hint there. If your a faith and intelligence build or you just want some new magic free him and you can get some soul spears which are in fact better than arrows. And when you meet him later in the Duke's Archives you get crystal magic now which is better *hint hint*.

Now once you get to the very top of the fortress and exit the fog gate you finally see who's been throwing the boulders you can either take him out with arrows from where you are at he will just stand there and give you clear shots to his head, or you can run up to him which is harder as he will throw a fit and stomp and punch the ground draining your stamina. BUT if you go down the stairs you can get the Flame Stoneplate Ring which increases your fire defense which you need cause as soon as you go up the first set of stairs another giant at the very very top of the Fortress is gonna throw firebombs at you and they do massive amounts of fire damage. After the second stairs theirs going to be a missing piece of wall on the right side and if you drop down you can find a hidden bonfire which is good just in case you die. So first thing you SHOULD do is go to the very top and kill the giant you can lure him out and then duck into the stairwell until he does his fit attack which will tire him out and giving you some decent hits in and good thing is he won't respawn. He is your top priority if you want to explore and get your items. If you go across the walkway there's going to be a broken piece you can jump over to get to the Crestfallen Merchant who actually sells you some useful things, besides the firebombs and green blossoms he will sell you upgrading materials, arrows, a Balder armor set, a steel armor set, and a Catarina armor set but in my opinion the best things he sells are the Thunder and Magic Stoneplate Rings which like the Fire Stoneplate Ring increases your defense  for Lighting by a set 50 and just increases your Magic Defense.

Futher down from where you met the merchant is a snake mage guarding the cage keep which correct me if I'm wrong opens a shortcut in Sen's Fortress and frees Big Hat I'm not sure but i know its for the shortcut as well. There is also a respawning Black Knight where you can farm for titanite shard there is also a ladder to get to a tower holding a Hollowed Prince Ricard who you kill to get his Rapier (Ricard's Rapier) after all that head up to the fog gate and off to the right is a path where you can summon the ALMIGHTY IRON TARKUS all kidding aside Iron Tarkus is pretty amazing as he can tank all of the Iron Golems' attacks and if your lucky he can push him to the edge and get him to fall off but I'm getting ahead of myself lets talk about the Iron Golem...

The Iron Golem is almost a push over even on NG+ and I say almost cause there is a chance he can throw you off the edge in a few ways but before that lets talk about him. As soon as you enter the fog he will step forward and swings his axe throwing an air slash at you its hard to defend against as you can't see it, but if you can run close enough the air slash will hit the little bit of ground in front of you. All of his attacks are blockable but they are Stamina Drainers and they are strong so if you have a good shield you can block but your character is going to do a little slide back from impact and that can throw you off the tower. You can also dodge these attacks by rolling between his legs but there is a chance that he will reach between his legs to grab you and by grabbing you he will then slam you into the ground but if he grabs you at the edge of the tower you he just throw you straight off the tower but with Iron Tarkus the fight is just all that easier just try to stay behind the Golem and two hand your strongest weapon to take him out in four hits (exaggeration.)

Once you kill the Iron Golem you will get his soul, some souls, humanity, and a trip to Anor Londo so enjoy those and let me tell you about the Core of the Iron Golem and what you can make with it.

The Golem Axe is one of the weapons you can make from the Core of the Iron Golem to use it requires 36 strength and is a pretty decent weapon to have by this part of Dark Souls and holding it one handed and using the power attack will create an Air Slash the same as the Iron Golem BUT it eats away 50 durability, to make it just upgrade any axe weapon to +10 and use the core at the Giant Blacksmith and there you go.


Next is the Dragon Bone Fist sorry no picture for this one the Dark Souls wiki isn't reliable for pictures but these well I cant really say I have an opinion for these as I never really used a Fist type weapon but it seems to be pretty good you only need 20 strength its one handed strong attack unleashes a powerful uppercut that tosses enemies into the air it strangely boosts your Magic and Fire defense by 30 don't know why but this weapon can be buffed for extra damage don't know if that means you can get the blacksmith to put either magic, chaos, ect. on it or you use the resins on it but if you like using Fist type weapons go with these and to get it you cannot use the Dark Hand sadly but if your part of the Forest Hunters Covenant you can go to Blighttown and see Shiva of the East and by some Claws and other Fist Type weapons as well as the Washing Pole and other Katana weapons if you want to make the Chaos Blade.

Either way enjoy your stuff and I'll put another one up soon.

Dark Souls: Pinwheel

Now I don't know about you but if my Stray Demon tips was short this one should only be a few sentences. The only hard part about this boss is getting down to him, you have to go through the graveyard at the back of Firelink Shrine and before I forget you need either an Occult or Divine Weapon as all the skeletons here take extra damage from weapons such as these, If i remember correctly you can create divine weapons through the Blacksmith at the Darkroot Garden entrance  if you give him the Large Embers you get after killing the Moonlight Butterfly. So once you have your weapon make your way through the graveyard as there are a few items worth getting here but some Large Skeletons with very large weapons, and another thing before going into The Catacombs it might be a good idea to get the Fog Ring from the forest hunters covenant so you can be hidden from the various things in this place and another thing move slowly as it is very dark.

The main thing you want to be hidden from is the Sprites though it doesn't sound bad they are annoying as they explode when they get close to you they barely do damage to you but they toss you around upon exploding so more annoying than dangerous. And of course with it being Catacombs there are plenty of skeletons and they are different than the ones in the graveyard as these reassemble when you kill it you can tell they will when you do not receive souls for killing them but when you use a divine or occult weapon they will die and you will get souls for it. There are also magic users that usually sit out of reach and shoot soul arrows at you while you fight a group of skeleton but with the Fog Ring they will usually just turn in your direction and do nothing. So to get the the bosses area is actually deep in the catacombs so there is a chance to get a lot of the items here but if your willing you could always explore and get the rest of them as at the very bottom of the Catacombs is a Black Knight that has a chance to drop the Black Knight Great Axe which like all the other Black Knight weapons are strangely over powered. Also down here is the Gravelord Covenant which give you the Gravelord Sword and Gravelord Sword Dance to get down to him you need Eyes of Death which are dropped by the Basilisks in the Depth or the sewers if you don't know where that is exactly.

There are also a lot of drop offs so you may need some Prism Stones that show you if a drop is survivable the Undead Female Merchant sells it for 50 souls and she is at the end of the aqueduct that you can go to right across from the entrance of the depths. These things are super helpful as they glow when you can survive a drop and let out a loud shrieking sound if you cannot survive the fall so a major thing to get. So along with a lot of items there is also a lot of enemies along with some really annoying Wheel Skeleton that will cause major damage if you do not block it. Also down here is a Blacksmith and as of now I have no idea what he makes for you so I can't really tell you.

Anyway once you make your way down to the boss area you will meet Pinwheel now you have to be one of the sorriest people to ever play Dark Souls if you have any kind of trouble fighting him this guy has to be a joke boss like really he has to be there is no way you can lose to him a child could beat him so easily. All he does is make copies of himself but if you keep your eye on him you can kill him in one cycle of clones with no problem and then thats it.

He drops the Rite of Kindling to raise the bonfires kindling from 10 as it was to higher numbers which is good if your going against a hard boss. He will also drop 1 of his three ask which can either be.

Mask of the Father, which increases your equipment load meaning you can hold more heavier things without it slowing you down.

Mask of the Mother, which raises your main HP buy a bit so I guess for like one of your thief characters is a good addition to have.

Mask of the Child, this mask acts just like the Grass Crest Shield so it increases your stamina recovery speed.

Most of the masks are kinda worthless if you don't care about it but the Rite of Kindling is worth getting so there you are get you some good weapons here a few items and a Blacksmith. So be on the look out for the rest of my boss and semi boss guides until then.

Dark Souls: Stray Demon

Now I know you may be thinking..Stray Demon whats that? well its from the official guide the Asylum Demon you fought at the very beginning is called this when you revisit the Undead Asylum. Now first think to get to this Boss you need to be in the area you fought the Asylum Demon in but you don't want to do that you want to take the time to explore the Undead Asylum as there are a bunch of Black Knights wandering around as well as a few items especially back in your old cell you may want to get that item if you want to meet Priscilla, also you remember that poor sot from the beginning that gave you that Estus Flask well it seems he's gone hollow and you must kill him once you do you get his crest shield and sword so like I said a good few items laying around.

Now once your ready to go against the Stray Demon head back to your old fighting ground and walk out to the center of the area but be careful as the floor will fall out from under you and the fight will begin immediately

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Now he looks just like the Undead Asylum Demon but he has a new attack up his sleeve if you noticed by now he doesn't have the giant hammer but a staff and that means he has an AOE attack if you seem him raising his staff you better hurry and run behind him as fast as you can for if your caught an inch before getting behind him you will still be affected by the attack. Now if you were able to take down the Asylum Demon this guy should be no different, just try to stay behind him and lure out his butt slam attack and you'll be as good as gold. A big hint if you are having trouble with this boss he IS weak to bleeding so if you have anything that causes bleeding I suggest using it.

Wow this one is actually a short one I- I really don't know what else to say once you kill him you get souls and a Titanite Slab i'm sure by now if you rung both bells, Frampt should be there you can feed him Titanites and he will break them down in this order; Titanite Slab--->Titanite Chunk---> Large Titanite Shard--->Titanite Shard so if you ever need a certain Titanite to upgrade a weapon here you are. Well uhm I guess that's it I'll post another one later so until then.

Dark Souls: Great Grey Wolf Sif

Now I'm not sure about you but this boss was so annoying yes I know there are players than can kill him on their own well I'm not one of those players and like I said I'm not here to LIE and say it took me so and so minuets to beat it I'm going to be upfront about this it took me 6 tries before just saying fuck it and call my friend again to help. So here we go.

Now there is only one way to get to Sif but there are two directions you can come from you can either spend the hmm 20,000 souls to buy the Crest of Artorias from the blacksmith at the entrance to Darkroot Garden or if you feel adventurous you can use that basement key to go down the tower, fight Havel the Rock, fight the Crystal Golems, fight the Hydra and the proceed to climb up from the Basin back to the Garden and if you are in the Forest Hunters Covenant you are free to go through the shortcut straight to Sif's door instead of fighting off the three Giant Cats (who are annoying) as well as the Mushroom Men and Children and getting there.

Now if you are in human form you should notice a few summon signs if your lucky as for me it took a bit till my friend got there and the funny thing was I got invaded 3 times and the first time he jumped off the cliff and died the second time he went to dodge and rolled off the cliff and the last time I killed him so thank god for the Drake Sword. But enough of that once he finally got there I summoned him and we went into the fight. So if you fought Sif already and died he will rush you upon entering the area now there is a way to dodge it some people say to roll into the attack but that doesn't work for me I however just blocked using my Eagle Shield which you get from Blighttown around the first bonfire and the stability is good meaning that you can get hit by a strong attack without getting stunned and this is a good shield to have going against someone like Sif, but if your not going to tank it against him there is another shield on the way down from the Garden its the Grass Crest Shield this is not a very good for defense but if your going to try and outrun Sif this is good because the shield regenerates your stamina pretty quickly giving you enough time to roll out the way regen stamina and then dodge or run again.

Now my plan was to stay back and watch my friends health and well...basically my plan was to be the medic while he took Sif out but I don't know I saw he was having his own trouble so I rushed in between Sif's legs and two handed my Drake Sword slashing at him while my friend used the lightning spear spell on him you just had to see how fast his health was going down the infamous sad limping part never even occurred as we killed him to fast. Now there is a weakness Sif has if you happen to have a good weapon that causes bleeding I suggest using it as Sif is vulnerable to bleeding I did not intend to use daggers or the thief's knife to do it so the only good weapon i found was way later which was the Lifehunter Scythe so if your on NG+ I suggest using it though if you are on new game plus you don't need this.

Ok so Sif is dead and he drops souls humanity as well as the Covenant of Artorias which lets you Abyss Walk hence the trophy/achievement Art of Abyss Walking. Now what is this you ask well far down below Firelink Shrine is a place called the New Londo Ruins and deep in the ruins is a spot where you need this to fight a boss called The Four Kings, now I have yet to fight him but once I do you will know. So that isn't all you also get Soul of Sif so you know what that means, NEW WEAPONS so lets see what you get...

1. Greatsword of Artorias, a pretty good weapon right i mean just looking at it looks pretty amazing whats better is to all undead characters, that means the zombies, skeletons, stuff in the tomb of giants, stuff in new londo ruins will get a base damage of 140 anything else 120 so pretty amazing but its very different than other greatswords. you need 24 strength 18 dexterity but oh look you ALSO need 20 intelligence and 20 faith so even though its a greatsword if it deals damage to undead type enemies its not a surprise you need these two extra things. But here's the kicker you know that broken sword hilt you got at the beginning of the game oh yeah you need that +10 to get this sword if you threw it out try farming the undead in the Undead Burg and hope they drop one.

2. Cursed Greatsword of Artorias, now they may look the same since there is no picture of it but the description for the weapon clearly says that it can hurt ghosts so no more trying to farm for the ghost dagger you have this now do no more ghost dagger no more curse items a weapon that can harm and kill ghosts how about that. Now they may look the same but they are not made the same they cannot be created from broken straight swords or sword hilt if you have a greatsword, broad sword or anything else it'll work another way to tell the difference between the two is the requirements; strength is 24, dexterity is 18, intelligence is 18, and faith is 18. You can tell its not as strong or maybe it is its all about preference as for me once I get enough souls hello Cursed sword.

3. Greatshield of Artorias, now so far I think this shield is amazing yes you need a greatshield so eventually i got to say goodbye to my Eagle Shield but until then oh well it truly is amazing because you know how with other shields if you get hit with a status effect it fill up the bar a bit? Well with this one it won't not one bit you could get barraged by status effects as long as you block it you're fine. Other things like the poison swamp in Blighttown, AOE's and the curse mist from the Basilisks they will still affect you so be careful.

Other than that enjoy your souls which ever weapon you choose make sure to keep a lookout for a new tips and tricks so until next time.

Dark Souls: The Chaos Witch Quelaag

.........Well I did say Blighttown sucked and that was just getting down to the swamp area I mean come on anyone who has made it this far know it sucks ass down there but that's besides the point I'm just taking my frustration out cause it took me 2 days just to get down there plus another 4 to figure out where Quelaag was and another 5 to actually kill her not to mention a lot and i mean A LOT of souls -_-;; got invaded a few times but anyway your here for a guide well here I'm not telling you how to get down there figure it out on your own.

This witch and yes that is what she is I'm not censoring myself she actually is a witch and a mean one at that, most of her attacks come from the spider half of her, which mainly consist of it barfing up lava and no the lava doesn't go away it covers the battlefield for a few minuets before it goes away so make sure your close to the entrance when she does that so you have the whole rest of the area to fight on. Another one of its attacks is if your far away it'll leap at you and knock you back (if it hits) then proceed to barf lava on you or if your far away and backed up against lava it'll tackle you into it which surprisingly doesn't damage you until you stand. If your right on top of the spider it will them stomp on the ground and hurt you a whole damn lot also if you are close there is a possibility that it will release a fiery explosion AOE (area of effect) that tosses you back and almost insta-kills you. Now the female part of her actually attacks as well but only two attacks, she will swing her sword side to side if your in front of her which is easy to dodge or if your staring her down at a distance she'll charge you with the intention of spearing you with her sword so some easy to dodge and some impossible to.

Now I'm not going to sit here and say "Yeah she was easy i killed her in 30 seconds flat blah blah blah." No that's not what happened it took me 5 days to beat her so after that i called up one of my friends to help me kill her, I'm not ashamed I called up a friend to kick her ass. So It was me, my friend and the NPC Maneater Mildred (you get her after a scripted invasion and you kill her) With all of us we kind of cheaped it up and my friend shot arrows into her female half which stunned her which allowed me and Mildred to knock her ass out pretty fast. After we killed her well what else is there you get some souls, humanity of course oh and whats this you get the Soul of Quelaag heh don't worry I'll clear it up what it gives you.


Ta-Da the Soul of Quelaag is actually pretty good better than the Soul of the Moonlight Butterfly unless your going the faith and magic route then stick to the Butterflies soul. Anyway Like I said here are the weapons you get. FIRST UP....

Quelaag's FurySword this is a pretty good sword in my opinion its a curved sword +10 upgraded at the Giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo and it gives you this weapon though i found out to my disdain that the power of the sword is based off the Humanity you have so if your feeling confident feel free to stack up some humanity for this. With its fire damage I still use it, it is fun after all. Also if you want to make it stronger it costs a demon titanite and 5000 souls but again its fun.

Choas Blade in my opinion a pretty nasty looking weapon though you can only get this from upgrading a katana type weapon and the only one I know of is the Uchigatna which you get from killing the merchant in Undead Burg. Ok now the downside of this weapon is pretty bad it depletes your health after every successful hit its almost the same as the Lifehunter Scythe which i will get into later but it has the same effects every hit adds to the bleed meter once its filled a chunk of health is lost and even if you have a sliver of health left you make another hit you will die. So be careful with this weapon.

And as always enjoy your souls and whatever weapon you decide to get and keep an eye out for my next tips and tricks.

Dark Souls: Gaping Dragon

Now if any of you readers have seen the youtube videos of how "hard" the Gaping Dragon is then you may want to keep ready because I'm going to give you a sure fire way to easily kill this "hard" beast.

Now the sewers isn't all that bad though you may want to save some humanity for this area, the Basilisks here are a bit of a pain as they tend to come in groups and do an annoying jump attack where they of course jump into the air and spray out their curse fog that does take up a section of the hallways of the sewers. It you manages to get the ring that increases your curse bar you should be fine but again be careful as the fog actually fills the bar rather fast.

Now as you travel though the sewers you'll find its mostly inhabited by Basilisks and rats, and maybe a few slime's depending on where you are but they aren't that much trouble but there are a few fog gates and they all lead to the boss room TECHNICALLY because some of the places it puts you over looks the boss room but does not activate the fight so be wary when entering them. Your main objective upon entering here is to try to get to the top of he boss room, and this part might be a bit difficult, a few large rats and a caster in here and why is this area so important you ask? Well if you don't kill the caster the boss battle might actually be a bit tougher because while your fighting the Gaping Dragon the caster will well cast on the dragon making his attacks strong, and his defenses more stonewall...uh laugh.

But anyway you kill the caster and proceed down to the depths of the sewers and I don't exactly remember the path but as long as your careful you should make it down there with enough flasks to keep you safe. Now upon entering the area this creature may look big an menacing but there is one sure fire way to beat him (Trust me I was a level 23 when I went up against him and beat him in one try.) Now I know this may seem crazy but your gonna want to run up to him this way there is only two attacks he will do; he will either A) slam his spikes into the ground getting stuck giving you access to his face for easy attacks or go for his tail if you want a goody good weapon. or 2) he will vomit yes vomit on the ground, do not get caught in this area attack and trust me the area is huge, now vomit may not sound bad but it will decay your armor durability down to nothing so watch out for that. But if he chooses to be nice and keeps doing the slam he will be easy to take down the only thing you will have to watch out for is when he charges you after getting unstuck its easy to doge just run off to the side and he'll run straight ahead this will leave him open for a tail attack to get said weapon.

Now once your successful in killing the Gaping Dragon he will drop humanity as bosses do some souls a Key to Blighttown the worst place in the game and if you were able to cut off his tail congrats you will get (drum roll)

This is the Dragon King Great Axe its pretty strong a 360 base damage but the only thing is again its a great weapon but the cost of getting it early is you cant use it unless your using a tank build cause the strength requirements are you need 50 strength and 8 dexterity but it'll be worth it just like the Drake sword which has a two handed special attack the Great Axe has a two handed area of effect but the thing is just like with the Drake sword using the two handed attack wears its durability down but the Drake sword only lost 30 the Great Axe loses a whopping 50 durability points for every use of the two handed AOE attack so be wise in using it. As always enjoy your souls and weapon and keep reading for the next bosses hints and if you need any help whatsoever please feel free to message me comment me or message me on PSN and if you need my PSNID message me about it as well.  

Dark Souls: Bell Gargoyle

Hey everyone or whoever stumbled upon my little guide but this is a little tips and tricks to take down another of the many bosses in Dark Souls and any new player should know this is a tough fight right here at least for me it was but here we go.

Now for all new players and I mean new in the sense that they didn't touch demon soul's at all but for all new players this has to be the hardest boss they fought so far. But what's this remember this little guy right here?

Yup that's right if you remember I said we would be coming back to Solaire at a later time and this is it, if your in human form when you reach the undead church at the top of the ladder you should see Solaire of Astora there ready to be summoned and ready to help you in the fight and believe me he really does help or if your a pro he gets in the way a double edge sword in a sense. And you will see why soon aaaaanyway back to the fight. 

The Bell Gargoyle might be a big lumbering beast but he is a rather strong and strangely quick foe. When he comes down from his perch your going to be face to face once the cutscene ends and the first thing you might want to do (if you don't have Solaire) if run along the edge of the building that way when he swings at you with his axe and his axe...tail he will miss but he also has a fire breath attack that will use if you try to hide. Now there are a few things you can get from the gargoyle but lets wait till he's dead anyway if your going at this alone my best advice is to stick behind him and keep your shield up that way you can block his tail swing and get in a few attacks edgewise. But here comes the bad news once you get him down to half health uhm another gargoyle will join the fight now now calm down the second one will only breathe fire at you so if you can keep the main one away from the second it should still be fairly easy. 

But but if you have Solaire the fight gets very easy, Solaire has an amazing lightning based attack which deals a lot of damage to the gargoyle and while its distracted by that you can get some cheap shots in his back and even when the second one appears Solaire will keep the main one distracted and you could easily take out the second one since it mostly focuses on its fire breath attack.  If your either confident or need help you just killed the Bell Gargoyle congrats now lets talk about your loot.

Aside from the souls and humanity you get from killing a large boss you also get a number of different items that all have different drop rates.

Gargoyle Tail Axe- This weapon you get if you cut the tail off the gargoyle (since the second one doesn't even have a tail.) When you do the strong attack the axe will bend a bit since it actually a tail and stuff like that. 

Gargoyle Halberd- If you've seen the regular halberd this one is basically one in the same except you get it from the gargoyle of course and is a bit better than the normal halberd as it raises your bleed/curse/poison resistance.

 Gargoyle Shield- Don't actually know what it does never really got it on my many playthrough attempts only the helm and axe tail so I might say its an extremely rare drop.

Gargoyle Helm- One of the drops that might occur after you kill the bell Gargoyle it's not really the best Helm to have in the game as its only basic defense and is highly outranked by the Boar Helm if you got it early. I say its mostly a decorative look that says "Hey I didn't completely suck by dying on the first real boss." 

But that's all for the drops enjoy your things (remember all these drops are only a slim chance if you want to get any of these things kill the second gargoyle either quit/die/or homeward bone out of the fight and return to try again) but enjoy whatever you got enjoy your souls and ring the bell of awakening. CONGRATS your  first step into Dark Souls has been complete.

Dark Souls: Moonlight Butterfly

Now this is a semi-optional boss I say so because there is a chance you have to fight it but I'm not sure if you have to fight it either way this tips and tricks section will be short (I mean it this time,) since it is really easy.

Okay now once you make your way off to the right of the church that has the Bell Gargoyle perched on top you will find a long bridge surrounded by thick woods just make your way down the tower at the end, light the bonfire for a checkpoint and continue down and meet the blacksmith who will repair and enhance your weapons for the fair price of a few souls and titanite shards. 

Now go down the stairs and fight (or run past) the demon there and continue on through the forest, be wary of the walking bush monsters (lol.) And the path to the moonlight butterfly is a pretty straight forward one just watch out for the stone knights. Now IF you happen to be in human form you can summon a NPC to help you fight the moonlight butterfly though I don't think you will necessarily need it as it is not a hard boss. Climb the winding staircase with or without your phantom and step through the fog/white light and meet The Moonlight Butterfly. Now even though it is a Butterfly it still does have a lot of decent attacks that do a hefty amount of magic damage if you are slow on your feet to dodge them. 

One of his main attacks will be 6 soul spears that shoot out in all directions this is a little hard to dodge since it takes up most of the small bridge you will be fighting on but it doesn't hurt as much as the other attacks. Speaking of he also shoots out 5 slow moving soul orbs but they do track you and if you fail at dodging them they could all potentially could hit you at once taking out major chunks of your health or if your a weak character possibly kill you. Another slow but strong move is an energy bomb, you will know he is doing this when he (it) flies above the bridge and a large blue ball starts to grow under him and he drops it down onto the bridge taking up a large area and doing major damage. One of his other moves is a large Ray beam he starts to fly side to side far from the bridge and a small bright light glows from his...chest and shoots out towards the bridge moving side to side on it it is easily dodged by rolling through it. And finally his last attack is a face bomb he will land on the bridge (also an opening for retaliation) and a bright light glows from his face and explodes does half health if your at ground zero. 

All in all he (it) isn't the hardest optional boss out there but if your a hunter or have high (above 15) dex with a good bow you can do some major damage if your a pyromancer your fireballs can reach him from the bridge or if your none of the above always remember the NPC she is a mage and shoots soul arrows at the thing. But once its dead you get a hefty amount of souls passage to get the large embers for the blacksmith and the Soul of the Moonlight Butterfly.

HINT: The soul of the moonlight butterfly can be used to make one of two things but you must visit the giant blacksmith of Anor Londo to get them.

1: Horn of the Moonlight Butterfly. It is mainly a magic damage dealing weapon but to get it you need a spear weapon upgraded to +10 the perfect weapons are; Mail Breaker, Estoc, Rapier, Ricard's Rapier, Spear, Winged Spear, and the Pike.

                       

                          2. Crystal Ring Shield. It is mainly a magic and critcal defense weapon to get it you need any shield upgraded to +10 and to upgrade it to its full potential you need 25,000 souls and 10 demon titanites.