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: Hydra

Now that I think about it I probably should have done the Undead Dragon the same way well better late then never you know? Well lets get to it...

Now In my opinion the Hydra is a really annoying boss and for two reasons honestly, the first Hydra you fight in Darkroot Basin depending on which way you came from depends on the difficulty. If you come down through the tower near the bridge you fought the Hell-Kite Dragon on, it might be a bit difficult if you aren't ready for what's down there, at the very bottom near the door to the Basin is no not a boss if you've seen those Black Knights wandering around he's compared to that because he only shows up once his name is Havel the Rock why the weird name because the armor he wears means you barely do any damage to him but with his Dragon Tooth which is also know as a Great Hammer which means you better have an amazing shield/stamina if you intend to block his attacks which you can with enough time to recover stamina before his next swing it's just his two handed downward slam you have to watch out for because that is unblockable it will deplete your stamina and almost kill you. But once you deal with him which is easy if you stay behind him you get his ring Havel's Ring increases your equipment load by 50% so pretty good if your carrying heavy stuff.

After you leave that area you will see your next enemy the Crystal Golems depending if you came down from the Darkroot Garden you can totally bypass Havel now the Golems aren't hard you just have to be careful with pulling more than one as all their attacks are slow but strong when they raise both arms move back or get hit by its AOE crystal shock wave. This is also a good place if you wanna farm for blue titatnite shards. Speaking of which if you come down from the Garden you will be able to fight a Black Knight with a Halberd if your able to kill him there is a chance you will get it and that weapon is OP (Over powered) in a good way, before you even upgrade it it has a high base attack damage but there is a chance you will have to wait till next play through to get it, Lucky for me a phantom I summoned was nice enough to drop it as well as the Black Knight Shield so yeah.

Well once your done killing the Golems I'm sure by now you'll realize that there is something off in the distance shooting water at you and if I'm not mistaken I'm sure you've learned those are best avoided. Now heal up or whatever just make sure the last bonfire you rested at is close as you will die a lot here. Now I think it'll be easier if you have the Rusted Iron Ring as it makes walking through water very easy and why do I need to walk through water you ask? Well its the only way to get close to the Hydra just stick to the left as the right has a drop off that killed me plenty of times. Now if the Hydra is still shooting water at you while your in the water just dodge and inch closer until it attacks with its heads where you can chop them off, now remember what I said don't try to rush him to get in some cheap shots as you'll fall off the drop off and die. But once he is dead you'll get souls a dragon scale and a Dusk Crown Ring that increases the amount of spells (miracles, spells, pyromancies) you have but half your health.

HINT:
Now that he is dead there is a secret here, if you run along the left side all the way to the back quit and reload a stronger yellow crystal golem will appear there and once you kill it you get a new NPC who you can summon and sell you certain spells you wouldn't be able to get otherwise.

If you head up the ladder all the way up to the top you can fight some of the Forest Hunters Covenant and if you kill them you meet Alvina who will let you join the Forest Hunters and give you the Cat Covenant Ring why is this important because if you wear it she will summon you to defend the forest and if your able to kill three other players this way she will reward you with the Fog Ring which turns you invisible better than going to the Raven Girl for it. But joining this covenant is also important because if you go back down to Blighttown you will see Shiva there and behind him a ninja wearing the Fog Ring and if you kill him you get his Dark Wood Grain Ring which let you do NINJA FLIPS but seriously it lets you evade quicker than normal as long as your not weighed down.

Now the second Hydra you fight is past the Great Hollow which is also in Blighttown there's a lot of Crystal Gecko's and items here but they're all over the place so its up to you to get them if you want, about halfway down you will find more Basilisks how wonderful and at the very bottom a bunch of Mushroom Men and Mushroom Man Children I just ran past them because they have a lot of health and pack a huge punch.

Once your out of the Great Hollow you will be in Ash Lake and its pretty creepy here as there is no ambiance just dead silence but in the silence you hear water splashing that means the Hydra is nearby.

Now this Hydra is pretty scary as it actually comes right up to the land but before that run out of the giant trunk and go to your right as there is a bonfire there I completely missed it but you won't have to so once you rest go back to the left and dodge his water jets (The Dark Wood Grain Ring is good to have here as you dodge faster) and wait for him to come up to you, here you can attack his base just be careful if he moves away as you can fall into Ash Lake and die, but as he's moving away you can lock on and shoot arrows as a cheap move until he's out of range getting in some extra damage. Just don't try to fight him further down the sand barge I'm guessing it is as there are Man-Eater Shells than can be quite annoying plus if you fight this thing further down the sand there is a chance he will jump over it and if you follow you will get stuck on the lower side of Ash Lake and possible no you definitely will fall in and die.

But once he is dead you get more souls and another dragon scale, but by now I'm sure you've noticed that tree all the way at the end if you make your way towards it and go around it Ash Lake continues on and at the very end is one of the last Everlasting Dragons you can go behind him and cut his tail off for a Dragon Greatsword and still join The Path of the Dragon Covenant which gives you a dragon eye a Dragon Headstone which turns your head into that of a dragon and lets you breathe fire, the Dragon Eye is almost like a summon sign you put it on the ground and it searches for someone with a Dragon Scale now I'm not sure how it works so I can't really give a description for it but on the wiki it says its only for 1v1 duels to see who gets a dragon scale well mine didn't really work so eh don't know what to tell you. But the Everlasting Dragon takes Dragon Scales like other Covenants take Humanity and this increases your rank in the covenant but here the more scales you give you it he will in turn give you the Dragon Torso Stone and a spell called Force so you in turn get to be a dragon well until you die anyway.

So this one was pretty long but it helped so enjoy your souls weapon and anything else you might have gotten from here see you 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.