I feel ya bro 😂😭

Definitely causing many tarnished to have PTSD (and also the black blade kindred) 🙃

Before they patched the gank fights in this game I was on the verge of chucking my controller out the window. The Putrid Crystallians rekt me.

Same here. But I died the most to the one in Church of Vows, cause he was the first I encountered and he kept wrecking my ass for 40 tries xD

They are so annoying cuz you cant really cancel their attacks

I was going to say the same thing. That golem is the talkies tank that ever tanked. Hate him. Lol

Was boutta say, 50000 free runes for doing jack shit but swing at a crippled old dragon? Yes please

Hell, going off of the scaling params, Guranq in Dragonbarrow is HARDER than he is in Faraam Azula which... is just incredibly stupid, not gonna lie

What's even more odd is, that they expect you to explore the place at the late-early/early-midgame level, since Fort Faroth houses the dectus medallion, which is on of the ways to enter the Altus Plateau. Radagons Soreseal is another example of weird loot, since it is the endgame variant of the Scarseal, but is significantly easier to obtain, compared to killing the Ancient Hero of Zamor (Marikas Soreseal found in the Haligtree, which makes much more sense to me). I guess they wanted to give you a late game area to dip your feet in if you are daring, which is quite doable actually, since the enemy density is very low; most can easily be avoided. It honestly gave me a really cool sense of "oh this isn't allowed/intended, but I am going to explore further" vibes.

That's what I did as well but I farmed those irregular militia enemies after getting the gold scarab which was a struggle in itself since I only had a limited amount of preserving boluses and I didn't want to use those without making it to the boss fight. So once I got comfortable with the lay out I used those and got the gold scarab. Then I got to level 60 or around there which is a pretty reasonable level for a melee build for that area. I was able to pre nerf Radahan running and dodging and summoning. But the rest of the enemies like those birds and dogs I ran past those after fighting a couple of those.

My hypothesis is that the giant structure beneath Gurranq was originally planned to contain another post-Mountaintops legacy dungeon with Maliketh at the bottom, but then of course they ran out of time again. Reasons why I believe this: 1. The final boss rush always felt a little odd to me, as if they'd finished the boss battles but ran out of time to give them locations. 2. Any other building in the game has an interior. The only other exception were the collosseums at release, but they were also intended to house something and eventually got that with a patch, leaving just the Gurranq building. And it's quite a landmark, it's very prominent on the map, you'd just expect something to be there. 3. All other major legacy dungeons have a thematically fitting boss, only Farum Azula has Maliketh for some reason. Placidusax would be the obvious choice, as would Maliketh in the Gurranq building. They're even both at the end of Farum Azula, both accessed from the last site of grace, and it's the only legacy dungeon with a secret remembrance boss. Coincidence? I think Placcy was relegated to secret boss to make place for Maliketh here. 4. There are 9 smithing & somber bell bearings in the game, mostly spread out far and wide over the game--until you reach Farum Azula, where there are suddenly 3 of them crammed together in one place, again as if they suddenly ran out of places to put them. 5. Dragonbarrow just so happens to be just one level above Farum Azula in terms of enemy scaling. ...I think I'd thought of even more reasons, but these were some of the most important ones off the top of my head. Of course I could be completely wrong about this, but I do think there are quite a few things adding up here.

@@docstrangelove1347 I also think that, if you consider the possibility that Farum Azula could have used to be roughly where Radahn's arena now stands (would explain the Farum Greatbridge being where it is, if you ask me) and the general strangeness of Maliketh being in both places at once, I could definitely see Placidusax being the OG boss for Farum Azula, and the center of time being a more important location allowing you to find the way to open the road to Destined Death proper that you'd imagine would be why Gurranq holds down the fort even now.

Parry the second one.

@@nayyarrashid4661 Thanks! but I play without a shield so I mostly dodge I'm looking for a way to avoid it that way

Dodging to the right should keep you out of the range of the second swing.

@@Bendanna93 k I’ll give it a shot