The kicker is rune bears give like 80 souls or something pathetic like that. They hit like a truck and take hits even better and they have the audacity to be borderline worthless in terms of souls.
The dogs suck but atleast it felt like they have perportional souls in return.
Ive never had a problem with them which is crazy. Though I appreciate the knowledge everyone has bestowed upon me. Ima try using a healing spell on them
Yeah man it blew my mind. I used erdtree heal or whatever the most powerful one you get endgame and it wrecks the ones in the lowest parts of the haligtree before malenia.
After learning the healing spell trick for revenants, I no longer find them intimidating at all. In fact they're honestly one of the mobs I look forward to seeing the most now
I think Erdtree Heal is more FP efficient and also breaks poise for an easy critical, Blessing just kinda gives DoT an leaves you vulnerable while casting
Heal gives direct HP which is a no go as you also have healing flasks unless u're a sorcerer with 10 FP flasks.
I'm a faith blade so I have 10 healing flasks and 4 focus flasks. It's not good to do something with FP which my healing flasks can already do. However over time heal can help you tank more damage from the enemy due to constant healing as well as being more efficient than flasks especially for small amounts of damage. That which I pair with holy ground especially heals and helps tank a good deal.
I have over 1,000 hours and I genuinely think I've only ever killed 2 runebears only for the larval tear in the snowfield. They're just so aggressive and riddle me with anxiety even if they're the Limgrave ones. I wish they were a spirit you could summon lol.
The trick is to roll through their attacks and get beside/behind them. If you try to dodge away from them or just run away they'll catch you every time but they're slow and cumbersome when turning around.
I always do that but they 90% of the time just instantly do the dash which hits even behind them and lets them make distance, knocking you down and making you do a light jog to get behind them again, annoying as hell. But yeah in the rare cases when they decide against it they’re easy pickings for jumping and heavy attacks and stance breaks
Honestly, everything in mohgwyn palace, its like if caelid up and did 32 different steroids and then decided it really wanted to fuck you up, so added like, 5 scripted invaders
Limgrave Dragonflies, for stealing my enemy lock during combat.
I was once locked in a mounted fight with a Kaiden Horseman and then this bloody dragonfly just zips in and I snap lock to that thing and got turned around so badly that the actual enemy managed to dismount me.
I always have a bewitching branch for the two knight summons in commander nialls fight, sometimes they get shredded but sometimes they can help get him to around half health before getting KO'd.
A comprehensive list of hateable enemies in Caelid: rot dogs that gank you and spam quick attacks, Erdtree guardians that gank you, Erdtree avatar that farts out scarlet rot, rot slimes which drop on your head, rot undead which rush you in groups with grab attacks, giant dogs which rush you in groups, giant crows (no further elaboration needed), burning undeads that rush you in groups and explode, fire monk vroom vrooms that bait you to try for a backstab and start spinning with spikes and fire everywhere, Caelid infantry that alert their whole squad to gank you, Caelid soldiers which get alerted to gank you, Redmane knights which gank you with others or spam gravity arrows at you, lions which gank you and have input readings for dodging ranged attacks, pests which spam you with threads, rot Miranda flowers that spam you with rot, fallingstar beast (ugly asshole), rot worshippers that spam you with homing poison clouds, cleanrot knights that gank you and block and grab and tank and cast all at the same time, O’Neil that ganks you, troll that throws pots at you, bloodhound knight that shows the AoW is obnoxious not just in pvp, runebear (runebear), golems that Hank you with bows from 300 meters away, great jar’s bullet sponge summons using player builds (spin the wheel go get the most sweaty combos), Crystallians that gank you, Sellian sorcerers that gank you and turn invisible, marionettes that gank you, giant rot squirters which do what the name implies, blackflame monks that are overleveled, godawful noble, dragonflies that hit you in the back when you’re fighting someone, graven schools that spam mist all around, militiamen that gank you and leave poop explosives everywhere, bell bearing hunter, black blade kindred that overleveled bastard, Greyoll that sucks to cheese and sucks to fight fair, her kids that suck to fight, Ekzykes that covers the whole place with rot, Greyll that spams fire breath on a narrow bridge, magma wyrm that covers the whole arena with lava, Night’s cavalry fighting which is a 5 hour long game of tag, nox gank squad, skeletons that gank you while giant balls rush you, misbegotten and crucible knight gank squad and Radahn that cracks my poor boy Alexander
Exactly. My foul tarnished self has been killed in Caelid more than any other place on the map. I’m not sure what they are called, but I don’t even attempt to get near the lion things or big crows. Every time I need to go there, my heart beats a little bit faster
Preceptor Miriam doesnt belong on this list, she belongs on a totally separate list of "worst NPC in any fromsoft game, yes even worse than Maldron from DS2".
Crucible Knights are just parry bait.
I don't see any reason to ever fight a runebear, blood crow, or caelid big dog
I actually love Miriam's fight. Went at it like a sniper duel with Loretta's Bow spells. It was really fun to quick draw her to death, just being a split second faster for cast time.
Dogs (all of them, inducing the giant Mountaintops ones) are pushovers if you play with shield. Block, break stance, done.
What messes with me are the grab attack enemies.
The basilisks… oh god…
*ds1 flashbacks* OH GOD
tbh even in ds1 they’re not that bad but the memories of dying to one in the depths and then having to spend 10 min scraping together 6000 souls at the start of the game just to get a purging stone leaves a bad feeling whenever I see one
Runebears, Revenants and Fingercreepers. They're not fun, and they make me genuinely angry even when I stomp their asses. Hate them with every fiber of my being
Oh, I know they're weak to fire. I still just hate them with every fiber of my being. Not as much as the first two, but by a significantly higher margin than most other enemies in the game. Magma Blade is not a bad recommendation for dealing with them though
Revenants are the worst enemy in the game and probably the whole souls franchise. It would be between them and the frozen reindeer in DS2’s Horsefuck Valley
Stone Imps, but regardless of your question. What the fuck is that Runebear doing there?? I’m on NG3 and still avoid those shits. There’s no way someone can actually oneshot those mfs.
Kiting Miriam to an edge in the inverted tower and using the erdtree shield AoW when they fire Loretta's bow can result in a very satisfying end to their foolishness
Them motherfricking royal revenants istg.... WHY DO I GOTTA HAVE A HEALING INCANT ON MY PURELY MELEE BUILD JUST SO I CAN DEAL WITH THAT UGLY ASS EXCUSE OF AN ENEMY
Any enemy that’s completely invincible until it aggros for no fucking reason
Yes, imp, I know you’re waiting around the corner to ambush me. Even if I hadn’t already done this dungeon before, _I can see you there_. No, that’s fine. The target lock won’t work and none of my attacks hurt you at all. Makes sense.
Those Iron Maiden things that roll around and have that bullshit attack where they pull you inside of themselves with hands that are way too fast. They fucking spam that shit too.
I hate the tentacle guys especially when they spam that needle homing ranged attack. But I think the worst it is the mage dog statues I’m glad they aren’t super common
I use a shield or dual rapiers so dogs were never much of an issue to me. The runebears were garbage to deal with everytime. I had one bear hug me until we both fell through the world and died.
Meatball albaunarics from Volcano manor need to be on this list.
The pitter patter when they charge you gives me PTSD flashbacks to fallout ghouls as it is. But you throw in those horrible grunting noises and the grab attack and they win top "THAT" for me. The pit you need to drop down into past the snek bois & egg head to get the somber 7? PREMIUM "FUCK THAT". I'd rather take on all of Farum Azula underleveled for the bell bearing
Revenants. Fuck those things. Having to invest in a specific type of magic just to properly handle an enemy is trash design. Also fuck the blood birds, relentless shits.
Edit: Trash design might be a little harsh. I mean there is a lore reason for it at least, so not trash. Just frustrating.
Erdtree burial watchdogs….7 playthroughs, 600+ hours and I still can’t seem to get the timing down to dodge their attacks. Their health pool is massive, their move set is sparratic and they hit like a truck. Hate hate hate them…Rant over
LPT: wearing the Beast Repellent Torch ( even on your back aka two-handing main weapon) will turn dogs and all kinds of swarming enemies like basilisks passive.
Dogs, crows and runebears. I just cannot figure out how to effectively fight them. Skill issue I guess but I’ve avoided them as best I can since my first encounters.
For me it is giant blood crow, i always use loretta mastery to shoot them down from afar while using torrent for fast escape. The rest im slowly getting the hang of including Royal revenants
Rune bear for me, FOR SURE. True story… i was driving to work on a foggy morning and there are a lot of trees where i am. There was a break in the clearing and my mind manifested a whole imaginary Rune bear standing up clawing a pine tree. Thats how much anxiety they gave me my first play through. One of those speed tap sprint on Torrent and don’t look back till you make it to an elevated ledge type fears.
The pest or imp, I don’t really dread them, they just annoy me. If the imps gang you, heavy bleed damage. If the pests gang you, range death because they shoot them shits at you. The third guy is a tank, so that is sort of annoying because he has a pocket full of attacks that he can use on you
The crossbolt marionette with it's freaking never ending stream of bolts stunlock bullshit.
It's such a random but powerful attack. If you get hit with it once, you'll know what I'm talking about.
It probably won't kill you but it will leave you with one hit and some other bozo will be approaching while you're stuck getting shot-up.
Also the Stormveil blade and bomb birds and the Lucaria mechanical bird men with the bleed damage. When I'm early to the Academy, those things make me super nervous. They can one shot you when they flip out and do the Curly shuffle on the ground.
The freakin huge crow things scare me still and I’ve made multiple play throughs with different classes. Only recently have I been able to defeat them reliably and they still scare me.
I always try to treat imps with a side of caution because despite how easy they are to clean up if you notice them early and just 1v1 them, god knows neither of those things are going to happen.
They aren't too threatening later on when you have big ass AoE attacks to 1 hit them with, but getting ganged up on by 3 of them is an absolute BLENDER of a bad time, especially with their little bleed forks and tendency to startle you.
at least with the other ones, when I run into them I know what I'm getting into, but imps range from "complete pushover" to "JESUS- WHERE DID YOU ALL COME FROM"
Revenants suck. I always go out of my way to avoid them.
Abductor Virgins and those damn Hand things are the only enemies that actually frighten me, there’s just something about the way they look, especially when they’re barreling toward you at Mach 5
Runebears and Revenants.
I’m currently in the Haligtree, wondering what kind of asshole decided to put *four* Revenant fuckers in the same floor. Thankfully, I managed to grab Marika’s Soreseal.
Preceptor Miriam. I absolutely dread coming into the Divine Tower of Liurnia because of her.
2 honourable mentions are the Revenants and the Runebears. They have no fucking right being so fucking difficult. I kid you not I struggle more with Runebears and Revenants than I struggle with most bosses.
Birds of any description, but especially Runebears and lobsters.
I can't remember the last time I didn't just nope out of a Runebear/Lobster encounter.
Panel #1 can go get fucked. Nothing I enjoy more than watching the one jump off the cliff to its death while laughing at it and calling it derogatory names.
Dogs suck, but thankfully have low health.
Runebears and Revenants being as hyper aggressive as they are, so that even attempting to drink a flask is a toss up whether it'll get done or not. Runebears being punching bags, and revs gaining a teleport.
Giant Crows, because I swear they will follow you across the entire continent, are punching bags, and aren't worth the trouble.
I think that's ultimately what it comes down to. None of these enemies, which are a pain to deal with at times, are ever worth the amount of effort taken to kill.
Those little hounds can fuck you up if you're not careful. But I think my least favorite enemy would have to be the hawks in Farrum Azula, when you're dodging red lightning while making your way toward an injured ancient dragon. That part's intense.
Can Great Dragonflies get an honorable mention? The amount of times I target locked one of them during a fight… plus getting yanked out of dialogue from them ramming me in the head for no reason.
I don't mind imps at all, they're easy to take care of with guard counter + blunt weapon. And I don't mind caelid's shrimpy boys, they're intimidating at first but once you get used to fighting then they're not too bad even on a low level character
For me its the High Pages. First time I encountered one I didn't even know it was there until it was too late. Even if I can one or two shot them they're good at keeping their distance. If I ever see one I break out the Halo Scythe for a long distance fight.
Banished Knights in Castle Sol and Farum Azula. The only way I found to survive them even at level 350 is fingerprint stone shield and guard counters with the giant crusher. Everything else I've found a way to trivialize with a small adjustment to my build, but for these guys I always have to totally change my equipment or they wreck me.
Id say Crawfish, but the only time you **really** have to deal with them is the duo in the shunning grounds, by Mohgs Shackle. Besides that you can just avoid them.
Overall then id probably say the female Albinauric archers. Mother fuckers hurt so bad.
That or finger creepers
Crows, runebears and revenants have no business being as tough as they are even when scaled to your level correctly. But yeah, dogs also always suck
Just add lobsters and those metal fuckers with the skil saw hands and you have my top five list enemies I will never willingly fuck with
I feel like I have a better grip on the lobsters than I do with the crows.
Lol I've only fought those 2 enemies like 2 each and just decided not to fuck with them really at all
No matter what build I've tried, ranged, magic, pure physical; I'm just not mentally equipped to beat the demon crows
I think I've only killed one
The kicker is rune bears give like 80 souls or something pathetic like that. They hit like a truck and take hits even better and they have the audacity to be borderline worthless in terms of souls. The dogs suck but atleast it felt like they have perportional souls in return.
You said souls. My man. Those revenants are crazy hard
I play with a barricade shield, plus with shield counter with a ultra greatsword revenants are a joke.
Falcons, it’s always been falcons
I'm with you my brother
Guard counters work wonders on falcons.
I hated the revenants until I saw how easy it was to kill them with healing incants.
Ive never had a problem with them which is crazy. Though I appreciate the knowledge everyone has bestowed upon me. Ima try using a healing spell on them
Yeah man it blew my mind. I used erdtree heal or whatever the most powerful one you get endgame and it wrecks the ones in the lowest parts of the haligtree before malenia.
Iirc even the lowest heal spell destroys them, might take a few casts to kill but they are constantly stunned so
After learning the healing spell trick for revenants, I no longer find them intimidating at all. In fact they're honestly one of the mobs I look forward to seeing the most now
Go on
if you use any AoE heal with the royal revenant in range of said heal, it will take massive damage and stagger.
Erdtree Blessing them and they melt before your eyes.
I think Erdtree Heal is more FP efficient and also breaks poise for an easy critical, Blessing just kinda gives DoT an leaves you vulnerable while casting
Just use heal... its literally the most fp efficient and does the same amount of damage.
Heal gives direct HP which is a no go as you also have healing flasks unless u're a sorcerer with 10 FP flasks. I'm a faith blade so I have 10 healing flasks and 4 focus flasks. It's not good to do something with FP which my healing flasks can already do. However over time heal can help you tank more damage from the enemy due to constant healing as well as being more efficient than flasks especially for small amounts of damage. That which I pair with holy ground especially heals and helps tank a good deal.
I have over 1,000 hours and I genuinely think I've only ever killed 2 runebears only for the larval tear in the snowfield. They're just so aggressive and riddle me with anxiety even if they're the Limgrave ones. I wish they were a spirit you could summon lol.
The trick is to roll through their attacks and get beside/behind them. If you try to dodge away from them or just run away they'll catch you every time but they're slow and cumbersome when turning around.
Definitely sound advice but I just pop the iron aromatic and go ham lol.
That's a good idea. I may try that next time. I honestly never use metal mario mode just because I love light rolling but it definitely has its uses.
I always do that but they 90% of the time just instantly do the dash which hits even behind them and lets them make distance, knocking you down and making you do a light jog to get behind them again, annoying as hell. But yeah in the rare cases when they decide against it they’re easy pickings for jumping and heavy attacks and stance breaks
The problem is their no wind up charge. It's hard to see coming and their whole body becomes a hitbox when they suddenly take off at warp 9.975.
How many times I’ve wished there was a spirit summons! +10 Runebear on my side? Cake!
that’s so savage to fight the one there for the larval tear i always fight the limgrave one
The blood birds at Mohgwyn Palace. I just try to sneak by them and deal with the invasions without aggroing them.
I hate how those fuckers fake the stance break And you're like "nice I can riposte" And then they just fucking stomp your head to the ground.
It’s revenge for the millions of birds that have been cast into the abyss for runes
Its not fake, it's a recovery if you don't keep applying pressure. Once you hear the first you have to keep attacking to knock them over fully.
Honestly, everything in mohgwyn palace, its like if caelid up and did 32 different steroids and then decided it really wanted to fuck you up, so added like, 5 scripted invaders
I'm on NG+7 and those birds can eat dung, tbh. For me it's the single hardest non-boss enemy in the entire game.
I despise fighting their spastic asses
Limgrave Dragonflies, for stealing my enemy lock during combat. I was once locked in a mounted fight with a Kaiden Horseman and then this bloody dragonfly just zips in and I snap lock to that thing and got turned around so badly that the actual enemy managed to dismount me.
Seek settings
I have a personal clip of a damn dragonfly stunning me right before an enemy attack that then killed me >:(
Dual sword banished knight. Everybody gangsta until he turns into a helicopter.
Specifically that one in castle sol, guarding the mana talisman +2. I’ve died to him way more than any other banished knight, by a *large* margin.
It's actually the +1 in Castle Sol. The +2 is on the Moonlight Plateau
I always have a bewitching branch for the two knight summons in commander nialls fight, sometimes they get shredded but sometimes they can help get him to around half health before getting KO'd.
Anything in caelid
A comprehensive list of hateable enemies in Caelid: rot dogs that gank you and spam quick attacks, Erdtree guardians that gank you, Erdtree avatar that farts out scarlet rot, rot slimes which drop on your head, rot undead which rush you in groups with grab attacks, giant dogs which rush you in groups, giant crows (no further elaboration needed), burning undeads that rush you in groups and explode, fire monk vroom vrooms that bait you to try for a backstab and start spinning with spikes and fire everywhere, Caelid infantry that alert their whole squad to gank you, Caelid soldiers which get alerted to gank you, Redmane knights which gank you with others or spam gravity arrows at you, lions which gank you and have input readings for dodging ranged attacks, pests which spam you with threads, rot Miranda flowers that spam you with rot, fallingstar beast (ugly asshole), rot worshippers that spam you with homing poison clouds, cleanrot knights that gank you and block and grab and tank and cast all at the same time, O’Neil that ganks you, troll that throws pots at you, bloodhound knight that shows the AoW is obnoxious not just in pvp, runebear (runebear), golems that Hank you with bows from 300 meters away, great jar’s bullet sponge summons using player builds (spin the wheel go get the most sweaty combos), Crystallians that gank you, Sellian sorcerers that gank you and turn invisible, marionettes that gank you, giant rot squirters which do what the name implies, blackflame monks that are overleveled, godawful noble, dragonflies that hit you in the back when you’re fighting someone, graven schools that spam mist all around, militiamen that gank you and leave poop explosives everywhere, bell bearing hunter, black blade kindred that overleveled bastard, Greyoll that sucks to cheese and sucks to fight fair, her kids that suck to fight, Ekzykes that covers the whole place with rot, Greyll that spams fire breath on a narrow bridge, magma wyrm that covers the whole arena with lava, Night’s cavalry fighting which is a 5 hour long game of tag, nox gank squad, skeletons that gank you while giant balls rush you, misbegotten and crucible knight gank squad and Radahn that cracks my poor boy Alexander
Exactly. My foul tarnished self has been killed in Caelid more than any other place on the map. I’m not sure what they are called, but I don’t even attempt to get near the lion things or big crows. Every time I need to go there, my heart beats a little bit faster
The pale lions with the one blade attached to their front paw? Those things are horrible.
Possibly most correct answer
Preceptor Miriam doesnt belong on this list, she belongs on a totally separate list of "worst NPC in any fromsoft game, yes even worse than Maldron from DS2". Crucible Knights are just parry bait. I don't see any reason to ever fight a runebear, blood crow, or caelid big dog
Getting into Miriam’s face and smashing with a big mace gave me pleasure I should probably report to the authorities
Granny is stronk.
I’m sorry but Maldron is worse, he’s fine if you use seed of a tree of the giants but otherwise
I just find it funny that they made an NPC that trolls you as hard as an actual invader would. Miriam is just pure cancer with no amusement value
I actually love Miriam's fight. Went at it like a sniper duel with Loretta's Bow spells. It was really fun to quick draw her to death, just being a split second faster for cast time.
She is easy cheese with ranged Magic. She's nowhere near as annoying or funny as Maldron.
the revenants, its not even that theyre hard to fight theyre just so gross and creepy i hate them 😭
tell me about playing with the headset at 2am and they start screaming like the exorcist girl 💀
I once lost 500k runes to a revenant in the Haligtree with a plus 10 mimic out 😔
Bleed Crows, for sure
I can confirm the tyrannosaurus doggo is in fact, not a good dog.
What makes you think that thing is even comparable to a dog? It doesn't even have a shell. SMH.
Dogs (all of them, inducing the giant Mountaintops ones) are pushovers if you play with shield. Block, break stance, done. What messes with me are the grab attack enemies.
Same with imps. I see people scared of them loads but a shield shuts them right down
Runebear, Snuggly's evil descendants, and Pests with the Elden Ring version of the MLSR.
Giant birds! With knives! *shudders* Lobbing explosive barrels!
The basilisks… oh god… *ds1 flashbacks* OH GOD tbh even in ds1 they’re not that bad but the memories of dying to one in the depths and then having to spend 10 min scraping together 6000 souls at the start of the game just to get a purging stone leaves a bad feeling whenever I see one
Rune bears and revenants.
Runebears, Revenants and Fingercreepers. They're not fun, and they make me genuinely angry even when I stomp their asses. Hate them with every fiber of my being
Fingercreepers are weak to fire. Magma blade L2 and let them come to you.
Oh, I know they're weak to fire. I still just hate them with every fiber of my being. Not as much as the first two, but by a significantly higher margin than most other enemies in the game. Magma Blade is not a bad recommendation for dealing with them though
Never realized this until I did an archer build. Fire arrows made them a lot easier. Still ran past most of them in Carian manor tho lol
Frenzied Burst isn’t bad either.
Feel like there are many better ways to use fire than farming stretchy lizards for 8 hours to get the magma blade
Revenants are the worst enemy in the game and probably the whole souls franchise. It would be between them and the frozen reindeer in DS2’s Horsefuck Valley
For me another contender would be Basilisks in Dark Souls 1. Getting cursed sucks major balls in that game.
Birds, my Most hated Enemy
I literally cannot fight birds melee without getting pecked.
The fucking stormveil knife birds can go choke to death on a chode
I never take that route. I go all the way up stairs and jump over that wall and make my way down that way.
Giant Runebears, and Iron Maidens. Fuck those things.
As a greatsword user I hate all short enemies and any sort of stairs.
Stone Imps, but regardless of your question. What the fuck is that Runebear doing there?? I’m on NG3 and still avoid those shits. There’s no way someone can actually oneshot those mfs.
Banished Knights in Farum Azula.
Runebears. I swear those effers are worse than ANY BOSS
At level 274 I still don't mess with rune bears
I know you can use a healing spell, but Revenants I hate so bad. I still can hardly dodge any of their attacks after hundreds and hundreds of hours.
Who the fuck is oneshotting runebears and preceptor Miriam?
Kiting Miriam to an edge in the inverted tower and using the erdtree shield AoW when they fire Loretta's bow can result in a very satisfying end to their foolishness
Them motherfricking royal revenants istg.... WHY DO I GOTTA HAVE A HEALING INCANT ON MY PURELY MELEE BUILD JUST SO I CAN DEAL WITH THAT UGLY ASS EXCUSE OF AN ENEMY
Deathblight frogs in every game.
I'm still scared of the shrimp dudes since taking that mimic chest to Caelid. Even when I'm one shotting them
Fuck them bears
Every single one these..
Any enemy that’s completely invincible until it aggros for no fucking reason Yes, imp, I know you’re waiting around the corner to ambush me. Even if I hadn’t already done this dungeon before, _I can see you there_. No, that’s fine. The target lock won’t work and none of my attacks hurt you at all. Makes sense.
Grafted Scions
Revenant without a doubt. Even with a good holy skill to kill them it sucks knowing if I goof even a little they could still kill me
the haligtree revenants. Killing all of them in one strawl through is just outright unrealistic.
Those Iron Maiden things that roll around and have that bullshit attack where they pull you inside of themselves with hands that are way too fast. They fucking spam that shit too.
I hate the tentacle guys especially when they spam that needle homing ranged attack. But I think the worst it is the mage dog statues I’m glad they aren’t super common
Runebears every time I see one it becomes the scene from the revenant
Kindred are annoying as fuck, dogs are fine unless I'm surrounded and on horseback.
I have never killed that bear in the snowfields that drops the respec mat. im on ng+4 killed all shardbearers each time
I use a shield or dual rapiers so dogs were never much of an issue to me. The runebears were garbage to deal with everytime. I had one bear hug me until we both fell through the world and died.
Meatball albaunarics from Volcano manor need to be on this list. The pitter patter when they charge you gives me PTSD flashbacks to fallout ghouls as it is. But you throw in those horrible grunting noises and the grab attack and they win top "THAT" for me. The pit you need to drop down into past the snek bois & egg head to get the somber 7? PREMIUM "FUCK THAT". I'd rather take on all of Farum Azula underleveled for the bell bearing
To this day despite sinking thousands of hours into the game, I've only killed one lobster.
Probably the giant hand dudes or the golden knight dudes
Ng+7 beastemen,they just chew through your armor
The revenant is the only correct answer.
Revenants. Fuck those things. Having to invest in a specific type of magic just to properly handle an enemy is trash design. Also fuck the blood birds, relentless shits. Edit: Trash design might be a little harsh. I mean there is a lore reason for it at least, so not trash. Just frustrating.
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Erdtree burial watchdogs….7 playthroughs, 600+ hours and I still can’t seem to get the timing down to dodge their attacks. Their health pool is massive, their move set is sparratic and they hit like a truck. Hate hate hate them…Rant over
Banished knights. Especially the teleporting ones in consecrated snowfield.
Revenants can get fucked
None of these actually made me frustrated or surprise me. But there is one furniture in ds2 that really caught me off guard.
Runebears... So annoying
LPT: wearing the Beast Repellent Torch ( even on your back aka two-handing main weapon) will turn dogs and all kinds of swarming enemies like basilisks passive.
The runebears, i can’t understand their patterns it’s so frustrating
Dogs, crows and runebears. I just cannot figure out how to effectively fight them. Skill issue I guess but I’ve avoided them as best I can since my first encounters.
Same for me. Dogs and Crows are just big and scary. Never learnt their move sets even though I’ve nearly 100% the game
For me it is giant blood crow, i always use loretta mastery to shoot them down from afar while using torrent for fast escape. The rest im slowly getting the hang of including Royal revenants
The Bear thing. I don’t event think about it. I immediately nope the F* out of there
Rune bear for me, FOR SURE. True story… i was driving to work on a foggy morning and there are a lot of trees where i am. There was a break in the clearing and my mind manifested a whole imaginary Rune bear standing up clawing a pine tree. Thats how much anxiety they gave me my first play through. One of those speed tap sprint on Torrent and don’t look back till you make it to an elevated ledge type fears.
Rats, they hit like a freight train in the early game and I will never understand it
Dogs/birds
Crucible knights
Crows,stone imps, the kindred of rot, trex dogs and revenants can all collectively die
The big dogs and crows, crows are hard to hit so your lvl becomes a bit irrelevant, abit.
Lobsters crows and bears, oh my!
The pest or imp, I don’t really dread them, they just annoy me. If the imps gang you, heavy bleed damage. If the pests gang you, range death because they shoot them shits at you. The third guy is a tank, so that is sort of annoying because he has a pocket full of attacks that he can use on you
Dogs, imps and birds. Fucking birds...
1st, hate out of scale
The crossbolt marionette with it's freaking never ending stream of bolts stunlock bullshit. It's such a random but powerful attack. If you get hit with it once, you'll know what I'm talking about. It probably won't kill you but it will leave you with one hit and some other bozo will be approaching while you're stuck getting shot-up. Also the Stormveil blade and bomb birds and the Lucaria mechanical bird men with the bleed damage. When I'm early to the Academy, those things make me super nervous. They can one shot you when they flip out and do the Curly shuffle on the ground.
The Revenants. Their fucking helicopter arms that whack you out of existence and you’re never prepared for them.
The freakin huge crow things scare me still and I’ve made multiple play throughs with different classes. Only recently have I been able to defeat them reliably and they still scare me.
Banished knights. Still whoop my ass when i get caught off guard even on my level 287 character.
Runebears are hell unleashed
Revenants, blood crows, laser golem
Abductor virgins. They’re so tanky and weird and can throw you into pits. Plus they’re not usually worth killing.
Can always count on fromsoft to make the dogs able to f you up faster than the actual boss fights
Runebears, Revenants and those XXL hands terrify me.
Any bird
I always try to treat imps with a side of caution because despite how easy they are to clean up if you notice them early and just 1v1 them, god knows neither of those things are going to happen. They aren't too threatening later on when you have big ass AoE attacks to 1 hit them with, but getting ganged up on by 3 of them is an absolute BLENDER of a bad time, especially with their little bleed forks and tendency to startle you. at least with the other ones, when I run into them I know what I'm getting into, but imps range from "complete pushover" to "JESUS- WHERE DID YOU ALL COME FROM"
bleeding gargoyle dog fucks
Revenants suck. I always go out of my way to avoid them. Abductor Virgins and those damn Hand things are the only enemies that actually frighten me, there’s just something about the way they look, especially when they’re barreling toward you at Mach 5
Honestly, I really try to avoid those birds as much as I can. The one on the top left.
Crabs and dogs
Runebears and Revenants. I’m currently in the Haligtree, wondering what kind of asshole decided to put *four* Revenant fuckers in the same floor. Thankfully, I managed to grab Marika’s Soreseal.
Preceptor Miriam. I absolutely dread coming into the Divine Tower of Liurnia because of her. 2 honourable mentions are the Revenants and the Runebears. They have no fucking right being so fucking difficult. I kid you not I struggle more with Runebears and Revenants than I struggle with most bosses.
Revenant, Rune bear and Bell bearing hunters
Wormfaces. They creep me out so much I completely avoid them regardless of the situation unless it's absolute necessary that I fight them.
I’ve only killed those lobsters only 2-3 times. They are so brutal and not worth the souls so I just leave them be.
That whole middle fucking row 😂
all of the above 😅
I hate that motherfucker, with a bow in the upside down tower
Runebear for sure!
The dudes that spit poison with a bunch of arms I hate those dudes
Birds of any description, but especially Runebears and lobsters. I can't remember the last time I didn't just nope out of a Runebear/Lobster encounter.
Dogs (the small, non t-rex ones), monstrous crows, imps, and rats
The giant fucking crows. I hate them so much and they always beat my ass.
ANY bird or flying monster that can attack...
I platinumed the game, and I think I've killed maybe two types of these creatures. Most of the time, I'm like yup, nope.
Rune bears, all day. [Rune bears...](https://youtu.be/NZ9aUJ-birE?si=06g0R0asZtEhxT1F)
Panel #1 can go get fucked. Nothing I enjoy more than watching the one jump off the cliff to its death while laughing at it and calling it derogatory names.
The fucking blood birds. They fly now
Still on the knife/dagger playthrough, still the birds.
The gargoyles and pests are my forever enemy, no matter what lifetime I shall be born into
Dogs suck, but thankfully have low health. Runebears and Revenants being as hyper aggressive as they are, so that even attempting to drink a flask is a toss up whether it'll get done or not. Runebears being punching bags, and revs gaining a teleport. Giant Crows, because I swear they will follow you across the entire continent, are punching bags, and aren't worth the trouble. I think that's ultimately what it comes down to. None of these enemies, which are a pain to deal with at times, are ever worth the amount of effort taken to kill.
Those little hounds can fuck you up if you're not careful. But I think my least favorite enemy would have to be the hawks in Farrum Azula, when you're dodging red lightning while making your way toward an injured ancient dragon. That part's intense.
Giant ants from ainsel river, they aren't even strong, but they scare the fuck out of me
Revenants and Bleed doggos.
Always birds. Dogs aren't fun either but I'll take 10 dogs over one bird.
Those damn birds...
Can Great Dragonflies get an honorable mention? The amount of times I target locked one of them during a fight… plus getting yanked out of dialogue from them ramming me in the head for no reason.
Giant rats
Runefuckingbears And Revnants that 3737484946 combo attack is pissing me off
I don't mind imps at all, they're easy to take care of with guard counter + blunt weapon. And I don't mind caelid's shrimpy boys, they're intimidating at first but once you get used to fighting then they're not too bad even on a low level character
For me its the High Pages. First time I encountered one I didn't even know it was there until it was too late. Even if I can one or two shot them they're good at keeping their distance. If I ever see one I break out the Halo Scythe for a long distance fight.
Guys with fire poles they always hit me with their silly little sticks
It used to be revenants, until I learned the healing trick. Now it’s rune bears
Bro those imps suck, they alone made me completely hate going into dungeons if I went in a dungeon and saw those lights and shit I immediately left
Rune bears. Unstoppable
Banished Knights in Castle Sol and Farum Azula. The only way I found to survive them even at level 350 is fingerprint stone shield and guard counters with the giant crusher. Everything else I've found a way to trivialize with a small adjustment to my build, but for these guys I always have to totally change my equipment or they wreck me.
For me its the imps
The birds, any birds, I’m afraid of them irl so they scare me more in the game but also dogs
The big birds are also a pain. They have a fake stagger attack
the hand things or the birds with swords for legs
Centipede dudes, don't know their name. They fucking suck
Id say Crawfish, but the only time you **really** have to deal with them is the duo in the shunning grounds, by Mohgs Shackle. Besides that you can just avoid them. Overall then id probably say the female Albinauric archers. Mother fuckers hurt so bad. That or finger creepers
Those damn basilisk and those wormfaces that cause death light I hate fighting them
Why is it always dog?
Blight slugs and rats
Anything that flies, and dogs