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| 20963 | 85660 | Lower Ailing Loran Chalice | Lower Ailing Loran Root Chalice |
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| 999 | 999 | Yes | No |
Loran Darkbeast is a Boss in Bloodborne.
Loran Darkbeast Information
- This boss is another version of Darkbeast Paarl.
- Defeating this boss will NOT reward you Darkbeast Paarl Trophy
Locations
Drops
- Lower Ailing Loran Root Chalice
- Bolt Abyssal Blood Gem, when found in Lower Ailing Loran Root Chalice
Combat Information
- It is suggested not to lock onto this boss as the camera can be wild.
- It is recommended to wear Bolt resistant armor like Henryk's Set.
- As soon as you enter the boss room, the boss has a high chance of doing a jumping attack. The hit box for this attack can be silly sometimes and with a cursed modifier this might one-shot you. Hug the fog gate and if he jumps it should not reach you. Note that the boss room structure can vary in chalice dungeons and in some of those staying by the gate might not be safe for the jump attack.
- Pungent Blood Cocktail is effective against this boss.
| Attack Name | Attack Description & Counter (from Paarl's page) |
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| Claw Swipes | Boss swipes his claws up to three times in succession. This attack does moderate damage but is fast. When his power is fully charged, it also unleashes 3 balls of electricity that travel in a straight line. |
| Leap Swipe | Boss can leap toward a distant hunter as he swipes at them. His leap covers a lot of distance, so always try to dodge it. |
| Slam | Boss slams his claw and then emits a blast. He can use this attack in combination with his swipe attacks. |
| Electric Nova | After channeling for a few seconds, boss unleashes a nova around him that does high damage. If the hunter manages to stagger him during the channel, the boss will fall down and become completely vulnerable for a few seconds. This will also cause his attacks to be no longer infused with electricity until he recharges (which he tends to do as soon as possible). |
| Electric Breath | After a short channel, boss damages everything near his head.If not in the vicinity of his head, the hunter can safely go in for a few hits. Pay attention to which part of his body is glowing to tell whether he is doing a nova or a breath. If his chest glows, he is preparing for a nova; if his head glows, he is about to breathe. |
Strategy (Baiting and focusing on limbs):
In this guide, you will need to keep facing the boss and bait his attacks. If you stay in front of him, the boss will most likely attack with horizontal swipes. He may attack with one horizontal swipe, two of them, or two of them followed by a forward hand stomp. You need to dodge under the first swipe and the rest of the combo will not matter to you. Go under him in order to attack.
This guide suggests focusing on the limbs of the boss. After baiting and dodging under the boss, attack the closest limb. Attacking the limbs sufficiently will cause the boss to fall down and lose his charge. Whether or not the same leg can cause the boss to fall down has not been tested in this guide. The video accompanied with this guide shows the effectiveness of focusing on the limbs.
After attacking the limbs, depending on your position, the boss will most likely do one of the following:
- Dodge sideways and attack with a quick swipe. This dodge can be fast and with the camera locked on the camera will go crazy. Without the camera locked on, you will lose sight of him. To dodge his swipe attack, simply roll opposite of where you saw the boss dodge to.
- The boss will curl up a little and start charging. Bright light will be seen from the body of the boss. This AOE will hit hard. This guide is centred on dodging through the AOE to attack the boss some more. Doing this can be tricky though. In order to dodge through this AOE, wait until the moment the boss starts raising its head up and dodge at that time. It is recommended to dodge towards the head as I found that to be easier. Watching the accompanying video to this guide should help in having a rough idea of when to dodge this AOE attack.
After doing enough damage (about one-third of its health), the boss will back away in order to charge up his body, causing him to have double charge. In double charge mode, the boss will have increased damage and extra effects to some of his attacks. The swipes will cause trails of electricity to follow and can be tricky to dodge sometimes. The AOE attack will do more damage and might one-shot you if you're on the cursed modifier. The strategy remains the same. Bait his swipes, go under the boss to attack, dodge through the AOE and repeat.
If you've focused well on the limbs. You will cause the boss to fall more than once and will have enough time to damage him. After this, the boss will attempt to dodge sideways and quick attack you at least once before trying to gain some distance to charge up again. While the boss is charging up, you can at least attack the limbs once per charge.
Videos
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Player Notes & Trivia
- The real boss in this battle is your fight against the lock-on and camera mechanics.
AnonymousYou need not look further than this boss for worst designed boss of the game .
I have nothing wrong with palet swaps. However, when the camera is a crackheaded as the boss, you have issues.
Poor design, poor execution, poor implementation.
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I noticed that when using weapons that move you forward, like Saif, and attacking the legs, you might clip into their geometry which causes your character to stumble mid attack and be vulnerable for a few frames.
Just thought it's a cherry on the top of the cake with this boss.
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BL 135 with BoM and Rakuyo+10, empty phantasm shell+ the best outfit suited against him and that worthless ****er made me waste 570 blood vials out of my 620. What the hell was that nightmare? I never struggled this hard before against a boss, and I've done plenty of SL1/BL4 runs in the past.
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It took several tries over a few days but beat him again after first playthrough back in 2017; the key for me is remembering its possible to disable his electricity (head shots I think) after you can get lots of free damage
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I cannot think of a worse boss in the whole of Fromsoft history.
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Miyazaki once said: 'Let Paarl do crack.'
This was widely regarded as a bad move.
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Hey another overtuned trash pallette swap health sponge boss that I will do to get achievements and then never again in my life
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Wtf this thing dropped a blood rock for me. I was using an arcane build with 209 discovery
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This might sound easier said than done, but you can't let him get to the 3rd phase.
I recommend using quick weapon such as Ludwig's blade with fire paper for knocking him of his front feet every time he tries to power up to the 3rd phase. Evade his couple sweeps and keep chasing his front legs.
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Big ups to the two peeps who help me on this one. Rang the bell for the hell of it around sl 200 not expecting anything but was pleasantly surprised. Took this guy apart at the joints.
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In Loran I couldnt time the dodge during AOE correctly so I just said fu*k it and I stayed under him, trying to do as much dmg as possible before getting hit. I survived (i had 40 vit) and immediately healed up, dodged and repeated it again. You need to be a bit lucky with this method but it can be done. I used a quick version of Ludwig and added fire paper in the second phase. Remember after you break one of his legs its best to start slashing a different one while he is on the ground because you can stun him again. Good luck hunters.
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The iframes on it's dodge are the worst offender imo. I can struggle through a trash camera, but there's no answer to a giant AoE-spamming poise monster having an invincible dodge that covers a third of the arena. Guess you closed the gap for nothing bozo, 20,000 health to go
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You can roll through his AoE (roll just before the noise) but it's dicey. Best way is to keep him de-electrified so he can't use it. Lock onto his head, quickstep through his swipe and get under his chin. Transformed cane is probably best. Summon just makes it more chaotic and prolongs the fight IMO.
When he's in 2nd stage and beyond the AoE can one-shot. You have to keep the pressure on and rush him every time he's backing away to reboot his bolt. Learning to keep him down by sequentially attacking limbs is best, however I just whaled on his head while he's distracted recharging his battery. He's weaker without the forcefield.
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I just beat it and along with the chalice and a gem, it also gave me a blood rock.
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1. Put fire on your weapon
2. DPS race the legs
3. Heal through his aoe
4. hopefully he dies
Im 90% memeing, but 20k health is a lot to go through, camera is awful and the aoe forces a slow fight - IMO it's honestly the best way to just spam attacks and heal like a pleb
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Why the **** are the chalice versions of the vanilla bosses are even more harder??!
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...just don't lock on...
All things aside, though, playing locked off helps a **** ton, even outside of bossfights. Learning to freeaim melee attacks can reward you with pristine spacing.
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The best way to manage the ****ass camera in this fight is to make sure you’re locked on to his HEAD. If you lock on to the body, the camera is a mess. The head isn’t perfect but it’s manageable and more reliable.
Dodge into the swipes and hit him with a long range swipe attack. Transformed saw spear R1 works well and the Kos parasite was fairly reliable. LHB L2 would conceivably hit the body too. Hit him once or twice and you should be able to quickstep back pretty quickly before he counters or charges the AOE. Make sure to stay a little closer to him for the second phase or the lightning effects will get ya. His swipes get a bit farther and more aggressive so you can usually dodge into them easier if you’re timing it right. Once you get into a rhythm, you can focus on managing your stamina bar and distance.
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I think if timed perfectly you can dodge inside the electric AOE attack and not take damage. I swear I did it by accident a few times.
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Just too much health. This fight is pretty ****ing hard for me tbh but mostly because his insane health pool.
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What is this camera holy ****. Why can’t we just lock onto the legs. I can’t dodge this stupid thing because I can’t ****ing see
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This is by far the worst boss in bloodborne. The camera, the one-shot aoe attacks that take up half the arena, the terrible hitboxes on the arm swipes, the ridiculously high health pool and the fact that it's literally just paarl again. Amygdala in the cursed chalice would have been the worst if there wasn't a cheese strategy. There's no cheese for this ****er, you just have to smash your balls repeatedly with a hammer for ten minutes, no way around it.
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I mean the whole fight feels like trying to put a bra on an enraged bull. It can be fun at times, depending on your build, but it can also be extremely annoying.
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This dude had me lose my **** during my first playthrough. The second time around, which was yesterday, I stuck to a strategy: always dodge under him through his claw swipes, bash his legs once or twice and get out, no exceptions, repeat. Also figured out how to dodge the AOE blast with some regularity. Turned a fight I hated into a super rewarding victory after a long, intense grinding fight. Gotta love Fromsoft games.
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On a 99 arcane build, use the blood cocktails. 1 should allow you to hit with 2 ACB blasts. Target the body and youre able to take him down before going through 20 (+blood bullets each shot) quicksilver bullets
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Do not lock on. Bait the horizontal swipe attack. Roll under the 1st swing (may be 1-3). Stay under the boss for 2 swings on the back leg. Vertical swinging weapons can damage chest and head. Roll behind and away from the boss. Repeat. Have enough dps to stunkock/visceral this boss and it’s a cake walk. Be on the aggressive between boss attacks. Do not try to fight ranged or you will run out of stamina.
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Not that it'll make it a cakewalk or anything, but one good trick I've learned while running an Arcane build is to chase it down when it's trying to recharge its static (it'll repeatedly try to back away from you, about half the length of the arena), get underneath it, then use Call Beyond. The wide spread does a significant chunk of damage, and potentially knocks out its electricity a second time, possibly even opening it for a visceral, too. You can also do this when it ups its charge at about 70% health and again at roughly 40%.
The Madaras Whistle is pretty nice, too, but don't forget to dodge out of its jaws. It's not nearly as reliable, either, but it does consume fewer bullets per use.
Believe me, I've died enough times to practice all kinds of dumb tricks.
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This boss is annoying and tedious it literally just comes down to one question.
Got enough dps to knock the electricity off in one stamina bar?
Yes? You win
No? You lose
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“DodGe UnDer tHe fIrsT SwIpe aNd ThE ReSt oF tHe ComBo WonT MatTer”
Is terrible advice the second and third swipe/slam will hit you if you just did he under the first and then try to hit his head
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If you thought Paarl was hard, don't worry. You won't even reach this boss.
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anyone else get severe fps drops in this fight? this particular one in the chalice dungeon makes the game run like 10 fps and no where else in the game is it that bad not even paarl
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Far too quick for its size, and far too much health for its speed. Should have been better balanced... Basically forcing you to play unlocked and then having him jumping around constantly off screen is irredeemable garbage... Horribly designed boss. Dark Souls didn't have trash like this, and with any luck neither will Elden Ring.
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What a horrible boss. You can't even hit him half the time because he's freaking massive and constantly prancing around.
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Get under him and hit him with the threaded cane in whip mode. Then back away while blocking with the loch shield. It’s almost an unfair combo against this guy as the shield absorbs almost all damage. Just watch your stamina.
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Use pungent blood cocktail at phase 3 then hack his legs while he goes after it.
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Golden Ardeo, Henryk Set and bolt damage reduction (and visceral attack damage if needed) runes and you can survive he's AOE in the second phase with 30 vitality(probably a little less). With that being do the limb techinque and when he falls, aim for his head. While he's electric aura is off, damaging his head will give a visceral attack opportunity. If you are having problems in second phase throw blood cocktails and spam A Call From Beyond. Remember to use blood bullets if you're short. Happy hunting
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This boss isn't hard at all. The only reason anyone has ANY difficulty with him is because he's big enough to take up your entire screen when you dodge between his legs, meaning you can't even see if your hitting him. And that's just a*****ty boss mechanic.
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Dude i need someone to help my fight this guy. That Aoe is kicking my ass! The glyph is irhi.. add me my PSN is TACOxSLAYER94
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Seconding that LDB in the regular shared fixed dungeon has a chance of dropping a Blood Rock. Just got one after being beckoned down from the Makeshift.
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dude I cant see the boss. always jumps out of camera. I am swinging my saw cleaver blindly. Like the beast has moveset of a toddler but fps drops and camera is killing me
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So many particle effects. The Ps4 is just not built for this, I'm getting the framerate of an 1890's photo booth
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If you are running an arcane build, A Call Beyond and fire gems are your best friends when fighting the Darkbeast. If you aren’t, learn how to dodge underneath his attacks and unlock the camera at the same time. If he continues to attack at the ground this will give you ample time to score plenty of hits. Most times, however, he will jump out and you may only get one hit. Focus on one limb (preferably the hind ones) and break it. After breaking 3 you should be in control of the fight with Darkbeast Loran low on health. Good luck, fellow hunters.
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I find that the best way to deal with this guy is to have a holy moonlight sword and focus on his legs. With enough hits, he will fall down. Also, if you can, try t I-frame through the AOEs.
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not much in this game pisses me off but the fact that paarl can constantly backstep/sidestep out of view, then followup with the horizontal sweep attack (that you can't see the startup for since he jumped offscreen) is actually ruining this fight for me. i wish this fight ran at more than 20fps
This guy’s ARC resistance is lower than his fire, do yourself a favor and bring the Phantasm Shell
Level 141, 99 ARC Kos Parasite build makes this boss a joke. Killed him first try, 13/25 blood vials left. Even kept the lock on to make it harder. Just get underneath him and spam L2.
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Get a +9 (or 10 if you got the rocks) threaded cane, don't lock on, use fire paper, WIN.
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Fighting this joker is like fighting Midir by hacking away at his ankles all day
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Someone needs to add 'Blood Rock' to his drop table. Just got one in the normal chalice
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Transformed Burial Blade was super useful in this fight. Was able to get plenty of successive hits on his head and forelimbs (with a good amount of knockdowns). Definitely recommend bringing a weapon with some reach
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you ask Miyazaki for a Christmas gift and and he gives you this guy
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He dropped Blood Rock, Bolt Abyssal Blood Gem and Lower Ailing Loran Root Chalice.
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until you learn how to limb cycle, you'll be feeling it from dank beast karl
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This dude looks exactly like the suspicious beggar after he transforms could be something significant to the lore
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after gettig slapped around like ***** by this fugly *****, i used the transformed ludwig holy sword and timed, charged it with r2 and hit his snoot and then visceral his sorry ass to kingdom come.
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Honestly this guy was a challenge and a half. Wear Henryk's set with the Gold Ardeo headpiece (not a bad fashion by the way) and use the normal Sawspear with best fire enhancing gems as fire deals much more damage to beasts (gems I had were...
Cursed Fire Damp Blood Gem (4): Fire ATK UP +20.6% / ATK vs kin DOWN -9.3%
Cursed Noirishing Damp Blood Gem (6): ATK UP +19.3% / Add phys ATK +8.1 / Increased stamina cost 2.9%
Fire Damp Blood Gem (5): Fire ATK UP +13.7% / HP continues to recover +1).
Keep a lock on his head. Try to get one strike up front and dodge slightly to the forward left while he does a swipe (works for both stages as his head shifts toward his attacking arm), then try to connect two more attacks while under his head before he leaps away. Also try and be aggressive when he runs, running towards him but waiting for him to attack first. It's best to try and dodge through his charged explosions, and with a little practice this is very possible. Just be sure to unlock the camera before you dodge it.
You will have to run away at times, and be sure to be careful when doing so. The set of armor I wore mitigated the bolt damage by about 60 or 70% more (than the Tomb Prospector Hood, Executioner Robes, Gascoigne's Gloves, and Black Church Trousers). Also the bolts from his claw swipes will do basically nothing as they deal only minor bolt damage. Maybe 30 HP at closest range to the claws but they will stagger you. The most damage you can receive is if you're caught in his explosion or the bolts caused by his second stage slam combo.
Best runes to use are Clockwise Metamorphosis, Communion, Dissipating Lake (for pure bolt defense though may substitute for Blood Rapture if going for viscerally when it's downed), and Radiance so you can take more of a beating before having to heal.
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I found a new strategy to beat this asshole.
You need Maxed hunter axe with your strongest bloodgems,coupled with empty shell phantasm.
For runes,you can equip either Dissipating lake or Communion (I used the lake)
Contrary to other,DON'T go under his body since he will jump away or charge up his AoE, fight him HEAD ON
I kept my camera locked on his head so my axe will automatically aim itself to the head (your target is the head after all)
Now,you have to time your spinning attack since he can't stagger you during the spin (except heavy attacks like slam)
Remember to let your stamina recharge after charging since you need it to dodge his swipe.
Instead of chasing him,let him approach toward you because,he will jump like crazy in arena if you chase it
Some good moment to land hit: when he walks toward you,after his AoE attack (or when he entered phase 2 or 3)
On second phase,he got more tricky since camerabeast will run toward you+his swipe will shoot electric ball.
Always keep your health above 50% because he become really *****ing agressive
Don't forget to retreat for a while,healing and reapplying Empty shell on your weapon
Watch out for the 3 electric slam attack since it will go through your poise and will kill you easily
Keep repeating this,and eventually you killed him at last.
I hope this strategy helps
And for people that play with cursed modifier,i wish you luck (though i haven't tested this strategy on cursed dungeon).
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I decided to just give this guy the middle finger and summon for him today on my Chikage build since even with 50 tinge and okay gems at +9 I just couldn't win the damage race of beating down his limbs in time to force him to power down.
Luckily, with only one other person, this guy went down faster than you can say '*****'.
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Dropped a Bolt Abyssal Blood Gem and a Blood Rock in a Sinister Lower Loran Root Chalice for me today.
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He seems quite vulnerable to staggering if you can hit his head (fighting with hmls )
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I just beat this boss and obtained a blood rock, I wanted to mention that because it is not mentioned in the drop section, Im sure it was NOT a root chalice dungeon, so It must be a rare drop at least.
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Pungent blood cocktail for the first phase of the fight you can still use it in the second phase but you have to be more careful just roll under his head take his legs out once he falls to the ground massive damage can be done I use the threaded cane buffed with fire paper and the fight was over before I had to buff it again
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While I can take down Paarl with hardly any trouble, even on NG+7, the Loran Darkbeast just wrecks my***** every time. I think I finally realized why: in the actual fight against Darkbeast Paarl, the camera is programmed to zoom in and out according to Paarl's attack patterns, whereas in the fight against the Loran Darkbeast, it stays fixed throughout the entirety of the battle for some dumbass reason. The camera really IS the boss fight.
I feel like it's nearly impossible to land any hits on the Darkbeasts because of how fast they are, and how high off the ground they keep their torso. AND JFC WHAT IS WITH THAT AOE ATTACK. They spam it practically the moment you finally get under their belly, leaving you no choice but to take the hit. If you're lucky, it will only take about 3/4 health. Other times, it's a definite one-shot attack. I'm not sure if the damage output varies, or if the player's position affects the damage multiplier (does being closer to its torso do more damage?), or maybe it all relies on whether the Darkbeast is "fully charged" or not. Cursed offering lyfe, amiright? And then sometimes they just repeatedly roll the hell over and let you whale on them, as if the game is just GIVING you the victory.
I once lost 3,000,000 echoes to this bastard, all because of that lunging attack it uses the moment you enter the arena. The salt continues to sting....
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This thing seems to really destroy the FPS, especially when fully charged and/or using its AoE. Which is unfortunate, since those are the two most dangerous parts of the fight. Who thought it was a good idea to put this thing in a room with water physics and swirling sand animations?
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The Loren Darkbeast in the Lower Loran Chalice... I have a PS4 Slim and i get less then 10 FPS.... Also the Beast is sometimes glitching out of the Camera getting invisible in the Process.
Still thanks to my NPC Tank he was first try.
Rolled underhim and hacked L2 with LHS.
Having lvl 170 and 300 Bolt resistance still cost me over 1000HP with his AOE....
BTW having 20% and 30% Moon Runes are incredible while farming in Chalices on NG XD Yep still in Normal Game.
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Fair warning: It's possible for the AOE to knock you out of the arena and insta-kill you if you're at the edge of the arena when it hits.
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But yet again from another player I give this boss the most poorly designed encounter in such an amazing game.
Seriously though which designer's child made this boss because it's a piece of ***** that just screams "I'm not finished being made yet".
I used to hate this boss because of the stupid camera but now I really hate because of the actual model of it.
Can anybody else name a boss in this entire game whose model causes your character to jump into the air resulting in a plunging attack? I can't and I doubt there is.
But in all seriousness if you use the beast Hunter saif for this fight your character will spazz out when he spins around and you will do a plunging attack that won't hit anything and you get to admire this boss nice and close before he smacks you.
Seriously, this is truly the worst boss in the whole series, and also unfair
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I hate this *****ing monkey sooooo much, i tought at first i liked the design, noup, now i hate it, i thought i liked the boss fight, noup, i hate it now, i hate the irregular stage, the fact that he can hit you in the ground, the hitbox, the camera, the life, first BB boss that I totally can´t stand... second is Lawrence
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After getting wrecked by this guy for an hour or two, I used Bone Marrow Ash + Rosmarinus and cheaply annihilated this monster. I would highly recommend it as I could not even touch him normally with a melee weapon.
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I fought him in lower loran and first tried him. Im lvl 180 at the time. Hes just a little faster paarl. I think its because i havent patched the game yet because it was darkbeast paarl.
Here is a video for how I killed him using strategy 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtD122MME-E
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This IS NOT the same boss im fighting. Mine looks completely different and is smaller, completly different moveset yet is still named loran darkbeast. wtf?
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Im level 50 and just got to this boss, he's all that stands between me and my burial blade... and I dont know if I can do it. My main weapon is blades of mercy but because of the range and way he moves its hard to tag him with it, I really dont know if I can do this, anyone else had success at a level similar to mine?
For those struggling with this guy, I offer this advice: get good bloodgems FIRST, then fight the boss. For a long time I had this idea that I should beat all the normal chalices before going into FRC chalices, don't do it that way, learn from mistake. Get some decent cursed gems from FRC chalices, then come back to turbo-paarl here. The fight is waaaay more manageable if you can burn him down fast.
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