Lake
2021
I would suggest using your white sign soapstone and help other people kill the Capra. You will gain some experience fighting it, and get some humanity to turn human and summon your own help.
The first two dozen times I fought the Capra absolutely nothing was working. Then I decided to tank the mofo. Best physical defense armor I could find (elite knight armor at the time, I think), high stability shield, Wolf Ring, and a zweihander with some resin applied. Walked in, stood at the doorway, and when the dogs showed up, took wide swings when I wasn’t blocking to try and include them. Otherwise, I just pounded on the Capra whenever I had an opening. Didn’t even try to move, unless it was to sidestep something. Worked surprisingly well.
You believe correctly, although she has only 4 of them in stock. This, however, should be more than enough, especially considering that you can loot 6 of them in New Londo plus you can get them as drops from the ghosts. Plus the ghosts drop the dagger, which is cursed and also can be used to kill them. Plus, if everything else fails, you can just get a regular curse from the frogs in the Depths - it sucks to have your health halved but allows you to farm the ghosts if you run out of options.
The problem with Capra Demon fight is that it’s often pretty much decided in the first 3 seconds of the fight and, when you coop it, the host has to step into the room first and the “help” gets into the room way later, like 10 seconds later. When I was helping people with it, quite often I would get into the room right when the host gets killed.
High stability shield is crucial for this fight, well, for many fights actually. The best shield you can get at that point is Balder shield dropped by one of the red caped Balder knights near the church. It’s a random drop and depending on your luck might require some farming. The good thing though is farming those knights will help you to practice your fencing skills. Other shields will do too, just don’t forget to level it up to +5 with the blacksmith near the church.
I would suggest watching a few youtube videos. The boss and the dogs can spawn in a couple of different spots and IIRC there is a path you can take that almost guarantees you will be able to avoid their first rush and get to the stairs. After that it’s much easier to kill the dogs and then take your time with the boss.
Just skip it and go somewhere else. That boss was a pushover because I did it out of order.
nixon66
2026
Yea, I’ll echo the others in this thread. Get a decent shield, and upgrade it a bit, and tank that first shot when you first enter. If you get a chance to take out a dog on your way to the stairs do so, and when you get to the top of the stairs, turn around and try and take out another dog.
Stay back from the Capra, and learn his moves and look for openings.
Just run, not walk, directly for the stairs with your shield up, and either (a) if you’re fast enough, you might not get hit at all before you’re up the stairs and on the ledge, in which case just kill the dogs as they attack you one at a time up there, and then use drop attacks on Capra; (b) if the Capra Demon is going to hit you, roll forward under his attack so that you are still headed towards the stairs (do not roll any other direction or you’ll be screwed) - at most, he’ll get one swing at you…then you can proceed as described above; or © if you find it difficult to time the roll, just keep your shield up until he finishes his attack (it may be a 1-2 with both hands, so wait for it if he swings with one hand) and then immediately resume your path up the stairs (do not counterattack).
HRose
2028
If you have 1 FPS to spare I found a nice prettifier in the style of Skyrim mods. This is only a filter where you can enable and tweak a number of fancy effects:
It’s really nice, with some sharpening and desaturation. The nice thing is that you can edit directly the text files and the filters change in the game on the fly, so no need to reload anything. You can also enable/disable it by pressing “scroll lock”.
If you enable antialias filters it probably needs more processing power, but otherwise it’s really good.
Besides, this works on ALL GAMES. I found it on the Guild Wars 2 forums. You just dump it in the directory of a game, and it runs.
Capra demon for me went: Enter fog with shield up, block the first attack. Break right then loop around left and run to top of stairs. Kill the dogs and lure Capra. Fall off stairs and get a couple hits on Capra when he falls. Run back up stairs quickly and drop attack. Keep looping around and doing drop attacks.
If you have master key I think he becomes optional.
I’m having a bitch of a time with the Four Kings. I’ve made a few dozen runs on them and am just not making any progress- I’ve failed to even kill the first. My best run was with a bow of all things, just auto-targeting and backing the hell off, but that just seems like it’d take way too long and have a large chance of failure after expending lots of arrows. I guess I’ll go try my hand at the Demon World- I think that’s the only other path I haven’t explored much.
Wolff
2031
There are a couple different strata for four kings. It is mostly a dps race though. What weapon are you using is it fully upgraded? Try wearing bagels (auto correct Havel lol) ring and his armor two hand your weapon. Fat roll the grab move and keep rotating behind him while stamina regens (grass crest shield). Don’t take off the fop ring just wear as much Havel as possible.
also check youtube for speed run to boss door.
I was going to suggest an upgraded weapon too. I just sat there hitting them and it was over before I knew it.
Joe_M
2033
Havel’s and an upgraded weapon (2-hand it!) is really the best advice unless you’re looking to learn how to do the fight in hard mode, and make no mistake that’s what you’re doing if your DPS isn’t sufficient to kill a king before or shortly after the next one spawns. It’s funny how thin that line is between omg impossible and those guys have abilities?
Should be finishing up my first playthrough of this soon. I went through the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith. I ranked up in the Chaos Servant covenant to open the shortcut to Lost Izalith in order to save you-know-who, but still managed to screw it up and had to kill him. Also got another NPC killed and ended his storyline early fighting those acid spitting plant things. After Lost Izalith, I was pulled into the DLC by what appeared to be one of Bayonetta’s wicked weaves. I had heard it was 10 hours long, but it’s more like 3. I just have to take down the dragon. Sanctuary Guardian was pretty easy. Knight Artorias was a pretty good fight. He got the better of me a couple times and the damage I was able to do to him was lower than most bosses. Manus was pretty difficult as well. His 6 hit combo was brutal. Even with max stamina and my upgraded eagle shield with high stability he would almost stagger me. Like Artorias I could only chip away at his health. In most fights lately I’ve been 2-handing my halberd, but when I tried that on him he beat me down so fast. Went into the fight with 14 estus flasks and used them all. I hated his dark missile attacks. I could never avoid getting hit completely by them and always took lots of damage, and towards the end of the fight he spammed them like crazy.
I’ve got a few fully-upgraded weapons, but my stats are kind of scattered- I don’t really play with a walkthrough until I hit a wall like this, and then I end up looking at the wiki to get an idea of what I should be doing, so my character is pretty unfocused.
My main playstyle is wearing a fully-upgraded Shadow Set of armor with the Mask of the Child (as good protection as I can get while keeping my weight as low as possible, plus the stamina regen bonus), while switching between 2-handing a +15 Reinforced Club for melee and various almost fully-upgraded bows (a +14 Longbow and a +4 Darkmoon Bow) for ranged. The club was chosen because I realized that even at low levels it staggers pretty much anything it hits, does a ton of damage and has a leap-forward strong attack that catches most enemies unawares (all of which means I can stunlock nearly anything if I get the timing right)- downside is it’s slow and takes a bit of stamina. But I’m quick and can avoid most enemies once I learn the pattern- I’ve been using it almost the whole game, and I can apply Greater Magic Weapon/resins as needed to up the damage even more if needed.
Fighting the Four Kings, I just can’t keep the DPS up, and the big homing thing always seems to get me. I’ll try equipping the Havel set and an upgraded lightning/demon spear and the +5 Grass-Crest shield to block or something, see what I can do. I’m just so used to relying on my dodge to get me out of danger. Cramps my style, man.
Tanking when you’re used to high mobility is actually kind of fun. You feel like an untouchable badass, just wading in and laying the smack down. Probably less so against bosses, but still.
I think a faster weapon would probably do you good. You can’t stagger the bosses (as far as I recall), so there’s no real benefit to the club, so it’s best if you can focus on the damage.
Also, I think there are different armor values for slashing / crushing, so a different weapon might just be better against them in general.
That’s all true. Had a spot of trouble with the Moonlight Butterfly boss, and ended up having to tank it. Different opponents are supposed to be vulnerable to slashing, etc, but in practice, I’ve only found a couple that my club doesn’t do the most damage to (even at equivalent upgrade levels), and it has the added bonus of staggering [/I]everything[/I] (I think the golems were immune, as well as the Darkwraiths, but I’m one-shotting those now, anyway). The only problem I have is in really large groups- the couple roomfuls of ghosts were a pain in the neck until I learned to lure them.
Wow. You guys were right. I burned some souls to level up my Utichigana to +14, slapped on the Havel’s Set, dropped down the well, threw Greater Magic Weapon on for good measure, and went to town. Just kept swiping at him as he did the same, with the occasional dodge and flask chug. Killed the first with enough time to chug another potion, killed the second with enough to recast the spell and chug a couple more. It actually took me two tries to kill them- the first try I stopped to chug a potion when one more hit would have killed him, and he took the opportunity to do the explody thing, killing me. The second run went just as well (except I killed him). Went and slaughtered Ceaseless Discharge soon thereafter. Onward to the Demon Ruins.
bahahah that gif is awesome
