@Packie
If you have both the Clever Rat Ring and the Morion Blade, you could try getting your Health down to 30% before trying the method I told you.
My Sticky Long Bow +5 with Light Arrows at 35 Dexterity, with both those items, gets an attack boost to 700 damage. I do almost 150 per arrow to the first maneater.
Also, if you go hand to hand with them, make sure you have no shield equipped, all of their attacks go through shields, and make sure to be light, the more moves you dodge, the more attacks you can put on them. Make sure you go for their tail, once it's cut off, they won't be able to do the dash attack.
I have beat the game a total of 6 times, 2 in my first playthrough before my PS3 broke down and 4 once I got it back and started the game all over again to get my Platinum.
Current PC Build
CPU - i7 8700K 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz turbo) 6 cores OC'd to 5.2 GHz with Watercooling (Hydro Series H110i) | MB - Gigabyte Z370 HD3P ATX | Gigabyte GTX 1080ti Gaming OC BLACK 11G (1657 MHz Boost Core / 11010 MHz Memory) | RAM - Corsair DIMM 32GB DDR4, 2400 MHz | PSU - Corsair CX650M (80+ Bronze) 650W | Audio - Asus Essence STX II 7.1 | Monitor - Samsung U28E590D 4K UHD, Freesync, 1 ms, 60 Hz, 28"
