The Official Dark Souls Thread - .....It Begins

[lestatdark]

StokedUp said:

lestatdark said:

StokedUp said:
I hate working 10 hour days I'm not getting enough time on this game when in the week, I was on it for 2 hours last night, beat the gaping dragon which was possibly the easiest boss fight in a while, and then I went to fight the Hydra in DARKROOT BASIN but I kept dying as I was getting to close and falling into the deep waters for a instant death! Also I was struggling when I got it down to 2 heads because I couldn't reach them in time to hit it before it brought them back up again.

Only managed to go up 4 soul levels aswell because of lack of time!!

For the remaining Hydra heads, which are always hard to reach, you must move before the Hydra stomps his heads. Look for the visual cue of the Hydra pulling back the heads in anticipation of the attack (it also has a different sound cue than when he's preparing to launch the water spouts) and then move to the last point where the heads fell, since as long as you didn't move before he made the cues for the attack, the heads will fall always on the same spots.

Thanks for the info mate, you truly are the master of the dark souls :) we don't need the wiki when we've got lestatdark around!!

I just hope it's helpful for you when you try defeating it again That was, literally, the only way I could defeat the Ash Lake Hydra, because if I stayed in one spot when the Hydra had all of his heads, no matter what shield I had, it would kill me as it's much stronger than the Darkroot Basin one. That's when I started paying attention to the cues.