Dark Souls II official thread of telling us your journey through Drangleic

[SvennoJ]

areason said:

I just beat the Gargoyles+ the Sinners rise boss. Used a branch in the lost bastille and i found a merchant that lets you trade boss souls for items(He also sells special spells). Got myself 3 nice weapons but i won't be using them yet, they have low bases but they scale so well with upgrades and i don't have enough dragon bones. 

As far as i know Earthen Peak has two bosses, i beat the first one and i'm omw to the second but casters are annoying after you run out of arrows. I would use the bonefire aesthetic in the tower of heide since it is by ar the funest area to me. You can buy one from the titanite merchant in the harvest valley. 

Yeah I found that merchant too. He had two spells for trade, the weapons are all useless to me. My str and dex are 15.
What are dragon bones for?

You're right the other boss was in Earthen peak too, not harvest valley. That was no contest, the arena was a bit small but the thing is so slow I had plenty of time to run turn cast, repeat. The casters later on are easy too as a caster, with a bit of blind targeting they never even fire off a shot. The dual wielding fast moving enemies were my undoing.  Tip for the 2nd boss: The fight is a lot easier if you turn off the poison factory first, but setting the large axle on fire with a torch, just outside of the upper bonfire.

Heide was indeed fun, but no real useful resources there. The bastille is still my favorite from the game so far.