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

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SvennoJ said:

The game crossed the line for me last night. Drangleic castle was just right, Shrine of Amana went into frustration territory. I ran out of enemies around the 2nd bonfire trying to get to the 3rd. Annoying multiple casters that keep firing homing soul arrows from miles away. Yet I can't target them until I'm almost right on top of them. Free aiming a homing soul arrow of my own in their direction doesn't make it go after them, still misses. They're positioned in such a way that to approach one your back/side is exposed to the barrage of another, combined with things hidden in the water that jump you and very aggresive sword wielding enemies that jump you. Top it off with the slow movement in water while you're basically walking on a ledge and can fall in the deep and drown at any moment. The only way to see where you can walk is with a torch while looking straight down. What a nightmare.
I lost over 100k souls there on failed retrievals. Only made it through after lots of trial and error, magic defense ring +2, great magic barrier, great magic shield, great lightning spears for the casters with some lucky hits in free aming, and careful positioning not to get more than 2 at the time. Next area more casters shooting from different directions. I need a break.

I haven't reached that far yet (just killed the two Dragonriders), but have you tried poision arrows?

anyway after having wasted 6 pharros lockstones in doors of pharros I finally discovered where the boss is, me be stupid . I was expecting a hard fight after hearing all the stories of people struggling but it's actually a really easy boss, just chase after the back paws and all of its attacks missed me completely : /