Talk:Manus, Father of the Abyss/@comment-99.238.122.178-20130814151523

For the bow strategy you dont need fire arrows or to un equip all your armor, you need to stand on the right on the path to manus, then it is recomended you use the hawk ring, and of you have it the long bow of pharis as it has the longest range of bows and with the hawk ring its you medieval sniper rifle. Also you dont need fire arrows, feather arrow will do the job nicely and further extend the bows operational range thus incressing damage delt, in a NG have about 300-400 arrows you will not need this many if you dex is atleast 30 but it helps to always carry extra ammo in case you miss, however when you hit him you will see a gamage count, with all of these equiped i was doing 107 per shot in NG and it too less then 100 feather arrow, as there are conflicting stats on his HP it takes 31 - 63 arrows to kill him in a first run game. note this does take away from killing him us close and personal but if you were beyond irritated and needed sleep like i did when i first fought him well being a cheating bastard and sniping him works well.