The Duke's Dear Freja

The Duke's Dear Freja is a boss in Dark Souls II.

Description
A gigantic two-headed spider with extremely long legs, fought in Brightstone Cove Tseldora. She guards one of the Primal Bonfires.

Strategy
Most of the boss's shell is extremely hard, and attacks will merely bounce off and do no damage. Her weak spots are her two heads on either side of her body. Caution must be taken when approaching these spots, however, as most of her attacks occur at her head areas. The heads are also quite hard to hit with a melee weapon, but fortunetly the lock-on automatically targets the heads.

The attacks of the boss are very powerful and hard to block, but they aren't too difficult to dodge either. Tanks will have a really bad time with this boss.

Many smaller spider minions continually attack the player during the fight. They are easy to kill, but can do a lot of damage. Get rid of them quickly or you will regret it later.

Possibly one of the best ways to fight this boss is to wait until she uses one of her attacks at one of her faces, then run over to her other face at the opposite end and attack. Usually both heads cannot attack at once.

Attacks
Leg Stamp: Freja slams her large two front legs on the ground. Powerful, but small hitbox. Simply dodge or run away from her face.

Pincer Lunge: Freja raises her two pincers at the side of her face and lunges forward with them in a hugging motion. Run to her side to avoid.

Jumping Slam: Freja jumps into the air, and falls down in an attempt to land on the player. Can sometimes be difficult to avoid due to her large size.

Swinging Strike: Freja rears up high into the air and lunges quickly forward with her body. Run to her side to dodge, but stay away from her body.

Web Spit: Freja spits out balls of web that immobilise the player. They are easy to avoid, which is fortunate as, if immobilised, you will inevitably be hit by another powerful attack and die.

Acid Spit: Freja spits out many balls of acid, which depletes armour durability from both of her heads while repeatedly slamming all her legs on the ground. Just try to get away from her completely.

Magic Beam: Freja breathes a beam of magic horizontally from left to right. Deals extremely high damage, is impossible to block, and is difficult to dodge through and outrun. It is however, a prime chance to attack her other head.

Drops