Talk:Skeletal Beast/@comment-25247371-20140816064704/@comment-25173123-20140819030231

Just ran into them myself last night for the first time. (figured I would go back and re-attack the catacombs)

Guys are brutal for sure. And I got my ass handed to me on more then one occasion. But ended up doing the same thing over and over to beat them.

Held my BKS up to block, 2 handed. Allowed them to attack (short aggro allows for 1vs1 encounters lucky for us) and then simply hit with my RB button, 2 hits usually do the job and the BKS 2 handed shield block allows for a quick swing up when attacking with a follow up hit that has little lag. (I used this method to deal with the channelers who tend to vanish after first hit. This allowed me to get 2 hits in before they could vanish.)

Coming from a player who has little to no defensive mindset and tends to Leeroooooy Jenkins a battle... it seemed to work for me. :D

Note: obviously the aggro range helps in allowing you to change from skull lantern to 2 handed position before the actual confrontation.