Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-72.23.137.188-20131104173358/@comment-18016240-20131104220318

Obvious question: Are you in human form and online? Sometimes people forget to do that.

Advice: The Four Kings are similar to Pinwheel in that your best bet is to kill them as quickly as possible before they start calling in allies. A popular strategy (at least on NG+) is to tank through their attacks by wearing heavy armor (typically Havel's since it's also resistant to magic) that has a lot of poise, Quelaag's Furysword is quite handy for taking them down due to their (seeming) weakness for fire, add in the Grass Crest shield and Havel's/ Wolf's ring and you should be able to defeat them. Also, remember that you can still hit each King as they're dying to get in some free damage before fighting the next one.