Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25326757-20140823231303/@comment-96.48.25.0-20141205063407

Well, Ancient Dragon was the probably one of the easiest boss in the game. And since you can easily re-spec your toon, he shouldn't be too hard for all players to change into temp casters just for an easy fight. The Trick is the 900 Flame/Fire defense. After that it's all about shooting enough spells until he dies, and you don't even have to move away from the door.

Dark Souls 2 only (in no particular order) :

A. Duke's Dear Freyja - It was such a pain trying to kill it on NG+3/4, and it wasn't because of the boss itself, it was the damn spider minions. They 2 shot me. My Def and HP felt like decorations.

B. Ruined Sentinels - I had a tough time against this trio on my first no online help/no wiki or walkthrough/ solo vanilla run(how I like to play my first NG). Even getting to boss can be a pain, since there are like 7 - 10 royal swordsman on the way there. The problem I had with this boss ( or other bosses/ there are other complaints but that's not what we are talking about here) - 1. teleporting moves that quite a lot of enemies have - i.e. they instantenous jump away as soon as their combo ends (the auto disco record player style of auto tracking is also annoying but kinda defines the new director's  ideals, so I'll ignore it here)  2. The Waiting game - You have to either block or roll through their ballerina/disco spinning atks, then take a few pot shots, and repeat. I didn't know where to acquire any decent shields at my first game at this point. My caster build wouldn't allow me to use the arch drake shield. I also didn't understand anything about agility since I-frames were different from DS1. It wasn't challenging or fun, because it felt like a grind.

C.  Old Iron King - Instant Death environmental hazard + unblockable knock back in a Boss fight...., brilliant.

Special mention to a one of the hardest Demon's Souls fight -

It wasn't against a boss, but against an NPC. You can fight him in World 2-2 absolute Black tendency. I don't remember his name but that was hard. Getting to him requires tactical falling which is already a pain. He has huge amount of HP boosted by absolute Black World Tendency. He casts regen. He can heal. He can cast medium to long range spells. He also has a devastating up close and personal fire spells for those that gets too close. And since he is an NPC, he moves extremely fast and doesn't have much of a pattern. Worst of it all, he can cast Wrath of God..., which was devastating back in Demon Soul's.

Imagine a boss that is your size, moves at your speed, casts Soul Spear, Homing Soul Mass, Bountiful Sunlight, Great Heal, Great Combustion, Great Fireball but shoots like a Soul Arrow, and Wrath of God which is Emit Force except it's an AOE atk that does knock down and huge amount of damage. You also have to fight him on a small cave outcrop that is part of a vertical mining tunnel, which you might die if you fall off (even if you don't, you have to climb back up to fight him again).