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Location |
| 3,350 | 80,000 | The Ringed City |
| Drops | Filianore's Spear Ornament Titanite Slab (once per NG cycle) |
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| Weak | Resistant | Immune |
Halflight: Frost LightningGuardian:  Fire Frost LightningVow of Silence |
Halflight: Bleed Poison/ToxicGuardian: Bleed Poison/Toxic |
Halflight: N/A Guardian: N/A |
Halflight, Spear of the Church is a Boss enemy in Dark Souls 3, added with The Ringed City DLC. This Dark Souls 3 Halflight, Spear of the Church Guide features locations, strategies and videos on how to defeat Halflight easily, as well as tips, weaknesses, trivia and lore notes for the Halflight, Spear of the Church boss.
Halflight is a human wielding a sword and shield in battle and will spawn as the boss of this area if the player is in offline mode. When they are in online mode however, this boss fight is fought against another player, similar to a PvP fight. Regardless of which boss is spawned, two NPC Guardians will spawn to aid the boss - one spawns at the beginning of the fight, the other when the boss reaches approximately half health.
The difficulty of this fight can change based on which boss is fought against - fighting against other players being significantly harder. Many of the tips and stats on this page will be centered around the offline boss Halflight, however, it is still worth a read if facing off against another player, particularly for tips on fighting against the phantom NPCs spawned alongside the boss. You can summon Unbreakable Patches for this fight if you have completed Lapp's questline. This boss is not optional for the completion of the DLC and must be defeated in order to reach Filianore, but like all of the DLC bosses, is not necessary to complete the main game.
Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Dark Souls 3 Halflight, Spear of the Church Location
Where to find Halflight, Spear of the Church in Dark Souls 3?
- Halflight, Spear of the Church is found in The Ringed City, inside the church down the Ringed Inner Wall bonfire shortcut.
- After beating this boss, the player can use souls to revive Argo and repeat this fight. He can do it at the Velka's Statue or Purging Monument. See Show Your Humanity, how to reach Purging Monument. Note: Step connected with Velka's Statue can be achieved without finding Purging Monument.
Halflight, Spear of the Church Drops
What do you get from defeating Halflight, Spear of the Church in Dark Souls 3?
- Souls: NG (80,000)
- Co-Op Souls: NG (20 000)
- Other: Filianore's Spear Ornament, Titanite Slab (once per NG cycle)
Halflight, Spear of the Church Notes & Tips
What should you know about fighting Halflight, Spear of the Church in Dark Souls 3?
- Judicator Argo will summon players in the Spears of the Church as the Boss or Halflight if offline or there are no players available to summon.
- When playing online, this boss is replaced with another player, who presumably has the Spear of the Church Covenant equipped, although this is not always the case. In some instances, this boss fight can summon players that are actively attempting to invade another's world, which probably occurs when there aren't enough players playing with the Spear of the Church covenant equipped. An alternate theory is that the boss fight prioritizes Spear of the Church players, but really only looks for a player that is performing an action that would enable them to damage and kill a host, such as placing a white summon sign while using the Mound-makers covenant, as experienced by user Stephetheon.
- Parriable.Yes
- Church Guardian attacks deals Slash or Magic damage. May also cause bleeding.
- In offline mode, Halflight uses the Frayed Blade, White Birch Bow (RH), and the Knight Shield (LH) and wears the Antiquated Plain Set
- Halflight attacks deal Slash, Thrust, Dark, Magic, or Lightning damage. May also cause bleeding.
- Halflight is weak to Frost and Lightning.
- Halflight and Church Guardians are resistant to Bleed and Poison/Toxic.
- Church Guardian is weak to Fire, Frost and Lightning. Vow of Silence is also effective, as it blocks healing miracles.
- First Church Guardian appears shortly before Spear of the Church, second when his health is lowered by half. Shortly after killing Spear of the Church, the remaining Church Guardians die.
Halflight, Spear of the Church Stats
| Playthrough | NG | NG + | NG ++ | NG +3 | NG +4 | NG +5 | NG +6 | NG +7 |
| Health | 3,350 | 3,430 | 3,773 | 3,945 | 4,116 | 4,459 | 4,631 | 4,802 |
Dark Souls 3 Halflight, Spear of the Church Boss Guide & Strategies
DS3 Halflight Video Strategy
DS3 Halflight Attacks
Halflight, Spear of the Church has 2 attack phases. In the first phase, Church Guardian appears, shortly after that moment Spear of Church. When his/her hp is lowered by half, another Church Guardian appears.
| First Phase | |
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| Swift Sword attack (Guardian) | Guardian uses his sword a few times, dealing physical damage. Then jumps back to avoid retaliation. |
| Knife throwing (Guardian) | Guardian throws few knives dealing magical damage. |
| Healing (Guardian) | Guardian kneels and uses a healing spell that restores health in a small area. |
| Homing Knives (Halflight/Phantom) | Skill similar to spell Homing Crystal Mass. However, instead of magic projectiles, there are knives. Deals low magic damage, but can break attack. |
| Swift Sword attack (Halflight) | Sheathes their katana, then unleashes a flurry of swings. |
| Dark Wave (Halflight) | Sheathes their katana, then brings the katana down to release a wave of dark. |
| Jump attack (Halflight) | Halflight performs a katana running jump attack. |
| Bow attack (Haflight) | Halflight uses a bow and attacks from distance. |
| Ritual Spear attack (Halflight/Phantom) | Spear of the Church uses Ritual/Divine Spear fragment - acts similar to Black Serpent Spell. Such "serpent" stays for a few seconds acting similar to "wall". Deals high lightning damage. |
How to fight and beat Halflight, Spear of the Church
Strategy 1 (Melee)
Below is a playbook that will provide a checklist of things that need to be done in order for the fight to be successful. Other methods are possible, but with this particular method provided, it frames the fight in the proper way that can be executed with almost any weapon.
- Get the church door open. When you approach it at a certain angle, after getting the necessary item to approach the door, near the Ringed Knight. It's not necessary to bother with him, as he can be avoided without damage, so if you feel the need to kill him every single time you run for the church, you are mistaken. Remember this: summoning phantoms makes this fight significantly more difficult. The Spear of the Church gains lots of extra health and passive poise (think Dark Souls One poise) for each phantom you summon, including Lapp. If you choose to call for help, be wary.
- Ignore Judicator Argo. He will not attack unless provoked and will die on his own once he's finished summoning a Spear. Instead, watch for the first Guardian and prepare to ambush him as he spawns in. When the Guardian is finished standing up, attack him. He will not have poise, and his weapon is very small, meaning it's simple to just mash r1 to wipe him out in a short period of time. Try to drop him before the Spear can arrive.
- Halflight has arrived. If you haven't finished off the Guardian yet, it's best to concentrate your efforts on him, as his health should be low, and he will cast healing miracles to revitalize the Spear if left alone for too long. While doing this, keep him between you and Halflight, as it's important to keep your eyes on the Spear in case he draws his bow, uses the shockwave katana attack that covers a decent distance, or uses his Divine Spear Fragment to attack from afar. These ranged attacks are the greatest threat, as the Guardian has few methods of attack that can get past a bit of r1 spam. You can also use the pillars in the room to attract the Guardian and fight him behind cover, safe from Halflight's ranged attacks. Finish the Guardian, and turn your attention to the Spear.
- Halflight is pretty simple as far as NPC AI goes. If he's running at you, he's going to do a running attack with his katana. If you're in his range, he'll attack randomly with quick katana attacks. If you get too far away, he'll shoot arrows at you with his bow. At times, he'll use his Divine Spear Fragment to summon a wall of spears, which is easily dodged simply by strafing left or right. It will also give him a few moments of passive poise, so wait for the glow that appears around him to subside before attacking.
- The best strategy that any weapon can employ against Halflight is this: let him walk into your range, and then just hit him. This will work like a charm, as his lack of poise and range mean you won't need to worry about his attacks. Just make sure he isn't using his shield, because he is an NPC, and has a chance to read your input and parry you effortlessly if you're using a weapon that can be parried. Avoid this by using a weapon that can't be parried, such as a two-handed ultra greatsword or greathammer, or by using attacks that can't be parried, such as certain weapon arts and the jumping attack. You could also just wait for him to put the shield up and two-hand his katana.
- Should Halflight manage to hit you, you'll notice that he has much more attack power than a katana user has any right to have. Keep your cool, roll away from him (not towards him or to his side), and make sure he isn't using the weapon art shockwave to chase you down. Then heal in safety, as Halflight usually won't press his advantage. Once you've whittled his health down, phase two will begin, and a second Painting Guardian will spawn in the middle of the arena.
- This is the hard part. The main challenge here will be to pay attention to both of your adversaries at once. It's best to focus your efforts on the Guardian again, as damaging Halflight is a slow and steady process in which the Guardian will have plenty of time to cast healing miracles. Just as before, keep both targets in your line of sight at all times, and pay close attention to Halflight's ranged attacks. If the Guardian manages to get a heal off, it's no big deal. Prioritize your survival above all else, as once the Guardian is down, Halflight will be unable to heal.
- If you've made it this far, Halflight's backup is dead, and the fight is almost over. Don't get cocky, take it slow, don't get parried, and you'll be victorious. Good luck.
Strategy 2 (Magic/Pyromancy)
A strategy is to be provided here, be sure to add any equipment/build requirements and tips and tricks.
Halflight, Spear of the Church Lore Theories
Halflight was the youngest among a company of missionaries that sent to the Ringed City from a land of magic far far away. When all of his fellow missionaries have fled the city after facing the horrors that hidden within the depth of the streets. The young sorcerer decided to stay behind and eventually becoming the last recorded Spear of The Church to serve as the last line of defense for the slumber of princess Fillianore.
Halflight, Spear of the Church Trivia
- Halflight is one of few bosses in the series that is capable of parrying and riposting player.
- This is one of the fights in the Dark Souls series, the other being the Old Monk boss fight in Demon's Souls, where a regular player is intended to serve as the boss.
- The Spear of The Church boss fight, and therefore, Halflight, Spear of the Church, is the only boss fight in Dark Souls III that can be reset without beginning the next NG cycle.
- Halflight is the offline Boss but can appear online if either the Spear of the Church isn't summoned on time or leave the fight.
- Players summoned as Boss can't use normal Estus, but can use healing miracles, abilities, and equipment as well as ashen estus.
- This boss resembles the "Old Monk" fight from Demon's Souls, consisting of a player being summoned in with altered stats to serve as the boss, with homing soul masses periodically being summoned around them.
- As in the case of the Ancient Wyvern boss fight, there is no corresponding bonfire. Instead, shortly after leaving the boss fight arena, near the double staircase, there is a bonfire "Fillanore's Church".
Anonymouswhy do I have to choose to fight against players while lagging, or an npc spamming his weapon art?
Why didn't they just give adjudicator argo a huge slow hammer or mace and some quicker magic attacks, made the arena bigger, and made us fight a proper boss instead?
I like hard bosses, but I don't like bosses that are hard just because I cannot close distances until they do.
It is also frustrating when you don't notice literally any improvement after hours of trying.
Any tips for a dagger user would be appreciated (I can also respec if there aren't any but would prefer not to).
except to get good, I am not going to spend any more time than necessary on this fight.
- Anonymous
I'd rather fight every Elden Ring npc at once than this joke
- Anonymous
I am a Solaire Golden Boy and put down a golden sign. A few seconds later I was summoned as The Spear somehow. Haven't defeated Midir yet.
- Anonymous
the worst boss ever made in gaming history, honestly this whole dlc is only getting carried by gael everything else about it is solid 3/10
- Anonymous
This dude literally spams random bullship just to see what connects.
His unlimited FP plus unlimited stamina make this battle unfun, its basically fighting against a god damn twink from DS1.
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When you cast vow of silence a second too late and it doesn't cancel their heal spell
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i got summoned by argo repeatedly while leaving the white soap stone sign on the second bonfire in the ringed city while in the sunlight covenant(in short, the yellow mark), i will try to gather proof.
Notable for having the highest ratio of 'underwhelming boss fight' to 'incredible boss music'
Ah yes, the absolute worthless and boring boss of all Dark Souls, the me
- Anonymous
Just stand behind the far back pillar on the left with the storyteller staff, wait for Argo to get his painstaking speech out of the way and when Halflight spawns in use the Poison Spores through the pillar. With less than 2 casts of the poison it'll kill Halflight and all they'll do about it is walk in circles on the other side of the pillar.
Enjoy :)
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How do you follow up an awesome fight like Midir to this lazy bullshit. I genuinely can't ****ing stand Fromsoft sometimes. Every one of their games has high highs and ****ing rock bottom lows. I could literally **** out a better boss than this.
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I will never understand why they've decided to made a covenant that is only accessible by defeating a fairly strong boss and then deciding to make anyone attempting to do any kinds of online activity whatsoever from within Ringed City have a chance to be the boss of the area.
Don't get me wrong, I love this covenant way too much, but what was even the point of going through the effort of getting the covenant if you can access it without it in the first place?
Were they afraid of a blades of the darkmoon scenario where the player wouldn't be able to be summoned at all? Was it supposed to be a one time jig to feature the covenant as a kind of sneak peek?
Couldn't they just make it like DS2 and red summon sign near the boss room to be summoned there?
I feel it's kind of lame that not only people who doesn't wants to get involved in it gets pulled into the fight, but those who do get pulled into the fight ends up letting the host do quick work of them, which basically makes the experience terrible. Like, no wonder why people hates this boss.
- Anonymous
How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man.
I'm a warrior of sunlight, not a spear of the church.
Now enjoy seeing your trespassers go by as I guide them towards your procrastinating princess.
- Anonymous
At my 3rd attempt idk what happened, I use a heavy great club +10 (which I've used for the whole playthrough) and I just made 5~10 dmg to the player, I don't know if it was lag or what but he wasn't even using a shield! Then at some point I made a 3 attack combo making around 1500dmg, insta killing him (which is the normal dmg output of the weapon).
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What makes Midir difficult is his health pool.
“Patience is the key to victory; be patient, and you will succeed.”
– Jedi Master Yoda
Why the hell are some players being noob when being the boss?!
YOU LITERALLY KILLED MIDIR HOW CAN YOU BE SO NOOB?
- Anonymous
PvP for me is a lag fest which means that the first 4 attempts meant that I would get teleport backstabbed. The lag kind of killed it for me but halflight was fine i guess so not the worst boss in the game.
- Anonymous
You can easily kill the Ringed Knight by luring him back to the elevator, if you ride up it as he tries to attack you, he will fall down the hole.
Halflight: Kill Argo, use a heal miracle (I used Great Heal) for yourself and Patches if required. Kill Guardian as soon as possible (should be able to kill before Halflight appears if Patches is keen). Concentrate mainly on healing Patches as he fights Halflight. As soon as the next Guardian appears, concentrate on killing them, if you apply enough pressure they will not be able to heal Halflight. Return to healing Patches and let him kill Halflight, or join in an help him. I found the story teller staff weapon art, dorhys gnawing and chaos bed vestiges to be be next to useless, partially because Halflight is very keen on punishing (close range) casting, he is also supposedly resistant to poison/toxic and bleed, so there is that...
- Anonymous
man if you didn't wanna get summoned you could at least let me kill you so I don't have to do this obnoxious ass fight
- Anonymous
Put your foolish ambitions to rest
- me, after winning as a boss
so when online does the game make you oppnet roll automaticlly
- Anonymous
Wait, that was a player? I wound up fighting some time accelerated guy with crow quills (literally ran faster than me) while the guardian went hypermode with knife spam
Got a tie victory, only to get a toxic invader who camped the ring knight and left as soon as a darkmoon blade showed up
- Anonymous
I play the game as a Warrior of Sunlight. I have been yoinked by this church more than I'd like. I just wanna cooperate.
That's not to say I don't try when the church summons me. I don't wanna ruin other people's experiences. Luckily for them, I am abysmal at pvp, so winning on my part isn't common in the slightest
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Wanted to try some co-op on this fight so I put my golden sign and got summoned.
Tried to buff the other player but he started attacking me... cuz I'm the boss!
11/10 - Most confusing moment ever.
- Anonymous
every single invader boss is the worst **** in every ****ing game
ds2 had THREE AT ONCE, now you fight actual players with painting guardian gankers, elden ring has sir giddy off-offs the insufferable know-it-all
love these games but i cannot fathom why they insist on this ****, IT DOES NOT WORK. STOP TRYING.
- Anonymous
unpopular opinion:
PvP isn't for everybody, some just want to get on with their game and this bossfight is poorly designed and just in the way, but ego makes it hard to admit that playing this one offline is perfectly acceptable, because then it doesn't fall in one of the two comfort categories of either "if you're good you win" or "if you're trash you quit"
there are fight clubs, if you want PvP you'll go there willingly, not because of a failed attempt at merging PvP with a otherwise singleplayer story element
we can do with less **** swinging here
anonymity is just a veil, not a medal
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Super easy to kill with magic. Poison them with the Storytellers Staff and then just walk away. He'll summon the second guardian after ~1200 damage, so get in position to backstab them and kill them before they use any healing miracles. Throw some ranged spells and use the pillars for cover from his bow and it takes less than a minute. The staff Weapon Art will leave around 1000 hp or so on NG, so either poison again or hit him during the fight to cover for it
- Anonymous
This was honestly a letdown, after all the judicators, ringed knights and whatnot I was expecting something challenging but instead got a player who didn't even fight. The only thing I'm happy about is the titanite slab
- Anonymous
I could for sure see how this isnt most peoples favorite boss but worst boss in the game? It seems more like a mini boss than the rest of the dlc bosses, with a lightning catherdal ugs +9 it doesnt take that manyhits and the adds go down in a good combo, just use the pillars to avoid damage until halflight comes to the edge of the pillar, stagger him with a combo getting 2-3 r1s in the roll back behind the pillar for safety and repeat until done, gets slightly tricky once the second add gets summoned but with patience and those pillars i dont see how anyone who made it to this point of the game would see this boss as a huge challenge with a leveled char and weapon
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Does its lightning resitwnce change in the second half of the fight? It says on here weak to lightning and lightning spears worked well until half way through the fight when they pretty much stopped doing any visible damage, finished the fight with my sword but was wondering about this still
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worst battle ever.. i tought i get a epic fight but nah.. first try and since then never died to him. the guy bevore the church is way harder
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this is the one boss fight that's really making me question my life choices on my low dmg run. can't kill the first guardian before halflight spawns, can't kill the second one before it heals him. seems like the heal affects him no matter how far apart they are, not just within the radius of the attack. i've seen people parry him to death while staying on a narrow area in a corner of the room to avoid aggroing the guardians. do i really wanna dedicate myself to learning to do all that?? he's impossible to trade with, his attacks have absurd stagger and damage. you can only parry him reliably by baiting out his 1 handed attacks, and you can only really reliably parry half of them. typically it's the 2nd hit in a string that you want to parry, so you have to walk out of range of his first attack and walk back up to him to parry before the second one. then you have the spear affinities going off nonstop. it's truly a nightmare. with a weapon with decent AR it's one of the easier boss fights, with low level weapons it might be the hardest. i'd rather beat midir again than this dude.
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I am the only person in existence to actually like this boss.
- Anonymous
If you just want to get through it, play offline, use farron greatsword, spam L1 to close gap and end up along side/behind, spam r1, win. Kill the adds as they spawn
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The fight may be some ****, but at least the music is pretty good.
- Anonymous
The Graverobber, Varg, and Cerah is a better designed bossfight compared to this
- Anonymous
I put my summon sign in the Ringed Inner Wall, got summoned, and for some reason it led me into an invasion as Halflight. No Mound-maker covenant equipped or anything.
- Anonymous
Am I really stupid for not being able to even get into the church?
- Anonymous
Online fight sucks and everyone will meme on you. Offline halflight is annoying af. Worst design ever.
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You'd think people who supposedly "don't like pvp" would go offline since summoning people makes your local world a top priority target for invasions, and this boss is also affected by such rule. But unlike normal invasions, the boss imvader is a "boss", and besides absorption, ar, etc boosted for each summoned phantom, it has a great zoning tool that deals tons of damage.
Really, it's understandable that halflight can't hold a candle to the old monk. But to continue summoning for this boss while being aware of how detrimental it can be for bosses in general AND of how much the chance of being invaded increases? That's only on you.
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I run into a bunch of cheaters. Its awesome. got to try offline I guess. Ty for bringing the servers back for the hackers!
- Anonymous
This boss just straight up broke for me. He stood completely still, I backstabbed him. Then for a second he wouldn’t take any damage. Then out of nowhere he just died. Lol
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I have sunlight covenant, i put my summon down before the boss for jolly cooperation, get summoned as the boss.
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*sigh* hosts of ganks and their superiority complex will never learn...
- Anonymous
Hands down the worst boss fight in the game. Very lazy design, not memorable in any way shape or form. Just a filler nonsense.
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Doesn't seem like anyone else has commented thus far on how the cost to revive Argo and thus reboot the Halflight fight is soul-level scaled. At level 160, it's 80000 souls for example, so I presume a rate of roughly 500 souls per soul level cost revive. But, of course, given the boss can easily be farmed for over 200000 souls a pop even on NG with maxed out farming gear, it's a moot point for quite a long while.
- Anonymous
shittiest fight ever, I had more fun fighting Grave warden and Grave defender, and that was still ass
- Anonymous
Cool fight, but just like Abyss Watchers and Friede, it is trivialized by the fact that the boss plays by the same rules as the player(no poise). I like a boss that plays fair, but it also shows how much worse the combat is in this game compared to the 1st one.
- Anonymous
In my opinion, this is the worst boss in the game by a long shot. There is no fun to be had in this fight.
Of course this DLC was too good to be true until you reach this trash fight.
It's an insult to have this "boss" right before one of the best bosses in all Fromsoft games. Doesn't matter if you fight the PVP one or the NPC it is one of the worst boss designs of all From.
- Anonymous
So here i was goofing around in random pvp right? Dying to ganks getting 1 shot by spells the whole business. Anyways i get summoned as a invader for halflight and i kinda dont know what to do since this has never happened. I feel bad for making some poor dude need to fight a boss and a player at the same time but i also needed to lvl up my covenant. I killed him but I tried to be as fair as possible. I feel like a bad human right now tbh. It felt wrong to do.
- Anonymous
Can't wait to put down my summon sign, only to kill the people I wanted to get summoned by
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Could you guys update this page with a pyromancy strategy, still haven't got one yet. Could you also put up the Absorption stats of the Guardian, that would be useful.
- Anonymous
And here I'm told to git gud when the spear of the church runs from me the entire fight, let's the npc peck at me, and only attacks when I go for the npc and it's he and the npc against me.
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Every time I see a spear load in with "Amish" in their name I use the rce exploit to delete their save then crash them to Ng+
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I guess my original post got deleted cuz I had a YouTube link in it but basically this boss was the second hardest for me. I know a lot depends on the players you get or if you just do the NPC but I kept getting the most 'try hard' *******s summoned who probably only ever play PVP and no other game ever. It got to the point that I almost just disconnected the ethernet to fight the NPC, but then I came up with the idea to Soul Stream the fu**er as he came in and it pushed him across the room on his ass with 1/3 HP left, as he got up I finished him off with a Crystal Soul Spear. He didn't get to do anything and I wish I could have tasted the rage he felt for being so hilariously cheesed. From only got this PVP boss thing down correctly once in my opinion and it was the Mirror Knight with Dark Souls II. At least there you had time to whittle the bosses HP down.
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Not sure why FextraLife keeps deleting my comment, but all I'm trying to say is spam Soul Stream as the player is coming in to have an instant win. Finish him off with Soul Spear as he gets up. That's it. It makes them rage but what else do you do for a lame attempt for a PVP boss?
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Do you receive anything for defeating a player when you’re the boss?
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I got summoned numerous times while placing signs between Ringed Inner Wall bonfire and the swamp. White signs, gold signs, PvP covenants, didn't seem to matter. Midir wasn't dead and I hadn't yet met the Spears covenant. It seems to simply summon someone who is available.
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I actually was just summoned as this boss even though I have not yet beaten Midir. I was using a white sign soapstone with Warriors of Sunlight equipped
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Once, a player got summoned as the boss. I was doing a Artorias build/ cosplay so I had his armor on and a +5 wolf knight Greatsword. (And spirit tree crest shield for parrying)
So, I finished off the servant and started walking towards the guy. He tried to hit me so I parried. Instead of riposting I did the signature Abysswalker triple flip smash. He had a little bit of health left so he ran off towards the wall and did the “Have mercy!” Gesture. I looked at him then did the flip once more, ending his life… i almost felt bad, lol.
- Anonymous
Use a whip. Hits her every time from a ridiculous distance.
- Anonymous
I know I'm demanding a lot of the people here but would it kill y'all to be a little more polite in these comments
- Anonymous
Assuming you're playing online, this fight can either be super easy or borderline impossible depending on the opponent and/or your build.
- Anonymous
If you get summoned, dont be a d*ck, let the player heal, charge your attacks so you are more predictable, dont 2v1 him all the time.
Act like a Dark Souls boss, not like a PvP sweatlord
- Anonymous
It would be cool if they forced an armor on you, getting summoned while wearing a whacky set isnt very fashon-souls
- Anonymous
I got summoned as a spear while placing a golden summon sign? Has anyone else experience this?
- Anonymous
I equip to covenant but i never get summoned, why? How many of you are not on sl215 :(
- Anonymous
I want to know who's idea this fight was, why would you put a mandatory PVP fight in the game with the worst netcode of all time.
Why the hell should I have to fight some sweatlord with a meta build to progress through the game? I got the same guy 4 times in a row that probably sits here and does this all day.
- Anonymous
*snorts eight lines of crack and decides it's a good idea to do halflight invasions with a 1v1 build*
Halflight isn't very difficult, but the fight is just kind of annoying. If you summoned Patches, he'll tank the boss for the whole fight with no real problems. This is useful because it frees you up to kill the Painted Guardian healers that show up and irritate the crap out of you with their antics. I did this as a sorc, and found that standing at a sort of "medium" distance from the boss put me out of range of all his ranged abilities, making for an easy win once the adds were dealt with.
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Just yesterday I was thinking about how every other ds3 boss involves you fighting multiple enemies at once, I guess they all culminate into just a literal gank
- Anonymous
Fast sword strike combo, dark wave attack, uses lightning, reminds me of Genichiro from Sekiro.
- Anonymous
I was a blade of the dark moon. summon sign in midir's boss area. Invaded as spear of the church. Was very confused. I would like to find out what the actual parameters are for being summoned in as halflight. hopefully this information helps someone figger it out.
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My freind was summoned as a spear of the church!!! like a boss!
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Ymfah on Youtube made a Millwood greatbow cheese strategy for this boss by the way, on his video called "How to make a "Bow" Only Build in Dark Souls 3". It involves triggering the fight without ever entering the arena.
Also, as PSA, I don't fight back when I get summoned as the boss so if you ever see a player named "KetchupPreCxm" but with a "u" instead of an "x" on pc you can relax, cuz I even turn my back towards you for backstabs.
- Anonymous
" In some instances, this boss fight can summon players that are actively attempting to invade another's world"
This is false, well, not entirely, but I got summoned to fight in here while I had my coop sign written. So it's not just invasions, white sign soapstone also enable this.
- Anonymous
Well... This is a poorly designed boss, but the devs are't really the ones to blame for it. You just had it coming.
Host of embers defended everything wrong with pvp in the early days of this game (ganking, mostly.), and the devs aknowledged what kind of toxicity they have let in their community by the time they finished ashes of ariandel. So when making this dlc, they picked up the long list of advantages hosts have and threw it back at them. Ganking doesn't do sht to halflight, r1 spam doesn't work, no blues for backup, halflight having it's own phantoms, etc. And they added it right before the final boss, as if trying to tell you "this sht is over".
GG fromsoft, try to put a proper pvp system (and be more original) next time.
- Anonymous
Why does he use a dark katana if he's part of the church, an organization that hates the dark?
- Anonymous
Honestly man all you *******s talkin bout how this is such an amazing boss need to stop circle jerking and realize that some people are just bad at PvP. Trust me I am decent at PvE (1300 hours across dark souls 1, 2, and 3) but can’t PvP for the life of me, mainly because I hate meta weapons and like being interesting. This is honestly such a demoralizing boss to me and makes me dread the dlc every time I enter because one of my favorite bosses lies behind it…
- Anonymous
You don’t need to be a spear of the church or be trying to invade someone to be summoned in this fight. My friend was a sunlight Bro with his sign outside of midir boss room and was summoned.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
A lone host: i let the painting guardian die and do the duel bow gesture.
A 4 men gank: attacking non-stop, healing inside the spear fragment zone and point down once dead.
That's my way of being halflight. You choose, host of embers.
Great concept, but this fight just sucks ass through a curly straw
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