Iron Dragonslayer | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

recycled boss (elden ring): bad lazy developers
recycled boss (dark souls): wow!!! he survived until the end of the earth! i love lore!!!!

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would be a really cool fight if i didn't have to get past the respawning judicator and the entire swamp everytime i wanted to fight him

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Elden ring moment

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Beat him 2nd try with Fire Longsword +10 and Havel Greatshield. My strategy was the same as the first boss. There are two circular mounds of rocks/crystals nearby, when he wakes up make him follow you here. Use one of the mounds to circle bait him the entire fight. Recommend to first kill the crab-mage guy and bugs nearby, if you don't they will eventually interrupt your fight and you don't have any time to kill them. BTW I found the first version of this boss waaaay more difficult.

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Beating it is a matter of pacience if you're melee. In case you're not strong, confident or familiar enough with its moves, I highly recommend that you play safe until it holds its halberd with both hands: that's when it'll leap for a heavy-yet-easy-to-dodge blow, giving you the best chance to land a couple hits. I did it with a +5 Friede's Scythe, but most frostbite weapons should work, provided the attack animation isn't too slow.

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It's terrifying how fast this guy is once he starts sprinting, even when I was running full speed across the swamp, he caught up with me in seconds and it was pretty much impossible to outrun him, A 15ft tall suit of living armor made entirely of really heavy durable metal, and wielding an enormous greataxe made for cleaving through the scales of dragons alongside a huge shield that might as well be him using an entire pickup truck as a shield, yet he sprints like a goddamn olympic athlete

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Just fought him for the first time. Took me two attempts, Friede’s Great Scythe +5 go brrrrrrr

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Honestly this bastard being in the middle of that stupid damn poison swamp waiting for me after I'd suffered through the huge mobs of locust dudes and that douchebag Judicator giant, before storming at me like a freight-train going full speed was NOT a pleasant surprise for me, took all my damn Estuses to beat this mf.

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Can’t be lured? I got him to chase me all the way back to the ladder, and filled his head with arrows. I guess the wiki means he can’t be lured with the item.

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For mega cheese (for ranged users) lead him all the way back to "Show your humanity" room - he can't fit through the door, so he'll just stay there, taken aback by your shamelessness while you pelt him with the spells from inside the room.

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this guy's much easier than you'd think. just stay close to him, stick to your right side, roll when needed, punish the openings and it's a piece of cake.

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farron greatsword is godly against this; it's special attack can actually dodge a bunch of the dragonslayer's basic attacks if timed correectly

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This guys chase distance puts the pursuer to shame

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Some wacky theories here. Dlc 3 is in the future. You travel down through part of lothric, which is on top of part of drangleic, which ultimately is on top of part of lordran. Ringed city has existed all this time but whe. The player sees it we are still in the "dteg heap" epoch. We blast further forward in time when we touch the egg. To the end of time, in fact. You can see the remains of the most powerful kingdoms poking up out of the sand. Everything that has come before, all the people and places and experiences, boil down to 2 haggard and damaged nobodies, exhaustedly slugging it out for the last shred of the dark soul. Miyazaki is a goddamn poet of the highest calibre

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So what are the theories on this armor being "left to rot for ages" when not that much time has passed from the main game to the DLC? Are there any other instances of convoluted time in The Ringed City?

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After i was chased by locust men and a judicator, i have finally stepped on some normal land, and i have seen in the far some lightning, you can tell how scared i was to see this guy aggro 10 kilometers away from me, run at me, uses all of his old attacks and i had 0 estus flasks cause of running away from locusts and a judicator

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He was dominating me for about an hour. I decided to be a wild man and go toe to toe with him and just lothric GS and stomp R2 him to death. Took about 5 estus, but came out on top.

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oh great another dragon armor set whoo hoo

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For sorcerers, I would recommend using Pestilential Mist, and just circling around it while he is trying to hit you. As long as you are staying within attack range, he will stay in the mist, and you can focus on dodging instead of trying to find openings to attack.

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How in bloody hell did he reach the ringed city all the way from lothric?

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I made him run at me. Everytime I got too far, I looked back at him. The very second he saw me looking at him, he started to run at me again. When he got too near, I run again away from him. I made him follow me until the back side of the roof of the half submerged building, then I tried to make him follow me down, on the rocks. My plan was to made him follow me to the bridge, where Midir was ready to barbecue us. Of course, I had my Dragon Crest Shield ready for the occasion... However, the Iron Dragonslayer jumped down from the roof, and for whatever reason, he stopped there, standing there looking at me like an idiot. I pincushioned him with arrows. Whenever I hit him at the head, it moved a little, but still didn't stop to just stay there just glaring at me.
That was really anticlimatic...

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I had no idea this intimidating badass was lingering in the swamp, and once you stumble on him he will not give up pursuing you until one of you is dead. Very fun fight where seemed to be constantly on the brink of death but eventually triumphed. This is why we play souls games

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Should be renamed "Cheap-shot Charlie"

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First time playing DS3 so I'm not good at the game by any means, but I found the best way to beat him legit was just circling to your right (his left/shield side) and just keep rolling that way during his attacks while continually circling right around him. I found I missed getting hit from almost all his attacks except the occasional shield ability which is much easier to tank and recover from. This tactic got me close enough so I could punish his small openings where he wasn't swinging. I found that he mostly does a set of 3 attacks, the last of which he stops for a moment after a powerful attack so you can get either 1 hit in with a slow weapon like a UGS, or 2-3 hits in with a faster lighter weapon like a SS or twinblades or something. I was taken by surprise the 1st time I came across him playing the game blind and only had 4 pots left and lost, but easily beat him my 2nd try only using 2 pots doing the above. Just keep rolling through his attacks, always circling his shield side trying to bait him into using all his attacks for your opening. Playing closer to him in this way makes it so you don't have to stay at such a long-range where he has immense reach and distance closing abilities. At range he WILL close the distance fast, but you can't close the distance on him fast enough for the small windows where you could get a hit in. There are probably way easier ways to cheese him or better strategies, like I said I'm a new player, but this way I found him pretty easy once I knew he was there. Also yellow bug pellets and green blossoms help. The bug pellet I took just before I was in aggro range then as he stands up and comes towards you, you have time to use your blossom to get the most out of it since they don't last long. Goodluck!

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Lead him to the suspicious bridge that I heard roars coming from. I rolled through the fire, he face-tanked it with lethal consequences. Dragonslayer my ass.

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way more enjoyable than the boss version, seriously **** those butterflies

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dont talk to me or my son ever again

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I noticed there isn’t any mention of this guy being worth a heck of lot of Souls, especially with Shield of Want, Silver Covetous Ring +3, Symbol of Avarice (SoA), and the Mendicant’s Staff equipped. Equipping any Shield with 65 Stability, or higher, and using Great Magic Shield (GMS) spell on it will let you take his punishment easily. Just whack him with the Irythil Straight sword until desired outcome is achieved., paying close attention to health depletion from SoA and also when GMS runs out.

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Feel like they upped the damage but toned down it's resistances. Makes sense, considering how the armor was "left ages to rust"

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dunno if its mentioned or already known, another cheese method i found (only tried first time, but it let me win even w/ no estus) is to lure him to the area where the locust priest is, and go up the rocky side towards the steps as if you are planning to fall back to the steps and to the bonfire. u can head-shot him all day from there as he just runs up a ways then backs off slowly... must be out of bounds for him? sorry if it doesn't make sense...

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Beat him with using a regular mace +10 on the second try.

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If he still alive in the bridge in lothric castle you will find the harald knights alive instead or he still there and in the bridge at the same time?

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There is an easy cheese method I use that can be found here: After I killed all the enemies in the area, I felt this might have been a tough fight with my SL 35 character and I did not want to risk having to re-clear the area if I died. Also you can bait him to the area where midir breathes fire and he will usually fall off the cliff, kinda like the sword master cheese right at the beginning of the game.

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This works well if you are fighting at a low sl like I was

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The fight is basically him using cheap attacks over and over because he doesn't want to be humiliated by you again like at the castle

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Well... not this guy again... Sh*t, here we go again...

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There are easy cheese methods for this guy if you google it. You can make him fall off a cliff, or my favorite, luring him over to where all the ring knights were and in the far right hand corner and if you get him to drop down you can circle back and turn him into a pin cushion with your arrows. With my sL 35 character this helped a lot, as I did not want to have to clear the area again, especially with that summoner guy respawning every time. I have seen videos of people baiting him over to the ringed knights and they fought each other, but I have never been able to get this result.

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Found this dude even harder than the boss armour. Keep throwing his two handed move set since the begining.

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*Gets PTSD from shield bashing* Ah*****, here we go again.

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just a quick note because it looks like no-one else has really said it, but if you have the Dragonslayer Greatshield it makes this fight *extremely* easy due to its high physical/lightning defense and good stability. A bit obvious I know but may help someone. thanks bye.

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This boss can suck a fat *****, i dies to him 10 *****ing times

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"My brilliant boss clearing strategie has never failed to defeat a foe! Now men, group up, AND HIT IT TILL IT DIES!"

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The hilarious thing about him is that once you've aggro'd him, his aggression is entirely based on linet of sight. If you turn away and start running, he won't chase you as long as you don't look at him. Alternatively, if you've aggro'd him and get long ways off, then turn and look at him, he'll remember you exist and resume chasing you. TLDR; if you wake him up, and then move your screen so he isnt on it, he forgets about you. Put your screen on him again a mile away, he'll sprint a mile to murder you.

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he's pretty slow so an easy way is to just wait for his shield attack and hit him, rinse and repeat.

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i realized that i can parry drangonslayer armour boss while he holding his weapon with 2 hand and im wondering can i do the same thing on this?does anyone know about that?

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Best way to beat him is to just hit him until he dies.

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Does he respawn?

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2 comments talk about cheesy luring strategies and yet the page bother to mention that he can't be. Could someone edit the Combat Information section? thanks.

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Stupidly easy if you use Vordt's Great Hammer. Three to four swings with my +5 VGH procced Frostbite and did a huge amount of damage on NG+. Compare that to my +10 Greatsword which felt like I was swinging at him with a tree branch.

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I just had him chase me around with the cat ring on and he fell off a cliff about 4 times and waaalaaa. LULZ

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The head piece looks like a stylized premordial serpents head.

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In what universe does a sheild bash become a the deadliest move on a boss carrying a 12 foot pole with a electrified blade?? Yet another example of fromsoft overkill

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Cheese strategy, in addition to the temple one below: you can kite him almost all the way back to the Ringed City Streets bonfire. His AI will glitch and stop around the rock outcropping, the one with the locust preacher kind of facing into the rock, with two submerged locust dudes nearby. He'll pace back and forth and usually keep his shield down, and won't react if you shoot him.

Discovered when I realized I had zero estus left and ran like a coward.

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okay. armor looks great. and then? you cannot use its axe moveset nor the shield bash. Newcomers will say "oh cool! I can be the boss!"....and then die alot thanks to the weight that either let them fat role or makes them put every stats point into vit instead of vig and end. The same people that come back later lamenting how unfair invasions or how impossible certain bosses are. At least use either the weapons or the armor. Not both together.

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"Headshot will instantaneously stun Iron Dragonslayer, but will not deal extra damage."

Wrong. Headshot give 50% plus extra damage. I've just glitch'n killed it with headshots. Gonna upload the video later.

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I thought this was about fairy tail gajeels power

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Why does this crappy wiki not tell where he is located

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You can cheese him by luring him to where the temple where all the Ring knights are, lead him all the way to the back of the roof portion of the building and jump from an opening located on the right near the cliff, make sure you you also jump FROM the cliff. He should follow and jump off the roof portion of the church but won't jump off the cliff itself, he'll get stuck there. Simply make your way back and range battle him. EZ GG.

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We couldn't send the hag's messages to the "tin can..."

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Need at least 56-57 vit to full cosplay the Iron Dragonslayer. Items:
Havel's +3, Rings of Favor +3, 2 additional rings, full Iron Dragonslayer set, Dragonslayer Greataxe, and Dragonslayer Greatshield.

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you guys are noob I defeated him just like I beat the dragonslayer armor

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One of the most melee friendly bosses in the entire series and you guys are trying to cheese him, lmao.

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Hidden Body, Slumbering DragonCrest Ring, and Pestilent Mercury. Deadly combo that works on almost all mini-bosses.
Cast hidden body and approach him, stop a few steps from him, just so he wont aggro, then cast pestilent mercury.
Back away and notice he approaches the mercury himself. Cast hidden body often so you wont be caught.
He'll be dead without you breaking a sweat.

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I lured him to The bridge before that dragon. Se Both died. I got The set in his spawn location.

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I killed this guy the easy way by using Hidden Body and sniping him with a +9 Arbalest. Yes, I know, I'm pathetic.

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Can be staggered, but NOT riposted

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Even if you don't kill him in the main game he's appear. Also, Abyss Watchers weapons deals more damage (I believe).

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I shat bricks when I saw him charging towards me in this DLC. Was not expecting this enemy encounter given he is a Boss in the base game but with Less HP.

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ng+8 gets invaded all out of sunnyD low on health pops a seed O YEAH GET SOME

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I got the full set without ever fighting the dragonslayer armor...how is that possible? Pls halp

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Not gonna lie, when I was going through this swamp area for the first time I was caught of guard by him over in the corner waiting for me. I thought the giant in the area was the only real threat, until he wakes up and tries to kill me, luckily I kill him got his armor. Took Fromsoft long enough to put this in the game.

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I wish it would respawn when you rest at the bonfire. Love fighting this guy.. and it kind of reminds me of encountering dragonriders as "regular" enemies in DS2

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NG+++ he hits harder/faster than the Demon Prince... I love it tbh

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Can be lured and the only tip I have is that there is a down building with a ramp that you can climb up and force him to wander the bottom. It will lock on and try to get in close but you can stand above and pick it off with arrows or ranged attacks. I don't know the exact distance but I know there is a hill in between with the turtle preachers.

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on ng+ he drops 128000 souls, and the set, no soul drop boosting items equiped

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