I did that in reverse. My first playthrough was taking forever, and eventually I switched to a greatshield and spear to beat it.
I worried that I made it too easy and didn’t truly learn the fight, so my second playthrough was naked with the hand-to-hand combat weapons. It was hard, but fun.
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First playthrough: black knife and blasphemous blade. Took hours. Had to use the summon and mimic tear.
Second playthrough: fingerprint shield, antspur rapier. Took literally 5 minutes.
Sometimes you gotta fight smarter.
Some of the best ER players I know eventually gave up and cheesed release patch Consort. It’s not a good kind of difficult.
Maybe it’s better after they adjusted the timing on his roll catching attack, I haven’t played it.
Yeah I finally gave up my foolish ambitions and ended up summoning someone with a big ass shield
I did that in reverse. My first playthrough was taking forever, and eventually I switched to a greatshield and spear to beat it.
I worried that I made it too easy and didn’t truly learn the fight, so my second playthrough was naked with the hand-to-hand combat weapons. It was hard, but fun.