Bosses do NOT respawn.

But if you wanna farm runes, look up the bird farm.

If you just wanna redo the bosses, then you can do that after you have completed the game you can do NG+ that lets you keep your gear and levels and fight each boss again.

Normal enemies respawn, Bosses do not. Also Patches is an NPC, did you kill him?

My personal favorite was the fight against Lienvir, Herald of Vigilance. I enjoyed the light stealth and surprise attack mechanics with the tall grass portion of the second phase.

Royal Swordsman is so easy, I don't understand how people die to him.

me pointing to the weakest but most fun boss „Lonesome Ratatoskr“

I think he‘s neat

Is the third panel a mfucking Yakuza 7 reference?

This sub is slowly going mad

This is the guide i've been using when i need to lookup where rare materials come from

I think it's 42 and not 41. Mainly because you can confuse the tree sentinel boss as a duo, however they are technically 2 separate bosses as when you kill one it says "enemy felled" and you can rest or travel away and it won't respawn if you haven't killed the other one. This is not like the tree sentinel duo boss outside the capital where if you kill one it doesn't say "enemy felled" and the one you kill will respawn if you haven't killed the other one yet.

Holy shit im kinda proud of myself now. Went in totally blind and found every boss

Why does dancing lion have a X2?

Okay this is great, but Needle Leda and Allies isn't a boss. There is no boss health bar at the bottom of the screen, and so it's technically just an invasion event.

Wasn’t there a monkey on a beach? Can’t remember the name

Jesus Christ, I'm not reading that. If anyone needs me I'll be spending 20 minutes trying to take down BBH in the basement at lvl 7

Edit: when I first saw this post there was no table, it was just a wall of text with barely any spacing - I guess it hadn't loaded in the table or something. Much more readable now!

You forgot to create hate meter column, for boss who can and will waste your time for 10 millions years by either running, flying away from you or doing moves you can do nothing about

You should also group them by time they take because wolf and dragon being so high is crazy

Cool but maybe this could be structured better?

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Drop the night bosses, rune efficiency doesn't really matter for enemies that you have no choice in fighting.

Otherwise, group by location: field boss, castle top, castle basement, etc

Could be helpful if easier to quickly parse!

The Rotten, since a bonfire is right beside the boss and you can easily use bonfire ascetics to farm. It's also the one of the only bosses that are accessible without fighting other bosses on new game plus.

First, u/BIobertson asks a reasonable question. DS2 is an unusual game in the sense that a few levels make very little difference. DS2 is never like (for instance) the early part of Elden Ring (which can definitely be overpowered with stats)

That said, if you want a farming spot that offers a decent rate of return:

a) Purchase Soul Appease

b) Infuse the Priest's Chime with Lightning and upgrade it to +6

c) Respec do that you can cast Soul Appease

d) Join the Company of Champions (don't forget to quit when you're done. This is literal hard mode)

d) Use a bunch of ascetics in Straid's Cell.

The idea is simple. Walk to the middle of the room (Soul Appease projects a circle that does tremendous damage to hollow and nothing to others, so it won't affect Straid.

You can easily get 2 million souls an hour (once you get the positioning down you can clear the room several times a minute) on NG+7

I suggest this because while the Rotten gives better return per ascetic, if you're struggling with Giant Lord, Rotten on higher NG settings won't be a lock. And you're limited by the number of ascetics you have. Straid's Cell doesn't require an ascetic for every run.

Totally safe as you won't aggro the exploders or hurt Straid. Stand up, walk a few steps, blast, rest. repeat.

Side bonus: A decent collection of Alluring Skulls.

Farming the rotten with ascetics

Why do you want to farm souls?

1. Watch a video how to beat him with spells. This pretty much trivializes the fight as you only need to slowly walk 1 direction or the other.

2. You can try to beat rotten as he is the second best farm. However he's also probably a harder challenge high ng+ cycle and doesn't provide free bonfire Ascetics.

3. You can farm the blue sword mage guys [drops the sword catalyst] right before the fight with Vendrick.

   A. Kill the 3 hollow that will keep ringing the bell as well as the syan knights and dragonrider

   B. Kill the mage guys. Ring bell. Repeat infinitely with no reason to rest at a bonfire or burn ascetics. You get decent souls and useful drops.

This number doesn't include field and dungeon bosses i am sure of it. He also said the map will be much more packed with stuff and bigger than limgrave. Limgrave alone has way more bosses than 10. So it wouldn't really make sense if the DLC only has 10 bosses. It probably has 10 main bosses and a bunch of other bosses.

10 major boss and we dont know the number of mini boss.

The most important thing of all: Miyazaki said at the Game Awards after winning "And we have even better things to come". Why doesn't anybody bring that up. He has all the statistics behind him. And a humble man doesnt say that without being sure. I am sure the bosses will bring quality.

well on the trailer we see minimum 4 new large bosses, also maybe some hidden final boss (from never show the final boss on his trailers so maybe Messmer isn't the final boss of the dlc, malenia was the main boss of promotions and trailers and on the final game she was a optional boss, very important to lore but not the final boss of the game) also we see like 2 or maybe 3 small bosses (the spikes hypo and the skeleton on a horse). Maybe those are the ones that are used for small dungeons, caves and mines (if there are on the dlc) and the legacy dungeons have large bosses on it. Idk only a theory.

So I want to throw something in. What IF the Queen is the final boss. Making her appearance maybe in the same way as Sword Saint in Sekiro. Just a thought.

Ancestor Spirit is a really cool boss if you haven't thought it already, will be fairly easy since you've already beat the game

What’s next for main bosses?

What kind of question is this? Kill them all of course.

Placidusax/Fortissax?

I use the interactive maps online and filter for bosses to find them which works well if you can remember who you have/haven't beat.

I was at the Snowfields and looked and realized I missed some back in Limgrave. Went back and had a good chuckle

If I remember right, it's 10 unique bosses but not all of them are mandatory to finish the DLC but also there are some mini bosses.

There are ten remembrance bosses. For comparison there are 15 remembrance bosses in the base game.

There will also be numerous others, just like the base game. It’s not currently confirmed how many.

I think I remember Miyazaki said in an interview that there would be 10 new remembrance bosses, and one or two optional bosses as difficult as Melania.

Also, I think Bandai Namco also told people at the preview event that there would be 10 remembrance bosses as well.

9 Ulcerated Tree Spirits and Messmer.

Main bosses. People who played the first section of the DLC said they vs’d 6-7 bosses. So unless the entire DLC is like 5 hours long, that number is for main bosses.