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I fought the halberd banished knight in castle sol and he tried to cast a heal spell. I killed him before he healed so Idk how much it heals.

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The drop rate for the unaltered chest piece is straight up wrong. I have an inventory full of legs, helmets, and gauntlets with just over 600000 runes but not one single chest piece. At a 3% drop rate that’s statistically improbable. If my binomials aren’t too rusty that’s less than a 0.02% chance of happening if it’s truly 3% and yet here I am still without a f****** chest piece. This is my favorite armor piece in the game and yet every single playthrough winds up requiring between two and five hours to get it with me loosing track this time as I watched so many Münecat videos on YouTube I think I’ve actually damaged my brain with me not even listening to the videos or really playing the game by the end just going through it. It was still light out when I started and I’m literally going to bed without the chest piece. I’m telling myself to go touch grass that’s how much time I’ve just wasted. Fix the drop rate or while I have no power over anyone in charge and will still love the game regardless I will hold a deep and personal hatred that after festering will make me doubt any future releases under an “I don’t have time for that crap” attitude and with too many people in the same boat as me y’all will be your own downfall.

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Kinda wish we could have had their Greatswords powerstance moveset, with the fancy spins and all.

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teleporting dual halberd infinite stamina banished knight when

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Thes guys make Bed of Chaos look fun

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the halberd one in stomveil near the rampart tower will drop everything buy the armor lol

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the halberd one in stomveil near the rampart tower will drop everything buy the armor lol

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As shown on a video on yt the two toughest ones in castle sol can beat the godskin duo, crazy.

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Like the lothric knights of DS3, I initially hated them but now really enjoy them. Even the dual wielding ones I found to be fine after learning the tells for their combos.

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My gripe about enemies like these is that they look so cool not only when they attack but when they're idle and walking. Meanwhile the player character only does the lame idle and walk cycle. If only we could attack like they do.

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Pop a Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot if you have one.

Pop it like a pill? Pop it like champagne? Naw.. You SNAP those things like slim jims.

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These knights in Farum Azula are legit worse than any boss

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The dual wielding red eye knight is stuff of nightmare.

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stagger my beloved

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The balls of Michael Zaki to put the most cracked regular knights in the first legacy dungeon

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They have majestic design and a varied and fun moveset to fight against. Their Spirit Ash form is one of the most powerful ones thanks to the constant aggressiveness.

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Banished because he was a jerk

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Unironically the Two Red Eyed Banished Knights at Castle Sol would give the Crucible Duo a Run for their money...

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Second only to the Crucible.

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The halberd guys in Farum Azula are crazy. Hyper armour storm stomp that true comboes into their melee attack...

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Dual whip L1s are surprisingly effective at stagger locking them, barring their stomps.

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the halberd lad is just a discount final fantasy dragoon

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if you're willing to skip him and come back later, dragonmaw absolutely shreds this guy, for faith builds

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So...when tf are y'all gonna come up off of that sweet shield skill so players can get it?

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How are these still not nerfed?!
In Farum Azula, both their damage and their HP needs to be at least reduced by half.

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Waves of Darkness is a good counter to these guys, heck this skill is capable up disrupting the insane lunge attacks of the infamous dual-greatsword pricks. I learned that in the Commander Nial fight where it saved my ass from that attack.

Also there's a much better way to farm for the unaltered Banished Knight chestpiece, instead of dealing with the dual-greatsword guy, the halberd guy can be cheesed quite easily with a bow, Magic Glintblade and your most powerful staff:
1. Start from the boss arena, Nial needs to be beaten for this
2. Aggro the Halberd knight with your bow
3. If it teleports to you run into the boss arena
a. If he decides to not teleport to you he'll either be difficult and not teleport to your or take a bit more to teleport to you
4. Keep your distance and spam Magic Glintblade until he dies
5. Rest at Site of Grace and repeat until you get the desired drop

This setup allows you to easily get back to the Site of Grace without having to use the lift. Don't be afraid to respec to do this.

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Least powerful Quality enjoyer:

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pov you're a ghost dude just chilling and get killed by the same idiot 100 times trying to steal your clothes

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I farmed the one near the dragon communion for the unaltered helm (the cloaked one) but never got it. Have like 5 greatswords, 6 shields, 3 chest pieces and many greaves and gauntlets but not a single helmet. Kinda lost my faith...Anyone can assure me that he drops the helmet so I can sink some more hours into it?

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0% chance the armor is the same drop rate as the rest of the set. I’m about 50 kills in and i have gotten multiple of the other pieces and exactly 0 of the unaltered chest

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Dang when I invade in farum azula there's always a host and his two summons getting whooped by these guys so hard! I don't know if its just me but are these guys genuinely that hard for most people? So much so that three guys struggle to take them down?!? Either my smooth brain is just so dumb that i prevail against them easily or Banished Knights just built different.

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I've just learned you can see your eyes through the visor of this burgonet.

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i thought i was the sh- after defeating elden beast, when on my second playthrough, no big deal, right, the one knight guarding the rusty key whooped my behind several times i thought i'm done, wanted to eat my controller

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I always switch to colossal blades with these guys, almost always stuns them to the side, letting you follow up with more.

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Having Trouble? Memorize moveset and counter. (like any)
Jump attacks will interrupt most weak attacks these guys do.
Backing away to bait them into running and the jump attacking truly works wonders against all of them.
When they jump towards you wait for them to enter your space rather than dodging immediately.
Practice will make perfect (I'm too lazy to write every move)

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Having trouble with these guys? Get the Bolt of Gransax and level it up, then surprise a knight with a charged Ancient Lightning Spear (Ash of War). It'll knock him down hard and take a huge chunk of health. If you time it right you can hit him again right when he gets back up. Or two quick lightning attacks usually works too. Master the timing and the knights will never even get near you, and even if they do a couple jabs will finish them.

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These guys are so cool man they are so strong and Oleg is #1 Chad spirit who does the stanky combo seriously so cool

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these mfs gapped my ass when i got to castle sol they killed me more than radagon and godfrey combine wtf

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Is there any known glitch that causes these guys to drop 15K runes instead of 3K? Had that happen twice in CFA

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Is there a known glitch that causes some in CFA to drop 15K runes instead of 3K? It happened to me twice yesterday and was very confused

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"elden ring is a true combo-less game" tell that to these mfs lol

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The red eyed one (Castle Sol) got me several times very easily (got hit and combo'd basically) but I was able to kill him pretty "easily" once I started dodging his attacks with quickstep, circled around to a backstab (as quickstep does). You'd think his nonstop combos would make this backstab hard to land but it wasn't, and you can get a free hit or two on him as he gets up, and then do another quickstep backstab when he attacks. Went weirdly smoothly.

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For those who, like me, are still having troubles with these dudes a whole year later: Adula's Moonblade seems to stunlock them even in Faraam Azula. At the very least on normal NG with 60 int and a +25 Academy Staff. Takes like 4 hits for me to kill one, 5 if they blocked a strike. Lower int builds may need more, but as long as you got the FP, they can't do anything.

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one of the worst, if not the worst, normal enemy in elden ring

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This is where I turned "all roads lead to stealth archer" mode

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Another commenter suggested ironjar aromatic against the dual-wielding one in castle Sol, and it worked well for me. It doesn't stop all of his attacks, but it was enough to stop me from being combo'd to death (40 vigor, 25 negation, a lot of chugging). Also, I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but I think I caught him using a healing spell or some sort of buff. He definitely kneel'd down and cast something. Anyway, beating him and getting a weaker version of a Talisman was the most disappointed I've been playing this game.

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For the dark room in Stormveil Castle : run out of the room immediately and to the right, and he gets trapped behind the door trying to follow you. You can then take his health down with thrust attacks.

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I cheese the **** outta every one of these pricks that I see and I don't feel bad at all about it.

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Why in the hell are they weak to pierce damage and not to strike damage? They're in full goddamn plate armor. Cmon muzezuki, this makes less than zero sense.

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One thing i wanna say to these guys after dying to them 70+ times on commander niall fight: FUCCCK

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slow, but "mostly easy" (if you got the stats and/or talismans that allow for it) way to deal with the fantoms in castle sol is pretty easy, powerstance colossal swords, stuns them on every hit, so, assuming your swords are buffed enough, should not be too much a hassle to deal with, long you take them one by one

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As frustrating as these guys are, they do still have a really cool design.

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use storm blade to completely destroy them at any range with any weapon that has a decent bit of strength scaling

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If you are struggling against the dual wielding guy then try ironjar Aromatic. Watch as their attacks bounce off of you, ruining their combos and doing greatly reduced damage.

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Fun Fact: They were banished because it was the only solution to people making fun of their duck feet.

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The simple fact that the ones in castle sol can TELEPORT is enough for the entire community to go on strike.

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How much endurance do those dual wielding ones have if they were a player!?

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Farmed the unaltered banished knight set finally. Took maybe about 30 min (99 arcane). From the commander niall fight grace I just walk to the stairs by the entrance. I aim my Great Bow at the Halbred banished knight guarded by wolves. ONce you hit him, there's a good chance he'll instant transmission over to you. Two flame of the redmanes and he's poise broken. Give him a stab. Go up to grace and repeat.

Took me about 70 tries (based on arrows used). I got mostly gauntlets, leggings, helmets, and halbreds. Only one unaltered chest piece. Looks great tho.

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Goofy ahh feet

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Why do I have to spend hours farming their equipment when the altered armor+helm, greatsword, halberd and shield are all in the Roundtable Hold as decorative props, they should have made it a lootable set there, or at least made it so you can buy the armor and weapons from the Twin Maiden Husks imo

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These guys just SUCK. One in castle Sol just oh so conveniently knocks me off the higher ledge AS HE DIED, lost 150K runes from that bull****.

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4% drop chance on the shield. Killed him 90 times. I have 5-6 of everything else and not a single shield ¬_¬

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Been farming this guy for almost an hour in the rampart tower and have been getting everything BUT the great sword which is what i want.

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Colossal Swords (or any Colossal Weapon for that matter) seem to be the best thing for trashing these guys, mainly because every hit can stagger them and they can't randomly poise through a 8ft hunk of steel cleaving into them like they can with most other weapons, so if you're having a really bad time with them, try something like a Zweihander.

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Ah yes i love getting stunlocked by a super fast wind aoe into an oneshot somersault move that I can't escape because I had the audacity to hit him more than once and because these guys have true comboes up the ass on top of the stupid almost instant wind aoe bullshit because **** you, these guys are just annoying if you are using anything smaller than great weapons.

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Using the Claymore, i eventually beat the red eyed knight in Castle Sol by charging an R2 attack to hit after it teleported and was able to land 2 more charged R2s(while poising through a hit on the 3rd R2) to get a stagger and then a critcal attack kill.

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Lothric knights call these dudes daddy.

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Ok so i'm lvl 125 and have been trying to kill the dual greatsword one if castle sol for 2 hours now. I have died dozens of times and lost 200k souls. This dude starts off by teleporting behind you and agroing, taking stealth out of the equasion, and then procedes to start a 10 hit combo with his dual greatswords at a speed closer to what dual daggers do that, to the best of my knowledge, you can only dodge about 30% of at best and melts my 2k heathbar and 30% absorption like butter. He then does a frostbite whirlwind that, you guessed it, is also undodgable. He can also teleport in an out of range to dodge attacks and apply ridiculous pressure, so the battle is always it its favor. This has got to be the hands down most op regular enemy in the game.

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I am a firm believer that enemies in souls games should not have true combos, and these bastards are prime examples as to why.

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I've noticed people say the banished knight weapons are bad which isn't true they are quality weapons meaning you can't just level dex, or str, you have to level them both equally. At 30 str/dex making them quality weapons make them do about 20-30 more damage.

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you can kill then easly with fire enchantment

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dont kill Edgar his weapon is bad and you dont need it

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As if these guys aren't intimidating enough, they gotta big-d**k everyone by wearing a shiny magnum cod-piece

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Another way to cheese the one guarding the FP talisman at Castle Sol:
Go up to the roof of the building next to him with the rats in it, then jump on the railing that's closest to him (of the rat building, don't jump down to where he is)
On the corner of the railing there's a square, stand on it so that facing him you're on the top left corner (forward left) of the square, almost to the point where you fall off.
Shoot him with something to get him to teleport and immediately make your character face away from him.
If you do this right he will try to teleport behind you and fall to his death
Sounds a bit complicated but it's quite easy once you figure out where to stand

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"Some higher tier banished knights are immune to status effects altogether." Tells people absolutely nothing, I suggest this line be changed to "ghost variants are immune to status effects"

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Unless you're using something like a colossal sword that can easily stunlock them, you have to be patient with these dudes and wait for openings, they punish greed/impatience very hard with their wind aoe attacks.

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Kinda satisfying to use storm stomp on these jerks and give them a taste of their own medicine, they aren't the worst enemy imo, but the instant aoe wind bs that always staggers you that they abuse is very annoying, tbf its proly meant to teach you to not be greedy, but it seems rather bs with how it instantly comes out with no warning.

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A tip to anyone having trouble farming them, the Storm Blade ash of war staggers them every hit, so long as they aren’t attacking. Just slap it on a sword, and throw wind at em

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Visions of the pursuer...

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Spent so long farming these dudes for their stuff that i proly know their moveset like the back of my hand at this point.

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Dual sword guy at castle sol makes Ringed Knights seem tame lol

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Drip

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If someone has trouble with the dual-sword one, try parrying any of his single-handed attack. Even for people not good at parrying in general, it could be wayyyyy easier than trying to dodge/guard those combos.

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Bewitching Branch. Nuff said.

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Not sure why most of them are so weak to lightning, but it works very well for me since i've been doing a lot of lightning-based faith builds recently. Also because i hate these f*cks

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Yep. Spamming tf outta Lion's Claw on my colossal GS on these mfers. Got no business having attacks that give them instant hyperarmor/aoe and guaranteed combos that stun-lock you to death.

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The part about them not having the wind abilities in Farum Azula is a god damn lie lol that's all they fckin' use there.

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Annoying as all hell when they spam their storm combos that give them instant hyper armor and stun lock you until you die. Running back and forth to the Godskin Duo fight was a nightmare in part becauce of those f.u.c.k.e.r.s

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Really love how they worked on enemy poise in ER. Collosal swords and weapons will stunlock them while smaller weapons had hard time staggering them. Reminds me how much i hated black knights from ds1 and ds3 they have bloated poise for no reason and don't get stagger even from fugs or Smough's hammer.

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The statement that the unaltered helmeted ones in CFA don't use Storm Assault is false. Can be easily fact checked by just spawning at the Dragon Temple Grace and walking into the halberd wielding knight. It's got a high chance of being his opener when you walk in.

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Their tracking is insane. You can do a side quickstep which circles all the way around them and their overhead attack will turn on a dime 180 degrees to still hit you.

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The god d*mn aoe is not only instant, it also staggers you AND inflicts frost build up.

High poise, high health, high damage, absolutely INSANE combos which can and WILL stun lock you. Seriously, the dual sword banished knight combos are far beyond ludicrous.

Oh, and they can ****ing teleport too.

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Flame of the Redmanes FTW!

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The only type of enemy that doesn’t give the slightest flying hoot about being attacked.

mUsT sPaM wInD aTtAcK, fuqq these ****s

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The droprate of 4% for the Banished Knight's Greatsword is not correct. After 200 runs of killing the Banished Knights I received (5 shields, 9 armor, 9 helmets, 8 gauntlets, 6 greaves and just 1 Greatsword...)
So the actually droprate for me was 0,5% for the Greatsword. Maybe I had bad luck but consider the other amount of items that droped, I should get 4-6 Swords at least after 200 runs.
I think the droprate is only 1% for the Banished Knight's Greatsword.

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Glintstone pebble AOW spam for easy farm

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Is the one in the starting area stonesword key dungeon like the ones in castle sol?

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the dual wielding ones are so corny the way they swing their swords it's like they watched too much naruto

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They were banished for spamming their cancerous whirlwind attack

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These guys are a huge difficulty spike when compared to the Lothric Knights from Dark Souls III.

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