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Just obtained my first Unaltered chest piece from the knight dual wielding the greatswords on my 80 ARC character. IMO it was easier than the other knight with the halberd...
But now I can just imagine how painful it will be for the other 6 builds I have to obtain this piece...

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For Ultimate Drip, get the three grind things
Banished Knight Unaltered
Nobles Estoc (0.5% chance at 100 discovery)
Nobles Slender Sword (0.5% chance at 100 discovery)

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Forget the drop rate, why does this game have multiple (Altered) sets that can't be altered at the grace? At least justify it by giving it a different name.

So many wasted opportunities with this mechanic.

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Guy with this armor set knights greatsword with piercing fang paired with a G9 clone buddy wearing scaled set with dual lance and bloodhound step standing next to a bonfire.
No need to use sleep pots buddy I'm already asleep just looking at you.

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I wish there was a altered version of this that removes the black cape and retains the red cloth, because the red matches the color of the hood on the Mask of Confidence perfectly, but the black cape doesn't, and it makes it look kind of awkward.

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I think my self torture in acquiring an early game iron great sword balanced my karma for this farm. 6th kill from roof top.

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By far the best chest piece in the game. I don't care if its weight/poise ratio and defenses might be lower than other chest pieces. It looks really good and fashionable compared to any other chest armor of its weight class. The fact only two enemies in the whole game have a miserable chance of dropping it makes it more special. Cloak is the part I love the most, it pairs really well with Black Hood, which is seemingly made from the same black thick fabric.

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A week ago I spent like three hours trying to get this and eventually gave up. Came back to it today and got it literally on the first try, whut...

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Got this armor third try with 218 discovery, let's go!

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Gotta love that from will add a cool armor to the game thats only obtainable from like 3 dudes and then make the drop rate like 1%. It wasn't fun in demon souls, it wasn't fun in dark souls, it wasn't fun in bloodborne, it wasn't fun in dark souls 3, it wasn't fun in sekiro and its most certainly not fun in elden ring. Stop it.

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Any helmet + This + Beast Champ gauntlets + Bull Goat legs = Peak fashion AND function.
With no helmet, poise is at 69 (tank powerstance attacks), and is at 84 with Bull-Goat helm. I run 75+ poise though (tank 2h r1) which can easily be achieved with something like Carian Knight or Raging Wolf helm.

That being said, I agree with anon below that the drop rate can go **** itself.
I spent 88 hours trying to get this, so let this be a lesson: Use the Beast Champion chestplate. It weighs the same, has the same poise, and has pretty much the same defenses.

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First off, **** this drop rate.
Second, this pairs nicely with the Blackflame Monk Hood, looks like it has the same texture.
Best of luck Tarnished

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Third try from halberd knight used castle sol rooftop site of grace and shot arrows thru the slat in wall. Had silver scarab equipped and 30 arcane. The silver pickled fowl foot expired seconds before the killing blow but there it was. Should have bought a lottery ticket instead because I’ll likely never have that kinda luck again.

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The finest cape in the Lands Between. Drape yourself in velvet like Sir George Costanza himself!

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I tried this at Arcane level 9, with silver pickled fowl foot for a Discovery of 159 - got it in 3 tries, thank you Michael Zaki!!!!

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The confessor's hood actually covers the pauldrons and results in a very nice combination with the cape of this chest piece. It has great fashion potential for sure. I have no idea why they made it so you have to go so out of your way to get it though.

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Haven't got it yet but after 2 hours yesterday and 3 hours today, i have currently in my chest 27 halberds, 8 gauntlets, 4 Helms and 11 greaves. Wtf is is unluck, btw, i have 241 discovery

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Why is no one talking about the horn

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Looks great on my Deathknight, and it’s better all around than the Altered version

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Does this tuck in the scarf of the helmet or leave hanging over the shoulder as with the altered version?
Trying to decide whether to farm one..

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base arcane and silver fowl foot, 2 hours later I got it. both up the ladder and shooting arrow from rooftop. ouch. but fashion souls is worth

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Second best, behind the Eccentric's armor, when it comes to fashion.

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Just did this grind yesterday and got incredibly lucky within 10 or so kills. There’s a wooden platform before the elevator from the Castle Sol Rooftop, I shot my arrows there. The key to consistently getting the knights to teleport is to ensure there’s enough space around you to allow them to phase in. They’ll even phase in on the bricks that form the wall if you are completely on one end. I use that spot to make them spawn because there’s a high chance they fall that small height to the ground where you want to fight them, as they’ll have a landing recovery animation to allow you to punish them for easier kills. Good luck Tarnished.

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Bless Adula’s Moonblade! <3

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Took me about 30 attempts (1-1.5 hours) to farm both of them with 10 base arcane + silver mask and Marika's Soreseal talisman.

Start on the Castle Sol Rooftop site of grace, drop down from the stairs, ignore the elevator, drop again from the wall and you're near the halberd knight. Use Silver Pickled fowl foot here, kill him. Run back towards the church with another site of grace ignoring the spawning altered banished knight (ignore him). Run through the church to the ladder, climb on top and run past the guy with the crossbow and you're near the second knight. You should have plenty of time to kill both of them with single use of Silver Pickled fowl foot. Whole run takes less than 3 minutes. Rinse and repeat. Good luck Tarnished

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The "I'm a runerarced bonfire duelist and I'm only allowed to wear this beacuse on youtube they said you need X amount of poise" set.

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holy jesus brothers i am blessed my first character it took like half an hour of farming, on my second character i got it first try

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i farmed for like 1 hour or so then i respecked and got 40 arcnane with silver tear mask got it first try one of his doggies almost got me right before i picked up the armor i had 21 vigor

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99% of people who use this just mule it. Godspeed to the people who actually farm it legit.

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- 3 1/2 hours
- 23 Silver Pickled fowl foots
- Silver scarab talisman
- Silver tear mask
- Marika’s soreseal
- Leveled up Arcane twice using the runes I got from farming the Halberd guy in Castle Sol just to boost discovery more

The drip is so worth the effort ngl

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Unpopular opinion maybe but grinding this kinda sucks imo

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2nd kill tf for that.

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You can aggro the halberd guy (into teleporting onto you) from right outside the Church of the Eclipse grace (literally from inside the church itself) by making some kind of very particular crossbow shot (I'm using mouse and keyboard) and being some kind of lucky. I'm still working out the particulars; I've managed to aggro him without even actually landing a shot on him (and I don't think I hit his dogs either, I just somehow made him mad by shooting near enough to him or something.) This could be the best way to farm this item without actually killing Niall, although there's no particular reason to not kill Niall...

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Fashionable, AND practical! The cape's got a nice trim at the bottom as a bonus

Such a shame it only took me a good 45 minutes poise breaking this dude jfc

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Wish I could take the cape off this one. The "altered" version loses the cape but also all the cool bits and pieces of the unaltered variant.

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Recommend shooting the castle sol rooftop one with an arrow aimed so it hits the lower body always teleports him for me, not like it matters because he still won’t drop the item, everything else but not the chest piece

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Drop rate %???

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Safe to say this is the worst farm in the game. About as rare as the fire monks flameblade but on a much more difficult enemy.

Out of the 2 guys that have this armor both can heal multiple times using incantations and both are a pretty decent way away from any site of grace.

Tried farming both of these guys and the halberd guy is by far the easier one as he doesnt literally teleport behind you but even he has his issues as depending on where you fight him and what move he does he has a tendancy of falling off the bridge into 2 other soldiers. not to mention he has 2 wolfs near him but luckily neither are too aggro and one doesnt even really make an attempt to hit you

Overall this armor set is really cool but i dont see why you cant just alter the altered verison into this one as the alteration system was literally made for things like this

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Just got the luckiest I've ever been in this game. First kill on the halberd guy, instantly dropped the armor.

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*23rd try on halberd guy* *loot drop particles for the first time* It's a Banished Knight Greaves.

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Plate armor with a red cape always looks good

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Ngl fellas I got it on my first try using the Silver Scarab Talisman
Never leveled arcane, currently playing as a Samurai
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Arcane is overrated

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Make a game of the farm agony. I had a lot of fun trying a bunch of weapons I don’t normally use but upgraded to +9 or +24 anyway. Remember your silver scarab talisman and silver tear mask. :) Took me 20 or so tries. Your experience may vary. I’ve had other farms in this game take hours. Make a game of it!

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Farming the halberd knight from the boss lair platform is definitely the best method for this. It's faster, and more controlled than running to the dual sword knight around the church.

As a side note, this grind can be absolutely abhorrent, even with higher arcane. They really should have just let you un-alter the version that drops from other banished knights.

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i dont understand. why give us an armor customization mechanic but not let us use it

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I hate to be the guy, but got it first try with 10 arcane

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the drip? immaculate.
the farm? Indescribable suffering

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I did absolutely nothing but fight the exact same banished knight for TWO AND A HALF HOURS. Finally maxed out arcane and got it in two tries.

Ugh.

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i hate to be that guy but arcane 20 and first try

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If you're farming from the rooftop grace and you shoot the knight and he doesn't immediately teleport just rest at the grace and try again. The AI gets caught in this edgy slow walk/backpedaling loop and the knight will never teleport.

Humble brag though I finally got this damn armor after about an hour and a half. Stupidest farm I've done yet. Even worse than noble's slender sword.

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I have killed this bastard literally DOZENS of times and not received a single drop of loot. Nothing. This is pain.

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I just finished farming for this. It actually hurt my head. What in the world. This was so terrible. Just make sure you shoot the axe banished knight from the elevator near the commander's grace. It makes it much quicker than anything else I believe.

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First try at 8 arcane. I love you RNGesus

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180 f#cking attemps with 21 arcane and still he didn't give me it XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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2nd Try, 7 arcane ^_^

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30 arcane, over 40 attempts, and he still won't give it up. I swear its like he is swatting my hand just as soon as he vanishes after I beat him. The guy who makes those Dark Souls parodies on Youtube could make a video about it. If it were not thanks to this site I would never have believed you could get his armor. I just want that equipment so bad. My last resort is using a larval spec change.

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Surprised they removed the original Lore they had in the disc Ver 1.000.000

"Knight's armour, scoured by salt winds and skirmishing. Chestpiece warn by stormvail Knights.

The twisted horn on the right shoulder, patterned after that of a dragon, signifies adherence to a forbidden form of worship; the consumption of dragon flesh"

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I've just now had this drop for me. But I'm not sure how many times I had to kill the knight nearest Niall's boss area before I got it. I had 'silver scarab' equipped and I used ten silver feet in total. The 'stone of gurranq' incantation and the 'waves of darkness' AoW on a zweihander made for a fast and relatively easy kill.
Stone of gurranq can interrupt and knock him out of his attacks including storm assault. It also staggers him just long enough to get close and use the AoW with all three waves slamming down hitting him. The optional follow up heavy attack did very good damage in its own right. If you have time to cast blackflame blade after hitting him with an arrow and before he can land any hits on you the waves will take on the DoT characteristics of blackflame for even more damage.

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That knight powerstancing his swords is a handful. I remember my first time in castle sol thinking I was clever hitting him with fire arrows from the rooftop opposite until it teleported behind me. I like this set but not enough to farm those knights at sol.

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i got this armor first try killing the red eyes duo sword banish knight in castle sol without leveling up arcane or using any type of item that increase discovery just simply meet him and kill him.

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Drip af

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Leading him to the elevator chamber glitches him out so if you position yourself somewhere in the corner with elevator rased, he'll dance in the doorframe and you can pelt him with arrows and magic, or particularly Night Maiden's Mist which does a decent amount of damage per tick at any level.

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Can confirm, strat described above still works as of 1.07 (shooting arrow from little platform on the left from boss entrance). My tip would be - before you shoot him, stand on the right-most part of that platform, because it's those 2 meters closer, but it seems his "teleports behind you" ability needs those 2m closer to pop every time. Also, if you're struggling with fighting him - Flame of Redmanes spam works wonders.

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Ten tries in I was getting bored, had 228 discovery and popped a fowl foot to test it. Got it first try after that.

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I randomly got it while clearing the castle, I am so happy. Normally I have to farm even 2% drops for hours.

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wish someone would drop one for me im on steam and all my friends are xbox :(

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Took me a few hours but I got it. Your level 29 Sun Bro in Stormveil Castle has never looked so good.

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Does the stated method for the southern knight still work? It seems to actually avoid the ledge it was described to have walked off of now.

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absolutely worth the 5 irl months it took for it to drop my drip is unparalleled

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Wear the Confessor hood with it, it looks surprisingly good.

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Farming for this set will not be in any way easy. The spectral banished knights at castle sol hit hard and they can quickly and easily kill even a high levelled player.

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I just farmed the Northern Knight, and got the Altered armor.

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Can you farm the one in Fringefolk?

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Wear this with the Veterans helm.

By far the best looking heavy set.

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There ist a banished Knight in the fringefolk hero grave that drops this, im pretty sure its the unaltered cersion instead of the normal one

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Oh my god I never even knew this existed. Time to farm.

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Looks good with the white mask.

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I got it after like 5 kills lol

Just very lucky I guess, had the silver scarab talisman, no foot active and only 19 points in arcane, 10 from wretch and 9 from silver tear mask.

But I've done my share of grinding, spent at least 3 hours on my first file grinding for the leyndell knight helm

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Just when you think you have all the armor this catches your eye, I wonder what else I have missed.

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So sad the cape is green, even though every cloth is red including the scarf. WHY FromSoft?! WHY?!!

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A tip for killing the knights, if you're struggling. Brass shield + barricade + curved sword talisman. Three counters and he stuns, and the critical kills him.

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Took me about an hour and a half and level'd 2 times almost.
3 Banished Knight Helms (Altered)
2 Banished Knights Halberds
2 Banished Knight Greaves
before the Banished Knight Armor dropped (8/18/2022)

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if you see someone wearing this in pvp, get ready for sweatfest 2022

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This has to be one of the dumbest ways to get an armor set in the game. It’s something that has both an altered and unaltered form, but can’t be changed by Boc. And has a very low drop rate from only two enemies in the entire game?? Not sure what the f*ck they were thinking with this one.

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The helm with the hood goes really well with the scaled set btw.

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If you're having trouble killing these guys, Agro them from a far and use the Blasphemous Blade WA as soon as they pull their sword, it will guarantee a hit after they teleport and it will stun them for you to have a 2nd hit.

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Why would they make this armor so obscure and hard to obtain, people don't even know that his armor exist.

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The things I do for drip

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All of these "unalterable" altered armors should've been changeable with Boc after you get the golden sewing kit. Why would you block some chest piece until the end of the game, and still make the player grind for it?

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So after almost 3 hours across 2 days with discovery at 192 + the waste of 9 silver fowl feet. I finally got it first try by switching to the further banished knight. Highly suggest just farming the other knight if the rampart one isn’t working for you.

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So the dual greatsword knight always teleports behind you, right? If you get on top of the nearby wall, throw a knife at him, and then turn around so your back is facing a drop, he'll teleport behind you and fall to his death.

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Use a great shield with shied bash and the dual sword knight turns into a complete joke. Use like the dragon claw shield or something works great.

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Spent about an hour at Rooftop before I get this armour, alongside with dozens of other body parts, body parts surely has the lowest drop rate.

I found Loretta’s Mastery to be very useful due to its extremely long range, you shoot the knight when standing on the wall outside the boss room and he will teleport to you so you don’t have to go all the way down to get the kill. Thanks god these knights know how teleportation works.

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"although the knight doesn't always teleport when shooting him from this spot."

Wearing something that draws aggro like Shabriri or the Duelist's set pieces that have that function help alleviate this problem.

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Those of you recommending the elevator shooting strategy: Here's a quicker and a lot more efficient way. Just go straight to the side of the rooftop (right besides the SoG), and shoot him through the wall. Succes rate really high if you jump right after you shot him. I did it with a large helm just to make sure - but the farming was super smooth.

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Even tho the drop rate is garbage, at least these enemies are ridiculously easy to kill

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Reading the comments and saw the suggestion to shoot through the gaps at the castle roof top grace. I'm not sure if anything has changed since then, but after beating the commander I can confirm the halberd wielder will not teleport to you. I tried various kill holes, weapon methods and the likes to no luck, and the knight will instead aggro onto you and approach slowly to where you're attacking from. Sometimes he will teleport but he seems to bug out and go no where, moving down the stairs towards the elevator and standing on the wall gave me the same results. I don't think he can even get up towards you because several times he's been directly below me and his teleport never brings him behind me despite the large amounts of room. All of this was done in the recent 1.05 patch on the XB using bows, crossbows, magic, etc etc.

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why can't we alter this? why is it on a healing, teleporting version of one of the hardest enemies in the game? why is it dropped by only one of them? this has been my most frustrating item to farm for yet

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Are the only guys who drop this the ones in Castle Sol? Like no banished knight anywhere else has these? Ugh I hate those guys.

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Took me an hour 40 minutes to get the drop at 264 discovery. Definitely get silver feet for this one.

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