As a mage, the Ancient Dragon battle probably took me 15 minutes (it also took ALL my spells) but I beat him in my first try. Vendrick... one tiny mistake and I am dead. On Ancient Dragon battle I just casted the Flash Sweat pyromancy and the Rain of Fire attack just took a little bit of my health. On Vendrick I wore the Steel Protection Ring +1, had my armor upgraded to +10, but he still one shot me with a sweeping attack. The vertical attacks are SUPER easy to dodge. The god***** horizantal attacks are my biggest nightmare.

I ativate the fight before getting e souls and almost took him out right there but made the mistake of getting greedy lol then I reengaged him to see if his defense shot up(it did) so I went after the souls and even after getting all five and keeping them in my inventory I still only did 36 damage... What did I do wrong?

Believe me

I did it only 2 times and i said screw that so what you get a alt ending but aldia doesn't give souls or drop anything so its not worth the stress

I tried various weapon coating against him for fun and he suddenly get aggressive when I used dark pine resin, opening the fight with cursed orb and attacking faster than normal, confirmation please?

Two handing +5 Fire Ice Rapier with fire clutch ring, ring of blades, Leo ring, and the pyromancy flame weapon had me doing almost 700 damage a hit with being able to safely spam 3-5 hits at a time before needing to dodge. Beat him without taking any damage

In Scholar do you have to get more Giant souls if you die?

Vendrick hates darkness, so if you start atacking him with the hex Dark Weapon I will start the battle