It's not bs just slightly inaccurate. They can aim up just not to any huge extent

Only in SOTFS can they aim in an direction. In the original DaS2 they can only throw those dark orbs straight ahead.

You should invest your time in learning how to dodge, it's very useful.

very rare try gold serpent ring, symbol of avarice, wachdragon parma, and prisoners tatters to get higher item discovery.

However you can still snipe the two Banediggers in the poison pit from the connecting tunnel without worry in SotFS. In fact, it seems to be safer now. in the original DS2 they would occasionally clear the lip of the cliff and hit you. Have yet to see it once since upgrading, and i've killed a LOT of Banediggers.

You can join the Champions cov. to prevent this.

covenent of champions does make enemies respawn forever, but, going that rout means dealing with enemies that do a bit more damage and you can summon so be carfule out there m8!

Using bonfire ascetics also makes enemies stronger dip****.

I'm doing the same trying to 100% this game but the longer I play it the more I hate it

Honest question, how would you improve them in terms of combat? Faster walk speed? Faster melee attacks? Faster dark orbs? Those dark orbs do a LOT of damage and can one-shot some player who didn't level health much, so if these Banediggers shot fast dark orbs it might make people rage a bit. I'm not sure what could be done to "improve" them.

^ lol good job pretending the only thing you can do is make them faster. how about a more complex moveset? better ai? but nah let's keep pretending there was no way to make this bad enemy interesting