The run to this boss is absolutely ridiculous

what type of damage do these things do, the magic missiles seem fine, but the pounces and claw swipes one shot me, even with over 900 physical defense and 1100 slash defense. Do they do infinite damage or is there some extra damage type in there like dark or magic added on to the physical strikes?

Worst death run in the series by a country mile, would have been a good boss as a stand alone (if the 1st dlc boss didn't exist as just a reskin). Horses shouldn't re spawn, weather effects are horrendous (cant imagine if you were visually impaired!). Will forever leave dark souls 2 with a bad taste in my mouth.

Hitboxes are ridiculously buggy, I'm getting hit by a swipe while being between their hind legs...

I f*cking hate this boss so much! This sh*t boss was so badly made and i wish i could mod this game so i can rid Zallen out of existence and fight only Lud, or maybe if the boss run wasn't so sh*t and if they could use their brains and put a f*cking bonfire close to the boss! But nooooo make life of ds players worse and miserable as possible, f*ck you developers!

The best strategy I've found is to enter the fog and let Avaa reskin x2 kill you to put you out of your misery.

You can run through the whole area without fight a single horse, if you just run in a straight line to each one of the buildings in the zone, if you want to be 100% sure just be sure to run when the blizzard finishes and you can see the next building, run without stop, without roll or jump and you'll get safe. That way the path to this boss is really long and boring but not an absolute hell

Frigid Outskirts

>get the same boss, but twice (classic ds2)
>cant see ****
>die
>worse run to the boss in any souls series
>horse making everything more frustating
>die
>leave the area, get 100% and never go back again

Whoever designed this level needs to be dragged into the woods, shot in both kneecaps and be left to die.
Its the only rational option.