I've seached the entire guardian garrison and around it for him, does anyones know where he can be found?

Huge ****head

Hard to find: Enter the garrison, go up the ladder on the left - kill the two guardian guys on that level. Roll into the crates to reveal a broken wall, from which you can see a platform to jump onto. Following this path will take you to some stairs - before you head right at the top, kill the two dogs within the tower on the left as they will interrupt your fight. Pre-summon your ashes, preferably something aggressive or the mimic because you definitely do not want to waste time sitting around ringing bells when he runs at you.



The boss itself: Not really a "boss" in terms of challenge or hp, just a more difficult mob (although I may have just been overlevelled) - his offensive power is obscene if you let him get it off. Fortunately, I found he was easily interrupted and staggered on every single hit of my weapon - so go aggressive and definitely do not bother shielding - he will stagger and kill you with flame spells through your entire hp bar with ease. Just rush him down and you won't even notice that ridiculous damage that he has.

Lol, this guy does not have good pathing AI.
He fell off the wooden side path to him and then proceeded to fall off a cliff to his death.

this guy two shot me with 1500 hp, must be a 99 INT build or something

This guy's a real mother****er with the damage on his flame spells. The stagger on his flame stream is wicked, too. He also mixes up on his shield's ash of war, where he'll start charging it, then cancel out. Best bet, imo, is to strike hard with something heavy to stagger him, take another hit or two if you think you'll combo, then gtfo to regen stamina and avoid his counter. His Catch Flame/ O'Flame (can't tell which, don't use them) hits like a truck, too, and he chain casts it, so dodge out if you eat one, else you're eating 3 in rapid succession. Nearly 100-0 me with 45 vigor (via Soreseal) plus firedrake +1 and Golden Vow.

Shield has meme potential and maybe some PVE utility. Not exactly a must-have.

In the picture above she is not wearing the whole ruler set, that robe is Maleigh Marais'

If you approach with stealth you can get a free backstab without much trouble. Then I was able to stagger him with Wild Strikes on a heavy bleed hammer so he never had the chance to do anything. I didn't even know he could cast spells.

The shield's flame ball is absolutely brutal. As in, capable of one-shotting you with 1400hp even with multiple fire-production items equipped.