***** yeah no more jogging sim!

Yes and no. Pestilent Mist (especially when it was called Mercury) is more of an alchemical poisoning than a biological one. Think actual mercury poisoning or nerve gas, instead of anthrax or smallpox.

Fair points all around...

But Acid surge is a pyromancy, and acids are of the alchemical variety

Is more like a hex, rather than a sorcery. Anything goes for hexers.

Spend a lot of the fight circling him till he uses an attack pattern you remember. Then hit him once and if you get greedy you're a pancake.

Get slumbering dragon crest ring. Walk up behind him and throw dung pies. Toxic should eat about 80% of his health. Then beat him to a pulp like a ginger step child.

You can parry his one handed attacks, what worked for me. Not sure about two handed ones though.

Get him near the ladder you used to get up there. He sorta bugs out and somewhat ignores damage dealt to him, because thats about the end of the distance he can chase you, but he'll have his shield up and back away. Be careful though, 'cause when he gets far enough away he'll attack you again. I figured this out 'cause I was trying to get him to the bottom of the ladder where he fully bugs out, doesn't have his shield up, doesn't attack, and can't even climb back up the ladder and I couldn't get it to work again. They might have patched it out...

Three are several strategis.. 1. Use bonky, fight him on circle pattern, only attack after he exhausted his move 2. Use toxic & poison, sneaking with slumbering dragon 3. Hit & run to ladder 4. Summon Hawkwood, but you have to make him ascend the ladder..kinda hard..but good to try

parry him while hes one handed, at about 50% hp he will try to use iron flesh, make sure to backstab him before he finishes casting it so he keeps trying again

Hes so slow just backstab him infinately

I was just laughing my *** of at the same thing

This is correct.

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