

Father Ariandel takes more damage than Sister Friede does, and in general he's easier to evade than his swift and deadly daughter. The two bosses share a health bar so any damage you to do to either is worth the effort. Between the fire effects and Sister Friede's frost, you can end up with a very bad situation.

Father Ariandel joins the fight, clomping around the arena hitting things with his pot and spreading flames everywhere. Sister Friede and Father Ariandel phaseīy far the hardest of the three phases. If she focuses on you just run away until one of your buddies hits her again. This move is easily interrupted, thankfully.īecause Sister Friede moves so fast when she has you in her sights, tackling her with ranged or magic spells isn't recommended what you want to do is get behind her and backstab her over and over again.Ĭheeseburger Assassins with two co-op buddies should concentrate on staying a good distance form the action and feathering Sister Friede with arrows this will interrupt her attacks and give your friends much-appreciated breathing room as they chop her up. Look for the visual effect and listen for her footsteps to dodge this. Second, she teleports, turning invisible and appearing somewhere else - generally directly above your head, which will probably insta-kill you if it hits. First, she can cast frost along the floor it hits you hard and rapidly infliucts frostbite, and since it is annoyingly persistent it means you have to be aware of running over it as you move around the arena. It's her special attacks you have to watch for. Sister Friede is a fairly standard scythe wielder and her melee won't trouble you if you're already a veteran of that sort of nonsense. Look for some nice big tanky types with outlandish hats and weapons.

That said, agility is going to matter most, probably.Īs a cheeseburger assassin, you can do yourself an enormous favour by summoning two real-world co-op phantoms from near the Chapel of Ariandel bonfire. If you're offline, playing this in the distant future, or just really against co-op, there's an NPC just outside the chapel door you can "summon", but he won't appear until the beginning of the second phase.ĭark, fire and ice resistance are helpful here. If you are alone, the difficulty escalates through the three phases, and the most important tip for this fight is to bring at least one summon with you. The boss fight is in three phases - Sister Friede, Sister Friede and Father Ariandel, and Blackflame Friede. The final boss of Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel isn't the most terrifying challenge the game has thrown at us so far, but it is definitely epic. Previous: Chapel of Ariandel to Sister Friede Next: Chapel of Ariandel to Depths of the Painting She is also shown to gain more aggression as well.Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel presents a boss fight you'll never forget. During the third phase, she starts to use black fire attacks and some of her attacks gain an increased area of effect. Sister Friede has a variety of attacks starting with slight cutting attacks and then unsuspecting attacks of invisibility, besides freezing the floor and making crystals of ice from the ground. After falling a second time, Friede rises yet again and tinges her flame black with the Dark in one final struggle to defeat the Ashen One and prevent the painted world from being eventually replaced with a new one. Now rekindled, Friede comes back from death to fight by his side. When she collapses the first time, an enraged Ariandel sparks the flame he bled so much to prevent the fire's spread in a desperate attempt to revive her. There, she tricked Father Ariandel by convincing him that the only way to preserve the Painted World was by suppressing the fire with his own blood to prevent it from being burned to the ground and resulting in the rot that afflicts it.ĭespite giving ample warning, Sister Friede is ultimately forced to wield her scythe and confront the meddling Ashen One, not before asking the good Father to turn his gaze away from the imminent carnage. Having abandoned the Sable Church, she happened upon Ariandel's Painted World. Sister Friede is an Ashen One, suggesting that she attempted to link the First Flame or usurp it but failed, resulting in her being resurrected as ash.
