You misunderstand: faith doesn't have offensive spells. I have some healing and defensive spells, but my offensive power comes from my weapon, which has been upgraded so as to deal magic damage that increases with my faith stat. Basically, my issue is crippling over-specialization, though the sheer damage output has been enough to steamroll most enemies, magic-resistant or not.Tenmar said:Yeah the punch sucked. Lost like 5 soul levels from that encounter alone. But if you are magic based try fire magic if you have that, that is his weakest of all resistances even physical.ultrachicken said:I never got the bow method to work. It seemed like he always just jumped forward and began the murdering before I could make a serious dent. I stood near the top of the stairs; as far away as I could be while still having an angle on him.
The problem is that my build was based around faith/melee, which normally destroys practically anything the game throws at me, except for this one boss, because of his resistance to magic damage and tough melee attacks (not to mention the level-drain punch).
The white bow method is just to whittle him down, not kill him. Only reason the fire bow doesn't work is cause of range.
But if anything you can always grind out souls like I did and just stomp him since you have the better raw stats.
I think grinding is the best option, which sucks, because I absolutely loathe grinding.