I’m used to Dark Souls punishing me for making mistakes, but Dark Souls 3 is punishing me for also being a coward.
I stumbled upon my first Black Knight in the Road of Sacrifices; managed to sneak up behind him, but my sneaky two-handed attack did a pathetic amount of damaged, so I immediately knew I was outclassed. I ran past him and back out into the swamp, and of course, he gave chase. I “knew” he’d have a leash point, so without looking back, I hauled ass back to the Halfway Fortress bonfire. Once I was about halfway up the ramp near the bonfire, I noticed I didn’t hear his armor clanking behind me anymore, so I turned around to see him standing idle in the water, his aggro apparently reset. From the safety of the ramp, I sniped him with an arrow; he turned and started running towards the ramp, I ran, but he didn’t come up the ramp, rather he reset to the water. I sniped him again, same thing; I’d found his leash point! I sniped him again, and confident he couldn’t come up the ramp, I stayed there like a cocky prick as he proceeded to, of course, run up the ramp. I ran for my life towards the bonfire, but he was so close, I couldn’t risk stopping at the bonfire, so I ran past it and up the stairs towards the initial section of Road of Sacrifices, stopping short of aggroing the harpy-thingies in the next area. I turn around to see his aggro had reset… and he’s standing NEXT TO MY GODDAMN BONFIRE.
Had to waste a homeward bone and respawn all the damn enemies I’d just spent an hour meticulously killing in this area, particularly those “Psycho Christ” guys; does FROM know DS3 isn’t Bloodbourne? Because those guys are eerily out of place…