>>715414069
I think that every ER boss aside from malenia is a puzzle, all you have to do is tune your character to not care about their bullshit.
>messner is too spammy?
Just stack defences and facetank with poise
>gaius has too much poise?
Stack bleed and poison rot, give him frostbite and hit his with quick weapons
Many elden ring critics failed the knowledge checks so hard they still can't cope that their plain 40/40 straight sword knight build can't do the job (spoiler: it can and it's lowkey op but they're too dumb to understand how to use it).