(We'll get up there soon.) He breathes fire, and that can cause a lot of damage. He actually hops off of a ledge about halfway up the hill on the right. If you die, at least it'll be easy to recover your souls.Īlso, watch out for an enemy who appears to materialize out of nowhere. In ether case, stick close to the bonfire. If you do wind up fighting multiple Followers, rely on your shield (and make sure it has 100 percent physical damage absorption and high fire resistance), blocking when you have to and attacking in the few precious moments when you see an opening. Spoiler alert: it's much easier to fight one enemy at a time. If you charge in, they'll all attack you at once. You don't want to alert them to your presence.ĭark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel's enemies fight in coordinated groups. If you can't defeat a Follower in one shot, back down the hill away from the others and toward the bonfire. If you have a ranged weapons, walk only as close as you must to lock onto them, and fire away starting with the leftmost shielded Follower. All of them will be looking away from you.
Walk up it slowly, and you'll discover several Followers, as you can see in the image below. It's time to kill some Followers, Ashes of Ariandel's human-like enemies.įrom the Snowfield bonfire, you'll see a hill on your right. Head back to the Snowfield bonfire and rest to refuel. (Give that to Blacksmith Andre in Firelink Shrine, and he'll imbue your weapon of choice with the power to poison your enemies.) Approach slowly and quietly, and take it down. There will be a nasty, giant bug hanging out there. With the bonfire at your back, turn left and follow the wall, walking as far as you can. You don't want to alert anyone else in the area that you're here, and there are plenty of enemies to his right. Run around his back, and execute a light attack to backstab him and cause massive damage.Įither way you do it, approach him so that you keep the fight around where he stands. Fire dude, for example, is both the most dangerous and the most vulnerable when he's fire breathing. If you're fighting them up close and personal, look and wait for them to enter an animation that includes a pause at the end. Take him down from a distance if you can, watching for his fire-breathing attack, which gives you the perfect opportunity to backstab him.įollowers tend to leave themselves open for backstabs.
Turn the corner and look for a Follower carrying a sword and a Follower torch patrolling a clearing beyond a patch of trees.
Head away from the bonfire, hugging the wall on your left. The area surrounding the Snowfield bonfire is self-contained, for reasons that will become clear soon. The Snowfield bonfire is right in front of you.
This will be particularly useful not long from now, when you meet some evil tree ladies. (Frostbite causes damage and slows your stamina and defense regeneration). Rime-blue Moss Clumps cure reduce Frost build up and cure the Frostbite status effect. This is as close as Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel gets to a hint. Pillage the corpse to your right to find two Rime-blue Moss Clumps. Turn around, and speak to the NPC on your left, who'll tell you all about a "sweetly rotting bed to lie upon," in cryptic Dark Souls fashion. Warp to the Painted World of Ariandel from the Cleansing Chapel bonfire in Cathedral of the Deep, and you'll find yourself in a cave.