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Saturday 22 October 2011

Capra demon tips

As we all know the capra demon battle is a total pain in the ass, as soon as you traverse the white light hes charging at you with his two little hounds, i'm going to try and provide some useful tips here on how to defeat him and the tactic i used.

As its a primarily close range battle you will have to forget about using sorcery or pyromancy as you just don't have time to cast it, therefore you should grind a bit and put some skill points into strength, dexterity and endurance to improve your stamina, hp and power. The stamina is especially important here and you will need a good shield to blunt his attack as he's got two huge swords and can pretty much drain  your entire stamina bar in up to two hits.

1. Go to the dark root basin and collect the following two sets of items:
i. elite knight armour: this is amongst the woods where all the sleeping grass giants are - it's on a dead body in the right hand corner of that area, you'll see the white light emitting from the soul when your in the right place, you should be able to run in and grab it but beware there are a couple of trees which pop out of the ground and can cause you some trouble, alternately you can fight your way through the giants - your choice.
ii. in the same area as you enter turn right, youll see an illusionary tree - attack this and youll start down a narrow descending path. in the next area youll encounter some red lizards, kill quite a few of these and collect the green grass (cant remember what its called off the top of my head) which greatly restores your stamina in battle. If you keep following the path up through the tree after defeating the lizards and giant you will find the wolf ring which improves your poise. This could be helpful in battling the capra too as i believe poise increasing your maintenance of a stance, however i'm not 100% how effective it is but if you don't have two other decent rings for the battle then it may be worth grabbing it whilst your here.
2. ok now back track a while to near the area where the demon who fires lightning at you is (before you reach the blacksmith coming from darkroot basin side), and youll see a path which leads left out onto a cliff face. traverse this path all the way down but beware there is a tower knight somewhere around that area if you haven't already fought him. youll reach the bottom of the path if you keep going down and there should be a cave on the left leading to a bonfire (and further on valley of drakes), whilst on the right there will be a corpse with the grass crest shield on - this is a great shield and also greatly restores your stamina which is useful for blunting capra's attacks.

Ok so now you have a few methods of improving your stamina recovery rate - what i would class as the most important thing in this battle because as soon as your shield has been knocked down he will kill you extremely quickly, regardless of whether you have a lot of hp or upgraded armour (like most bosses). Try to take out the hounds as soon as possible and stay at a medium distance from capra as then hes less likely to do his double blade overhead smash attack!! AKA the one which will knock your shield back in a single hit. Wait for him to swing uncontrollably and this will give you time to use an estus flask if your feeling brave or attack one of his hounds if you havent already had the chance - just DONT TAKE YOUR EYES OFF HIM!!

Hope that little guide helps, the items which are included in it will be useful in general too, especially the elite knight armour which you can upgrade for pretty cheap which makes it incredibly better.

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