You’ll have an even easier time if you happen to have melee attacks or spells that interrupt enemy actions. Locking on to the boss should be your main objective once it appears. Petrification attacks can build up real quick and it’s especially potent coming from the Royal Rat Vanguard. There’s no shame in have someone at home watch your HP while you pay attention to poison and petrification statuses. The key to winning this fight is in paying attention to the three status bars: your health, poison, and petrification. It’s not that hard to lure a crowd of rats to one end of the room and then dash to the opposite end to give yourself some extra space to move around and plan your next attack. Alluring Skulls are also effective to distracting a few rats, allowing you get to some breathing room. This will demand considerable crowd control so be ready to use your best area attacks that can hit multiple enemies in a single blow. The catch is that this boss will not appear until you have killed 10 Corpse Rats during this fight. In fact, this boss fight will dole out as many as 100 Corpse Rats, but hopefully you won’t have to deal with no more than 20 of them, since defeating the Royal Rat Vanguard will make the other rats retreat. By now you will have spent some quality time with the Corpse Rat, which is good because you’re about to deal with even more of them. Every major encounter in Dark Souls II demands considerable multitasking, but this particular fight will truly test your presence of mind as well. Roaming Soul refers to dark spirits who do not actively invade, but are already present in the host's world.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot'sįinding Rhoy The Explorer means you’re not that far away from the next boss, the Royal Rat Vanguard. Dark Spirit refers to dark spirits who actively invade when the host player moves within a set proximity of its spawn point, without an invasion message Invader refers to dark spirits who actively invade the host player's world with an accompanying invasion message Note: For the purposes of disambiguating types of dark spirits (black phantoms), this wiki adheres to the following model: See also Enemy Names Disambiguation for more details. For these, we use the names prescribed by FuturePress.

In some cases, the FuturePress guide contains names which we can't seem to correlate with the FarFire site. Following in parentheses, if they exist, are alternative names from FuturePress' Dark Souls II Collector's Edition Guide. Note: The enemy names used on this page and within this wiki are based on the official website. Note: Order of game areas comes from Game Progress Route.

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