yeah, found that out the hard way. I saw no benefit to using kiss at all in that fight; at least quaffing one for the resistance to bleeding - was too busy to see if it had any effect once a serious wound was created during the fight.I gather that beastie doesn't so much cause cuts that bleed, but rather rips your arms off or guts you kinda thing, and that's the best way they could mock-up that kind of damage.I fought it 4 times on hard, and never did better than retain about 1/3 of my health at the end... going toe-to-toe with it, that is. I went all combat skills in my last hard run-through, instead of just blasting it with igni and traps like I did previously.it also appears to be able to penetrate a 100% damage shield, as I was surprised to see my health going down rapidly while i was searching for the right potions in my pack.And Kiss doesn't seem to do much for the super bleeding attack.
I took the beast. Because my beast just happened to get lucky, and didn't get stunned by repeated Aard casts, it was pretty hard. The koshchey, on the other hand, went down in one silver sword combo string without even touching me. That was on medium. However, due to a crash, I had to replay. He got in a good, solid hit, massive blood loss indeed. I went into a series of combos with strong silver, and again slaughtered it. Then, as I was still dying due to blood loss, drank a rubedo kiss. Bleeding stopped, rather fast recovery. So, when people think certain enemies are easier or harder, well, maybe random events play an important role there.Azar Javed was harder. Willow is definitely recommended here... I also had to restart this fight, because the first time I killed him, I pushed him off the platform where you fight and couldn't loot his body...SirToejam said:you got lucky.even on medium, he can hit you with an attack that causes MASSIVE blood loss (20 pts per second). knocked my health down to 25% on the very first hit when I started combat with it!didn't get me, but it was a very close thing; ended up stunlocking it with a trap, and blasting it to death with igni.now I'm playing on hard, and chose the path of the sword instead of magic, and am really dreading this fight.fortunately, i don't think it turns that fast, so I'm hoping i can flip over it, hit it from behind until he turns, and repeat.Since the Koschey does not have any special attacks that stun or w/e