Lol, the Carian Study Hall and the Divine Tower are something else. I went there as part of Ranni's quest.
So first, I get ambushed by the upside down Preceptress Miriam and her band of roving hands and summoned pikemen. The toughest part of that fight is just trying not to fall down into the ceiling while avoid 20 enemies as a fairly slow character (my guy has heavy armor and a greatshield). One time I was winning, and accidentally stepped off the ledge and died. Next time, came back, the same exact thing happened to Miriam, ahahahaha. That fight is so badly designed, even the NPCs are falling to their death. I was hiding from her bullshit spirit bow behind and overhang, and suddenly noticed I got her drop. Needless to say, I didn't feel too bad for the rabid bitch.
So I get through that bs hall, and then on the bridge connecting it to the tower, I see a really fat guy approach, dressed in what looked like sheets. I figure, hell, I just beat Stargazer Radahn and Radagan's Red poodle, how bad could this fatso be? Turns out its a Godskin Noble, and underneath all that fat, he's got the body of a neurotic chihuahua doped up on Red Bull. He hit me with a rapier thrust that somehow magically extended the rapier 100 feet toward me (that's a constant issue with this game btw, bosses always unrealistically extend their weapons several times past their actual length), and as I tried to drink the estus, he input read me, and did some kind of a move that was like 20 rapier thrusts in one, and I died. Anyways, the next 3 fights against the fat fuck, until I finally killed him, were a lot of fun, as I realized that he really doesn't have any stops between his combos, and he input reads like a bitch.
Looking forward to the tower itself.
