Use fire protection armor, spells, and shields for defense, and attempt to backstab any time they summon a ball of fire as they have a large "back". These Demon Clerics can be tricky and, given time, will raise a glowing ball of fire which will fire at you. Take the hallway into a next area and face a Demon Cleric to the left. Head through the hallway opposite of the staircase and make a right to take the staircase down. Find an Estus Shard & Old King's Antechamber Bonfire Retrace your steps with the wall at your right and head back to the bonfire. Wait here until the ballista fires at you and breaks the wall to collect Speckled Stoneplate Ring. Go back the way you came and follow the left hand wall and eventually you will come to a man-made stone wall up against a natural boulder wall. There is a summon sign here for Knight Slayer Tsorig, which will remain as long as you are in ember form and the Old Demon King is still alive. In a doorway here you can take a staircase down to reach the Demon Ruins Bonfire. Up a hill to the right, you will find a Large Titanite Shard 1x on a corpse. The worm drops Lightning Stake and an Undead Bone Shard. Any low stance helps to make the ballista aim lower, hitting the worm more frequently. This will place the worm between you and the ballista, resulting in the death of the worm. You can navigate past it on the right side, and there is a safe spot to the back left of the worm, behind a rock with a candled stone pillar next to it. Enter into the lake and follow along the left wall until you encounter the Carthus Sandworm. The ballista can also be re-enabled via the same method. It will target you as you explore the area until you optionally disable it by turning a wheel beneath it. Giant Ballista and Carthus WormĪs you enter Smouldering Lake, you will hear the loud mechanical sound of the Ballista winding up. Advance through to reach Smouldering Lake proper. Turn around and head back and make a left into another room with a Bonfire. If you exit into the next room, straight ahead you will find a corpse with Old Sage's Blindfold and Witch's Ring. On the same level where the Fire Demon attacks, you can loot a Large Titanite Shard 1x, but be aware of spawning skeletons. This should allow you to "bait and strike" him until you defeat him. Alternatively, if you approach the Fire Demon, then retreat through the small entrance where you first enter this area, the Fire Demon will back up down the stairs and retreat to his original position. If you can get the Fire Demon to attack the mimic, it may kill it for you. Proceed until you reach the room with the large Fire Demon and Mimic up the stairs near the end of the walkway. Attack the anchor point at that end of the bridge and it will collapse once it settles, you can climb down the bridge as if it were a ladder to access the area below. If you have defeated High Lord Wolnir, you can start from this bonfire, or make your way from the Catacombs of Carthus bonfire to the large suspension bridge. Keep yourself at a safe distance and ping away at them with magic or arrows.ĭiscovering Smouldering Lake takes a bit of work. The crabs are too big to get past the rocks and they will stay there, trying to smash you. Aggro the crabs with arrows and get them to chase you to the entrance of the cave where you fight Horace.
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