Yes, that’s the intended first boss that is obvious. You can instead go the other way, where the old lady is sitting that gives you the banner. Kill her, she drops a quest item for later, and the dancer spawns. She is most often than not too high level for most people to confront that early, but some people do it for the added challenge. You get a single endgame location early for it, but cannot progress through archives since the door is locked and you need a key you get by following the “normal” path.
The lore is both Vordt and Dancer were changed into monsters to guard people “spawning” on high wall of lothric from progressing further. She guards one path, Vordt guards the other.
You can always do it as long as the grandma is alive. Just revisit it and kill her. Technically when you go in for the actual dancer fight, the grandma is dead, and picking up the quest item triggers the fight. So by killing her you just accelerate it a little bit
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Dancer? Really? I thought Vordt is the first main boss
Yes, that’s the intended first boss that is obvious. You can instead go the other way, where the old lady is sitting that gives you the banner. Kill her, she drops a quest item for later, and the dancer spawns. She is most often than not too high level for most people to confront that early, but some people do it for the added challenge. You get a single endgame location early for it, but cannot progress through archives since the door is locked and you need a key you get by following the “normal” path.
The lore is both Vordt and Dancer were changed into monsters to guard people “spawning” on high wall of lothric from progressing further. She guards one path, Vordt guards the other.
Holy shit, that’s awesome. Can I still do that if I’ve progressed to the forest?
You can always do it as long as the grandma is alive. Just revisit it and kill her. Technically when you go in for the actual dancer fight, the grandma is dead, and picking up the quest item triggers the fight. So by killing her you just accelerate it a little bit
Gotcha. Thanks for the intel!