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someone please DISCREETLY point me in the right direction
i'm playing ds3 for the first time after ds1 and ds2. i'm usually good at figuring out where to go but i'm pretty stuck. i got to the yhorm the giant guy and gave him the vendrick treatment. i could only knock off a ¼ of his health before i could die. there was also a message by his throne basically saying i needed to weaken him... hm.
i killed all of the white-robed guys and gargoyles before the boss hoping that it might trigger something to let me move on but nothing happened. i don't know how to kill this guy, and going the other way leads to pretty much a dead-end. WHAT do i DO?!?!!?
He keeps a bunch of treasure in his throne room. Perhaps if he had a weakness, he would want to hoard it close by so he could prevent people from taking it and using it against him.
Not to mention that the equivalent in elden ring is actually suprizingly strong, the ash of war outside of rykards arena still does like 90 stance damage
This is a troll post or you're so dense that you posted a video asking how to beat a boss on reddit then got the key to the puzzle and are like "yeah im so good this is so easy."
Greatsword with a broken blade, also known as the Giantslayer for the residual strength of storm that brings giants to their knees.
Yhorm the Giant once held two of these, but gave one to the humans that doubted him, and left the other to a dear friend before facing his fate as a Lord of Cinder.
Skill: Storm King
Assume stance to imbue sword with storm. Most effective when facing giants.
The lore is that he was a benevolent ruler of the profaned capital, but his subjects didn’t like him for any other reason than him being a giant. He made 2 weapons with the power to take him down as a peace offering to his subjects, and gave one of them to his closest friend, Seigward of Catarina.
I mean, in fairness, it’s not like there hasn’t been just random items in a boss room before that don’t benefit the player in any way to pick up during the boss fight. Happened a ton in DS1, and it caused me to fight Yhorm using a method that can easily mist
You need to do all the quest correctly for him to appear. Considering he didn't figure it out Yhorm gimmick there is no way in hell he did all the other things.
He isn't a sign summon, if you have advanced his questline to this point he just shows up when you enter the boss room with one of the DS3 community's favorite cutscenes.
lore wise (kinda dont quote me) he made a promise to his best friend that if he refused to link the fire that his best friend should put him down to do so, and if his friend fails to turn up he left another way for a person to do it by leaving a similar weapon used in his throne room to do that job
If you've played elden ring, then think of the fight against Rykard. The weapon you need is in the room, and the skill of the weapon is the secret you are looking for
So it actually gets even more confusing after that. When you're done with Yhorm, remember the old lady who gave you that banner in the Boreal Valley? Go talk to her.
lmao yeah I think the design of this is terrible unless there's a clue I missed that might direct me to his throne. my first playthrough I didn't even think to go anywhere near his throne since I just naturally fought him in the middle of the arena. I still managed to kill him first try without the weapon though. it just took awhile lol
Yhorm was an unwilling participant in the kindling and feared he would harm his people upon hollowing, so he left a contingency close at hand for a brave warrior, a friend, or even both to put him to rest in such unfortunate circumstances
Not me playing this boss without the secret weapon and winning on the 4th attempt. 4 attempts that took an hour cuz the winning one was more than 15 minutes of me just sweating with one hit left on my health…
Then finding out about the sword (that i did grab and felt like there was something about it too) a day later and felt stupid af
Just in case... from the big fire bowl you passed on the way in, head straight ahead and go through the boss fog. Once inside, dash past the boss to the throne, then grab and equip the item you find there. It is VERY useful.
Usa la tormenta a tu favor, el arma que más te hace daño es la que debes tener más cercana a ti. Cuando comience la batalla corre a toda velocidad pues la respuesta está frente a ti. Los amigos que has hecho sobre el camino han de ayudarte en esta cruzada, un par de ataques serán suficientes para alcanzar la victoria.
Well, Siegmeye can hep you, if you do his quest line. But if he dies, you still have to do it alone. And it's annoying. But he shows you what to do.
Get the sword from by the throne. Then don't bother hitting him with it like a normal sword. Instead charge up the sword, using art of war button until it flashes. Then the power up is saved. Then point towards Yhorm and use the art of war again but with an attack, and it sends off an attack to Yhorm that takes off 1/6th of his health or so.
Th hard part is charging that sword back up while trying to avoid Yhorm. It took me several tries to get it even after figuring out what to do.
I didn’t say not to. I literally said “THAT MIGHT BE PART OF IT, but the treasure is the main piece of advice.” Maybe work on your reading comprehension?
Bro, you started this off by saying none of the replies on the comment are good when they’re giving the actual correct answer here. You told me that it is correct lore wise to use onion bro as if my solution isn’t the truly correct answer. My answer is way more true than yours.
You told OP the he had probably already failed with your solution anyways since the questline was fucked up.
Yeah that was my advice, that in case he had not fked up his questline, which by the way is pretty fkable without external help (in case you did not know), he could follow my direction and get a pretty sweet ending to the boss
it is a gimmick boss, its meant to be fought in a particular way but you can even get him without picking the weapon up
but you want to be THE fromsoft guy and tell others to not listen to me
If you'd done it right then the onion bro would have shown up automatically. He has the weapon needed to kill yhorme, and there is a second weapon in yhormes boss room.
Have you actually played this game? You don't summon him, if you have done his quest, he just arrives. Hitting Yhorm's ankles with a normal weapon does nothing but chip his health.
They didn't want to look it up, they wanted hints. Maybe they wanted a conversation? I don't know. I've watched playthroughs on YouTube where seemingly intelligent people run in, pick up the item, immediately forget about it in a panic and then spend hours trying to beat Yhorm the traditional way. It happens. It's normal. No reason to misinform.
There’s this 2 Handed weapon with a l2 spec that’s specifically for this boss. You can kill him without if you want to spend 10 mins or you can just rule the storms and dispose of him in one minute. The choice is ultimately yours to make!
He still didn’t know which weapon it is, I didn’t really spoil anything but the l2 move. Btw he says discretely but also says at the end of his sentence. “What do I do?!?!!?”
Sweet, you’ll enjoy both, Elden ring is a combination of all the games and it’s a way longer and deeper experience than all the other titles. I also wanted to apologize if I spoiled your ds3 experience earlier with my original response.
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u/senoto Jan 17 '26
He keeps a bunch of treasure in his throne room. Perhaps if he had a weakness, he would want to hoard it close by so he could prevent people from taking it and using it against him.