Chaos Witch Quelaag

chaoswitchquelaag-ds1.jpgChaos Witch Quelaag (混沌の魔女クラーグ) is a Boss encountered in Quelaag's Domain via Blighttown.

Description

Quelaag once lived with her mother, the Witch of Izalith, and her siblings in the ancient city of Izalith. After the Flame of Chaos incident, all but her sister Quelana were transformed into demons. She and one of her sisters escaped the worst of it, having their lower torsos bound to giant spiders. Fleeing their deranged, demonic kin, they climbed to the base of Blighttown, and Quelaag fashioned themselves a home.

Location


Quelaag's Domain
More accurately, at the end of Blighttown. Quelaag's Domain's entrance is behind the three boulder-throwing Infested Barbarians at the Blighttown swamp.

Playthrough HP Souls
New Game 3,139 20,000
NG+ 6,027 60,000
NG+6 7,534 75,000

Drops


Resistances

Physical resistances


Regular Strike Slash Thrust
255 255 255 255

Elemental resistances


Magic Fire Lightning
229 205

Auxiliary resistances


Poison Toxic Bleed
110

Sourced from the Future Press Official Dark Souls Strategy Guide

Summoning


Maneater Mildred
You must have defeated her Dark Spirit form earlier in the level, within the swamp, to be able to summon her as a white phantom. Her Soul Sign is in front of the fog gate.

Notes


Attack Patterns


Strategy


Dodging and Blocking


Note she may use her pounce attack upon engaging you after you enter the fog gate. Again you should run back and then around the lava to get in close enough that she does not use it.

Your best window of attack is when she uses her spewing lava attack. It has a long channel and does not track you.

Environment


All of Quelaag's lava attacks leave a varying (depending on the attack) amount of lava globs on the floor. These do a lot of damage if stepped into as well as slowing your movement speed. The globs disappear after a while, fading out as they do so, but keep a close eye on your surroundings and try to lead her to "clean" areas. She seems to attack more frequently on lower life so beware of increasing amounts of lava on the ground.

The Rusted Iron Ring is useful if you have a spare ring slot as you will be able to run through the lava without being slowed (although you'll still take damage).

Try not to get too close to the walls; it's not too big a deal, but with such a large arena there is no reason to limit your movement, especially with lava globs involved. You can also, in a few places, become pinned against the wall.

It is possible to get Quelaag stuck on the environment. As soon as the fight begins, run to the door up the stairs in the back of the room, the right corner is just far enough to cause the boss to become stuck trying to run towards the player, although she may still use lava attacks.

Melee


Your safest strategy is to bait out her lava spew attack, then run around her and attack her back leg. This requires her to turn for all but her flame aura (watch for this) to hit you, allowing you to get out of range again. Do not confuse her lava spew with just spitting a gob of lava as that attack is much shorter.

Ranged


For headshots, Quelaag's human half is considered a "head." With a strong ranged attack, you can stagger her but keep your distance and watch for her pounce.

Status Effects and Items


Shooting Quelaag's human half with a Great Soul Arrow (Soul Arrow or a strong arrow from a bow may work too with high INT or DEX respectively) will stun her instantly and as long as you are reasonably close the spider will nearly always start its lava spew attack providing you with a long window to attack. Quelaag will then wake up and can be stunned again (note if attacking in melee Quelaag will usually use a flame aura attack as she wakes).

Stealth and Diversion


Summoning Maneater Mildred and letting her draw aggro away from you makes for an easier fight. You must still be careful in melee as Quelaag will often switch targets but ranged builds can easily run away until she switches back to Mildred.
This strategy doesn't always work very well, as Mildred has very low resistances and can get stun locked by lava pools.

Other


(Requires online phantom/s)It is possible to stunlock Quelaag with the Gargoyle's Halberd or Great Scythe. You need to two-hand the weapon and time your R-1 so that she is locked in place and cannot cast spells. You will want to go up in front of her and attack her human torso. Attacking Quelaag's human body also deals extra damage. While she is stunlocked, have your phantoms attack her nonstop until she dies. A very simple method as long as you have enough stamina regen.

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Revision #5
Created 20 November 2024 04:15:41 by jade
Updated 17 December 2024 07:39:22 by jade