The Berenike Knight |
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| Location | Undead Parish / Sen's Fortress / Painted World of Ariamis |
| Health * | NG: 372 / 620 / 775 |
| NG+: 930 / 1,134 / 1,216 | |
| Souls * | NG: 800 / 800 / 1,300 |
| NG+: 4,000 / 2,400 / 2,400 | |
| * Recorded in PATCH 1.05 | |
The Berenike Knight is an Enemy in Dark Souls.
The Berenike Knight Information
These great, hulking hollowed soldiers are heavily armoured and are equipped with a suitably large shield and weapon - either mace or greatsword. They can be found in three locations throughout Lordran: The first one is at the altar in the Undead Parish, the second is on the rooftops of Sen's Fortress and the third is found on the bridge leading to Crossbreed Priscilla in the Painted World of Ariamis.
Drops
- Tower Shield (rare drop)
- Large Titanite Shard (common drop from all except the one in Undead Parish; 100% drop from the one in the Painted World)
- Titanite Shard (guaranteed drop from the one in Undead Parish)
- Greataxe (rare drop)
- Greatsword (rare drop)
- Steel Armor Set items (very rare, with the Steel Helm the most common drop)
Attacks
- Over-head smash
- Horizontal Swing
- Shield Slam
- Estus heal, heals to full HP
Strategy
- Defeat other enemies in the area first to allow you fight them on their own.
- Lure them to an area large enough to allow you to get out of reach of their attacks, should you need to.
- Utilize flanking tactics as they do not move or turn very quickly and their most powerful attacks are forward facing.
- Time your attacks between their long attack and recovery animations.
- Block using a high stability shield while circling behind them to reduce the danger of their horizontal swings and combos.
- At least some of their attacks can be parried succesfully without taking any damage, even though there won't be any kind of riposte.
- The one in Sen's Fortress can be killed using arrows without him coming to attack you if you stand just before the stairs leading down to him.
Note: The Iron Knight in the Parish can potentially bug out and disappear if not killed when first confronted by the player. If you wish to obtain the Tower Shield, make sure not to aggro the Tower Knight unless you intend to defeat him then and there. (May Not Drop However)
| Location | Health | Souls | Respawn |
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| Undead Parish (at the altar guarding a Firekeeper Soul) | 372 | 800 | No |
| Sen's Fortress (on the rooftop) | 620 | 800 | Yes |
| Painted World of Ariamis (on the bridge leading to the boss) | 775 | 1,300 | Yes |
AnonymousFirst time I met the one in Undead Parish he obliterated me pretty quickly because instead of fighting I was just standing and admiring how mighty and beautiful he was. Like honestly, these knights have such a great design. Tall and strong, pretty armor, huge ass weapon and shild. My type *UvU*
- Anonymous
So i farmed like ~85 of them for the set, with 350 item discovery (100 base + 50 at 1 humanity + 200 for the covetous gold serpent ring). I dropped 64 large titanite shards, 5 greatswords, 6 greataxes, 2 tower shields, 5 steel helms, 7 steel gauntlets, 4 steel leggings, and finally 1 steel armor (I stopped right after looting it).
Overall it seems the armor is indeed more rare than the others but i didn't find more helms than the other armor pieces so i don't know if it's the more frequent one.
For those interested in the farming spot, I farmed the one at sen's fortress up on the rooftops. I was two shotting him from afar with a lightning spear, thorolund talisman and 25 faith, he doesn't even take the aggro if you're far enough. I then used the homeward miracle to warp at the bonfire, and repeat. Each run took like 1 min max, and each time you kill him it nets you 800 souls, which not great but not too shabby either. If you killed the fire giant it is not too tedious, no mobs are attacking you on the way to the knight, aside from the undead archer up in the tower but he fires into a pillar and doesn't hit you.
Good luck to anyone trying to farm the set or the weapons and don't forget to share your stats !
- Anonymous
I just encoubntered a black phantom version of this in frot of the elevator town to firelink. I have never seen that before
- Anonymous
I once got the mace as a dropped item, it was a regular small mace though
- Anonymous
TIP: These guys are extremely weak to fire, and even a standard fireball can take a decent chunk out of their health. If you abuse their slow animations and spam pyromancy spells they can be dealt with pretty easily.
- Anonymous
And btw, everyone should know that the mace wielding Berenike Knights CAN BE PARRIED. Almost all of their attacks are delayed so you have to precise and patient with your parries, but once you get the parry timing right then these guys are really easy to kill. Even the first one you encounter in the Undead Chapel.
TIL in Dark Souls Remastered that they can drop the Greataxe. I got it with no soft humanity either. That was a lucky drop. Unfortunately i'm not doing a strength build so I won't be using it.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Tried farming the one in Sen''s for a bit to see what the drop chances for shard farming are like.
With 300 item discovery using the gold serpent ring he dropped 3 large shards on 5 kills and 6 large shards on 10 kills, which speaks to a 60% drop chance.
If we assume that item discovery is a flat multiplier of drop chances (i.e. 100 = 100%, 200 = 200%, etc) then the base drop chance for large shards is around 20%, meaning with max item discovery you can push it up to 80% for farming.
- Anonymous
I have 85 poise and they can poise break me so easy and its hard to poise break them whats this dark souls 3?
- Anonymous
Not always safe to counter them straight after block/dodge heavy attack, they can combo to counter your counter unlike other big slow enemies. Learned this the hard way in NG+.
- Anonymous
So whats the deal with these guys? Do they have any interesting lore?
- Anonymous
These guys wield the greatsword (an ultra) the same way we wield a straight sword but they still only manage to do decent damage at best. I guess they had to be fair but imagine the damage they should be doing to the player, damn.
- Anonymous
Might just be me, but it feels like the one in the painted world is fast as **** compared to the other two.
- Anonymous
black iron tarkus himself is half as tall as they are iv no idea how they'v got so big when they'v gone hollow?steroid?mutation?doping while wrestling with tarkus? bah sounds stupid...their leader is like a fat dwarf dunnow who made them bigger weapons while they had increase in size lol
- Anonymous
He's very easy to kill with fire, killed him with 3 fire orbs, best way to farm him
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I spent half an hour trying to bow and arrow this guy at low level. He has so much Estus and the arrows can't stop him from drinking. Don't do that.
- Anonymous
I was going to make a greatsword build and managed to get a drop from the knight. Saved me the trouble of buying one or getting to Anor Londo for it.
- Anonymous
These guys become somewhat trivial by the time you hit Sen's Funhouse to be fair...
Does the one at Sean’s fortress wielding a mace drop a mace??
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