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Defeat the Dark Sun Gwyndolin

Defeat the Dark Sun Gwyndolin

Defeat Dark Sun Gwyndolin, the Darkmoon God.

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How to unlock the Defeat the Dark Sun Gwyndolin achievement in Dark Souls - Definitive Guide

Defeat Dark Sun Gwyndolin

In order to fight this boss you first have to find the Covenant "Blade of the Darkmoon"
Gaist Heidegger has a great guide on how to accomplish that
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After you get your covenant achievement walk through the fog wall and you will be treated to a cutscene, then the boss fight begins.

*note that passing through the fog will break your covenant and turn the Anor Londo firekeeper hostile, killing the boss will lock you out of the "darkmoon blade" miracle for that play-through.

Gwyndolin will be at the end of a never-ending corridor and throw 3 different random attacks your way;
he'll raise himself off the ground and fire a few volleys of arrows your way - you can raise your shield and defend or you can hide behind the many pillars along the walls,
his second attack he will raise his staff and fire a group of homing magic arrows - hide behind the pillars against this attack as it will damage you even if you're defending,
his third attack will have him raise his staff and fire a large magic attack - you must dodge this it as it will travel through the pillars.

Once you get close he will teleport down the corridor and continue attacking you so when you're a few pillars away dodge his next attack then sprint towards him and get a few hits in before he teleports. Fire seemed to work very well against him, a high level pyromancy and chaos fireball should make this fight a lot easier.
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21 Oct 2011 23:31

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Also, the fire-keeper at Anor Londo attacked me the next time I went in there. Not sure if it is related, but I don't think I did anything else that could have been considered a "sin" in the game.
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By JORAX on 30 Oct 2011 04:32
^it is related because she is a member of the darkmoon covenant
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By originalhks on 31 Oct 2011 16:39
Well for his magical attacks I would recommend Crystal Ring Shield. I swapped between this shield and my normal shield (for his arrows), when I was running up to him.
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By Yuhans on 05 Nov 2011 17:34
I used the Tin Crystallization Catalyst, the Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and equipped the Crystal Homing Soulmass. All I had to do was block her arrows, dodge her spells, heal (once in a while), and run towards her. Every time she teleported, I cast the Soulmass again.
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By CallHercules69 on 14 Aug 2014 18:00
You might want to mention that doing this before getting to level 1 (you start at 0) with this covenant means you can't get all miracles on this playthrough. I just found this out the hard way.
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By JORAX on 29 Oct 2011 07:42
This is the way I defeated this boss: i put on my character very light armor with big magic resistance, then put a shield on, which has 100 physical damage reduction and the strongest weapon i had i my inventory.
As mentioned above, the boss has 3 patterns: arrows, big magic shot and small magic orbs.
Shield easily protects you from arrows, which is the deadliest attack of hers in my opinion.
In order to avoid small orbs, just hide behind a pillar and go out only when she strikes with her big magic orb. Those big orbs are easily dodged.
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By Mulgikapsas on 15 Jan 2014 15:43
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You can also beat this boss using a cheap poison arrow strategy. Equip a poison arrow and with enough range you can shoot him without him engaging the fight. Even if you do no damage, after a few arrows (sometimes up to 8) he will still be poisoned. The poisoning does a little more than 400 points of damage per poisoning, so after a few sessions he should be dead without the need to get your hands dirty.

Also, killing this boss makes you permanently sinned in the game and Blades of Darkmoon will always be able to invade your game (even if you request absolution of Oswald).
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12 Jan 2012 21:38

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Worked like a charm. I needed 48 poison arrows to take him down, but quite a few of those were missed at the start just trying to hit the guy.
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By Entitled Gamer on 23 Oct 2012 17:41
First I stood far enough away for my arrows to hit, but at a distance where he/she won't attack. I then used poison arrows on him/her, use the Hawk Ring (Found behind the Giant black smith in a chest) for greater distance. Then to speed up the process, use the Dragonslayer Greatbow. It took me around 10-15 arrows.
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By Nelson Soldier on 08 Aug 2013 12:04
Will the sin of killing him count in NG+ or will that reset? Basically, can I wait until the end of the game, come back and kill them, and then everything be all good for the next game?
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By on 21 Jun 2014 11:44
The perma sin from him should be absolved in NG+.
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By originalhks on 22 Jun 2014 14:01
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If you're having trouble with a melee approach just follow 3 rules.

1) When he casts the homing soulmass (lots of small projectiles) hide behind a pillar

2) When he casts his big single projectile spell dodge (roll) diagonally sideways (or roll straight backwards if you're behind a pillar, as it will go through the pillar)

3) When he raises for his arrow attack zig-zag run towards him. Make it a fairly wide zig-zag and his arrows will all miss you. Eventually you'll get in close and you can hack him a few times. When he warps attack the empty space because he still takes damage when not visible for a second or so.

I recommend doing this as the last thing you do before the final boss. So you don't lose the use of the useful anor londo bonfire (which you will if you even enter the fog gate)
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30 Dec 2011 15:51

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good call. At level 72 and +15 claymore, it took me only 2-3 cycles to kill him. One of the easiest bosses in the game.
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By Shadow XBL on 14 Mar 2014 19:19
just adding to the above solutions make sure that u kill him on your first playthrough because he is seriously a 1000 times easier than your second or more playthrough. killed me in about 3 hits and im lvl 192
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05 Jul 2012 13:48

For New Game+, quite simply.. Dragonslayer Greatbow
In the large hall before Ornstein and Smough.. theres 2 giants at the bottom, and a Black Knight with a Dragonslayer Greatbow on one of the stair ways.. at the top is a stained glass window, and it's broken, slip through there, following it around you'll find the bow.
The Dragonslayer Greatbow needs 20 in each Str & Dex. The Giant Blacksmith can upgrade it for you with Twinkling Titanite, and he sells the arrows for it too, 500 souls each (which is why I mentioned NG+), there's also the Hawk Ring behind the Giant Blacksmith to improve the range for better damage. On NG++, I had 50 , 25 would do the job with 55~ Dex

In case you don't already know. To get to Dark Sun Gwyndolin, you need to rotate the staircase to the lowest position, and go down the stairs to a bonfire. Equip the Darkmoon Séance Ring from the Catacombs.

For the actual "fight", After the cutscene, I waited for him to teleport away, then moved forward a few feet, use the walls/pillars as a guide. you don't want to aggro him. aim the Dragonslayer Bow just above his head for the headshot. I was hitting for around 100 damage on average, as the bow seems to knock him back, I didn't advance incase that aggro'd him. He has around 10k HP on NG+, no doubt more on NG++
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04 Aug 2016 16:54

Gwyndolin is one of the optional bosses of the game and can be reached by lowering the spinning tower in Anor Londo and then going down the stairs. You'll reach a room with a bonfire and a big statue ahead, the boss room (and access to the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant) lies behind this statue, however to get past it you'll need to equip a special ring called Darkmoon Seance Ring which can be found inside the Catacombs.

Follow the video below to reach it, the ring will be located inside the open coffin at the end of the corridor at 1:34 of the video:

Video credits to TheInfernoCommander in Youtube.

Once you get in front of said statue, equip the ring and it will vanish. At the end of the corridor you can kneel in the mat on the floor to join the covenant or go through the fog door to face the boss. Be warned though that if you do go through the fog door you won't be able to join the covenant anymore unless you absolve your sins.

Check the bosses section for more information on them.

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Gwyndolin is one of the optional bosses of the game and can be reached by lowering the spinning tower in Anor Londo and then going down the stairs. You'll reach a room with a bonfire and a big statue ahead, the boss room (and access to the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant) lies behind this statue, however to get past it you'll need to equip a special ring called Darkmoon Seance Ring which can be found inside the Catacombs.

Alternatively you can kill Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight, which also reveals the passage.
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22 Aug 2014 13:46