10 Video Game Boss Fights You CAN'T Afford To Lose
2. Black Knights - Dark Souls
The most powerful weapons in Dark Souls are part of the special Black Knight set that the player can obtain only by defeating their titular owners.
This sounds simple on paper, but there are actually several big bumps on your way to becoming a proud owner of a Black Knight weapon. The biggest of which is the fact that Black Knights don’t respawn.
The Knights are ruthless opponents who can easily defeat low-level players. The thing is, you really want to win against them because you only have one chance to check them for loot when they die.
You see, Black Knights are the only opponents in the game who do not respawn or reset when you use a bonfire. After they die, that’s your one chance to get their weapons, and here is when you come across the second bump in that each weapon has about a 5% drop rate.
On top of that, you have the third bump, which is that the knights have a tendency to wander off and never return to their spawn point after they kill the player, meaning you may not even get the chance to use your 5% chance if you die to them.
Dark Souls is a bumpy ride, indeed.