

If you cant use staffs, simply switch to it w the shortcut key right on the killing blow. This item also boosts souls earned from kills. You can further boost the souls earned by equipping mendicants staff, the staff of the snake summoner, gained by farming it.It is recommended that you equip the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring and the Shield of Want to gain 5280 Souls with each kill. With these items equipped, you should be able to kill the knights with one backstab, make sure that you have enough time to use the Dragon Roar before backstabbing them, or else the AR buff will wear off. Your character should have 45 Strength, a Yhorm's Great Machete +5, Lloyd's Sword Ring, and a Hornet Ring, with a Dragon Torso Stone in your Quick Items. Go to the Dragon-kin Mausoleum bonfire and wait near the summoning spawn point for the enemy. The corpse in Consumed King's Garden, from which you learn the "path of the dragon" gesture, is also clad in Drakeblood Armor.The errant knights upon Archdragon Peak either appear to have found a way to indulge their worshipful obsession with dragon blood without the dragon-hunting part or were otherwise spellbound by the man-serpent cult after their intrusion. Drakeblood Knights appeared in the Dark Souls 2 DLC "Crown of the Sunken King".He'll still drop his sword if you do this. Killing the Man-Serpent Summoner will not kill him but you'll at least be able to kill him permanently.Can rapidly swing that sword 6 times in a row, if given an opening. Dodging around his sword arts gives you the widest window for a backstab. Frequently switches his shield in and out and loves using the Skill stance. Dodging and parrying become a necessity instead of blocking and countering. The combination of lightning and magic damage bleeds through shields.Has around 1300 health on NG and deals high amounts of damage.Will drop Drakeblood Greatsword upon dying, but only once.A very powerful enemy that can be summoned indefinitely by the first Man-Serpent Summoner in Archdragon Peak.Drakeblood Knight is an Enemy in Dark Souls 3.
