How To Get To Hawkeye Gough

The Black Dragon Kalameet is one of the terminal remaining everlasting dragons and an optional boss in the Artorias of the Abyss content. While his area can exist accessed, he cannot be fought, as he is flight through it and spewing fire. To ground him, you must meet with Hawkeye Gough by unlocking his door with the Crest Cardinal establish in the Oolacile Township.

He appears for the first time while the thespian is traveling through the Royal Forest, he lands in a bridge and watches the player for a couple of seconds before flight away, similar to what the Red Wyvern does in Undead Burg.

He is encountered going down of the Purple Forest. Going through the contrary mode to where yous fight Artorias the Abysswalker, you volition notice a very small stair going downwardly, that takes you to the valley of the Royal Forest. There will exist 2 dogs and a treasure going backwards, and going forward you will find 3 dogs and a very long ladder going downwardly to the place where yous find Kalameet.

If you get to the behemothic valley where yous find Kalameet earlier talking to Hawkeye Gough about him, he will approach you flying from the other side of the valley and burn down his burn-breath to you lot. The fire-breath kills y'all instantly virtually of the fourth dimension, though it'due south possible to survive ane. Information technology's impossible to fight him at this time. You first need to ask Hawkeye Gough'due south help. If you venture deeper in the valley you find a message saying: "If only Hawkeye Gough were hither..."

After yous observe Hawkeye Gough by unlocking his room using the Crest Fundamental, you have to talk to him all the times yous can until you lot exhaust his dialogues, and then shut the conversation, and talk to him again, he will enquire you if you need help with the dragon. Say Yeah. He volition ask if you pretend to prevail until the terminate, say Aye. Then a brusque cinematic volition play showing Hawkeye Gough using his bow to take down Kalameet from the skies.

Now you have to get to the valley again and you volition find Kalameet on the basis, though he will still apply some depression-altitude flight attacks. Y'all can fight him at present. Keep in mind that a fog door will announced before fighting him now.

Dominate Fight

Assail patterns

vertical breath blast - flies straight up and blasts jiff direct downwards to generate a big area of effect
forward breath blast - blasts breath straight forward
arcing breath blast - flies off and so blasts breath over last position through an arc of about sixty degrees
sit up breath smash - sits upwardly on back legs and and then blasts jiff on the ground in front of him.
lunging head swipe
tail pound - character must be directly behind Kalameet, usually afterwards lunging head swipe
spinning tail swipe
forrard dash
left and right pes stomp - stomps with left front leg and and then right back leg or vice-versa
telekinesis - Kalameet sits upwardly and emits a small telekinetic field in front of him, grabbing anyone caught in it and causing impairment. This is indicated by the center on his forehead glowing besides as a screeching racket. The affected graphic symbol will take double impairment for a brusque time.

Strategies

Well finally, a boss dragon!

Notation: Using lock-on constantly during this fight may lead you to a number of bad-mannered deaths. If he uses vertical breath blast (his nearly huge AoE attack, run across "Set on Patterns"), locked camera will follow him directly upward and yous won't exist able to meet the fire spreading right in forepart of you. I suggest yous to release lock-on completely for this fight as you usually assail diffident low parts of the boss and camera locks on its trunk which means it will exist always looking up and won't allow yous attack his item leg or tail.

So, dorsum to our moves:

if you see him flying straight up in a higher place you lot and then he is preparing his vertical breath blast - but run in opposite direction as far equally you lot tin can - that will salve your life for sure.
frontward breath boom is easily avoided by side-rolling and he launches it only if y'all are quite far from him (delight confirm).
he may as well perform arcing breath nail without flying off - and so run directly away from him - the tip of the flame may slightly touch you but won't make any harm - this is the minimal condom distance. If you are shut plenty when he starts this move y'all can also effort running in the same management he spreads his burn-arc. If you are fast enough you can outrun the flame and end upwards well-nigh his neck/front legs for a counter-attack. Fire-arc likewise could be blocked quite safely with a fire-resisting shield (e.g. Dragon Crest Shield).
when he sits up for a breath boom it's a practiced opportunity for counter-attacking - all you lot need is to run close enough and so you place yourself by his back legs - you can slam a few hits on him or endeavour to cut off his tail while he keeps spreading burn straight forward.
his lunging head swipe is very probable to be his fastest and nearly unpredictable attack. Watch his caput as he will retract his neck to the left side before the attack (the swipe goes from left to right from your PoV). This assail tin can exist blocked with 100% phys. shield for a huge amount of stamina but beware as there'due south a hazard of follow-up, so afterwards a successful block get below him every bit fast equally you can and you'll be rewarded with a couple of gratuitous hits.
tail pound can be easily avoided by side-rolling.
his spinning tail swipe is of much resemblance with Sif's jumping-off slash set on and then cake it or just ringlet back.
if you run across him nosediving at y'all, well, a couple of side-rolls will accept you out of his reach.
foot stomp is triggered if you stay below him for likewise long simply information technology'south not of much precision so if you stay between his forepart and back legs you will hardly take much harm, blocking helps only after moving a little aside.
telekinetic grab is Kalameet's most dangerous (and spectacular) attack so far, tin can be avoided past side-rolling if predicted accurately only surviving it is too quite a possible affair to do. It starts when you are close in front of him and looks mostly similar a sit upward fire boom, but at present his forehead stone (center or whatever) starts to smooth and so it will be useful to have his caput in sight. Surviving this mental grab takes a squeamish corporeality of HP (information technology probably does phys. damage so a good armor will assist a lot, due east.g. Set of Artorias +3 reduced damage to 1-2 bars of HP for me) but the worst part begins correct after the release. A small glittering center will appear higher up your head - that means you will take double damage from Kalameet's attacks. This is called "Calamity issue". While this effect reigns, his tail and head swipes are extremely dangerous so keep your distance and evade everything yous can until the debuff is gone.

So, the main points so far is to stay below, beside or backside him as much as possible, non forget to raise your shield on his swipes and predict AoE and Telekinesis attacks. Burn down def. equipment will assistance you blocking/surviving his devastating flames (Flame Stoneplate Ring slightly reduced the damage for me). Speed is of great importance during this fight as yous'll have to run a lot to approach dragon's flanks. As e'er, lack of speed must exist compensated with high poise and a dainty shield but don't await a quick fight.

Alternating Strategies

Melee

Obtaining Bully-shield of Artorias it's VERY helpful against this boss and necessary with this guide. (Blocking a hit with this shield consumes very lilliputian amount of stamina and it has still good protection from magic.)
Try to be as shut to dragon as you can, but not under him.
Try to avoid his breathing attacks, if not, you must block them with your shield or he gonna kill you quickly that way.
Using Green Blossom helps a lot. (for stamina recovery while keeping your shield up)
For beginning few minutes try to learn his attacks and know when y'all tin can attack him.
Then cake his attack, and perform your attack. Patience volition be your best friend. It'due south block-attach-block technique, with Bully-shield of Artorias it'south very effective style.
If y'all want to obtain Obsidian Corking-sword perform your attacks just when he is facing you lot with his tail. Be enlightened though, that he gonna attack y'all with his tail of you lot're backside him. Best moment to hit his tail is when he stands on his rear legs and performs breathing attack and second when he lifts off ground and rush at yous, when you block this attack he'due south gonna exist facing you with his tail, exist aware that first permit him attack with tail (vertical nail) and then endeavour to hitting it.
Note: Great-shield of Artorias is very heavy and using Havel'south Ring is recommended although not necessary if wearing that shield doesn't overload yous, because defeating him with too much load is difficult especially when y'all're trying to cut off his tail, and then try to exist under 50% of your maximum load.

Notes

Dark Hand helps a lot in this fight, because information technology has a 80% fire damage reduction, and information technology only weights 0.5 points. Equip information technology in your left paw, and switch to it when you lot need to block his burn attacks, just just practise information technology when he uses his non-linear burn-breath. This will be blocked and volition pause your baby-sit, merely with the damage reduced, and you will have enough time to recover before he tries to hitting yous again. To know how to utilize it exactly watch the video of the boss fight at the end of the page. Don't utilize it against his other burn down-attacks because the others will suspension your guard only because they hit more than once they will hitting you with full damage anyway.
After defeating him, a chest will appear near one of the water falls. The chest contains a Titanite Slab:

Drops

60000 Souls
Calamity Ring
Obsidian Nifty-sword (if tail is severed)

Cut Tail

To cut Kalameet's tail off look for either two attack: his lunging head swipe or sit up breath blast as noted in the attack patterns. You need to make Kalameet initiate a lunging caput swipe (contrivance or effectively block) and try to position yourself backside Kalameet then he does a follow up with a tail pound assail that goes directly down hitting the basis - allowing y'all complimentary hits (1-3) earlier he continues to set on. Y'all can also wait for Kalameet to do his sit down upwards breath attack and run direct behind for 1 (2 if y'all're lucky) attacks.

If yous effectively block his attacks and try to initiate the 2 attacks higher up you can easily obtain the Obsidian Great-sword.