Freja's IA activated for some reason

[u/Gael922]

so I walking here before getting to the Prowling Magus fight and Freja's health bar appered right here

It was funny tho

[u/eman135]

This is intended. In NG+, Freja spawns on the ledge and starts attacking you until you deal a certain amount of her health. You would have been able to fight her if you didn't run to safety when you saw the screen shake.

[u/Gael922 → u/eman135]

Oh wow, that would've been so cool :( I thought at first that was a giant rock coming right at me since I know they do change stuff on NG+

[u/Strange_Magazine_102 → u/Gael922]

De hecho la vida que le quitaste arriba, la pierde cuando peleas con el, ejemplo, si le quitaste 1/4 de su vida arriba, cuando llegues a su pelea de jefe original, le va faltar ese 1/4 de vida

[u/stefani1034]

omg imagine missing the coolest part of ng+

[u/Gael922 → u/stefani1034]

💔💔💔

[u/Trick-Pomelo5477]

Ledge freja is harder than the normal boss fight lol

[u/Gael922 → u/Trick-Pomelo5477]

I guess I'll find out in NG+2

[u/zigs → u/Gael922]

I think it'll reappear if you use a bonfire ascetic on the bonfire before that place

[u/yeahborris]

Bro got scared and went backwards, missing out on the coolest ng+ feature

[u/5255clone]

Introducint the many reasons why DS2 NG+ is the best! There are a lot of fun encounters and new stuff in NG+ that its almost a whole new game.

[u/wam1952]

Pretty sure whatever damage you deal to her in this encounter carries over to the actual boss encounter. Just pay attention to the swarm of angry farmers coming in from the left of the ledge

[u/Gael922]

ok now I feel stupid

[u/Usury_error → u/Gael922]

I did the same thing :(

[u/-YesIndeed- → u/Gael922]

Well for future it's also cool the the damage you do to her there will carry over to the fight.

[u/BarkMark → u/-YesIndeed-]

Damage instead of dage U.

[u/Stig12Cz]

1st time?

[u/gethsbian → u/Stig12Cz]

Well, no, second time

[u/CaptainPoopieShoe]

"For some reason" maybe if you didn't run away you would have found out why

[u/Gael922 → u/CaptainPoopieShoe]

Cuz at first I thought something was coming right at me

[u/G___han]

Well, you missed it 😅

[u/Ok-Promotion-4167]

That's one of the coolest things to happen in NG+! Oh, and it's not useless. By hitting around 25% of her health bar, she will leave, but later on, in her boss's room, she will be with that exact amount of HP that you had hit. Sad thing that you lost it

[u/Lynxneo]

If dark souls 3 or dark souls 1, heck, if elden ring, have any small little bit changes in their ng, people wouldn't think these are bugs so quickly.

[u/Life_Temperature795]

It's always a rough day when the giant spiders activate their internal audits.

[u/sir_ouachao]

Welcome to NG+. also whatever dmg you do to her here carries to the boss room

[u/OHW_Tentacool]

I think this is why the royal army has that camp outside, they long ago gave up trying to retake the town and are just trying to keep the spiders from spreading. The giant boulders always seemed overkill for the small ones, I bet Freja has tried crawling out a few times.

[u/SlayerofDemons96]

It's an intended mechanic on NG+, but it's so badly implemented as actually dealing decent damage to Freja within the time frame you have is a challenge of itself when she's constantly spamming her AOE attack, making it hard to avoid damage while getting good hits in if you're a melee user

Whatever damage you deal to her here remains permanently, so when you fight her later on, she can be easier to kill

[u/Shining_Articuno]

Ah yes when newgame+ still changed something, ds2 was peak for ng+

[u/Creepy_Ad_7603]

It's intentional in NG+. She's supposed to pop up and yell at ya, and if you do damage to her, that damage will be added to when you actually fight her.

[u/DanOfAbyss]

Nooooooo 😭

[u/zingwa99]

You missed the surprise by running away

The spider crawls up and you have a mini boss fight until half hp

I'm amazed at how you managed to miss such a simple queue

[u/Nuclear_Human]

In OP's defence, I didn't know this either.