I'm not sure since I've only done Ranni's ending and didn't do his quest yet but from his dialogue,
The wind-up is slow, even though the attacks itself are fast.
The trick to endgame spells is less doing damage and more doing stagger and then hitting the boss's weakpoint with your fuckoff laser/idfktheincantionequivalent...eyebeams? So just spam ROCK over and over, if you need to. The problem is getting 70 DEX for capped cast time - Radagon's Icon apparently gives 30 DEX for cast speed purposes tho.
Even tho magic is busted, and I don't feel bad about it because of how bullshit some enemies are, magic is not OP and not really useful for Malenia. The only useful spell against her is the Adula frost blade.
I don't begrudge people for using magic. Just don't be a faggot and declare the game is easy or people are just bad at the game because you (not specifically you, you know what I mean) cheesed a boss.
Important info for you for future playthroughs / horse sections with annoying attacks:
Not entirely true. Phase 1 can be cheesed by spamming rock sling from long range and you can use comet azur on her during that giant flower attack in phase 2.
I know this isn't the Ethan Ralph thread but can I just saw that gunt's dedication to being an asshole is truly remarkable? You'd think after someone got their ass beat so badly they need reconstructive surgery they'd stop being a douche for a while but literally the second the hospital was legally allowed to discharge him he went right back to being a shit talking prick.
Noteworthy no but there's nothing wrong with challenging yourself either. That's my point, if you get assmad it mainly just reflects on you.
I think the name itself is just more wanky Middle Earth bait.
She doesn't have a huge level of significance overall apart from being a demigod, one of Marika and Radagon's children. She's just kind of cool, that's why she's in the marketing material. Before DSIII got chopped up and hacked back together ~9 months before release, what we now know as Soul of Cinder was just called Red Knight, and wasn't even a boss -- just a cool recurring miniboss like Black Knights -- yet they still put him all over the marketing.
She is miquella's brother, and Miquella was stolen away from her by Mohg who wanted to make Miquella a god. He was an Empyrean, same as Ranni. She is no longer guarding Miquella (I think) but is just guarding the Haligtree that he made.
I really thought that Millicent was Malenia, just with Amnesia and that the entire deal of giving her the arm, the needle and following her to the haligtree was so that she remembers and is fightable as a boss. I thought that was the entire idea of the phrase the "flowser of crimson rot is blooming again".
I've already posted my speculation but the short version is maybe Marika's plan after she broke the ring/killed herself to try to get rid of the big bad thing was for Miquella to become the new Erdtree, so she made Empyrian twins (ie pure bloodline since she was both parents, that's what Empyrian seems to mean) and put all the rot in Malenia so that Miquella could be pure.
Why did you quote me as if I didn't agree with you, dumb nigger. quote the other guy