Talk:Watcher Knight/@comment-32973746-20170828132851/@comment-36480352-20180806002900

I keep seeing folks mention having shade cloak, pure nail, grimm dlc completion, etc & I feel like I went here way too early. I haven't been in more than a few rooms in the hive, kingdom's edge, or Queen's garden. I do have the coiled nail, 2 pale ore toward next upgrade, 8 masks & 9 notches, though.

I used grubsong, fragile strength, quick focus & stalwart shell. I had mark of pride on instead of fragile strength the first time, after just poking around & running up o n him unintentionally. I thought I would get to the watcher & it would require me going in a separate structure like the dreamer in the fog area (which i never went in), and I'd be safe from a confrontation like that. Unfortunately, i got rekt like 2 times, but I did knock one of them out with the  chandelier before the 1st fight. Again, i wasn't expecting a boss there, & my save was back in pleasure house, as I had just finished searching every nook & cranny of the waterways. 2nd time i saved near this boss, but got killed again. Frustrated, I swapped in fragile strength & basically face tanked each one to a large extent. I wasn't sure it would work, but 3rd time was a charm, it seems.