Earthen Peak #2

I'll admit that having moaned on boards.ie about the boss I was told that you could drain the poison in the arena. I had a sneaky look on the wiki (first time I've had to resort to this) and found if you burned the windmill it would do this. So logical?!?! Whilst on the wiki I noticed the list of items to be found in Earthen Peak and realised I'd missed most of them! So I went back to the game and started the area from the beginning and sure enough there was a whole section I'd missed as I'd failed to notice a turn down an alternate corridor.

I found Pate again who was just moping about treasure. I found a few jumps and drops that led to treasure as well as new NPC - Gilligan who supplies ladders (and is a source of Aromatic Ooze). The only item of note was probably the Poisonbite ring. With the treasure hunting over I searched for access to the windmill and sure wasn't there a host of messages telling me what to do.

With my torch having set blaze to the sails I was off to to see the slithery one. With the poison gone I could concentrate on her moveset which is varied enough and caught me out a few times. Her lunges track ridiculously well and only leave a small gap after to attack. Her magic bomb leaves her vulnerable but again only for a slight moment. I was able to stagger her with two hits but getting those two hits was the problem. Eventually I got her, more down to a few fortunate dodges than anything else.