Besides for some reason, even with 4 giant souls both my hexes, miracles and pyros didnt do much damage (with maxxed staff, chime & glove), like 50-100 dmg with the heavier ones, and had to do most of my combat with my dark crypt blacksword. The latter one technically only requires 3. Drakekeeper greataxe, sacred chime hammer, and crypt blacksword. I had the same problems, Vendrick is almost synonim of rolling constantly and I wasnt used that much to it against bosses. By the time you get to dragon shrine, you have my personal top three favorite weapons in arms reach. I died more times against him than Darklurker but was because Im not used to roll and dodge attacks and more to wait with my shield for the attack hope he misses due to my tank build. After you exit the tunnel, jump down to the platform on the left. After you obtain the Kings Ring, you receive a weapon and an armor from it. Other point to observe is when Vendrick jumps back, 99% of the time he will get his back against the wall DO NOT follow him when this happens because you won't be able to apply correctly the strategy and you will die, the best thing move a little away from him in a distance where the overhead attack can't hit you, eventually he will follow you with his overhead attack, sometimes with the jump attack and in rarely occations the dark magic attack. NOTE: You cannot use the torch here It is also necessary that you kill the zombie with torch, to prevent it from illuminating the location. My suggestion as I mention before is use a light armor or robes, stay close to his leg foot and stay as close as you can and moving counter clockwise, attack 1-2 times after he finishes his attack to conserve stamina. You can acquire it from Leydia Pyromancey in the Undead Crypt as a drop. It can be upgraded to +5 using twinkling titanate. It is a sword/Staff combo that scales with Intelligence, Strength and Dexterity. I built a glass cannon dark build to buff the crypt blacksword with dark because it gets a massive AR boost from it and before my staff and sword were max upgraded I was doing comparable damage to my brother who was powerstancing Greatswords. This is obviously but I see that the time to complete a roll in a light armor than using a medium armor is about 1.0-1.5 seconds faster, this makes that when you finish the roll animation you stamina bar will start refilling faster and with that you can conserve and generate more stamina for rolling and attacking. Blue Flame is one of the best mage build weapons in Dark Souls 2.
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My mistake was in the armor that I was using.