Prowling Magus & Congregation Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brightstone Cove Tseldora

The boss fight is a small trek away from the Royal Army Campsite bonfire, found directly after exiting the Doors to Pharros. It is one of two boss fights housed in Tseldora. Unlike Huntsman's Copse, however, the player cannot reach The Duke's Dear Freja without first defeating Prowling Magus and Congregation.

Answer: Benhart of Jugo

This is the perfect boss to complete Benhart's questline on, as Benhart's questline requires the player to exhaust his dialogue in all of his appearances, as well as summon him for three bosses and ensure he survives the fight. The player can very simply just summon Benhart three times for this boss, and complete it very easily.

Answer: Aldia Warlock

Outside of this fight, an Aldia Warlock appears at Shrine of Amana and Aldia's Keep and, in both situations, is seriously far out of the line of natural progression. Uniquely, the Aldia Warlock does not respawn in either location.

The Aldia Warlock has a chance to drop both the Warlock Mask and the Cursed Bone Shield. The former is a really cool headpiece that may not have any special properties, but is just fantastic cosmetically. The latter is, again, not a special piece of equipment for what it does, but rather in how it looks.

Answer: Ten

In total, there are two Hollow Priests, five Undead Laborers and three Undead Supplicants. Not a single one of these enemies has more than 1,000 health, so the player can step into the middle of them with a Greatsword, swing it twice, and completely dispatch of the entire Congregation on the spot.

Answer: 1,100

A figure of 1,100 is only about 400 more than the player starts their entire playthrough with. As such, with a little Vigor investment, the player can have more health than this entire boss fight.

Answer: Profound Still

Profound Still prevents any nearby enemies from casting any spells for fifteen seconds. The Prowling Magus can only attack with spells, and the Hollow Priests who are part of the Congregation are in the same boat. When casting Profound Still, the only way the player will be able to take damage is through the meandering Undead Laborers, who pose the same exact type of threat that normal hollows have posed.

An equivalent to this would be if some boss fight in a "Super Mario" game could be reduced to nothing but a handful of Goombas.

As such, a player with Profound Still to hand can kill the Undead Laborers and Supplicants, then they can just put the controller down as the remaining enemies will be left without a way to actually damage the player.

Answer: Benches

This fight takes place inside of a ruined chapel building. Thankfully, the benches inside the chapel are strangely well intact, so the player can use them as cover.

As if this boss needed to get any easier, the player can stand behind these benches, and they can freely shoot at the boss while the benches will block one shot for the player. The boss is not smart enough to shoot over the bench to hit the player, but the player (hopefully) will be smart enough to shoot over the bench right back!

Answer: Soul Appease

Soul Appease is a Miracle. It deals unbelievable amounts of damage, but the catch is that it only works on enemies who the game considers 'mindless hollows'. This is a grey area naturally rendering the spell inconsistent. However, for this boss, every single enemy meets the requirement of 'mindless hollow'. This spell is an AoE, so it will damage everything near the caster.

If the player starts the boss fight, stands still and casts this spell twice, they will eliminate both the Prowling Magus and Congregation immediately. Just one cast dismisses the Congregation and nearly wipes out the Prowling Magus.

Answer: Soundtrack

The soundtrack heard when battling Prowling Magus & Congregation is the exact same as when fighting Covetous Demon. As these are the two easiest bosses in the game, hands down, the melody played therefore has developed a funny reputation.

Hilariously enough, despite the boss fight's unending list of mechanical shortcomings, Prowling Magus actually has a pretty sturdy set of resistances. He technically isn't actually weak to anything and is fairly heavily resistant towards Dark and Lightning. Too bad then, that his healthpool is so low that it doesn't matter.

Answer: There is no Boss Soul from this fight

Prowling Magus & Congregation is one of just two boss fights in this entire game that does not have a Boss Soul dropped to the player upon beating it. The only reward for winning this fight is a Titanite Slab. While a Slab is certainly useful, the lack of Boss Soul isn't an issue even Covetous Demon has.

This serves to make Prowling Magus & Congregation out to be an even more underwhelming boss fight. It makes the player ask- why is there even a boss fight here? It would have arguably made more sense for there to indeed not be a boss fight here, instead maybe giving a group of unnamed enemies for the player to fight and simply move on from.