The one directly in your path to the balcony often loses to the most dangerous force in all of Dark Souls: Gravity.

I’m pretty sure I used Hidden Body the first time and felt like a genius.

Subsequent attempts I got better at the “run run run run dodge, dodge, PARRY” and felt like a god when I pulled it off. Also fun is when you don’t do enough damage to kill them with one parry-riposte, so you have to parry them a second time on the ledge.

Oh, those fine lads. Last playthrough, I’d got to them without dying. Died about nine times in a row to them. Died once more to Seath like you’re meant to. Finished with about 90% of my run deaths just to those two. Grr.