I would like to see you doying this. I can't figure out how is even possible to kill it in open field.
His corpse is still chilling directly infront of the entrance of lvl 4. Sir literally came at me when I had just entered lvl 4...which was scary as hell since this was my first character in 6.1 and the first character that went past lvl 1 as well. (and more or less my 3rd char overall, had been playing 6.0.3 for about 2 hours not even being able to leave level 1 XDDD)
So I just legged it for a while, cleared the map and once I was wearing all that fancy armor from lvl 4 I just slapped him around a bit...with him also slapping me quite a bit.
I have no idea if this makes any difference but I didn't go for weapon skills in my playthrough. The only weapon skill I took was the double swing. I maxed the 4 armor skills instead so I can wear full plate with 0 encumbrance.
But the fight itself went like this for me:
-Doubleswing
-Hug his body
-Doubleswing
-hug his body
-If he prepares a strike instead of a left/right swipe -> sidestep.
-If you fail to sidestep and get bashed/fall down, retreat for a bit and wait for HP to recover(switching from combat mode to normal mode is enough, he can't hit you when you sprint). Full plate you shouldn't really take any lethal damage from him, all stamina.
Doesn't change the fact that he scared the living bejeezus out of me. I was already surprised when the first skeleton came at me in lvl 3....and then he just jumps at me and those freaky plate armored skeletons everywhere.
I'm also not sure if I was just lucky with loot or was just searching well. But my entire body except for my upper legs were covered in plate before I even entered lvl 4...Lvl 4 armor is just way too fancy to pass up on it.
P.S. Loved lvl 4 design...I want to continue my journey asap XD