Dark Souls Capra Demon Strategy

The key to this fight is all in the beginning. Press A to enter the glowing door and immediately put up your shield.

Tack to the left; and focus target on the dog there. Kill it - ignore the other dog and the demon for now (just worry about getting your focus on that second dog). Kite back to the stairs at the back left of the room. Kill it. Stand at the top of the stairs to heal yourself (if necessary). When the demon walks up the stairs, you jump down. After a few moments, he'll drop down too. He'll be stunned for a second (just like you, if you drop that sort of distance) - hit him a few times while he's like that.

Now kite him around to the stairs again. Rinse/repeat till he is dead.

This isn't a hard boss (The Bell Gargoyles take this honor by far, thus far into the game). The key is getting the dogs down as quickly as possible, while staying alive. If you have the drake sword or something similar, the dogs should each die in a hit or two. They have no more health than the dogs you encountered on the way to the boss. In fact, after he's dead; they will respawn if you die or rest at your flame. So be aware of this as you start on the Depths.

Part of the reason I like Dark Souls is that the monsters seem to play by the same rules as you. This boss accentuates that fact. Part of the reason I don't like Dark Souls is the constant back tracking you are forced to do. I find that very frustrating. But I'm proud that I made good progress today. Bell Gargoyles down and the Chapra Demon as well. Plus I finally took the time to get the Drake Sword (with the crossbow, manually aiming. 20 bolts. TYVM). Not sure I could give a strategy for the two gargoyles as I believe I finally downed that with some dumb luck. Those fuckers were so random. Sometimes I'd get the second gargoyle spawning right on top of us. Both in melee was bad news.

After killing them and ringing the bell, I was like. Okay what do I do now? I went to the forest or whatever for a while (some pussy ass mini boss at the entrance, geesh, easiest mini boss yet). But then I read that the Depths is the easier way to go - so I went there. I'll go back to the forest another time. To be honest, I got pretty far there then I encountered this knight that was laying there. When I approached he woke up. I killed him fine. Then I ran over to the loot and got attacked by 1 more of them and 2 plants. I died. When I went back down there, the first giant was back and I was like "fuck that" and went back to the Undead Berg. Got me a nice set of armor though, so that was worth it.