One shall stand, one shall ball.
Far as I know there are no one way or limited use elevators. I'm pretty sure I use that elevator to get back to the boss every time.
I took it up from chasm. It stopped at royal wood near where I fought artorias. I stepped back onto it and it went up again, to a higher area of royal wood.
Then when I stepped onto it again, it went back down to the previous place (near artorias fight). From there, it only goes back up to the higher area of royal wood. It never goes back down to chasm. I tried everything, could not make it go back down, only up and down between the two areas of the wood. Bugged, maybe? :(
Anyways, I really hate the Manus fight. Once I get hit, it takes so long to stand back up that he's hitting me again the moment I'm on my feet. Repeat until all health gone. I can manage to sneak in an estus sip or two, but not without getting hit again...and again. I tried getting my equipment load below 20% which helped dodge some attacks, but getting hit by just one attack starts the cycle of falling on the ground, taking forever to get up, getting immediately knocked down again. So I tried to tank him, which makes dodge all but impossible but you can do some blocking. But stamina bar is zero very fast and the fall to the ground cycle repeats. Targeting him is mistake because when he leaps in the air the camera becomes your enemy, but untargeting him means missing a lot of attacks since he moves around so much.
Finally I just went in and didn't care about trying to dodge or block but instead just attacking as much as I could. I went through 18 estus, several of which were wasted because I just spammed the drink button and kept drinking after health bar was full, but he did go down finally.
The main reason I hated the fight is because he's huge yet moves so fast doing so many different things that it's all just a huge random blur with no time to react to anything or even see wtf he's doing. It felt next to impossible to even try to study him since it was all way too fast and huge - can't see shit.
Then when I stepped onto it again, it went back down to the previous place (near artorias fight). From there, it only goes back up to the higher area of royal wood. It never goes back down to chasm. I tried everything, could not make it go back down, only up and down between the two areas of the wood. Bugged, maybe? :(
Anyways, I really hate the Manus fight. Once I get hit, it takes so long to stand back up that he's hitting me again the moment I'm on my feet. Repeat until all health gone. I can manage to sneak in an estus sip or two, but not without getting hit again...and again. I tried getting my equipment load below 20% which helped dodge some attacks, but getting hit by just one attack starts the cycle of falling on the ground, taking forever to get up, getting immediately knocked down again. So I tried to tank him, which makes dodge all but impossible but you can do some blocking. But stamina bar is zero very fast and the fall to the ground cycle repeats. Targeting him is mistake because when he leaps in the air the camera becomes your enemy, but untargeting him means missing a lot of attacks since he moves around so much.
Finally I just went in and didn't care about trying to dodge or block but instead just attacking as much as I could. I went through 18 estus, several of which were wasted because I just spammed the drink button and kept drinking after health bar was full, but he did go down finally.
The main reason I hated the fight is because he's huge yet moves so fast doing so many different things that it's all just a huge random blur with no time to react to anything or even see wtf he's doing. It felt next to impossible to even try to study him since it was all way too fast and huge - can't see shit.