I have to wonder if we’re playing the same games here.
Well, i have bad news for you: there IS second phase with new health bar, and it harden then first one. i try this Crucible 30 or 40 times, meet boss 14 times and reach 2 phase once. So i dont want to go there any more, it’s to time-consumable.
In which sense do you mean? We play the same game, but everyone feels different, that’s normal 
I think he is a bit sarcastic because he is a very good skilled hardcore player who kills very easily this boss. (So how can we complain about this?)
I am a bad casual player who achieves Returnal (PS5 version) in 4 days of gameplay instead of 6 hours. Lol.
At a point, when the difficulty is too high for me, too punitive, I give up or use cheats lol…
I, for example, never kill Echo Of Lilith, just because one of her attack is a death sentence whatever gameplay and armor you have, the only way is to fast-kill her with a dead bugged or abused mechanic… It’s a kind of same thing here.
The problem is to nerf life and focus gain : a “real” From Software-like game is full of abusively powerful attack that can easily kill boss. I am not sure that Moon Studios wants to keep too powerful technics here…
I just feel like Souls bosses have wayyyyyy more HP than the bosses in No Rest
You right, all boss except that knight on his cockroach. Because this one just “sucked” out all hardness from other bosses, just it.
I start cauch myself on one moment: running around the arena from the boss, and wait while can use heal food.