According to Fextralife Midit has about 800 more health than Gael. Maybe it's a resistances thing? Anyway, it just feels very tedious. You're right in that the attacks aren't that hard to avoid, but I found myself doing way way more avoiding than actually swinging my weapon. And the fight goes all over the place in a pretty big arena - at some points his charge attacks would just completely blow past me and I'd have to spend all my stamina to run after him for a single poke before he attacked again. Contrast that with Gael, which is a pretty tight fight in that you're rarely far away from each other and there's lots of opportunities to get a quick hit in without completely emptying your stam. Overall just much more satisfying, and plays better into the strengths of DS3 as a game
I personally fight close combat, you just need to know where to go in order to avoid flame and the laser attack. If you stay right by him he will never do the laser spray attack which by my experience is game over at that point. It is really just learning midir’s patterns, for me I used to fight midir for fun basically doing small challenge runs trying to not get hit and if I did I would spawn back to the bonfire and try again. I’ve overplayed the game but just found Midir to be one of my go to bosses if I wanna have fun. I know a lot of people don’t wanna play past ng and that’s fine because when you get to ng+7 it’s pretty much torture
According to Fextralife Midit has about 800 more health than Gael. Maybe it's a resistances thing? Anyway, it just feels very tedious. You're right in that the attacks aren't that hard to avoid, but I found myself doing way way more avoiding than actually swinging my weapon. And the fight goes all over the place in a pretty big arena - at some points his charge attacks would just completely blow past me and I'd have to spend all my stamina to run after him for a single poke before he attacked again. Contrast that with Gael, which is a pretty tight fight in that you're rarely far away from each other and there's lots of opportunities to get a quick hit in without completely emptying your stam. Overall just much more satisfying, and plays better into the strengths of DS3 as a game
I personally fight close combat, you just need to know where to go in order to avoid flame and the laser attack. If you stay right by him he will never do the laser spray attack which by my experience is game over at that point. It is really just learning midir’s patterns, for me I used to fight midir for fun basically doing small challenge runs trying to not get hit and if I did I would spawn back to the bonfire and try again. I’ve overplayed the game but just found Midir to be one of my go to bosses if I wanna have fun. I know a lot of people don’t wanna play past ng and that’s fine because when you get to ng+7 it’s pretty much torture