EDIT May 8th: my wife and I beat Azra tonight thanks to the many advice provided (especially how Azra can be thrown and trinkets can be purchased before a run)! We really appreciate your responses! We will proceed to defeating the Absolum next!
My wife and I have been stuck at Azra for a couple runs now. I know it may be not a very difficult boss for people with more experience on video games, but we really struggled a lot with him. We don't really know if his various attacks can be parried or countered. Sometimes if seemed that we have successfully done so, but we are the ones getting stun animation, and sometimes we just couldn't get a single parry after many attempts. The swirling blade attack seems to come from both directions so we didn't know which is the correct side to block, or if it is even blockable at all.
We have purchased everything available to us at this point. I saw some posts here showed that you are able to bring some trinkets before the run starts? But we can't find things like that. The stuff in the museum is not purchasable to us. Now are are basically sitting upon a ton of useless currency with nowhere to spend them other than doing rerolls during the run.
We don't want to adjust the difficulty and really want to "git gud" at the game. I play Karl and my wife plays Brome because we like to use Arcana attacks from afar, getting close to any enemy in latter areas often make us lose a lot of health. Are there good builds we haven't discovered? We usually pick whatever that fills our Arcana bar quicker and whatever that gives bonuses when we use Arcana sbilities.Can someone tell us are there anything we've missed? Are there tips for defeating Azra?
Thanks in advance for anyone's help.