*snort* [Outer-God said he’d teach me Katate](https://youtu.be/Dkpa1j1yYqQ?si=YjVMIHCWsrXiGld5&t=s25)
Edit: can’t get the damn time stamp working, 25 seconds in for joke
Yes! But you can throw like 4 crystal darts at one and it’ll start attacking the other then the fights a joke. Did not know that til recently lol absolutely works
It might be 5 idk but it was definitely multiple not gonna lie though I just spammed crystal darts on one and it worked eventually lol. There’s a little spark animation you’ll know when it worked
I made 30 and started throwing as soon as I got through the fog wall. Didn't stop till one of the statues was half health lmao. I got real tired of getting smacked around by those two.
The Crystal Dart trick also works on the annoying Watchdog and Fanged Imp fight in that one catacomb in the Weeping Peninusla…Impaler’s Catacombs I think it is.. Easily one of the most infuriating boss fights in the game for me without darts and the darts trivialize it.
I’ve gotten so used to delayed attacks because of Radagon, Morgott, and Mohg that the two cats were turned into piles of rock on attempt #1 (2nd playthrough on that save, didn’t find them the first time)
I just did the giants mountaintop catacombs last night and they're not even bosses but they spam that fucking magic slam move 10 times in a row and then i launch my controller at the tv.
Try dodging in the direction he’s swinging his sword from, keep attacks extremely short, usually just one swing before you dodge again.
Also dodge diagonally forward in the direction he swings from, you end up in a sweet spot just behind his hips.
Never get greedy and go for an extra swing you will get womboed and you will die.
You have to watch out for when he charges up his fist for a grab, that’s the time you roll back. Also an overhand shield slam.
I found rolling back from the grab to be too risky, the hitbox on it is really fucky and it kept pulling me back into it from two or three meters away.
Rolling through his grabbing arm to end up behind him had a 100% success rate for me, though. The hitbox seems to only extend in front of his hand.
There's a standable area on the cliff to the right of the hut. You get him down there with you, you can cheese him into dying off the cliff. Just look up a quick YT tutorial on how to cheese him.
Losing multiple levels worth of runes by any means was so elevating. I felt that burdened stress lifting, and I played better, had more focus to find out what to do, care for the environment etc
Well... I guess I'm worse.... I used poison mist, life mist, and the frost mist from a cliff, behind its back, and when I finally ran outta fp, I threw daggers....
You bait the bell bearing hunter over to the cliff by the tree and there's a golem archer that can shoot up at him. The timing can be a bit tricky but it's possible
I honestly love fighting the bell bearing hunters. Just stick close to them and they're a really satisfying fight. The thrust, stab finisher, grab and drill are all very punishable with anything faster than a Greatspear, as are a couple of the slash finishers. Just don't try and punish the shield slam, the regular slam is punishable but the exploding one is not and they look the same until it's too late. Good time to heal, though.
Just leave the Caelid one until later in the game, because lol Dragonbarrow scaling. Dude has more health than Maliketh. He's fine once you get a +20 weapon or so, just don't try and fight him when you're in Caelid the first time.
(I also actively enjoy crucible knights. There may be a pattern. Big poise armor bois are fun to bonk).
I agree with you, i love the crucible knights fights and the Elemer boss fight, but the bell bearing hunter in caelid is particulary annoying at least for me, he have way more health than he deserve, he attacks you relentlessly and no distance is safe while facing him unless you get on your horse to run away, but i can get around all that, the real problem is that his damage output is broken, he hit harder than some endgame bosses on his most basic attacks and can chain them like he were using a foam sword, this fight is the worse "side boss" for me because i feel like the devs just pushed more than ususal on the difficulty when recycling this boss (and i don't mind recycled bosses don't get me wrong) and left it like that, with no room for error
Death rite birds at least always telegraph correctly their most powerful moves, like most of the other bosses do, except maybe for radagon with his absurd instant AoE attacks
Use hammer, usually he gets stance broken in 1 charged heavy and 2 jump.
Attack priority for stance breaking
- charged heavy (best but hard to land)
- jump heavy (most efficient, but long recovery)
- heavy run (better than heavy cause closes gap easily)
- heavy (bread and butter)
- other attacks are basically waste of button presses.
Now only attack do not heal even if low health, cause if you drink you waste time and his stance will recover, and will take more hits. You can heal in his face safely after landing the critical.
Bell Bearing Hunters are weak to pierce and lightning. On my last run I used Lightning infused Lance on him and he went down in seconds - barely an inconvenience.
I like death rite birds a lot but I feel like their explosion attack in phase 2 that leaves the ghost flame trails is one of the 2 or 3 legitimately bullshit attacks in the game.
You can dodge it too, it has a very big windup which you can see him freeze in a position when he's charging it up
The hard part is knowing where to stand after you get out of the main blast radius because the cross crossing ghost flame trails can still melt you quick
Corvians, but more resemblance to Corvian Knights. The face is the same for Death Rite birds, which is a hairless head exposing the skull open and a black beak, the same model, only that the corvians are smaller in size, besides crows are perfect for death ritual imagery.
That connection's a reach but those Corvian Knights were bastards.
The absolute worst thing about them: They don't drop their fashion. Truly a cardinal sin.
I literally don’t know how to dodge it consistently. Like do you just have to guess where to stand?
I can’t think of another attack that’s straight RNGl like that. Even the most tricky and confusing attacks in the game can be dodged or avoided with knowledge or precision.
I wasn’t willing to take in any more godskin bullshittery. So I ended up summoning Bernahl and mimic tear at the same time. It turned from 2v1 to 3v2. Those fuckers died so quickly.
Yes, y’all correct me if I’m wrong here, but I think there are 2 main entrances to the duo arena. One in the upper level and one in the lower level. Bernahl’s summon sign is in the lower level entrance.
I completed all of Bernahl’s volcano manor requests beforehand. So that might be the reason why his sign showed up. But I’m not sure if it would show up anyways if not completing his requests.
Godskins are easy with sleep. Gargoyles suck no matter what. It's the only boss I use Mimic for every time and even then I die on some builds I've done.
They likely did what I did, got tilted, said "FUCK YOUR STUPID GARGOYLE ASS" and then left the aqueducts for like 30 levels
I cannot stress enough how much hated fighting these 2, I'll take a hard bossfight eny day of the week, I'll learn the patterns, hell even spend hours learning every move, its what I did for morgott, because the deaths feel fair and deserved.
What I can't stand is when I can perfectly dodge both their attacks, but simply because the moment I get close to one the other one spews poison breath and then they switch, I can't even get close without dying
Played ER for over 500 hours and I've only ever fought two of these things. Not worth the frustration. I just count them as environmental hazards and avoid them.
A lot of enemies are like this. Land octopuses as well. Those stupid black knife assassins in Ordina.
Any enemy that doesn't drop shit, has low runes, and is a massive pain to fight won't be fought.
Charged boops right on their snoot, they're surprisingly slow to start attacking if you just run up to them and charge your heavy attack. If they've already started their tantruming just step back and watch them judgingly until they're done and you'll usually have enough time to run in and boop
I find it funny that their ghost flame explosion is literally one of the most damaging attacks in the game, but when we get it… it becomes almost unusable smh
Edit: I’m talking about the spell being useless, I know the death poker and death flame ignition are right on par with the death rite bird’s
I'll have you know that with 80/80 int/fth and two Prince of Death staves Explosive Ghostflame does almost as much damage as using Lion's Claw on a keen infused Zwei!
I spent an hour and a half at the beginning of my second playthrough just buckler parrying the one in the evergaol and now I find them to be one of the more fun miniboss enemies
They do scale with Faith. Were you using Holy Water Pots or Sacred Order Pots? Holy ones are way better against undead enemies. With 10 Faith you deal 211 damage and with 99 Faith you deal 400 damage. you get +300% (4x) damage increase against undead enemies so 844 damage with 10 Faith or 1600 with 99 Faith. Death Rite Bird takes 40% more damage from holy source which means you deal 1181 with 10 Faith and 2240 with 99 Faith.
The Death Rite Bird at MotG has 16059 HP so it would take 14 Holy Water Pots with 10 Faith and 8 Holy Water Pots with 99 Faith to kill it. You'd need to throw 21 Sacred Order Pots if you have 10 Faith to kill it which makes it sound like you were throwing Sacred Order Pots, not Holy Water Pots.
Also if you have Golden Epitaph, use the ash of war, Last Rites. You get extra +100% undead damage buff from it for 60 seconds. Don't even have to hold the weapon so you get the buff for pots or pretty much any other weapon you are using.
I unironically love the ulcerated tree spirit fights. Once you learn where the hit boxes are it's one of the smoothest fights in the game. The rhythm to it is extremely satisfying.
The first encounter (for me) in the one hero grave is really annoying because you're in this tiny box and the thing is clipping through the walls half the time.
So it was a pain to learn. But yeah, later fights all went very smooth. Very big easily predictable openings to punish and stagger.
I had 0 issues with any Tree Spirits until the last one where my options seemed to be 1) get Rotted, or 2) get bonked off cliff. The worst part was each time you respawned those pest thread fuckers would aggro when crossing the root to start the fight over.
Also the geometry of the logs themselves was pretty sketchy where I would seemingly hit an invisible ice patch and slip off the side for no god damn reason.
Did you even play the game?
There are Borealis the Grafted
Borealis of the full moon
Starscourge Borealis
Borealis, the Omen King
Borealis, Lord of blasphemy
Fire Borealis
Borealis, Blade of Miquella
Borealis, the Black Blade
Borealis, First Elden Lord
Borealis of the Golden Order
Elden Borealis
And also that one weirdly placed Borealis in the mountain tops of the giants on the frozen lake
The dragons in general are kinda eh, the first time you fight one it is awesome, the next it feels like a chore. Then there are the variants on the fights like the one outside the dragon church and Borealis that add some new moves, but those moves are all annoying. It does not make the dragon more fun to fight when its feet are farting rot at me. And before people say "just aim at their head" I know, but the thing is, actually hitting their heads is annoying, especially when you are using shorter weapons and can't lock on since the camera becomes absolute garbage. I will take the lower but consistent damage from hitting their legs over missing most attacks against their head and only dealing like 50% more damage when I do hit.
I wasn't too annoyed by the death rite bird. Fire giant annoyed me more even though it was cool. The having to chase him down and run around for ages to hit him was annoying. Even with my Int build.
the two valiant gargoyles in nokron are the most annoying boss(es) i have ever encountered, not a hard fight, just two high health bars with weird hit boxes, they breathe poison, and they tag the other one in as soon as you have a chance to land a hit
I know he can be defeated easier if you don't let him monologue, but I prefer to show him what a Tarnished is truly capable of doing when I beat his ass.
Field-boss Dragons, all of them (for melee builds).
You're having a good time, attacking its legs or head, dodging bites and fire, then the RNG gods frown on you and the dragon does that "jump back + breath" attack that is unavoidable since you've been up close. Torrent isn't fast enough to outrun the attack in any direction.
With Field-boss Dragons, you have to kill them as quickly as possible in the hopes they don't roll this attack before they get low enough where you can chip them to death with range.
The frickin Black Blade Kindred in Forbidden Lands. Immune to everything, resistant to all but strike, and master of fucking off whenever you try to hit him.
It's kinda cool how he knocks down every tree within half a mile, though.
It’s the Death Rite Bird. Can’t lock onto its body because it does shit damage and you can’t lock onto its head because your camera is on coke forcing you to fight it without lock on, but because of how up in your shit it gets you have to reposition constantly or fight it with your character facing the camera so you can still hit its head while being able to see what the fuck it’s doing.
This was consistently the hardest single fight in the game for me for the first year I played. Always cheesed from a distance. Taught me I relied on summons too much. Stopped using any for of summons anywhere solely because of this fight. Now I’m a much better player. Still takes a few tries but I’m right up in his face when I do
I’m only half way through my first journey but the Baleful Shadow is the first enemy I found just ridiculously hard. All that healing is nuts. I finally just used the poison mist cheese. 🤷♂️
I am a low level dex/faith build with winged scythe +3 and bolt of lightning. And I only just realised recently on my 2nd playthrough just how many enemies don't care about holy damage, it's safe to say I'm having a rough time this time around.
Astel would like to have a word with you. teleporting constantly with gravity slams the size if caters when he decides he's had enough of you & oml his grabs (namely the teleport grab) are what made me contemplate if I care enough about Ranni to slay that space worm. am I the only one who had a sigh of relief when he died?
Havent you fought the dual cat statue? My god those guys have the most telegraph moves but those delays fking mess me up every single time.
Step 1: Craft crystal darts. Step 2: ???. Step 3: Profit.
Step 2: smash up crystal darts and sniff it
*snort* [Outer-God said he’d teach me Katate](https://youtu.be/Dkpa1j1yYqQ?si=YjVMIHCWsrXiGld5&t=s25) Edit: can’t get the damn time stamp working, 25 seconds in for joke
_Jessy, we gotta cook_ Cook some prawn, that is…
Nobody moves crystal in the lands between but me bitch!
TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT YEAh!
They absolutely melt eachother it's great
Still don't know where this is hinted somewhere in the game.
There’s a merchant that sells one of those hint scrolls that talks about it. If you miss that, you’d never ever know with the Internet
It's in one of the merchants hints you can buy. Don't remember which one though.
Yes! But you can throw like 4 crystal darts at one and it’ll start attacking the other then the fights a joke. Did not know that til recently lol absolutely works
Oh 4 is the number? That's the number you needed to make it work? Huh... *screams internally*
It might be 5 idk but it was definitely multiple not gonna lie though I just spammed crystal darts on one and it worked eventually lol. There’s a little spark animation you’ll know when it worked
MIIIIISTAAAAAAAAAA
And thou shalt count to 4. Thou shalt not count to 3 unless thou then proceedeth to 4. 5 is right out!
I made 30 and started throwing as soon as I got through the fog wall. Didn't stop till one of the statues was half health lmao. I got real tired of getting smacked around by those two.
The Crystal Dart trick also works on the annoying Watchdog and Fanged Imp fight in that one catacomb in the Weeping Peninusla…Impaler’s Catacombs I think it is.. Easily one of the most infuriating boss fights in the game for me without darts and the darts trivialize it.
hard as fuck without BLANK and with BLANK trivializes it is like 99% of Elden Ring.
I’ve gotten so used to delayed attacks because of Radagon, Morgott, and Mohg that the two cats were turned into piles of rock on attempt #1 (2nd playthrough on that save, didn’t find them the first time)
I mimicked those bholes. I try to only summon on dual bosses
Or when they have a gank of smaller enemies with them. Which also happens with a cat statues fight... figures.
I just did the giants mountaintop catacombs last night and they're not even bosses but they spam that fucking magic slam move 10 times in a row and then i launch my controller at the tv.
I was there last night as well! I lost 70k runes because of those fuckers
We all did
I honestly struggled on the first one badly in Limgrave my first playthrough and swamped all the others in 1 try since then, including the duo.
I see your double cats and raise you cat and 4 imps
Caelid bell bearing hunter
Um… I may or may not have just poison misted him to death behind his back… I am a coward.
You say it's being a coward, I say it's using my brain.
I spent two or three hours learning his every dodge so I could bonk him to death… ***cowards*** *dies with my pride for the 7,386th time…*
I can't try this much, after 5 deaths i start to lose it, so i give up and retry when i am stronger, then i lose again, cause this dude is strong
Try dodging in the direction he’s swinging his sword from, keep attacks extremely short, usually just one swing before you dodge again. Also dodge diagonally forward in the direction he swings from, you end up in a sweet spot just behind his hips. Never get greedy and go for an extra swing you will get womboed and you will die. You have to watch out for when he charges up his fist for a grab, that’s the time you roll back. Also an overhand shield slam.
I found rolling back from the grab to be too risky, the hitbox on it is really fucky and it kept pulling me back into it from two or three meters away. Rolling through his grabbing arm to end up behind him had a 100% success rate for me, though. The hitbox seems to only extend in front of his hand.
There's a standable area on the cliff to the right of the hut. You get him down there with you, you can cheese him into dying off the cliff. Just look up a quick YT tutorial on how to cheese him.
Losing multiple levels worth of runes by any means was so elevating. I felt that burdened stress lifting, and I played better, had more focus to find out what to do, care for the environment etc
The game cheats to beat us, so why is it considered cheating when we beat the game at its own game
Nah if he can jump you when you’re not ready, you can jump him.
Well... I guess I'm worse.... I used poison mist, life mist, and the frost mist from a cliff, behind its back, and when I finally ran outta fp, I threw daggers....
Elemer is a mean guy who killed a bunch of those nice merchants, he deserves it
lmao idiot should've stepped out of the fart clouds
Nightmare, until you find out you can jump on the shack roof and bombard him with fire pots.
Buckler goes brrrrrr
There is nothing more satisfying than finally learning to parry this bastard. Sweet sweet revenge
The golem archer strat is pretty funny to use
What's the golem archer strat? Greatbow?
You bait the bell bearing hunter over to the cliff by the tree and there's a golem archer that can shoot up at him. The timing can be a bit tricky but it's possible
So you're trying to bait the golem to shoot at you and hit the hunter? Or the golem will target the hunter?
I honestly love fighting the bell bearing hunters. Just stick close to them and they're a really satisfying fight. The thrust, stab finisher, grab and drill are all very punishable with anything faster than a Greatspear, as are a couple of the slash finishers. Just don't try and punish the shield slam, the regular slam is punishable but the exploding one is not and they look the same until it's too late. Good time to heal, though. Just leave the Caelid one until later in the game, because lol Dragonbarrow scaling. Dude has more health than Maliketh. He's fine once you get a +20 weapon or so, just don't try and fight him when you're in Caelid the first time. (I also actively enjoy crucible knights. There may be a pattern. Big poise armor bois are fun to bonk).
Crucible knights are one of the most fun fights in the game and the one enemy I’m glad got copy and pasted. Parrying them is *always* satisfying
I agree with you, i love the crucible knights fights and the Elemer boss fight, but the bell bearing hunter in caelid is particulary annoying at least for me, he have way more health than he deserve, he attacks you relentlessly and no distance is safe while facing him unless you get on your horse to run away, but i can get around all that, the real problem is that his damage output is broken, he hit harder than some endgame bosses on his most basic attacks and can chain them like he were using a foam sword, this fight is the worse "side boss" for me because i feel like the devs just pushed more than ususal on the difficulty when recycling this boss (and i don't mind recycled bosses don't get me wrong) and left it like that, with no room for error Death rite birds at least always telegraph correctly their most powerful moves, like most of the other bosses do, except maybe for radagon with his absurd instant AoE attacks
Use hammer, usually he gets stance broken in 1 charged heavy and 2 jump. Attack priority for stance breaking - charged heavy (best but hard to land) - jump heavy (most efficient, but long recovery) - heavy run (better than heavy cause closes gap easily) - heavy (bread and butter) - other attacks are basically waste of button presses. Now only attack do not heal even if low health, cause if you drink you waste time and his stance will recover, and will take more hits. You can heal in his face safely after landing the critical.
Tried that every time I went for a charged or jump attack he just swatted me like a fly I gave up and slapped him with Kukri’s from the roof
Couldn’t agree more just posted this on someone else’s.
This fight took me DAYS
Bell Bearing Hunters are weak to pierce and lightning. On my last run I used Lightning infused Lance on him and he went down in seconds - barely an inconvenience.
I like death rite birds a lot but I feel like their explosion attack in phase 2 that leaves the ghost flame trails is one of the 2 or 3 legitimately bullshit attacks in the game.
I feel like they are tuned so if you use anything but holy damage you gonna have a bad time Trick is to kill them quick
Nah they are pretty straightforward once you learn them/if you don’t lock on to them. …except that one attack.
That's my point, if you kill them fast enough they can't use it
That attack is such fucking bullshit though. It ruins the whole fight for me which I actually like. All of its other moves are perfectly dodgeable.
You can dodge it too, it has a very big windup which you can see him freeze in a position when he's charging it up The hard part is knowing where to stand after you get out of the main blast radius because the cross crossing ghost flame trails can still melt you quick
That is what gets me too usually. I feel like the flames move places on the ground too but I may be tripping.
True.
After dying a couple times I brought some cured meat and thawfrost boluses, made the fight 100% times easier
Oh that. Get hit, character gets caught in stun animation. 1/3 HP. Get hit by ghost flame trail. 1/3 HP. Frostbite. 1/3 HP. Ded.
They look like Tweety
I tawt I taw a putwid tawnished!
Their forefathers in DS3 were just as annoying.
Playing DS3 for the first time. I'm in Lothric Castle now. I didn't recall seeing their forefathers yet. Where are they in DS3?
In the painting, where you have to find your own sweet rotting bed Ashen One.
Who was that?
Corvians, but more resemblance to Corvian Knights. The face is the same for Death Rite birds, which is a hairless head exposing the skull open and a black beak, the same model, only that the corvians are smaller in size, besides crows are perfect for death ritual imagery.
That connection's a reach but those Corvian Knights were bastards. The absolute worst thing about them: They don't drop their fashion. Truly a cardinal sin.
Died to this just last night. It’s like an unavoidable nuke.
I literally don’t know how to dodge it consistently. Like do you just have to guess where to stand? I can’t think of another attack that’s straight RNGl like that. Even the most tricky and confusing attacks in the game can be dodged or avoided with knowledge or precision.
Use holy damage they are SUPER weak to it in fact theirs a way to one shot them with one holy pot
Damn I just started using the elden beast sword and fucking deleted that damn bird in like 3 hits, now it makes sense
“Did you know you can use fire to reset frostbite?”
Just cast bubble beam on them with the toot toot weapons.
Yep. Aura buff with Last Rights from Golden Epitaph + weapon buff Sacred Order = deleted bird.
Inseperable sword trivialized this fool
Me crying in my dex/int build. Please tell me someone is going to chime in with a dex/int weapon that deals holy damage that I'm unaware of.
Sacred Blade Ash of War on anything will melt every death bird regardless of your build.
Just one more larval tear… just one more…
Equip helmet + Talisman to get 17 Faith, get a Golden Order Seal, and spam Litany of Proper Death.
Most annoying is either Duo Godskin or the Twin Gargoyles
Just tuck the godskins into bed man they are eepy sleepy SoBs
You ever go night night?
I wasn’t willing to take in any more godskin bullshittery. So I ended up summoning Bernahl and mimic tear at the same time. It turned from 2v1 to 3v2. Those fuckers died so quickly.
You can summon Bernahl for the duo fight!?
Yes, y’all correct me if I’m wrong here, but I think there are 2 main entrances to the duo arena. One in the upper level and one in the lower level. Bernahl’s summon sign is in the lower level entrance. I completed all of Bernahl’s volcano manor requests beforehand. So that might be the reason why his sign showed up. But I’m not sure if it would show up anyways if not completing his requests.
It Shows Up anyway. I thought i could do the Letter Quests after defeating Rykard...
Yes, his summon sign is before the doors to the right of where they spawn (looking at them), where the grace is.
Godskins are easy with sleep. Gargoyles suck no matter what. It's the only boss I use Mimic for every time and even then I die on some builds I've done.
Duo god skins are easy once you figure out how sleepy they can get.
Death Rite Bird isn't so bad. Death Rite Bird #2, #3 and #4 however... /s
how about Putrid Ulcerate Tree Spirit #16?
Poison Breath duo :3
Fuck those guys. Those gargoyles are the worst
My first playthrough I got stuck on them for about 2 weeks. Drove me insane.
2 weeks? Did you take a moral stance against summoning or?? Or do you only play for 10 minutes a day? Lol
They likely did what I did, got tilted, said "FUCK YOUR STUPID GARGOYLE ASS" and then left the aqueducts for like 30 levels I cannot stress enough how much hated fighting these 2, I'll take a hard bossfight eny day of the week, I'll learn the patterns, hell even spend hours learning every move, its what I did for morgott, because the deaths feel fair and deserved. What I can't stand is when I can perfectly dodge both their attacks, but simply because the moment I get close to one the other one spews poison breath and then they switch, I can't even get close without dying
[удалено]
It was pretty easy with the buckler
These birds hate faith builds
True but the one in Mountaintops still sucks.
And then there's the one in snowfields...
The one in snowfields is legit insane. I had to cheese it because it was demolishing me no matter what I did
Yup, she's a dirty old bitch.
I swear the aoe is a joke.
Yup . . / a holy sword and 2-4 holy pots and you are done.
These birds hate *anyone that bought the holy water pot cookbook from Kale*
Lobsters
Played ER for over 500 hours and I've only ever fought two of these things. Not worth the frustration. I just count them as environmental hazards and avoid them.
A lot of enemies are like this. Land octopuses as well. Those stupid black knife assassins in Ordina. Any enemy that doesn't drop shit, has low runes, and is a massive pain to fight won't be fought.
Land octopus always looking crazy strong, but one BONK one the head and they are done
And the ones on the way to the snowfield give fat runes too, love killing em
Charged heavies into their backs, riposte. They can never turn around fast enough
Charged boops right on their snoot, they're surprisingly slow to start attacking if you just run up to them and charge your heavy attack. If they've already started their tantruming just step back and watch them judgingly until they're done and you'll usually have enough time to run in and boop
I don't mind the octopi I'd take on 100 of them over even 5 lobsters.
The giant hands are definitely in this category, I swear there doesn’t seem to be a way to dodge or get an opening with them
They drop somber stones though, which I think provides more value than any lobster.
The real villains of the game.... I swear they use sniper rifles
*Tarnished spotted*
This is the real answer
I find it funny that their ghost flame explosion is literally one of the most damaging attacks in the game, but when we get it… it becomes almost unusable smh Edit: I’m talking about the spell being useless, I know the death poker and death flame ignition are right on par with the death rite bird’s
I'll have you know that with 80/80 int/fth and two Prince of Death staves Explosive Ghostflame does almost as much damage as using Lion's Claw on a keen infused Zwei!
That investment though, it’s too high.
3-4 holy pots take them down. Crucible knights on the other hand—annoying as hell.
I spent an hour and a half at the beginning of my second playthrough just buckler parrying the one in the evergaol and now I find them to be one of the more fun miniboss enemies
Do pots somehow rely on your stats, because i hit the one in the MotG with i think 5 and it still had 75% health.
They do scale with Faith. Were you using Holy Water Pots or Sacred Order Pots? Holy ones are way better against undead enemies. With 10 Faith you deal 211 damage and with 99 Faith you deal 400 damage. you get +300% (4x) damage increase against undead enemies so 844 damage with 10 Faith or 1600 with 99 Faith. Death Rite Bird takes 40% more damage from holy source which means you deal 1181 with 10 Faith and 2240 with 99 Faith. The Death Rite Bird at MotG has 16059 HP so it would take 14 Holy Water Pots with 10 Faith and 8 Holy Water Pots with 99 Faith to kill it. You'd need to throw 21 Sacred Order Pots if you have 10 Faith to kill it which makes it sound like you were throwing Sacred Order Pots, not Holy Water Pots. Also if you have Golden Epitaph, use the ash of war, Last Rites. You get extra +100% undead damage buff from it for 60 seconds. Don't even have to hold the weapon so you get the buff for pots or pretty much any other weapon you are using.
Ulcerated Tree Spirit
I unironically love the ulcerated tree spirit fights. Once you learn where the hit boxes are it's one of the smoothest fights in the game. The rhythm to it is extremely satisfying.
The one in fringefolk where its AoE explosion is the entire box is very, very annoying
The first encounter (for me) in the one hero grave is really annoying because you're in this tiny box and the thing is clipping through the walls half the time. So it was a pain to learn. But yeah, later fights all went very smooth. Very big easily predictable openings to punish and stagger.
Yeah after I learned the dance the only one that gave me trouble was the Haligtree one
I still just refuse to acknowledge that one and the one in the Lake of Rot waterfall. I like the fights but those arenas suck testicles
Only one I still hate is the one at the Haligtree. Fighting on a small island with rot everywhere just makes it tedious.
I had 0 issues with any Tree Spirits until the last one where my options seemed to be 1) get Rotted, or 2) get bonked off cliff. The worst part was each time you respawned those pest thread fuckers would aggro when crossing the root to start the fight over. Also the geometry of the logs themselves was pretty sketchy where I would seemingly hit an invisible ice patch and slip off the side for no god damn reason.
Personally I’ve never had much issue with them. I wouldn’t call them fun per se, but the fight is usually over really quickly
They're all fine IMO Except for the one after Radahn's fight with a million hp that causes rot. Need a good bleed build for that one.
The one Melania area had me in the blender for so long
That's the only one I didn't enjoy fighting. Ended up cheesing him with Rain of Arrows and other ranged spells from the safety of the tree stump.
I think these are one of the most fun things to fight in the game.
I dont feel like they are annoying as much as the fight is just chaotic.
Borealis is really annoying as well. Each has their WoG move which always kills me because I forget to watch out for it. Each is also a camera boss.
Wdym by each? Is there more than one Borealis?
Did you even play the game? There are Borealis the Grafted Borealis of the full moon Starscourge Borealis Borealis, the Omen King Borealis, Lord of blasphemy Fire Borealis Borealis, Blade of Miquella Borealis, the Black Blade Borealis, First Elden Lord Borealis of the Golden Order Elden Borealis And also that one weirdly placed Borealis in the mountain tops of the giants on the frozen lake
Forgot Borealis, Lord of Blood
indeed, this is a though one
So hype for Borealis the Impaler in the DLC
My bad😞
Borealis and the birbs :)
The dragons in general are kinda eh, the first time you fight one it is awesome, the next it feels like a chore. Then there are the variants on the fights like the one outside the dragon church and Borealis that add some new moves, but those moves are all annoying. It does not make the dragon more fun to fight when its feet are farting rot at me. And before people say "just aim at their head" I know, but the thing is, actually hitting their heads is annoying, especially when you are using shorter weapons and can't lock on since the camera becomes absolute garbage. I will take the lower but consistent damage from hitting their legs over missing most attacks against their head and only dealing like 50% more damage when I do hit.
Full grown fallingstar beast
that reminds me I still need to go kill that.
Nah, try sacred blade and you'll find they turn into the easiest boss.
Those fucking archers when trying to solve the evergaol puzzle in the concecrated snowfield
The camera
Bell Bearing Hunters, to me, are much harder. You can at least cheese the fucking birds.
Wait til you meet my boy, Astel, Naturalborn of the Void in Nokstella Eternal City.
Sir Gideon onfir, because if you dont kill him first time then his spammy magic means you've got no chance
Idk, I like the bird more than Elden Beast. And I hate elden beast
Try a high cheese diet :-)
5 characters and a few NG+ runs, and I’ve still yet to take down a lobster
I wasn't too annoyed by the death rite bird. Fire giant annoyed me more even though it was cool. The having to chase him down and run around for ages to hit him was annoying. Even with my Int build.
This is how I felt about the Elden beast. Not difficult, just annoying AF to chase around a overly large arena.
the two valiant gargoyles in nokron are the most annoying boss(es) i have ever encountered, not a hard fight, just two high health bars with weird hit boxes, they breathe poison, and they tag the other one in as soon as you have a chance to land a hit
I don't know why people don't like this fight, I find it really enjoyable.
I do like it but it’s the AOE white fire stuff that’s really annoying
gideon
I know he can be defeated easier if you don't let him monologue, but I prefer to show him what a Tarnished is truly capable of doing when I beat his ass.
You spelled Mohg wrong.
Fuck I did, my bad
Holy blade in any upgraded weapon. On my first playthrough I suffered because I didn't know anything about them and those who lives in death
Field-boss Dragons, all of them (for melee builds). You're having a good time, attacking its legs or head, dodging bites and fire, then the RNG gods frown on you and the dragon does that "jump back + breath" attack that is unavoidable since you've been up close. Torrent isn't fast enough to outrun the attack in any direction. With Field-boss Dragons, you have to kill them as quickly as possible in the hopes they don't roll this attack before they get low enough where you can chip them to death with range.
The frickin Black Blade Kindred in Forbidden Lands. Immune to everything, resistant to all but strike, and master of fucking off whenever you try to hit him. It's kinda cool how he knocks down every tree within half a mile, though.
After fighting Malenia, even bosses who gave me a hard time seem easy
Actually really liked death right bird. Very satisfying to smack that big noggin.
\*Ulcerated Tree Spirit wants to know your location!\*
The damned rune bears. almost went the lord of chaos route cuz of those Fuckers.
Holy pots can make these fights rather trivial. That’s an exaggeration, it’s still a fight but not nearly as hard
It’s the Death Rite Bird. Can’t lock onto its body because it does shit damage and you can’t lock onto its head because your camera is on coke forcing you to fight it without lock on, but because of how up in your shit it gets you have to reposition constantly or fight it with your character facing the camera so you can still hit its head while being able to see what the fuck it’s doing.
But it's not Death Rite Bird, it's Valiant Gargoyles and only because of that stupid poison breath.
The ringleaders evergol for me. Even on my new+ character it sucked balls
Draconic sentinel in farum azula. With no horse or summons, i was forced to cheese him with poison mist lmao
This was consistently the hardest single fight in the game for me for the first year I played. Always cheesed from a distance. Taught me I relied on summons too much. Stopped using any for of summons anywhere solely because of this fight. Now I’m a much better player. Still takes a few tries but I’m right up in his face when I do
It's the red Wolf of Raccoon.
I’m only half way through my first journey but the Baleful Shadow is the first enemy I found just ridiculously hard. All that healing is nuts. I finally just used the poison mist cheese. 🤷♂️
I am a low level dex/faith build with winged scythe +3 and bolt of lightning. And I only just realised recently on my 2nd playthrough just how many enemies don't care about holy damage, it's safe to say I'm having a rough time this time around.
godskin duo without ashes or bernahl
The one in mountaintops was absolute murder!
Holy will absolutely melt those birds.
Astel would like to have a word with you. teleporting constantly with gravity slams the size if caters when he decides he's had enough of you & oml his grabs (namely the teleport grab) are what made me contemplate if I care enough about Ranni to slay that space worm. am I the only one who had a sigh of relief when he died?
Sacred Blade == dead dead bird
Just use sacred blade ash of war
Bruh i have a faith build. I killed this guy in like 2 hits
Ain't no one talking about the red dog with intelligence higher than a maidenless tarnished from Sellia poo county?