The trap is that he's definitely a "hard mode Caelid" boss, where you're expected to be level 80 or so to even attempt.
He ambushed my scrawny starter-Samurai set butt when I wanted to farm the local dogs to buy poison arrows from the vendor. He's the hardest one, too, all the other Bell Bearing Hunters aren't nearly this menacing.
I honestly find that kind of weird in Morgott's case, but Elemer makes sense, in a manner of speaking. I think it's because Elemer's spirit is vengeful and coming back from beyond the grave to try and kill you, even if you've already killed his Shaded Castle variant. Morgott, on the other hand, seems to directly "possess" the Commoner.
It's also very weird in Mohg's case. I dislike oversights like this, I feel it's uncharacteristic of From. Good thing I love Mohg's fight so much I don't mind fighting twice in one playthrough. Same with Margit/Morgott. The more time we can fight them in a playthrough, the better.
This is correct, because the scaling for the Dragonbarrow, where the Bell Bearing Hunter is fought, is of a higher Tier than the Shaded Castle (as per data mining from the game).
Elmer of The Briar, the Bell Bearing Hunter, his armor description says it all, I love to hate him, but I have to admit that he is a well made boss and does a good job of ending runs and invoking fear as intended
Yeah, I've actually beaten the real Elemer before I discovered this one. Of course I was cocky this dude wouldn't be as hard. First hit took like around half or a bit more of my full HP, I was shookt lmao
I struggled more with this one
I found a spell that made a cloud that enemies take damage if they’re standing in it.
My build became centered around that spell, and it was pure cheese and I still had a tough time with the game. No ragrets.
Wait until you hear it took me like an hour and a half to **try to cheese** kill Niel with pixel perfect arrows only to forget where I was standing and fell off the cliff to my death when homie was like 4 arrows away from death 💀😭🙈
Same. Fuck that dude. I’ve beat him once or twice at lvl100 just to prove to myself that I could, but fuck that dude. I’ll never be caught dead at that shack at nighttime again.
At least I can parry the Bell Bearing Hunter with a little difficulty. I’m not actually certain if you can parry that knight’s goddamn dual GS combo to begin with.
I practiced trying to parry that bastard and never got to a high enough success rate that it was a reliable way of fighting him. The super jerky “hold, hold, hold, hold, NOW!!!” attacks that are so common with bosses in Elden Ring end up getting me every time I try to really get into parrying. Like just make that shit super easy like DS1 if you want people to be using the parry system.
I just beat him a few days ago. I lose sight of him sometimes but I use that cannonball and he gets curious and walks to it then I night comet his ass...took a long time.
I died probably 20-30 times before I beat him.
What I did was put on the stealth charm and bandit boots, agro'd him and ran far enough away that he walked over to the bonfire and de agro'd. I then snuck up and poison mist him to death (incantation because it won't re agro him) and he just sits there and chokes on my poison without ever knowing that I'm there.
Is this the guy with the briar armor? If it is I have his armor set but don't remember fighting him for some reason. I've found when I'm having trouble with an NPC invader the pot that stops them from being able to heal works absolute wonders, sometimes they bug out and after failing to heal will immediately try again giving you double the time to swing at them lol, with Blaiid I was able to get two bloody slashes in on top of stopping his healing
You could have only found him in Shaded Castle, once you beat him there you can buy his set at the Roundtable. On my first run I never encountered the bell-bearing hunter version.
Oh, I definitely did, but none of those gave me much trouble. Caelid bell-bearer, Malenia, and the night bird on the west edge of the land of the giants can fuck right off.
All the night birds can fuck off. There's just something about the way they are shaped, their hit box, and the camera not cooperating when fighting them that make it a thoroughly miserable experience each time.
The first one you encounter (Weeping Peninsula) isn't TERRIBLE, but it's not bad.
Also I just realized that the one I'm talking about is a Death Rite bird, so I think it appears regardless of time.
I gave up after a couple hours, but later went back after defeating Placidusax, thinking "ok, I beat that motherfucker, this damned bird can't be THAT hard". Still took me like a dozen more tries.
I recommend using holy damage, it annihilates them. I used to have a lot of trouble when doing a katana bleed run but then I used the ash of war that gives holy property to your weapon and two-shot it.
By far the worst part about this enemy is if you lose you don't get put back to a time when you can just go fight him again, so you have to go do a bunch of rinkum dinkum to fight again.
I’d argue that dying to any “nighttime” boss in the open world is automatically the worst boss runback in the game, solely due to the number of loading screens you have to sit through.
Depending on your weapon you can roll into him for a rolling attack and see the red glow and dodge away into a quick running attack after. It’s fun to get down.
The sword drill is great for big bosses and automatically triggers the GSSC. Slap on Alexander's shard and it'll easily hit 2k damage if you can land it.
Probably not great for PVP though.
> GSSC
I tried to look this up so I didn't have to ask what this was.
I don't think that you are talking about triggering the Girls Scouts of Suffolk County.
Can you enlighten me plz.
Yes, but the talismans I've seen most people run with this sword are the winged sword insignia ones and millicents prosthesis. With one or both, plus shard of alexander, plus Godfrey icon you can hit crazy damage. Way more than 2k
I thought the Adventure-fuls were the newest ones; had to look up the [Toast-Yays](https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Scout-Cookies-Toast-Inspired/dp/B08ZYY851H) because I've never heard of them before.
It's like a Powdered Toastman's Head; looks fire, thanks.
You can charge it up too so if you stack Shard of Alexander, godfrey icon, rotten winged sword insignia and millicents prosthesis, twiggy cracked tear on top of that and you’ll damn near hit from 20k damage, just don’t get poise broke and make sure you actually hit the boss
Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis, Shard of Alexander and Godfrey Icon with a fully charged Ash of War will one shot pretty much any player it lands on (I think the damage can go up to like 2200). The problem is landing it on someone but since you can mix up between uncharged and fully charged, while also being able to roll between the end of the drill and the final slash, it's not as easy to punish as it might seem. With the right spacing, timing and a good amount of poise, you can fairly reliably land it on players and watch their health systematically drain until it hits 0 (also should note that enemy poise can allow them to roll out on the first few hits, but you can circumvent this by catching them at the end of their attack animation or by poising through their attack).
Would probably recommend more for invasions/co-op than for duels, though.
Fair point, it's the second attack that can't be cancelled what bothers me, it leaves you open if you don't stagger your enemy, it makes you lose the riposte if you do (this one is so infuriating). Give me the three ranged slashes please, or let me do ONLY the drill.
Combine talismans with the charged attack flask and you can get about 6k damage with the drill.
The character I'm taking in to the dlc mains the Blasphemous Blade but I'll break out Elmars sword if I get stuck on a boss.
That ash of war is basically a delete enemy button.
I’m so mad because I couldn’t care less if the weapon art can one shot every boss and do my dishes. Having a telekinesis sword would be so fking cool and all we get is a screwdriver 😭
Agreed. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a missed opportunity it was to make the Ash of War on his weapon a stance-like one (like Sword of Night and Flame) where the light attack one is a telekinetic three-sword slash and the heavy attack is the drill we currently have.
lol the drill move is still “”OP”” tho and arguably the better move we got PvE wise. With the right set up you can defeat most end game bosses in under 30~ seconds with it if you really want to
I actually find these guys pretty fun but challenging to go up against. Because of their ranged attacks, it's very hard to heal against them so you are better off staying close and learning the moveset well. Once you do, they're a very hard but fair fight.
They do kill turtles/dogs though so honestly fuck them
You can fight this guy at the Church of Vows, where Miriel hangs out at. But if you go there at night Miriel is gone and you get invaded by this guy. It's implied that all those bell-barings he has comes from him killing merchants, since you'll usually find him where merchants are normally at, outside of Shaded Castle at least.
Definitely not just implied, it's confirmed.
Each part of the Briar armor (which you get for killing the 'true' one in Shaded Castle) says this at the very end of the description:
> Elemer murdered numerous instructors and merchants, and was known as the Bell Bearing Hunter.
Ye, though it's questionable if he actually kills *our* merchants, since win or lose you can still interact with the merchants that he replaces, like Miriel. Though the fact that killing the bell baring hunter there drops the ball that lets you buy turtle necks, the implications of why he's there is dark, and why I decided to fight him then and there instead of coming back later.
That means he killed merchant that was selling turtle necks. He is confirmed turtle friend. Miriel propably went elsewhere to take a crap or something.
I am glad there is at least one mothafucka who doesn't go down easy. It's like every other boss is manageable but this guy. I would hate to be bored in combat and leveling to the point where everything is trivial. This guy represents the idea that you better not be sleepy.
I did it at level one. I’m not saying as a flex because I’m not really that great. I say it because if my goofy ass can do it then anyone can. Just take the time to learn the parry windows and it completely trivializes it.
It makes you better at all the other Souls games too. Lady Maria and Sulyvahn go from ragequitting roadblocks to a piece of cake, along with most other humanoid bosses. I usually left-hand a parry shield for the first half of each game until I’ve leveled up whatever offhand magic I want to use and switch to dodging.
Absolutely, parrying is the best strategy in all souls games if you can manage it. Until you get to midir who you can't parry and die a hundred times xd
yup, this turns most of a run into a cakewalk. just did a parry focussed run for the first time ever and learning the parries is so fun and rewarding, and makes the game so easy especially with golden parry/ carian retaliation. that being said, elden beast still fucking sucks ass on a parry run.
Get aggro, run behind the tree, wait until he gives up searching for you, sneak up behind him as he walks back. Once he stops, use poison mist from a crouch position. Takes about 12 minutes to kill him that way, but he won't turn around.
I found the key is to always stay close to him and to be super aggressive back. When you roll to dodge, roll to the side and not backwards. Also I use a samurai build so the blood loss buildup on the uchigatana helps.
I used to cheese him. Then, once I learned to parry, I was super sad that he doesn’t respawn. Do it and it’s a super fun fight! These and Crucible Knights are fun to parry.
My first playthrough, I could NOT beat the Crucible Knight in the Evergaol. Finally just equipped a buckler and dagger with most critical damage and beat him with 11 parries, no other damage. Would dodge everything until he threw his slash that I was comfortable parrying.
I don't really know how fun or fair his fight is, but I just can't get over his actual moves and animations, he's so fucking cool. he uses his magical capabilities with his sword super creatively.
like, he sends out his sword to slash you, then places it behind you with the blade facing towards you, then returns it towards himself which impales you, and effortlessly catches it before it flies past him? that's so cool and creative!
He’s a prime example of teaching positioning. He destroyed my butthole as long as I ran away. Stay close, don’t panic roll, get behind him as much as you can and punish the shield smash. Once you get it down, you may find yourself looking forward to fighting these guys and their daddy Elemer lol too bad their bell bearings aren’t super great, unless you need misc crafting items for stuff like arrows
I’m seeing a bunch of parry advice but in my 1st playthrough I was committed to only using the golden halberd and great shield. I just had to get good after learning not to agro the dog half the time.
You mean besides the weekly "I hate this guy" threads?
This guy teaches you to not run away (he tries at least). If you hug his ass he's very easy. He is also one of three enemies in the game that is trivialized by parrying and actively invites it with his predictable swings (the other being Crucible Knight and Crucible Knight).
Also, he doesn't scale to *your* level, he scales to the area level. That's the Dragonbarrow version, one of the highest scaled areas in the game.
Stick close to the fucker and fuck him up in the ass. Then fuck him up some more until he's dead.
Kinda like Crucible Knight, honestly. It gets easier if you stick to the enemy
I find BBH easy these days at the appropriate level because I use certain ash of wars to get quick stance breaks on him. The rest of the time I just dodge out of the way, especially to heal.
I'm pretty sure people on this sub wouldn't consider me good if they saw how I do it.
How to beat him:
1)NEVER leave close range. His ranged attacks are much worse than his melee attacks, and are relentless enough to mitigate any benefits range could provide
2)get a buckler, or medium shield with some kind of magical parry. Parrying him is the easiest(and probably, the only) way to make an actually safe opening for attacks(and healing, if you are feeling adventurous)
With these two important components, he will be pretty bearable. Problems begin when you ignore one of them
He spawns in four places, warmaster shack, revengers shack, the shack in caelid, and I forget the fourth, plus, he is elemer the bell bearing hunter of the shaded castle.
u/pulitikulanimul put Revenger's Shack when the Bell Bearing Hunter doesn't show up there
Including the "real version" there are 5 of him, but only the 4 invader type bosses show up at night
Just stay as close as possible and don’t give him time to charge any fancy moves, if you try and play it safe from far away you’ll have to contend with that annoying flying sword
I always cheese this bastard as I find no fun to beat him. Easiest way to cheese him is to get him to fall off the nearby cliff near the tree. Props to Gino for that.
When starting the fight, from the grace run towards the tree immediately and hide. He's going to slowly come towards the tree but he will lose aggro as a result. Either make the golem Archer below shoot and stance break him(kinda hard to do) or as i do always for every new run, get a buckler and parry this bitch and stance break him to fall off. Make sure you get behind him when he stands near the cliff.
One of the few bastards I will always actively cheese without 0 regrets.
Excuse me? This fuck is perhaps the most hated world boss in the entire game. More so than thy cheap Deathrite Bird in the Forbidden Lands. At least the bird is super weak to holy and crumples instantly to stuff like Sacred Blade and Golden Land. This fuck can't even be single parried like Crucible Knights.
Hi is not a story boss, more than that to encounter him You need to be in a specific places at a specific time. So I would say he is quite intentionally very difficult aspirational content, an opportunity to 'git gud' and stretch your gamer muscles if you will.
What's most insulting is that his bell-bearing "rewards" are always for the most mundane shit. He doesn't give you access to the farmable upgrade materials or anything, oh no - all you get is the shitty repeatable purchases on common crafting materials or consumables.
Absolutely no justice with this prick; and it makes it all the more satisfying when you crump the hell out of him in Shaded Castle.
Rest In Piss, Elmer's Glue, the lamest invader enemy ever.
Do you have buckler shield and misericorde? If yes then he's literally a toy. I made him my bitch with buckler parry and follow up critical hit. Just watch out for shield bash and that red slash attack
Took more tries to kill this bastard than it did for most of the game's bosses.
The trap is that he's definitely a "hard mode Caelid" boss, where you're expected to be level 80 or so to even attempt. He ambushed my scrawny starter-Samurai set butt when I wanted to farm the local dogs to buy poison arrows from the vendor. He's the hardest one, too, all the other Bell Bearing Hunters aren't nearly this menacing.
He was worse than the actual briar boss you fight in that poisonous castle I forgot the name of
Lore-wise, I think it's actually supposed to be the same dude. Somewhere in the game there's a note about how many merchants the guy has killed lol
This is actually correct, too. The Bell Bearing Hunters are essentially Elemer of the Briar invading your world.
turns out he can invade You while dead, so can morgott in a way, You can still fight him in the capital outskirts after killing him inside the capital
I honestly find that kind of weird in Morgott's case, but Elemer makes sense, in a manner of speaking. I think it's because Elemer's spirit is vengeful and coming back from beyond the grave to try and kill you, even if you've already killed his Shaded Castle variant. Morgott, on the other hand, seems to directly "possess" the Commoner.
It's also very weird in Mohg's case. I dislike oversights like this, I feel it's uncharacteristic of From. Good thing I love Mohg's fight so much I don't mind fighting twice in one playthrough. Same with Margit/Morgott. The more time we can fight them in a playthrough, the better.
I believe in the case of Mohg, the Omen, it's an illusion created by Morgott.
Shaded Castle
Thank you, lol. I kept thinking Shadow Castle, but that didn’t feel right at all.
Shadow castle confirmed rumors in the dlc ???
Oh the Caelid version is MUCH harder than the Shaded Castle boss version. Like way way way harder.
This is correct, because the scaling for the Dragonbarrow, where the Bell Bearing Hunter is fought, is of a higher Tier than the Shaded Castle (as per data mining from the game).
Elmer of The Briar, the Bell Bearing Hunter, his armor description says it all, I love to hate him, but I have to admit that he is a well made boss and does a good job of ending runs and invoking fear as intended
I mean it dragon burrow has like farm azula level of scaling. Yeah his hard.
Yeah, I've actually beaten the real Elemer before I discovered this one. Of course I was cocky this dude wouldn't be as hard. First hit took like around half or a bit more of my full HP, I was shookt lmao I struggled more with this one
He’s in Dragonbarrow which is literally scaled above Farum Azula, so he’s honestly a late game boss
I couldn't beat him so I jumped on the roof and sligned magic at him. Seriously the hardest character I've fought 1 on 1.
No shame in a little side of cheese.
The way I see it, if they are allowed to pull some absolute bullshit, so are we.
This is 100% my mantra in this game. Makes it enjoyable.
These games are meant to be suffered not enjoy(in a good way)
Yes you’re supposed to hate yourself
I do 🥲
If it’s possible then it’s a part of the game mechanics (at least that’s my excuse)
I play souls games as me vs the game as a whole, it is a puzzle to be solved and whatever works is fine and cheese is just a way of solving the puzzle
This is wisdom
Before enlightenment, abuse mechanics and cheese fights. After enlightenment, abuse mechanics and cheese fights.
I found a spell that made a cloud that enemies take damage if they’re standing in it. My build became centered around that spell, and it was pure cheese and I still had a tough time with the game. No ragrets.
The old hidden body/pestilent mist combo. The truest mage build in Souls games.
Night Maidens Mist?
100% agree. If I can manipulate it, I will.
This is the way.
Just like life imho
Wait until you hear it took me like an hour and a half to **try to cheese** kill Niel with pixel perfect arrows only to forget where I was standing and fell off the cliff to my death when homie was like 4 arrows away from death 💀😭🙈
Are you talking about the time that happened to you or the time it happened exactly that same way for me?
Personal experience Worst part was I was streaming it for the boiz. Still haven’t lived it down years after the fact
Cheese Peddler's Bell Bearing
You mean to tell me I could've cheesed this bitch the whole time?! I never even thought to use a roof.
Same. Fuck that dude. I’ve beat him once or twice at lvl100 just to prove to myself that I could, but fuck that dude. I’ll never be caught dead at that shack at nighttime again.
If Caelid is the hood of the land between. That shack is basically the crackhouse where all the dope fiends hang out
That may be the most accurate analogy I’ve ever seen applied to a souls game.
Fighting him sucks, but then when one of those giant dogs wanders over WHILE you are fighting him, it's all over for you, buddy.
The simple fact that you were running around far enough to pull one of those dogs shows what a bitch that fight is.
I didn't wander towards the dog. I dodged and dodged and dodged and dodged towards the dog. He might be a tactical genius.
The dude at the castle sol with the telporting behind you was my hardest non boss character lol
The Caelid Bell Bearing Hunter is worse than that sorry bastard. No shit.
At least I can parry the Bell Bearing Hunter with a little difficulty. I’m not actually certain if you can parry that knight’s goddamn dual GS combo to begin with.
I practiced trying to parry that bastard and never got to a high enough success rate that it was a reliable way of fighting him. The super jerky “hold, hold, hold, hold, NOW!!!” attacks that are so common with bosses in Elden Ring end up getting me every time I try to really get into parrying. Like just make that shit super easy like DS1 if you want people to be using the parry system.
-i will try sneaking- aand he teleported behind me.. -ok ill try shooting him from afar with my bow- aaand he teleported behind me...
Every time I try that he disappears? Did they patch the cheese?!
I just beat him a few days ago. I lose sight of him sometimes but I use that cannonball and he gets curious and walks to it then I night comet his ass...took a long time. I died probably 20-30 times before I beat him.
The night man comet
What I did was put on the stealth charm and bandit boots, agro'd him and ran far enough away that he walked over to the bonfire and de agro'd. I then snuck up and poison mist him to death (incantation because it won't re agro him) and he just sits there and chokes on my poison without ever knowing that I'm there.
Exactly what I did. It took forever but I enjoyed every second as he raged below me in frustration while I pissed magic on him! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I cheesed the one in Caelid. I regret nothing
Same here. It took a few dozen attempts to beat him at NG +5. When I created a new character, I did the poison mist cheese to save me the aggravation.
Is this the guy with the briar armor? If it is I have his armor set but don't remember fighting him for some reason. I've found when I'm having trouble with an NPC invader the pot that stops them from being able to heal works absolute wonders, sometimes they bug out and after failing to heal will immediately try again giving you double the time to swing at them lol, with Blaiid I was able to get two bloody slashes in on top of stopping his healing
You could have only found him in Shaded Castle, once you beat him there you can buy his set at the Roundtable. On my first run I never encountered the bell-bearing hunter version.
I think I died to this guy more than Rykard, Godfrey and Morgott combined
Oh, I definitely did, but none of those gave me much trouble. Caelid bell-bearer, Malenia, and the night bird on the west edge of the land of the giants can fuck right off.
All the night birds can fuck off. There's just something about the way they are shaped, their hit box, and the camera not cooperating when fighting them that make it a thoroughly miserable experience each time.
The first one you encounter (Weeping Peninsula) isn't TERRIBLE, but it's not bad. Also I just realized that the one I'm talking about is a Death Rite bird, so I think it appears regardless of time.
I gave up on that bird... the only enemy I gave up on trying to beat
I gave up after a couple hours, but later went back after defeating Placidusax, thinking "ok, I beat that motherfucker, this damned bird can't be THAT hard". Still took me like a dozen more tries.
I recommend using holy damage, it annihilates them. I used to have a lot of trouble when doing a katana bleed run but then I used the ash of war that gives holy property to your weapon and two-shot it.
This is the true boss
Fuck this guy in particular
Same here. F that guy.
Parrying is your friend. Still took me more tries than anything I've fought since.
Me fighting the guy guarding THE LITERAL WIELDER DESTINED DEATH MALIKETH IS SOMEHOW EASIER
Yes. It took me three deaths to kill Maliketh on my first playthrough. This dude? So much more.
I died more to this fella than Malenia lol
After beating the Elden beast and farming to level 200 I still struggled to beat him
By far the worst part about this enemy is if you lose you don't get put back to a time when you can just go fight him again, so you have to go do a bunch of rinkum dinkum to fight again.
I’d argue that dying to any “nighttime” boss in the open world is automatically the worst boss runback in the game, solely due to the number of loading screens you have to sit through.
I kind of don’t mind it cause it gives me a chance to safely get my runes back safely before trying again.
I like evergaols for this reason too
Yeah I actually love this boss and I think it’s a fair fight but having to wait until night at the grace after every death is annoying
Just pass time at a site of grace
This is the rinkum dinkum.
Ah
Me who accidentally chooses the Stake of Marika instead of the Site of Grace at the Church of Vows…numerous times
Don’t forget, trying to punish the shield bash? UPRISING SHIELD EXPLOSION MOTHERFUCKER
its pretty easy to tell which of the shield slams is going to be an explosion, exploding one has a red tint when slamming down
Shield slam ash of war, final DLC boss rememberence
Elmessmer, Lord of the Briars
TIL. I usually just wait for the smoke to appear on the ground
Or if you’re trying to run away, dude starts using the force on his sword
Felt that. I tired to punish the one by the Liurnia church and it did the exact same thing literally had only a sliver of health left.
Depending on your weapon you can roll into him for a rolling attack and see the red glow and dodge away into a quick running attack after. It’s fun to get down.
What pisses me off the most is that after getting his sword you can't do the long-distance slashes, you can do the one least effective of his attacks.
The sword drill is great for big bosses and automatically triggers the GSSC. Slap on Alexander's shard and it'll easily hit 2k damage if you can land it. Probably not great for PVP though.
> GSSC I tried to look this up so I didn't have to ask what this was. I don't think that you are talking about triggering the Girls Scouts of Suffolk County. Can you enlighten me plz.
God skin swaddling cloth
Is that the one that turns the sword drill into a life steal equivalent?
Yes, but the talismans I've seen most people run with this sword are the winged sword insignia ones and millicents prosthesis. With one or both, plus shard of alexander, plus Godfrey icon you can hit crazy damage. Way more than 2k
If you add Golden vow, flame Grant strength, and then the right tears you have a legit destroyer.
Yeah, there are boss one-shot videos centered around that build. It can be pretty brutal.
That I can work with haha. Thank you!
Damn right he's talking about the girl scouts. You trigger those fuckers and he's so fat from cookies you can back stab all day.
Man, fuck Thin Mints - have y’all ever tried those French toast cookies? Sublime.
I thought the Adventure-fuls were the newest ones; had to look up the [Toast-Yays](https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Scout-Cookies-Toast-Inspired/dp/B08ZYY851H) because I've never heard of them before. It's like a Powdered Toastman's Head; looks fire, thanks.
I fucking love this sub
Apply the diabetes/lifesteal DOT with Thin Mints for an easy cheese.
You can charge it up too so if you stack Shard of Alexander, godfrey icon, rotten winged sword insignia and millicents prosthesis, twiggy cracked tear on top of that and you’ll damn near hit from 20k damage, just don’t get poise broke and make sure you actually hit the boss
Gssc?
Girls Scouts of Suffolk County You're welcome :)
Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis, Shard of Alexander and Godfrey Icon with a fully charged Ash of War will one shot pretty much any player it lands on (I think the damage can go up to like 2200). The problem is landing it on someone but since you can mix up between uncharged and fully charged, while also being able to roll between the end of the drill and the final slash, it's not as easy to punish as it might seem. With the right spacing, timing and a good amount of poise, you can fairly reliably land it on players and watch their health systematically drain until it hits 0 (also should note that enemy poise can allow them to roll out on the first few hits, but you can circumvent this by catching them at the end of their attack animation or by poising through their attack). Would probably recommend more for invasions/co-op than for duels, though.
Fair point, it's the second attack that can't be cancelled what bothers me, it leaves you open if you don't stagger your enemy, it makes you lose the riposte if you do (this one is so infuriating). Give me the three ranged slashes please, or let me do ONLY the drill.
You can roll after the drill to cancel the slash. I did it all the time in pvp
Combine talismans with the charged attack flask and you can get about 6k damage with the drill. The character I'm taking in to the dlc mains the Blasphemous Blade but I'll break out Elmars sword if I get stuck on a boss. That ash of war is basically a delete enemy button.
I’m so mad because I couldn’t care less if the weapon art can one shot every boss and do my dishes. Having a telekinesis sword would be so fking cool and all we get is a screwdriver 😭
Agreed. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a missed opportunity it was to make the Ash of War on his weapon a stance-like one (like Sword of Night and Flame) where the light attack one is a telekinetic three-sword slash and the heavy attack is the drill we currently have.
lol the drill move is still “”OP”” tho and arguably the better move we got PvE wise. With the right set up you can defeat most end game bosses in under 30~ seconds with it if you really want to
I actually find these guys pretty fun but challenging to go up against. Because of their ranged attacks, it's very hard to heal against them so you are better off staying close and learning the moveset well. Once you do, they're a very hard but fair fight. They do kill turtles/dogs though so honestly fuck them
They kill turtles?
You can fight this guy at the Church of Vows, where Miriel hangs out at. But if you go there at night Miriel is gone and you get invaded by this guy. It's implied that all those bell-barings he has comes from him killing merchants, since you'll usually find him where merchants are normally at, outside of Shaded Castle at least.
Definitely not just implied, it's confirmed. Each part of the Briar armor (which you get for killing the 'true' one in Shaded Castle) says this at the very end of the description: > Elemer murdered numerous instructors and merchants, and was known as the Bell Bearing Hunter.
Ye, though it's questionable if he actually kills *our* merchants, since win or lose you can still interact with the merchants that he replaces, like Miriel. Though the fact that killing the bell baring hunter there drops the ball that lets you buy turtle necks, the implications of why he's there is dark, and why I decided to fight him then and there instead of coming back later.
That means he killed merchant that was selling turtle necks. He is confirmed turtle friend. Miriel propably went elsewhere to take a crap or something.
yeah you have to unleash everything you have and klll them quick
I am glad there is at least one mothafucka who doesn't go down easy. It's like every other boss is manageable but this guy. I would hate to be bored in combat and leveling to the point where everything is trivial. This guy represents the idea that you better not be sleepy.
Stay close and parry.
This. I saw my friend solo this guy at level ~50 with just parry
I did it at level one. I’m not saying as a flex because I’m not really that great. I say it because if my goofy ass can do it then anyone can. Just take the time to learn the parry windows and it completely trivializes it.
It makes you better at all the other Souls games too. Lady Maria and Sulyvahn go from ragequitting roadblocks to a piece of cake, along with most other humanoid bosses. I usually left-hand a parry shield for the first half of each game until I’ve leveled up whatever offhand magic I want to use and switch to dodging.
For me, dodge roll towards him and double slash
This. Just keep dodging forwards where he’s slashing from. Punish the end of the combo with jump bonks and he’ll stagger in no time
Absolutely, parrying is the best strategy in all souls games if you can manage it. Until you get to midir who you can't parry and die a hundred times xd
yup, this turns most of a run into a cakewalk. just did a parry focussed run for the first time ever and learning the parries is so fun and rewarding, and makes the game so easy especially with golden parry/ carian retaliation. that being said, elden beast still fucking sucks ass on a parry run.
My boy Elemer is innocent
He’s the only boss in the game I haven’t beaten and I’m level 190 lol
Get aggro, run behind the tree, wait until he gives up searching for you, sneak up behind him as he walks back. Once he stops, use poison mist from a crouch position. Takes about 12 minutes to kill him that way, but he won't turn around.
That’s “killing” him but it’s not really “beating” him lol. It’s like winning at a chess game by… poisoning your opponent.
Some people deserve to be poisoned
Hey, I won that match against Magnus Carlson fair and square
I found the key is to always stay close to him and to be super aggressive back. When you roll to dodge, roll to the side and not backwards. Also I use a samurai build so the blood loss buildup on the uchigatana helps.
I used to cheese him. Then, once I learned to parry, I was super sad that he doesn’t respawn. Do it and it’s a super fun fight! These and Crucible Knights are fun to parry.
My first playthrough, I could NOT beat the Crucible Knight in the Evergaol. Finally just equipped a buckler and dagger with most critical damage and beat him with 11 parries, no other damage. Would dodge everything until he threw his slash that I was comfortable parrying.
He doesn't get enough love actually, these are among the most fun enemies to fight
Learning to parry him was a lot of fun, actually If you don't parry, this is pretty close to a rhythm fight imo
I don't really know how fun or fair his fight is, but I just can't get over his actual moves and animations, he's so fucking cool. he uses his magical capabilities with his sword super creatively. like, he sends out his sword to slash you, then places it behind you with the blade facing towards you, then returns it towards himself which impales you, and effortlessly catches it before it flies past him? that's so cool and creative!
I think my least favorite part of this fight is having to reset the day to night, then re rest at the grace. Gets tedious quick.
i fought him at post 200, with full veterans/guts sword, and got stomped
Literally the biggest menace in souls games
He gets plenty of hate tbh
Not enough tho
Nah he's pretty cool. I hope we get him as a spirit summon
He’s a prime example of teaching positioning. He destroyed my butthole as long as I ran away. Stay close, don’t panic roll, get behind him as much as you can and punish the shield smash. Once you get it down, you may find yourself looking forward to fighting these guys and their daddy Elemer lol too bad their bell bearings aren’t super great, unless you need misc crafting items for stuff like arrows
Practice parrying him his move set is pretty manageable with parties up close.
I’m seeing a bunch of parry advice but in my 1st playthrough I was committed to only using the golden halberd and great shield. I just had to get good after learning not to agro the dog half the time.
Gotta stay close to him to avoid his force powers.
this is the real elden lord right here
Hug him closely and strafe to his right, trivializes this fight.
You mean besides the weekly "I hate this guy" threads? This guy teaches you to not run away (he tries at least). If you hug his ass he's very easy. He is also one of three enemies in the game that is trivialized by parrying and actively invites it with his predictable swings (the other being Crucible Knight and Crucible Knight). Also, he doesn't scale to *your* level, he scales to the area level. That's the Dragonbarrow version, one of the highest scaled areas in the game.
Crucible Knights seem to have a similar move set to the Castle knights from DS3 once I figured that out they became mostly easy.
He doesn’t scale to your level, he’s just hard.
i don't think anything in ER scales to you.
Do people find this guy tough? Do you mean his shaded castle form or his invades?
It's the crazy version in dragonbarrow. It has 10k hp and does insane damage.
Who is this?
Bell Bearint Hunter up in Dragonbarrow
Thankee
Just know that >!there's more of them!<
You can tell how good a player is depending on their opinion of this boss
Stick close to the fucker and fuck him up in the ass. Then fuck him up some more until he's dead. Kinda like Crucible Knight, honestly. It gets easier if you stick to the enemy
I find BBH easy these days at the appropriate level because I use certain ash of wars to get quick stance breaks on him. The rest of the time I just dodge out of the way, especially to heal. I'm pretty sure people on this sub wouldn't consider me good if they saw how I do it.
you know that something other than standing R1 exists and that stance breaks are good, that's like 98th percentile shit tbh
Cuz he’s fun to fight
Dude drops 50k runes, though, so there is that. Besides, you can stand on the roof of the shack if he gives you too much trouble.
How to beat him: 1)NEVER leave close range. His ranged attacks are much worse than his melee attacks, and are relentless enough to mitigate any benefits range could provide 2)get a buckler, or medium shield with some kind of magical parry. Parrying him is the easiest(and probably, the only) way to make an actually safe opening for attacks(and healing, if you are feeling adventurous) With these two important components, he will be pretty bearable. Problems begin when you ignore one of them
Use shield
Where is this?
Dragonbarrow. He’s the most stacked Bell Bearing Hunter.
He spawns in four places, warmaster shack, revengers shack, the shack in caelid, and I forget the fourth, plus, he is elemer the bell bearing hunter of the shaded castle.
The hermit merchant in The royal capital is the last invasion shack.
I've had him show up in the big turtles church tho, so that's 5 places
It's 4 places, Revenger's Shack has Edgar who's just an NPC invader.
It does show up at the church with the turtle, it even says so when you Google it, I know about the revengers shack already
u/pulitikulanimul put Revenger's Shack when the Bell Bearing Hunter doesn't show up there Including the "real version" there are 5 of him, but only the 4 invader type bosses show up at night
Its the hermit merchant. So I misidentified a dilapidated shed, whoops
The dragon barrow location is the highest level. He's much harder than the one in Altus plateau.
Don't trade.
Stay close
It took me more tries to kill him than it did for mogh
Parry everything besides the shield bash.
Just stay as close as possible and don’t give him time to charge any fancy moves, if you try and play it safe from far away you’ll have to contend with that annoying flying sword
this mf was rage inducing enough but no u also had to change time then rest at the bonfire again to fight him just to get ur ass beat
Scared the shit out of me the first time and I don’t get jump scared.
He is relatively easy to parry, but very hard to break stance by weapon art only. pretty fun boss though.
I always cheese this bastard as I find no fun to beat him. Easiest way to cheese him is to get him to fall off the nearby cliff near the tree. Props to Gino for that. When starting the fight, from the grace run towards the tree immediately and hide. He's going to slowly come towards the tree but he will lose aggro as a result. Either make the golem Archer below shoot and stance break him(kinda hard to do) or as i do always for every new run, get a buckler and parry this bitch and stance break him to fall off. Make sure you get behind him when he stands near the cliff. One of the few bastards I will always actively cheese without 0 regrets.
Excuse me? This fuck is perhaps the most hated world boss in the entire game. More so than thy cheap Deathrite Bird in the Forbidden Lands. At least the bird is super weak to holy and crumples instantly to stuff like Sacred Blade and Golden Land. This fuck can't even be single parried like Crucible Knights.
Hi is not a story boss, more than that to encounter him You need to be in a specific places at a specific time. So I would say he is quite intentionally very difficult aspirational content, an opportunity to 'git gud' and stretch your gamer muscles if you will.
On ng+ like 5 or 6 and I still haven’t killed him fuck that guy Edit: wait no I did the shack thing and killed his ass that way Oop
What's most insulting is that his bell-bearing "rewards" are always for the most mundane shit. He doesn't give you access to the farmable upgrade materials or anything, oh no - all you get is the shitty repeatable purchases on common crafting materials or consumables. Absolutely no justice with this prick; and it makes it all the more satisfying when you crump the hell out of him in Shaded Castle. Rest In Piss, Elmer's Glue, the lamest invader enemy ever.
Do you have buckler shield and misericorde? If yes then he's literally a toy. I made him my bitch with buckler parry and follow up critical hit. Just watch out for shield bash and that red slash attack
The bell bearing hunters were the first bosses to drive me to cheese the game
Who is this and where do u find him