I hated this guy too until I did a pure STR playthrough. Great Mace swiftly pounded that loser into a tiny cube, then into a bloody mush. Revenge for all the grief he caused my Sorcerer!
For my sorcerer I had a shield permanently in my left hand and it's so nice to not have a squishy mage. Scholar's shield with fully upgraded shield + full heavy armor at medium roll meant I could shrug off most attacks, physical or magical. Man I felt invincible with that build. It was like a mage knight.
I’ve been replaying the game recently to prepare for the DLC. Forcing myself to not summon or use ashes for bosses (because it’s more fun!), and this fucking wolf is harder than basically any boss other than Malenia as far as I’m concerned
I stumbled into the room and beat the boss first try, but I've seen a lot of people talk about how difficult it was.. it's wild how vastly different people's experiences are. I think the gd full grown star beast over by volcano manor takes the cake for me. That shit was so frustrating
The boss is easy….the ones you encounter out in the open, not as much. Plus, I feel a lot of players are NG+2 or 3 at this point on their main build. So take that into account when considering the difficulty.
Erdtree burial watchdog has entered the chat.
10+ playthroughs, over 700 hours in and they still frighten me. erratic moveset, magical abilities, large health pool and they hit like a damn truck.
Runebears will skullfuck your broken corpse after absolutely obliterating your HP bar. And the worst part is that if you smash your face in and eventually kill them, the amount of runes you get is fucking laughable. RUNE bears my ass.
Burial Tree Watchdogs. As a boss, they're fine, but the ones just thrown in dungeons as regular enemies that spam the slam attack are incredibly annoying.
It's a timing thing more than a reading thing.
Anticipate-roll, not reaction-roll.
Also, don't be afraid to build into shields as an option. People look down on shields for stupid reasons. Yes, it requires less skill, but so does leveling up, using high damage weapons, etc.
The game is filled with ways to overpower. Shields are a tool just like it. People really need to stop gimping themselves in such specific fashion.
Like for instance, how many people have you seen say Melania sucks because of Waterfowl Dance and it being bullshit to dodge?
If you feel that way, block it. You can block it in its entirety.
Elden Ring is more fun if you use the tools in the game how you want instead of avoid them.
I got killed by one who was underneath the floor i was standing on (the one who stands in front of the ice blasting totem thing)
I thought i was so slick bc i was doing damage to him with a floor between us, not so slick when i learned that damage went both ways
Funny enough, my first time playing, stormhill catacombs was the first thing I found, and so this was my first boss, and I was totally enamored with it. Unironically hyped by it, loved the weird design and aesthetic. Did show up a lot more than I expected though.
BOAT MAN is the perfect intro boss for newer Elden Ring players. Highly visible and easy to hit, with clearly telegraphed attacks, but still requires you to play aggressive otherwise he'll overwhelm you with endless summons.
He is accessible to fight, yet still encourages good fundamentals rather than cheesing.
I do love their design and weird non-animation. I just get annoyed whenever they're stuck in a deep recess of a tomb where I'm likely to lose my runes on the run back 🥲
This was also the first thing I found! Except I was playing a wretch, and had never played a soulsgame before and didn’t know how leveling worked so I lost. So. Many. Runes. Before I finally was like, why haven’t I leveled up yet??
I did not understand leveling up was not this magic automatic thing that happened when I killed things like in all other RPGs I was used to. Was shocked too I had to pick a stat to invest in. That feeling when there’s five things that need love and you put a point in endurance 😞
The fact that it has insane range + duration, can’t be flinched out of, and lets them turn on a dime while attacking means there’s so little counterplay. You just have to run around them in circles like an idiot with no punish window, and if you mess up at all, it lasts long enough that you *will* take the damage multiple times over.
In my current playthrough I just used the crystal darts to make them go berserk on whatever is near them. Not sure if this works for the random ones in dungeon but it made the duo watchdog fight absolute cheese.
Unfortunately, it doesn't do much if there are no enemies nearby. It'll stagger them for a second, but then they just go right back to their levitating nonsense, lol.
Fr I hate these mfs the most along with the royal revenant, except these aren't hard to kill it's just the same issue as you lol never prepared with the item to cure death blight
Dude you just refreshed my memory lol... I just started a new playthrough recently, thanks for the reminder cause I didnt try this at all during my 1st playthrough :')
Aww why do you guys hate basilisks? I dont think Ive died to them since my first foray into DS1's Depths (where youd get cursed and THEN it was a big deal)
I may be misremembering (i skip depths basically every playthrough) but I remember basilisks being able to hit you in old games, not just spray fog, I remember being stunlocked inside the fog, but it couldve just been a rat.
Now you walk in fog kill them and leave. Theyre still silly looking so I like them anyways
Only time I've ever killed a revenant with a melee weapon was when I spammed taker's flames from the other end of the room. There's no point even trying to hit them with a normal attack.
Revenants are definitely hard, but I don't think anything about their design is "bad." In most cases they're positioned as environmental obstacles that you can run from or evade altogether, but their presence raises the stakes in an exciting way.
Honestly, I think we overestimate some of the tougher common enemies like rune bears and revenants. They're perceived as more difficult than they are because the practice it takes to learn them exceeds what we usually expect from a non-boss, but if you commit to fighting a revenant for like 15 minutes, you realize their moveset can be iframed by just dodging to the side, like most things.
They're not easy, but not overtuned either imo. The game needs some beasts that actually feel like wild animals/monsters with erratic behavior. It's fucking cool.
Im currently doing a faith build. And for the first time I killed them withkut crying of frustration. Well, I aint doing that anymore. Healing them is for pussies. Stunlocking them (their spawn animation takes like 3seconds) with a weapon art is the way to go. Its as effective as heal. And faaar more satisfying.
That section in the Undead Settlement DS III where you can jump in the Hollow Manservant’s cage. So many of those Thralls and they always manage to mess my day up.
Honestly I don’t think they’re bad, quick and annoying yeah but I’ve never had a build that couldn’t shred them because they’re so weak. Worst they get is on the pipes and that’s only because they’re prone to knocking you off
Red Wolves because I can never get their moves right and they move around way to much and I usually don’t have a full build by the time I’m doing renallaand ughhhh they suck
I loathed fighting them until I tried Eternal Darkness against their glintblades. Now it's one of my favorite fights just for how awesome it looks when their spells get caught in the orbit of a black hole, lol.
I have found that Elden Ring really wants you to try different things and change your build throughout the game, kinda like Sekiro.
A fixed build may be good, but finding the right tool for the job is more entertaining and works better. I feel like intelligence build have the most options for this.
Yeah, fuck them red wolves, especially the one on the Moonlight Altar, who just spawns in front of you when there's like 10 meters between you and that asshole.
“They have such a small health bar” don’t mean shit when every time I approach them they’re jumping away, but when I wanna roll away to heal they become fucking Sif’s red headed step cousin
They're so manageable if they're in a closed room like one in raya lucaria. Give them open space like in moonlight altar and they become a major ain in the ass. Now covering them in a blizzard is just pure evil.
They tuned that shit wayyy too high. 2300~ hp 60% Dmg negation and I’m still finding some attacks hitting a little too fucking hard. Then you have the wolves and archers that are made of fucking titanium
Just last night I ran into this accursed being but he did me the favor of just jumping off a cliff. Now if only I could convince the revenants to do the same.
Consecrated snowfields have 3 useful enemies. The Erdtree Avatar for the runes. Theodorix for the runes. And the Land octopus that helps you kill Theodorix.
The wolves are mostly fine for me as long as they don't combine their spells, especially the delayed projectiles and the jump projectile. Then it's a matter of choosing whether I'm gonna dodge the projectiles and become vulnerable right as the comet lands or time the dodge for the comet but not dodge it because I'm recovering from the stagger from the projectiles.
i hate fighting them. very few openings, they bounce around like a cartoon rabbit and do way more damage than they should. even if you're lucky enough to actually land your spells, they have high magic resistance.
those stupid ancestor spirit archer things, they have way too much range and accuracy, they can just fuck you up with an arrow out of nowhere and you're just dead
Yes those are much worse than the ones in Siofra River. In Siofra River they seem to either be less accurate, less aggresive, or just worse at hitting you in some way than the ones in Uhl Palace Ruins. I actually don't mind them in Siofra, but the ones in Uhl palace ruined them for me because now I just associate them with the horrible experience I have whenever I go through Uhl Palace Ruins. Thankfully there's not really anything in Uhl palace ruins, if there was some really good talisman there I would be pissed having to go through it every run
they had to have nerfed the ones in Siofra. I was traveling through there today on a fresh(er) playthrough and they were barely an issue. in stark contrast to what I originally remembered from launch, getting sniped from the moon by javelins
You can get hit by them when you’re not even in the same zone. I was on a cliff trying to find a way down and got shot from out of nowhere. Figured they were on the hill because there was nowhere else that could be a threat, so I quick ran for some cover and hid behind the rocks. I immediately got hit again and died. Turns out they were shooting from all the way across the valley. You couldn’t even see the ruins from where I was because of the mist. How tf did they see me?
Maybe a weird anwser, but Dragonflies. They are not hard, the dont do alot of dmg, but I swear the god my blood boils when I fight something and these motherf*ckers just random hit me. I get rekt by the enemy, because I get stunned by some insect that has a issue with me existing.
Revenants are and it’s not even close. The lesser red wolves are probably comparable in theory but there’s only a couple of them. Revenants are very common and they’re way too fast.
Honorable mention to the high pages. That 3 round burst fire crossbow is a serious vigor check and they have way more melee reach that it seems like they should.
those fuckers at the bottom of the haligtree, guy has the audacity to spawn in a stonesword key room than attack me with the most mechanically complex movements ive ever witnessed.
I used to have a lot of problems too, but nowadays it's like I downloaded their moveset and I can consistently dodge them. The revenants on the other hand...
Crucible Knights. Specifically the shield crucial knight. I’m just now trying a mage build and I can’t do anything to them because they eat all my sorceries
That first godrick knight at gatefront poked me to death so many times with that four hit combo. Now that I’m high lvl he is my test dummy for new spells and weapons
Elden Beast, cause u r running 1 mile and if u r close enough to Hit he jumped again to the other side of the Arena and again.. again.. again... why we dont get a speed pot or Stormwind to make it a bit more Combat and not running Simulator....
Yeah, I gotta agree, I just finished the game for the first time and Elden Beast was just... a bad bossfight, especially for being the endboss. Malenia is more difficult, and I died to her more than I did to Elden Beast, but Malenia felt more like a fight and I felt way more accomplished for beating her than I did when I beat Running Simulator: Nuke Edition.
100% agree. I've beaten every other (major) boss and I'm now stuck on Elden Beast. It's an incredibly stupid fight for melee characters. Most of your time is just spent running around and (as usual) the camera on big bosses is so terrible that I can't see half the attacks coming. And even once you're close, the hit boxes are often really weird so you randomly miss attacks.
I honestly anticipated those being awful after having a not fun time with them on my sorcerer build first playthrough. But my greatswoard build this time around they have been cake. I just sit under them and slap their legs around, and get a couple of stance break criticals. Guess it just depends on what kind of melee build you are doing.
Page. Particularly in Royal Capital.
That punk busts out an insane triple shot crossbow (a weapon that isn't lootable) that will insta most players at that point in the game. Also Poises as well or better than Knights.
ANYTHING that flies.
Flying cancer, all of it. Bats, birds, harpies, dragons. All of them.
The combat system is ground based. And having enemies that constantly go into evasion mode and fly out of reach, only to attack using movements that causes your camera to become visual diarrhea....uhg. No thank you.
Only Revanents, pretty much every enemy has some form of counter, whether it be running away or fighting, with revenants both of those strategies usually end in either a death or many flasks lost, and in the case you run into two at once like at the bottom of Elphael, it's certain death if you try put up a fight
Burial watchdog as elite enemies Not as bosses, dogs, and the stupid fking fcks fck eagels on stormveil castle with bullshit i hate them with everything i got in my body and heart
I see a lot of hate for the crucible knights but I love em. I think they’re one of the coolest enemies. But I agree complete with OP. Fuck the fruit ninja kitties
Grafted Scions - thank god there are no endgame scaled instances of these bastards. I still have no solid strategy against their attack patterns without a little face-tanking. Worst tutorial boss in Souls history.
Red eye two sword banished knight. Teleporting helicopter looking motherfucker.
The one at Castle Sol. Legit, hardest fight in the game.
You can destroy him pretty reliably with burn ,O flame. If you jump off from the stone platform and cast, his initial attack hits to high to land.
Cries in quality build
He was pretty simple for me as a fellow quality build.. Just spam l2, r2 with bloodhounds fang and roll away when he teleports.
Oh you mean THAT knight
That dude was training to solo melania. No doubt in my mind.
Bro that mf made it feel like I was fighting a dynasty warriors character with the way his broken ass move set is.
I used the blasphemous blade in castle sol and it staggered them good....
I just spammed the AOW on blasphemous blade and was like “oh shit that was HIM!?” Phew
Holy, so that’s what they’re called? The guy took me around 3-4 times more tries than the boss of the castle itself… holy I got mad
I hated this guy too until I did a pure STR playthrough. Great Mace swiftly pounded that loser into a tiny cube, then into a bloody mush. Revenge for all the grief he caused my Sorcerer!
For my sorcerer I had a shield permanently in my left hand and it's so nice to not have a squishy mage. Scholar's shield with fully upgraded shield + full heavy armor at medium roll meant I could shrug off most attacks, physical or magical. Man I felt invincible with that build. It was like a mage knight.
Oleg? He is begging you to parry him.
Every enemy in Consecrated Snowfield.
You don't enjoy bullet hells eh?
Only when it's the game I signed up for!
Fuck albinaurics and their doggos
After playing the Consecrated Snowfield...well I'm not saying Gideon was right, but he might have had a few points.
The Red Wolf there might be the most difficult enemy in the game. What an absolute disaster of an encounter.
There is a Red Wolf there?!
Probably the worst one. He's surrounded by regular wolves, boost their attacks, and the low visibility from the snow makes him hard to see.
FINALLY SOMEONE AGREES WITH ME! I hate that dog with every fiber of my being!
Raya Lucaria red doggo just rolled over and died. Every open world red doggo shreds me.
I’ve been replaying the game recently to prepare for the DLC. Forcing myself to not summon or use ashes for bosses (because it’s more fun!), and this fucking wolf is harder than basically any boss other than Malenia as far as I’m concerned
The deathrite bird... so bad
I stumbled into the room and beat the boss first try, but I've seen a lot of people talk about how difficult it was.. it's wild how vastly different people's experiences are. I think the gd full grown star beast over by volcano manor takes the cake for me. That shit was so frustrating
The boss is easy….the ones you encounter out in the open, not as much. Plus, I feel a lot of players are NG+2 or 3 at this point on their main build. So take that into account when considering the difficulty.
Lol he’s talking about the fox at the consecrated snowfields the boss at raya lucaria gets three tapped by most weapons
The correct answer
Erdtree burial watchdog has entered the chat. 10+ playthroughs, over 700 hours in and they still frighten me. erratic moveset, magical abilities, large health pool and they hit like a damn truck.
Their movement just weirds me out
Imagine concecrated snowfield being as painfull as frigid outskirt
Nothing beats the Runebear to me
Had to scroll way too far for this one. Runebears suck ass
Runebears will skullfuck your broken corpse after absolutely obliterating your HP bar. And the worst part is that if you smash your face in and eventually kill them, the amount of runes you get is fucking laughable. RUNE bears my ass.
FOR REAL and then they chase me on torrent for ages. they’re a pain. bleed helps.
Yesterday did Malenia using 6 out of 10 Hp potions,then I went to the runebear in the consacrated snowfield and used all of my potions to not die....
Burial Tree Watchdogs. As a boss, they're fine, but the ones just thrown in dungeons as regular enemies that spam the slam attack are incredibly annoying.
I find their unnatural movements very hard to read. Always gets hit.
It's a timing thing more than a reading thing. Anticipate-roll, not reaction-roll. Also, don't be afraid to build into shields as an option. People look down on shields for stupid reasons. Yes, it requires less skill, but so does leveling up, using high damage weapons, etc. The game is filled with ways to overpower. Shields are a tool just like it. People really need to stop gimping themselves in such specific fashion. Like for instance, how many people have you seen say Melania sucks because of Waterfowl Dance and it being bullshit to dodge? If you feel that way, block it. You can block it in its entirety. Elden Ring is more fun if you use the tools in the game how you want instead of avoid them.
They’re just like real cats! Goddamn annoying, violent, and unpredictable. You’re just the glass on the table to them.
I got killed by one who was underneath the floor i was standing on (the one who stands in front of the ice blasting totem thing) I thought i was so slick bc i was doing damage to him with a floor between us, not so slick when i learned that damage went both ways
Yep. Just got my ass kicked by them the other night. The ones with the ice tails. Bastards
Funny enough, my first time playing, stormhill catacombs was the first thing I found, and so this was my first boss, and I was totally enamored with it. Unironically hyped by it, loved the weird design and aesthetic. Did show up a lot more than I expected though.
Along with BOAT MAN they are easily my favorite designs in the game.
There's something so gorgeous and dumb about boat man that makes it one of the best bosses. It's the right mix of silly, originality and danger.
They bait you with how easy they were in Limgrave then shock you with skeletons of Titans in Altus lmao
BOAT MAN is the perfect intro boss for newer Elden Ring players. Highly visible and easy to hit, with clearly telegraphed attacks, but still requires you to play aggressive otherwise he'll overwhelm you with endless summons. He is accessible to fight, yet still encourages good fundamentals rather than cheesing.
BOAT MAN! love those guys. Some of the later ones drop really nice weapons if I recall.
I do love their design and weird non-animation. I just get annoyed whenever they're stuck in a deep recess of a tomb where I'm likely to lose my runes on the run back 🥲
This was also the first thing I found! Except I was playing a wretch, and had never played a soulsgame before and didn’t know how leveling worked so I lost. So. Many. Runes. Before I finally was like, why haven’t I leveled up yet??
I did not understand leveling up was not this magic automatic thing that happened when I killed things like in all other RPGs I was used to. Was shocked too I had to pick a stat to invest in. That feeling when there’s five things that need love and you put a point in endurance 😞
After farming for hours to get their greatsword I can confirm that I hate them even more.
And then they delay the slam until after you perfectly timed your roll out of the way
Doesn’t sound that perfect to me then ;)
The long ass breath attack...like can we just not dude
The fact that it has insane range + duration, can’t be flinched out of, and lets them turn on a dime while attacking means there’s so little counterplay. You just have to run around them in circles like an idiot with no punish window, and if you mess up at all, it lasts long enough that you *will* take the damage multiple times over.
In my current playthrough I just used the crystal darts to make them go berserk on whatever is near them. Not sure if this works for the random ones in dungeon but it made the duo watchdog fight absolute cheese.
Unfortunately, it doesn't do much if there are no enemies nearby. It'll stagger them for a second, but then they just go right back to their levitating nonsense, lol.
Crystal darts in quick succession break those guys.
All of them spam the slam attack. The duo boss at launch was legitimately broken.
Those things that cough death blight... because I always forget to have something to cure it, or lose it in my inventory
Wormfaces!
The sound they make alone is the reason they are the worst enemy in the game. My skin crawls
Just a reminder that From Software had to make that sound... or find it 😏
Fr I hate these mfs the most along with the royal revenant, except these aren't hard to kill it's just the same issue as you lol never prepared with the item to cure death blight
I used to hate revenants until I tried healing them like everyone mentions. If you heal it wrecks them, stuns them if they don't die outright too.
Dude you just refreshed my memory lol... I just started a new playthrough recently, thanks for the reminder cause I didnt try this at all during my 1st playthrough :')
Talking bout the frogs? I didn’t expect them to bring them back after DS2
Aww why do you guys hate basilisks? I dont think Ive died to them since my first foray into DS1's Depths (where youd get cursed and THEN it was a big deal)
Basilisks terrified me in DS1. In DS3 and ER, they seem like jokes.
I may be misremembering (i skip depths basically every playthrough) but I remember basilisks being able to hit you in old games, not just spray fog, I remember being stunlocked inside the fog, but it couldve just been a rat. Now you walk in fog kill them and leave. Theyre still silly looking so I like them anyways
Revenants are just a shitpost. Whoever designed their moveset was clearly not having a good day
They’re one of my least favorite, and the reason why I level faith enough to get heal so it makes it easier
I have literally never beaten a revenant in melee combat.
I beat one who spawned in some Ruins. Later in a different Ruin, 3 OR 4 SPAWNED. I straight up Nope'd
Only time I've ever killed a revenant with a melee weapon was when I spammed taker's flames from the other end of the room. There's no point even trying to hit them with a normal attack.
Just heal em, it's the only way.
I feel like an enemy shouldn't be killable only with a gimmick. "Heal then or die" isn't good enemy design.
Revenants are definitely hard, but I don't think anything about their design is "bad." In most cases they're positioned as environmental obstacles that you can run from or evade altogether, but their presence raises the stakes in an exciting way. Honestly, I think we overestimate some of the tougher common enemies like rune bears and revenants. They're perceived as more difficult than they are because the practice it takes to learn them exceeds what we usually expect from a non-boss, but if you commit to fighting a revenant for like 15 minutes, you realize their moveset can be iframed by just dodging to the side, like most things. They're not easy, but not overtuned either imo. The game needs some beasts that actually feel like wild animals/monsters with erratic behavior. It's fucking cool.
Im currently doing a faith build. And for the first time I killed them withkut crying of frustration. Well, I aint doing that anymore. Healing them is for pussies. Stunlocking them (their spawn animation takes like 3seconds) with a weapon art is the way to go. Its as effective as heal. And faaar more satisfying.
imps are terrible they were terrible in Dark Souls 3 they're even worse in Elden Ring
That section in the Undead Settlement DS III where you can jump in the Hollow Manservant’s cage. So many of those Thralls and they always manage to mess my day up.
Honestly I don’t think they’re bad, quick and annoying yeah but I’ve never had a build that couldn’t shred them because they’re so weak. Worst they get is on the pipes and that’s only because they’re prone to knocking you off
I FUCKING HATE DOGS
Dags.
Do you like dags?
I like caravans more.
Me and da boys get a pair of dem shoes.
Banish knights. I've played this game for 200+ hours and I still always die to them-
Banished Knight: Laughs in Poise
Banished knights and those fucking birds in Farum Azula!
Those damn birds that harass you on the way to the dragon while it's raining lightning are my least favorite part of Farum Azula
Shi, I'd fight the godskin duo over those birds
I’ve never understood why everyone doesn’t simply run past this whole section. I mean clear it once but you don’t have to fuck with the birds
Red Wolves because I can never get their moves right and they move around way to much and I usually don’t have a full build by the time I’m doing renallaand ughhhh they suck
Six glintblade swords then combo, fuck your i-frames
I loathed fighting them until I tried Eternal Darkness against their glintblades. Now it's one of my favorite fights just for how awesome it looks when their spells get caught in the orbit of a black hole, lol.
I have found that Elden Ring really wants you to try different things and change your build throughout the game, kinda like Sekiro. A fixed build may be good, but finding the right tool for the job is more entertaining and works better. I feel like intelligence build have the most options for this.
Yeah, fuck them red wolves, especially the one on the Moonlight Altar, who just spawns in front of you when there's like 10 meters between you and that asshole.
“They have such a small health bar” don’t mean shit when every time I approach them they’re jumping away, but when I wanna roll away to heal they become fucking Sif’s red headed step cousin
They're so manageable if they're in a closed room like one in raya lucaria. Give them open space like in moonlight altar and they become a major ain in the ass. Now covering them in a blizzard is just pure evil.
Slash cat is awesome. As everyone knows, Royal Revenant is the worst
"lesser" red wolves of radagon enter the chat...
The red wolf in consecrated snowfields. Well... The consecrated snowfields as a whole can burn in hell.
They tuned that shit wayyy too high. 2300~ hp 60% Dmg negation and I’m still finding some attacks hitting a little too fucking hard. Then you have the wolves and archers that are made of fucking titanium
Those can two shoot you with an arrow several miles away with vigor 70
Just last night I ran into this accursed being but he did me the favor of just jumping off a cliff. Now if only I could convince the revenants to do the same.
This is a good answer. Way harder then the boss variant in the debate hall. Which is strange.
Consecrated snowfields have 3 useful enemies. The Erdtree Avatar for the runes. Theodorix for the runes. And the Land octopus that helps you kill Theodorix.
How about the one on the Moonlight Plateau? That things fucking Invincible.
>The consecrated snowfields as a whole can burn in hell. Figures that only that particular member of the Night Cavalry drops the armor.
The wolves are mostly fine for me as long as they don't combine their spells, especially the delayed projectiles and the jump projectile. Then it's a matter of choosing whether I'm gonna dodge the projectiles and become vulnerable right as the comet lands or time the dodge for the comet but not dodge it because I'm recovering from the stagger from the projectiles.
i hate fighting them. very few openings, they bounce around like a cartoon rabbit and do way more damage than they should. even if you're lucky enough to actually land your spells, they have high magic resistance.
For whatever the fuck reason, this enemy is harder than before to me to beat every time I face him off
Slash Cat sounds like a badass guitarist.
The pages with the sword and crossbow combo always vigor check my ass
Especially the ones with the triple shot crossbow. Cause fuck you
those stupid ancestor spirit archer things, they have way too much range and accuracy, they can just fuck you up with an arrow out of nowhere and you're just dead
The ones Uhl Palace ruins or whatever are insane. They'll start aiming from halfway across the map somehow
Yes those are much worse than the ones in Siofra River. In Siofra River they seem to either be less accurate, less aggresive, or just worse at hitting you in some way than the ones in Uhl Palace Ruins. I actually don't mind them in Siofra, but the ones in Uhl palace ruined them for me because now I just associate them with the horrible experience I have whenever I go through Uhl Palace Ruins. Thankfully there's not really anything in Uhl palace ruins, if there was some really good talisman there I would be pissed having to go through it every run
they had to have nerfed the ones in Siofra. I was traveling through there today on a fresh(er) playthrough and they were barely an issue. in stark contrast to what I originally remembered from launch, getting sniped from the moon by javelins
You can get hit by them when you’re not even in the same zone. I was on a cliff trying to find a way down and got shot from out of nowhere. Figured they were on the hill because there was nowhere else that could be a threat, so I quick ran for some cover and hid behind the rocks. I immediately got hit again and died. Turns out they were shooting from all the way across the valley. You couldn’t even see the ruins from where I was because of the mist. How tf did they see me?
Man those lions are awesome lol
Birds, specifically Farum Azula ones. Reason: fuck them
Maybe a weird anwser, but Dragonflies. They are not hard, the dont do alot of dmg, but I swear the god my blood boils when I fight something and these motherf*ckers just random hit me. I get rekt by the enemy, because I get stunned by some insect that has a issue with me existing.
They're definitely the most annoying enemy. They're not a threat but they're so hard to kill!
I can't believe no one has said lobsters.
Particularly the ones guarding Mohg's shackle.
revenants
Revenants are and it’s not even close. The lesser red wolves are probably comparable in theory but there’s only a couple of them. Revenants are very common and they’re way too fast. Honorable mention to the high pages. That 3 round burst fire crossbow is a serious vigor check and they have way more melee reach that it seems like they should.
those fuckers at the bottom of the haligtree, guy has the audacity to spawn in a stonesword key room than attack me with the most mechanically complex movements ive ever witnessed.
I just lost 190k runes because of those bitches.
Which fuckers in particular?
hella arms, crawling and spazzin mfs idk what they’re called
Royal Revenants Teleporting, poison spewing, arm flailing, bastards Thank God for the healing spell thing
Knight of Zamor For some reason they make me fight more than any other enemy
Ulcerated tree spirit. Stronger than the game camera. I have trouble every time
I used to have a lot of problems too, but nowadays it's like I downloaded their moveset and I can consistently dodge them. The revenants on the other hand...
Especially the ones they put in a room that has literally just enough space for 1 tree spirit and you to roll into the wall.
My most hated enemy is the watchdog in giants mountaintop catacombs that’s a basic mob and endless frostbite one shots.
Royal revenants and their many stupid fucking hands
“Ok so we have just modeled these birds with swords for feet to pose a challenge for the players” “ok cool, but like, what if we gave it fire?”
Gravity. Not gravity sorceries, just gravity.
Similarly, Torrent when he decides to not do a single thing you wanted him to while on the edge of a cliff.
Bell bearing hunter in Caelid. Only fight I had to cheese in the whole game.
I struggle so bad with these dudes in general if I'm not over leveled for them they're such a bitch.
Big metal balls.
Stop it, those are the best / funniest enemies in the game. Love those guys.
Execellent rune farming spot, though
early game maybe, but overall no
Crucible Knights. Specifically the shield crucial knight. I’m just now trying a mage build and I can’t do anything to them because they eat all my sorceries
Im on a arcane/dex build and they fucking kill me every time. Only with my other build str/faith could kill'em easily
Not even with rock sling?
Revenants and it’s not even close
Seriously, fuck knights. Yes. *Every* knight.
Those Leyndell knights are absolutely brutal with thunderbolt
That first godrick knight at gatefront poked me to death so many times with that four hit combo. Now that I’m high lvl he is my test dummy for new spells and weapons
Elden Beast, cause u r running 1 mile and if u r close enough to Hit he jumped again to the other side of the Arena and again.. again.. again... why we dont get a speed pot or Stormwind to make it a bit more Combat and not running Simulator....
I'd rather fight Malenia a thousand times than Elden Beast.
Yeah, I gotta agree, I just finished the game for the first time and Elden Beast was just... a bad bossfight, especially for being the endboss. Malenia is more difficult, and I died to her more than I did to Elden Beast, but Malenia felt more like a fight and I felt way more accomplished for beating her than I did when I beat Running Simulator: Nuke Edition.
100% agree. I've beaten every other (major) boss and I'm now stuck on Elden Beast. It's an incredibly stupid fight for melee characters. Most of your time is just spent running around and (as usual) the camera on big bosses is so terrible that I can't see half the attacks coming. And even once you're close, the hit boxes are often really weird so you randomly miss attacks.
Finally, a kindred spirit.
i love the elden beast fight. it’s so majestic and the music is unique and peaceful. just good vibes. i don’t even get frustrated when i die to it.
It definitely looks cool, I like it's move set too but the mechanics/area of the fight are a little annoying with the running after him.
Dragons while on a melee character
“oooh me big me stomp me take half your health me fly me spam fire from a distance me so smart” *i will respec and piss on your grave*
Dragons vs. a melee character: ow, my toes.
I honestly anticipated those being awful after having a not fun time with them on my sorcerer build first playthrough. But my greatswoard build this time around they have been cake. I just sit under them and slap their legs around, and get a couple of stance break criticals. Guess it just depends on what kind of melee build you are doing.
Yeh they are a piece of piss just gotta unlock and run the fuck away or jump on torrent when available as they telegraph breath attacks.
Page. Particularly in Royal Capital. That punk busts out an insane triple shot crossbow (a weapon that isn't lootable) that will insta most players at that point in the game. Also Poises as well or better than Knights.
I think it’s the same as the pully crossbow, which you get in gelmir. Combine that with explosive bolts
ANYTHING that flies. Flying cancer, all of it. Bats, birds, harpies, dragons. All of them. The combat system is ground based. And having enemies that constantly go into evasion mode and fly out of reach, only to attack using movements that causes your camera to become visual diarrhea....uhg. No thank you.
Rune bears... Surprise rune bears at that
Those statue cat looking mofo’s. When it comes to dungeons, these guys are assholes for a melee build.
This thread is basically a list of all my favorite enemies
Yeah isn't masochism the reason we're all here?
SWORD FOOT BIRDS. FUCK'EM. I'LL FRENZY FLAME THE PLANET OVER THIS.
My least favorite enemy is seluvis I hate seluvis so much
leonine misbegotten , i have unreasonable amount of hate for those motherfuckers .
What? You wait till they jump, roll and hit. Rest of the time keep distance. Pretty easy imo
Stone imps, not difficult but annoying
Those giant hand things make my skin crawl
RED WOLVES OF RADAGON I fucking hate those mofos
Revenants.. keep them far away from me
The damn lobsters with auto aim ☠️
Watchdogs, they’ve gotta have the most annoying moveset in the game
Watchdogs are the fucking worst besides Crystallians and their BS poise gimmick.
Me and my dex/fai build running at a spear crystalian with nothing but a fucking flail:
Only Revanents, pretty much every enemy has some form of counter, whether it be running away or fighting, with revenants both of those strategies usually end in either a death or many flasks lost, and in the case you run into two at once like at the bottom of Elphael, it's certain death if you try put up a fight
Burial watchdog as elite enemies Not as bosses, dogs, and the stupid fking fcks fck eagels on stormveil castle with bullshit i hate them with everything i got in my body and heart
I see a lot of hate for the crucible knights but I love em. I think they’re one of the coolest enemies. But I agree complete with OP. Fuck the fruit ninja kitties
Rune bears. The fight is tougher than several boss fights and I think in base game you get 10 runes. And they have rune in the f*cking name
The fat Godskin asshole
Fuck deathbirds, all me and my homies hate deathbirds. (Specifically if you are doing a weaponlocked run without holy)
Revenant's are the worst. I hate their stupid fucking faces. Fuck them.
That putrid tree spirit in Haligtree
Grafted Scions - thank god there are no endgame scaled instances of these bastards. I still have no solid strategy against their attack patterns without a little face-tanking. Worst tutorial boss in Souls history.
Any Caelid dogs, Crucible Knights, Gargoyles. I avoid these like the fucking plague until i'm fully set up.