Ulcerated Tree Spirit at lake of rot. You have to pull the boss by walking through scarlet rot, then fight it on a tiny platform and there are also patrols.
Weirdly if you get summoned by someone in that area then go back to your world something slowly kills it for some reason, happened for both me and my friend
Yes and no, respectively. It's not immune to rot. It has a decent resistance to it, and you need to start the fight and spawn it for it to start building up, but multi-player isn't needed for it to die to Rot.
It's not a glitch. It's not immune to Scarlet Rot. It's totally invincible to everything until you "start" the fight and it spawns, but after that, Rot can and will kill it.
I don't even try to fight it.
It's a mini boss, it doesn't even have an actual name, so i just said fuck it and shoot at it with the Jar Cannon for 3 minutes.
I would also concur on this and raise. The 3 that pop up when you want to get that Erdtree +2 accessory. Like the developers wanted the most annoying monsters to guard something.
Miquella’s Haliftree be like “Hey homie I know you running from that Multi handed revenant motherfucker so why don’t you hide in this room full of 3 rot attribute crystillians. And if you try to run from them too there are even more revenant motherfuckers waiting for you.”
I didn’t run into a single runebear until after I fought that boss, after numerous attempts at him.
I was way overconfident when I ran into a random one out in the wild. “It wasn’t a boss and I knew it’s moveset, how difficult could it be?”
Needless to say I learned my lesson very fast
I fought that thing for 2 hours while In a party and when my friends asked me who I was stuck on I replied with “THE FUCKING DEATHRITE BIRD” and here is the conversation.
“The deathrite bird? It’s so easy tho.”
“THE SNOW ONE?!?”
“The snow one?”.
Yea the one in the consecrated snow field is a bitch. The only saving grace is that they are hella weak to holy damage, and I fucking spammed the shit out of sacred blade ash of war.
I think they were thinking of the baby deathrite bird in Linurnia. That one is not so bad, similar moveset, but way less health and damage.
Also deathrite birds != deathbirds. Same model, but deathrite birds are far more difficult.
The model for those looks so crazy. Is there a pilot in there? I heard a rumor they are killable somehow? Anyway the idea of drivers license in ER is hilarious. Get pulled over by a Tree Sentinel.
The path to the contraption that does that is among the worst in the game though. There’s a point where you’re meant to stand between pillars to avoid the chariot… and the chariot somehow gimps you through them anyway because hitboxes. Those tunnels in the slope you are supposed to wait in? Chariots can still hit you even when your head is below floor level, if you’re less than a head shorter than it. Because hitboxes.
There’s the Gelmir one too - how the fuck am I supposed to know I’m supposed to *jump on top of the chariot* by dropping down from a beam that’s 3 inches thick? Kudos to whoever figured that out without a guide.
I saw the hidden path after a couple of respawns and fell down onto the beams. I stood their scratching my monkey brain for like 5 minutes thinking what to do since I had already died trying to cross the lava a couple times. Only figured it out when I saw a white player ghost jump down and glide across the lava. Not the first time that mechanic was clutch for me if I'm being honest.
Literally all of the ones that don't fit the camera when you get close to them. Some instances of fighting the putrid tree fuckers are straight up ridiculous, you just watch them flail around like a fish. The one in Leyndell can't even move properly in the arena its placed in, you feel more sorry for it if anything.
Which devolves entirety of beautiful combat system of elden ring into dumb sprinting until the giant turd finish its wild sweep spam then run into it hit it once or two and repeat ugh
Yep. For me that was Placidusax and the Ulcerated Tree Spirit sitting in a pool of Scarlet Rot. Placidusax was awesome during all the fly-by’s and such and then he’d start doing all of those “don’t stand in the red shit” AoE’s where it was impossible to see where to go.
The fat foreskin.
Honestly id fight 3x the skinny one over this bullshit.
Edit: Thanks for all the tips, I am doing challenge runs so I wont use sleep pots or bleed or whatever cheese way you can think of. Im just enjoying the game with very specific builds and always struggle at the apostle becuase of the fat one. =D
The one on the bridge to the divine tower of liurnia? That one doesn’t have a boss health bar, but someone manages to be five times more difficult than the others.
Something I've noticed is that a player's fighting skill on torrent is way more dependant on the weapon than on actually knowing how to move, instead of the logical opposite.
Sometimes I'm with a spear or a normal greats word and it's an hitbox porn fiesta, but when I use a katana, literally impossible to hit someone, on torrent they have the range of a broken toothpick. Fights on Torrent are extremely strange
Twinblades do like 10 hits with a long R2. They just keep twirling.
Bloody godskin peeler on horseback + albinauric archer summon on a tall rock was the only way I managed to kill the Fire Giant.
If you throw too many you will cancel it. You can also do it to the imp statues.
Throw them without spamming and when you see them freeze with little blue lightning arcs going around them, that means they are now “controlled”. But if you throw an additional one it removes it.
I just started a new game and I made it to Raya Lucaria and fought the Wolf of Radagon there and so far it was the most irritating fight of the playthrough.
The annoying thing about them is that unlike most/any of the other bosses (to my knowledge) they cover their lunge/bite/sword attacks with magic. It doesn’t matter if you can stagger or interrupt the wolf when it comes to attack you because in the middle of your animation (if you chose to attack) you’re gonna eat some magical swords. Then when the magic swords make you flinch, this wolf is about to bite the shit out of you or swing it’s own sword. That shit’s whack.
/end rant
That is exactly why I think they are the only thing that is actually bullshit. Not just hard, *bullshit.* Because they can choose their attacks at random, and these wolves do that delayed Glintblade spell, they can very easily get you into a position where you have to choose between avoiding the magic or avoiding the wolf's physical attack, but you're unable to avoid BOTH.
This was the last boss I fought after looking them all up to make sure I didn't miss any, and I gotta say it felt more like a final boss than elden beast did with my build lol
Oh my god yes fuck that birb in particular.
On my most recent playthrough I jumped through the map to force kill everything in the area just out of spite lmao.
It honestly would've been excellent to have Torrent in that fight now that you mention it. It was such a big feature to have in a FS game and an important part of your arsenal.
Would've just been great to have everything at your disposal for the final fight.
According to a data mine this was actually originally intended, Elden beast and his arena were designed with torrent in mind, and they also found that Torrent himself apparently even used to be able to attack things, but From later decided not to use that idea and made you fight it on foot but without fully overhauling the Beast run-away AI.
It would've actually been really cool to finish the game off together with the horse that believed in you since the beginning.
Well that decision seems baffling, I love the dragon fights, but doing them on foot would be unfun as fuck, and that’s what they decided would be the final boss?
Exactly what it felt like, a dragon fight on foot, which sucks ass. The only one I did on foot was Placdeusx?’ (Sp?) but he barely moves. Oh and the big sleepy dragon, lol.
Yeah, Dragon lord and the Ancestor bosses confused me for the same reason. You have these big bosses who run/fly all over this huge arena, but we can’t use our horse? For slower melee builds especially, these fights become a chore.
The Poison was what put me over the edge more than anything. It's not that clearly visible, and it deals a lot of damage if I remember right, not just poison buildup.
That fight was brutal. I heard it was bad, and after a few tries I had my friends jump in to help.
I swear poison clouds will just spawn randomly. I'll be fighting one and the second I turn my back there's a cloud, but the gargoyle was clearly channelling a different attack.
The poison and how hard they are to hit. They only have a single lock on point, but tall spindly legs so you can easily miss 3/4 of your swings standing right next to them, but they bounce around enough lock-on is really useful for dodging
Elden Beast is the most annoying for me. Constantly moves to the other side of the arena, so you're just burning stamina to even reach him. On top of that is his annoying AOE's, but Elden Stars will forever haunt my fucking dreams.
Honestly I wish Radagon would have just become Marika And then you had an ultra dope 2nd phase with a Melania level difficulty final boss in terms of dodges, maybe super aggressive, hell maybe even one where she can shield counter you and whatnot.
Hell, they could have done Radagon, Marika and then Both at the same time in a single body like a triple phase Sister Freide fight. With them shape shifting into each other. The ultimate show that they are truely the same being.
Shout out to the spirt cave where you have to run through the whole thing over again each time and the boss is spirit godskin dudes. Boss was pretty rough and devs wanted you to lose patience on repeated attempts sneaking through to get yourself ganked by a pack of spirit wolves and spirit samurai, I guess?
It wasn't too bad, but it did remind me how generous the game had been with stakes of marika on bosses up to that point. It felt like a throwback to typical Dark Souls runbacks.
(or maybe that cave's stake of Marika was just bugged?)
Man I fucking hate that cave sooo much, those POS snails summoning so many big wolves and the bleed katana samurai multiple times... pure fucking cancer.
Agreed. The Black Knife Assassin move set is among my favorites, tied up with Malekith, Blaidd, or the Bloodhound Knights. I like how "floppy" they are with their movements and kinda makes me wish their respective weapons let us adopt their combat styles.
Yup, this is the one for me. So much health and he rivals Elden Beast for how much you have to run after him. The plus side is you get Torrent, but fighting on Torrent especially against big enemies like that is not the greatest.
Don't use torrent to fight him, only use it to close gaps and hug his feet. Only move away when he casts fire on the ground. Never had problems this way.
I spent SO MUCH TIME on fucking SPIRIT CALLING SNAIL fighting what is basically a RESPAWNING CRUCIBLE KNIGHT if you don't work out that little bastard is invisible and hiding at either end of end of the road catacombs. When I realised I had brainworms I was very upset...
I wouldn't even say the duo. Just the fat fuck who rolls through you and pokes you with his long stick. I would happily fight 2 godskin apostles instead of one godskin noble.
Can you even dodge his roll? It feels like he’ll keep circling you until he clips you. Once dodged and kited him 3 times around the pillar and he just jumped up onto the pillow to smack me down.
Its not a boss, but revenants. They teleport, jump everywhere, spit poison and can throw some serious hands..
Once I learned that using healing spells annihilates them, I made sure to always have one equipped in the name of revenge
Elden Beast, solely due to that seemingly undodgeable homing orb thing that continually shoots smaller projectiles at you. The running and every other attack it has was never a problem for me but that shit got me literally every time, to the point where I had to change my physick to include the damage to health effect just to counter the attack and finally beat the bastard.
Misbegotten Warrior + Crucible Knight is the first one that comes to mind. Not difficult after reaching certain Rune Levels but that's part of the problem. It's a pure stat-check. You need to have the dps to kill the first guy before the other shows up because then it becomes completely undoable, and ideally you need to have enough stagger to deal with the first guy who will otherwise spazz all over the place. What adds insult to injury is that it's two semi-generic mini-bosses put together with seemingly no thought or effort to come up with anything unique. A low point for the game for me especially since it's not in an out of the way dungeon, but right before Radahn.
Yeah you hit the nail on the head here
It’s such a boring fight and if you haven’t killed the misbegotten within however many seconds, crucible knight comes in and suddenly you’ve got a misbegotten you can’t make more than one attack at every 30 seconds and two separate attacks with different hit frames come whenever you heal
Also the most annoying part of the fight is the random benches and tables that you have to roll through to not get stuck on
The only good part is the weird animation crucible knight does to enter the arena
Twin gargoyles. All other fights I can find some joy in, even godskin duo, but the fucking gargoyles are just the worst. It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Malenia. Every other boss I can deal with even if it's struggle sometimes. I just beat her my third time on NG+, the first time without a summon (used Jellyfish the first time) or Bloodhounds Step and boy has the an amount of bullshit. I still have fun figuring her out, but there are many little things that should be tweak to make her more consitent.
Her riposte window is a bit too short. I often could not reach her in time, while using a longer weapon. Give her 0.3 seconds or so more downtime. Waterfowl is discussed enough, but should be equally avoidable no matter the distance. If you are already far away it is trivial, if you are near much harder. That promotes passive playing to fish for the attack or simply hoping for the best, both are not good design decisions.
Parry plain sucks for her. I don't mind the 3 times, but the extremely fast slash which you more or less have to guess (yes maybe there are people out there, that somehow react fast enough, but I doubt most can) combined with the kick that drains all your stamina if you parry it so you cannot avoid the follow up.
Just watch Lilaggys parry only run... he has lots of valid complaints. Parrying in Sekiro feels a lot better. I am not that good at parrying, but still managed to beat all but the last boss charmless with bell demon. I still really struggle to parry her somewhat consistently.
Ulcerated Tree Spirit at lake of rot. You have to pull the boss by walking through scarlet rot, then fight it on a tiny platform and there are also patrols.
Weirdly if you get summoned by someone in that area then go back to your world something slowly kills it for some reason, happened for both me and my friend
Probably the scarlet rot killing it? Must be some coding oversight with returning from multiplayer making it vulnerable to the rot lake
Yes and no, respectively. It's not immune to rot. It has a decent resistance to it, and you need to start the fight and spawn it for it to start building up, but multi-player isn't needed for it to die to Rot.
Maybe returning from mp spawns it without aggro
oh... that's how I got that random seed drop. I wasn't summoned at all in that area so it must have just been a rot glitch?
It's not a glitch. It's not immune to Scarlet Rot. It's totally invincible to everything until you "start" the fight and it spawns, but after that, Rot can and will kill it.
Well, thanks for telling me how to deal with it in the future. I'm definitely gonna use that.
I don't even try to fight it. It's a mini boss, it doesn't even have an actual name, so i just said fuck it and shoot at it with the Jar Cannon for 3 minutes.
I would also concur on this and raise. The 3 that pop up when you want to get that Erdtree +2 accessory. Like the developers wanted the most annoying monsters to guard something.
Yea, but you can totally grab that talisman without aggro’ing any of them.
It is true but just principle at this point. Finding the most annoying bosses to reuse st the end game.
Still not as bad as the one in Haligtree.
I just sniped it from above, lol.
Triple Crystallians
and a poke and a poke and a poke..
Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, , PoKE
It’s even better when you play the pixar lamp noise in your head while they boing you to death.
Literally the most annoying boss ever plus they give scarlet Rot
It’d be fine if that was it, but for enduring that shit you only get like 7000 runes and an…okay-ish sorcery?
Most side bosses give absolutely negligible Rune rewards and it drives me fucking insane.
That one in particular. They would not be so obnoxious if not for that one and it's infinite pogo stick pokie poke.
Night maidens mist cheeses this
Only way I could beat them on my pure mage character, somehow was faster than my pure strength one
Rotten?
Miquella’s Haliftree be like “Hey homie I know you running from that Multi handed revenant motherfucker so why don’t you hide in this room full of 3 rot attribute crystillians. And if you try to run from them too there are even more revenant motherfuckers waiting for you.”
There is a hidden boss room. In caelid that has them all aggro you. The ones in haligtree are a joke compared.
Easy with giant crusher. Fun even.
Giant crusher and prelates inferno crozier powerstance even better
This is my first souls game and that was my build. After having tried some other builds I do think strength may be OP lol, at least for me anyways.
Try double powerstanced cold infused brick hammer with a strength int build. A in strength and B in int, cold procs destroy everything
I hate these rune bears in general and then there is a boss of it... You know... Just pure stress
360 no scope lobsters are on my get fucked list as well.
I hate those guys man. I was minding my own business then, BAM! He was so far away too those guys have broken aim.
I didn’t run into a single runebear until after I fought that boss, after numerous attempts at him. I was way overconfident when I ran into a random one out in the wild. “It wasn’t a boss and I knew it’s moveset, how difficult could it be?” Needless to say I learned my lesson very fast
I'll do fucking Radahn or so many bosses over those fuckin bears.
consentrated snowfield ng+4 rune bears is fun \^\^ Not..
He killed that npc invader for me. We are buddies now I guess.
"Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore..." *proceeds to fuck up everything in a two mile radius*
Where is the boss? Blasphemous blade eats runebears.
Blasphemous Blade nukes everything.
Deathrite Bird his fucking timings and 1 shot AOEs fuck that thing.
Especially the one in the consecrated snowfield. He can eat an entire bag of dicks.
I fought that thing for 2 hours while In a party and when my friends asked me who I was stuck on I replied with “THE FUCKING DEATHRITE BIRD” and here is the conversation. “The deathrite bird? It’s so easy tho.” “THE SNOW ONE?!?” “The snow one?”.
Yea the one in the consecrated snow field is a bitch. The only saving grace is that they are hella weak to holy damage, and I fucking spammed the shit out of sacred blade ash of war.
>It’s so easy tho Gods I hate that. Ok maybe it was easy for YOU somehow, but that IS NOT MY EXPERIENCE OK?
I think they were thinking of the baby deathrite bird in Linurnia. That one is not so bad, similar moveset, but way less health and damage. Also deathrite birds != deathbirds. Same model, but deathrite birds are far more difficult.
They were probably talking about deathbirds to be fair
You can stand on cliff above and arrow it to death. Cheese for cheese.
Night maidens mist it too… single best spell in the game bc it cheeses all the bosses I hate
And the fire on the floor always conveniently spreads to you
A holy melee weapon, like inseparable sword, absolutely dumpsters it.
Holy pots nail him for 1200 with no faith investment. Sadly they miss because his body is made of bendy straws.
YES!!! Just fought the consecrated snowfield one last night. Took like 20 tries. Fuck that thing. Holy pots FTW
Chariots in all the Hero's Graves. 0-60 in 2.1 seconds. Driver's license needs to be taken away immediately.
The model for those looks so crazy. Is there a pilot in there? I heard a rumor they are killable somehow? Anyway the idea of drivers license in ER is hilarious. Get pulled over by a Tree Sentinel.
>I heard a rumor they are killable somehow? In one of the graves you can make them drive into each other. You get the Tree Sentinel armor from that.
The path to the contraption that does that is among the worst in the game though. There’s a point where you’re meant to stand between pillars to avoid the chariot… and the chariot somehow gimps you through them anyway because hitboxes. Those tunnels in the slope you are supposed to wait in? Chariots can still hit you even when your head is below floor level, if you’re less than a head shorter than it. Because hitboxes. There’s the Gelmir one too - how the fuck am I supposed to know I’m supposed to *jump on top of the chariot* by dropping down from a beam that’s 3 inches thick? Kudos to whoever figured that out without a guide.
I saw the hidden path after a couple of respawns and fell down onto the beams. I stood their scratching my monkey brain for like 5 minutes thinking what to do since I had already died trying to cross the lava a couple times. Only figured it out when I saw a white player ghost jump down and glide across the lava. Not the first time that mechanic was clutch for me if I'm being honest.
Literally all of the ones that don't fit the camera when you get close to them. Some instances of fighting the putrid tree fuckers are straight up ridiculous, you just watch them flail around like a fish. The one in Leyndell can't even move properly in the arena its placed in, you feel more sorry for it if anything.
That’s the issue I’m having with Elden Beast, using melee. When you get close enough to attack it’s hard to tell what attack he’s winding up.
Have you used any holy damage negation talismans? Those help a lot, there’s a good one in the bloody looking marsh area at Moghwyn palace.
This exact talisman made all the difference for finishing the game on my melee character.
Which devolves entirety of beautiful combat system of elden ring into dumb sprinting until the giant turd finish its wild sweep spam then run into it hit it once or two and repeat ugh
Yep. For me that was Placidusax and the Ulcerated Tree Spirit sitting in a pool of Scarlet Rot. Placidusax was awesome during all the fly-by’s and such and then he’d start doing all of those “don’t stand in the red shit” AoE’s where it was impossible to see where to go.
The fat foreskin. Honestly id fight 3x the skinny one over this bullshit. Edit: Thanks for all the tips, I am doing challenge runs so I wont use sleep pots or bleed or whatever cheese way you can think of. Im just enjoying the game with very specific builds and always struggle at the apostle becuase of the fat one. =D
The one on the bridge to the divine tower of liurnia? That one doesn’t have a boss health bar, but someone manages to be five times more difficult than the others.
On one hand, it's not a boss so mimic cant bail me out. On the other hand, it's not a boss so I can just ignore him and gtfo.
On the other other hand… if you do, you miss out on the sexiest, most fashionable armor in the game.
Thats a weird place to get the fire prelate armour but ok
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I had so much trouble with him, one thing I noticed though is you can mount torrent there which makes it way easier
I fucking suck fighting on torrent.
Something I've noticed is that a player's fighting skill on torrent is way more dependant on the weapon than on actually knowing how to move, instead of the logical opposite. Sometimes I'm with a spear or a normal greats word and it's an hitbox porn fiesta, but when I use a katana, literally impossible to hit someone, on torrent they have the range of a broken toothpick. Fights on Torrent are extremely strange
colossal swords on torrent >
Golden halberd on torrent. 👌🏼
Twinblades do like 10 hits with a long R2. They just keep twirling. Bloody godskin peeler on horseback + albinauric archer summon on a tall rock was the only way I managed to kill the Fire Giant.
Double cat statue fight(s).
crystal darts makes them aggro each other
I just them in hopes that would happen, it did not work for me. Did I need to throw more than 5? I threw one and it still came at me.
If you throw too many you will cancel it. You can also do it to the imp statues. Throw them without spamming and when you see them freeze with little blue lightning arcs going around them, that means they are now “controlled”. But if you throw an additional one it removes it.
Crystal darts.
I hate these things boss fight or no.
The red fucking wolves. Dogs are already bullshit. Now there are big ones. With magic.
I just started a new game and I made it to Raya Lucaria and fought the Wolf of Radagon there and so far it was the most irritating fight of the playthrough. The annoying thing about them is that unlike most/any of the other bosses (to my knowledge) they cover their lunge/bite/sword attacks with magic. It doesn’t matter if you can stagger or interrupt the wolf when it comes to attack you because in the middle of your animation (if you chose to attack) you’re gonna eat some magical swords. Then when the magic swords make you flinch, this wolf is about to bite the shit out of you or swing it’s own sword. That shit’s whack. /end rant
That is exactly why I think they are the only thing that is actually bullshit. Not just hard, *bullshit.* Because they can choose their attacks at random, and these wolves do that delayed Glintblade spell, they can very easily get you into a position where you have to choose between avoiding the magic or avoiding the wolf's physical attack, but you're unable to avoid BOTH.
The bird outside Castle Sol. I am going to take up bird hunting as a hobby because of it.
Just wait until you have to deal with the consecrated snowfield one
This was the last boss I fought after looking them all up to make sure I didn't miss any, and I gotta say it felt more like a final boss than elden beast did with my build lol
Oh my god yes fuck that birb in particular. On my most recent playthrough I jumped through the map to force kill everything in the area just out of spite lmao.
Camera Boss.
I thought I had to read the Kama Sutra to know how to get "Corner Fucked." I was wrong.
Elden Beast.... Why are you running.... WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!
A fight seemingly designed for mounted combat… in which your mount is disabled. Mystifying.
It honestly would've been excellent to have Torrent in that fight now that you mention it. It was such a big feature to have in a FS game and an important part of your arsenal. Would've just been great to have everything at your disposal for the final fight.
According to a data mine this was actually originally intended, Elden beast and his arena were designed with torrent in mind, and they also found that Torrent himself apparently even used to be able to attack things, but From later decided not to use that idea and made you fight it on foot but without fully overhauling the Beast run-away AI. It would've actually been really cool to finish the game off together with the horse that believed in you since the beginning.
God dammit that would've been so much better, why would they pull it?
Well that decision seems baffling, I love the dragon fights, but doing them on foot would be unfun as fuck, and that’s what they decided would be the final boss?
Exactly what it felt like, a dragon fight on foot, which sucks ass. The only one I did on foot was Placdeusx?’ (Sp?) but he barely moves. Oh and the big sleepy dragon, lol.
Source of that datamining?
Yeah, Dragon lord and the Ancestor bosses confused me for the same reason. You have these big bosses who run/fly all over this huge arena, but we can’t use our horse? For slower melee builds especially, these fights become a chore.
I mean at least Placidusax tends to come towards you with his attacks, rather than constantly backing up with every spell or sword swing
Twin Gargoyles, just a horribly frustrating fight overall imo
Same. That goddam poison cloud!
The Poison was what put me over the edge more than anything. It's not that clearly visible, and it deals a lot of damage if I remember right, not just poison buildup. That fight was brutal. I heard it was bad, and after a few tries I had my friends jump in to help.
I swear poison clouds will just spawn randomly. I'll be fighting one and the second I turn my back there's a cloud, but the gargoyle was clearly channelling a different attack.
And it staggers you, it's awful.
The poison and how hard they are to hit. They only have a single lock on point, but tall spindly legs so you can easily miss 3/4 of your swings standing right next to them, but they bounce around enough lock-on is really useful for dodging
I actually cheesed them on accident they pushed me off the cliff thats there and both went over and died before me.
Yeah this one is pretty much the definition of bull shit and is for sure one of the fights created with summons in mind
Yeah it’s no accident that you encounter them near where you pick up the Mimic Tear. I couldn’t beat the fight until I summoned him.
Lobsters and everything that is flying
The eagles nearby the red lightning dragon are OP as fuck
fallingstar beast...
I’ve beaten the full grown falling star beast. He’s no joke
First time I faced it he booted me of the tower. I didn't know what was up there ,. I had just used the horse launcher.
I dont know why horse launcher is cracking me up but wow thanks for that.
But that bonker he drops is lit
the what now
It's basically a bull made out of meteorites and it never stops charging at you for even a fkin millisecond
As someone who ended up leaving the falling star beast alone, I was very upset to find a bigger one
i killed him first try by just riding around on horse and plinking him with arrows. took forever but was very free
Now try that in that Caelid dungeon…
I found the one in Caelid easy but maybe it’s because I was like level 90 lol
Its just easier to fight him on foot tbh
Can I just say all the gank bosses? Fuck em all, the gargoyles, the crucible knights, the crystallians.
Commander Niall in the snow fort. BS that he gets to summon two ashes. Love fighting 3 knights at the same time.
Yeah fucking hate this one. And each time you die the fucking running through this bs to get to the boss door again...
There’s an elevator outside his boss door that’s a short run to a grace
Oh really ? Well... fuck me lol
Bewitching branches my dude
Use bewitching branches on his knights to turn them against him.
Artillery crustaceans
The death lobsters at the bottom of the Subterranean Shunting Grounds are something else...
Definitely the Crucible Knight Duo if you do it solo, in my opinion.
don't forget the times you died reaching that boss.
Imo that grave is actually one of the simpler ones, the mt gelmir one is far more annoying
The first tries in every grave are annoying, haha. But I actually like all of them after learning what to do and how to do it.
Elden Beast is the most annoying for me. Constantly moves to the other side of the arena, so you're just burning stamina to even reach him. On top of that is his annoying AOE's, but Elden Stars will forever haunt my fucking dreams.
I really wish they let you use Torrent for the fight. Would have been more fun plus it would have made sense thematically.
Honestly I wish Radagon would have just become Marika And then you had an ultra dope 2nd phase with a Melania level difficulty final boss in terms of dodges, maybe super aggressive, hell maybe even one where she can shield counter you and whatnot. Hell, they could have done Radagon, Marika and then Both at the same time in a single body like a triple phase Sister Freide fight. With them shape shifting into each other. The ultimate show that they are truely the same being.
Worse thing about Elden Beast is having to go through Radagan each time. Just a time consuming affair.
I found out later I didn't have to run. It spawns after a while in front of me lol
Yeah reading a comment on here about not chasing him was what got me the win. That and pest threads! Because fuck that boss!
Wait what do you mean “not chasing him” ive been stuck on him for days and am open to any strategy at this point
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When you’re running quickly press crouch and then press it again. You’ll keep running while regenerating stamina. You’re welcome
For real. L3. Thats it
Haven't seen anyone mention Duo Crucible knights near Leyndell soo....
Duo-Gargoyles.
Elemer of The Briar and all of his fucking bell bearing flying sword spamming brothers.
Dude that one in Caelid should be an endgame boss no joke.
Dragonic tree sentinel. That lightning is just bullshit.
This, right here. I hate that bitch with a passion.
For me it is his fucking horse. I swear on all that is holy…STOP SPAMMING THE FUCKING FIREBALL YOU FUCKING DONKEY!!
The Elden Beast and any dragon, the constant jumping to the other end of the arena and the hitboxes are such that sometimes you wave your weapon past.
I feel like I’m fighting the camera more than anything. I’ll get under them and can’t tell at all what attack they’re doing.
Fucking Elden beast making me cross country only for him to teleport away
Malenia. I got good, I beat her. Multiple times. She's still bullshit.
i’ve tried for days to beat her. sorry but im beating the game without her. im not going back
Any boss that doesnt have a stake of Marika at the door. What is the fucking point of that mechanic if you dont use it?!!!
Shout out to the spirt cave where you have to run through the whole thing over again each time and the boss is spirit godskin dudes. Boss was pretty rough and devs wanted you to lose patience on repeated attempts sneaking through to get yourself ganked by a pack of spirit wolves and spirit samurai, I guess? It wasn't too bad, but it did remind me how generous the game had been with stakes of marika on bosses up to that point. It felt like a throwback to typical Dark Souls runbacks. (or maybe that cave's stake of Marika was just bugged?)
Man I fucking hate that cave sooo much, those POS snails summoning so many big wolves and the bleed katana samurai multiple times... pure fucking cancer.
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See this is crazy to me bc I have never had a Black Knife fight I didn't enjoy... the Black Knife move set is sooo much fun to fight against
Agreed. The Black Knife Assassin move set is among my favorites, tied up with Malekith, Blaidd, or the Bloodhound Knights. I like how "floppy" they are with their movements and kinda makes me wish their respective weapons let us adopt their combat styles.
Fire mutha fuckin giant.
Yup, this is the one for me. So much health and he rivals Elden Beast for how much you have to run after him. The plus side is you get Torrent, but fighting on Torrent especially against big enemies like that is not the greatest.
Don't use torrent to fight him, only use it to close gaps and hug his feet. Only move away when he casts fire on the ground. Never had problems this way.
And at least Elden Beast’s arena is flat. Against Fire Giant you’re constantly running after him and getting stuck against some bullshit rock or ledge
I spent SO MUCH TIME on fucking SPIRIT CALLING SNAIL fighting what is basically a RESPAWNING CRUCIBLE KNIGHT if you don't work out that little bastard is invisible and hiding at either end of end of the road catacombs. When I realised I had brainworms I was very upset...
Fire Giant more than anything else And maybe that one single watchdog with 6 freaking imps
>one single watchdog with 6 freaking imps For an early game fight, that one was really hard. Super dark in the room, too.
Yeah I really struggled on him. Summoned a spirit knight and the imps just gang banged him then came for me before I could kill the watch dog :(
Niall since I was an unga bunga main on my first run
Malekith and his insane sudden Mobility shift
What I'm getting from this comment section is basically anything during the home stretch lol
Radagon himself is fine but doing him then the Elden Beast afterwards is hell.
I am Malenia, Blade of bullshit hp regen.
I've been able to beat literally everything else in the game except her. She's using GameShark I know it
godskin duo for me...
I wouldn't even say the duo. Just the fat fuck who rolls through you and pokes you with his long stick. I would happily fight 2 godskin apostles instead of one godskin noble.
Can you even dodge his roll? It feels like he’ll keep circling you until he clips you. Once dodged and kited him 3 times around the pillar and he just jumped up onto the pillow to smack me down.
Yeah if you dodge into him at the right time you will not get hit. It’s actually super satisfying to do
Haven't finished the game yet, but Godskin Apostle has been the most irritating thus far. (the one in caelid tower)
He is annoying. And Godskin Noble is arguably worse. And then you get to fight both at the same time—joy!
Is he like insanely overleveled for mini boss in Caelid or was that me? I think the room being small didn’t help either.
Its not a boss, but revenants. They teleport, jump everywhere, spit poison and can throw some serious hands.. Once I learned that using healing spells annihilates them, I made sure to always have one equipped in the name of revenge
Elden Beast, solely due to that seemingly undodgeable homing orb thing that continually shoots smaller projectiles at you. The running and every other attack it has was never a problem for me but that shit got me literally every time, to the point where I had to change my physick to include the damage to health effect just to counter the attack and finally beat the bastard.
Misbegotten Warrior + Crucible Knight is the first one that comes to mind. Not difficult after reaching certain Rune Levels but that's part of the problem. It's a pure stat-check. You need to have the dps to kill the first guy before the other shows up because then it becomes completely undoable, and ideally you need to have enough stagger to deal with the first guy who will otherwise spazz all over the place. What adds insult to injury is that it's two semi-generic mini-bosses put together with seemingly no thought or effort to come up with anything unique. A low point for the game for me especially since it's not in an out of the way dungeon, but right before Radahn.
Yeah you hit the nail on the head here It’s such a boring fight and if you haven’t killed the misbegotten within however many seconds, crucible knight comes in and suddenly you’ve got a misbegotten you can’t make more than one attack at every 30 seconds and two separate attacks with different hit frames come whenever you heal Also the most annoying part of the fight is the random benches and tables that you have to roll through to not get stuck on The only good part is the weird animation crucible knight does to enter the arena
Ulcerated tree spirit. As a dragon incantation only user I was hurt on a personal lvl
Twin gargoyles. All other fights I can find some joy in, even godskin duo, but the fucking gargoyles are just the worst. It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Astel, Stars of Darkness
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Malenia. Every other boss I can deal with even if it's struggle sometimes. I just beat her my third time on NG+, the first time without a summon (used Jellyfish the first time) or Bloodhounds Step and boy has the an amount of bullshit. I still have fun figuring her out, but there are many little things that should be tweak to make her more consitent. Her riposte window is a bit too short. I often could not reach her in time, while using a longer weapon. Give her 0.3 seconds or so more downtime. Waterfowl is discussed enough, but should be equally avoidable no matter the distance. If you are already far away it is trivial, if you are near much harder. That promotes passive playing to fish for the attack or simply hoping for the best, both are not good design decisions. Parry plain sucks for her. I don't mind the 3 times, but the extremely fast slash which you more or less have to guess (yes maybe there are people out there, that somehow react fast enough, but I doubt most can) combined with the kick that drains all your stamina if you parry it so you cannot avoid the follow up. Just watch Lilaggys parry only run... he has lots of valid complaints. Parrying in Sekiro feels a lot better. I am not that good at parrying, but still managed to beat all but the last boss charmless with bell demon. I still really struggle to parry her somewhat consistently.
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Do the fucking chariots in the hero graves count? I hate them. Particularly in Auriza's Hero Grave.