Astel, Stars of Darkness | Elden Ring Wiki

Managed to beat it first try using Blackflame Monk Amon mostly as distraction(that mf hardly cast at all) and running the same dual Great Stars jumping bonk build that I used to get through the rest of the tunnel. Spam roll, jump attack, repeat. Broke stance for a crit one whole time.

I chalk it up to mostly luck on my part, but maybe a more skilled player could have an easier time of it. It's a mystery on my end, Astel Naturalborn of the Void took me about 9 attempts to beat doing Ranni's quest, and this version definitely seemed to hit harder.

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who actually enjoys this fight?
horrid camera
horrid hitboxes
moveset consists mix of easiest attacks ever to iframe only bs

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Is this the one that destroyed nokron?

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It took me till NG+8 to see that illusory clone grab attack. Scared the hell outta me.

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After many YOU DIEDs, with my buddy Mimic, we equipped and L2 spammed "destined death" of Malikeths black blade (+9) around the head. Constant rollings helped too to finally kill this annoying bug. Use the center yellow area after teleport, I'm not grabbed even once when i was rolling there.
(Godrick's great rune, flame grant me strength, bubble/strength physik, speldrake talisman against magic damage) 120k runes, sweeeet!

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f*ck this f*cking bullsh*t boss

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I agree that the fact it's a scaled up reuse of a cool boss and that sucks, but it's not THAT bad bro chill out

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this boss singlehandedly harms elden rings quality

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this boss genuinely frustrates me, i think its design is way over the top and ugly, i think its moveset is stupid, the arena is gigantic and it teleports across it, its gigantic and keeps its vulnerable point lifted so you can barely even hit it, its size makes it incredibly difficult to track its head or see what move its doing, its the only boss in the game to actually make me drop frames and make my pc whine, and to top it all off, its a carbon copy of another boss which just makes it so less immersive especially with the importance of the other version fromsoft tries to imply by putting it in a secret, secluded and isolated area. this boss singlehandedly makes me think less of elden ring as a game, which is annoying because this game has been so enjoyable so far. its not even a difficult boss, its just so stupid. wish it was not in the game. i beat it in 2 tries and yet im still pissed off by it. meanwhile melania took me damn near 50 and i think that fight was amazing. idk man.

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why do people complain about the grab? it's functionally identical to the normal astel grab with just a visual difference. literally just dodge roll and dodge it. if anything it's easier since you can see it better

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Uplifting Aromatic perfume makes this boss way more doable. Pop one after every tp so if he does the bs tp then grab attack you won't insta die.

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Completely busted boss on ng3. I beat ng3 Melania in less times than it took for me to give up on him

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Melted him with Black Blade Incantation. Cheap move for a cheap boss

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The camera is the real boss in this fight

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I want to see all the people saying "you didn't beat the game" kill this boss with no shield, summons or magic

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So, I just beat this guy with pure melee, no summons, no spells, no ashes of war. My biggest piece of advice is to try and position yourself just in front of his head as much as you can.

If you get under the body, it starts to become very difficult to see some of the slam attacks coming. And it's pretty difficult to get out of the massive AoE gravity spell. Standing in front of his head makes it much easier to see both of those attacks, and you can pretty much just back off, then step forward again when he's done. Be patient and just strike the head when you can.

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this boss is like **** strong
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Stupid ass replicate boss without any meaning behind

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I beat this boss first time. Decided to use Banished Knight Oleg who kind acted curious and decided to start casually attacking only after I got in a quarter DMG on it. Should have used mimic

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what a downfall from a secret underground huge location to a room behind a wooden door in a kind of mine. Poor thing

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god I love his grab so much. Nothing like a 4 mile wide range with confusing frames and instant kill damage

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Sometimes this game is just plain bad.

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The butterfly from SpongeBob

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why does this boss exist, at least Godefroy made funny memes that justifieds his existence. but astel, I mean yes they are a species but why is this just in a random cave far away from any other astel

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Astel 2 gravity boogaloo
kinda wish the most visually impressive boss and arena was only used once, ranther than shoving a higher level one in some random ass cave

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I have only ever beaten this boss once, and that was when he randomly didn't decide to do his clone-grab nonsense.

There's "difficult" and then there's just blind-luck RNG-based spam-fests. This one is way too far onto the latter end of the scale IMO.

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oh boy this is like the defiled version.

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To avoid the cloned grab attack, run to the very middle which is indicated by the yellow hue on the ground whenever the teleport move is taking suspiciously long.

This is purely personal testimony, please indicate if this does not work or was a fluke.

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if you've fought agaisnt this guy and still thinks that elden ring deserves a GOTY you're just dumb im sorry

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*When the space scorpion hits you with that bad to the bone riff*

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Rock sling on head works great, breaks poise a lot. Other than that, he's a complete pain

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Complete dogshit game design. Too big to properly work the camera, BS aoe attacks 24/7, just a chore to fight.

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I may be one of the few people who is not that bothered by there being a duplicate Astel boss. We're shown in the game with Fallingstar Beasts and Malformed Astels that Astel, Naturalborn of the Void is not this wholly unique entity. I significantly enjoy Naturalborn of the Void more than Stars of Darkness, because it's the first time you fight it and there's more story attached to it.

I wouldn't compare this in hatred to other duplicate bosses like Godefroy, not even close.

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Rain of Arrows w rot and poison, Wing of Astel's WA smokes this thing. Rock Sling has great tracking, range, and stun buildup. A dex/int build should have 0 issue with this boss, just be wary of the grab.

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90,000 runes not 120,000

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This boss is just grab attacks and aoe constantly

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When the only good thing about the boss is the soundtrack.

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Honestly, the second part of his OST hits hard

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astel is a cool boss i admit, but in NG+7 just be prepared to get "omae wa mou shindeiru" i garuntee you will be exclaiming "NANI?!?!?" that's all im gonna say

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I want to remind everyone that while the head is the weak point, the whole body still takes damage and you should just hit him whenever you can. The one move where he leaps before doing a nebula sweep puts him right on top of you and you can just wail on him with any weapon. I found this fight pretty easy by attacking mostly from under his midsection

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Really wish they didn't reuse Astel, such an awesome boss fight when you fight him during Ranni's questline. But this version is just annoying lol. Teleports constantly, has TWO versions of a grab that can one shot you, horrible camera and you can only target lock his head, etc.

He isn't even really that hard to beat, just annoying to deal with and ruins the experience of finding him for the first time during Ranni's quest. Fromsoft should have picked a different boss to reuse here :/

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This boss also has camera issues.
Another evidence for the connection of elden ring and souls series

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Carian Grandur ironically blows this boss up if you get headshots as you can double hit with the sword and the AoW...

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Rotten Breath goes BRRRRT (Same with Astel Naturalborn).

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This boss is just pure bullshit

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I found a more manageable way to fight it for melee builds. Equip a bow, any bow, doesnt matter if its at base level, buy 99 arrows. Equip your bow before summoning +10 mimic ash at the beginning of the fight. The mimic will proceed to spam the boss with arrows. What this does is it forces mid range engagement with the boss and divert its attention, during mid range combat it performs MORE punishable moves (example: tail attacks and gravity orb push). Hug its face all the time and swing away while it hopefully locks itself in mid range moveset.

Also, sprint a lot. Much better than rolling away at aoe attacks. If it starts doing the meteor rain, sprint to the edge of the arena, preferably by its side. Everytime it teleports, sprint away. If it starts the clone grab attack, sprint to the edge or the center of the arena.

I hate this boss, it feels like everything comes down to luck and I hate that feeling.

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Along with Vyke, one of the two bosses that died as it killed me. I'll take it.

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How in the freaking god this creature got in the mineshaft.

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I love how they took that BS grab attack.. and MULTIPLIED IT

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Latennasweep

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Seeing a lotta skill issues for one of the easiest bosses in the game? Seriously this and naturalborn have like… 2 difficult moves, and only because messing up the timing results in… death? Usually, maybe I need more vigor, that grab is brutal, but it’s otherwise quite easy

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While I highly enjoyed fighting Astel its genuinenly confusing to me why the stronger, beefed up version isn´t the one used for Ranni´s quest and is instead stuck in a random mine somewhere in who knows here

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I liked fighting the first Astel so much that I wanted to do it a second time. Said no one ever

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cheesed it with a bow with enchanted shot AOW so I don't miss. shooting rot and poison arrows at max range.

panic rolling whenever it does the meteor shower or the clone grab thing. other than those, the only thing it does at long range seems to be the double tail whip thingy which is easy enough to dodge.

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For those who are meleeing and struggling to dodge his ground slam that releases three progressively larger shockwaves; don't greed, don't stand under the boss, just take it slow.

I tried for about an hour wondering how you're supposed to dodge that one particular attack so I started playing safe (always in front of him, dodging out instead of in, etc) and beat him second try, using only a dose of my flask.

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Use your gravity weapons people. FallingStar, Radahn, Alabaster and Onyx Lord. they'll do the trick. this guy is also weak to status even if he's space rocks

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Rock sling, walk up during stagger, channel meteorite, dead. RL 88

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Hey are you having fun? Horsing around the snowfield, chopping giants' ankles off, parrying wolves and dodging arrows? Did you get your hopes up when you found this cool frozen mine full of gravity guys? Expecting a satisfying boss, huh?

Too bad, it's a mardi gras scorpion. It teleports behind you.

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For anybody struggling in ng+2 like I was, well placed attacks from a spear with giants hunt does pretty good damage. I found that the best windows to attack were after his long range tail attacks and after his lunge swipe attack

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probably the worst design boss in the game.

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tiche +black blade
easy win

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one of the worst bosses in the game in gameplay and design

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Latenna +10 makes this fight insanely easy

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how can they have remained completely stagnant when it comes to giant boss design?
you can't even focus to limbs to break them like in bloodborne, or cut off tails like in Dark Souls 1.

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This (and Godefroy) are the worst bosses in the game just because they are reused story/quest bosses.

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I sure hope you guys like stupid camera angles, boring mechanical movements, and chasing a teleporting enemy.

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I found godskin peeler and Lhutel particularly effective. Bait Astel to melee with chompers, dodge, charged L2. Jumping Headshots when time doesn’t allow the full charge. Dodge forward through circular AoE waves of magic. Don’t get eaten when Stelly teleports. Don’t waste time trying to apply status effects in my humble opinion.

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I really love that when you fight this boss sometimes, RNG keeps telling you to run at least 2km away every single time you get close.

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Less than ten attempts, whooped that ass. Mimic tear, rivers of blood! RHEEEE

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why did this guy make my game lag so much, the normal astel didn't but this guy made me lag like crazy

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This is the only time in this game I said "you know what, I don't need to fight this guy" and quit. Would I eventually be able to kill him if I kept trying? Yes. Would I be having fun? Not a bit

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This POS needs an RNG guard waves of darkness spam

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Of all the bosses they could've reused, they chose the most broken piece of crap unfun boss in the game.

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My summon killed the boss after I died. Got no rewards. Boss didn't respawn. Thankyou fromsoft

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45 vig and die in two Hits, awesome

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Took 20ish min on 120 STR ARC build using Greatsword. Died every single time to that clone grab as I didn’t know how to avoid it and didn’t wanna look. I basically stayed super close to his head and stunned him with lion claw while procing bleed and finished with crit hit. Greatsword is just so damn satisfying to use.

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This is one of the worse bosses imo. Losing lock on just to have the boss appear from offscreen with an instant-kill grab? Yea, I'll be having none of that. Really annoying hitbox when underneath him. Meteor shower is such a particle spam I just roll frantically hoping nothing hits me (which it almost never does for some reason) because god forbid I can actually see what is happening.

Not a fan.

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Miyazaki might have mental issue. The camera can't keep up eventhough I locked on. The white reticle went off-bound so many times, it's glitchy. How tf do I beat it summonless if I can't see where it is going?

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It's like your fighting the damn camera more than the actual boss

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Use falling star beast jaw L2 and stay under it it will be dead in 10 uses of skill

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Just use uplifting aromatic, if you think you'll get one-shot LMAO

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Why does he look like oops all berries

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genuinely one of the easiest bosses in the game on my first playthru (battlemage build, had a twinblade with loretta's ash of war on it and magic affinity with Godrick Soldier spirits). dont know how people are getting hit by that super telegraphed attack and more over how they're so underleveled in the Consecrated Snowfield. i was like 150 when i got there and theres multiple ppl saying they were only lvl 70??? Snowfield is a post-endgame area how are people THAT underleveled lmao

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Astel is terrified of Spirit Jellyfish.
Summon a +10 and hack-a-way all day while Astel is distracted.

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I powerstanced Blasphemous Blade on NG1 and it took me like 20 tries. I think this one is more difficult than the Naturalborn

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Was struggling. Saw the new guardian build. First try beat it. Difficulty became equal to Limgrave Goat

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>Read the comments
>Upgrade my Death Ritual Spear
>Summon someone
>They have the same weapon
>Spawn Astel v2
>We spam Spearcall Ritual
>Mission success!

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Cool boss fight, but screw all grab attacks of any boss. They are just unfair one shots where if you fail one dodge you die and have to start over again.

Can you survive the strongest grab attack at Ng+7 without using buffs? Because I don't feel like you should be forced to use buffs to be able to survive an attack.

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For a faith build doing primarily Holy damage (lol), Stone of Gurranq worked best. Flies did track, but it was too slippery and the spell would fizzle half of the time. Stone would keep going until it hit the massive hitbox and not keep going for the head. Stone combos underneath the beast work great. High magic negate helps with the meteors but not necessary.

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I hate this boss with every fiber of my being

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Wings of Astel Art of War spam on his head to victory.

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Hey everyone. It's me that guy who usually wields gigabungus weapons.

I actually killed Astel yesterday and forgot to write about the experience because it was pretty bad. I just got under the stupid slimey limey and started blasting.

The Moonveil katana interestingly enough has like 50% magic block so I popped on magic defense talismans to fearlessly charge through the sniper shots and get under the stupid alien space snake. By rolling just slightly behind his head, you can avoid like 90% of his moves.

I also summoned a summon for the fight and of course its me the +10 Mimic so Astel was pastel when I was done salami-ing him into bite size runes with me, the best sous chef. Didn't get to phase 2 and I felt like the boss might of possibly gone down surprisingly faster than my first run with Gigabungus Larry and his two big gigabungus swords...

Guess it goes to show having range just technically means you kill things faster but STR weapons rule int weapons drool Astel is bad and if you cant kill him I recommend opaline flask tear and the pearlescent talisman and the magic defense talisman in tandem to reach high enough magic defense to use less supplies although the fight ends pretty quickly at 120RL.

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Honestly seeing all the posts below made me want to post my experience with this guy.

My first experience was with a STR heavy RaGS character. I jump attacked everything and that usually did the trick. I hardly remember this fight nor did I know he had a clone grab attack but honestly I feel like release Elden Ring and current Elden Ring are completely different animals. In fact, I plan on writing on my second experience shortly because I just made a 2nd character after a few months to play in the colosseum update which isn't a STR character.

That being said why spend 3 seconds on a spell to potentially miss and waste mana leaving you defenseless when you can just spend 1 jump attacking? Less frames to punish because you don't waste time taking a deep breath and compose yourself after lifting your arm up from not leveling strength.

If you guys are here reading about this wiki to beat the guy this late into the game, just do yourselves a favor and level strength and vigor and learn how to ooga booga because that is literally the precursor to any build; hell you can even oonga boonga with certain mage weapons with certain poise damage thresh holds but STR builds just have all the best gigabungus weapons and use less talismans to achieve damage which means they can do bazongas more damage in the long run if you really wanted to sweat it so if you are really the gigabrain, why even fight it?

STR builds have always been the supreme build of all FromSoft games. STR players have this weird stigma of being stupid braindead players but like do you guys know how much calculus and trigonometry an average STR player needs to know in order to pull off a max range perfect frame jump attack to hit someone who took a second too late to consider their choices because they decided to get within hitting distance of a player wielding a gigabungus weapon? Did you know every strength player may not keep track of faces slain but they know the exact number of people killed because of their simple tried but true method of running in to hit something really really hard? The amount of tactic and skill a STR player must exhibit to get to his target despite whether the target can make the stars themselves rain down, hurl lightning bolts of pure power constructed from the vestigial remnants of power left within ancient ashes of olden warriors of mythological ilk, throw the god damn SUN at them?

Stay tuned for my experience with this guy on my not good character because I decided I wanted to use magic. God magic just sucks every time ever since Dark Souls 1 and 2.

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Lol. 40% damage block on anything other than physical. Talk about lazy artificial difficulty. Used to be a time we had to figure out a bosses specific weaknesses and plan a build using specific infusions to get best results. Now it's just a simple matter of hitting them on the head till they die and if your char isn't a melee build with high Phys damage then too bad.

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finally killed this bastard, thanks to them not doing the clone attack at all. Thank you RNG gods

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The thing that does me in with him isn't that he has the grab attack, it's that by the time I've adjusted the camera, it's normally too late. Otherwise, I really enjoy the rest of the fight and can manage him

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20 str, 22 dex, +23 normal club
charge attack, jump attack
EZ

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Confessor, paladin build. Believe it or not I used the Stone of Guranq most effectively on this one. Astel cannot handle physical dmg. Currently 50 str, 50 faith, 31 Int, 49 Vigor. Godricks great rune active. Had trouble staying on the head for sword or dagger dmg. Tiche did her job well as soon as I started running in toward the boss. Remember to dodge to the side for long range attacks.

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was rather easy for me:
60str,heavy greatsword +25 with Lions Claw AoW. , bullhorn chest and pants,rest crucible knight. mixed physiq: str + guard break.

Flame GMS + Golden Vow buffed, run up to its head and just go apeshit with Lions Claw until guard break, riposte and he is already almost dead.

Lions Claw has hyper armor plus that frontflip which will always hit the head

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Only after Tiche FINALLY STARTED ATTACKING did the boss actually start melting, 7 attempts, and no Spirit Ashes felt like taking aggro from the boss, not even Greatshield guys. But the moment Tiche finally decided "oh yeah, I'm in a boss fight" the last 40% of Astel's Health plummeted.

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