Baleful Shadow | Elden Ring Wiki

Totally needed af

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Drank physick with infinite fp for 15 seconds and then absolutely clapped him with the blasphemous blade, dude didn't even get to close the distance

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Bolt of Gransax absolutely wrecks him.

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"Can heal atleast 5 times" sry what?!

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My first inclination was to think this was just a copy of Blaidd but I think it’s literally supposed to be another half-wolf created by the Two Fingers.

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After five attempts to parry him with zero success (been parrying everything else in this game so it's not for lack of knowledge) I declared that this thing has no honor. I equipped rot breath and hosed him down. Join the starscourge on the list of "I don't give a ****, you're dying". He died, but caught me on the last cast, killing us both. So, no runes for me but he is dead.

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really easy to beat by backing up, then dodging and backstabbing his lunge attack

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Don't bother parrying.

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This fight feels like fighting Guts from berserk, his moveset is so ****ing cool!

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If you're a faith build at all invest in swarm of flies, seeks him out and can't dodge it, not even a faith build just equipped 2 fingers talisman and switched hp for fp flasks, it took about 4 flasks to kill him, healed once. When I tried it with melee, he just kept healing over and over, counted up to 3-4x at least.

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He's so slow I literally beat him using Night maidens mist and running around on my rl20 character

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He's so slow I literally beat him using Night maidens mist and running around on my rl20 character

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After many tries utilizing the comments below, what worked (as I am a Vagabond sporting colossal weapons) was to burn him down with nothing more than a Glintstone Staff with Glintstone Pebble. I got him into the hallway and just spammed the pebble. He couldn't attack nor dodge. After 6 flasks of FP he was down.

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He gets absolutely stomped by Rock Sling

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Mashed him with Gavel of Haima.

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He was really easy with a colossal wep str build, he just gets staggered really easily like all the other humanoids, but I do love seeing how int plebs complain about the few enemies that they might struggle against.

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you can cheese him with taker's flames or corpse wax cutter if you get him stuck in a corner. Otherwise just spam black flame tornado on him and he'll go down fairly quickly

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As a lightning mage, this guy is horribly easy lol
just spam Lansseax's glaive, one hit is enough to stagger him

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"damn this guys pretty tanky" *drinks estus* "oh"

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Let me get this straight, you make this awfully tanky enemy with the purpose of countering your everyday mage build, give it the destined death effect, the most brain melting parry timings and delayed attacks known to man and it just WALKS? all the more there is an specific category of spells that ignores his input reading dodges? I swear to Solaire, ER is at the same time the most difficult and the most easy souls game
TL;DR spam night comet.

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Volcanic pots. Made 10. Threw 2 between each of his combos. Followed up with a sword dance after combo. This is what worked for me after 50 attempts at trying to trade blows with his very difficult to read combos

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If you are a sorcerer you can one shot him with comet Azur no problem

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Is it weak or strong vs frostbite? This article contradicts itself.

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Not seeing it where this says it is. What am I missing?

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I sneaked to his right side from behind after activating the lake of rot grace and spammed Glintstone Icerag (had 179 FP & used 3 cerulean tears because he healed once), while making him stuck between the coffins. It was the easiest time killing him compared to my other builds & strats.

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Attack him from the left side with frost stomp. He sometimes gets stuck on his coffin, and you can loop him with it.

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This man healed off scarlet rot. Kid you not I hit him with Ekzyk's decay and it completely healed him and gave him Regen. Wth

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can heal 1 time??? this mf just healed himself 5 times already. what is this ??

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I want that destined death sword he has. Every hit destined death would be perfect for a certain boss who heals on every hit, and claims to have never been defeated. With her animation reading waterflow dance, and that scarlet rot clone garbage.

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Can beat Malenia solo without ash summon. Parry sentinels to their deaths. This guy still beat my ass can't get a single parry off. By sheer chance I should have landed at least one successful parry. Bringing the cheese.

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Why does it look like Blaidd? So many questions!

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Cheesed him so hard with breath rot and poison that he turned into yogurt.

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What happens if you kill the Baleful shadow before getting the Miniature Ranni doll? You can get to Nokstella onwards through Deeproot Depths without doing Ranni's questline. Does this softlock you out of getting the key to continue the quest?

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I used glintstone pebble... He didn't even attack me. just slowly walked toward me. easy kill I guess.

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the way I beat it was with uchigatana and nagakiba both around +8 with one with poison mist that I used to inflict on him at the start and the other was bloody to increase blood loss. after that it was just a matter of knowing when to attack and when to hold back.

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This boss ez just make distance and wait for jumping hit roll behind free crit + extra hit

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I struggled with this fight as pure mage until I cheesed it by kiting him around 2-3 coffins that are lying behind him at the edge of the island....

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Just nerf him already, Fromsoft.
You KNOW it's necessary.

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I just stun-locked him by spamming swarm of flies

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If you're using sorcery and struggling, you can simply beat him with rock sling.

Just keep spamming it as you approach. If you start to get low on fp, chug a cerulean tears flask while he's poise broken.

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I tried Hoarfrost Stomp and it did not stop him. What finally worked for me was the Bolt of Gransax. This weapon can one-shot lesser enemies and takes out Baleful Shadow after three or four hits.

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He can get stuck on the coffins in the middle of the battlefield. Then you can just cheese him.

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Spent a couple days on the BS. What finally worked was the Lions Claw ash and some albunauric pots. I also put my soreseal down and went with Haligdrake talisman because his DOT hits hard. Go 2h, be relentless, and throw the Albi pot after you down him the first time. The Albi pots don't last long so keep hammering, and be ready to toss another one if needed. GL tarnished.

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This dude's resistances are kind of nuts. Felt like I was barely tickling him with my attacks. Fortunately, his attacks are well telegraphed, so just be patient and wait for an opening, and don't get greedy

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I just poked him with the Antspur Rapier to apply Scarlet Rot and once it was on I kept my distance. It took 3 applications but it put him down.

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>use Night Comet to hit him from afar
>keep doing it as he approaches the cave
>back up into the cave
>Sword of Night and Flame's laser beam
>he can't dodge in those tight quarters

Ya love to see it, folks. Sorta wish they'd tweak the AI so they'd know they're in a bad location for their moveset but on the other hand, I do enjoy using the environment to my advantage.

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Took a couple tries but thank lord almighty gravitas and elevator still works

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Maybe I got lucky with my Faith build. Lured him to the elevator area, spammed incantation “Flame Fall Upon Them”only took about 6 casts at 53 faith. He just walked slowly back and forth, didn’t try to heal, didn’t attack.

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Easiest boss fight in the game. He only healed once and I only needed to heal fp once. Not a scratch on me. Night Comet is such a cheese for any human enemies

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He was definitely tweaked, and yes he keeps healing if you try to cheese him. Stamp-uppercut for the win on +12 Flamberge, most of his attacks miss or are disrupted and he goes flying in the air.

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Healed more than once for me in 1v1 combat, please correct the above

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What I did was invite invaders and then turn on the hunters and have them take care of it

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This guy has such a sexy moveset, feels like i'm fighting Guts from berserk.

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bruh i did this with the Giants Flame incantation, charged version knocks him on his ass so bad. first try, took about 4 or 5 tosses, i have 55 faith

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based on the last hour+ of my rl1 attempt he will absolutely heal an infinite number of times if you try to cheese him

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Yeah that 1 time is a lie. I just fought this guy and he healed 3 times before I got him. Bolt of Gransax wrecks his day. He'll be stunlocked and barely close any distance.

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Guts moveset

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Absolutely and entirely trivialized by Rotten Breath. I had Cerulean Flask charges and all I did was stay at a distance while casting breath to recharge. The Baleful Shadow does not run up to you, does not attack if you get close, so you just slowly kite him around the room while he takes ticking damage. He'll heal one time, but you have 5 full casts of Rotten Breath so there's no worry on actually killing him.

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most annoying invader ever, but with ekzykes decay he goes down in 4 casts

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Can heal more than once. Maybe because I lost aggro by sneaking away, but he just healed 4 times.

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the rune drop seems false.

i get 33k from ng+2

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I want his sword.

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You can run or sneak by him and go down the elevator to get to the grace on the lake shore in case the fight goes poorly. His AI glitched out when I came back to start the fight from behind him. He just walked slowly towards me, never made any real attempt to close the distance while I spammed swarm of flies and slowly backed away to maintain the distance. If you let him get closer he will fight like normal.

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Can also cheese him from behind with freezing mist

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anyone having trouble on this guy, just backstab him. when he does his uppercut > lunge jump attack, stay a far enough distance to miss the first swing, and roll into his jump attack. walk around and backstab, repeat 5 times.

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Aspect of The Crucible: Horn does a great job at shitting on this guy with good timing

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absolutely worst NPC PVP, hands down, his attacks hitboxes are DS2 levels of BS and hit you in the middle of rolls

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he literally healed more times than me and i have 7flasks

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I managed to somehow kill him before activating Ranni's mission and I didn't hear her voice, and won't after activating the mission. Now I'm lost. What am I supposed to do now?

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I saw him heal twice. Once before and once after buffing. Before the second heal, he lost aggro.

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Felt like I was way underleveled at 67 for this fight but I just Rot Breath'd him and then shot him with a crossbow and he didnt even try and heal
Was funny when Ranni said I fought him well when I cheese'd his awful AI to death lol

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Would’ve been cool to be able to get the destined death version of blaidd’s sword

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Pulled him toward the cave, spammed lightning bolt. mission accomplished.

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Accidentally used the blasphemous blade on him. Dead after 4 hits from taker’s flame.

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For fellow mage's and wizard's using Gavel of Hamia stuns lock's him from a short distance.

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also deals holy

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This guy kept killing me with like two hits so I had enough and decided to cheese. If you can cast Noble Presence, just sneak behind the coffins as soon as he invades with the incantation ready. A fully charge blast will knock him in the air, when he's on the ground do it again. Should take no more than 5-6 times, you're welcome.

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Whenever I do this fight as a mage I just bring Magic Glintblade, you can easily kite the enemy around the arena. Cast like 4 Glintblades at a time because he won't dodge when they actually fire at him. Night sorceries may achieve the same outcome.

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Most people doing Ranni quest early and reaching baleful shadow at low levels might be roleplaying as a mage or magic swordman, relying on spells or some magic weapon art. But this mini-boss takes way less dmg against mgc, and should be a wakeup call to diversify your build. My recommendation to sidestep it is to just pick your normal weapon with the highest upgrade lvl and slap flames of the redmane weapon art. It stun him incredible easy, a stun for each 2 casts. But down the line you will meet lake of rot and astel, and diversifying your build with a little bit of faith (for flame cleanse me) and str/vigor (to fight astel) will benefit you tremendously.

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Guy was kicking my ass. Then I equipped the Inquisitor's spear, and killed him on the first try. The charge forth weapon art knocks him down and the charged R2 seems to partially stagger him.

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I swear I once got Preceptor Seluvis here back in patch 1.00. I remember dying to magic and when I came back it was Blaidd who spawned in.

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If you’re having trouble with backstabs, try the darkness incantation. You can even sneak up behind him before initiating the fight if you hug the wall to your left, but I would still use darkness even coming up from behind him because he’ll still sense you if you get close enough. I learned that the hard way. Twice.

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I used radahns blades gravity ability to pull this enemy into the elevator shaft and he fell to his death. Easy cheese.

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Doing a level 1 playthrough, and I was initially intent on just poisoning him to death.
However due to impatience, I hit him with an Albinauric pot, and melted him with the black knife. After two attemps to use a flask, he stopped trying and died quickly.

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man, every time I think I've found the shittiest boss, there's another zinger

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why does the wiki have NO mention of the DOT effect? it's literally the shittiest part of this fight.

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At what level is Nokstella meant to be done? I've found high level ghost glovewarts and the ghost glovwart picker's bell bearing [2] so I didn't think I came here too soon but this baleful shadow is killing me in two or three hits. I'm at a decent level and the valiant gargoyle duo couldn't kill me that quickly. I don't like having to put flame of the redmanes on a greatsword to cheese a fight like this because I can't take more than two hits.

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go go gadget flame of the redmanes!

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I can't seem to trigger this fight. Did I wait too late in the game? I have defeated all lords and cleared farum azula

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This enemy seems to have as many crimson flasks as he has time to use unless damaged with a weapon. Arrows and Rotten Breath just get healed up unless accompanied by actual attacks.

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The elevator strat still works, light swing your sword once when he does the slam, then roll back to the other side of the shaft.
then repeat

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After MANY attempts I finally cheesed this using just glintstone pebble: approach from Nokstella waterfall basin, kill the basilisks in the cave. Then lure baleful shadow INTO the cave, to a point where it's fairly narrow. Then from a middle distance, spam glintstone pebble. There is a sweet spot where won't be able to dodge, and he also he won't come towards you, so have at it. Takes a while and a few FP flasks, but it's successful.

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After defeated, he said: "It is a good fight, better than I envisioned. I can finally stand before them. Tell Blaidd and Iji, I love them."
What does this mean? Was he forced to kill Ranni against his will?

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Cheesed him so hard with Ekzykes's decay. He can't dodge it, and for some reason, didn't charge me down as I was casting.

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wrath of gold stunlocks him

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Can be super cheesed with blood flies…

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HP listed here is very wrong. they have somewhere around 15,000 HP in NG

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spam magic glintblade, he wont know what to do

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Crushed him with the Starscourge great sword weapon skill: Starcaller Cry. The first gravitational wave call does not pull the Baleful Shadow to you, but the followup slam will lay him flat on his back and cause significant damage. Keep alive while spamming this weapon art and you are good.

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"They have many health flask charges." False. He's only ever healed himself once in every fight.

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