Borealis the Freezing Fog | Elden Ring Wiki

That one huge AoE frostbite attack with near instant unavoidable hitboxes is enough for this dragon fight's quality to plummet to trash tier, especially after having fought like 10 of these already by the time you get to this area. Just ignore this boss if you're a melee build or use ranged incants to kill it - I ended up running away and just lobbing Black Flame on it from horseback. The mere fact that it has a gigantic AoE frostbite attack that it can use whenever it wants that starts up nearly instantly means standing under or anywhere near this boss is risking losing half your lifebar or outright instant death if it catches you on horseback.

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ITT: ppl that don't realize not every critter is best melee'd, some require a ranged approach.

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Any bossfight where it will take a long time, poison is your best bet. 20/tick at 100 ticks is 2k in passive income/damage. Same with Rot.

Frost 'em, poison 'em, then beat them up at your pleasure.

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Struggled with this one, until I placed Latenna on the cliff to the east, where there's an island in the front. You can get to the cliff without the dragon spawning. Then went to the island for the spawn. Keeping the island between me and the dragon and let Latenna do the heavy lifting. If the dragon went for latenna, I'd ride up and give a couple of good whacks.

Eventually, Borealis would ignore Latenna and try to kill me with the breath-attack, just kept the island solidly between us, while the arrows whittled the beast down.

Suffice to say, I play these kind of games like I'd be the character. I don't like to die, so I'll use what ever terrain, weapons and back-up I can get.

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Never fought this one since release, nor opened his summoning pool. Was next to it today and opened it up, got summoned... Wow what a b****

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You either steamroll him fast enough that you never have to suffer his ridiculous moveset, or you suffer. He's a walking AoE. I can't think of anything less fun to fight against.

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This fight is kind of annoying, his frost roar basically insures your gonna get hit unless you’re losing damage by targeting the feet, or you’re just playing super passively

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Why fire resistance

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For the Dexerity users among you, grab yourself a Monk's Flamemace. It's a Str 13 Dex 13 striking weapon that scales wonderfully with dexterity. I bludgeoned him into a pulp using it with a couple of upgrades.

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Rock sling go brrrrrrt

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NG+8, two Hoslow Petal Whips bleed infused while Tiche took some aggro. For whatever reason, whips do strike damage, and I accidentally made a good setup for this boss.

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I get that people really hate this boss, but he might be my favorite non ancient dragon boss in the game. Barrier of Gold makes all the breath attacks much more manageable. I personally think Glacial Roar is a really cool attack, especially coming from a standard dragon. I’ve never had too many problems with this boss, and always found it really cool.

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Yep you guessed it, its a dragon. Here's the catch though, it resists pierce dmg. Just when you thought you had the formula down.

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Just fought Borealis. It's a cool Dragon

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never used spirit ashes in the game, beated it with just basic hammer +20

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Use some frost resist gear if you're sick of that one breath attack oneshotting you.

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The frost breath bouncing off the environment and ricocheting back at you in weird angles when you think you're safe is one of the few legit bullshit things in the game.

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Tough boss, use a strong ash of war and ride around looking for good back snipes with a spell. Don't get blasted by the cold.

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bows do so little damage against him because of his pierce resistance. Lion greatbow +9 with radahn's spear greatarrow did a whopping 83 damage with a body shot. ash of war did around 400

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First attempt: Died instantly to his breath.
Second attempt: mimc tear to distract, kept distance always on horseback, used only lightning spear and only charged it when I was sure I wouldn't get killed.
After at least 5 min in and an epic confrontation won, only to immediately get stun locked and killed by a lobster from behind...
Thx fromsoft you did it again XD

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"A- Borealis the Freezing Fog? At this time of day, in this part of the Lands Between, localized entirely in this frozen lake?!"

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I beat it on my third attempt.
If you're a melee-only player, just getting in a hit is nearly impossible. This dragon will constantly move away from you, more than any other enemy in the game.
I placed Ancestral Follower Ashes +9 on the slight rise on the western edge of the lake before I moved in to activate Borealis. The summon held the dragon's attention very well while I was able to get under it and hack away at its legs. Ancestral Follower has higher survivability than Latenna, which is what I tried in my second attempt. The summon held out long enough for me to knock Borealis down and finish him off. I think maybe the positioning was the key. Blocking off one direction (West) with the cliff by placing an attention-drawing summon there makes Borealis stay in place. Maybe try a version of this if you're struggling to even get close to him as a melee-only build.

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I cheesed it with thunderbolt aow to its head... and I don't feel the least bit bad about it.
Spectral lance aow its head and then crit with a Great stars weapon would work very well also.
Storm blade aow might work?
Basically any way that you don't have to be chasing one of its feet around for 95% of the fight while having every attack land on your head.
Shield set to magic affinity can be useful.
Advise some defensive talismans, especially pearldrake+2.

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Perhaps a nod to DS3, the Boreal Valley etc

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"Borealis, the Freezing Fog is a Greater Foe Boss in Elden Ring. This Elden Ring Borealis, the Freezing Fog Guide features boss locations, tips, strategies and videos on how to defeat Agheel easily, as well as boss stats and lore for Agheel." smh

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unlike every other dragon in the game, this man is entirely unaffected by greatbows.

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Strictly on a "how many times I get summoned for it vs how often the host dies" ratio, possibly the hardest boss in the game - people try to go for the legs (why?) and get demolished by the roar every time. Also an invasion hotspot which makes trying to help clueless hosts even spicier.

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the lobsters around this fight are so annoying

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Very easy to kill but it takes too long to kill. This dragon got inflated HP.

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One of the best dragon entrances

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Im currently Level 130 and getting one shot by literally every one of its attacks, despite having heavy armor equipped, the frost damage is stupidly broken on this fight

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This is terrible in multiplay, solo it.

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Safest Torrent strat for this guy is bait him to do the breath with a bow shot then go beat him a few times, rinse and repeat. Double jump over the breath just in case. Normal Dragon hit and run strat had some risk of him backpedal into a cliff (so you can't circle behind him or dodge his fly breath/swoop attack) and do a fly back breath attack.

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A quick tip for any heavy/colossal weapon users fighting Borealis and any dragon really. Utilize torrent and charge attack talisman and tear. Charge a heavy, run to their feet then release and run away. Especially for Borealis, it'll allow you to get out of dodge if they decide to use their breath weapon and specifically in Borealis's case, the Glacial Roar.

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Yikes. My Magma Wyrm scalesword +10 which melted many of the later game bosses was just tickling this guy

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Snipe it with blood arrow from distance to death

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Ekzykes is still more unbalanced. The big frost scream is super telegraphed, and the smaller one hits 3 times if you roll during it. Did half of a 30 vig character, it's not that bad. Runebears are harder

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>literally "The Freezing Fog"
>Not weak to fire

K.

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Borealis, The Freezing Frog

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dex builds might want to use the nightrider's flail while riding torrrent. managed to kill the dragon with a 18+ nightrider's flail and 62 dex with a hit-and-run strategy.

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This was the easiest dragon to kill, except the fact that its breath quite literally one shot you. Just wait till it casts the frostbite breath and shout, then go close and attack, then leave again. rinse and repeat. It doesn't really chase you, just kinda stands there lol

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I killed this dragon 3 times before I realized it was named freezing “fog” and not “frog”

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this boss is not so much doing damage as it is just waiting, forever.

also don't forget the "we didn't know how to make the game hard" miyazaki trademark of spamming AOE's every 4 seconds

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flame of the redmanes 3 times at his face and he staggers trust me very cheesy to him, stay in front of his head

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Pretty cool and visually memorable encounter, but, as most things in late game ER, ruined by poor balancing that prioritizes frustration over fun.

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It's a frost dragon. It doesn't make any sense that fire is not one of it's weaknesses.

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A pity that killing him doesn't remove the fog as you head to Ordina.

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In this part of the country, at this time of day, localized ENTIRELY within your kitchen?

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Say what you want, but this boss has a pretty scary intro - you are walking in a blizzard that gets thicker and harder with every step, and suddenly you hear a roar and can make out an outline in the freezing fog - something big, a GODDAMN DRAGON!

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Me and +10 Mimic Tear dual wielding Great Stars made pretty light work of this boss. Finding the comments about resistance to pierce damage hilarious, BONK BOIS ALL DAY

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His scream is one of the worst attacks in the game holy ****

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****ing 80% thrust resist gaming

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take Flame of the Redmanes on a Misericode cast it twice on his head as soon as he comes near you (where he will most likely roar and then lower his head) it takes only 2 casts to poisebreak him, then ripost him. and during his wakeup animation cast it twice again and poise break him right again. stunlock him like this until death. if you notice that you don´t have enough FP for 2 casts take a sip before riposting him and all is well.

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After taking a closer look at his head, it turns out this poor guy doesn't have eyes.

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Just cheese him from the cliffs, people. Jeez, so many complaining that they can't stand at a dragon's feet and trade blows with it like a demigod - you're not meant to easily kill a dragon by pecking at its ankles with melee weapons, and if that's your jam prepare for some pain!

The cliffs behind/beside where he spawns are to narrow for him to land on, so just summon a Tiche or a Lhutel or something and hop up there and start spamming ranged. Rock Sling, Night Mist, even Rot or Poison arrows - it doesn't matter. If you refuse to summon or use ranged attacks, you have no one to blame but yourself.

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Riding under Borealis and using Flame of Frenzy worked great. Cleared on the first try. high incant seal and offhand Frenzied Seal + buffs =1000s of damage per charged cast.

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Black Knife Tiche +9 and Rotten Battle Hammer + 20 with Bleed infusion, from horseback with the Lance talisman and Kindred of Rot's exultation made this fight manageable on the first go. Low resistance to striking weapons.

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I just don't find any of the dragon fights enjoyable. They all can glitch, your weapons only work on specific parts of their bodies. Horseback battles are not the best, combat isn't fine-tuned enough - and it is almost impossible as melee without doing it on horseback. The freezing fog is a neat concept (somewhat annoying implementation) that should've been something other than just another reskinned dragon.

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±8 Spirit Jelly, 1 rot breath and some frenzied burst attacks from horseback made this fight very manageable.

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Meteriorite

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"Bla bla bla hes so op & i cant kill him or whatever."






just get on your horse & spam pest threads under him. Seriously.

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There's no way this boss has only 11k hp.

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Black knife tiche and bloodboon ritual ash of war from mohgwyn sacred spear. The sacred spears ability build bleed, very ez to land on the boss while standing under it, and poise breaks the **** out of him for some reason, I think because you are actually hitting him with the stab into the air as well as the bleed aoe effect

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Super fair this thing just screams like a ***** and instantly builds up frostbite on every ****ing thing around it for a mile the entire ****ing time. Seriously how the **** does this trash make it through playtesting? Does fromsoft actually not do any playtesting whatsoever? This boss 100% feels like one they just didn't give the slightest **** about, they were just like, **** it it's at the end of the game so people should be 2 hitting everything by now, let's just give it a completely bull **** moveset cause noone will ever see all its attacks anyway. Who needs boss fights to be enjoyable instead of just consistently encouraging the player to just run past it. Cause obviously the path to becoming elden lord is all about just running from everything.

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why does this guy have extreme pierce resistance when literally every other dragon is weak to it? they could have made it a neutral resistance like 15 or 20 but no they had to pump the absorption all the way up to freaking 80. nothing really notable on why he resists pierce so hard.

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Try the taunter's tongue around this boss, then wait for an invader before starting the boss fight. Assuming you know it's moveset (particularly the roar attacks) well enough, it will be BEYOND hilarious.

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The ****ing frostbite effect alone is 1 hitting with 40 vigor.....

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Will literally chain spam the frost breath attacks, would rather fight 4 lichdragons at once than this coward. Seriously this fight is almost as pathetic as elden beast

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Ya so much fun to fight an enemy that runs away to breath mass aoe attacks in a 9 visibility arena.... who the actual **** thought that was a good idea? Why would you not make this dragon prioritize melee attacks to prevent such a completely unpleasant experience?

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wow, fighting dragons is bullshit enough with their constant flying and AOE spam, but the screaming insta damage and frostbite takes the cake. literally awful. 10/10 fromsoft

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wow, fighting dragons is bullshit enough with their constant flying and AOE spam, but the screaming insta damage and frostbite takes the cake. literally awful. 10/10 fromsoft

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Latenna hard carried I just maintained aggro while she did damage. its first attack took me down to like 10 %

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I love bosses that just fly away
with nearly unrollable damage in the process every time you get close to them. Great design.

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I just sent Tiche + 9 and let her do all the work. Thrashed the poor creature in like 30 seconds

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Really bad design. Either you have the usual attacks of dragons and he's completly doable, but sometimes he just decides to roar, which seems completly unavoidable, deals frost build up and high damage, and he can spam it... why fromsoft... why?

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Heard this thing roar in the middle of a blizzard and it scared the poop out of me

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Duck behind one of those LARGE tree thingies on the lake, his Freezing Breath does no damage there, wait till he approaches (he gets almost on top of you) hit him with Comet Azur (or whatever you fancy)

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Why does his breath attack cause frost build-up, when it just one-shots me?

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using dex weapons feels like tickling it so i switched to the serpent hunter sword and won easily
also this was the first boss i fought on horse

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Challenging fight for sure, but is heavily trivialized after learning its patterns. Basically just go away whenever he roars, moves its head, shakes its tail or flies in the air, and then you have a huge time window to attack.

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I used Bolt of Gransax, very effective with over 1600 head damage (+10, str 45, dex 62), while the attack from Bloodhound's Fang(+10) was really weak, only 160 damage

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Didn't find this guy too bad except for that really annoying roar attack. Torrent kept getting stuck on his wings whenever he did it so I couldn't escape and died.

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To the guy who invaded me and my friend on our first visit and pulled us to the boss fight to trigger the fog, hope you enjoyed bloodhound stepping your way around the entire map for 40 minutes before you got yeeted by a force close. If you take the piss, make peace with holding said piss in both hands lmao

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They need to buff this boss he is a joke compared to others

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Not frog :(

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An ice dragon that is not weak to fire, N-ice...

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Strike, Bleed and Dragonwound Grease are effective against this son of a wh*re. If you go Dex, use flails; if Str, use Great Stars, if Quality, use Spiked Club. Or if you go Int, Rock Sling to his face; the same goes for Fth with Stone Of Gurranq.

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Tiche soloed it without ever going below 50% while I run around on Torrent like a wuss

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When I started this fight for the first time, I misread the name as "Borealis the Freezing Frog" and I got excited because I thought I was about to fight an original boss. Instead, it was another dragon fight, and one of the worst designed dragon fights in Fromsofts catalogue at that. There is nothing fun about this boss. Just a bunch of AoE attacks that can kill you if you make one mistake. I'm not sure what the devs were thinking with this one.

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Borealis the Freezing Frog

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this boss has billion hp

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Had an attempt ruined bc of the ice lobster by the cliffs. Of course

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i wonder if the designer of this boss knows what thewy are doing. its not fun to chase the boss forever since by the time you get close enough to do anything it ****s off again.

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Ambiguous hitboxes -- the roar is the worst, you practically have to guess how far this thing reaches out when he uses it. Also, random 80% resist to certain forms of physical damage means that there's a high chance the main weapon you've been using until now is suddenly useless. If you're not bringing magic or bleed, then bring some gosh darn Dragonwound Grease, and lots of it.

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*looks out across the lake* GOOD LORD, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?
Miyazaki: uh... Freezing Fog Borealis

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A testament to how well this game is optimised: This boss is literally the only time my game has dropped to an unplayable framerate on PS4. Sure, some places with heavy rain will drop to about 24 frames, but this thing spawning and spamming frost breath was the first time I hit 10 or lower. Inputs get eaten halfway through the fight, and the frostbite stagger from a huge AOE is enough to kill Torrent, and then I can't move and just die.

I hate this thing.

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this boss definetely not weak to strike damage it deals the same amount of slash its definetely not '' 10 ''

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This guy needs to chill out

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Summon Tiche. Blackflame and max hp reduction annihilates dragons lol. Rot them as a bonus and youre set

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i think this boss is wearing red tearstone ring

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