Borealis the Freezing Fog | Elden Ring Wiki

If you're using slash type weapon, good fckin luck

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I found that using the Halo Scythe’s AOW is really helpful. Good distance/tracking for head shots. Not just for this dragon but especially useful here.

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ice dragon
*looks inside*
40 fire resistance

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Why in the world does this thing have 80% slash resistance?! Nothing should have that high of a resistance in anything

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The annoyance of the mist side of the problem is easily dealt with...

1. Starting at the Freezing Lake site of grace, ride Torrent East across the late towards where Borealis spawns.
2. As soon as he has spawned and the blizzard has started ride back West across the lake towards the top of the "frozen waterfall" near the Freezing Lake site of grace.
3. As you approach the end of the lake the blizzard dissipates and then you can ride back to fight Borealis... its somewhat easier when you can see him clearly :)

Spectral lance works well as a ranged option that will stun him with a few hits.
Using Torrent to avoid the beast until there is an opening works well... and there are openings where you can get in safely, and get in a couple of hits before getting out of range again. Circling in towards him as he uses (and you avoid) his breath attack can get you nice and close in a safe way for a well timed hit, but riding straight at him usually triggers the kind of attacks that you really don't want to be close to...

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love being summoned for this when im using a slash weapon . im literally just useless

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funny dragon says lol to my scythe only run

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Fire Giants are real bros. Not only do they have cool magic and worship a cool god, but they also mopped up the trash that is these ice dragons for us! Thank you fire giants!

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peak fromsoft braindead boss design

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Ah yes, here's that "immaculate boss design" the Souls series is known for. Feel the genius of Miyazaki, bask in the "totally fair and balanced" scenario of this giant piece of garbage flying around, vomiting status effect gas not just out of his mouth but also his stinky ankles, getting obscured by pea soup fog and being resistant to pretty much everything.
All of the dragon fights are garbage.

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One of the most annoying bosses that doesn’t deserve a fair fight. Mimic tear +10 this sorry piece of sh & be on your way

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This boss is pretty rough in coop, especially if everyone is melee.
You hug its hind legs to avoid the stunlocking roars, which just makes it perform its leg-slam attack which has a lingering AoE effect. Or it relocates, forcing you to spend 20 seconds running around while it spews out frost dmg breaths. If you're unlucky you haven't even managed to do chip damage in the first minute of the fight.

It has three breath attacks (afaik). The "tracking" breath is easily avoided by running sideways. The "sweep" breath (from your right to left) and the flying breath attack usually hits you square on when you're running on foot.
The Roars (once, and double) stunlocks your character while dealing high damage and building up frost. Getting caught in the double is a death sentence. Seen so many hosts die that way.

Most of the attacks are highly telegraphed and you have ample time to react, just not to escape. So I've noticed that Endure on an off-hand weapon is really useful. Combined with a high magic res shield (Silver Mirrorshield, my beloved) you can tank everything. And the hyperpoise from Endure allows you to run out of the roar field instead of getting stunlocked.

My best track record (with respect to hosts staying alive) is using Spectral Lance on its head to get stance breaks. If you stay at a good distance it won't attempt the Roars or fly away, allowing the host to go to town while you keep aggro.

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I've noticed, as a melee build, that coop for this boss is pretty awful.
You don't want to be in its face since you won't get time to react to the Roar attacks that stunlocks you, so you try to stay close to its hind legs. But that just triggers its slam-down leg attacks that places a lingering frost dmg AoE. And it flies away to relocate, spewing magic damage breath all over the place, usually one-shotting the host.
Endure on an off-hand weapon is a good tool for this boss. Most of its attacks are very telegraphed but often not possible to avoid. So you have time to react and apply the boosted defense of Endure before the AoE magic dmg hits you (and actually run out of the stunlock Roar). Paired with a Silver Mirrorshield you tank everything.

From a "host survives" perspective, I've had the most success while spamming Spectral Lance on its head and going in for the ripostes. With correct distance you keep its aggro while preventing it from relocating or using its Roar. Remember that you can let the host get in some hits on the dragon before taking the riposte, as its stance break animation is quite long.

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EIGHTY SLASH AND PIERCE RES. Well now I don't feel so bad.

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Can we all thank the Fire Giants for banishing the Ice Dragons? Imagine if there were more of these screaming *******s in the Mountaintops...

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Honesty a really cool boss, but miserable to fight.

Cool design, cool attacks, cool arena, cool mechanic of the fog disabling after killing him.

Terrible AOE hitboxes (seriously, that ice breath at the ground is worse than fire giant’s fire breath). Ridiculous resistances. The fog makes it hard to see.

If you get lucky, and you have a proper setup, you can have a pretty cool fight with this guy. But unfortunately, it’s quite rare.

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he needs less resistances..

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Staying on horseback and behind him is key to this fight! Most of his BS ice-roar attacks can be avoided by just standing behind his feet, except for the follow-up one which you need to be a good distance away to avoid. When he roars, get a few hits on his feet and then run away so he can't hit you with the follow-up. Otherwise, standard dragon fight, only took me a few tries at RL1.

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Me when host buffs himself for a half minute and then shoots comet azur for 5675467 damage at a jellyfish. True story, much fun. Dragonbreath is cancer in coop btw, never summon, better stay capable of hopping on torrent

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Just use a great hammer with Dragon Wound grease. I used Inferno Crozier. Hop on torrent as soon as he flies away and you can catch up to him before any breath attacks.

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This main thinks he is tigrex with how much he is screaming

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If you're having a hard time, equip Barbaric Roar or Storm Blade (ash of war), aim for its head and spam it. Effortless fight.
Hope it helps.

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If you're having a hard time, equip Storm Blade or Barbaric Roar (Ash of War), aim for his head and spam it. It will be an effortless kill.
Hope it helps.

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the dex soft-counter

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Bastardalis the Stunlocking Frig

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spamming the black flame spell kills this boss really quick

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Worst flying dragon. Roar is literally undodgable if you're in melee range of its head. It also really like to fly away after 1 or 2 attacks. Good ****ing luck str/dex user trying to find some range attack with strike damage. Deserve to get Pest Thread on.

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binary fight. you either get a good pattern and knockdown during his first breath attack or you don't and he doesn't land for more than 5 seconds. Reminiscent of fighting the Rathalos from Monster Hunter Ps2.

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Ekzykes and Borealis having a mid off

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This article begins with a complete wordsalad. I question the literacy of the person who wrote the first 2-3 sentences

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frosbite 1 shot 50 vigor???

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Only get the hate for this one if it's your first go round with it. If your main weapon isn't a striking one, you should always have a backup striker, and at this point you could easily buy the stones to get to a +18 with the smithing bells. Glacial roar is bs but unless you're getting frostbit and low on health for the first one, there's enough gap before the second half of it to run out, just don't get greedy.

I'd you have the dex and are doing the volcano manor quests, hoslow's whip does fine work.

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Why does he have 80% absorption to Slash and Pierce x.x no wonder why my Nightraider Glaive was dealing only a hundred damage per hit

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I recommend using immutable shield on this boss. By this time you should have enough talisman/Crystal tears to get to the reqs

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this boss is so f***ing stupid bruh by the time my buffs are off (i invest nothing into health and even when i do it takes all my damage away so its not worth it) turns out the mist was shrouding him using his breath which insta kills. I said i'd never get mad at a boss, and never interact with this website but i just f***ing killed maliketh and THIS is whats giving me trouble? Are you serious?

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I don't remember a glacial roar?

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Faith users can use Holy Shotgun(tm) aka Envoy's Long Horn Bubble Shower against him.
It deals absurd amount of damage and will kill him extremely quickly.

He is still annoying though.

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why is he not weak to fire

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at ng+7, this guy sucked sooooooo much. the roar quickly annihilates you at that game cycle even with good amount of defense and HP

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That slash/pierce resistance is so ridiculous that it's not even funny

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Being stubborn with only bloody helice made this fight even worse than the major story bosses. And then I remembered Latenna exists

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I'm not sure why everyone is upset with this dragon. It killed me, but Tiche got final hit, so he died too. For the most part, he was pretty manageable. If I actually paid attention to the frostbite meter, and prepared beforehand, he wouldn't have killed me. Now that dragon that casts lightning on almost all of its moves... That's the dragon to hate.

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Oh, I thought the right way to fight dragons was to whack their heads. Turns out this one can just ice roar whenever the **** it wants and stunlock your ass to death if you're anywhere that supposed weak spot. Can go straight to F tier with the foreskin duo and valiant ballgargles

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Black flame attacks with Tiche wipe this dragon

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But... why is he weak to STRIKE ??? And this resistant to Pierce ? Why would you consistently make Pierce the damage type that wins against hard scales in EVERY Souls game, and break the form for this one dragon ? Standard for everything, Slash for cloth / flesh, Strike for armor, Pierce for hard scales. Why throw a curveball ?

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Top 10 worst Souls boss fights

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If you're melee, fight on torrent and equip the talisman that improves mounted attacks, and use Black Knife Tiche. Let BNT distract and do damage with their ranged. Stay close, but far enough to be out of the AoE stomp attack. When Borealis does the sweeping horizontal frost breath you can race in from the side and whack it's ankles. Don't be greedy just one whack then get back to distance. If you see Borealis fly, race directly at it and underneath and you'll avoid it.

There are probably other summons that work but I think it's crucial that it's something mobile or else it'll just die quick to the AoE attack.

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It seems that you can't summon co-op for this boss if Niall is dead.

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It's unreal how bad this fight is for melee players. When its not flying around out of reach its spamming those annoying aoe dot stomps and its breath attacks where you cant tell where the hitbox is supposed to be. Then there's the big roar aoe which isn't that hard to avoid if you just play super cautiously and back away after every hit but doing that just turns the fight into a boring slog. The high resistance to everything but strike damage I kind of understand because its an ice dragon but then why is it not weak to fire??? Hard to say what they were thinking with this one.

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My favorite flying lizard

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For all my fellow faith heads out there, use ancient dragon's lightning strike and delete this mf in a single cast.

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Used big hammer and barrier of gold, made boss super easy, didn't have to use any heals, barely took any damage.

Also barrier of gold can be used on any character with enough faith boosting talismans and buffs and there strike weapons of all sorts of weights and scaling meaning any build can use "big hammer" and barrier of gold to defeat this boss.

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By using a combination of faith increasing talismans and buffs and build can cast barrier of gold. Barrier of gold alongside a spelldrake talisman and medium or heavy armor can turn the boss into a complete pushover, one of it's strongest attacks is it's glacial roar which could stun lock and easily kill my character even with the heaviest of armor equipped but by casting barrier of gold it barely dealt a 1/5th of my health bar.

So long story short: Barrier of gold make magic boss easy.

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Horse is the key for the boss...

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Yeah yeah, the elden beast has some annoying moves, but have you fought Borealis?

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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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