Bosses | Elden Ring Wiki

"man i cant wait to watch rusty's dlc boss ranking video, he's obviously passionate about elden ring!"
[35 minutes of soulless whining]

please lord, give me a youtuber who actually likes talking about the game... you'd think that a game as whimsical and fantastical as elden ring would create discussion that isnt absolutely joyless and cynical

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DS1 suсks

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fromsoftware fans when they get drafted in WW3 and die to a grenade (it was an unfair delayed AoE attack)

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I'm normally one to beat all optional bosses in these games but 238 is too many for me personally. Don't know if I can 100% this one

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after playing Bloodborne I now realize that all the complaints about Elden Ring's bosses boil down to difficulty. People just don't want a hard game, they want another Bloodborne where every boss dies in 1-2 attempts. They want to turn their brain off and fight easy bosses.

This would be fine if you just admitted it, but most people try to hide it. I guess they are ashamed of it. So they start making up BS and say AOEs, long combos and delayed attacks are somehow "bad game design", instead of well designed and fair difficulty

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This is a navigational general-purpose page, and not a page made to accommodate for every little difference between boss-like enemies for made-up parameters that some people have.

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shoutout to this list that doesn't properly categorize the bosses, commander o'neil and niall are both great enemy minibosses, greyoll doesn't have text popup on death so shouldn't be counted, great work as always

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Most of these bosses feel like straight up balanced with a blindfold and hold together by strong prayers, either painfully easy or laughably hard depending on what build you're using, I legit have no idea if they were intended with summons in mind, spells, melee or whatever else, they kinda feel incongruous at times, I don't know how best to describe it.

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I don't get it. The bosses in this game are the most challenging and varied Fromsoft has made, but somehow they're supposed to be much worse than Dark Souls 3? The game that has Curse-Rotted Greatwood and Crystal Sage? The game where you delete the mid-boss Sulyvahn and the hidden superboss Gundyr by riposting them four times, with each taking one parry? That game has better bosses? What?

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Consort Radahn is listed as a DemiGod ; but, after you kill him, the game says "God"...this would mean Radagon and Radahn are the only Gods.

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Bro I’m stuck on Radagon/Elden beast and Malania AND Messmser the impaler
Any tips?

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the soulsborne community is so funny because wdym someone is a "fromsoft cultist" for not knowing who tanimura is

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If you died more than once to any of these bosses, sorry not sorry, you didn't beat the game. Elden Wrong is such a horrendously easy game compared to other souls titles, you have summons, broken spells, weapon arts, and they even let you skip a lot of early to mid game bosses for whatever reason. Like you just go to Altus without fighting anything, get +15 weapon, put all your levels into vigor and completely obliterate Margit. I used cold greatsword with Lion's Claw and Mimic a good 2/3 of my first playthough and it was a breeze (that one lion mini boss in fort is cheesed with poison arrows no problem). Decided not to summon Mimic against final boss and still first tried Elden Beast by melting him with ancient lightning strike, same with Consort, bro couldn't even stagger neither me or mimic out of the weapon art like tf? Yeah it was still an very awful boss because of annoying light effects and boss himself moves so much (killed him before the nerf btw), geniuses at fromsoft really forgot how to make GOAT bosses like Gael and Isshin?? Bosses aren't either hard not fun to fight anymore. Overall 5/10 game in my opinion but I would rather redo all previous souls games from start to finish rather than ever playing Elden Wrong..

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So what is your guys favorite boss? Mines the Farum Azula Beastman in Limgrave.

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Thing to Note: 1. Alabaster Lord in Liurnia was renamed to Onyx Lord after a patch. 2. Tibia Mariner in MoTG does not have a boss bar, so unsure if it’s a true boss or not. 3. Margit in Capital Outskirts (not on the list) does not have a boss bar, but he’s a boss, so unsure how to exactly classify him. 4. Esgar, Priest of Blood and Mohg, the Omen are listed twice.

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Input reading is the biggest bullshit I have seen in a game and I have played lots of titles.

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Someone said we should have played older Fromsoftware games before Demon Souls, well believe or not 2009 is 15 years apart from both 1994(which the first kingsfield was published) and 2024(as writing of this comment), and obviously they became famous after Demon Souls which is half way in their gaming industry history

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Bet both Miyazaki and Tanimura went "Man this is fire" on their previous boss designs in Dark Souls 1 and 2 when they were creating Elden Ring, so they took Miyazaki's idea of fighting the exact same big demon with the exact big hammer and Tanimura's labelling 10 rats, a boss fight and created the mess you see on this list.

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I don't say you should have played the original King's Field, Echo Night 2, Shadow Tower Abyss, or Kuon before Elden Ring since these games were never released outside of Japan (and before someone replaying " Wdym I have played KF before, no you didn't, the game that was known as KF in NA was the 2nd game and the version you find in the internet is a fan translation version ), but a little background on the general theme of Fromsoftware games is needed when you want to play their biggest game, like if it is your 1st time hearing the games I mentioned then don't comment about bosses being trash, your option is not needed.

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Judging by the amount of insult people make about bosses difficulty, I assume you guys usually for an easy option when you have it in the difficulty selection tab on many games and you don't play the games when there is no difficulty selection, right? because if you actually had played some hard content in any video game you would have known the fans of that game don't just insult the the entire company because the **** was too hard.

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Can please someone update Boss Stats table with DLC bosses?

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Top 5 hardest going cutscenes in the game imo

1 - Placidusax's intro
2 - Consort's intro
3 - Midra's intro
4 - Messmer's transition cutscene
5 - Fire Giant's transition cutscene (actually idk what to put here)

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ok time to reveal it malenia is no longer the hardest boss in the game it is now dlc radahn ok do not argue with me please

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Love it when game journalists give SotE 94 score on metacritic but normal audience is yapping how new bosses are too fast, too tanky and unfair instead of just recognizing that SotE raised the skill ceiling required to beat them (unless you're using what the game provides you with, that's it), but souls vets and dark souls nerds refuse to acknowledge it. The term "fun and fair" is completely subjective but overused like crazy these days. There are definitely some cheap tricks that bosses have up their sleeve, like pre-nerf Radahn's cross slash, Romina's untelegraphed butterfly AoE (although it's not devastating at all and is problematic only for no hitters), but delayed moves and 5 hit combo wombo are NOT unfair, and combat is still turn based with you being able to effectively punish bosses between their attacks.

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ohhhh my god you bury your weapon so far into the ground that you inflict an aoe when you pull it out? that's so cool, should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite bella hadid

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Missing Onyx Lord in Royal Grave Evergaol in Liurnia of the Lakes

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"The minimum number of Bosses required to reach Leyndell is three (Starscourge Radahn; Mohg, Lord of Blood; and the Draconic Tree Sentinel) because all the other Shardbearers have preceding Bosses that must be defeated first." Isn't this wrong? You can't get to Mohg without defeating Godrick for Varre's quest or Morgott and Niall for Consecrated snowfield, right?

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whoever left a message in front of base game radahn saying "bravery required ahead" honestly saved me. it taught me to stay close to the boss and to always roll forwards. it is invaluable advice for every boss in the game when using a melee build.

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im the hardest boss in the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"they make you fight sekiro bosses with a DS3 moveset" I hate this argument! there are infinitely more tools at your disposal, waiting for you to experiment with them! there are 84 different spirits that you can summon to entirely change the flow of a fight! there are 154 talismans that can completely alter your play-style! there are 40 different crystal tears that can shift the odds entirely towards your favor, depending on how you use them! there are an endless amount of consumable and craftables that will help you survive a tough encounter!

play with the tools given to you!! be creative!!! it isnt that hard!!!!

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Feels like there should be an ash of war to just teleport in front of the enemy you're locking on to.

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After numerous playthroughs of Elden ring + DLC I would like to propose the idea that fromsoft should axe all ideas about huge sized bosses.

They range from unfun to utter garbage.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk

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Listing Draconic Tree Sentinel as mandatory for completing the game in the achievements section is wrong. Skippable via Fia quest

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Argue this and that about this game Bosses, but I've never seen a From game nerfing bosses this consistently post-release.

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the funniest thing about the SotE is seeing people say that any dlc remembrance boss is the worst in the series

go replay dark souls 1. look me in the eyes and tell me that moonlight butterfly or ceaseless discharge are fun and interesting. tell me that fighting capra demon and his two dogs in a new york apartment bathroom is fair and well designed. tell me that the bed of chaos has any notable redeeming qualities whatsoever.

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There are 2 sides of dlc bosses, peak(midra, messmer, Gaius, Bayle, and some others) and you got super sonic+ hippo

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Put together a top 100 hardest bosses list after finishing the DLC and getting those added in. Just the ones from Elden Ring:

100. Night Calvary Duo
93. Commander O'Neil
92. Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella
89. Draconic Tree Sentinel
88. Blackgaol Knight
87. Fia's Champions
83. Esgar, Priest of Blood
80. Rakshasa
78. Roundtable Knight Vyke
77. Borealis The Freezing Fog
73. Jori Elder Inquisitor
69. Ancient Dragon Senessax
60. Divine Beast Dancing Lion
52. Tree Sentinel Duo
50. Dragonlord Placidusaxx
46. Death Rite Bird (Charo's Hidden Grave)
45. Commander Gaius
44. Crucible Knight Duo
43. Putrescent Knight
39. Commander Niall
36. Morgott the Omen King
32. Radagon/ Elden Beast
31. Black Knife Ringleader Alecto
30. Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast
26. Starscourge Radahn
25. Godskin Duo
24. Bell Bearing Hunter (Caelid)
22. Maliketh
21. Black Blade Kindred (Caelid)
18. Messmer the Impaler
17. Bayle the Dread
15. Godfrey/ Hoarah Loux
10. Rellana Twin Moon Knight
8. Mohg, Lord of Blood
2. Malenia
1. Promised Consort Radahn

Dishonorable Mentions:
Valliant Gargoyle Duo (Worst designed fight in the game)
Ancient Dragon Fortisaxx (Can't lock on to feet + lightning spawning on position every 2 seconds for entire fight)

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I wonder if people complaining about Elden Ring's "sub-par overall boss quality" remember DS3 very well. Curse-Rotted Greatwood, Crystal Sage, Deacons of the Deep, Old Demon King, Yhorm the Giant (a little mixed reception on that one), Aldrich, and the Ancient Wyvern would all be in the lower eschelons of Elden Ring's frankly enormous boss catalogue. I loved DS3, by the way, but everyone who calls that game perfect or it's bosses flawless all the way through must be misremembering how gimmicky and/or uninteresting a large amount of it's fights were. Again, I loved DS3 and I love everything From has put out in the last ~12 years or so (even ds2), but please don't pretend it's a new and shocking thing for soulslikes to have some stinker bosses.

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I don't know who decided to focus on delayed attacks and giant bossfights, but I hope he gets banished to developing android GTA clones to farm ads for the rest of the eternity.

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I would rather have Bed of Chaos than bosses that skate across the arena while attacking infinitely.

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Malenia or radahn ? Wich one's the baddest ?

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Game peaked at Chief Bloodfiend. I was so impressed that I stopped playing right after I defeated that boss. Because I already knew at that moment I had experienced the best piece of content ever made, that Miyazaki could no longer provide us with anything better than that boss fight. It was what I would like to call the apotheosis of Miyazaki's career as a game developer. His magnum opus, even better than Crucible Knight Duo from the base game. Not sure if he's longer capable of creating something better than Chief Bloodfiend so this is where my road ends as a fellow and very epic Fromsoftware fan, I've seen everything and I can finally move on. God bless you Michael Zaki and Yui Tanimura.

If you disagree you're just nitpicking and biased. So erm... yeah, I win. Bye bye!

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AoE attacks were a mistake.

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Does anybody knows if bosses deal more damage when they low hp, i have been struggling with that on Promised Consort Radahn, always that he’s low health it started to deal way more damage and also become more agressive with his combos. Been so mad about that i accidentaly drank one million beers.

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All of these bosses are super noob easy, all you have to do is throw your controller at the screen

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Never say a boss is too easy. Miyazaki might be listening and will do more bosses like the ones in the DLC.

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messmer and bayle are better than ds3

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For consistency, I don't think the tibia mariner should be in the DLC boss list, because it doesn't have a boss health bar.
The "mini-bosses" in base game also aren't added to the list.
Otherwise you'd also have to add several ulcerated tree spirits and basically every black knight, "because they appear as bosses somewhere else".
I would also add "(x2)" or something next to jagged peak drake, because now it comes across as if there is only one.

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I just found out the draconic tree sentinel is optional :l AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Man, all these lightning fast DLC bosses make me feel like the base game roster is moving in slow motion! Godfrey, Maliketh and Radagon simply can't compete with the breakneck speed of Scadutree Avatar, Metyr and Romina.

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Shouldn't the Erdtree Avatar in Caelid be renamed to Putrid Avatar? I've seen some videos where the name changed to Putrid Avatar.

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Funnily enough the DLC ended up having more unique bosses than the main game, base ER has only 7 bosses that don't get recycled (Rennala, Radahn, Rykard, Fire Giant, Placidusax, Malenia and Radabeast) while SotE has 10 (every rememberance boss except Dancing Lion), I don't know whether that's impressive or sad

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Why not try elden ring DPC we have

-two dudes in a costume who stuck at dancing

-pontiff sulyvahn at home

-crippling fire weakness

-depressed guy with snakes and mommy issues

-radahn and Leonard but bad

-my sleep paralysis demon

-a old man we beat up for no reason

-CURSE YOU BAYLE

-*confused boner*

-bandai namco logo: the boss.

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The tracking on some of the new bosses is just ridiculous. I get it on a gamplay mechanics level, however, it looks so funky when guy's like Radahn or Rellana spazz out because of it. For example, during coop it is not uncommon for Radahn to do multiple instant 180 turns in a row, which always looks hilarious.

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The true boss of Elden Ring = the legendary copy/paste.... If you only count "bosses" that you face 3 or more of (including any variants, like Erdtree Avatar/Putrid Avatar, etc...) what you end up with is 23 of them accounting for 146 total bosses. There are probably another dozen at the very least who you fight twice, like Loretta, Ancestor Spirit, Astel, etc... Don't get me wrong, I like the game quite a bit and think they made something great, but anybody who blindly praises this as peak game design is delusional. There's a LOT of content to get through, but the copy/paste nature of so many bosses is just artificial padding and little else.

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I was hoping the DLC wouldn't have as many recycling as the base game but man this is honestly pathetic, 19 recycled base game bosses, 10 recycled DLC bosses, 9 beefed up regular enemies, and an abundance of NPCs in place of bosses. Now before anyone tries to misconstrue my words, no I don't think that Elden Ring or its DLC are lacking in content, but they also don't have any more content than older Souls game despite having far bigger worlds. In other words the game isn't bigger but the map is, making huge parts of it empty yet From wants to pretend like it isn't, so they regurgitate old content at you every five seconds

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Elden-most of these fights are useless filler-Ring

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Do you guys also think Let Me Solo Her is responsible for the DLC bosses being this hard?

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Why most bosses of the DLC can fly (to attack)?

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Scadutree Avatar best boss

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Now with Shadow of The Erdtree out, would you say it’s the harder than the Dark Souls series and Demon Souls? Excluding Bloodborne and Sekiro because they have different combat systems

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A lot of the hate comes from the studio just not being able to make 10 bosses that fight like Messmer, conveniently ignoring DS3 DLC only had Friede and then Ringed City w/ Gael and Midir. They really outdid themselves.
There's Rellana who does not fight like Pontiff at all, Messmer who's just as fun to fight as Malenia, the Divine Beast which is very flashy but still fun to fight and of course Radahn which feels like fighting Goku while playing Dark Souls. I haven't tried Bayle, Midra or Metyr yet so I can't judge, but imo 5 good bosses is enough for a good DLC.

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SOTE has one of the best main boss rosters in the series, so many bangers...

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"Shadow of the erdtree has the best soulsborne bosses!"
The bosses:

Alex from madagascar
Red snek guy
Some random boss recycled 10 times
Golden hippo (its real name)
Mad bikeless ghost rider
Hoog riiida *oneshot*
Pontiffina sulyvahn
Fiery Midir
Lothric and Lorian's fanfiction

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DLC bosses were such a huge disappointment.

FS heading in a bad future for their games.

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I'm so happy we had such a good variety of bosses in this DLC! Here are my top 15 DLC bosses:
15:Ulcerated tree spirit
14: Ulcerated tree spirit
13: Ulcerated tree spirit
12: Ghostflame dragon
11: Jagged peak drake
10: Tree sentinel
9: Tree sentinel
8: Fallingstar beast
7: Ghostflame dragon
6: Jagged peak drake
5: Ghostflame dragon
4: Midra, Lord of Frienzied Flame
3: Jagged peak Drake
2: Tibia mariner
1: Ulcerated tree spirit

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How on earth can you get to Radahn without having beaten Royal Knight Loretta to gain access to the Three Sisters?

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Elden ring? More like elden recycling. Remember when DS2 was bashed for having reskinned few bosses? Where are these hipocrytes now?

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Can someone please tell me how many bosses are in total because i readed like 5 different responses and i really wanna know(including all bosses, unique and those that repeate like erdtree)

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Elden Ring is probably the hardest single-player game of all time now. Touhou on Lunatic is difficult but takes less time to no-hit than Elden Ring.

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"The Draconic Tree Sentinel is technically an optional boss since it is possible to reach Leyndell with the waygate in Prince of Death's Throne in Deeproot Depths after defeating Fia's Champions; however, this waygate is inaccessible and displays the message, "You cannot use this without more Great Runes", unless a minimum of two Shardbearers have been defeated."

So is he optional or not?

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"X mid-game boss has low HP" mfs when I show up to their house with a non-somber weapon and an appropriately-leveled character

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when i played ds3, i never felt any sense of accomplishment or satisfaction after beating a boss, I was just happy that it was over. almost every fight became grating and unengaging after a few tries... no idea why.

elden ring fixed this problem for me. no matter how many times i fought malenia or mohg or malekith, I never became annoyed or genuinely frustrated. they never stopped being fun, no matter how many times i died.

most people seem to think the exact opposite of me, but still. i cant help but love elden ring boss design, especially with what the dlc has brought.

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better than boring ds3 bosses they are easy mid same knight enemy type especially gael

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After dlc these are my top ten favorite bosses In elden ring
1:midra
2:Romina
3:messmer
4:Mohg
5:dragonlord
6:bayle
7:morgott
8:Godrick
9:Godfrey
10: needle knight Leda and her allies (not technically a boss but it’s close enough)

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can anyone tell me how many bosses there are in the game and how many in the dlc (all bosses included) they say that there is 238 only in main game but i count 169 in main game

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One really disappointing thing about this DLC is that Fromsoft did that scummy thing companies do where they show all of their cards in the trailer making it seem like what's shown there is representative of the game, then you actually play the game and realise that what was shown was pretty much all there was. Aside from the final boss for obvious reason, every single boss cutscene was shown in the trailer (I guess if you count Messmer's 1st and 2nd cutscene separately then the 2nd one wasn't shown either), not one other boss even has as much as dialogue. These are incredible bosses mechanically and visually, but because the lack of story and cutscenes I do not give a flying crap about them as characters despite the fact that I love every single demi-god (Bayle is the exception, even without a cutscene he manages to be the most compelling dragon in the game through buildup, visual storytelling and two entire dedicated NPCs). I'm not asking for the Scadutree Avatar to hit you up with a conversation, but was it really too much to ask to give Rellana, Gaius or Romina a single line of dialogue?

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damn looking back at base elden ring had like no entertaining bosses lol , aside from like godfrey, melania, godskin apostle,

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Messmer, godskins, and the demigods were fun fights. dragons, gargoyle birds, and Malenia were annoying and difficult. Radahn and Radagon were OK.

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If you think about it, none of the DLC bosses except the final boss are really that crazy. Certainly not the same kind of difficulty spike as with Old Hunters/DS3 DLCs. I personally still think Malenia's the hardest boss.

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all of my personal favorite bosses

malenia
placidusax
mohg, lord of blood
morgott
divine beast dancing lion
midra

#like and #repost if you agree!!!!!!!!

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Honestly, if they give so much HP and defense to dlc bosses, why not make them slightly more immune to bleed and make so that it doesn't take 10% of their HP? It feels incredibly unfair. I fought Senessax very early into dlc and bleed procs of my star fists did very little damage to him. I thought froms finally realized their mistake and made aux effects balanced at least for dlc. New thorns spell just shreds everyone.

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Out of like 160 bosses between base game and DLC 5 or 6 are maybe really top tier, and out of those 5/6 they themselves contain repeats, like Mohg.
IDK in what world this game has better bosses than Bloodborne or Sekiro to be completely honest.