Death Blight | Elden Ring Wiki

This happened to my buddy Eric

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This status was an excuse to add basilisks back. You know, I know it

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Shabriri is also vulnerable to death blight

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The wiki says the Flame Guardians (commoner guys with fire staffs wearing guardian masks) at guardian’s garrison are able to be death-blighted

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The fact we can put death blight on any non-affinity or special weapon for 30 seconds is crazy. Especially with the fact that it does a flat 75 buildup. Great on fast weapons, but if you want to put it on a colossal weapon it does 120 instead. That is so cool. I’m so glad deathblight wasn’t neglected and they made the new spells ENTIRELY FAITH SO THERE IS NO WEIRD SPLIT like that is so awesome. I love using my death blight build in Elden Ring by FromSoftware while playing the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC which includes all this and more. Wow. Amazing. Wow. I love using debt blight I am hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and Elden Ring preserved my money by making me not leave my house bro I love death blight. I want to eat it. I want to eat the fly thorn things. Yum. Dislike if you agree like if you want more deathblight too.

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Oh, I didn’t see you come in. Have a seat.
You see, deathblight in PvE reduces enemy attack power by 30% and does 10% of their health on proc. Everyone knows this.
What? What do you mean it doesn’t do anything? Don’t be silly, everyone knows Death blight is a great status in elden ring. The effect even lasts for 30 seconds.
Oh, but it doesn’t work on golems, imps, and watchdogs. Now go on, son. Use your deathblight in PvE.

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The bit about NPC invaders being immune to deathblight is incorrect. They have 999 deathblight resist, but are not immune. You can test it yourself with by alternating casting between Fia's Mist and Darkness, which causes the invaders to linger in the mist long enough to get blighted after a few casts. Confirmed it with Recusant Bernahl, Ghiza, and all of the Volcano Manor assassination targets (Istvan, etc.)

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Why tf does it ignore sacrificial twig? there is no lore reason I could find, and seems like a oversight . At least ds1 and 2 had rarer rings for insta death, and 3 didn't need one. And why are just tarnished affected by this, when it should be any creature alive, even demigods as godwyn as proof. Really underbaked, at least sleep could affect most enemies.

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I wish this had any, ANY, use outside of PvP, and it's not even that useful in PvP.

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It seems like death blight is a thing that was created to harm only the tarnished.

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Really wish DeathBlight had some sort of effect in PvE, since it's not viable in PvP. Maybe it could instakill lesser foes, like foes of human build, but against bosses it could be a permanent debuff to stamina recovery and weakens poise resistance.

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I would change it to 2 effects. The first one hinders your movement like what happened to rogier, reducing your max equip load to 95% so you get overloaded unless you remove all in your inventory, or drink physick. The second would be the insta-death.

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The status buildup players are able to inflict should be higher? Like a minimum of 35 per tick. Especially if it's sources are so scarce and only affects one type of enemy in the entire game.

No, you have no right to speak about "balance". You would be given 5 lifetimes and still die of age without knowing what that word means.

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There is 1 big problem with this status effect no one seems to know for pvp. And it kinda surprised me that jo one is talking about it too.

Abd that is what happens when a death blight weapon, spell, incantation, or any dlc death blight granting item. Loses most of the pvp community when a new soulsborne games comes out. And the remaining pvp community in elden ring becomes basically impossible to find matches due to most going to the new games pvp? Becease we all know the community is what keeps these games alive. But the also move on new stuff. And in dark souls 1 and og demon souls it's basically impossible to find consistent pvp matches, or in og demon souls to even go online. What good would this status effect be then if it becomes simular to that? I mean it is already verry limited in pve for what you can use it for.

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i don't think a direct buff to the buildup is the right way to go, but i've had some ideas running through my head on how they could improve death blight. one thought i had was that they could add a talisman like the blood and rot talismans, not something that increases damage upon proc but instead it increases death blight buildup for a minute. for balancing purposes you would still need to proc it with base buildup at least once, but you'd be rewarded with more reliable buildup for a time. imagine getting chain death blight procs on a group of 3 players, now that'd be sick.

another idea i had was something like mohg's great rune for death blight, maybe one associated with godwyn. a rune for invaders to use on nearby pve mobs that applies an effect to them, which would cause them to emit big, long lasting death blight clouds with high buildup upon their death. alternatively if one of these enemies kills a phantom, all death blight buildup is increased like with the talisman. in exchange, it would cost some of your max health to use it like with mohg's rune. death blight spells, pots, arrows etc would all be nice too. in any case, the dlc teaser we got seems to imply godwyn will play some kind of role, so i'm thinking it's likely we'll get something at least. hopefully it finally puts death blight in a good spot

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you can death blight D's brother in deeprot depths

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D's twin brother can be killed with fias mist/death blight

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I do not want this buffed in the slightest. It doesn't need it. Running Dia's Mist and un upgraded Eclipse Shotel, it's a serious threat. It just needs more options. I like Fia's Mist because it's very much a trapping tool, I think going forward Death sorceries should be setups and traps. Maybe something like Roiling Magma or the bubble sorceries where you can throw it out and have it be a threat while you position or approach.

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Either this status effect gets buffed, or madness does. Choose!

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i'm gonna be SO disappointed if we don't see more love for death-related aspects in shadow of the erdtree. it's such a cool concept only to be done dirty in the sense that it has like 3 things in the entire game that actually ALLOW for it to proc. furthermore, it can only be applied to tarnished NPC's, unlike frenzied incantations that actually do decent damage, death blight does essentially nothing to enemies such as bosses. i'm not saying that it SHOULD be able to proc on enemies, as insta-killing them once it procs would be just broken, but what i AM saying is that it should at least work differently on bigger enemies, akin to that of convergence where it vastly de-buffs them.

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You know , now that Elden ring has separate PVP and PVE balance changes , perhaps Deathblight can be given A PVE exclusives Buff like How Instakill is for pvp

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The build up is way too fast.
It should take at least three times as long.

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Should make Godfrey super weak to this. Just the easiest cheese in the world because he is tarnished. Insta dead, but Hoarah loux becomes immune to blight and all of his attacks proc blight. To punish those who cheese bosses

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I am so sick of FromSofts obsession with instant death statuses.

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These new kids whining about Death in ER....
Dont think you guys would make it through the curse status effect that stacked upon death in the original Dark Souls.

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(The watermelon seed you swallowed when you where 6)

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Video game mechanic of the century right here. I wish I knew the person who came up with it so I could thank them personally. Really personally.

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IDK what happened but I've never been bopped by death blight so much. Wormface has a new ability to instant blight you while on horseback without a meter building up. I wasn't even in a cloud of it, the mount died, i fell off with the thorns forming around me, after i bounced they pierced me and lifted me up. There was no meter on the screen until the animation started, and it built up from empty and never got half way before i respawned. Thank's GOTY

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The fact that you can’t use deathblight against npc invaders is ridiculous, that’s literally the only thing you could have used it for in PVE

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You can blight the Silver Tears in the Night's Sacred Ground which turn into tarnished. Not particularly useful or viable for killing them but worth noting.

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The list of status effects at the bottom seems to be bugged, always including an effect simply named “Blight” regardless of whether or not you’re on the Death Blight page

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would love to see some more weapons and spells that inflict deathblight, same with madness

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I want to eat the death blight thorns and drink the maybe water in deeproot depths mmmmmm tasty

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Really wish death blight and madness worked on more than invader type enemies. They shouldn't be too strong (for obvious reasons) but it's annoying that some status effects with major ties with the story do almost nothing to regular mobs.

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They really don’t want this status effect to be viable. Took 10 casts of Fia’s Mist to kill Dung Eater at outer moat.

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would like to see a great spear with death blight, something like Vyke's gs.

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Man they really did a great job making this effect look as gross as possible

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I tested this against NPC invaders using Fia's Mist and the Fingerprint Shield and I can confirm that all NPC invaders are not immune to deathblight.
It is pretty inefficient though, and Frenzy is a much better stat to use against player modeled enemies.

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I only play PvE but would love to have this as an affinity (mostly for NPC invaders, I just like the vibe), but maybe From is careful with how hyperaccessible Death Blight could affect PvP

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Mmmm I love invaders with melee weapons that aren't Eclipse Shotel proccing Deathblight roars so much

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Very cool animation when it procs.
Too bad the only time i get to see it is on myself. I understand why they cant have insta death proc for npcs but at least make it usable on npc invaders

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I found out in my fight vs patches that he can be death blighted. I wanted his emote but he's gone now :<

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before I met basilisks, I thought the loading screen tip about how "death gauge filling up will inflict instant death" was a joke about your health bar dropping to zero. oh how foolish I was.

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i would love to use this, it's just.... useless.

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why does death lighting even have death blight? if you're close enough to be hit by the mist, you're likely gonna get oneshot anyway by the lightning.

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Wow. Great game design. A weapon that is useless in the PvE aspect of the game. And due to the monuverability, defense and "meta" it also worthless in PvP. Imagine spending time and money on a weapon for a game, specifically so that people DONT use it. Dissapointing.

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Well that's a cool effect but i wish we had more ways of afflicting it but one weapon art one incantation and one spell....

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All things aside, the death animation from death blight is cool af, spire impale your body as the minor spires pierce and rupture from your body

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Just died to this with my status bar 1/3 full. Was fighting wormfaces and using boluses, so it had started building up and been cured a few times. Do you just get auto-blighted after a certain number of hits?

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The deathblight status effect buildup only decreases when you stand still, at least on Torrent.

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This is such a disappointing status effect in PvP (the only place it's even applicable). The meta currenty revolves around Arcane builds which boosts your resistance to death blight, so it takes around 1000 damage to even get a proc, but most people don't level vigor (level your vigor), so you have to let them heal first or just kill them with the Eclipse Shotel anyways.

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Ok ok hear me out, what if an area and ennemies got both deathblight AND rot at the same time

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The Commoners with black funeral veils that are sitting infront of that Omen outside Lyndel (currently on this page listed by a minor erdtree) also cast Fia's mist

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Confirmed works on an invading Dung Eater.

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I just spent 15 minutes trying to kill a volcano manor target npc with death blight. I couldn't get it to proc with death lightning so i tried Fia's mist. Old knight itsvan face tanked those clouds for so long and after so many attempts he finally died to it. glad to know it's possible but disappointed to know it's absolutely unviable lol

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Not a fan of the buildup meter's color. Gray's too dull to be noticable, and half the time i get deathblighted is due to not realizing how full the meter is until it pops.

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wish there were more viable death blight builds

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I wish there was a Ritual Pot recipe that made a cloud of death blight like the ones from Death Lightning or Fia's Mist, i feel like it would be a nice extra tool to make use of for a death build.

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I wish I knew why but recently I've just had small amounts of deathblight build up (nothing serious) when nothing that could cause deathblight has been around. For example: I will literally be just sitting on top of torrent, talking to an npc, and/or just at the roundtable, you know; places where there aren't enemies that can inflict deathblight, and my deathblight bar will just somehow go up by a fifth. Does anybody know why this is happening? (It hasn't killed me yet but I'm not looking forward to when it eventually might)

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Fun Fact: Sir Gideon Of it is completely immune to Death Blight despite being a Tarnished himself. So, what's so different about him?

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Notice that the immunizing cured meat is listed as a way to prevent death blight, despite it only raising immunity and not vitality.

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"Death Blight seems functionally identical to the Curse status effect from the Dark Souls series." - This is a bit misleading. Death Blight insta-kills the player, but it has no other effects or after-effects.

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In dlc we will get a deathblight swamp

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yall think this page should mention that the grave scythe helps resist death blight or nah

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Tip for invaders: Deathblight NPCs will affect you too. I got Deathblighted out of nowhere (no status build-up, nothing) which was from these NPCs in the Plateau. Better to just stay back and avoid any NPCs that inflict it. I'm assuming the Deathblight effect can desync sometimes causing it to be invisible to you.

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If more vitality effects buildup of deathblight then wouldn’t vitality boosting charms affect it as well? Like crimson medallion and erdtrees favour, as well as radagons sore/scarseal

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From a lore point of view, what exactly is Death Blight?
In the end, Scarlet Rot is something like a curse that eats you from the inside.
Sleep was supposed to be a trance-inducing status of Miquella.
Frenzy is an uncontrollable mind-destroying power (it always causes self-buildup)
Poison, Bleed and Frostbite are self-explanatory, I guess…

But what about Death Blight? Why does a “tree” erupt from the ground, impaling us? What is the nature of this “tree”?
It’s intriguing.

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I've never been able to trigger this despite trying my absolute hardest
i know I'm using it on the right enemies/npcs

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oh haha a status effect that kills instantly, how ingenious, so very funny

*******s

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Is it possible to get a copy of Lhutel's spear or Mausoleum Knight's sword that inflicts deathblight?

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I've had Death Blight proc on me while riding past the Wormface boss in Altus plateau but it didn't actually trigger the animation or kill me until I dismounted about 5 minutes later. It was a little startling to say the least.

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Death ahead

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Death Blight caused me to lose runes while having a sacrificial twig equipped. It didn't get used in the process, it was just bypassed completely.

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Basilisks also cause deathblight, not listed under enemies that cause it. Regular headless knights also do, and a specific crab in an area i forgot also has a deathblight breath. Lichdragon Fortissax is another, but this is obvious

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Why only wormface tho? Basilisks can also inflict DB and Lionheart uses DB spells.

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Lhutel the headless is a spirit ash that uses death blight

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Does death lighting blight with dragon commune build deathblight faster?

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Note that Death Blight works on NPC Invaders. I killed Dung Eater when he invaded me by baiting him into the blight cloud the nearby crab releases.

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This only affects 'Tarnished' characters in advance. Probably won't work on Fia's Champions but if someone wants to go do that and see, I doubt it with the whole Death thing about her and the fact I'm pretty sure those people are already dead given that I had invaded these people for Volcano questline.

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Looks like a bloodgem from bloodborne, only dried up and blackened.

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https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Order+Healing Order Healing can also cure death blight

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wormface is a boss that absolutely causes instant death blight status effect. hes by the minor erdtree in altus plateau, near bower of bounty

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Seems to ****** ignore Twiggy Tears. Really insufferable for when you're trying to ignore enemies in a dungeon and go "ah screw it, I'll let these lizards kill me so I can respawn"

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Seems to ****** ignore Twiggy Tears. Really insufferable for when you're trying to ignore enemies in a dungeon and go "ah screw it, I'll let these lizards kill me so I can respawn"

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Anyone else annoyed that death sorceries don’t build this up?

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Does anyone know if Gideon is weak to instant death?

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Funnily enough, since your health only gets taken well after the proc, you can survive Instant Death if you're stuck in an enemy's grab attack at the moment it would kill you.

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Is this a different status effect than Blight or is it just a duplicate?

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Why is this a thing

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Are bosses inmune to this?

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Eclipse Shotel seems to be bugged right now when used with fires deadly sin. Cause aoe death status during pvp.

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Eclipse Shotel seems to be bugged right now when used with fires deadly sin. Cause aoe death status during pvp.

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I just invaded someone who did nothing but roll into me and he killed me with the death status effect

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Does anyone know how to remove the debuff caused by this? When you die it days "Death Blighted".

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You have died of Death.

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dying from "death" will cause a fungal growth to burst out of your body and kill you. it was quite beautiful to see

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"try jumping" messages inflict this, i've personally confirmed

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Fia’s Mist is a sorcery you get that produces a cloud of death (haven’t had any success using it on any enemies so far)

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There is no info at all to resist this? Like Flamedrake Talisman can boost fire dmg negation, none of that for death?

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Does this work on Bosses?

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