Death Rite Bird | Elden Ring Wiki

i pray that there is a place in hell for whoever designed this enemy. holy damage or not i shouldn't have to grind a completely different damage set just to deal with a horribly designed fight

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An important thing to realise/understand is that the bullshit aoe explosion that almost always one shots you does not cover a complete circle around him - it only covers a "+" shape if you were looking directly down from above).

If you imagine directly in front of him (where he is facing) ss being 0 degrees, standing a metre or two back and anywhere between 30 and 60 degrees to his left) ( and - 30 to -60 to his right) should be completely safe and result in not being hit.

The rest of the fight is basically fine, it was just that one attack that was driving me mad as it extends so far it is almost impossible to run away in time. However if you look out for the attack's tell/warm up and move in front but to the side of him (aim for a 45 degree angle where 0 is in front and 90 is to his side), the attack will miss (although you still need to be wary of the lingering aoe black goo on the floor).

Trying to simply run away was instantly killing me as without torrent (and i can never reliably switch between items quick enough), there is very little time and you cant get far enough away. Plus, even if you dodge the initial wave, the lingering goo/flames stagger and wipe out any remaining health you have left.

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The bird in caelid can be tricked to jump off the cliff and die

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If you take any +24 weapon with sacred blade and buff it with holy shrouded cracked tear, holy scorpion charm, and golden epitaph buff. You can now 2 shot any death rite bird in the game. Bonus points if you add golden vow and shard of Alexander

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Blow bubbles at it.

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Bubble shower goes brrrrrrr

Deathrite bird by Apostate Derelict goes d-d-d-down!!

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the one boss in the entire game you absolutely cannot get hit by

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yeah mimic tear with epitaph really helps. Mimic buffs you and doubles your damage and if you give them shabriri they'll take a good amount of aggro. Only boss besides this I use mimic for is Niall. That fight is just boring

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Met this bird for the first time on the mountaintop of the giants. It was a pretty tough fight, but the good old Bolt of Gransax and mimic tear got me through after 5 or 6 unlucky deaths. Decently tough fight though.

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Was fun until it threw down an AOE that's spreads fire about in a range that's impossible to get out of range of even on torrent and one shots you, so you're only hope is to stand still and hope you are standing in one of the spots the fire happens to not cover.

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These ****ers are fun to fight, I just wish they don't ****ing fly away every time I roll towards it and do a full charge attack. Sick and tired of R1 combat.

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Why does fire on the ground stagger me? Please hear my cries, O' Fromsoftware!

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The Consecrated Snowfield one is easy to cheese, spawn it then ride back to the top of the cliff by the Apostate Derelict. Drop Holy Water and Sacred Order pots on it, they do tons of damage, especially if you boost Holy / Pot damage and Faith.

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Fun fight. I don't know what people's problem with this is, it's not bad nor hard once you learn the moveset. Most of its attacks can easily be dodged by rolling towards it. And the moves it does is quiet predictable based on your distance to it. The projectiles can easily be dodged by using Torrent.

The one in Academy Gate Town somehow freaking dies immediately if it flies too close to Raya Lucaria around the copes of trees near the bridge. happened to me twice now. So freaking annoying, I'm having an epic fight here then comes the anticlimactic finish.

The one in Concecrated Snowfield can also get stuck in the rock jutting out in the area if it flies there, killing it after a while too.

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I don't like this boss, it's moveset and damage are toxic... it's not fun to play against (I don't care facing hard enemies but this one is unfair)

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Death of camera bird

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For the Apostate bird, use the greatsword with the holy ash of war (the one where you slam the weapon in ground and shoots holy beams). Combine it with mixed physique that increases holy damage + Shard of Alexander to enhance your weapon skill. Equip in lefthand a knife with the sacred order to strengthen holy damage even more
Absolutely stunlocks this chicken in 2 hits

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there are 8 in total so far:
1 in limgrave
1 in weeping peninsula
1 in caelid
2 in liurnia near the academy
1 in altus plateau
1 in mountaintop of the giant
1 in snowfields

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y'know what? For a spell and weapons I'm never going to use... yeah not bothering.

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somehow, these Tweety looking mfs makes the Foreskin duo look like mere foot soldiers

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This and the death birds are the only bosses nearly everybody hates but in all honesty, the fight lorewise is amazing and it’s something that’s fun to hate.

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THE ONE IN APPOSLE DOES NOT SPAWN AFTER YOUR STOP THE MONUIMENT FROM NUKEING YOU

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You can get the one at Apostate Derelict quite easily by triggering it to spawn, and then hopping onto Torrent and running back up the mountain towards the Site of Grace. Wait a bit until it de-aggros, stealth back to the edge, and keep throwing holy water pots on him. Surprisingly simple to do for the big reward.

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This ****ers grab attack in the Snowfields deals like, 95% of your health even with a Rune Arc before Frostbite, afterwords you are screwed. And that’s not the worst part. The worst part is the ****er animation cancels out of his flight to frame one dash over and grab you. You don’t even get a microsecond to react and dodge because he’s already got you in his claws. And don’t bother mashing, you literally can’t do anything about it. For the love of Mila this boss is an absolute mess.

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Totally not overloaded moveset with totally not 0.3 sec wind-up attacks and insane tracking/range.
What a shitshow

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Was really struggling with the apostate derelict one.

Accidentally cheesed him by spamming discus of light at the entrance to the area. It just walks sided to side just at the edge of its range.

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my favorite move from this boss is that one spear move that has indicators for the first like 3 spears, and then praying you dodge the rest.

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Probably the most horrifying enemy design I've seen in a FromSoftware game. Royal revenants being a very very close second, but if you play the game once, you'll probably remember where they spawn and will be able to get ready for them. For the bird, it's just different... just seeing it materialize in the sky and hearing that grim, threatening ost makes my skin crawl every time.
Fittingly, it probably is the most dangerous field boss too. The one at the Mountaintop absolutely destroyed me when I went there underleveled in my first playthrough. Ever since that though, I kinda had its moves downloaded in my head. Now, it' much more enjoyable to fight them.

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Apostate Derelict one likes to cheat by phasing through your attacks. Chucked 24 pots, and 4 hit him. The rest went right through him.

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Have you heard the good word of our Lord and Savior, Holy Water Pot?

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Just hear to say the spear should've been a lower tier reward but also happy I got the poker so early

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So much salt against a pigeon with a fire poker

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After about a dozen attempts I found the best way to kill this thing is to have a tanky summon like Dung-Eater or Rollo, and spam a holy ash of war like sacred blade or Miquella's Ring of Light. I don't like having to resort to using powerful summons, but certain bosses in this game are extremely cheap. This boss in particular is mostly a camera fight combined with a wacky hitbox where much of the time your attacks miss. If you happen to get behind the thing it doesn't matter because your weapon attacks will not connect. Poorly designed boss.

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These guys were a wall for me. Then I levelled up a bunch. Like 130+. And now, after all that work, they're still a wall because I lack skill

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Ancient calling bell plus distance

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One is missing. The one that drops the shield in Leyndell

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Such an awfully designed/ made boss. What were they thinking?

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Use holy water pots and thank me later.

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its the last fromsoft game i will ever buy, i was fan of dark souls but this is worse than anything ive ever played.

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Bro goes full touhou in his second phase

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**** this bird. Only managed it by being hyper aggressive [and lucky] w/ Flame of Redmanes, and once stunned, spam Sacred Blade at its head. after that, dodge, duck, dive, and dodge while sacred blade/jump attacks to finish it off.

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As much as this **** hits hard with the explosive ghostflame BS, the one in the snowfield does more damage to my PC, with the nearby mausoleum spamming the mortars and dropping fps to like 0.5

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that aoe attack of this **** is proof enough that fromsoft has no idea how to design bosses anymore

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Awesome boss design lorewise and really satisfying learning curve to deal with

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I feel like om going mad, I swear there's one in the weeping peninsula?

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Holy damage throwing pots are OP against these things

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The Perfect Strategy for them:
Two Ruptured Crystal Tear in the flask, Sacred Scorpion Charm, Golden Vow annnnd go

Thank me later

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Immune to sleep?

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the one in caelid is total bullshit, you fight the terrain too

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lads, try to not lock onto enemy for once

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OK, forget range with bow (maybe Rock Sling is OK). I went in at lvl 37, 6 red flasks, 1 blue AND a Lordsworn Greatsword lvl 2 + Sacred Blade. The range attack from Sacred blade did mediocre damage, but R1's were greatly buffed. I killed it with 0 flasks and a sliver of life left.
I really recommend melee: only lock-on to it's torso and roll in towards his waist the whole time. Summon Torrent LATE during the Spearcall Ritual as it gives you iFrames and spam the sprint button then jump in again to wail on the legs and torso.
I hate this boss, but on my 2nd melee attempt I got him and with my lack of skill that means anyone looking for the Death's Poker can beat him easily.

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The Caelid variant DOES NOT have 252 Rot resistance at all. It took almost 16-18 rot arrows in quick succession (not Barrage) to rot that piece of sh*t and after 40 total the 2nd rot affliction did not even proc (at which moment it totally squashed me :P). each arrow counts for 50 buildup minus the depletion between hits so say 40 min per arrow. 7 arrows should have done the job on the 1st proc, not 16. I'm sure it's 500+ res. At least the Caelid version.

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GODDAMN ****ING CAMERA YOU ****ING SACK OF ROTTING ****!!!

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Fighting one of these makes the ****ing Camera a boss more than anything else, jesus christ.

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I water ballooned this guy to death.

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There is one in the graveyard by the Hermit Merchant's Shack (northeast corner) in Altus Plateau.

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I have estimated guys and I have finally come to a conclusion that these things do 999999999999999999 damage per hit.

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The wiki forgot the deathrite bird in weeping peninsula southwest of the Castle Morne Rampart Site of Grace.

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lol the one at Liurnia of the Lakes killed me, went up into the air and just ****ing died. Looked so stupid as well.

But hey, I ain't gonna complain, a soul for a soul; was about time you bosses get to feel how we feel when we get stunlock oneshot. Too bad I couldn't fight it properly but at least I don't have to fast forward to nightfall anymore.

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Cancer

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This **** could probably beat Malenia

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so stoked to kill these things with my faith build.... only to get int weapons out of it

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Bubble shower its head with the large or giant envoy horn. Almost always poise breaks and does huge damage.

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I swear to god I'm done with all night bosses. I'll just skip them all. Everytime I die , I have to wait for the night time on grace. I know that it doesn't take that long but it's SUPER FREAKING ANNOYING. I would prefer walking(even without Torrent) a long distance between the grace and the boss, like we used to run from the closest bonfire to Taurus Demon in DS1. Maybe it's because we were sprinting through enemies from the bonfire to the boss, instead of looking at stupid intro screens. So, while sprinting through enemies, there was still some action going on. Instead of looking at intros while doing nothing. So boring.

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Welcome to typical bosses and areas rating system developed by FS community:
- if boss is very easy its a shitty boss
- if boss is quite easy, not that hard, provides some challenge but not too much - its a good boss
- if boss is challenging but not too hard - its a great boss
- if boss is very hard - its a sh tty boss again

You all saying this boss is bad cause he's beating the sh out of you.

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f*cking hate that you have to wait to night time everytime you die

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**** THIS OVERSIZED ROTTING CHICKEN THAT 2 SHOTS YOU EVEN WITH 60 VIGOR

but in all seriousness, just run into that chicken crotch ;)

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What's with the damage of the frost flame hazard ? Literally 2 tap me at 50vig.

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absolutely awful boss

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I fought a couple of them as a low level, honestly a really enjoyable boss once you get it down.

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Oceiros, the Consumed King reskinned.

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Don't despair if you're not a Faith build. I have 9 Faith, and I just slapped Sacred Blade (Holy affinity) onto my +25 Uchigatana, and one use of the ranged projectile part of the Ash of War took off around 15-20% of the Consecrated Snowfield bird's HP. No damage boosting talismans, no buffs.

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While on horseback, if you circle them outside of melee range most of their ranged attacks won't hit you. Very helpful for healing, reapplying buffs, etc.

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I want to talk to the guy who made it that you can't summon on the snowfield one

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For the Consecrated Snowfield one: Halo Scythe +9, Marika's Soreseal, Sacred Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, and Godfrey Icon. Run far away with Torrent then spam weapon skill. For Physick flask I used Faith tear and Bubble tear. Over 1700 damage per projectile with 57 faith.

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Honestly not too hard for pure melee if you take some time to learn when to dodge. I managed it relatively easily by just being really aggressive and constantly approaching. A surprising amount of its attacks won’t hit you if you just roll into its torso

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so far hardes boss for me

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I'm glad that this is one of the few bosses that's weak to holy damage, because good god these things are a massive pain in the ass without that.

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The death rite bird fight at consecrated snowfield feels like its difficulty has been turned all the way up to 11 resulting in a real dirty mother f**ker of a boss. Holy water pots and 50 FTH didn't help much because it was killing me before I could get any advantage from its weakness to holy damage. It killed me eight times one after the other, every time I tried for a holy water pot head shot or got close enough to cast litany of proper death it was hammering me.

After dying eight times I'd finally had enough so I put the golden land AoW on my great hammer and resorted to the tedious tactic of target locking its head for the golden darts then putting as much of the cliff face between it and me as I could, it was doing pretty decent damage but still took a good while to kill it with hit and run, I only stuck at it for the explosive ghostflame it drops.

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I thought it couldn't get worse than stormhawk birds. Then this mf ambushes me in mountaintops and two shots me with my 53 vig, cleanrot knight armor and dragoncrest shield charm...

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Consecrated Snowfield Death Rite Bird felt hard for Samurai Rivers of Blood build with minimal investment in faith (and therefore not much access to holy weapons). Even with 50 vigor, with my initial max damage setup (white mask, talismans that boost damage), I was getting one-shotted by the bird a lot. Ended up beating the bird without respeccing by changing my gear a bit to optimize a bit better for damage mitigation. I ended up using great jar's arsenal and equiping the highest physical damage mitigating armors i could find in my inventory while still being medium roll, spelldrake +2 talisman for magic mitigation (i think some component of the bird's attack are magic), pearldrake +2 talisman (also for more magic dmg mitigation), and mottled necklace +1 (stalwart horns can also work but i didnt have it) for robustness and therefore frostbite resistance. for buffs, I used golden vow ash of war in my left hand weapon for golden vow buff (defense and attack buff), flame give me strength for attack buff, and stamina speed recovery flask plus bubbletear wonder flask, offense was simply rivers of blood corpse piler (which is not optimized for bird given immunity to bleed, but that was the only strong weapon i had). with this setup, seems like i could tank any hit at least once (but obviously you need to dodge most still), i think often i took 2 or 3 hits before needing to flask heal, which allowed me to slowly chip the bird down to death with melee. Other huge thing I noticed was that rolling forward underneath the bird's legs was almost always the right dodge no matter what the bird's attack was, and being underneath or slightly behind the bird is almost always the best spot to be unless you need to recover a lot of hp or fp (in which case i tried to get a ton of distance and heal up). final tip is that it was useful to equip the anti-freeze boluses for my item slot, as sometimes the frost was building up close to max so its a nice easy fix. hope that helps those of you that are too lazy to respec just to beat this crazy bird!

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Use sacred blade

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-40 strike and holy resist? Marika’s Hammer was made for this thing

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I've seen a few people comment about it and warning messages left by other players about holy damage"try holy" but I was still surprised by just how much damage a direct hit from a holy water pot does to its health bar they really do shred the death rite birds, and it doesn't take a shed load of direct hits to do it.

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Try respeccing for a faith weapon with holy damage, then stay under it and use jumping attacks with the claw talisman to go for its head.

Run away if it charges its staff for a ground slam, run forward if it shoots out a rain of feather-spears, run sideways if it fires a swarm of death orbs.

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Looks kinda like a demented undead tweetie pie

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Some advices:
- The bird has two lock-on points, the head and the torso. Even though it's often worth targeting the head of beasts with similar posture, you definately only want to lock onto the torso if you're melee. The head will give you vertigo and you'll vomit your screen from the absolutely horrendous camerawork I really hoped will be gone by now
- Always try to roll towards him when dodging, underneath the head. I know it looks more dangerous, but in my experience, the farther you're away, the weirder things he does.
- If he does the peck attack, he usually follows it with two more. If you dodge the first to the side, that's your best opportunity to heal or get hits in since he can't turn with you that fast while in that animation
- It can be bled for some reason. Takes quite a couple of hits, but it is possible for high-arcane characters.
- If you roll underneath it while it prepares for the grab, and dodge the death scream, he'll actually cancel out the entire animation. Be aware! You don't get free hits in cause he won't try to grab you and follows up almost instantly with whatever it feels like
- Whenever it flies, the lock can switch onto the head automatically. Instantly lock off when you see that! Once he starts flying, that'll make your camera goes absolutely crazy. Just freeaim, wait for it to attack and dodge right underneath him again to lock back onto the body.
- Holy is your friend here. If you use a faith character, you have a bit easier time
- Since its AOEs hit like a wrecking ball, group spirits aren't that effective. Most of them can't follow the bird's erratic movements, especially when it flies. Lhutel the headless stil does wonders and works as good as ever, but Latenna is also a powerful one you shouldn't ignore. Her being an automatic stationary turret can really help you out. All you need to do is attract aggro while Latenna unleashes her arrow sniper onto the bird

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****. THIS. BIRB.

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I hate this boss, it runs away, uses ranged attacks, has a weird hit box and simply enrages me.

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The more I play this game the less patient I have for bullshits like this, now when I see bullshit designs I just switch to range weapons, summon mimic tear and bullshit it right back. It's not fun to just click attack from a safe distance without worry about dodging and punishing with your ash tanking everything, but neither is having to deal with the bullshit lingering aoe damage that denies half of your punishing opportunity against a stupidly tanky boss whos attack have lingering damage effect and can two shot you, with a shitty camera gives you vertigo everytime the bird inevitably moves forward and you find yourself under its crotch.

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in the snowfield, not even the giant octopus wants a piece of the bird yet it will take on theodorix

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The Death Rite Bird's Explosive Ghostflame attack is, bar none, the single most damaging attack in the entirety of the Lands Between. No other foe has a single move capable of locking you down and killing you with not even the explosion itself, but the dribbling embers left behind by the attack afterward, covering huge, vast swathes of land.
No amount of armor, health, magic, or even the mighty Opaline Bubbletear can save you if you get caught in the early parts Explosive Ghostflame. Although, if you add in defensive aromatics, you might just have a chance...
If you dare to challenge a Death Rite Bird, keep one eye on the ground, and never step in its cold fire. Beware.
— Courh the Explorer

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Falling Star Beast Jaw +9 ash of war stun locked it until it was stunned for the riposte then heavy attack until it was dead.
It never even got an attack off.

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Halo Scythe and it's ash of war is great for dealing with these turds

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Armored Core mf

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Going against these guys as a pure melee fighter, they felt like possibly the single most powerful non-Malenia enemy in the game. Going against them as a faith/melee hybrid, they melt like butter.

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Worst thing about this fight is having to remember to pass time till nightfall at the grace each time you die. Tedious garbage.

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Shouldn't be tough at all for magic users. Loretta's greatbow can hit them from far enough away that if you keep kiting on horseback you shouldn't take a scratch.

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Everybody seems to be worried about the Consecrated Snowfield one, but I think people are stuck too much in their own builds. I'm not very good at this game, but I hit it with a few Sacred Blade AoWs and it went down no problem. Seriously, the first one hit its head and did 7k damage. 50 faith, 40 strength, Knight Greatsword+25.

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Consecrated snowfield birb is SO f*cking overpowered.

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