Death Rite Bird

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Locations & Drops

Academy Gate Town:
7,800 runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 Runes (NG)
5,850 runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 Runes (NG, Co-op Host)
1,950 runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 Runes (NG, Co-op Phantom)

Other Drops:
Ancient Death Rancor

Caelid:
15,00 runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 Runes (NG)

Other Drops:
Death's Poker

Mountaintops of the Giants:
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 77,000 (NG)
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 57,750 (NG, Co-op Host)
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 19,250 (NG, Co-op Phantom)

Other Drops:
Death Ritual Spear

Apostate Derelict:
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18220,000

Other Drops
Explosive Ghostflame

Strong VS
Immune to
Weaker to

Death Rite Bird is a Field Boss  in Elden Ring. These skeletal bird-like creatures are found throughout the lands between, usually at night. These are optional bosses as players are not required to defeat them in order to advance in Elden Ring, but they do provide useful items and Runes upon defeat. Unlike their weaker cousins the Deathbirds, they have a full set of wings and wield powerful ghostflame magic.

 

 In the time when there was no Erdtree, death was burned in ghostflame. Deathbirds were the keepers of that fire. The birds are graveyard fire keepers; it is said they rake out the ashen remains of the dead from their kilns.

Where to find Death Rite Bird in Elden Ring

Death Rite Bird can be found in:

 

Death Rite Bird Combat information

Negations (or Absorptions)

The negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.

Elden Ring Death Rite Bird Boss Guide

 Death Rite Bird Fight Strategy

The Best Tips for Death Rite Bird:

  • Holy Water Pots can take advantage of its weakness to Holy damage and the pots' inherent 400% damage bonus against undead icon 40px Undead enemies to do massive damage even at low Faith
  • The Sacred Blade skill is another great way for non-Faith builds to do Holy damage
  • Use Fallingstar Beast Jaw's skill, Gravity Bolt, when locked onto the Death Rite Bird's head to quickly break its stance
  • Blind spots include right under the Death Rite Bird or behind it, but ghostflame can limit even these locations
  • Be careful when locking onto its head, as it moves around quickly and can easily disorient you. It's a good idea to only lock onto its head when you're actively trying to attack it, and otherwise stay locked on its body
  • Stay on foot by default, and only get on Torrent briefly to evade specific attacks. A Death Rite Bird can leap a great distance, and the reach on its poker is long enough to clip you even when you're running at full speed on Torrent. The passive damage from its ghostlfame will also knock you off your horse quickly. Even ranged players should try to stay just outside the range of its swings, and keep the flexibility to dodge out of the way when it attacks
Melee Users

Stay close to its hind legs, time your dodges, and get a few swings in after every attack. Don't get greedy and attack more than a few times.

O Holy Fight: Because Death Rite Birds are both undead icon 40px Undead and weak to Holy damage, melee builds with high Faith will have a particularly easy time defeating them. The Order's Blade sorcery is easy to get and will give your weapon a tremendous damage boost against this boss.

Magic and Ranged Users

Many of its abilities can one-shot you if you don't have high HP. Many more deal ghostflame chip damage even if you block, or cause lingering ghostflame that deals damage over time across a wide area. Between this and its ability to close distance rapidly and attack again even as you dodge, it's difficult to find an opportunity to safely attack from a distance. The lingering ghostflame also makes it difficult to stay in the safer areas behind them and near their feet. Play cautiously, focus on survival, and only get in attacks when you're confident you can do so safely.

It's Litany: For Faith-based magic builds, Litany of Proper Death will make short work of this fight. Because Death Right Birds are both undead icon 40px Undead and weak to Holy damage, it will do a whopping 1400% extra damage. Just be aware that it will only work when the Death Rite Bird is touching the ground, so time the incantation carefully.

 

Death Rite Bird Attacks & Counters

Attack Description Counter
The Death Rite Bird shares most of its attacks and counters with the Deathbird. Be aware that most of these attacks do additional magic damage and inflict Frostbite.
Flying Sweep Flies up and then back down in a corkscrew motion before swinging its poker clockwise Run towards it and dodge when you see it tuck its hand towards its body
Flying Swing Flies into the air briefly and then dives down, swinging its poker counterclockwise Roll forward once you see its hand become level with its body
Ghostflame Ignition (Burst) Summons an orb of ghostflame as part of its normal Stab or Jab attack, then slams its poker down on this orb creating a devastating ghostflame explosion. Uses this instead of Ghostflame Ignition (Trail) when you're close by after a Stab or Jab Roll forward to avoid the explosion and use the opportunity to land a hit
Ghostflame Ignition (Trail) Summons an orb of ghostflame as part of its normal Stab or Jab attack, then swings its rod clockwise to send a trail of ghostflame towards you. Uses this instead of Ghostflame Ignition (Trail) when you're far away after a Stab or Jab Dodge to the side, or just run sideways if you notice the orb in time
Spearcall Ritual Flies away backwards, then spreads its wings wide, releasing dozens of spears to rain down upon you. Each spear is telegraphed by a glowing white circle on the ground. More spears land in a denser formation closest to the bird and at the beginning of the attack, while they are more spread apart the further away they get and as the attack goes on When you see the Death Rite Bird flying away, get on Torrent and ride away, give it a chance to do Ancient Death Rancor, then come back and dismount
Ancient Death Rancor Hunches down on the ground, then sends dozens of ghostflame feathers flying towards you. The feathers have decent tracking Sprint sideways and dodge any incoming feathers that happen to be in your path. Getting hit by any feathers can stagger you, causing you to get hit by subsequent feathers
Explosive Ghostflame Holds its poker upright, charging it, then slams it into the ground imbuing the ground nearby with lingering ghostflame Maintain a medium distance away from the bird and then avoid the ghostflame on the ground. Ranged players can use the charge-up time to get in a few hits

Death Rite Bird Lore, Notes & Other Trivia

  • The Ravenmount Assassins worship these creatures, modeling their armor after them.

Death Rite Bird Combo Chart

death rite bird combo chart


Death Rite Bird

Academy Gate Town

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Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 187,800
Ancient Death Rancor
HP 6,577

Elden Ring Death Rite Bird Boss (Academy Gate Town)

  • This is an optional boss
  • Closest Site of Grace: Gate Town North
  • Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
  • You cannot summon Spirit Ashes for this boss

Death Rite Bird Location

Just south of the Gate Town North Site of Grace. As with most Death Rite Birds, it only appears at night. [Map Link]

Death Rite Bird Combat information

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 6,577 9,727 10,699 11,186 11,672 12,645 13,131 13,617
Defense 110 118 120 123 129 135 141 153
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 7,800 23,400 25,740 26,325 28,080 28,665 29,250 29,835

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison Immune
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 539 / 829 / 1286 272 / 562 / 1019 276 / 566 / 1023 280 / 570 / 1027 284 / 574 / 1031 288 / 578 / 1035 292 / 582 / 1039 296 / 586 / 1043
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage Immune
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite Immune
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

Death Rite Bird

Caelid

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Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 1815,000
Death's Poker
HP 7,952

Elden Ring Death Rite Bird Boss (Caelid)

  • This is an optional boss
  • Closest Site of Grace: Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank
  • Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
  • You cannot summon Spirit Ashes for this boss

Death Rite Bird Location

Across the path to the southeast of the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank Site of Grace. As with most Death Rite Birds, it only appears at night. [Map Link]

Death Rite Bird Combat information

  • Health: 7,952 HP
  • Defense: 111
  • Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 1815,000, Death's Poker
  • Above the gate on the road to Sellia, there is a pot-throwing Troll. If you bait the Death Rite Bird into the range of the Troll, the pots it throws deal a significant amount of damage

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 7,952 11,617 12,778 13,359 13,940 15,102 15,682 16,263
Defense 111 118 121 124 129 135 141 153
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 15,000 45,000 49,500 50,625 54,000 55,125 56,250 57,375

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison Immune
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 543 / 833 / 1290 581 / 871 / 1328 589 / 879 / 1336 598 / 888 / 1345 607 / 897 / 1354 615 / 905 / 1362 624 / 914 / 1371 633 / 923 / 1380
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage Immune
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite Immune
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

Death Rite Bird

Mountaintops of the Giants

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Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 1877,000
Death Ritual Spear
HP 16,059

Elden Ring Death Rite Bird Boss (Mountaintops of the Giants)

  • This is an optional boss
  • Closest Site of Grace: Castle Sol Main Gate
  • Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
  • You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss

Death Rite Bird Location

From the Castle Sol Main Gate Site of Grace, head west and take the path up to the plateau. Alternatively, from the Snow Valley Ruins Overlook head west and take the path down. Either way, the Death Rite Bird is on the middle ledge between the lower and upper levels. Unlike other Death Rite Birds, it appears even during the day. [Map Link]

Death Rite Bird Combat information

  • Health: 16,059 HP
  • Defense: 118
  • Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 1877,000, Death Ritual Spear
  • Use the terrain to your advantage. There's a valley near the arena. Move between the top and bottom of it to exploit the horizontal limits of its relatively flat hit-boxes. If it's either significantly above or below you, most of the physical components of its attacks will miss, making it much easier to deal with its area-of-effect attacks and get in hits. If you get a good summon out before you engage, take it slow, and quickly move to keep it on a different level from you, this becomes a significantly easier fight

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 16,059 16,187 17,805 18,615 19,424 21,043 21,852 22,661
Defense 118 118 121 124 130 136 142 154
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 77,000 154,000 169,400 173,250 184,800 188,650 192,500 196,350

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison Immune
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 565 / 855 / 1312 580 / 870 / 1327 588 / 878 / 1335 597 / 887 / 1344 606 / 896 / 1353 614 / 904 / 1361 623 / 913 / 1370 632 / 922 / 1379
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage Immune
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite Immune
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

Death Rite Bird

Apostate Derelict

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Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18220,000
Explosive Ghostflame
HP 17,625

Elden Ring Death Rite Bird Boss (Apostate Derelict)

  • This is an optional boss
  • Closest Site of Grace: Apostate Derelict
  • Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
  • You cannot summon Spirit Ashes for this boss

Death Rite Bird Combat information

Found at the head of the frozen river, just southeast of the Apostate Derelict. As with most Death Rite Birds, it only appears at night. [Map Link]

Death Rite Bird Combat information

  • Health: 17,625 HP
  • Defense: 122
  • Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18220,000, Explosive Ghostflame
  • Use the terrain to your advantage. As soon as it spawns, you can ride Torrent up the pathway to the west of the river and stand on the cliffs above the Death Rite Bird, and will be completely out of range of all of its attacks. From here you can use ranged attacks to defeat it easily.

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 17,625 17,889 19,677 20,572 21,466 23,255 24,150 25,044
Defense 122 120 123 126 132 138 144 156
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 220,000 440,000 484,000 495,000 528,000 539,000 550,000 561,000

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison Immune
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 653 / 943 / 1400 565 / 855 / 1312 573 / 863 / 1320 581 / 871 / 1328 590 / 880 / 1337 598 / 888 / 1345 607 / 897 / 1354 615 / 905 / 1362
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage Immune
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite Immune
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

Death Rite Bird Image Gallery

 

 

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    • Anonymous

      Sacred Order Pots absolutely destroy these guys... (probably regular Holy Water Pots too).
      For the apostate derelict one, I spent forever on torrent firing haligbone arrows, only to realize after I ran out of arrows that a single pot did about 5x as much damage, and can be conveniently tossed from above

      • Anonymous

        Visually the coolest reoccuring boss in the game. The way they look, to how they spawn in, to their lore, and to their cool attacks, they are by far my favorite non-unique boss in Elden Ring. I wish there was more coldflame and death magic in the game.

        • Anonymous

          Holy tear n scorpion, golden epitaph wa > right hand tree spear wa > swap to right hand inseparable gs
          lock on the birbs head, fire sacred blade till it dies
          Tree spear got this buff applying to swapped weapon bug, abuse it while u can

          • Anonymous

            That fracking Death Chicken next to the mausoleum turtle that volleys tactical nukes on you is annoying as hell in consecrated snowfield area they aren't hard persey just tucking annoying

            • Anonymous

              The apostate one is absolutely cancer. Had to kill it using holy arrows from a safe hill thingy close to where this stupid trash and broken boss spawns.

              • Anonymous

                This fight is actually interesting for ranged fight because it can close distance easily and have frantic camera lock but you have torrent. So I have to get on torrent to widen distance, get off, lock to fire, unlock, get on torrent, escape, over and over again.

                • Anonymous

                  They really need to decrease the range of its Explosive Ghostflame. Especially the one at Caelid, with the terrible terrain.

                  • Anonymous

                    bad desing boos meh. very agile for a skeletal rotten body also his attacks dont let you take a breath especially in close range when you are under his head

                    • Anonymous

                      The other dudes were right. Just defeated the one at Consecrated Snowfield by using Sacred Blade on a Sacred Great Stars +18. My build is nowhere near optimized for holy damage because it is a bleed STR/ARC build, so it has barely any Faith. Sacred Blade still wrecks it especially if you target the head, and since Great Stars is a strike weapon, I also used some jump R2s for good measure. Even managed to get a cinematic finish with a crit.

                      Staying in melee range also means he doesn't spam his AOEs of tarnished doom as much. I think I only needed to use Sacred Blade 4 or 5 times in addition to some well timed jump R2s.

                      • Anonymous

                        Staff of Avatar help me to groudpound that chicken freeze bone in apostate derelict, still was rough because still I need to master the art of jump heavy attack.

                        • Anonymous

                          the one in apostate derelict killed himself due to fall damage, did the attack where he flies away and casts a rain of arrows from the sky, landed on the hill where the walking mausoleum is, then tried to do a plunging attack while i was on the frozen lake and got one-hit by fall damage

                          • Anonymous

                            The power of the Golden order compels you ill omened creature! For I, zooteddauby will extinguish thy cold flame.

                            • Anonymous

                              Your biggest advantage against these things is the fact you're fighting in open terrain, meaning YOU set the battlefield. Do not be an idiot, Elden Ring isn't Dark Souls, this isn't a You VS Boss-10-by-10-battle arena-duke it out till you win scenario. Get on Torrent, climb on top of ledges, find strategic positions and then Holy Pot that mf in its heads. The game designers made the game with those intentions, stop trying to have an honorable swordfight with a ****ing berserk flying bird of death.

                              • Anonymous

                                Literally one of the sh*ttiest boss From has ever made. Has a rabid moveset, not to mention that the amount of damage these f*ckers deal is ridiculous. Have you seen the video where they put the one from Apostate Derelict against other bosses? It demolishes them.

                                • Anonymous

                                  There is also a death rite bird in storm hill that I don't see mentioned here. It appears on the ruin south east of warmaster's shack at night.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    ONE MISSING, there is one in limgrave close to the War Master shack, drops the Blue fethered branchsword talisman!!!!

                                    • Anonymous

                                      The Death Rite bird in Apostate Derelict is able to fall to his death if you can lure him onto the ledges while you're on your horse, he did this big dive move of the ledge to get to me and he 1 hit KO'd himself it was super funny

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Sacred Blade absolutely demolishes them, regardless of build. Even the one in Consecrated Snowfields took eight hits at most (don't remember the exact number). For reference, I play a Vagabond with a whopping 9 FTH. So yeah, use Sacred Blade. It's even applicable to any melee armament. Use it. I'm not goving you a choice.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          Somehow managed to kill it after ~8 attempts on my RL62 profile (43 vigor). I won't lie, I think it was mostly due to luck that I was able to get out of his AOE one-shot attack unscathed this time... BHF's unique skill's follow-up attack has I-frames and that too saved my butt a couple of times during the fight.


                                          Weapon: Bloodhound's Fang +4
                                          Buff: Golden Order
                                          Physick: Boost Holy Attack + Boost Faith
                                          Talismans: Immunizing Horn Charm, Two Fingers Heirloom, Marika's Scarseal

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Physick: Holy + Faith increase
                                            Talisman: Anything that increases holy damage and faith plus Shard of Alexander
                                            Weapon: Anything that can be imbued with Sacred Blade
                                            Buffs: Aforementioned Physick, Last Rite & Golden Vow
                                            On NG+6, I killed this tweety lookin bro using +24 shortsword with Sacred Blade in 3 hits.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              for melee users that not use holy dmg, the ones that are in snow area are hardest bosses of the game that ties with malenia just because of camera and stupid movement of the boss.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Ah, yes, yet another fight where melee builds have to choose between being able to hit the boss and being able to see what the boss is doing. It sure is fun dying to attacks you can't see!

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Just ran across this bad boy in Caelid for the first time, and the only good thing I can say about this boss is that it made me feel like less of an idiot for buying all of those cracked pots that I never use for anything. After about an hour of trying to beat it legit with the same wonky melee build I've used so far, I resorted to hopping on Torrent and chucking holy pots at it until it died. I regret nothing, and will do the same thing to every one of these I see, screw these guys.

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    I decided to get an early Death Poker, not knowing how much pain the boss will bring me. If you want to get it too, get Sacred Blade from Third Chruch of Marika and some fast weapon. When it comes to the bird itself, be agressive. It's close combat attacks are not as mental as the ranged ones.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Can I just say how ****ing dumb it is that you can lock onto its head instead of the body? If you're a melee character and get locked onto his head, it just massively screws with your camera because his head is a meter away from his body, so if you get too close your camera just swings around.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        For mage builds with no Faith investment, simply get above them and spam Nightmaidens Mist or Founding Rain of Stars. This works very well for the Caelid, Mountain tops and Apostate birds where they spawn below cliffs.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          I saved this guy for end game mop up, even then it took me a few tries, I started to get a bit frustrated so I decided to take his ass to church:
                                                          Golden order greatsword +9
                                                          Golden epitaph
                                                          Shard of Alexander
                                                          Two finger heirloom
                                                          Holy-shrouding cracked tear
                                                          Anything to raise poise

                                                          And any other holy boosters you feel are necessary...but honestly if your faith is at least 50 or so its only gonna take a few hits anyway.
                                                          Before the fight simply apply Last Rights with the G.Epitaph, pull out the greatsword and take a sip, get into position up close as he enters, spam him with 2-3 hits of Establish Order. Then move on from this terrible idea of a boss.

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            I am a death mage and I was having a lot of trouble with this fight up. How I beat it was I stayed on torrent and spammed Regal Omen Bairn item. I kept my distance and torrent made it easier to dodge his attacks. Hope this helps. Good luck!

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              If you're struggling with this miniboss, try the golden slam AOW on a weapon with the Holy Weapon incantation cast on it. Deals between 3-4000 with each cast. I personally used this combo on a butchers knife but will work on any weapon.
                                                              Also bonus points becuase you cannot be knocked out of the AOW animation.

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Pet theory: maybe From designed these as hybrid bosses, which are easier if you mix on-foot and mounted combat. Most of their moves are hard to double-jump over and easy to dodge if you're up close, but sometimes they hop away or charge huge AoEs/homing projectile swarms. Torrent's i-frames and closing/fleeing speed really helps in those situations, but most of the time you're better off hacking their legs.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  I'm actually quite enjoying my experience with Elden Ring. I'm on my 3rd playthrough and there are a lot of things I like about this game. But when I encounter Bosses like these Death Rite Birds... it just doesn't feel fun. Janky hitboxes, extremely high damage AOE combos that are super unintuitive and inconsistent to dodge, and let's not forget even after more than 10 years Fromsoft seems to not understand how to properly develop a camera that actually compliments the combat system and doesn't screw you over for using a fundamental mechanic of the game.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    There is another one in the cemetery between the Hermit Merchant's Shack and the Minor Erdtree close to Blackguard location, it drops the twinbird kite shield.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      These dudes gives mages absolutely zero openings in the no-summon spots, Super annoying to have to respect for a field boss.

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        The one near academy gate town is bugged. In two separate playthroughs now, it just randomly died while in the air. Like there’s some region up there that kills it instantly if it enters. It didn’t turn to day time while we were fighting either.

                                                                        It sucks, it’s a tough enemy and it usually kills me a couple times but then to just win like that. Unsatisfying.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          There's atleast one in the Altus Plateau, just East of a Hermit Trader. Funny enough, the same one that has the Bell Bearing hunter visit you at night.

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            I'll take these and the ulcerated tree spirits all day over those pesky runebears and overgrown crow birds. Haha.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              This boss makes me think that FromSoft forgot how to balance fights sometime in the last few years. What were they thinking giving something 15 times your size the ability to travel 30 meters in 5ms with 3 separate moves, one of which one shots you if you've less than 40 vigor?

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                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

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  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.

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    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

                                                                                    • 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

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        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.

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          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.

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            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.

                                                                                            • 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.

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  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)

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    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

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      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

                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                        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.

                                                                                                        • 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.

                                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                                            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.

                                                                                                            • Anonymous

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

                                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                                  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.

                                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                                    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.

                                                                                                                    • Anonymous

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

                                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                                        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.

                                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                                          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

                                                                                                                          • Anonymous

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

                                                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                                                              **** 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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