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For me, Tragoth’s summon sign only appears when I kill the archer golem directly behind where it would normally be. Idk if this is happening to anyone else.

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The one outside Maliketh might be the most tanky enemy in the game. It has 3000hp more than the damn boss. What were they thinking?

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The one before Maliketh is harder than Maliketh himself. I only managed to kill with scarlet rot.Draconic sentinel attacks non stop and hits like truck.

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Farum azula one is impossible to beat without mods, or ridiculously high levels. Just run past it.

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Is anyone else having problems with the one in Azusa spamming fireballs or is it a bug? Or just evil game design.

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not too fond of being shot at with fire loogies when i’m trying to f*cking heal.

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Light roll makes these guys infinitely easier, no more getting caught by a fireball hitting the ground next to you or by the lightning strike because you were 0.001 second off.

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i absolutely despise the one on the bridge.

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This is a hard bos. Not hard like "holy **** i hate this" but hard like "next time I'll win it", at least for me. If you're having trouble melee, just get on Torrent and do swings every now and then. Should be easy to interrupt most of his attacks with a colossal weapon (I recommend Zweihander, incredible on horseback), and on the horseback you should be able to dodge most of his ranged attacks using the dash in the right timing.

Not a cheese strat, but if you wanna have some fun

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I combined the mixed flask with infinite FP and increased magic damage with a continuous cast of comet azur and took this guy down in one uninterrupted shot. He didn't have time to get within 20m of me. I only used it on the one on the bridge because he has to come at you in more or less a straight line, and there's a site of grace so close, you can hit him and then go and reload your flask before you go fight the boss.

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This would be one of the easiest bosses in the game id its hitboxes were properly meshed

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Not sure if anyone but me was wondering this, but the one outside Leyndell does not despawn if you bypass them by defeating Fia's Champions.

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Everywhere on the freaking internet says this guy is weak to rot but I haven't been able to proc it once with an antspur rapier. I even got him down to basically 25% hp with pathetic 100 damage swings and managed to proc bleed THREE TIMES with my offhand rapier but still he didn't care about rot. What the **** is my problem?

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the poison mist cheese still works on patch 1.08, also the wording on the cheese is confusing. a better description would be the tree sentinel’s left, closer to the cliff

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Can someone explain to me how I did 1800 poison build up on this guy, and somehow it didn't proc? I shot 30 poison arrows at him as fast as possible and poison didn't activate at all.

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It's basically impossible to avoid the lightning shield attack, no matter whether you roll a bit before or after he pulls the shield. Even with high lightning resistance and lightning buff, I'm 2 shot by it (the one from Farum Azule). And why the **** Fromsoft gives us all those Spirit Ashes if we can't summon them just when we most need them.

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Had no trouble killing him the first time I encountered this boss. But maybe I was just overleveled with LV 75? Anyways I used Bloodflame/Blackflame Blade with Godslayer Seal +14 and the Cross Naginata +15 with the multipe thrust Ashes of War.

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For the Crumbling Farum Azula DTS

Using Scorpion's Stinger+9 with Str 26 and Dex 28, med load
Exploit the initial alert animation's length to land as many hits as you can to proc scarlet rot, roll *forward* as the horse winds up w/ lock on so you can get more stabs in (you'll be staring right at the horse's ass). When the pink cloud appears, just start kiting him all over the bridge. Don't even bother trying to attack while the DoT is draining his health. When the horse starts spamming flame, it seems for me that I have a better chance to avoid by rolling to the right. If they get too close, you have to very, very carefully time your rolls. Lock on and roll *in* to the sentinel, not away.

You have a couple options here:

1. Let the DoT shave off a few thousand HP while dodging around and staying engaged in the fight, and reapplying the DoT when it expires;

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2. Wait a bit, then run back down the stairs - the reason one might do this is that if you time it right so that the DoT wears off as you go back to the site of grace, he'll actually go back to a peaceful state and resume his patrol, which means you can sneak up behind him to land more hits for another proc. He starts the same winding up / rearing up animation again. Apparently his memory is short. Keep in mind some of his attacks (like lightning) can still hit you when you're out of his line of sight until he disengages, even underneath.

Also, for his ranged lightning attack, he'll raise his shield up (a la fist pumping motion) -- when he brings it down, the lightning strikes. If you roll *just before* the shield comes down, 99% of the time you can dodge it completely.

Hope this helps!

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He’s a pretty cool boss. I don’t understand why everyone complains about it being difficult? He ain’t THAT bad. There’s way worse bosses. His attacks are very telegraphed and easy to dodge on foot. Ranged horseback combat is borderline cheese, and if you can’t get good he’s probably the most cheeseable boss in the game with a bunch of strats

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Ah ef me! This field boss is massively hard. I've tried icerind axe+9 (hoarfrost stomp), death's poker+9 (ghostflame ignition), wing of astel+9(nebula), rock sling, carian retaliation, flame of the redmanes (was able to get him down to half with this)... I was not successful. I had to do the cheese, get in behind, save and quit, and poison mist. I did feel a little guilty and when I got close to finishing him off, use hoarfrost stomp to do so, but 95% of the work was with poison mist. took about 2 flasks and 15-20 minutes.

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The move I hate the most is probably his ****ing horse shooting fireball he does it non stop and the ****ing lighting charge attack is bullshit the timing is so broken

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Or you could completely cheese it by sneaking behind him and using poison mist up his arse

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If you're going close range / melee, the best advice I saw was to roll toward his shield side. Got him on my first attempt using that method.

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Gets wrecked by the Rotten Stray spirit ash

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Just did it, took me about 10 tries about 6 where I got him between 5% health because I'm bad at the game but Cipher Pata and Oleg shred him at capital outskirts, didn't use the other NPC summons, my gear was the +6 Cipher and lightning defense, don't use torrent for the fight only use him to rush close, jump off then stick close and pour it on him. My main limitation in this fight was stamina, with the amounts of damage you are doing aggro is easily split between you and your summon, if you have aggro then kite at a distance while healing/stamina recharging, the horse will try fireball you which lets your summon get hits in, if your summon draws aggro and you are fully charged and healed then get in there, stack the damage and redraw aggro.

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The lightning strike appears to only hut you if you're on the ground.

I was using the weapon art on the Bolt of Gransax with makes you float for a moment, and his lightning strike was not hitting me at all.

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It is possible to kill the one in Crumbling Farum Azula from the balcony behind the Godskin Duo arena. He still has the red lightning attack, which will get you once or twice as you sprint back down the corridor, but by taking one or two shots at a time, and healing with the Blessed Dew talisman... it's slow but I did it.

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Cheese Crumbling Farum Azula:
-Run to boss door and close game
-Reload and the knight starts patrolling forward. He will stop permanently after reaching a short distance from where he spawned
-Now you can sneak up behind and cast pestilent mist

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for the one in farum azula assassin's gambit + crepus' vial and hug the wall, wait for him to stop walking and he wont turn around, cast poison mist

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Struggling with this boss but good at parrying? Try to lure him to his right until you hit the edge. You should be next to the wall. 2 attacks can be reliably parried. 1st, his his jump. He will do it if you run like 5 feet away for him, and 2, his fast and slow slash. He will lift his thing above his head and slam it down. His fast happens if you stay at his side, and the slow will happen if he does a combo to his side. At the end he will do the slow. parry him and attack. It launches him back a bit. You cannot repost, but it will send him flying back can send him off the edge. if you are not good at parrying him, practice parrying him or stagger him to hit him off the edge.

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doesn't count as an attack my ass. If i'm not up against him the poison doesn't take effect.

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Got him witn Npc furled finger, +12 brick hammer and lightning strike from behind while npc distracted him

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i just want the duelist helm for a rl30 strength build fashion and i'm being gatekept from leyndell by this dude with his lingering hitboxes straight out of dark souls 2

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Never attack more than once in a row, and try to roll/sprint to his shield side whenever you can. His shield hits just as hard as his weapon, but he doesn't combo it as fast or long.

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Perfect example of the **** boss design this game has. Combos that never stop, godlike tracking and input reading if you try to even think about healing.

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For anyone using the jar cannon with the Arrow's Reach talisman, you could snipe him from the Dragon Temple Altar ledge with the banished knight looking towards the bridge. Just gotta make sure you dodge his fireball and lightning attacks when he notices you, he only performs these once per aggro.

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Flame of the Redmanes stagger him quite well. After that I threw rocks at his face once he hit second phase.

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The one in Farum Azula seems to be immune to scarlet rot.

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pulley crossbow, rotbone bolt, 3 or 4 bursts, 5 at most depending distance proc scarlet roc, retreat enough to lose aggro, but keep an eye on him, watch his health fade away, rinse and repeat
incredibly cheesy, but he DEMANDS to be when he spams homing fireballs at distance, to both heal punish, and destroy you, or face lighting AoE and/or stunlock strikes when in melee

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Rock sling and some luck got me through the fight with the Crumbling Farum Azula sentinel.

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Give me your armor, weapons and steed.
...A couple of seconds later. You can have your hammer back.

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I have tried different tactics, but the one that was by far the easiest for me was an STR build. Level 100, 25 Vigor, 27 Endurance, 74 Strength. A Heavy Brick Hammer+25 with Wild Strikes. Went close, engaged Wild Strikes, and saw his life melt rather quickly. Also, Ritual Sword Talisman.

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You dont beat him, he lets you beat him

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way too many melee attempts... boosted int w/ gear and just Coment Azure'd him down. Good ol' "open with a Kamehameha" strat

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Chadonic Chadree Chadinel

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You want to witness an actual canon? you've come to the right place. High damage high health and he actually shoots fireballs.

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So if you're bad like me and can't manage you can cheese the farum azula one just like the others. To sneak behind him buy assasins gambit hug the rail and he will walk forward half down the ramp. Once there just poison mist him for like 15 minutes. It's pathetic but gets the job done.

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After 6 fails on my faith build(no summons) I managed to almost no hit him quick casting wrath of gold, bring fp flasks... It's fast enough to dodge his stacks right after and packs a punch plus being on top of him I got fireballs only when I chugged a blue and 2 honing bolts from his shield, making him mostly melee

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Terrible hit boxes and a near undodgeable attack make this guy harder than he should be. Even the minibosses have some BS mechanics behind them, i swear the boss design in this game is so bad

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Hate this ****head taunting me with his red lightning weapons that don't do **** when I use them.

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I just find this really handy

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Where is the summon pool totem exactly?
I must have missed it but want to activate it so I can help others. I liked the fight and used Leyndell soldier ashes. They block continuously and the lances deal more damage.
Is the summon pool on the right side of the gate? In front of the elevated cupola area of the whole bridge construction that sits on the rock formation?

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Crumbling farum one gets affected with frostbite pretty easily and staggers after its applied twice

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Bruh the one in Crumbling Farum is harder than the actual story boss fight :/

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Crumbling Farum Azula: 28,080 Runes. Why? what the f-ck

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I always love big knight bosses with massive weapons that are somehow neither slow nor exhaustible. I swear this guy does not have an end to his ****ing comboes; no matter how many times he smashes his hammer into the ground, he somehow has the strength to smash it a 10th time right as I'm attacking. And if I don't attack he just dashes away. For a game based around posture breaking heavy enemies, they sure make it hard to actually do that where it matters.

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Were +2 hours fighting this gentleman, summoned somebody and we had him like at 15% health, then some "MrFrogman" with Albinauric
mask invades, does a reverence, use infinite fp comet azur and kills me, proceeds to inmediatly do a backflip animation and leaves

I was so f damn pissed off i rage uninstalled and start swearing all invasion system and Miyasaki's ancestors, then i just couldnt stop laughing be couse darn that was both the most stupid bs i have seen and the most funny thing i have seen in this game so far

MrFrogman, f you, you legend

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Note that in Leyndell if you use the summon Great Horned Tragoth for the fight you will be unable to use Torrent.

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Filthy spammer

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For the one at Leyndell, I first tried Lhutel, then switched to Warhawk. Lhutel, in hindsight, probably could have managed it. Once the spirit had his attention, I gave him a full blast of rotbreath, which it looked like he really enjoyed. Then I ran away for a bit until the spirit got his attention again, then gave him a full blast of the dragon frost. After that, I just ran around and tried to throw Black Flame at him. He eventually killed the bird, but I managed to lob a couple more Black Flames at him and finish him off. 50k runes.

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one of my favorite bosses in the game. always look forward to fighting them

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Found a pretty much guaranteed way to kill this guy. Go to Renala and Respec to 70int and the rest in mind. Equip the azur comet and staff. Put the hidden cerulean tear and bubble tear in your flask. Run towards the sentinel until you are just at range pop your flask and start casting comet azur. Hold until dead

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For the one at Crumbling Farm, just roll to the side when he uses his horses fireball and his lightning attack. Bait his charge attack. When he charges at you roll past him and immediately use GIANTSFLAME TAKE THEE. Rinse repeat. This fireball is too big for him to dodge and nails him every time. Any slower spells/attacks and you'll take it in the face. After you cast it just make sure to roll to the side as his horse will immediately shoot a fireball at you. Just for kicks I tried several different methods using different spells/skill that are NOT meta (RoB, Beast Jaw, ect) to see what works best and this was pretty simple.

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Just to make it clear for newbie players; just because it says the boss is strong against Bleed and Frost, it doesn't mean you can't use them. What the page actually wants to say is that the boss resists Bleed and Frost better than Poison and Scarlet Rot. So Bleed and Frost are still viable choices against this boss.

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I just learnt you can summon NPCs and ashes right after I cheesed him as a last resort :(

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Why does this guy have higher HP and better defenses than Morgott, the ****ing Demigod of the area he is guarding.

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homie, he really isn't that bad, just use the erdtree greatshield or carian retaliation.

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parrying makes this boss a joke..

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Use his fireball spam in your advantage. Get close when his horse starts the fireball spam. When you're close, dodge the fireball towards the horse and attack once (roll attack). Then time to roll backwards when the horse blast the ground. Wait until he fireballs you again. Repeat for free easy hits. It usually spam twice (fireball, ground blast, fireball, ground blast) allowing you to at least deliver 2 roll hits. However, sometimes it does that 4/5 times giving you a chance to hit him 5 times (depending on your stam).

Another tip. Avoid his lightning strike by staying relatively close to him. Not to close to get smashed but not far either. It is likely that he choose to fireball you rather than strike you with lightining. Probably he'll do that AoE lightining rain but you can just sprint away as soon as you see the ground getting red

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The page says the boss have 252 points of bleed resistance. I have two katanas each has 71 bleed. So am I not supposed to apply blood loss in 4 hits ? I'm only able to apply the bleed after 10+ hits.(All hits are consecutive and spammed fast without extra delay)
I would appreciate any help , would like to know if I'm missing out something. Thanks in advance.

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His finisher move is so damn cool. Very difficult to dodge though.

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Pure Caster “cheese”:
Land Squirt ashes +5, Millicent Summon, and Comet Azur

The squirts spawn near the wall, sneak in to crook behind them and to the left, Millicent will aggrieved while you spam Comet Azur. I got him to half heath before he even noticed me. Keep going until he heads your way. Once he is right on top of you roll along the wall past the squirts (towards the fog door). He will now be focused on the squirts. Finish him off with comet.
I am near level 100 but I suck so I consider it a win.

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didn't expect it but my +6 crystalian held great against him and distracted him a lot, made fight much easier

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I ****ing hate his lightning strike attack, the timing on it demands perfect dodging and it does absurd damage for how much the prick spams it, often multiple times in a row.

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I only got 37,500 runes on my first playthrough for the one at the capital outskirts

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Using Eleanor's poleblade +10 and Flame, grant me strength I managed to kill the one at farm azula. Its still a nightmare as it suddenly will hit you with a combo which you cannot predict. All his moves can be dodged but you have to completely learn all his moves otherwise he'll just murder you.

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I love this game, but why do they put bosses that are way too overpowered, in front of a major part of the game, and add nothing to the story

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Nooo this boss is bad
Haha horsey go pew-pew

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two cheeses, sneak behind him, use frost mist or poison mist on repeat until he dies, make sure to only redo the spell/incant once the effect wears off, otherwise it won't do anything and you've wasted fp. Don't use night maiden's mist for this cheese because she'll turn around and destroy you

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Ng+. Faram Azula. 56160 runes

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Carian Retalition significantly reduces the threat level of these guys. Parry him, parry his fireballs, it's so funny to deny him even if it doesn't open him up to a crit.

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Golden Havel on a horse with red lightning.

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Just no hit this guy first try thanks to a bleed build and maxed out mimic tear. I regret nothing.

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Im around level 90. have 40 str 25 faith 60 vigor. my buffed ar is ~750. For some reason my lightning negation is low to negative. Am I ready to whoop his ass now?

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His lightning attack isn’t difficult to dodge after you figure out the timing and same goes for the fireballs. I just used Millicent and Tragoth since I knew otherwise the fight would be going on for a while.

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ive been finding so many things that are wrong with the little guides when it says goldmask will move locations if you defeat the tree sentinel is wrong thats a error ive been finding alot of errors and alot of things the so called in depth guids dont even tell you ya this wiki needs so much work js not to mention all the items missing from the map

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This mob is embodiment of everything I hate about this game.

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"Optional only if the player progresses Fia's questline" is not actually true. You can fight the champions and use the eayvate to enter the capital from deep root regardless of doing Fia's quest or not. Source: never let her hug me.

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Really fun to have a boss that punishes you if you're close, punishes you if you're far away, and punishes you if you're at a nice medium distance...

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"154 poison 252 bleed" my ass. 12 mists to poison and by the time bleed procced the first time the dude was already at half hp.

I died more times to this guy than both bosses of the area.

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Gives 46k runes on NG+1

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I hate his horse's fireballs. Everything else was tolerable. Very hard to just exist at mid-range while he makes you strafe out of the way constantly.

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one of those bosses besides black blade kondred that hit like a truck
sooooo much damage that every hit is worth of flask

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when he does the lightning wave just jump

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What helped me a lot was learning to Golden Parry (just) the running attack. Relatively easy to time. I'd follow up with a jumping strong attack (hammer style) and try to poise-break him. If successful, fully charged strong attack + jumping attack.

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Becomes immune to poison after reaching 2/3 of his health with poison

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Took about 10 tries before I beat him last night. I finally decided to use Spirit Jellyfish +5 after trying the other ashes and having them all die quickly, and Trogoth to help keep aggro (both of them were good at it) He couldn't bombard me from afar too much before I could close in like the first several times I faced him (having 8 crimson tear flasks helped allowing me to survive, as even with 40 vigor, some of his attacks took me all the way down to 30% health. I did have rotten breath, but my seal was only +11 when I faced him (afterwards, I found the a remaining +4 smithing stone that got me up to +14).

Now if only I could beat the Tree Sentinel duo on the entrance to the capital outskirts coming in from the Altus Junction site of grace....

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i dont see how people cant dodge the homing bot attack, all you have to do is dodge the second his sheild goes down its like nito’s sword dance move from darksouls. Act as though that action is attacking you directly dont focus on the lightning. Works every time.

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I find that moving to his shield side makes them way easier to fight. They still hit hard as hell though.

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Absolutely idiotic boss. Everything is fine except for the homing bolt that is basically impossible to dodge and one shots you. Can't believe this move made it into the final game

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