Dragonbarrow Cave | Elden Ring Wiki

Usually bears are wusses once you get a decent progression on your build. But not the Dragonbarrow One. Beware of the one from the Dragonbarrow Cave. He has whoopin' 18k HP and enough attack power to one or two-shot even the tankiest FINISHED builds. Not even Defensive Crystal Tears and full Bullgoat will save you. Also he is low-key a race car, so he might do his dash/jump attacks twice in a row and sometimes "drift".(a glitch in the AI???)

You should use 1 sleep pot and bypass him, unless you want to die pointlessly, since he only drops the insulting 6000 runes.

Ways to cheese this w@nker, assuming you still wanna fight him:
1. Blackflame and run the heck to safety. Rinse and repeat.
2. Stance-breaking ashes of war (I.E.: Impaling Thrust, Stormcaller, the Uppercut on Greatswords)
3. Comet Azur with Tera Magica and around 35-50 int. (Still recommended to use Sleeping pot here for the setup, or else you might get roadkilled)
4. Fire's Deadly Sin with a glitch (bloodflame blade buff on your weapon)
5. Sleeping Pot + Posion Mist (might take a while)

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Yup, that thing screams FOE from the very moment you first see it.

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There's a clear stealth route the second you walk into the place. I almost never skip enemies but I knew not to take that mf head-on after one hit. Stop shouting "game design" for a moment and just accept that you made a mistake

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1. Stand in the open area where you first saw the Bear.
2. Drop Terra Magica.
3. Throw a dagger at the Bear.
4. Right as the bear starts to charge you mmediately drop a charged Night Maiden's Mist.
5. Back up to the corner and onto the ledge so the Bear can't reach you..
6. Rinse and Repeat.
7. Pray it works for you as it did for me.
Good luck fellow tarnished

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"lesser" runebear

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LESSER Runebear eh?

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throw a sleep pot at the bear and it falls asleep immediately for about a minute. run and grab the bull goat talisman and leave or go complete the rest of the cave

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Bear Cave

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For as much fight as this bear puts up, it should at least drop 15,000 runes.

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worst placed to be summoned. host is usually dead before I hit the ground. host needs to activate and kite til coop can make it down to stop the add

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places like these make me question Fromsoft sometimes, who the hell designed this

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I hate this thing so bad. I cheesed the **** out of this guy with black flame and poison arrows and I'd do it again. There's nothing lesser about this guy at all.

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Between Rot, Poison, and Black Flame, the bear died somewhere around 18k health. No way you're expected to kill this thing. Just sneak by, grab what you can, and bail. Not worth it

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Effen rune bear can hit through the wall.

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Runebear is infinitely harder than the actual boss. Epic cave.

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This is the funniest place to invade. The host will keep resummoning new phantoms and throwing them in the meat grinder. The only way it could be any better would be if the runebear also regenerated flasks every time a summon dies. This one cave makes up for all of the elite gankers who 3v1 you in an open plain and then celebrate their amazing skill.

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This god forsaken monster or a bear could pick up radagon and squash him with one hand, I've beat every single great rune and felly beaten game, yet this bear does more damage then the elden beast its self

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lol Lesser Runebear more like Kevlar Runebear

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i just killed the runebear with comet azur, he had exactly 17631 hp, by comparison radahn has only 9,572 hp according to fextralife, what a beast. also he dropped 6629 runes, pretty solid farming spot.

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Wow, this place is a beautiful green oasis right underneath a putrid erdtree avatar. Even Caelid is getting gentrified these days.

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this vs. hermit shack bell bearing hunter

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at RL64 with 25 VIG and 53 STR the bear oneshots me (as expected) but the beastmen don’t (except maybe the jump slam but i havent gotten hit by that). Promising source of a not-too-hard 65,000 runes…

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Im so disappointed none of the early game guides I watched mentioned this;most of them took me through the area!
All you need is a sleep pot for the Runebear, and you can have fashion for your whole playthrough

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Yeah, the insane amount of health that bear has coupled with its insane damage output makes this a "sneak by" situation. Pretty sure the developers expected you to die a couple times and then realize, it's just not worth it. Hence, all the shrubbery to hide in.

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Rune bear leviable

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Just had an epic fight with the Rune Bear, during which a deer got killed by the crossfire down a side cave. After hoovering up all the materials I came across a lone deer standing solemnly next to the it's fallen kin. For some strange reason this touched me and I was filled with a feeling of solemn pity.

The moment passed as I pancaked the ever-loving **** out of it, then I looted it and it's stupid dead deer mom's body.

The circle of life continues... some how.

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There’s a hole above you at the grace but there’s no hole to jump down from the cliff above the cave plus the cliff is way higher up than the hole would suggest lol

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"Lesser" rune bear :
* night maiden mist, no armor to lighten load. 3 tries using 8 castings. Killed by the phase-shifting bear that defies the laws of conservation of mass. Claws through the wall???

* St.Trina's arrow x2. Dying noise (might make a ringtone for aggravating callers, passing thought). After action report: 2 arrows in the face, no effect except player demise.
I watched the two arrows used again and the bear shook and launched. 2 more arrows and it walked off like it took a xanax. 4 arrows =apathy status effect.
Found the first location, the almost Disney -like appearance was horrifying at this point in the game. It...was....pretty. We both assumed that this signaled some strange insta-kill by a rot-venom deer that breathed fire.
The bear wandered laconically about until the player is spotted with its infra vision and it teleported to kill.
This is the follow up after being repeatedly reduced to protein chains by the putrid avatar. Since that was an utter failure, this cave was next.

After a lot of hours of me researching and mapping, reading posts and my husband losing runes to the deadly enemies in this game like the dragonfly, I have to say that this is not logical in it's difficulty. It could turn making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a reason to don plate armor with a kevlar gambison knowing you will get one shotted by bleed build up on the paper towel.
I'm waiting for the fun part....

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How are you gunna have a enemy in a dungeon that is harder than the boss of said dungeon. This one bear is stronger than every enemy in this dungeon combined. It was not worth the 8k runes to kill this monstrosity

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Lvl 160 +25 Greatsword. I was killing enemies like pieces of cake in farum azula, haligtree and mountaintop. But the RuneBear almost made my sword look like a puny stick with the amount of pathetic damage it dealt on him

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The bear won't fit in the little room where you can jump down to get to the bosses. If you hide in there you can hit him with just about anything fairly safely, but if you get too close his breath attack and claws can hit you. 17k runes in NG+1!

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Oh, a Runebear? Time for Crab.

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the load screen when loading into this cave is about 2x the length of other load screens. anyone know why?

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A RuneBear could beat Malenia.
Just saying.

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The classic Kamehameha routine didn’t phase this Bear so I spammed it with Terra Magica-enhanced Moonveil slices until it died. Only bothered because it had glowing eyes and I sensed a large amount of runes coming my way. Burned trough 4 Cerulean Flasks though, and just snuck by it after a refill.

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idk about anybody else but my xsx was laggy af in this cave. especially when anything roared

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That piece of sh*t bear has 17500HP in case you were wondering.

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Dragonbearrow Cave.

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At this point, might as well have a "Let Me Solo Bear" just to fight that furry ****

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I hate those bears, "lesser" rune bear? my arse its "lesser" there is nothing "lesser" about how quickly those things can kill a fairly high levelled player. It just goes to show again that the die hard From Software fans are full of sh*t when they say "the soulsborne games are hard, but never spitefully hard" every From game I've played up to now has something somewhere that is an obvious F-you to the players from the developers. I'm not sure why, but Elden Ring seems to have more of those F-you from the developers than any of the other From games I've played. Everything from these bears, dungeons where the boss room is filled with water that inflicts the scarlet rot status effect and has TWO cleanrot knights as the boss fight, weapons that have scaling you wouldn't expect them to or they need heavy investments in INT to be worthwhile or some other stat that will make them worthless to some builds or play styles, trying to get to murkwater cave for Margit's shackle is harder for low level players than Margit himself is, I died many more times to Nerijius than I did Margit, Impaler's catacomb where the boss is a burial watchdog with half a dozen imps helping him again harder than both bosses in stormveil combined, and its a legacy dungeon. There's more as well but I think that makes my point.

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I wonder about using the Mimic's Veil here - Do you turn into a giant salmon? I can see Fromsoft going that route. At this point, nothing surprises me...

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The layout of this cave can be very confusing, especially because of that stupid bear. What you don't realize up front is that the path to the boss is near the entrance, walk in and turn right (like a hard J-turn). Behind a rock is an opening where you can jump down, wolves are at the bottom, but you can jump over/run past them to get to the boss. So much easier than getting mauled by an over-levelled bear looking for the path.

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Getting 6k runes from that bear is almost insulting with how much work goes into its death, even at level 100+.

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How to kill the bear easily...First use bloodflame blade on any weapon, even one that isn't leveled. Next, use Fires Deadly Sin. Then fight the bear but just focus on blocking and dodging. The fire from Fires Deadly Sin for some reason is effected by your weapon buff and will prog whatever you have on youre weapon (poison, frost, bleed) So all you have to do is stand near the bear and every few seconds he will burst with blood damage and die pretty quickly. This has been my go to cheesing move for when im just annoyed with some of the area mobs or some big bastard like that bear.

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Does anyone else feel like Jurassic Park when one of these starts chasing you down or is that just me?

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I hit this guy with so much rotten breath and he was still going. Like 9 flasks of cerulean tears worth of rot breath and he barely died.

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2 St. Trina's Arrows put that annoying bear to sleep. Good riddance.

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The bear must have fallen out of the Haligtree one day and wandered into Dragonbarrow because he is at least 50 levels stronger than anything else here.

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+10 Moonveil with a heavy Transient Moonlight did around 5% of the bear's health. :skull:

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16k hp runebear moment. Killing it should unlock quick travel for the cave.

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This bear probably killed more tarnished than Melania.

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I usually kill everything I see but this bear is the first enemy in the cave and made me use 8 flasks to kill it so ofc I'm gonna refill. I'm like damn that was crazy no way it'll respa- F*k this bear im sneaking past it

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They put a respawning bear in here with more health than the surrounding bosses. Why? Just why.

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"The one with the Throwing Knife will remain at a distance and shouldn't prove too troublesome" This is a lie

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For anyone having trouble at lower levels doing the boss:
You can use sleep arrows on the greatsword one and put it to sleep, meanwhile take out the weaker and annoying one, and soon as you're done with it it's just another fight like the one you were met at Groveside Cave. Good luck.

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I had no issue with gelmir heros grave, auriza was okay until the boss and im sure ill get it eventually, the mirror image dungeon was cool tbh, this cave is frickin brutal . i am convinced that the devs expect everyone to go around runebears instead of fighting them because they are insane everywhere. I had full buffs on a +7 bolt of gransax , did 1700 damage on a sneak attack which was a record for me, and i would have to do that like 11 more times to beat that damn bear. So I sneak by the bear and bait a few wolves, kill them, throw a volcano pot at the white one, a third wolf shows up behind me and knocks me down and i get one shot the last 70% of my HP by the white boy. Imma keep at it but damn what level is this place?

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The runebear is harder than the actual boss

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"Lesser" Runebear lol

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Bear has roughly 18000hp

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came here level 40 as a sorcerer with 700 health, saw the bear, decided to fight it, hit him and dealt like 2 damage, got instantly one shot and left. I learned a valuable lesson.

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Just let the "Lesser" Runebear grab you
He'll probably clip through the floor

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the bushes don't work :(

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the bear is the true elden lord

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the bear is the true elden lord

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Got summoned here and for some reason the host decided we had to kill that bear. It took longer than most boss fights. And he immediately died to the real boss after making me wait outside the fog gate for a few minutes because he couldn't figure out why I wasn't following.

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Killed this bear. Took 3 full applications of Scarlet Rot, 1 full application of Deadly Poison, and ~3000 more damage.

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Weirdly, I got the bear first try without a sweat, but the white wolf later on did me nasty

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For melee characters, the knife thrower has a habit of leaping back after the second throw and hitting you with a third offhand throw while he leaps. The best way to catch him is to roll into the first throw and attack him before/during the second throw, catching him during an animation so he can’t escape.

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why doesn't this bear simply become elden lord

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The bear is so much stronger than the boss of this cave even stronger than bosses from other areas, ridiculously bad game design with ER

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The Runebear legit has more than 16k HP. Got him after 3 casts of Rotten Breath. This enemy ain't even meant to be fought except by cheesing or running past him. Spare your sanity and just use Poison or Scarlet Rot from the corner of the room, where there's a narrow passage leading to a hole. Hug the left wall to avoid his ranged roar attack.

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Sneak doesn’t work on the Rune bear. Tried staying still sneaking in tall grass and the mf just sees right through it somehow. Wtf

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You're definitely meant to stealth past that Moonbear, it's ridiculously overtuned, but kill it anyway.

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The runebear grabbed me and then fell through the floor and died lol

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The bear literally has more health and does more damage per hit than Malenia. For no reason.

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Sleep pot the great sword batman, take out the dagger one with magic, stab great sword guy in the head, finish the job 1v1. Easy game.

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13000 Hp bear

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You can use stealth in the boss room. The great sword beast man doesn’t respond quickly, I was able to land and hit the second beast man with magic from range and kill him without aggroing the first.

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Aside from the Rune Bear, the one White Wolf at the bottom before boss does a LOT of damage.

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Fromsoft has a funny sense of humor. The bear has more health than both bosses and is arguably more dangerous, it is rediculously over leveled for it's area.

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The Runebear is almost as hard to kill at level 56 as margitt is at level 9

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It seems like the bear will stop running after you (he's still aggro tho) when below 50% health making it easy to finish him with ranged attacks

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folks let me tell you, this is the BEST place to invade.

I have been invading this spot all damn day and using mimic veil to pretend to be some boxes or better yet a patch of grass

and when the host and his boys inevitably fight mr. bear, I get to roll-catch and snipe

I think I've killed probably 80% of my invasions today lol

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Meleeing the runebear might unironically make the top 3 hardest encounters in the game, especially around level 55 with a +9 greataxe.

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That Rune Bear is a mama-bear. She's buffed by her will to protect whatever is in that cave. I'm wearing the full set of Tree Sentinel armors, except for the helmet which is the Navy Hood and ALSO have the Dragoncrest Shield Talisman +1 equipped (Greatly boost physical damage negation). My resistance is 130 + 40 in average and her launch attack is killing me in 1 hit with full health at 25 Vigor (800 HP)

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dunno why they put the boss in the first room

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Bloody helice seemed to take the bear out effectively

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Can't bear this.

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Can't bear this.

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Can't bear this.

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the bear here can probably become elden lord with ease <_<

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The runebear has around 18-20k HP.

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The runebear has around 18-20k HP.

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This one bear is stronger than Radahn.

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Sleep status effect works on the bear. Sword of St. Trina puts it to sleep with three hits.

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i legit didn't know the bear WASN'T the boss, i melee'd him with my Big Sword that hits for like 700 dmg and it took a long ass time. when i didn't get the Enemy Defeated i was astounded, that guy is way beefier than the ones in the field. i found the other passage afterwards and ended up fighting the two beasty boi's with just 1 health pot, still won. they were a breeze compared to that massive lad. Bear God Cave.

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this place is legit bullshit tier compared to everything else around it.

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The Rune Bear at the entrance is the actual dungeon boss. If you don't want need the Bull-Goat's Talisman just take a right at the bear.

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Use Poison against the Bear, it helps.
Craft darts for quick usage.

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the bear was harder than anything else in the cave, idk why it has over 10k HP. i spammed night maiden's mist and it took a while but it died. used stealth and didn't aggro it to begin with.

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