Dragonlord Placidusax |
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| Location | Crumbling Farum Azula |
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 210,000Remembrance of the Dragonlord |
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| HP | 26,651 |
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PierceDragonlord Placidusax is a Legend Boss in Elden Ring. This massive, two-headed dragon is found in Crumbling Farum Azula. He was Elden Lord at some time before the reign of Marika and the Golden Order and presumably ruled alongside his god, who later fled. The Old Lord's Talisman suggests that Placidusax had at least two more heads that had been removed by the time the Tarnished reaches him.
This is an optional boss, as players don't need to defeat it in order to advance in Elden Ring.
The Dragonlord whose seat lies at the heart of the storm beyond time is said to have been Elden Lord in the age before the Erdtree. Once his god was fled, the lord continued to await its return.
Elden Ring Dragonlord Placidusax Boss
- This is an optional boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Beside the Great Bridge
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss (put your summon sign near the entrance of the boss arena)
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss
Elden Ring Dragonlord Placidusax Location
From the Beside the Great Bridge Site of Grace, turn around and take the elevator back down into the church. Go past the Beastmen and exit the church. Head straight ahead out of the church, towards the cluster of trees, and look over the edge for a platform to fall down to. Follow the path down to the end, and look for a cubby on the stone floor that doesn't have bones in it. Approach and look for the Lie down prompt. This will teleport you to Placidusax's arena. [Map Link]
Dragonlord Placidusax Combat information
- Health: 26,651 HP
- Defense: 121
- Stance: 160
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken
- Counts as neither
Dragon type nor 
Ancient Dragon type, and so does not take extra damage from dragon weapons or Dragonwound Grease. - Weak spot: heads (very difficult to hit unless it's stance broken)
- Damage:
Standard, 
Fire, 
Lightning - Drops 280,000, Remembrance of the Dragonlord
Negations (or Absorptions)
Slash
StrikeThe 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.
Resistances
Poison: 1349 / 1806
Scarlet Rot: 1349 / 1806
Hemorrhage: 1349 / 1806
Frostbite: 1349 / 1806
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+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 26,651 | 26,677 | 29,344 | 30,678 | 32,012 | 34,680 | 36,013 | 37,347 |
| Defense | 121 | 120 | 123 | 126 | 132 | 138 | 144 | 156 |
| Runes |
280,000 | 560,000 | 616,000 | 630,000 | 672,000 | 686,000 | 700,000 | 714,000 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
1349 / 1806 | 579 / 1036 | 587 / 1044 | 596 / 1053 | 605 / 1062 | 613 / 1070 | 622 / 1079 | 631 / 1088 |
| Scarlet Rot |
1349 / 1806 | 579 / 1036 | 587 / 1044 | 596 / 1053 | 605 / 1062 | 613 / 1070 | 622 / 1079 | 631 / 1088 |
| Hemorrhage |
1349 / 1806 | 579 / 1036 | 587 / 1044 | 596 / 1053 | 605 / 1062 | 613 / 1070 | 622 / 1079 | 631 / 1088 |
| Frostbite |
1349 / 1806 | 579 / 1036 | 587 / 1044 | 596 / 1053 | 605 / 1062 | 613 / 1070 | 622 / 1079 | 631 / 1088 |
 Sleep |
Immune | |||||||
 Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Elden Ring Dragonlord Placidusax Boss Guide
Dragonlord Placidusax Boss Video Guide
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Dragonlord Placidusax Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Dragonlord Placidusax:
- Suggested Spirit Ashes: Black Knife Tiche, Mimic Tear
- Suggested protection: Flame Protect Me, Golden Lightning Fortification, Flamedrake Talisman +2, Boltdrake Talisman +2, Lightningproof Dried Liver, Fireproof Dried Liver
- Suggested weapons: Envoy's Long Horn, Death's Poker, Lion Greatbow
- Suggested skills: Black Flame Tornado, Blade of Death, Destined Death.
- Suggested sorceries: Shard Spiral, Comet Azur, Night Maiden's Mist, Rykard's Rancor
- Suggested incantations: Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike, Black Flame, Scouring Black Flame, Black Blade,
- Lock-on during his teleporting part of fight should make avoiding attacks easier
Melee Users
Dragonlord Placidusax’s attacks are quick and hit hard, but have a generous amount of time between them where you can get easy hits in. Like other dragons, his weak spot is his head(s) but unlike other dragons, the opportunities you will get as melee to hit him in the head are rare and unreliable. The safest spot to attack Placidusax is around the base of his tail near his hind legs, behind his wings. This puts you in a position where you will avoid his wing ram, won’t trigger his tail swipe, and unlike other dragons, he has no attacks with his back feet that you’ll have to worry about.
When the fight begins, you will want to quickly close the distance to Placidusax. He will summon large lightning bolts around the arena but these are out of the way and won’t require dodging. Differing from lightning strikes used by previous bosses, instead of small direct bolts, the lightning that Placidusax summons are large AOE bolts, and you can take note of their general size while running towards him. He will summon a second wave of these bolts around the time you get within striking range. You should be moving immediately when the red indicators show up, not just to get out of the way but to give yourself more time to attack. Between each strike you can get 1-4 hits in safely before needing to move again, depending on the speed of your weapon. For colossal weapon users, you only have time to get one heavy/jump attack in before needing to move for the next lightning bolt. After three lightning strikes hit, the move will end.
Following this, Placidusax has a few different moves for the first half of the fight that are all relatively simple and trigger based on your location to him.
Placidusax has two different swiping attacks that he will use often where his hands grow long, red lightning claws. When he raises his left hand (your right if facing him), he will do a wide horizontal slash that is easily avoided by rolling into the direction the claw is coming from. When he raises his right hand (your left if facing him), he will bring the claw vertically down into the ground and cause a small lightning explosion on impact. This, too, can be easily avoided with one dodge by rolling towards him. The explosion is small enough and quick enough that you do not need to worry about being hit by it from rolling too soon.
Placidusax also has a couple fire breathing moves you’ll need to look out for. He will jump away a short distance and then both heads will spray flames into the ground in front and in a semicircle around him. Luckily, the distance the flames travel is generously short and in most cases the distance he jumps away from you will be further than his flames will end up reaching. Just wait for the flames to dissipate and run back in. He will also breathe flames down his left or right side at you, depending on which flank you are attacking. If positioned near his back legs, the area around the base of his tail will actually be curved up high enough for you to roll under it to the other side, making this attack trivial to avoid and giving you a huge amount of time to punish the boss.
Two other physical attacks of note that can be triggered based on positioning: if you are on his side near his wings, he will slam his wing down into the ground and then ram it outwards, causing massive physical damage; and if you are too far away from his body near his tail, he will spin and whip horizontally with his tail.
Once you get Placidusax near 50%, he will rise into the air and disappear, signaling the phase change. Storm clouds will form somewhere in the air and you must rotate your camera to look around for them, as Placidusax will rematerialize out of them in a fast dive attack towards you with one set of claws out. It looks more menacing than it actually is, and a single roll towards him will carry you through it unscathed. He then follows this up with a few attacks where he will disappear and reappear quickly in sequence, doing a claw attack each time. You can target lock when he appears for the first attack and the lock will remain on him even when he disappears for all the following attacks, taking away any difficulty of having to guess where he’s going to appear. The claw attacks in phase two now have a second portion to them, where he will follow up the swipe or slam with dragging his claws back the opposite direction. The timing does not change, however; you just now have to roll twice instead of once. If you are feeling bold, you can roll towards his armpit while avoiding the first claw swipe, and the second part of the swipe will naturally miss you, allowing you to get in a quick hit or two before he disappears. As part of this disappearing/reappearing phase, he might also pull out a new attack where he does a short flight/lunge across with claws out; essentially a baby version of the dive he did to open the phase. Like his other attacks, a single roll under and towards him is all you need.
At any point for the rest of the fight, he can start doing the entire above sequence again, so just be on your guard and ready to start dodging when he dissolves. The trickiest part is that he can summon the lightning bolts from the first half while doing the divebomb and phasing in and out. You will have to be rotating the camera to look for where he’s going to dive from, while also sprinting to keep out of the large lightning blasts that are targeting the area. The attacks themselves aren’t too difficult to avoid, but the large amount of visual clutter going off can make it tough to see what’s happening.
Placidusax’s flames also receive an upgrade in the second half, and both heads can suddenly turn their fire into laser beams that cut back and forth across the arena, causing massive damage if they hit you. These move fast and look unpredictable but there is a pattern where one head starts far and makes three swathes back and forth, getting closer to him with each pass, and the other head moves in the opposite pattern, starting close to him and making passes left and right while getting farther from him with each pass. If you are not near him when this starts, your best bet is to try to move far enough to one side so that you only have to worry about dodging one laser. If you are close to him, you can quickly run under the lasers and have several seconds of free time to attack him. Just be cautious of the lasers at the end of this attack as he brings them both back in towards his body. Even if you aren’t close enough to exploit the opening at the start of the attack, at the end of the attack he spends a couple seconds shooting the lasers into the sky and roaring, allowing you to still get in a couple free hits.
The last new attack you might encounter in the second half is Placidusax will summon a large lightning spear (Identical to Bolt of Gransax, albeit made of Ancient Dragon Lightning) and stab it into the ground, causing a large red circle AOE to appear before setting off a massive explosion. This move seems to be all show though, as you have several seconds to run away out of it before it actually goes off, even if you don’t notice the spear until it’s already in the ground. The attack will also cause your audio to go mute, giving you a very apparent audial cue that you need to be moving away.
Besides the new additions, Placidusax can also still use any of his attacks from the first phase so be mindful of positioning and you’ll breeze right through the fight. His moves leave plenty of openings for free hits without needing to make your own windows so as long as you don’t get greedy, you should make it through the fight without much issue.
Magic and Ranged Users
Shard Spiral can deal tremendous damage to the boss (enough to even skip the 2nd phase if lucky). Use Godfrey Icon along with your other magic buffs. During the first phase use the spell after charging it fully and use it close to the boss so more of the spell travels through him. During the transition to the 2nd phase after reaching the middle of the boss's health bar spam the uncharged shard spiral while you are still locked on to him and he should be either dead or nearly dead. Night Maiden’s Mist can be highly effective, as it often stands still when attacking, while Tiche or some other summon draws most of his attention. Just be wary of the phase two disappearance moves, as sometimes it can be hard to tell when he's done and can catch you if you commit to a spell too early.
As for incantations, Swarm of Flies deals great damage to the boss, applying Hemorrhage pretty quickly. First phase won't be hard as the boss stay still, but in second phase dragon is getting much more mobile, so casting more than 2 spells after his attacks is very dangerous. It is also highly recommended to use Bloodhound's Step to easily dodge and keep distance to use spells safely. Other notable incantations are Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike and Pest Threads for both of which the user needs to be close to the dragonlord in order for them to deal tremendous damage. Pest Threads is more FP efficient than Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike but requires better positioning than the other in order to deal the most damage. Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike is able to shred the dragonlord's HP a lot faster so it is recommended if you have high FP.
Dragonlord Placidusax Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike | Placidusax will roar, summoning lightning strikes across the arena. Red sparks will appear before the lightning lands. Three of them will target the player sequentially, while others are randomized. | Equip Lightning damage negation. Move out of the strike zones or roll through the strikes, and attack Placidusax between lightning strikes. |
| Overbalancing Swipe | Placidusax raises his right arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then lunges forwards to slash at the player, falling partially onto his side as he does. | Roll to your left through the attack. |
| Claw Swipe | Placidusax raises his left or right arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then sweeps them from his left to his right (if attacking with his left hand) or from his right to his left (if attacking with his right hand). | Roll through the attack, preferably in the direction Placidusax is swinging his arm from. |
| Claw Smash | Placidusax raises either his right or left arm up high and summons claws of red lightning. He then slams them down in front of his chest, creating a large burst of electrical energy. | Move towards Placidusax’s flanks, or dodge late through the blast. |
| Claw Scrape | After a Claw Smash or Swipe, Placiudsax keeps his electrical claws active and pulls them back along his body. | Roll backwards to exploit the attack’s short range. |
| Double Claw Slam | Placidusax raises both of his hands and summons claws of red lightning. He then slams them down in front of himself, causing a large electrical explosion. This attack is only used as a followup to his Overbalancing Swipe. | Sprint behind Placidusax, or roll late through the attack. |
| Rearing Claw-Firebreath Combo | Placidusax raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. He delays for an extended period and then swipes from his left to his right, rising onto his hind legs as he does. He then spews golden fire in wide arcs in front of himself. | Sprint behind Placidusax and attack his tail and hips. Do not stand in his crotch; the fire goes far enough back to reach you there. |
| Crawling Claw-Firebreath Combo | Placidusax raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. After delaying for a moderate period, he swipes from his left to his right, then begins breathing golden fire in wide arcs in front of himself. | Sprint to Placidusax’s side or hips and attack him. |
| Rearwards Firebreath | This attack is commonly used when the player is at Placidusax’s hindlegs or sides. Placidusax looks back over his shoulder, then begins breathing gouts of golden fire along that side of his body and in front of himself. | When at Placidusax’s side, keep an eye towards the front of his body. If the dragonlord looks at you and fire particles begin to appear in his mouth, immediately sprint backwards and away from his body. |
| Repositioning Firebreath | Placidusax leaps backwards and to his left or right, spewing a gout of golden fire at the ground between himself and the player as he lands. | Wait a moment for the fire to dissipate, then pursue Placidusax. |
| Leaping Claws | Placidusax rises slightly and begins to glow with tendrils of red lightning. He then leaps forwards at the player, summoning claws of red lightning on his right hand and swiping as he hits the ground at their location. As he lands, Placidusax spins himself around to face the direction he jumped from. | Roll to your left, then pursue the dragonlord. |
| Boulder Throw Combo | This attack is occasionally used when Placidusax wants to adjust his positioning and face the player more closely. The dragonlord raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then scrapes them across the ground in front of him and along his left side, turning slightly to face the player as he does. Then, Placidusax digs his right hand into the ground and flings a spread of rocks at the player. | Move backwards out of the range of the claw swipe, then roll forwards through the rocks to attack Placidusax. |
| Wing Slam-Swing Combo | This attack is only used when the player is at Placidusax’s left side. The dragon raises his left wing, then slams the edge of it into the ground at his side. After a moment of hesitation, he whips his wing outwards and up. | Roll once to dodge the initial slam, then roll through the followup wing swing and attack Placidusax. |
| Bite | A rarely used attack employed when the player stands to the side of Placidusax near his front end. Placidusax will look to the side that the player is on and then bite once with each head, one after the other. | Move away from Placidusax to get slightly out of range, and then jump attack one of his heads as he finishes the second bite. |
| Tailslam Turnaround | Placidusax commonly uses this attack to turn around when the player is standing behind him. The dragon curls to his left or right side, raising his tail and slamming it down onto the ground as he turns around. | Move towards the tip of Placidusax’s tail or back up. Alternatively, roll through the attack. |
| Tailsweep Turnaround | Placidusax commonly uses this attack to turn around when the player is standing behind him. The dragon curls to his left or right side, sweeping his tail across the ground as he turns around | Move towards the tip of Placidusax’s tail or back up. Alternatively, roll through the attack. |
| Bolt of Placidusax | Placidusax raises his left hand and summons a massive bolt of red lightning. He then slams it into the ground in front of himself, dealing heavy damage to anything caught under the attack and embedding the bolt in the floor of the arena. At this point, waves of red lightning begin to emanate outwards from the bolt along the ground while Placidusax raises his hand above it. The Dragonlord then slams his right hand down on the bolt, detonating it in an enormous explosion of red lightning. | Sprint away from Placidusax. The rings of red lightning that emanate from the bolt roughly indicate how far the explosion will reach; stand just outside where they stop, then run in to attack the Dragonlord as the explosion dissipates. |
| Stationary Thundercloud Form (phases 2 and 3 only) |
This attack is always used to initiate phase 2. Placidusax turns to mist and vanishes. A few moments later, a stationary stormcloud with red lightning appears in the sky. The dragonlord appears within it, then swoops down to strike at the player with claws of red lightning on his left hand. As he lands, he will spin to face the direction he flew down from. | When Placidusax disappears, turn the camera around the arena to identify which direction he will be swooping from. Then, as he swoops down at you, roll to your right through the attack, turn around, and pursue Placidusax. |
| Traveling Thundercloud Form (phases 2 and 3 only) | Placidusax leaps forwards into the air, turning to mist as he rises higher. Moments later, a stormcloud with red lightning will appear and beging to move to the player’s left in the sky. The dragonlord then emerges from the cloud, diving downwards and striking with claws of red lightning on his right hand. He slams into the ground and drags them as he slides, creating a massive burst of red lightning in his wake, but unlike the Stationary Thundercloud Form, Placidusax will not turn around to face the player as he completes this attack. | After Placidusax disappears, turn the camera around the arena to identify which direction he will swoop from. As he appears, move left, and then roll late as he dives down to strike you. Then, turn around and pursue the dragonlord. |
| Teleportation (Phases 2 and 3 only) | Placidusax turns to mist and vanishes, reappearing shortly afterwards in another location. He will often reappear with an attack already beginning, and if he was performing a combo when he vanished, he will often continue that combo when he reappears. | Lock onto Placidusax; the lock should follow him to some extent and make his reappearance easier to locate. If he was performing a combo, be ready for the potential followups. Otherwise, prepare to dodge whatever attack he emerges with. |
| Placidusax’s Ruin(phase 3 only) | Placidusax will use Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike, but will instead turn to mist and disappear early in the animation. A single bolt of red lightning will be summoned on the player’s location. Moments later Placidusax will execute his Stationary Thundercloud Form, appearing in the sky and swooping down to strike them. As he turns around following this move, Placidusax will breathe gouts of golden fire across the ground in front of himself. These gouts of fire then turn to devastating golden lasers, and Placidusax sweeps them sequentially across the arena before firing them into the sky. | Ideally, after dodging the lightning bolt and divebomb, you will be able to either sprint up to Placidusax and hug his side where the lasers and fire do not reach or sprint far enough backwards to be out of range of the lasers. If this is not possible, you will have to dodge some or all of the lasers. They move according to the following pattern (all directions are in reference to the player’s point of view; that is, “right head” is the head on the right when looking at Placidusax from in front of him, left and right are the player’s left and right, etc.): 1: Placidusax begins with the right head aiming diagonally to the right and the left head aiming diagonally to the left. 2: Right head beam sweeps to the left (dodge to the right). 3: Right head beam sweeps back to the right (dodge to the left) 4: Right head beam sweeps to the left and left head beam sweeps to the right (dodge to the right, because the right head beam extends farther) 5: Both beams are brought back towards Placidusax’s chest, then fired along the ground in a straight line in front of the Dragonlord (move sideways) Frequently, you will be in a position where the only beam long enough to reach you is that of the right head in step 4. If you are not confident in your ability to dodge this attack, consider mixing an Opaline Bubbletear into your Flask of Wondrous Physick to massively reduce the damage should you fail. |
Dragonlord Placidusax Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- The position that Placidusax is in, with his two heads looking towards the sky, is similar to how the Two Fingers commune with the Greater Will. He may be attempting to reach and/or contact his god, who apparently fled the Lands Between.
- According to the Old Lord’s Talisman, he is depicted as having four heads.
- This is contradictory to the analysis of Placidusax model/artwork, which reveals that he had five heads, as he has three stumps where the heads should have been.
- Placidusax is said to be the previous Elden Lord before the arrival of the Erdtree.
- The Ancient Dragon and Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones are said to be scales of the Dragonlord. Due to their unique ability to twist time, Weapons upgraded with these Smithing Stones are capable of harming and slaying gods.
- Placidusax has an extra model with one of his remaining heads cut off. This was suggested that you could cut off one of them during the fight, but this was likely cut due to the heads being out of reach of melee attacks.
- The Red Lightning Bolt he summons is reminiscent of the Bolt of Gransax, used by the massive ancient dragon inside the Royal Capital. Ironically, this dragon is much larger than Placidusax himself, taking up a large portion of the dungeon.
- Though he has no actual idle animation while hovering before the fight, Placidusax will flinch when struck by arrows while doing so. Each wing, including the vestigial stumps of his second pair, each arm, each leg, the tail, each head, and his entire body (shot to the torso) can flinch.
- The Dragon King's Cragblade, the weapon you can get from his Remembrance, is a possible reference to the tail-cut weapons from Dark Souls I, where cutting off the tails of certain dragons will net you a special weapon. Placidusax's own tail appears to have been cut off as well.
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AnonymousIt’s utterly ridiculous how we can’t put down duelist signs in his arena after we beat him. I also think the community needs to make his boss arena the main pace for invasions instead of the starting area.
For crying out loud, his arena would be the best place to have matches if you don’t want to use the coliseum mode. It’s huge, flat, and no enemies around.
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This fight is easy imo. Placidusax is slow as hell and his aoe attacks can simply be walked off. Didn't have much trouble in my melee build and my mage build rekt him via meteorite of astel
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The only way to deal with him on NG+7 is to spam Black Flame Tornado
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I believe a key to this fight that no one mentioned is that as long as you keep attacks coming, damage you deal gets higher and higher, with a cool off if you don't attack for too long. This became apparent when using the albinauric woman ash to have it shoot arrows continuously, and seeing how the arrows deal more and more damage, and how I could amplify that by dealing slash damage with my sword here and there.
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So... either i'm lost in translation or placidusax was the elden lord of the crucible.
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I wanna know who the absolute monster is that cut off 3 of this guy's heads
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I hate bosses like these. If your in front of them they just spam attacks that are barely avoidable, so you have to go behind them. You have to wait a long time so you can get a window to attack back due to the attack spamming. these are incredibly boring and unfun bossfights.
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I think there is a bug after maliketh that let's you warp to his boss room currently, after I killed my maliketh NG+ I could just warp into the boss grace and fight him. It can be a softlock. Also happened to a friend in ng doing more tests to figure out.
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I'm convinced the dragon head found in the room with the Godskin Duo is in fact one of Placidusax's missing heads. I did my best to compare screenshots. Looks awfully similar!
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traded with the boss, lost the runes in the room, are they gone or can i get them back?
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I feel like this boss suffer from one problem same as the Elden Beast which is you have to run around so much. Unlike EB, you have to run so far away just to get out of range of his breath attacks and then run back to him to hit him, again and again, which is really annoying being melee build. The runback to him is a hassle too, not only from grace site but also when you spawn inside his arena.
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so basically I was getting spanked, I use a very high-damage weapon and his health was barely moving in NG+ even with Tiche (who just misses him by a mile most of the time). I saw a comment saying to use Godskin Peeler. I upgraded it to +25, and I beat him in one try- the black flame tornado literally melts his health like ice cream, brodie was not prepared for my apple peeler
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I think I have a bug:
With NG+ I can teleport to him and start the fight immeidately and the respawn is in the arena and starts the fight again... It was like hell. Had not the plan to fight him yet. I've just killed Rennala, pretty early in the story.
Luckily I have the Pureblood Knight's Medal to teleport away. I think there is no way to escape, other than kill him
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I love dragons... I love dragons so much... I'm so glad Placidusax exists. I want this guy to teach me everything he knows so I can be as cool as him. But I'll settle for defeating him in battle and wielding his tail as a sword. Because it is a beautiful sword. And he is a beautiful dragon.
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could kept bashing my head against the wall with my longsworn greatsword, or i could just put on blasphemous blade and 1 shot it.
the boss fight itself is questionable but the attacks, arena and general atmosphere of this fight is pretty damn sick, easily one of the best looking and coolest feeling boss fights in the game by far. His weapon is cool too, such a shame you get it so late, and the breath you get is really bad seeing how it doesn't count as an incantation or something weird
the boss fight itself is questionable but the attacks, arena and general atmosphere of this fight is pretty damn sick, easily one of the best looking and coolest feeling boss fights in the game by far. His weapon is cool too, such a shame you get it so late, and the breath you get is really bad seeing how it doesn't count as an incantation or something weird
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What a sloppy piece of work. Limbs all over the place pushing you here and there while you try to swing at other things that bob around. Lingering area attacks that you need to just walk all the way around because they will hit you on roll, and hit you again after. This guy has an attack that does full damage from brushing the top of your head with his belly button. Not to mention half the time the screen is shaking like you're off roading while playing the game. Why does it seem like half the stuff in this game is from the tech demo?
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Is he imitating the 2 fingers/attempting to communicate with the Greater Will?
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One of the few bosses I can reliably no-hit. You can manipulate a lot of the fight just by positioning yourself right
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Use Godskin Peeler! And stay on that dragons ass end. You CAN defeat him before he uses lasers. Godskin will take his health fast. Use mimic tear too so double the godskin black flame damage. Use as much lightning damage as possible. Fire damage isn't as bad.
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A little annoying boss. I've got him down to no visible health bar and he teleports away and makes his laser beams which one shot me...
Apparently, if you die as you kill him, you ofcourse lose all the runes, but you can't ever go back in there, to the arena to grab it. -1mil, rip
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if Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones are his scales why don't we at least get 3 or 5 of each to make it balanced while also making sense?
I have discovered after a while that when using destined death attacks (e.g black blade or black knife) it really does more damage then I thought, mainly the black blade incantation
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if you are having a hard time with this fight use the black blade incantation it does really heavy damage to him
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How does one become elden lord before the existance of the erdtree?....
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Has this happened to anyone else: I have not been to Farum Azula yet, but suddenly the grace at Placi was available. I went there and Placi immediately attacked. I died for science and I respawned directly under his belly. No boss music was played.
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This fight is fun until he reaches 1 hp and then decides to teleport 800 ft away and one-shot you with a nearly undodgable laser sweep, and then does the exact same thing 10 fights in a row.
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I don't know how this happened, but I missed placidusax in my first playthrough, didn't even know you could find him. Much, much later while I was hanging around on NG+, I notice there's a grace for him. I teleport to it out of curiosity and the fight started. I couldnt get out as I had been marked for that site of grace and was in combat. I believe this is further proof that each copy of Elden Ring is personalized, and Miyazaki himself wanted to see me become one step closer to that platinum trophy. I must know more, though.
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You know a boss is good when you let it kill you just to fight it again.
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On my first playthough I was a fai/str build using a weapon with a big wind-up so phase 2 sucked
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Probably my favorite boss in the whole game, Absolutely awesome aesthetic, sound design (The sound of his lightning nuke and the way it cuts out the music is just... orgasmically badass) and spectacle, very deadly but well-telegraphed and fair attacks, doesn't pull any cheap tricks or bs one-shot attacks/comboes and gives you plenty of good openings to hit him provided you correctly dodge his attacks, amazing music, amazing very spacious arena and great atmosphere, , Easily the best boss imo
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Just goes to show you that the game WILL give you the tools to greatly lower the difficulty on a fight you think is impossible. Just like spamming swarm of flies at Malenia makes you question the whole "hardest boss ever" idea, using Maliketh's Black BLade AOW on Placi while a spirit summon distracts him can actually 1 phase kill this guy. I know the naked w/a club RL1 guys will say it's cheap and you ruined the game but you know what guys, the game is not "meant to be hard" it's meant to sell 20 million copies and make a ton of money. If people need a way through let 'em have it.
TL;DR If you are struggling with this boss but want the Remembrance or need to use the needle then grab the Black Blade and you can practically eat a snack while watching him die a quick, cheese-filled death. Eat some pizza rolls for the irony.
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So when he’s low health and he does that flying electric swipe, you want to start running close to him if he is using his fire breath, because that means he will use the laser beams, and you can use this moment to get behind him and basically it will be free dmg, I also recommend using black blade incantation and the maliketh’s black blade, it will melt him.
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that sheer amount of follow ups he has beats any other boss in the game, including Commander Niall.
This dude and the Fire Giant are the only bosses that legit whooped me for 2 days each. First play-through, first Souls-type game, and I finally got the resistance I was looking for. Nice.
I was previously Str/Fai, but doing Int builds now with only the Str/Dex/Arc needed for weapons I like. 45/35/25 for Vigor/Mind/Endurance. I got desperate and popped every talisman I could to get the Str/Fai requirements for Maliketh's Black Blade. Got him down to 1/4 many times, tried different spirit ashes, weapons, AoWs. Nothing! This page recommended the Death Poker and that was the answer. Used the Lion Bow with Radahn's Rain AoW + Radahn Spears to get to Phase 2 quickly. Also, make sure you dodge/roll toward him and slightly to the right when he does his peek-a-boo move to skydive on you. Keep moving and don't sprint unless you see Red Lightning at your feet. Save the Stamina. Run away when he starts charging AoE bombs. My Mimic Tear and I MELTED him in Phase 2 with Death Poker's AoW at the base of his tail just behind his leg. That's one hell of a stick! Other than that, I equipped the Fire Prelate Chest Armor for the stats. Definitely helped. Boltdrake +1, Flamedrake +2, and nothing else special. No Rune Arc, food, grease, etc.
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Lucked into a cheese for this boss after numerous attempts where I would get him down to ~20% health and then get one-shotted by his laser attack or teleport bullshit.
Walk forward to a bit before the circle of pillars, and summon Latenna.
While staying the same distance from the boss, move a decent distance away from Latenna, otherwise she will be collateral damage when the lightning attacks start. However don't go too far or she will despawn.
Now keep walking forward until Flaccidosack's health bar appears.
When it does, lock on and start walking to one side (doesn't matter which direction).
Whenever you start to see the red lightning appear around your character, dodge roll 2-3 times to avoid being damaged. Then start walking in the other direction. Rinse and repeat.
Flaccy will sit in the middle of the arena for the entire fight, roaring menacingly, while these easily dodgeable red lightning AoEs periodically appear at your feet. He will never attack you or Latenna. Latenna will plink him to death and you will take zero damage.
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Something allows you to warp directly to his arena to fight him from the map screen. I have no idea what. I made it happen on my first playthrough, somehow.
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Black Blade, and Maliketh’s Black Blade work WONDERS against him.
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Might be the only enemy in the game where "cheese the lock-on mechanic" is a thing.
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Corporate wants you to tell the difference between these pictures ( a nuke) (Placidusax ruin) there the same picture
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Ive never encountered this boss but ive had nightmares about fighting it. It scares the **** out of me!!
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The directions are interesting. For some reason the grace warp itself was already available without me having visited the arena before. So check your map first.
On the flip side this puts you directly under the boss. Great if you want to get a few hits in. 2 casts of anceint dragons' lightning strike shredded its hp and staggered it for a critical. However if you're just there for needle stuff than you are in for a bad time.
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Latenna as a summon and uplifting aromatics are super useful for this fight. Latenna soloed the boss from edge of arena while I did tanking with perfume.
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This fight was very underwhelming to me. Beat him first try
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I have not beaten him or even gotten to his arena yet but the site of grace is active and when I teleport to it I am in the arena and the boss battle activates immediately, cool, but why?
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His design reminds me of the Balaur from Romanian folklore, exept that he had some heads cut off, as seen on his body.
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eleven thumbs up to the heroes leaving summon signs for this guy
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If his scales are what Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones are made of, why can't he drop a bunch, or a Bell Bearing specifically for them?
It's not like +24 to +25 is a massive leap in damage, it's just nice to have.
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honestly, such a boring boss, I might have been unlucky, but when he dropped bellow 40% he started spamming teleport attacks for like a minute, and i was just sitting there dodging everything. In general I dislike bosses like this, compared to the likes of Malenia. tldr ez boss second try
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why tf this dude has more hp with 1 summon then on ng+7.
We have been trying to do it with a friend and it has so many HP and resistence
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Whoever's idea it was to not have a stake of Marika for this boss is a sadist of the highest order
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….I forgot this dude exists, and just finished the game without fighting him
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Kinda wanna fight him in his prime, but I dread the penta breath attacks :B
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Lightening Resists, Mimic with Prayerful strike AoW, Rotten Breath, Night Flail. Mostly Roten Breath did it. Took me a few tries though.
There are some things that are just cheap in this game. The ruin attack where he appears out of nowhere and destroys your heath bar is just cheap. The closest I've gotten so far to beating him, he got me from behind then lazered the little heath I had left. Some battles come down to luck and hoping bosses don't chain devastating attacks.
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Despite the high resistance, 2/3 rotten breath will proc rot while doing good dmg. It also lets you track him with the rot cloud when he goes invisible ^^
Also used ancient lightning spear to finish the fight once my mimic was dead.
I do like to kick dragon's bottoms with dragon-themed attacks.
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As magic build, don't bother charging the Spiral.
While the boss is distracted by a summon, get close on the other side and start sapming the Shard Spiral. The boss gets erased.
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This boss is super easy on RL1 here is how i did it:
Envoy Long Horn+10
Envoy Crown
Radagon's Soreseal
Shard of Alexander
Two Fingers Heirloom
Ritual Shield Talisman
Flask of Wonderous Physhic has bubbletear and faith knot talisman
popped a rune arc with godricks rune and spammed the ash of war whenever it was free after like 2/3 ashes of war he will get staggered and you can spam even more ashes of war.
good luck fellow rl1 players.
I had a really rough time with this dude on my sorcery NG 3+ no spirit ashes run. Tried tons of things, meteorite of astel, comet azur, full lightning resist armor, bolt of gransax, naked, dark moon build, everything.
What finally worked.:
Adula's Moonblade Placidusax Build
Snow Witch Hat for cold damage
Omen set for rest of armor for physical and lightning resist
Crimson Amber Medallion +2, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Erdtree's Favor +2, Boltdrake Talisman +2
Faith Tear and Magic Tear Physick, Faith tear to get to enough faith to cast Golden Vow and Golden Lightning Fortification when you warp in. I think I had about 84% lightning resist with it all going.
Carian Regal Scepter +10 in casting hand and Carian Glinstone Staff in off hand to boost Adula's Moonblade.
Just ran under him and sliced as fast as possible, flasking when needed, and killed him before phase 2 just tanking the lightning damage before Golden Vow and Golden Lightning Fortification wore off (70 seconds).
This fight was an incredible challange befitting the former Elden Lord in the age before the Erdtree.
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I had never been to him but saw him marked on my map. I selected it, area loaded and when my guy stood up, ol placidusax spawned in and landed on my head (no damage).
I was stuck in a death loop bc I would die fighting and respawn at the non existent bonfire. Tried to beat him for an hour with a completely incorrect build until I finally noticed I had just enough time before the game locked me out of the map to jump out to a different grace.
I'll be back
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On NG+6 this boss is a pain man. So much HP it seems never ending. Even with bleed, since it takes so long to hit.
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I've yet to beat him, but for some reason I can teleport directly to his arena. There's no Site of Grace when I arrive - I'm just there. Is that normal? I've not seen any mention of it.
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Used Shard Spiral like suggested and he died so fast I was waiting for the cutscene and real boss to show up...
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My favorite mechanic this boss does is the one where you have to wait for a lift and run 5 minutes every attempt 10/10 so glad there isn't a statue to spawn at there phew
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The secret ingredient is Astel's Wing. Swooped in with the big magic bomb sweep attack and when it poise breaks - ignore that. Just keep hammering with the attack. I ran in, had a shitty start and took some hits. Still, moved in and got the poise break tho, just kept laying it down. It managed to fly off, fine, restore health, mana. Good transition, dodged the re-appearance into phase 2 and got in close after a dodge and thankfully both the mimic and I landed big swooping magic hits with the Wing, poise breaking again. It was all over, just sitting there laying it down, blew him up entirely from 50 to 0 in just a few attacks. With talismans, 65 Dex, 31 Int. Goofball twinsage hat to drive up int. Alexanders, the Carian seal to reduce FP use, lightning proof charm +2.
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Lmao i just used shabriri's woe, put the drake talismans and crimson amber +1 talisman and full lionel armor, summoned mimic tear and switched back to my normal set and he didnt attack me once
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if anyone is struggling with this boss i'd recommended pumping hp and fp and spamming black blade incantation while ur summon distracts him
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So ... Envoy longhorn, shard of Alexander, and use the weapon art. He didn't even change phase for me. I actually feel that doing that to this poor Dragon.
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So here's what you're gonna do as a sorcery build: get the infinite fp physic and Meteorite of Astel from the Consecrated Snowfields. Use a summon to take aggro and get directly beside his butt, preferably on the right side of him. Chug that flask and send a hail of rocks directly down on his head until he's dead. He's got like no poise so you should be able to do this pretty easily, even skipping his second phase.
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Easiest of all the lategame bosses, but still, who the f*ck thought it was a good idea to not put a Marikas stake there. I literally died to the falldamage more aften than to him.
For anyone struggling with him, take Chrimsonwhorl Bubbletear and opaline Bubbletear so u can pretty much not die to his phase 3 start and than just run over to his tail, hit and back off, repeat that for like 200 times. Maybe consider bleed to have at least some dmg. Did him with 66 Strg 42 Fth dualwielding Ordovis Greatsword and Blasphemous Blade, and I still had my attacks sometimes not even turn his healthbar yellow. He just has a tone of HP, even compared to other lategame bosses, plus he has no fcking weakness to dragonwound grease, for like no reason. Literally, just bleed him, if u aren't running some heavy as **** high damage weapon, that can kill him with less than 200 hits.
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Elden ring devs try to make a boss without lingering AOE on every attack challenge (impossible)
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I would highly recommend killing Maliketh first and getting both of his Remembrance items. Placidusax has a HUGE amount of health, but Destined Death does damage depending on the target's max health.
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fun fact, if you play with 9 vit and get hit while he is dying, you will die and the boss battle will be completed.
since the battle is completed and you cannot access the arena again, the 200k runes you should have got will forever be stuck in the void.
and this absolutely didn't happens to me.... nooooooo, like i'd ever play with 9 vit and lose all those runes in such a stupid and not intended way
... i'm not crying
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I didn't know how to find him so I fought the Beast before I went looking, after I beat hum I looked at the map and the grace was just there, I can teleport to the fight whenever I want but I lost that amazing animation, thought It could be a bug of something.
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Lost around 50 million runes jumping down the ledges to get back to him lol
Information on the runes you get form beating him is wrong. On NG+2 he drops 420k runes
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Shard spiral shard spiral shard spiral SHARD SPIRAL SHARD SPIRAL!!! = *ded dragon*
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Having trouble? 5 steps:
1. Bolt of Gransaxxx
2. Smithy to +10
3. L2 L2 L2 L2 L2
4. ?????
5. Profit.
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I use ancient dragon lightning strike + godfrey icon + lightning scorpion charm. It definitely decimate him!
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Beautiful boss, definitely a DPS check though. Stars Of Ruin is extremely effective in the first phase when he's less mobile.
If you want to help people out with Coop for this boss where is the best place to put a summon sign, in the area or at the place they lie down or at the grace before Maliketh?
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