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StrikeElden Beast is a Boss in Elden Ring. This Elden Ring Elden Beast Guide features boss locations, tips, strategies and videos on how to defeat the Elden Beast easily, as well as boss stats and lore for the Elden Beast.
Elden Beast is the true form of the Elden Ring, acting as the vassal of the Greater Will, and is found in the Elden Throne. It was sent to the Lands Between through a golden star long before the events of the game.
This boss is NOT optional, as it is the final fight of the game, appearing immediately upon defeating Radagon of the Golden Order. As with many endgame bosses, Weapons, Incantations, and Spirit Ashes capable of inflicting Black Flame are highly recommended as they deal damage over time based on the boss' maximum HP. In addition, Stamina-boosting Equipment is recommended as the boss is highly mobile and you may find yourself using a lot of Stamina chasing it down. If you die to the Elden Beast, you are required to fight Radagon again before rechallenging it. It drops the Elden Remembrance when defeated.
Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that can be encountered all over the Lands Between. Shardbearers drop their own unique Great Rune and Remembrance capable of being transformed int powerful Weapons, Spells, Ashes of War, and Talismans for the player.
It is said that long ago, the Greater Will sent a golden star bearing a beast into the Lands Between, which would later become the Elden Ring.
It was the vassal beast of the Greater Will and the living incarnation of the concept of Order.
Elden Ring Elden Beast Boss
Elden Beast is a God found in the Stone Platform.
- This boss is NOT optional.
- This is a God boss.
- Closest Site of Grace: Elden Throne
- Is multiplayer allowed for this boss? Yes
- Spirit Ashes can be summoned for this boss.
Elden Ring Elden Beast Location
Elden Beast appears immediately upon defeating Radagon of the Golden Order.
Elden Beast Combat Information
- Health: NG (22,127), NG+ (22,149), NG+2 (24,363), NG+3 (25,471), NG+4 (26,578), NG+5 (28,793), NG+6 (29,901), NG+7 (31,008)
- Defense: ???
- Stance: 150
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken
- Damage:
Standard, 
Pierce, 
Holy
Absorptions
- Phy (Standard): 10
- Phy (Slash): 10
- Phy (Strike): 10
- Phy (Pierce): 10
The absorption numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if an absorption is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% is absorbed. Bigger number = less damage. An absorption of 100 means no damage goes through, and a resistance of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances
Poison: Immune
Scarlet Rot: Immune
Hemorrhage: Immune
Frostbite: Immune
Sleep: Immune
Madness: Immune
Death Blight: Immune
The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of whatever aux buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs.
Elden Ring Elden Beast Boss Guide
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Elden Beast Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Elden Beast:
- Use the Mimic Tear Ash summons.
- If your build is Arcane-focused, the Occult enhancement gives you excellent physical damage in lieu of ailments which cannot affect this boss.
- Use Lord's Divine Fortification to greatly reduce the damage of Elden Beast's many holy attacks. Alternatively, Divine Fortification, Haligdrake Talisman (+2, does stack with spells) or Holyproof Dried Liver (as 1.04, it does not stack with spells) help to a lesser degree.
- Lord's Divine Fortification paired with Haligdrake Talisman and light armor with high Holy resistance can give even 70% holy damage negation, which makes most attacks survivable with 40 VIG.
- Use the Green Turtle Talisman to increase stamina regeneration so you can get more attacks in after chasing down Elden Beast.
- At the beginning of the fight, run behind the beast, because it usually starts by breathing fire. This will avoid the attack and give you an opportunity to deal damage.
- Elden Beast is extremely resistant to holy and moderately resistant to other elements, so stick to physical damage if possible.
- Due to high HP pool, any %-based attacks like Black Flame Tornado does the job fine.
- Avoid using the locking on feature when Elden Beast is close to you, this can screw up your attacks.
- When the Elden Beast jumps into the air, disengage the lock-on and watch for the rings. Jump over instead of rolling through them.
- It is preferred to, if possible, to do this fight solo. If you must summon a player, it is recommended to only have 1 other as more than 1 will increase the difficulty as the boss gains more HP.
- Pest Threads incantation can deal a large amount of damage to the boss, especially when caster is at Beast back.
- Radahn's Rain combined with Radahn's Spears can deal 2k+ damage to him per volley.
- Try to lock on to his body instead of head.
- If timed correctly the Elden Beast can be staggered before casting elden stars, preventing the boss from using the first guaranteed cast. This can be done by stacking stance damage against the Elden Beast before it reaches half health and repeatedly using a high stance damage weapon or weapon art when it attempts to cast. Colossal Weapons and some weapon arts such as Square Off deal high stance damage.
Melee Users
Right when entering the arena, there will be a few seconds of time to run towards Elden Beast before it initiates any form of attacks. The first attack (Most if not all the time) is a yellow fire breath attack, to avoid this, as stated to the right (Yellow Fire Breath), run behind it and strike from behind, you should be able to get a few hits in before it decides to move or change attacks. From there, attack patterns are random and will vary, refer to the right table for how to counter certain attacks.
At around 70%-80% HP (May vary), Elden beast will swim away and fly into the air, a ring will then appear around you that closes in, run and then jump over this ring, continue to run as there will be a blast after the ring closes. This ring attack (named Elden Ring Blast on the right side panel) will happen again when Elden Beast is around 30%-40% HP (May vary), instead of 1 ring it will be 3, followed by a blast. These 2 attacks will always happen, unless glitches are used or you somehow manage to kill Elden Beast extremely quickly, for the average player, these 2 attacks will always happen.
If dodged successfully, after most attacks/combos, there will be a window of opportunity to attack Elden Beast as it “stands” still for a few seconds, make sure to get every second out of this window of time before it begins another attack/combo.
Most Elden Beast attacks can be rolled with relative ease after a few runs before hand, meaning you may be able to conserve healing flasks if you are adamant in your ability to roll it’s attacks, if you aren’t it's recommended to be at or near (80%+) full HP. (This can really only be applied to players who’s HP surpasses 1200-1400 HP)
As shown above, Elden Beast is immune to all Status Effects, meaning if you use a weapon that outputs most of its damage through a weapon skill that inflicts a Status Effect, those weapons are ill-advised to use in this fight. Recommended weapons would be high Physical Damaging weapons, such as Greatswords and Colossal Swords, but are not limited to such weapons.
Recommended Talismans would be any that boost Physical and Holy damage negation, such as the Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman and or Heligdrake +2 talisman. Other useful talismans that are advised to use are Crimson Seed Talisman, Green Turtle Talisman, Winged Sword Insignia, Erdtree's Favor +2, and more. Great Runes can and should be used; Godrick’s and Radahn’s are useful if not recommended. Morgott's Great Rune can be generally beneficial but may lead to the player needing up to three +12 Crimson Flask charges to fully heal.
Recommended Crystal Tears for your physick are Tears that raise Physical damage negation, restore HP, boost stamina recovery, or increase attack damage. Of course, these can and will depend on your build, stats, skills, and preference.
Magic and Ranged Users
For incantation users, Pest Threads in melee deals heavy damage to large targets such as the Beast who get hit multiple times by each cast, and deals physical damage, which the boss has low resistance to. Burn, O Flame! and Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike are also good options if cast directly under the Elden Beast's belly.
For sorcery users, Shard Spiral works wonders, as the Elden Beast's large model means that it will get hit multiple times by each cast, resulting in large amounts of damage.
The Elden Beast has 40% magic damage reduction, but only 10% physical damage reduction, so Rock Sling is also a good spell to use. Loretta's Mastery can be used when the Elden Beast flies into the air as it prepares to surround the player with a golden circle, the arrows even have a moderate (though not guaranteed) chance to break the boss's poise, which cancels the attack.
Finally, if the player can break the Elden Beast's poise, it will be vulnerable for some seconds, which is the perfect opportunity to unleash Meteorite of Astel combined with Flask of Wondrous Physick with Cerulean Hidden Tear to deal large amounts of physical damage.
Elden Beast Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Hand Slam | Slams its left hand into the ground. | Simply roll to the left side. |
| Golden Breath | Raises its head upward and spews out yellow fire, which spreads in a wide area. | Stand behind it. Melee users should quickly unlock target lock to avoid camera flail as he stands up and prepares to spew, then re-lock once he finishes. |
| Sword Swing | Backs a short distance away and swings its sword. | |
| Swimming Sword Swing | Swims away before returning with a large sword swing. | |
| Black Hole Teleport | Quickly swims into a black hole, which teleports it away before exploding. | When you see the cloud run directly away from it. |
| Nebula | Its hand starts glowing and it swipes in a forward arc, leaving behind a cloud of glittering magic that explodes. | Run to the sides. |
| Divine Punishment | The beast's left hand will begin shining gold, and it will sweep forward in an attempt to grab the player. If successful, they will be lifted up as if they were crucified, where they will be pierced with several golden spears before being let go. | Dodge or run to the left side. |
| Concept of Order | Swims away and begins levitating in the air, forming the symbol of the Elden Ring in the sky. A large ring will begin converging on the target’s position, before ending in a large explosion. | Run outside of the outer ring, rolling through the enclosing inner circle. On the <50% HP version, running jump 3 times, over each enclosing ring, and then jump one more time to leave the blast radius. The 3-ring version has a more complex symbol in the sky when the Beast floats upward. |
| Golden Wing Spears |
Shoots many magical spears from its wings, which chase after the player before crashing into the ground. | Run in small circles or pick a direction and keep running. |
| Flying Flame Sword | Flies through the air shortly before its sword catches on fire, after which it crashes into the ground and swings. | Dodge by rolling forward into the attack. |
| Elden Stars | Sends out a gold projectile that continuously chases its target while spawning smaller homing projectiles that chip away at their health before exploding. | Sprint away from Stars, once it gets close, roll back through the stars and sprint the other way. During this time you will also need to worry about other mechanics. Thops' Barrier is an excellent counter to Elden Stars Running away from the attack for 5 seconds and then using the Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear physick can nullify the attack. |
| Flying Wing Spears | Dives into the ground and comes out flying, firing its Wing Spears while doing so. | Same strategy as above. |
| Sword Swing-Smash | Swings its sword twice before grabbing the blade and smashing it into the ground. | |
| Divebomb | Flops on its belly, flies for a short bit, then crashes into the ground. | |
| Nebula (Line) | Shoots out a long row of glittering clouds, which then explode soon afterwards. | At <50% health, he can combine this with other attacks like Flaming Sword Beams, which will be hidden by the cloud. Make sure you always have a clear line of sight on him during this attack. |
| Flying Sword Crescents | Its sword catches on fire and it swings forward 4 times, sending a crescent of magic with each swing. The last two swings will be delayed. (The last crescent can diverge and hit your cooperator/Ash summon) | Doge roll into the Blast. Blocking without a Holy and physical defense shield will hurt. The first two shots are right after each other, so roll and then roll again right away. |
| Flaming Stab | Sets its sword on fire and stabs the ground, creating an explosion when it pulls the sword out again. | Run away to avoid the incoming explosion. |
| Spin Swing | Spins in a circle and swings its sword. | Dodge through the move and attack it. |
| Flaming Sword Combo | Sets its sword on fire and alternates between rapid swings and downward stabs before doing a large, angular spin-swing. | |
| Wave of Gold | Charges sword, swings and puts a large amount of damage in the shape of a cone at the player. If caught in the cone, the closer to the tip you are the more damage you take. | This attack seems to do multiple chunks of damage, from what I can tell the front of the cone will 1 hit 60 vigor. The only success I've had is dodging half of the damage rolling right as it explodes and being out of the front of the cone more towards the middle. |
| Dive | Dives into the ground and reappears a short distance away. | Chase it down. |
Elden Beast Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Arena is covered in water, giving both the player and Elden Beast +10
Fire absorption and -10 
Lightning absorption. - Elden Beast's lyrics are mostly untranslatable, this was confirmed by Youtuber and Latin student Antonius Tertius, he contacted the music producers and singers of the game and published the official lyrics and backstage information on Youtube.
- The Hungarian singer Anna Dinyés is the voice of the soprano the player hears in the Elden Beast theme, this was revealed by Youtuber Antonius Tertius who contacted the singers of Elden Ring.
- Bug: If Tarnished is grabbed with Divine Punishment while performing an animation that lowers his postion (f.e. during casting Pest Threads), attack will deal no damage. Grabbed target will not move upwards, but will stay very close to the ground.
- This boss was nerfed in Patch 1.04 (NG cycle variation only).
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AnonymousA flying cosmic slug wearing a sword, Mike Zaki's vision indeed
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It wouldn’t even be that annoying of a boss if they just let us use torrent in its boss fight.
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Shard spiral + tiche gets rid of half his health in like 10 secs of u spam at the start
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I would like to make an announcement: I f'ing hate Elden Stars
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So the strongest creatures in the game are literally alians (Astal and the elden beast)
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Black Knife Tiche is also a great summon for this fight because of the black knife special
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What if you Wanted to rune farm, but god said You have to beat me first
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just use black flame tornado and this stupid fight becomes comically easy
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the run to him covers the distance between me and my biological fatehr
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hands down one of the most boring boss fights in the game, and very disappointing coming from Fromsoft. Hoarah Loux or a beefed up Radagon fight should have ended the game, this thing sucks by comparison. All it does is spam projectiles at you, most of which are easy to avoid, and constantly run away. Coming off of Sword Saint Isshin, or Soul of Cinder, this guy is both much easier (unless your build sucks like a lot of people. If you walk into the Radagon fight with less than 2000 health good luck lmfao) and also way more annoying and dumb. Sword Saint Isshin was immensely satisfying to fight and defeat; this guy just reminds me of the core problems plaguing an otherwise great game. If I wanted to chase a spellcaster around I can just go play invasions.
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I think what FS should of done was buff radagon, but make Elden beast a secret boss that can only be fought if you either completed ranni’s quest line or have the frenzy flame, and like MP you don’t have to refight the first boss.as lore wise, the greater will doesn’t care what mending rune it gets, it just wants order back basically, it doesn’t care how altered or different it is to the previous one, it just wants order. But ranni’s ending is anarchy which is the opposite of order, and frenzy flame you try and destroy everything, both of which meaning no order, so it will try to stop you from choosing a ending that has no order. Also it would make both this fight and radagon’s 10 times more enjoyable.
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An "easy" mode for final fight in 2024: Mimic Tear, Lord's Divine Fortification for both phases, Blasphemous Blade for Radagon, and Pest Threads for Elden Beast. Haligdrake Talisman 2 too if needed.
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I don't care what people think about this guy, but god damn his design is beautiful
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I really can't tell why some people seem to hate this so much. Attacks aren't terribly hard to dodge, excluding the ever-annoying Golden Tickle Comet, most stuff has a counter, and you can regularly get in 3-4 swings even with a colossal weapon. Cinematic as all get out, too. This guy telegraphs harder than Samuel Morse.
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the sound design on this boss is perfect. the sound of hitting him really sounds like ur hitting the final enemy in the game idk its hard to explain
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Bruh you know a boss is controversial when there are over 3000 comments about it. But let’s cut to the chase
I do have a strong liking to this boss due to the themes, ost, design and lore behind it, not to mention the beauty of its attacks.
But that’s it. It’s easy to agree about the bad aspects of this boss fight:
Moves around so much 80% of the time you are closing distance
Spams sht every second
Elden stars
Basically this fight became into a giant wizard moving around and spamming glintstone stars, ancient death rancor and comet while being extremely far away from you. I personally don’t like that mechanical approach when you don’t have proportional means that offer you countermeasures.
I started to enjoy it only after I mastered the fight and even then it’s not as great as radagon, placidusax or even something as simple as the leonine misbegotten. Complexity doesn’t always beat simplicity tbh
Many say that torrent could fix it but the fight isn’t centered around it. I saw a yt gameplay of elden beast with torrent and the “Flying sword crescents” attack completely wrecks you. And torrent trivializes the fight into something equally mediocre in terms of movesets.
It’s sad this boss only delivers after many annoying attempts to penetrate through its spam.
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Pretty embarrassing going to this slug guy after how great Radagon was, there’s no ****ing way in hell Miyazaki or anyone else at FromSoft played this and said “this is the perfect ending to Elden Ring”
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So, from a fairly pragmatic point of view, this thing is an alien that infests worlds by planting golden seeds that grow into giant trees
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This boss really doesnt deserve the hate that it gets, its offenses are enough to keep you on your toes, hp is enough to keep you from shredding it unless your REALLY min maxing, the mobility has you playing in an unconvential way, and the ranged attacks add some spice to the pursuit. Its a very different boss that isnt just a duel but a genuine struggle against a beast, and I enjoy it for what it is.
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It would be a mid boss fight, if he had been without Radagon's phase, because Radagon is AWESOME, and putting that thing near to one of the best souls fights ever is really bad idea.
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I would understand the hate towards this boss if people didn't complain only about running 80% time, at this point it's just skill issue. I personally hate mixups of untelegraphed and delayed attacks that Soul of Cinder has more than the fact you have to run so much in Elden Beast's fight, not saying he's worse as a boss though.
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Are we gonna talk about how the trees around the arena imply that there are many erdtrees still controlled by the greater will?
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if you are on ng+ and dont do a ton of damage yourself, stop summoning two people
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If you are in ng+ and don't do a ton of damage, please stop summoning two people. Its too much HP to carry.
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I think everyone has already said exactly what I think about this boss fight several times so... I'll just go with saying this might still genuinely be my least favorite final boss of any Soulsborne game I've played so far, at least Nashandra doesn't go out of her way to needlessly waste your time to make an already unfun fight even more unfun.
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Honestly, one of the most underrated and overhated bosses FromSoftware ever created. He has fascinating cutscene and absolutely beautiful music and design. When I first fought him, two years ago, I was in absolute awe from ephemeral atmosphere of the Elden Beast. I get that's it not the best boss gameplay-wise, but I think aesthetics completely compensate it. Btw, everyone always talking aboud ading Torrent to this fight, but I feel it just would ruin the pacing.
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My first run, I used Falling Star Beast Jaw for the final bosses, with Mimi. Tiche is cool also. I could use the gravity bolt to stun lock then. I created a new game last week, beat the game and all areas again, only to find they nerfed my approach. The gravity bolt didn't hit poise much at all! I have my character soft capped so I can switch to whatever I want. I didn't switch gear,my wife said I had to go upstairs, so I used Azur with the death Prince "wand " I did cast terra magica and the flask to stop FP consumption. Mogh was dead within 30 seconds still. Bolt of Gransax, Falling Star Jaw, whatever spells I tweak, or incantations, Rivers, pole blade? On my new game (level 160-ish) I beat Malenia before the last bosses. Stun lock her with the pole blade. I tried Cursed Blade as it helps. My first time was Rivers with Mimic. It seems with all.of the nerfs, the new gimic became envoys longhorn. Sometimes I'll tweak talismans, wands, clothes, etc. after probably 600-ish hours, it still isn't boring.
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a really lame final boss. they really should have just done a more hypercharged version of Radagon. Elden Beast is like a more aggressive Ancestor Spirit, mostly just running away like a coward while spamming projectiles. I beat this boss first try. Understand this, Miyazaki nuthugger, I don't complain about the boss design because I can't beat them, I complain about them because they're underwhelming and couldn't actually beat me unless they resort to BS tactics like status effect gas or zero windup relentless projectile spam. You're not actually better than the average player by pretending to respect unfair design, you're just a trick ass mark.
I hope the DLC's final boss is actually cool, unlike this fight.
The immunity to all status effects is an ultimate f you lmao I love it
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You know.. out of all the fights to NOT let you use Torrent, this one seems like they probably should have considered allowing it. It's the final boss even so why NOT?
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After two years people still prefer to complain that this fight is all about running around instead of putting an ounce of effort into learning how to fight the boss. You are hopeless dudes.
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This is a respec boss, I am not interested in 'slugging' (LOL) it out with a typical melee set up. Pest threads + Tiche is a true combo to dispatch it quickly in successive playthroughs
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"I love running across 2 football fields just to land a single hit on this stupid giant slug" - Nobody
Also elden stars has got to be one of the most annoying boss moves in the entire game
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The Elden Beast should have been the boss that stood in your way of Radagon, and not the other way around. I felt like once I beat Radagon that I slayed a god that everyone you met in the game had connections and knowledge of. The Elden Beast just felt impersonal, especially since it wasn't a god in human form.
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Me first playthrough: another Phase, my god, it has so much HP, and does so much damage.
Me second playthrough: hahaha pest threads go BRRRRRRRRR
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Bathtub toy turns her favorite god into a sword and starts swimming, get ready, or you might be the next sword in the queue
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elden beast id say is weak to black flame scene it has its own category and dose not count as holy 100%
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And ofc it has the best rune farming tool in the game, basically means you're forced to fight it multiple times. What a sick joke, gives me conniptions.
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Still to date the worst designed final boss I've seen in a from soft game
Not by difficulty or movement, just not it's aesthetic design.
It looks so ****, like something a 4 year old draws & leaves on the fridge.
By far the most uninspired final boss ever.
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The music: absolutely incredible
The fight: tedious game of duck duck goose
Honestly, I don’t think the elden beast is an antagonist, I mean the greater will literally tells you to kill the demigods and actively support you. If anything the elden beast is either
A) testing you to see if your worthy of becoming elden lord
Or B) angry because you set its house on fire (which to be fair, is completely reasonable)
FS employ: hey you know with bloodborne we made it so if your died to moon presence you don’t have to fight gehrman.
miyazaki: yeah, what about it?
FS employee: well I was thinking we don’t do that and we make both phases tanky and give both a move set made to chip off as much HP as possible.
miyazaki: brilliant, you get a raise.
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First time I saw this, I thought "man this is that primordial titan centipede thing from aot" lol. Epic fight and the soundtrack is heavenly. Really made me feel like I was at a journey's end.
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Two years and ten patches and fromsoft still hasn't fixed this fight to allow us to use torrent even though doing so would be extremely
simple and make this battle actually enjoyable but no instead lets nerf poise to worthlessness in pvp. Because screw the people actually buying and enjoying the game itself fromsoft has become a joke at this point.
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I would say I like this fight and explain why I like it, but I know everyone will hate me and break into my house to stab me in my sleep, so i'll keep my mouth shut
For many hours in game (200+) , I guess, it's all about stance and status game ;)
After many attempts on final duo, I change my Eleonora's for Giant-Crusher.
What a suprise - win after 3rd try :D
Little shame, 'couse my mimic tear was with me, but we won :)
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If only Tibia Mariner dropped his boat so I could chase this whale
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The cutscene makes me laugh every time. Its like they wanted players to be emotionaly invested like we did against Gwyn and Soul of Cinder, or to create wow effect like Moon Presence revealing itself. But here you just see a mentally challenged dragon whale and awkward staredown between tarnished and this thing.
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I'm so tired of people casting Golden Vow before this fight, it overwrites Lord Divines and is much worse than Lord Divines for this fight. Worse yes, Jimmy the buff dodger keeps summoning me for this fight and dying when he starts the holy rain attacks.
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did a low vigor run and last 3 hours just was this guy. can safely say just cheese him whatever tool you have. shard spiral, pest threads, ancient dragon's lightning strike, meteorite of astel etc. this is not a worth foe that deserves a fair fight. this is a space whale sent down to land's between to purely annoy you and run your stamina bar to shreds.
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Yes, he has 40 lightning resistance. But is that not reduced due to the arena circumstances? Could lightning basically not do more damage than magic for example?
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Players in co-op who cast Elden Stars during this fight: I hate you
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Basically an easy boss that is hard because it's right after Radagon and runs all the way across the map and hits you with ranged attacks. the melee attacks are easily dodgeable if you stay right underneath it and dodge in case the hitbox says "go **** yourself"
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Biblically-accurate fish. Probably. Godwyn is a contender too.
Hit, run after him for 2 minutes. Hit, run after him for 2 minutes. It's all so tiresome
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This final boss was really underwhelming. The hardest part: chasing it down. For many of its attacks just run and/or roll and get close to it. Use summons to take aggro and just spam whatever attack/spell/incant that you want. I got in so many free hits with my Halberd just by standing at its side. Radagon posed more of a challenge.
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If you are struggling with this guy, there are some options you can run.
For strength, use powerstance jump attacks with heavy pickaxes for easy poise breaks. For talismans, use claw+spear+ritual sword+greenturtle. For ashes of war, broggarts roar for offhand buff and whatever you like on main (raptor of mists synergizes well). The reason for pick is that it is the only great hammer to benefit from the claw talisman. great hammers in general have good poise damage (30.8 per jumping L1) while having more manageable stamina and weight costs compared to colossal weapons. Collosals are also weird because some of them do 28.8 per powerstance jump attack, some do 33, and the trolls hammer specifically doing 36! 5-6 jump attacks in NG and you will guarantee a poise break. Just remember to delay going for the crit immediately. You can sneak in at least 3-4 jump attacks before it starts to get up. For Radagon, use a pocket greatshield+guard counter to deal with his teleport shenanigans.
For dex, use powerstance jump attacks with any curved sword. For talismans it's ideal to stack claw+millicent prosthesis+rotten winged sword but it's understandable if you don't have the last 2 because they are a pain to get. Keen bandits curved swords probably have the highest AR for your build for any dual curved swords/twinblades will do, all that matters is getting the talisman to proc from the 6 hits of jumping attack.
For faith, erdtree/godslayer seal+pest threads. For talismans, faithful+flocks canvas. Lord's divine fortification for comfort. For Radagon I recommend catch flame and blackflame fireball. Black flame incants in general are very useful here for their percentage based damage. Black flame tornado is good but just remember to roll out early when necessary. I've seen people run charged ancient lightning strike, though its effectiveness is pretty circumstantial because of how long it takes. Even if the arena is favourable towards lightning, blackflame is more reliable.
For arcane, use occult scaling! If you don't want to respec, use the strat for dex builds but with occult.
For int, just summon. Shard spiral is alright but god this fight is annoying as a mage.
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The only thing that can possibly be considered "difficult" is stamina management. This isn't a boss fight, it's a running simulator. My idea of a "beast" isn't a coward who constantly runs away and zones the **** out of me. F EB, astel, and the dragon on the bridge. I don't need another running sim, I have QUOP for that .........
- Anonymous
Just managed to finish this after 15 tries. For me this was harder than melania. I had to nuke this boss in order to get it done. Radagon phase was easy with mimic and blasphemous flame attack. But the freaking elden beast not only has a large moveset but every hit feels like a freaking bulldozer smashing you. With pure faith build and SL118, what I've done was: keep the mimic alive and healthy throughout radagon phase, get every charm and elixir that improves lightining damage (scorpion lightning, gravel seal, godfrey icon, flocks canvas, lightining cracked tear) and stack with golden vow. Last, if you're confident enough that you'll avoid every single hit before kill the beast, shibiri scream. Now, strike the first hit with maliketh encantation (gets around 15% health dmg on the first) and them spam red lightining strike
- Anonymous
I beat this thing on my first try, WTF.. (NG, first souls game).
my build wasn't even that good, just a basic Vagabond with Knight's Greatsword.
I did summon Mimic Tear, but it pathetically died to Radagon, so in Elden Beast part I completely solo.
really it basically just overglorified giant worm,
Radagon-Marika should be the last boss, make more sense lore-wise as well.
- Anonymous
nothing more satisfying than melting this piece of **** with shard spiral as a mage after having your first playthrough be a 15 minute long fight as a melee trying to catch this mother****er who runs to the opposite end of the map after one or two hits.
Covering the world in darkness with Ranni afterwards made fighting elden gloop worthwhile.
- Anonymous
I've just been pointed down after using blackflame tornado against this boss as a summon.
Let's start a poll with the rating system, Upvote if I didn't deserve it, downvote if I did.
I'm honestly just curious cause I personally don't like chasing a boss around for 10 minutes while easily dodging pretty much everything it does when I could be using that time helping other Elden lords, but maybe some actually find this boss fun to fight, hence why I wanted to start a pseudo poll.
Oh and I fought Radagon normally if that means anything.
- Anonymous
I actually like this fight more that radagon. Since this thing just sorta dies after a couple of minutes of chasing it. Radagon just flash bangs me ever two seconds and blinds me. And I still think elden beast is a horrible boring a## poor excuse for a final boss.
- Anonymous
Run boy run! This world is not made for you
Run boy run! They're trying to catch you
Run boy run! Running is a victory
Run boy run! And try to hit this ****ing boss
- Anonymous
I do indeed like it. And before you downvote me, look: this fight might be not enjoyable or even hard (for someone), but a final boss in the story of from games isn't usually about either. It's about atmisphere and some kind of crescendo, a worthy end to a worthy game. And before you say "lol better been marika, who tf is this shiny poop dragon anyway???", think of it as of the greater will as a whole! In a world of champions and heroes like Radagon, it's the cosmic presence, alien and weird to human eye, like the two fingers. It is majestic in it's weirdness, and it is not here to fight you in the first place - it wants to survive. All the bad things the Greater will did with it's alien consciousness being not able to understand AND be understood by mortals and demigods, the beast is an embodiment of it all. It's a gardener running away from a suddenly painfully stinging wasp, a puppeteer trying to shut down a rogue puppet. And how symbolicaly does it use Marika herself as a weapon, considering everything in the world is it's instrument, even local gods. And yet it is scared, and runs for it's life - rightfully so! It really feels like defeating a frightened god, something so hard to describe (no bits of lore, no info, nothing) we don't even expect what a final boss will be, until the very end. When we realize we must battle the Elden ring itself, an equally vague concept of power... And the only reason for everything in the game to happen. Music is just a nailer
You got a god slaying blackflame tornado a level earlier for a reason, USE IT
- Anonymous
Can people stop whine about how hard the Elden beast is Ofcourse it’s hard I understand the frustration but if it wasn’t hard the game wouldn’t be a hard long good boss fight at the end
- Anonymous
i would say nice things about this boss and that him running away isnt really that bad but the elden beast hate bandwagon will crucify me
- Anonymous
If you attack it’s tail enough, the tail will be cut of and you will receive the obsidian greatsword
- Anonymous
They couldn't make up their mind who would be the final boss. You have a series of 7 bosses (if you count each individual), back to back, with virtually nothing to do in between except to run from one to the next. gurranq-maliketh-all knowing-godfrey-hoarah-radagon-elden beast. Seriously, way too many.
- Anonymous
This sparkly, sperm-shaped amoeboid should have been Marika instead. Having Marika herself take over the body after Radagon to prevent us from repairing the Elden Ring that she shattered would have made so much more sense than having us run a marathon to stab a lava lamp to death. What a **** boss.
Me depleting my whole stamina bar running to it after it submerged, just for it to say "I'll ****ing do it again"
- Anonymous
Dear God I hope the DLC just deletes the last 10% of this otherwise great game and replaces it.
- Anonymous
This is a god, supposedly, which is the incarnation of the concept of order and should live forever...and HE'S running away from ME? wtf?
Horrible design for a final boss. Should've just given Radagon two stages. Radagon's fight was fun, well designed and fair, but it got to feel like a slog because I had to beat him every time I wanted to attempt cosmic noodle. When I beat him, I just felt relieved, like "thank god that's over".
So Elden Beast, besides being a cowardly mostly-ranged spam fight, managed to ruin an actually good fight on top of it. In terms of terrible quality, it's only surpassed by bed of chaos.
- Anonymous
Please stop running away and firing magic at me Mr Elden Beast. I can’t call my horsey Mr Elden Beast. Mr Elden Beast why does your Elden Stars follow me for a minute. Have you considered letting me just mend the Elden Ring you silly space slug whale thing
- Anonymous
I guess Torrent was afk, running is the only bad thing about this boss.
- Anonymous
Ripped away half its health while is used the fire attack at the start. Quickly run to its left side and spam shard spiral.
- Anonymous
Can it, like, NOT use attacks that you have to dodge sideways while using attacks you have to dodge backwards at the same time?
- Anonymous
The fact you have to do Radagon all over again if you die to this fight makes it such a chore
Running and jumping simulator, not a boss. Such a huge disappointment, how could they think it'd be fun to run after a boss for 10 minutes? This great game would deserve so much more for a last boss!
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