Elder Dragon Greyoll |
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| Location | Dragonbarrow |
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| HP | ≈ 87,664 (Field Boss) |
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50,000 Elder Dragon Greyoll is a Boss in Elden Ring. This Elden Ring Elder Dragon Greyoll Guide features boss locations, tips, strategies and videos on how to defeat Greyoll easily, as well as boss stats and lore for Greyoll.
Elder Dragon Greyoll is a massive dragon, laying on the ground surrounded by five Lesser Dragons and is found in Caelid. When players encounter her, they will find her motionless and unable to attack.
This is an optional boss, but it is a popular one, as it can net players a large amount of Runes for the relative ease of killing her. There are two ways of defeating the boss. One is by killing all of the smaller dragons around her. Defeating each one takes off a portion of her health away from her, and defeating all five defeats this boss as well. Alternatively, you can avoid fighting all the smaller dragons and just chip away at her health by attacking her tail directly. It may take a while, but you get the same rewards no matter what method you choose to defeat her. Greyoll and her children drop five Dragon Hearts and unlock Greyoll's Roar for purchase when defeated.
Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that can be encountered all over the Lands Between. They can drop unique Spirit Ashes, Weapons, Spells, and other various Items.
Greyoll was the mother of all dragons, dwarfing all who stood before her like a looming mountain.
Elden Ring Elder Dragon Greyoll Boss
Elder Dragon Greyoll is a Field Boss found in Caelid
- This boss is optional
- Closest Site of Grace: Fort Faroth
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this battle
- Defeating Elder Dragon Greyoll unlocks Elder Dragon Greyoll's Roar at the Cathedral of Dragon Communion
- The 5 smaller dragons in front of her are her children. The death of each will deal around 20% of her maximum health her; therefore, killing all 5 dragons will leave her to be killed with a single hit.
Elden Ring Elder Dragon Greyoll Location
Elder Dragon Greyoll can be found in the Dragonbarrow region of Caelid, surrounded by smaller dragons. Map Link
Elder Dragon Greyoll Combat Information
- Health: NG (87,664), NG+ (87,751), NG+2 (96,526), NG+3 (100,913), NG+4 (105,301), NG+5 (114,076), NG+6 (118,463), NG+7 (122,851)
- Does not attack, but will instead roar to alert nearby dragons.
- Around her there are small dragons roaming the area. They deal Standard Damage.
Dragon type- Can't be poise broken
- Relatively weak to Pierce Damage
- Resistant to other types of damages and all status effects.
- Immune to Death Blight.
- On NG, has 627 bleed resist initially, then 917 after the 1st proc, and 1,374 after the 2nd proc onward
Absorptions:
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: 627
Scarlet Rot: 627
Hemorrhage: 627
Frostbite: 627- Death: Immune
The resistance numbers is 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 Elder Dragon Greyoll Boss Guide
Elder Dragon Greyoll Boss Video Guide
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Elder Dragon Greyoll Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Elder Dragon Greyoll:
- The easiest way to kill her is by going to her left side (from a player's perspective), and hit the tail with any weapon of your choice. Neither her, nor her children will fight back.
- Armaments that inflict Hemorrhage or/and Frostbite are incredibly useful against Greyoll, as they do a percentage of HP, and as it can proc relatively fast. It is possible to kill Greyoll from a very low level with this method.
- Before going to eliminate this boss, it is recommended to get at least one Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot (consume shortly before killing the dragon) and the Golden Scarab, found by beating the boss of the Abandoned Cave
- Stay in behind Greyoll, near the wings and the legs to avoid aggroing any dragons or falling victim to nasty attacks. She can be easily cheesed with this method.
- When you first ascend using the Spirit Spring directly north of Church of the Plague, run directly towards Greyroll's head and summon any spirit ash (preferably a tanky one) to draw the attention of the smaller dragons. She will alert the nearby dragons who will walk towards her head. After, try to ignore as many as you can and head straight towards the right side of her tail (if looking directly at Greyroll from the front, otherwise it would be the left side of her tail if looking at her from the back), at which point you should be able to freely attack Greyroll without drawing the attention of the smaller dragons. They may investigate if they were still aggro'd on you from before, but like unlike regular dragons these do not fly around so they are easy to lose aggro on. From this spot you should be able to attack her without any interference, since she relies completely on the smaller dragons for defense and does not attack the player.
Melee Users
Add Bloody Slash to simple Longsword, the hemmorage will help kill it faster. Any other Bleed attacks will speed up the attack process. Kill the small dragons in the area that appear when it roars and it will also deplete its health. Clearing them will fnish off Greyoll without actually having to face her. Likewise, clearing Greyoll herself will clear all the smaller dragons, and this is quicker. These smaller dragons move very slowly and are easy to run underneath most of the time to throw in some hits without taking damage. If you prefer, go ahead and approach Greyoll herself and throw in as many hits as you can until her HP bar depletes.
Magic and Ranged Users
You don't need a fancy weapon. Simply add Bloody Slash basic dagger and it will do just fine. As a ranged player, this will be a easy encounter due to their slow movement. They don't run at you and your main concern may be its lunge attacks that is still very slow and easy to predict. The time before its lunge attack while in the air is also a great opportunity to deal any ranged attacks. Continue this until all dragons are cleared then Greyoll will turn to ash.
Alternatively, if the player has no such weapon, instead of getting it he may try to kill lesser dragons with Rock Sling (while using Meteorite Staff). Headshots with rocks can deal quite a damage and poise-break them.
Any Faith build can use Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike to cause large amounts of damage to Dragon enemies. With 70 Faith, one or two casts can kill multiple of her Dragon offspring simultaneously.
Elder Dragon Greyoll Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Greyoll's Roar | This is Greyoll's only tactic, which will debilitate your stats and awaken the smaller dragons around her. You will be facing the smaller dragons instead. Killing one will deplete her health significantly. | Clear the smaller dragons. Their Attacks will be found below. |
| Smaller Dragon | ||
| Stomp | The dragon lifts one foot and stomps down, creating a shockwave. | You can watch as the dragon lifts its foot in preparation for this attack. |
| Wing Attack | The dragon lifts one of its wings and smashes it into the ground in front of it. | When it lifts a single wing, stay clear of that side. |
| Lunge | Done after flying. The dragon flies into the air and lunges down during their landing. | Remain out of any area it will potentially land on. You'll notice it flying and begin to target you. This is when you should back away. |
| Tail Lash | The dragon repositions to face you, whipping its tail around in an arc. | This attack is triggered by behing behind it. When you see the tail lift and curl to one side, step away. |
| Bite | The dragon leans its head to one side, screeching, before snapping quickly in an arc in front of it. | This attack is triggered by behing in front of it. When you see its head wind up for a bite, step away or under the dragon. |
| Charge | After a scream, the dragon takes a few steps forward and does a headbut. | After it screams, either dodge closer between its legs or stay away. The dragon can move quite a bit forward, so be warry of midrange. |
Elder Dragon Greyoll Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- When measured from head to tail, Greyoll is currently the second largest dragon in FromSoftware history, beating out the Dragon God from Demon’s Souls and the Divine Dragon from Sekiro.
She is beaten out by Gransax, the giant Ancient Dragon corpse in the Royal Capital. - Due to her reusing the same model, Greyoll can be made to perform animations and attacks of other dragons, but this will lead to framerate issues and crashes due to inability of Elden Ring's game engine to handle the dragon's size.
- After killing Greyoll, player will additionally receive around ~20,000 extra Runes, as the smaller Dragons surrounding Greyoll will die along with it.
Elder Dragon Greyoll Image Gallery
*Dealing massive damage to Greyoll by using weapons that inflict hemorrhage.
AnonymousZullie's video where Greyoll crashes the engine by just standing up was kinda funny lol
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Use the BFB/FDS bleed glitch and a buffable bleed weapon w/ the Spinning Weapon AoW and turn this old biddy into a 7 mil/hr rune farm
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You can kill her VERY fast by using a dagger buffed with black flame, just pick up the spell after margit + the temporary faith boost flask and watch the % health damage melt her in seconds just by spamming r1
- Anonymous
you can endlessly farm her for ~50.000 Runes (in Basegame) if you, as soon as you see her twitching run to the Site of Grace and sit down. if you are speced for Faith the fastest way to kill her that i´ve found is use Scarlet Aeonia on her so that she is rotten and then spam Maliketh´s Black Blade Weapon Skill (meaning yes this is a late game/NG+ strategy) Maliketh´s Black Blade Weapon skill does roughly 8% of her Max HP per use, meaning to it 12 times (480 FP in total or 312 if you use Ash of War-Scarab and Carian Filigreed Crest)
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> Kill a helpless old lady in front of her children or kill all her children as she watches to destroy her
That's sick and twisted, what kind of scumbag lowlife would-
> 50,000 runes
....*chomps gold fowl foot* I mean uh, clearly this dragon must die for the good of all. Yes.
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How long does it take to kill with Mohg's spear aow built correctly? can't test rn
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This boss was a free reward. On the first attempt, I simply went behind her tail and alternated between Rotten Breath & Dragonice. Used the same tactic,
when I fought Greyll.
- Anonymous
just go under her right wing and use a weapon that does bleed
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After 1.06 either Fort Faroth Site of Grace bugged out for me [was unable to use it until Elder Dragon Greyoll death animation finished] or they fixed it meaning - no more rune farming. Could someone else check this out and confirm?
Rot does around 300 damage a tick because it scales with health
- Anonymous
i rode Torrent behind her butt and hit her with bloodhound's fang until she died. all little dragons died afterwards. they couldn't attack me because of the chest-high flaming wall, and just let me whack their mom for a solid 4-5 mins
- Anonymous
You might be thinking only of bleed but poison mist is also ridiculously effective on her, pair them and kill her fast
- Anonymous
Part of me wishes to wait until late-ish game in order to fight her properly, but those free early game levels are way too good to pass up
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"My child will progress through Limgrave and the Weeping Peninsula, gaining levels at a rate equivalent to the games progression system"
"..."
I don't know why, but in the NG+ it dropped 156,000 even using Golden Scarab + Golden Pickled Fowl. The base drop, with the 5 minor dragons, would be 134,700, with just the scarab it would be 161,640, with the Gold Pickled 175,110, and with both 210,132. I've miscalculated something? Because I even have it clipped, because I wanted to bring more data about rune drops for the page (unti noticed that this is the first go to ATM on the Lands Between).
- Anonymous
Simply use rotten breath. Trust me, it ****ing killed her in idk a Minute or 2
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Bolt of gransax, shard of Alexander, Godfrey icon 70 dex 24 Str kills the little ones in 3 hits. And from a mile away, using the WA.
- Anonymous
Is greyoll effected by the glowing eyes enemy thing? Where you get more if they have glowing eyes. Just wondering if farming at night would be even the least bit more beneficial
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I was "rewarded" for not cheesing this fight last night. I was killed by the last small dragon, but the Greyoll died in the same time. I was not awarded 50k runes, nor 5 dragon hearts or dragon incantation, but the boss disappeared. GG. :D
So, I'm having trouble understanding why Greyoll isn't an ancient dragon, when we're told she's "the mother of all dragons". i could also just be stupid.
- Anonymous
u can farm greyoll, u have to kill him then run back to the nearby site of grace just before he fades away and gives u runes , i suggest killing him while on torrent.
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I only get 3470 runes for each of her dragons, not 5423 as stated.
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Because I'm a lazy POS, I'll ask here... Was the Greyoll glitch removed with any patches? Funny... That's EXACTLY what Patches would do, just to make your life harder.
- Anonymous
I belive the fastest way to kill Greyoll is by using the ashe of war Black flame tornado, I was testing some builds and procing bloodloss or frostbite could not keep up against how much damage black flame did, and how fast it is. It is actually a little too affective so if you want to farm her use it with care. One full charge of the ash of war was enough to deal 20K damage while under the buffs of (flaming-shrouding cracked tear and flame grant me strength). Bloodloss is like 13k and you can't buff it.
- Anonymous
For rune grinding fest I recommend not to kill Greyoll, just kill under 5 smaller half HP dragons and just keep on constantly resetting at the Grace, because it's easy to kill half HP dragons and getting quite lots of runes. I had this for a while, thankfully I kind of died when trying to kill 3rd dragon, so I just went, took back my lost runes, and kept on killing and piling up runes, and while trying I do get killed, so runes just keep on piling up until I killed all of the half HP dragons around, at least those were all I saw, and hit the big one out of curiosity, and it died from one hit...and all the farmland was gone.
So heads up for anyone who happens to stumble here before, or just arriving at the location, and reading this.
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Sorry Greyoll, Gurranq filed a noise complaint about the screaming so you gotta go
- Anonymous
I stepped away for a second, and when I came back, I heard this dragon start roaring and immediately booked it.
- Anonymous
Unintentially killed her thinking I had two more dragons. Had no intent on killing her as I was going to use her dragons to farm runes. Which I did. It was good while it lasted. There are other places to farm dragons.
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Unplugging Greyoll's life support to steal her inheritance runes
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mercy killing it bc it's sick and suffering from scarlet rot which is horrible. definitely not doing it for the runes..
- Anonymous
I'm pretty sure the Hemorrhage resistance is higher than 575 at NG+7. So do the resistance numbers go up with ng+?
- Anonymous
If you leave from Fort Faroth and stay inside the wall, get to her leg dual wield any bleed damage matching weapon and use the twin blade talisman and it only takes about 2-3mins to kill her and you’ll never Aggro the small dragons.
- Anonymous
I won’t lie, the first time I killed Greyoll I felt a bit bad. She couldn’t even defend herself as I kept chipping away at her health making her die of bloodloss as she laid there yelling. But that didn’t me from doing again. A man’s gotta level up.
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"Ugh why would you kill the dragon you're a monster it's just trying to rest"
"Ugh why wouldn't you kill the dragon it's just a video game and it's free runes"
Here's a better idea
Who cares
Play the game how you want
You're the mf who paid sixty bucks for it(or whatever equivalent)
- Anonymous
Even a sick immobile old dragon remembered to level vigor. What’s your excuse?
- Anonymous
I'm amazed at how there's so many braindead morons in this community. It's ficcion; it'll inevitably meddle with your emotions. Without emotions, movies, books, painting, music, no form art would even exist.
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inb4 Fromsoft patches in a quest around this thing like they did for Nepheli, Kenneth and Gostoc to dunk on people that killed her
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Why to kill Greyoll for scrap of runes and ruin one of the best and most enigmatic quest in this amazing game? You can help Millicent, why not to help Greyoll? Apparently is not so hard prevent Scarlett Rott.
- Anonymous
Seems the bleed kill was patched, she doesn't take any bloodloss anymore
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Blood grease and my claymore +9. Job done in 8 greases of my sword. The deeper i go the more I feel i am the real evil of this story. No morale compass in this game.
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People who feel sorry for killing this "code" desperately need therapy
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Every dragon gangsta till the tarnished comes in with a morning star
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Use spiked caestus from dragonb isolated merchant for 4k or flail from gateway ruins + 13 dex + radagon soreseal
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Why do people think of killing this dragon as bad, like its free runes.
- Anonymous
Beating this "boss" is basically if some meth-head sprinted up and began beating a terminally-ill cancer patient in a parking lot while her children watch, then taking her wallet.
- Anonymous
black flame tornado WA absolutely melts if people want an alternative, especially faith users.
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So many weirdos keep calling people soft for not wanting to kill the dragon, people cant feel bad for things fictional or not?
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Apparently resting at the site of Grace near the fort as she dies causes her to reset while you still get the 50k runes she drops. So basically, til it's patched, it's the best method to get any chars up right now
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I never kill her. I don't need to, my build obliterates everything without her incantation, and it just feels like a small-person thing to do, especially with her offspring trying to protect her.
- Anonymous
Supposedly there’s a quest involving this dragon? I don’t know if there actually is or not, but there was a section at the bottom of the page explaining runes saying that supposedly this dragon, or one nearby, can give you a quest, and that you should hold off on killing it.
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Why do people feel sorry about killing it? It's just a dragon in the game.
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Does anyone actually fight this boss as intended or are we all just cheesing the tail for half an hour?
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Hard to believe people are complaining about an easy kill. It's there if you want a lot of runes. Dont want it? Dont kill it. Dont try to cry to Fromsoft just because you want to force everyone to play this game your way. It's not disappointing, it's a way to get runes. Nothing more.
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In my NG+, she does not appear no matter if I reload the area, game etc. Did this happen to anyone else? Is this a bug coming from the last update?
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I just killed her for the trophy and felt really bad. She’s not attacking us, just laying there helpless. Unlike Radahn, she doesn’t have a glorious battle at the end of her life. The runes don’t matter, it’s just 6-7 birds. Why does this have to be a trophy??? I’ll not do this again for NG+.
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Add in the nights cavalry cheese and 150k runes within 20 mins of playing, ez
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I came here after the final boss to tie up loose ends before new game plus. The dragon incantation is the only one I needed for the trophy. Over 87.5k HP and it took about 9 Destined Deaths to put this one down. Destined Death is gonna be crazy in NG+!
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Use a Gold Pickled Fowl foot before you've almost killed the dragon for extra runes
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All the people saying she has the rot and killing her is a mercy, that is only true if there isn’t a cure. Your golden needles broke? Jerks.
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I found 7 smaller dragons around her, but once 5 were killed she did die and so did the remaining two dragons
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Just wondering, are the dragons around her aggro, if you haven't attacked her and are just near her head?
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Ok... so this was the last big enemy in Caelid that was still left for me. I was clueless about her behaviour... I just saw her, heard her mighty roar and I imagined it would be the hardest fight in the area, an epic fight against a huge elder dragon, saving it for last.
Teleported to the Fort, started to attack her at her tail. Hoping to get her health down a bit, before her underlings would attack me.
So I hacked at her tail as she roared and cried, unable to defend herself. None of her dragons came. I killed her... and I'm riding away with all my blood money and my new dragon power. Somehow this isn't how an elder dragon should go down... No epic battle, not even a fight...
I mean, she was suffering from the rot, so maybe it really was putting her out of her misery.
I still feel dirty now...
And as I'm riding through the lands between, looking at some weaponless zombie-aristocrats cowering in fear as I come close, remembering the whimpering albinaurics, and how many of these I've slain, I've come to question myself:
"Are we the baddies?" XD
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It's not an NPC for a bugged or unfinished quest. You need to kill her to unlock her legendary incantation at the Dragon Church for the trophy.
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You can kill her within the first hour of the game, grab the Morning Star from Weeping Peninsula, 2-hand it and any class should meet the strength requirement, just use the teleport behind the 3rd Church of Marika and ride all the way down, over the bridge, around the minor Erdtree and the spirit spring takes you almost right behind her. Takes 5ish minutes just smacking her. Easy and fast way to get to level 30ish on a new character
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I've never actually killed this. It's really useful for testing different weapons on. It procs bleed, freeze, and rot and has a massive amount of health.
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So it says you can kill the 5 smaller ones or attack her directly. If you attack her directly, do you miss out on the runes from the smaller dragons? Or do you get the same amount of runes either way?
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She legit should be an npc for dragon builds, maybe she could do the same thing as the beast clergyman and give some dragons incantations or stuff. Dunno how the hell you get near her to talk(cuz all them angy babies), but when I saw the game talking about "dragon communion" and then saw this big girl I thought I might get to talk to certain dragons...ya know commune with them. Shame this doesn't seem to be the case, i bet it was cut content for real.
Haha it feels like cheating by killing her in the very start of game using bleed. Kinda wish they made her bleedproof or at least increased the agro range of small dragons
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My early game strat...go to Deathward Catacombs for Assassins Cerulean Dagger and Uchi...get Quickstep from Bernahl when you psss him...unlock Patches for gold feet...Fort Haight for Bloody Slash and medallion...clear Abandoned Cave using Quickstep and bloody slash for Gold Scarab and then farm this guy.
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The way i farm this dragon is
1. Get the Flail
2. Get 15 Faith and 12 Arcane
3. Get Poison Mist
4.Kill Agheel
5.Go to the Church of Dragon Communion and buy the Rotten Breath
1 Rotten Breath on her then press the Ash of War with the Flail and walk into her. After the Scarlet Rot has run out you apply it again and wait at the bonfire for her to die. Sit. Stand up. Repeat.
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I have a strong feeling he is supposed to be some kind of NPC like the turtle pope. Either the content is bugged or is cut.
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how many souls does she drop at ng+ and beyond? anybody know?
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Every new character I run over there and grab scarseal and kill her. Neat way to start the game at SL35 takes like 20 minutes,
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how kind of from to let us have 96k runes in the first 20 minutes of the game
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game crashed while killing the minions, loaded back in and got the enemy defeated text along with runes and items o.O
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As soon as you inflict the killing blow hop on Torrent and sprint over to the grace to respawn her for free runes and kill her as many times as you like. Break level 50 in less than 10 mins lol
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Bleed isn’t procing as of today is this true for anyone else? Farm not working.
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I just drove past her to rest at Fort Faroth then drank a coffee as I whacked her tail with a bleed weapon for a few minutes. Easiest boss in the game lol.
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You can actually just bleed this boss to death easily as soon as you have a bleed weapon. (Hookclaw, Uchigatana or Flail can be found quite early).
For a early game level boost you can just grab the teleporter behind the third church of marika & make your way towards Fort Faroth site of grace. From there just head to the dragons tail and keep swinging until it dies. This will net you 77.115 runes which should be quite a few levels depending on how early you do this. Bonus points if you pick up a gold-pickled fowl foot on the way (One is north of where sorceress sellen is, on the ground next to a cross) & use a multiplayer group in which someone kills a shardbearer right before you kill the dragon. Keep swinging until Greyoll is about 20% hp, wait until you get the popup "somebody defeated a sharbearer", use the fowl and get a quick 101.000 runes.
This can be done before Margit btw if you are struggling!
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because bleed does percentage damage you can just take a bleed weapon, go to the back of her tail and just chop at her till she dies of bloodloss lmao
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Dude just laying there do no harm to us, I feel so bad for killing him. So I use Cheat Engine to get those Dragon Heart before enter NG+.
Does he have any story behind ?
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Really disappinting, as the actual boss fight is just to kill the adds, she does buff them & debuff you & the dragons will 1-shot you, but the poison arrows from the merchant deal with the adds easily enough, once the adds are dead, just hit her with anything & she dies, kinda boring
I want a fight with prime greyoll... Come DLCs a lotta prime fights needed. As the mother of all dragons (not to be confused with ancient dragons, dead one in leyndal way bigger) would be an epic fight.
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