Elemer of the Briar | Elden Ring Wiki

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Utilize your tanky Spirit Ash of choice in order to divert his attention at the beginning of the fight. Putrid Corpse Ashes spawn on the far end of the room and wail to get his attention almost immediately. Bring a greatshield with 100% physical protection, I used the Jellyfish Shield and two-handed it to meet minimum requirements with Radagon's Soreseal. There are two spells this strategy hinges upon; Rotted Breath, and Poison Mist. Rotted Breath can be cast from across the arena that Elemer of the Briar is in, and he has a tendency to change gears and sprint towards you as soon as he's hit by the first spray. A mixed physick using the Opaline Bubbletear can give you a little breathing room here, in case you're too slow to switch to your greatshield in time.

Rotted Breath triggers Scarlet Rot. It can do about half or so of his health bar, if not a little more once he's inflicted with it. Your next action is to hold up your greatshield, and get used to when he uses his moves and when you have openings. When you do, Tarnished, bring out the Poison Mist. The reason why Poison Mist is here, is because that damage-over-time status effect can also be applied to Elemer. He has a tendency to slow walk towards you rather than sprint, and that means he lingers in the poison cloud longer. Cast it between Elemer and yourself, as he'll slowly advance toward you. If he stays in there long enough, he'll get struck by another status effect.

Rather than risk casting Rotted Breath if he has a sliver of health left by the end of this, and if you don't want to risk it, cast Poison Mist when you see an opening again and the rest of the status effect will chip away at the last of his HP. Congratulations, you beat Elemer of the Briar using game knowledge and your own wits. The victory is still a victory.

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Walk in -> summon greatshield soldier ashes -> Go to town on this guy.

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elemer of the delayed attack

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Eochaid Ollathair is another name for Dagda, the chief deity of the Irish pantheon

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The best piece of advice I've given to myself while facing him: two R1 attacks (or one R1 attack with Great/Colossal weapons), one L1 power-stance attack, or one Double Slash L2. He's got very fast attack recovery animations; trying to commit to anymore attacks will only make me lose the combat tempo against him.

Play it VERY safe against him. His fight only gets way harder if I let him use any of his telekinetic attacks outside of that huge circular attack.

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the run to this fight is abominable

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I'm surprised that he is weaker than the Caelid Bell Bearing Hunter.

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Even without parry: just sticking close works wonders. if you are keep distance you'll get wrecked by a ton of telekinesis attacks, in melee this dude has very predictable moves and a lot of opportunities to punish and stun him

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who the **** made this long ass chart with his attack patterns, he is not that hard

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His body remains on the floor rather than disappearing if you kill him after a riposte. Convenient for teabagging.

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If you are having a hard time with this dude, just parry. His close range attacks are easy to learn. Destroyed him at lvl 30 with a buckler.

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Fought him twice now with two separate but similar builds. Took him down first try both times. Strategy: +10 mimic spirit. Night Comet spell with +6 crystal staff, spell boosted with staff of loss in offhand. He hardlly even dented me, but the mimic is great at drawing his attention.

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hate to be that person, but why is there no mention of patches?
im pretty sure if you follow his quest and go kill elemer after rykard then patches joins the fight
i might be misremembering but im 90% sure i didnt dream that up :,d

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So the one in Caelid had 10k health but the actual version has half that??

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Used to hate fighting this guy but as soon as I spent the time learning to parry him it's probably the most satisfying fight in the game and I would highly recommend you try it. Plus you can fight him like 4 times if you do the Bell-Bearing Hunters as well, though the whole having to pass time in order to try the fight again thing is awful.

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Learn to dodge 3 attacks and parry 2 more and he literally can't beat you

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Elemer of the Briar, pfft. More like Elemer Fudd, amirite?

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The furniture is the real boss of this fight.

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The field fights against this guy are great but the fight in Shaded Castle is really bad. They shouldn't have shoved him in that tiny room, he doesn't belong there and the camera is abysmal.

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this boss made me feel like it was worth it - all the hours i spent learning how to parry

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I absolutely love how I just bullied this guy with nothing but a 20 vigor spellblade build, a buckler and a lightning misericorde. Y’all just salty bcuz of r1 spam not working. One strategy does not kill every boss.

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Elemer always be actin gangsta right until someone pulls out dragon king's cragblade. like seriously, there is no weapon more tailored to a specific boss than this combo.

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This is honestly one of my favorite fights in the game. His moveset is so sick. I’m not good at fighting him, but whenever I see someone get a clean fight, it’s always so smooth and satisfying.

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elden ring fans be like "this fight was fun, very honorable and interesting once you learn his moveset" about an enemy that you cannot heal against, has triple a 99 vigor character's hp, has no punishable attacks, can't be stance broken (tested upward on a colossal hammer, hit him 7 times before he killed me and he didn't get stance broken) and has multiple moves that cannot be blocked or rolled through including a grab that literally cannot be avoided and forces you to simply tank. if you're too far he spams magic sword attacks that literally do not stop long enough to heal or regain stamina forcing you to get close, but when you're close he uses a shield bash that can't be blocked, but if you roll past the shield while staying close he uses a arcane aoe that can't be blocked or dodged, but if you roll away he continues his magic sword attacks. the only thing this guy has for him is at least he doesn't delay attacks.

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This guy hates merchants.
Most relatable character in the story

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If you're melee, don't even bother staying mid or long range for any reason, you're just going to get a magic sword to the face. Get right on his booty and stay there. All his moves are very telegraphed and easy to dodge. If you're using a greatsword or heavier, I'd recommend using your fastest attacks so he can't catch your recovery; save your heavy hits for when he uses the shield slam, but keep an eye out for when it glows red indicating an AoE explosion will erupt from it when he pulls it out of the ground.

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I wander what he’s thinking staring at Marais baitin portrait.

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This guy is the definition of badass. I'd pay the DLC more if they'd expand on the land of Eochaid, but Ik we'll never get that

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I tend to unequip most or all of my armor when fighting him to get the light load fast rolls. Then your just dodge all his **** and stay behind him.

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Shh... Be vewy, vewy quiet... I'm hunting Tawnished...

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Get directly behind them and you can stunlock them into shieldbashing the ground repeatedly.

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This boss really feels to me like he was tuned for mele combat but last minute they added a lot of stuff to counter ranged characters in annoying way. As a mele fight - its one of the best in the game, but for a caster it felt a little unfair that he has more range and quicker attacks with a sword that I had with my spells and radagon icon

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He's not that bad when you start dodging per reaction and not panicking...

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The best zoner in the game is a fking grappler

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Coolest and punishing boss for staying too far from him, i felt like a true swordsman fighting him in close quarter. Defeating him gains me self-accomplishment

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From what I have heard about him through Lore + the image of Malenia in his castle. To me, it implies that the man who desires nothing, desires Malenia. If what I've heard is true, this guy is my favorite character. Look up his lore on why he Hunts merchants.

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I would like him way more if you didn’t fight him 3 times beforehand and the arena didn’t have the annoying chairs and tables that get in the way

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The arena this guy is in is so annoying, with my strafes blocked by a random chair not destroyed yet. Still not as bad as the Fringefolk Catacombs tree spirit

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The way I did win was using the Greatshield Soldier Ashes, they could tank him just enough for me to punish him, 3 critical strikes and it was done (barely)

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this guy is not only fairly easy but very fun once you learn how to dodge his attacks. If you spam dodge, he will rollcatch you. just stay near him, dodge reactively, and punish. He has fairly long punish windows, so wait for them to open up. If you need to heal, give up an attack opportunity to do so. when he grabs, roll towards/past his grabbing hand when its as high as it goes. I have never once been grabbed by him.

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Once I calmed down and got into the mood to learn a challenging fight, this guy was very fun. The hardest part of the fight is learning when to heal, which I normally reserved for after a shield slam. In my winning run he used the grab attack SIX times, of which I only dodged once lmao. The hit box is generous to say the least.

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Pursuer 2 electric boogaloo

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He can't decide at what range he wanted to be

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can this dude decided which range he want to be?

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Is there any windot to heal without him attacking you again? After he finishes his combo i try to heal and he already starts another one before finish, causing me to get in the cycle of healing, then getting hit while healing, and repeating.

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Funnily enough the first version of this guy I fought was the one in Dragonbarrow, so when I found the Shaded Castle later on this guy was a walk in the park since I already learned his behavior from the Dragonbarrow version.

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I beat this guy on my first try. Didn't expect weak foe.

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You, technically you never killed him because the bell bearing hunters are still alive even after you kill him in shaded castle. I think they are saving him for more encounters in teh upcoming DLC IMO ofc.

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A garbage boss to be frank, invalidates basically anything slower than a charged heavy because for some reason they decided overload his kit with ridiculously quick and high damaging ranged attacks.

Another fight where the age old strategy is just to hug his cheeks, and to add insult to injury you don't even get to use the cool telekinetic attacks? Why would you show it me if I can't have it?

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Killing him with a crit causes his corpse to not disappear.
you can parry him when his sword is not floating

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Playing offensive seems to be rewarded. Staying close to him, baiting, and hiting him worked pretty good for me.

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Great shield will tank out most of his damage + a lighting spear or thrusting sword can do a good job on him (as you can attack while you behind the shield. There is that lighting incantation cover you with lighting that good extra fortification too. I think most people find it difficult as he not as sensitive to bleed than most of the others so a bloody slash do t finish him in a few hit. I mostly ran with a bleed claymore and noticed that the thrust attack break him more easily, if you also prepared your weapon with lighting damage is the best.

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So after trying out different builds, I came to the conclusion that the easiest way is with a Greatshield and a weapon of your choice paired with the Greatshield talisman. Strat is -> go in his face and hold the shield up. wait for attack to bounce then hit. After 2-3 of these he will be stance broken and u can crit. While down after the crit, drink a flask. DO NOT go in range, that's when he punishes hard. Stay in his face at all time, except when he tries to grab, then roll. Hope this helps. I tried a lot of approaches but this one worked the best. Did it in 2 tries, after countless attempts with different other builds.

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he's my favorite boss because he hates mages just as much as i do

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He does 700-1300dmg per hit with medium armour at greyolls Dragon Barrow.
Very nasty stuff.
You can only parry the non-red sword attacks. You need to do it twice because he doesn't follow the rules. Resistant to bleed.

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Wayyyy to spammy. More annoying than fun to learn honestly.

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I died between 12-24 times then no-hit the last run and melted him just because I got lucky he didn't do his grab. he's not literally the worst but he is pretty cringe.

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Its 256th boss in the franchise with bs cheating range attacks. How about we finally get any boss who is our size, with a weapon that is the size of our weapon, doesnt teleports/slides without animations and doesnt have magic around his sword that extends its range by 10 times?

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he wont drop his shield in the 1.00 version, he will only give the executioner sword

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Strong enemy ahead
But try parry

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Idk why but this guy just feels like the most Dark Souls looking boss in game in terms of aesthetic.

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I loved this boss. Didn't think this one would garner so much frustration. I get it though. I hate the fortisaxx fight while many seem to enjoy it. To each their own.

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This boss taught me that my existence is a punish window.

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This one was my most frustrating fight so far (first play through) but mostly because of my own mistakes right at the end.

Ended up just grabbing a seal and shield and black flaming him to death, that was much easier.

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Nothing about this encounter is “well-balanced”. I hope Fromsoft stops making horrible fights like this. Frame trapping spam bosses aren’t fun to fight at all.

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This is absolutely trash boss design. Too much damage and input reads attacks. Then spams attacks that frame-trap you when you mistime a roll and get input buffered. I don’t understand the praise this fight gets, it’s actual artificial difficulty. It’s straight up horrendously designed and anyone who likes this kind of fake difficulty is a little fanboy who thinks “oh man, I died a lot so = hard game!!!”

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Cheap boss with one of the worst mechs in the game. Spam dodge, he gets you, don't spam dodge and he gets you, far away, up close, and stupid ass attack style. Why even move your hand if you you can control the blade with your mind?

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One of my fav boss fights. Up close and personal in a small arena. Just the way I like it.

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Love this boss. Feels like one of the fairest in this game, and he has a move set that creates a punishing fight for all builds. His fight demands strategy, but not in an annoying way. And by now you've probably also been harassed by him multiple times before, this entire side boss just oozes personality and style.

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I love the design of him and early on when he showed up at the Warmaster's shack he bullied me... once I got to him in the shrouded castle tho he died fairly quickly to dual lightning pickaxes

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Pretty easy to tell who R1-spam-and-panic-rolls by the comments here.

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Out of the minor side bosses, he's probably the coolest. Something about fighting him just has the perfect mix of "This guy is better than you" and "this is a fair clash of blades". Honestly love this boss, even if he's essentially just Darth Vader.

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I love how all his attacks hit behind him as well. Think you're out of the way of an attack? Nah he got you.

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Elemer of the Briar (and by extension the Bell-Bearing Hunter) is probably one of the coolest bosses in the game.

I personally LOVE how he punishes you hard for staying far away from him because it's the game's way of telling you to stay close to him at all times. And even if you're staying far away from him, he can always close the gap by tackling you with his shield.

I was fighting this boss with a sword-and-board playstyle, and this fight was really fun, because you can just absolutely bully this dude. When he's spawning in, just absolutely wail on him, and when he winds up to attack, prepare to parry. After you parry him the first time, attacking afterwards will cause him to flinch, and when he winds up for another attack, parry him, and if you want, take the riposte and rinse and repeat. It's kinda like how Sekiro works, or if you want to stretch it, kinda like how Dark Souls 1 combat, where enemies were slow enough where you could attack with a small weapon, and you could just parry them since parries were practically instantaneous.

The grab attack is admittedly a bit weird, but I get that he's using his powers to sort of force grab you from a distance.

Anyways, cool boss, cool lore, I wish his weapons were a bit cooler when we use them (though the sword ain't half-bad), and I wish he'd show up in more places so we get more bell-bearings for stuff (i.e. craftables, ammunition, etc.)

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Probably the worst boss design in the game. Frame trapping bullsh*t moveset and add on the ridiculous input buffer this game has lol. Tolerable if you parry but miss one parry and you’re done. Cheap design truly as “artificially” difficult as you can make a boss.

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Easy Peasy with a good weapon, summon, and buff.. just watch out for that Drilling Blade

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I did swang and bang with him using Grafted Blade Greatsword ash of war "Oath of Vengeance". Didn't even look at what is he doing. I recommend it %80 of all bosses as well. SWANG AND BANG.

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This guy’s moveset is so dangerous, it doesn’t matter how good you are, you can still get absolutely mulched by him if you’re not careful. He seriously has an attack for all occasions.

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Can be killed in stealth by using poison mist. Assassin's gambit, unseen form, crepus vial and concealing veil needed.

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Great boss, after each combo. Hit him once and stay close to him. His grab takes about 3 seconds, so bait that out.

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Everything wrong with Elden ring boss design lmao. One of Fromsoft’s worst boss designs of all time (unless you parry lol)

Spams attacks, almost no openings, awful grab hitbox, ridiculous damage. Way more tedious than fun. Good thing this castle is so far out of the way I always forget it exists.

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It would be cool to have a little "Recommended Stats" Section for each boss. This Game is open world and i like to explore a lot and dont want to end up being overleveled.

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stay right next to him and parry the hell out of him and he becomes laughably easy. 1 charged and 2 jumping heavy attacks from a hammer will stagger him that + parries trivializes him.

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more reach on his grab than marth in melee

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i like this guy, becomes manageable when you stay close so he doesn't spam the floating sword atks.

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**** this guy... Managed to beat him with my main (strength build) on my 18th try. Just got the dodge timing down and staggered him twice. Gonna avoid this boss on my next playthrough... More annoying than hard.

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Doesn't it feel like there are two very slightly different leadups to his grab attack? It seems like i can reliably dodge the grab maybe 80% of the time and then once in a while he will take just a moment longer and track me just a tad more aggressively and i get caught in it. Maybe it's just my imagination.

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Just a random guy who can tank more hits than Radahan.

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Vyke swat spear +5 first try

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Gimmick is you can't heal because seemingly every attack is a heal punish. Best to stay up close with well timed dodges

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I found Elemer to be particularly vulnerable to lightning----though he does respond quickly to re-focus on you (even if he's fighting a summoned knight), as if he knows that lightning weakness about himself, and really needs to deal with you before you kill him. It was pretty sweet breaking his poise and finishing him off with the sword.

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i hope the dlcs gives us an un****ed version of his armor, it looks sick

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Wasn't expecting this hecker to pull out unicorn magic

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So yeah just keep right next to him so he never uses the bullshit moves

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yeah I'm summoning

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Had a perfect fight at lvl 52 with a +3 regalia of eochaid and +0 skeletal militiaman. I got quite few parries as well.

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what i wouldn't give for that command grab throw as an ash of war

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A really solid mid game 'git gud' check against a really cool design in a tough setting. I like this one.

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Lightning Spear Does a chunk of damage. Ashed-in Omenkiller Rollo to tank as a distraction, kept my distance, let Rollo gain his aggro, and Lightning Speared him. Repeat. Didn't even get a hit on me.

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+10 Bolt of gransax with Godfrey Icon, Lightning Scorpion Charm, Carian Filigreed Crest, And Warrior Jar Shard makes this boss trivial if anyone is struggling

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