Bosses | Elden Ring Wiki

Really hope they read and took to heart the criticism if a lot of the end game bosses and dont make the same mistakes in the DLC. Radagon/Elden Beast was not fun to fight but just tedious same with others like Fire Giant and Malekith. I guess its just opinion, but ive been a long time souls fan and these were some of the worse bosses next to DS2. I did like Mohg, Malenia, and Hourah Loux, hoping DLC bosses are more like them. Elden Ring endgame had the problem of just having bosses with endless attacks and almost no openings, hard to read start up animations that all look way too similar leading to just tedium rather than a difficult challenge that is enjoyable to overcome.

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My favorite boss is the one with the health bar. You know that one?

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What your favorite Demi-god says about YOU(I’m including Godrick)

Godrick: you in joy the simpler things in life, no mechanics, no gimmicks, just straight forward and fun.
Radahn: you like to feel like a bada$$. You mostly praise radahn and call him a Chad.
Rykard: your a meme lord. Or you like Snakes.
Ranni: your a simp, don’t lie, your not fooling anyone. You wonder what ranni could do with her four hands
Morgott: your a sucker for sad backstories, you probably pity morgott. Either that or you’re a simp.
Godwyn: You probably feel bad for what happened too him and hate ranni for it. You love dragons and the golden order.
Mohg: you probably like him purely for his fight. Will 100% take Latin classes. Probably believes the theory that miquella made Mohg fall in love with him.
Malenia: your a masochist. Probably does a malenia cosplay.
Miquella: you think miquella is the purest character in the series and will deny it if he turns out to be a villain. Either that or your Mohg.

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The dlc will make us hate miquella. I know it will be a Griffith reference

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Is it true that commander nial turns your banished knight summons against you?

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Odd fact: bewitching branches don’t affect haligtree knights of miquella. Guess Miquella got them first

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my favorite boss was Taxes

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I'm the main boss

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A rune bear, royal revenant, and two pre nerf bleed dogs would be 10x harder then malenia

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why is it impossible to find a numbered list of elden ring bosses? I just want to write script to randomly select a boss. Do I need to decompile the game code? wtf?

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I'm 0nly 9 and I have defeated 56 bosses ( 3 shard bearers )

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I beat Renala first try she was so easy...

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I have deafeated 56 bosses ( 3 shard bearers )

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Every main boss in a nut shell
Margit: on the count of three I will hit thee, 1, 2, 2 and a half, 3
Godrick: *starts break dancing randomly*
Red wolf of radagon: im totally not Sif who fell into a paint bucket and learned magic.
Rennala: no cost too great (aka child murder)
Radahn: I’m going to do a canon ball from SPACE
God serpent: don’t heck the snek
Rykard: now we can devour the very gods together!!!
Godfrey ( round 1): the dog peed on me
Morgott: damn I shouldn’t have eaten McDonald’s this morning *pukes*
Fire giant: feet for our lord and savior.
Godskin duo: we are ripping off of O and S and four kings at the same time.
Melikath: death explosion into a back flip into a wall jump into death floor.
Mohg: I took Latin classes while in the sewers.
Loratta: hey, hey you do you want to fight the same bourse knight enemy for the 6th time?
Malenia: remember when if a boss or enemy was blind FS would actually make that into a gimmick. lol I don’t do that git gud loser.
Gideon: I have put all my blue flask into my blood stream.
Godfrey( 2nd round): When I say stomp you say jump. Alright let’s begin.
Radagon of the golden order: flash bang time!!!!
Elden beast: tarnished, you have been eating too many ice creams and cakes as of late, we need to burn off some fat before you can be Elden lord.

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Crucible Knight Siluria is a "great enemy felled." Probably shouldn't be but they are. Idk if this is an oversight or intended but this has them listed as a field boss.

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as of today, there are 173 total bosses in the list above. i did NOT want to have to count them manually, so please have a boss count somewhere on this page, PLEASE

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as of today, there are 173 total bosses in the list above. i did NOT want to have to count them manually, so please have a boss count somewhere on this page, PLEASE

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I have this feeling messmer snakes will be similar to owl in sekiro with their own attacks

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I have this feeling messmer snakes will be similar to owl in sekiro with their own attacks

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I really hope fromsoft adds a mechanic where you can Re-fight bosses, it could be like a "memory of the fight" kinda thing.
I do a lot of co-op because the interactions are fun, but it'd be amazing if we could fight them one-on-one again without having to go to NG+ and also to re-challenge the bosses to fully learn their movesets and find interesting ways to dodge their attacks without being a burden to someone else because you are trying goofy stuff.
also sometimes the bosses do some really, really jank stuff because of the netcode during multiplayer.

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the image for Astel, Naturalborn of the Void in the Boss List by Boss Type tab is erroneously Astel, Stars of Darkness

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the image for Astel, Naturalborn of the Void in the Boss List by Boss Type tab is erroneously Astel, Stars of Darkness

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Alabaster Lord is now Onyx Lord in the royal grave Evergaol

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So either the lion dancer from Shadow of the Erdtree is a draconian or related to the wraith callers, at least judging from his skin color in the game.

I can tell some evidence about the first one is that the dancer wields lightning in the trailer and, well, that’s a dragon thing.

But the second I can justify by the fact that the dancer has multiple limbs intertwined inside the lion, something we’ve seen in wraith callers too. But that’s still anybody’s guess

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Duelists, omens, omenkillers, envoy longhorn, alabaster and onyx lords, miners, leonine misbegotten, battle mages, bloodhound knights and certain ancestral followers can be stunned if blocking with antskull gs. Odd but I tested it

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Whether a mistake or not, the fact that miranda blighted blooms bleed and can be put to sleep is very uncanny

Paints quite the picture of these things in a subtle way

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So far the trailer for the DLC hasnt show any unique ideas to boss design approach. I get it you love Mesmer already etc, but we have another couple of oversized bosses spamming AoE coming up. Mesmer himself obviously has oversized weapon and unnaturally long arms to fool people when judging his range. The lion people look another thing that's going to hang up in the air for way too long and we already seen like 3 different AoE attacks from it.

I just want a single boss that has mele range similiar to ours, without constant AoE and stomp spam, ranged spam and jumping 30 meters away.

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This section was mislabeled comments all I see are complaints nobody is making you play just take a minute and a couple of deep breaths before you decide what to say because there not going to change the gameplay now. Lets try and make the comments section useful with the bits of lore tips on how to defeat and helpful info not just pages of complaints to scroll though. Sure go a head and make fun of this optimistic concept but I stand by it. Besides its elden ring we would all be disappointed if it was easy.

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Why does ghostflame inflict magic damage?

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Something interesting that may apply to all bosses in the game, is that they wont ever go to phase 2 if you dont attack them directly after their hp goes around 50% (just tried it by using rot dog + poison mist with godrick, stopped attacking after nearly 50% with rot dog dead, stayed in first phase until he died of the rot + poison)

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Question. Why do people like radahn so much? I get that his lore is cool but i think the fight itself is pretty uninteresting moveset wise.

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>NOTE: Some bosses are needed to beat the game but don't give an achievement (like Draconic Tree Sentinel, Sir Gideon Ofnir, Elden Beast) so they will not be listed in the list

Draconic Tree Sentinel is not a required boss.

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There’s a total of 7 mausoleums, and I always wondered what killed those demigods. And then I read the godskin noble robe description. Their seven face apron might mean something

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Elden Ring is like Diablo 4, it has thousands of generic dungeons with the same animals, we have thousands of caves and generic cemeteries with repeated bosses. Good thing we don't live in an 8-bit world, so the software front can change the color of each enemy and boss to look different lol

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My favorite character is Vladimir Putin

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Love Elden Ring's fights and areas, hate their bosses minus a lot of unique ones like Radahn. Not even in a "too hard" or "just bad" way. I just hate pack filler being from what feels like 90% of the game when what made other Fromsoft games noteworthy was the bosses, bad or otherwise, were memorable. Some polished, some pure nightmare and some straight from a lunatic asylum but most if not all were memorable. Can you remember most of the fights in Elden Ring's bosses feeling distinct? I honestly can't when a lot bleed into each other being reused or feeling similar in design of Giant Monster Camera Struggle, Large Reflex Test with very deliberate button tracking or Gank Spank Mob Monsters you saw in a dungeon maybe 10 hours ago. Sad when most of the main bosses (and some optional) showed very unique ideas with a good twist in their fight design.

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Love Elden Ring's fights and areas, hate their bosses minus a lot of unique ones like Radahn. Not even in a "too hard" or "just bad" way. I just hate pack filler being from what feels like 90% of the game when what made other Fromsoft games noteworthy was the bosses, bad or otherwise, were memorable. Some polished, some pure nightmare and some straight from a lunatic asylum but most if not all were memorable. Can you remember most of the fights in Elden Ring's bosses feeling distinct? I honestly can't when a lot bleed into each other being reused or feeling similar in design of Giant Monster Camera Struggle, Large Reflex Test with very deliberate button tracking or Gank Spank Mob Monsters you saw in a dungeon maybe 10 hours ago. Sad when most of the main bosses (and some optional) showed very unique ideas with a good twist in their fight design.

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If you don’t beat the game with every enemy as elden beast while only using a non upgraded coded sword, your casual

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What order should I take if I want to fight every single boss in a single playthrough?

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You say not to count all these garbage dungeon bosses as bosses, but FromSoftware B Team decided to give them a boss health bar and mash them together in gank fights so I will. 90% of this game dungeon bosses are just a bullshhhttt that you beat by outrading him when you're high enough lvl. Nobody goes about in depth fight analysis of erdtree burial watchdogs. Hell no. You just go there overleveled, kill them in 5 hits, 20 seconds and still get annoyed by the stunlock from their jump aoes blending together.

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What is your favorite boss in each souls borne game from DeS-ER. Mine is
DeS: old king allant, this is the only boss that actually possesses a challenge, and it’s a fun move set( though that grab is just cruel)
DS1: Manus, the only problem with this fight is that manus blends in with the back ground, but I love how the magic and physical attacks combined and it’s a genuinely a good boss
DS2: darklurker, one of the few good Ds2 bosses, darklurker has a basic enough move set that even when double it still is manageable, it’s one of the best duo fights in the game
DS3: twin princes, because I am the best boss the the series
BB: Ludwig, duh, like we all known why Ludwig is a great fight
ER: morgott, i utterly love this fight, the move set is clean, and arena is good only flaw is that he is a bit squishy.

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going to copy all these into a spreadsheet so I can track what I am missing on my current playthrough, want everyone dead before we get any solid DLC news

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Elden ring haters when the new area reuses a 3 bosses but doesn’t include 158 unique ones (they must now immediately kill themselves)

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Rating major ER bosses & demigods by whether they're tops, bottoms or switches

Godrick: Bottom
Morgott: Bottom
Mohg: Top
Rennala: Switch
Rykard: Switch
Radahn: Switch
Ranni: Bottom
Fortissax: Bottom
Fire Giant: Bottom
Maliketh: Bottom
Placidusax: Top
Godfrey: Switch
Godwyn: Switch
Malenia: Top
Miquella: No
Melina: Top
Radagon: Bottom
Marika: Top

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most of the non-remembrance bosses are boring garbage

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I think this game's bosses are the result of fromsoft-pushing the limit of their dodge and hit combat in order to make the game challenging for players who have been doing that same style of combat for over a decade now. Honestly, if they make another game like this it should have a different combat system so everyone can start out bad and the bosses can be built around that (like what Serkiro did but depart even more from the core combat of the soul's games) instead of pushing "challening but fair" to its absolute limit

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No cancerous platforming boss fight yet. DLC inbound. I hope you get your wish.

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With the addition of a dedicated jump button I was pleasantly surprised there was no cancerous platforming boss fight.

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"Since all of the shardbearers (excluding Radahn and Mohg) have Bosses that need to be beaten to reach them, the minimum number of Bosses required to reach Leyndell is 3"

It's worth noting that this must be done in a very specific way if you want to only fight these 3. Radahn must die first, and in order to be able to do that, the Radahn festival must be active. The only way of activating it without needing to fight any extra bosses is to grab both halves of the Dectus medallion and use them to get to the Altus plateau via the lift (it is possible to get to the lift without fighting any bosses via the path that goes around Stormveil Castle). Once there, activate a grace site - any apart from those in Volcano Manor will do. This will trigger the Radahn festival and activate the sending gate at the Impassable Greatbridge.

When Radahn is dead, you can then use Varre's quest to get into Mohgwyn Palace to fight Mohg, and then go back to the Altus Plateau to finish your trip into Leyndell with the Draconic Tree Sentinel.

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Rennala, Rykard, Regal Ancestor Spirit, Fortissax: overrated bosses that are in fact absolute garbage, gameplay wise. Great performance and lore, but that's it. I have more fun fighting ulcerated tree spirits than them, honestly. And if you wonder why I hate the deer: runs away twice as much as Elden Beast, stupid teleportation, hitboxes and regen. Regen is especially annoying on ng+7 since it's % based

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Not challenging but annoying. Not thrilling but frustrating. Not rewarding but relieving.

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The image for Complete List of Boss Stats incorrectly states that Gideon is immune to madness.
The Madness page doesn't list which Bosses are weak/Immune to madness.

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Alot of these bosses feel so underwhelming. Dont get me wrong the main ones are amazing especially radahn and fortissax, but so many feel like filler. I dont feel anything fighting them and winning against them alot of the time, it just doesnt have the same hype to me as other souls games.

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Honestly I don't mind the fact that most of the minibosses don't deserve their health bar. It serves as a motivation for new players if the get stuck on a main boss and then go fight minibosses to grow stronger, even though 10 night cavalries were probably overkill.

What I don't like however is that even large bosses are repeated. A second Astel and Mohg are non-sensical. 10 dragons are also rudundant especially if half of these are just the same moveset but with different elements and statuses. They should've just made the spells/weapons these repeated bosses drop hidden loot in the overworld.

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I'm a bad noy

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Bosses having second phases where they gain ranged projectiles, huge aoes and the ability to fly around the arena seemed like interesting and cool boss design the first time the game did it. Then Niall does it, then Malenia does it, then Mohg does it, then Maliketh does it, and it starts to feel kids trying to one-up each other on the playground. With the amount of late game bosses who do this exact thing I think it's a grace-given miracle that the Fire Giant doesn't have an extra phase where you break his second leg and he grows wings and starts zooming around the mountaintop like a stunt motorcycle.

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All these smart people who say that using cheese weapon with mimic trivialize X boss make me laugh every time

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Man they really lowered the value of the Boss HP bar in this one. Feels like i could encounter a group of squids on a beach and the bigger one will be granted a boss HP bar.

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Let's just make it clear, "most" of these bosses are not reused common enemies. Can you name any bosses who falls into this category besides Duelists and Watchdogs? And even so, they appear as mobs only in late game, and in very small quantitites. Sure, there are also some exceptions like Demi-Human Chiefs, Cemetery Shade (who occurs as an respawnable enemy only once), Miranda, Omenkiller, Crystalians but that's all iirc. You may also bring up Tree Spirits, but there is a difference between a common enemy and the mini boss. People's tendency for exaggerating things is ludicrous. As if everyone is pointing out that "this boss is not unique" only to bring some attention to their persona, honestly. I may sound like elden ring fanboy with this one, but that's just how things really are

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Fried chicken

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I think whenever someone calls balance "overtuned," you can safely discard their opinion until they provide further elaboration. We aren't talking about violins here, that word is so vague in the context of a video game that it basically means nothing by itself. Just a thought I had reading all the incredible opinion pieces below.

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Battlemage Hugues and Cleanrot Knight duo shouldn't be listed as Dragonbarrow bosses. The part of Dragonbarrow where evergaol and the cave are located is separated from the rest of the region by blazing wall and scaled to Caelid's level.

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There are 165 bosses, but Greyoll is not counted as one of them, even though the wiki says so, right?

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Morgott is my favourite boss, you can fight me on that.

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I don't really know if these bosses are unfair or not, but that doesn't excuse the fact that they're simply not fun.

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most of these are just slightly stronger common enemies

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Elden ring overused of fogwall boss is a great flaw. They could just design the dungeon better with those boss by making them normal enemies and make the dungeon more challenge with more enemies variety and good placement without the need of a boss. The lever is already a good indicator that you finish the dungeons. But instead they made it always a mid enemies being boss, it not fun for over leveled player to went on those dungeons bc they know the boss is a push over, instead of setting expectation on the boss elden ring could just set it good more dungeons like trap fill with more enemies.

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I had more fun with bed of chaos and semon of dong and watchdog of old lords than half of these

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I love how everyone complains about these bosses being bad and not having any openings even though their openings are so obvious and also ds3 was literally R1 Spam Simulator and the rolling was just so op

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My top 10:
1. Radahn
2. Placidusax
3. Godrick (Godrick in front of Godfrey, how could I ?! well he doesnt spam aoes that much and I like the pace of the fight much more)
4. Godfrey
5. Limgrave Tree Sentinel
6. Astel
7. Rykard
8. Elemer of the Briar
9. Rennala (the music, the atmosphere made me lose on purpose on my 1st playthrough)
10. Sir Gideon Ofnir The All- ok just kidding. It's Ancestor Spirit.

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Love this game but bosses are the weakest part of it.

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my favourite boss in the game is elden beast because its a fat whale

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In Capital Outskirts there is a Ulcerated Tree Spirit. It is West of that Minor Erdtree Church.
(https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ulcerated+Tree+Spirit#capital-outskirts)

In Leyndell, Royal Capital is a Erdtree Avatar right on the main avenue, which i cannot find on the list.
(https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Erdtree+Avatar#leyndell-royal-capital)

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So elden ring decided to be like ds2 and sacrifice boss quality for quantity?

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People would be less complain about reused enemies if tree spirit, tree avatar and their putrid counterpart have no boss hp bar and super weak to fire like the push of man in ds3, it should be stun lock them and deal massive amount of dmg toward tree enemies just like how heal to revenant.

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Idk what the hell happened to fromsoft in terms of the hitboxes, ds3 had damn near perfect hitboxes, and even though you can't expect that for ALL the bosses in elden ring just cause of the large quantity, even the main bosses have complete garbage hitboxes, damn near stooping to ds2 level at certain points. The hitboxes on the bigger bosses are so small to the point that shorter weapons literally can't hit them, and their attack hitboxes linger for a solid 0.5 second afterwards, which doesn't sound too bad but in a fast paced game where one hit can send you back to a grace it is a very big issue

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Hi there, "Onyx Lord" and "Alabaster Lord" of Liurnia (Caria Manor) are duplicate references to bosses, since both appear to be located in Royal Grave Evergaol?

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all of these bosses are a pale shade to the brutality of Mist Noble in Sekiro, still have nightmares to this day

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stop playing the game like ds4, causes its not, stance breaking is an important thing and mentioned in the tutorial cave, bosses have openings to do charged and jump attacks, like radagons stomp, jump heavy, theres even stuff like crystal tears that support stance breaking. obviously some things are bad but people love acting like the bosses in other games are perfect

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Honestly, ER bosses are better than ds3 bosses. DS3 bosses just hit rest hit rest hit rest hit rest, but in elden ring they literally go hit hit hit hit fly away combo up down left right input read your heals and be a ****ing ******* for 4 hours straight.

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Why cant we rematch the bosses (scaled to Player level)? Imagine we could fight an actually dangerous godrick.

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Misbegotten Warrior and Perfumer Tricia duo in the Unsightly Catacombs is probably the most cancerous and unfair gank fight in the game for me. Misbegotten is a distinctly aggressive opponent with wide range of attacks, while Tricia constantly spams spark and uplifting aromatics, and considering how small their boss room is you just don't have a chance to fight one of them separately without another striking you from the back. Moreover, you can't summon spirit ashes in this particular fight (unlike in any other catacombs and dungeons) and there is no stake of Marika before the fog wall, so you have to run through whole dungeon after losing to them every time. Godskin Duo fight is actually balanced compared to this one.

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There is no boss version of the Lion Guardian

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DLC theory: The DLC will have Miquella as a major character, but probably not a boss. Miquella wanted to bring Godwyn's soul back through Castle Sol and The Eclipse. You know what enemies are related with Castle Sol though? Mausoleum Knights. And where are Mausoleum Knights often found? Protecting the Wandering Mausoleums, which house the bodies of soulless demigods. What if in the DLC Miquella manages to activate The Eclipse, and not only revives Godwyn but the other soulless demigods who will all be the bosses of the DLC.

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Near the bottom of the required bosses list it states the Draconic Tree Sentinel is required to beat the game but not for the achievement. This is not true. To beat the game you can easily use Fia's transporter to get past him and all of Altus Plateau. In my current run through I don't have a single grace unlocked in Altus and I am just delaying starting a new game plus.

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Elden Ring is an unfair disappoinment.

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I've come to the conclusion that boss difficulty in this game is greatly overrated. Not because of any magic or broken weapons, but rather because only in Elden Ring can you send it with a lower body invul jump attack that leads to a crit, or easily force one with charged R2s. No special abilities needed, just understanding system mechanics and how stance-breaking works.

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wwwewpeee

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Half the bosses are copy pastes of other bosses, they could've just given them a bit different weapon or slightly different looks at least but nope, just the exact fight.

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I don't understand why Myazaky still didn't find a better way to block the players from proceeding than the "orange fog"
The same thing for trivial solutions to navigate the map, like the "neverending Snake Eater's stairs" such as the one in Miquella's Heligtree

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What's up with the people who claim that these bosses are designed to be mowed down with huge dps? Like, it's okay if that's what you want to do, but they're clearly not. Otherwise they wouldn't have such intricate movesets. They're designed to be tackled in multiple ways, just like in the Souls games.

It's kind of annoying that people always have to defend the way they play as the "correct" one, but rather than "pure melee," now it's just the most casual one because lots of people are having a skill issue. Which is fine. Not everyone has to be a god gamer or anything like that. But at least be able to admit it, man.

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Seems this comment section is full of followers of Sir Gideon Ofnir, THE ALL-COPING.

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lol the comentarscetion is the best pvp in elden ring and funny to read

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Incredible that this game has, Margit, one of the best video game bosses of all time while also having some of the worst bosses I've ever experienced.

I'd rather fight 50 variations of Margit then some of the god awful fights this game has.

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where is an actual good boss, like champion gundyr?????????

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They need to add a boss rush/rematch mode. I don't want to have to deal with this game's playerbase whenever I want to fight a boss again without playing through the whole game.

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Caelid doesn't have an erdtree avatar, it's a putrid avatar instead

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The Tibia Mariner in mountain tops is not a boss, it doesn't have a boss health bar. The wiki also mentions it, just noticed that during my all bosses run.

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The Tibia Mariner in mountain tops is not a boss, it doesn't have a boss health bar. Their wiki page also mentions it, just noticed that during my all bosses run.

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the article states that the minimum bosses to enter Leyndell is 3: Radahn; Mohg; and either Draconic Tree Sentinel or Fia's Champions.

While this is true for the Draconic Tree Sentinel route, going through the Deeproot Depths would require more than 3 bosses, as you would need to defeat the Valiant Gargoyle duo in Siofra Aqueduct to gain access to the Deeproot Depths, since the other entrance through the Subterranean Shunning Grounds isn't available until gaining access to Leyndell

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