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This guy ate the gum gum fruit

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Godskin Apostle's second phase is honestly leagues more fun than his first phase, meanwhile the Noble's second phase is leagues more braindead and torturous than his first phase

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RL55 40 Vig 39 Str +11 Claymore doing 263 per hit impossible.

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Absolute peak boss

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The poise on this guy

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You can use Carian Retaliation on the black flame fireball

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Lord brotha, I promise to fight you again with honor next time. I couldn't resist the urge to win, forgive me for the ridiculous death I brought to you. I promise to kill you with more style in next oportunity. With love, your worst enemy, the Tarnished.

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The one in Caelid blasted my ass mercilessly more then 50 times I think. I won when I started the fight buffing myself with bestial vitality and drank a physick to raise my fire attack power and damage negation. The weapon of victory was a +18 nagakiba infused with sword dance. I kept imbuing my nagakiba with bloodflame everytime I could. That bastard was killing me with 2 hits (30 vigor) until I used the talisman to raise my flame resistance that I got from killing the two b*tchmen of Farum Azula. I used the crimson hood too just to survive 2 hits. The remaining of the set used was champion pauldron, nox bracelets and bandit boots for fashion. 70% of my attacks were R2 (powered thrust), 25% were sword dance, and the remaining 5% were the normal R1. I drank 8-10 red juices, I was almost killed 6 times at least. Terrible fight, shameful, it would be better I had waited to get more relaxed and fight him later but I was berserk to kill him as soon as possible. I killed him but now I'm sad, disappointed with myself... the way I won was clearly luck above all things, I feel sorrow, miserable, why do I have to exist? I can't be proud of myself even in the video game, I am maidenless in real life too, I'm a foul tarnished like Morgott said... I just wanna die, I think souls games makes me keep alive a little longer, I still have to play Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne.

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Harder than Radahn.

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Love his theme, definitely one of my favorite bosses beside Alecto

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another Spirit Jellyfish Ashes victim poisoned to death

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cheesed the caelid one using sleep pots at rl 50. now i got a cool magic sword.

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The fact that positioning matters here so much made him really interesting to learn. Yeah, took me a while to realise that you should stay at medium range and bait out heavy attacks but when it clicked it felt like taking off very heavy weights which was satisfying. Though he still deals too much damage imo... barely any time to learn anything before dying

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Favourite recurring boss in the game, with the (second) best theme in the game to boot. Badass lore.

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Just beat the one in Caelid while being a lvl 36 melee with no cheeses. Somehow, always being insta-killed made me realize I have been reborn just like in ds1 against you know who. Never want to see this guy again.

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Literally beat him first try without sleeping pots or status effects or cheese, with a knights greatsword. Why are people complaining?

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First tried the boss with no sleep pots or status effects and used heal 3 times, it was easy af. Why are people complaining?

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FIghting this bastard with a greatsword is pure pain

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just beat him with a low level prophet. (level 27) Used banished knight ordovis to buy me enough time for 1 dragonice. Then it's glinstone phalanx AoW on the +8 halberd and long range pokes.

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borealis's mist melted him. <3

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I can confirm that Millicent _is_ available as a summon for the Godskin Acolyte in Windmill Village, despite conflicting claims in some guides. You do have to have given her the Valkyrie's Prosthesis. Her summon sign is not necessarily very visible, but is on the road very close to where the Acolyte stops and stands after spawning.

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Duo fight in farum was bugged fatty didnt respawn after beeing killed only the noodle respawned. Had to kill the noodle 3 times till hp bar was empty. And right the fatty spawned and tried to kill me. Wasable to use site of grace snd after that he was gone

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doing him right now and i hate him
im level 34 and i just want this wepon
still have much fun

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Lvl 56 with parry buckler and Miséricord dagger, no buffs.
Hard as **** but damn it's fun!

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Why is he called "Foreskin" by some people?

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defeated him at lvl 60, took me 5 tries... 8 crismon tears and i had to heal every time he hit me.. THATS WHY I LOVE THIS GAME

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This is a great boss just like godskin duo i dont care what people think

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One of the bosses I did a bit too early when I got teleported into Caelid. I think I was level 79 or something, 7 crimson tears potions at +2 and the wondrous physic only giving 50% health back. No ash of war, no summon, no pot, no spell. Just two handed Bloodhound's fang hit, block and dodge, and pure Vigor/Endurance/Strength. Whenever he landed a direct hit, I needed 2 crimson tears to heal. But now I'm happy to see him because he reminds me of when I started playing Elden Ring.

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After he does the stab & pull he can do a ridiculously quick slash reminiscent of Oprhan of Kos if you try to immediately punish in the front. So stupid.

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I'm using a unintendedly, stupidly high stagger build and this guy does not go down. Everything else does, even if sometimes with some effort. Parrying is better at this point, even with the double parry requirement.

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Not to sound like a sweat or anything but I beat this guy second try underleveled on my first run. The trick is that when he does the stretchy body move in his second phase he has a massive attack blindspot directly in front of him and you can pretty much wail on him until that attack is over. Keep your distance and then run in when you bait him into doing that

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Hate this guy more than malenia, fatty godskin, valiant gargoyles. The only boss worse than this guy is the duo.

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is there a suggested level for the caelid one? dude hits me once and does ~65% of my tot hp at 35 vigor also he never hits only once

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Survived with 7 HP......
What a Monster.....

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i actually genuinely hate this boss with a burning passion
even with sleep pots the one in the divine tower just started dodging them after i sleeped him once
it's a massive skill issue but this boss is just copy and pasted so many times and it annoys me so much its just not fun to fight against

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really fun boss, I just wish he didn't one-shot me whenever he wanted

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THIS MADMAN IS ASSS to PARRY GUUUUUH i kinda spent a half an hour and managed to parry only two of his attacks

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Sleeping pots trivialise the fight in the Divine Tower even early in the game.

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then he turned him self into a windmill mid fight, absolute mad man

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When he leaps up in the air, run towards him and to the left, then get a charge R2

When he does the attack where he spins and slowly walks towards you, walk away for a bit then get a charge r2 for his ending animation

When he is charging projectile, you are safe melee so get a charge r2


Stagger > Crit

Fish for these moves then win easy.

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When he does the leap up in the air attack, run into him and to the left then get a charged r2

When he does spin slowly walk toward you, run away for a bit then get a charged r2

when he is charging projectile, you are safe at melee so get a charge r2

fish for these then win.

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Just beat the one in the Divine Tower of Caelid after about a million attempts. Level 78, dex-faith build, +20 Lightning Claymore with Quickstep, no summons or spirit ashes. I don't think it's an unfair fight, but it's definitely unforgiving and demands a lot of composure.

I found mobility and ranging were the key. He has quite a few attacks that look scary but only hit at a fairly specific range, so sprinting is often just as useful as rolling. And when you dodge the wrong way and get stunlocked to death by his whirly-blade attack for the tenth time, and you feel like throwing your controller out the window... get up and go drink some water.

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This guy is probably one of - if not - THE MOST annoying to fight on melee.

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For whatever reason, both godskin bosses were given the best music in the game.
Safe to say, It's a big reason why I'm doing a blackflame build.

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kills in 3 hits. lvl 116. this game was not tested, was not balanced. fromsoft is lazy bums. 1k hours of game time.

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carian retaliation was actually very good idea against him. he frequently throws fire balls and you can parry those for some major added damage, i did around 650 damage per parried fire ball.

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This guy is driving me absolutekly nuts. I hate everything about the divine tower of calid

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He looks like a 40yr old bloomer in a hoodie, but made of skinned faces. 10/10 peak design.

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Sneak around the windmill using your horse, then poison him from behind, poison before leyndell is cheese to every static field boss. But you gotta be close for it to work.

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says i can use spirit ash but doesn't allow me, what gives?

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one of the coolest most badass bosses, but man do i hate fighting him, still fight him every playthrough tho

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Came here for advice, all I learned is that the average Elden Ring player can beat this guy RL1 with an unupgraded club. I still don't know how to get past the roll-catches

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One of my favourite boss designs in the game so far, and a pretty fun fight. If you want to be semi-aggressive, Lhutel is a good option.

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Something itches the back of my neck

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I LOVE THE MUSIC

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killed the one under caelid tower underleveled, did not expect to receive that many runes

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Very fun fight with quickstep and dagger

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Rotten dog+5 and Carian Retaliation made this boss easy

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3 cold-Nagabika Unsheathes reliably stagger him.
At lev 70, I can reliably proc frost on the second riposte.
Only big problem is his blade spins in the first phase where if you roll straight into him you'll still end up in front of him and get hit. Try to roll front and side ways, I usually roll to my right and front of me.

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This boss likes to dream. So drop a few sleep bombs and he will be as tame as a sheep!

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This boss was not even the worst part. The worst was the enemy right before the yellow fog. The enemy is still behind the entrance, so whenever I summoned my ash, it would start attacking the enemy and not the boss. That killed the run and I would inevitably die and start over.

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Bloodhound Fang has this neat thing where it’s skill can retract right before it attacks and if you don’t follow up, you end up right out of reach of any of his attacks on first phase, allowing to get in one extra slash before he restarts attacking and you can get out of the way. Just don’t press WA button again or you’ll die just before killing him, like I did twice.

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This is one of the last bosses that I've yet to properly learn, and after spending around six hours practising him I'm now convinced that this is the hardest moveset to consistently counter perfectly in the game. Most of his kit is completely fine. The problem comes from his two lightning-fast openers. After playing around with the footage in a video editor, it turns out these both come out in 350 ms (from the first frame of the animation to the where damage frames begin). If this doesn't seem oppressively fast, let's break this number down to get a sense of what needs to happen during this time.

Let's assume that you have a slightly above-average reaction time of 200 ms. We can immediately subtract this from the total, leaving us with about 150 ms for everything else. During this time, you'll need to look at his animation and figure out which attack is coming out. But you're going to need to let the animation play out for probably around 100 ms until it starts to become recognizable, since most of the initial frames of the animation aren't distinctive enough to read the attack clearly. Then we need to factor in the dodge input. Because of the whole "dodge on release" button mapping, you're adding extra latency just to send the dodge input. If you're trying to parry, we need to also factor in about 50-100 ms of wind-up on the parry frames depending on which parry tool you're using.

What this all adds up to is an attack that's at the very edge of what's reactable, where hesitating or being inattentive for even a fraction of a second means you'll be too slow. Given this, you'd think that extremely fast attacks like this would be balanced out by being easily outspaced or low damage? Of course not. This dude's combos have got range and enough DPS to melt 1000+ HP in under a second. And his combos can branch out and extend in just about any way he likes.

But let's say you're a reaction demon and you manage to dodge the initial hit. The next problem is that the follow-up hit of his fast double swipe comes out too quickly to evade it with a second dodge. He'll catch you in your recovery unless you outspace it. Trivial enough on Light Roll but a complete nightmare on Medium Roll. One solution is to already be standing a few paces back at the start and roll backwards. If you're too close and don't have right positioning when he starts, you'll have to perform two consecutive dodges towards 2 o'clock. This will dodge both hits, but leaves you right in front of him so he will instantly start flowing into follow-up combo branches. And the camera hasn't had time to adjust yet, so you'll need to figure out what's happening by looking at his back or side.

Things then get even trickier in P2, where he gains another combo with a 350 ms opener. Though at least he also becomes more susceptible to punishes after the Black Flame moves that he also gains here.

I honestly think if he weren't entirely trivialised with Sleep, this guy would be at least as infamous as Malenia.

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I saw him at the windmill village but turned around due to me wanting to look for items around the village. After reaching the bottom of the hill I rode torrent back to the arena which automatically killed him. Has this glitch happened to anyone else before?

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me and my ancestral follower bullied this guy with arrows in windmill village

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Bloodhound Claws are busted against the noble and apostle because of high slash and bleed

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Blind first try lvl 75 +10 Antspur Rapier with Bleed and +4 Dung Eater. Bleed and rot is amazing against bosses lol

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Beat the one in Caelid at roughly level 50
Basically I went in and summoned +4 crystilian, let the apostle get distracted with that, gave him rot with rotten breath, and then gave him poison with a poison nagakiba w/ poisonus mist.

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I know I should get out of Caelid... and do something productive... but I know I can defeat him underleveled only using hookclaws... and look like a badass doing it.

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Y’all be trifling if you think that this is easier than fat dude.

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Fun fact: if you inflict sleep while he’s in a combo he will not stop… oh yeah and you have to take out the apostle everytime in order for your summon to work. Isn’t this just great.

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Got the caelid one third try. Level 70 bleed dismounter and bloodhounds. Not too bad, pretty fair and you get a window to heal unlike many bosses. I kept using the finger remedy for a summon then would get impatient and enter the fight then wondet why I couldn’t spirit summon. Derp.

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The apostle in Calied are scaled up to endgame areas like Faram Azula/Mountaintop Areas, which explains why Calied is busted early game cause enemies and bosses are real sponges and one shot you 20 Vigor or less.

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Threw 3 sleep pots at the one in Caelid and bled him out like a pig. That was very underwhelming

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His moveset dosen't feel too bad for me, i can realiably kill him too. I'm not annoyed by his hp account either as i feel it's fine for bosses to take a few swings to kill.
That said, his normal attacks hit for too much damage, despite having a ton of vigor 2 direct hits are usually a K.O. This alone makes me think it's a badly designed boss when you take the other things into account, 3 hits would be fine but as some of the other attacks are quite spammy i have to consider it bad design.

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Be aware, fighting the one above the Study Hall tower too many times in a row and taking too long per fight MAY cause them to go into a glitch state if you have a lag spike; in the glitch state they can perform multiple attacks WITHOUT their windup animation, and can skip freely in and out of rolling without windup, as well as teleport onto your head if you get too far away.

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No boss in there his game is as reliant on input reading

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Lol, my third character and I finally realized why the godskin apostle in caelid tower is so tough. He has almost double the health (13.5k) of the one at the windmills in Altus plateau (7k health). And I just looked it up at this site, he has slightly more health that freaking RADAGON even though he's in caelid. I mean, come on lol.... He does drop like 70k runes though, and you get a great weapon. But still!

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Just beat the Apostle one in Caelid with my fist build, that was a NIGHTMARE but man, felt so good when he finally get down

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After struggling for days and reading all the comments on this page, I finally managed to beat the one in Caelid. Pretty much combined all the tips and got it done in one attempt, but boy was I sweating!

As soon as I walked in I summoned the Page (not upgraded) and then cast blood flame blade on my katana. When foreskin changed to throw his fireball at page, I threw a sleep pot, then rushed in and got off 2 full R1 combos. He got up and focused on page again (killing him) but I did the sleep pot again, got off a full combo and then a critical hit. Foreskin had about 40% health left, so I threw two more pots while it was doing its flame tornado, rushed in again, and he must have been left with 1hp left. Nearly died getting too eager but finally got that hit in and won’t lie I got the shakes

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Just wanna say for the one in Caelid: there's a mob outside the boss room and he can hit you through the fog wall. He managed to kill me as I was summoning Ogha (yea yea no vigor stfu its a glass cannon character). If you don't kill him first, make sure to take a couple steps away from the door before using summons and buffs.

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For those who want to get an early Godslayer GS. I recommend getting Posion Mist and some sort of frost weapon. Frozen Needle is a good choice because the Apostle doesn't dodge the projectile and it has no FP cost. Get a few Ashen Estus flasks to keep the poison up. Keep your distance and don't be greedy, it will take some time but facing the boss head on will take more.

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The one in the basement of caelid tower gave me a problem on my second character. Ate my +4 banished knight engvall and even +4 mimic with dual uchi's. I even tried a +14 godskin peeler, the weapon art is usually great, but he interrupts it. Switched to a +6 reduvia dagger, it's weapon art is great, but the big difference was +3 greatshielder ashes. Tanked him like a champ and I finally got him down with the reduvia blood blade. Bleed is the way to go with him for sure.

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Frost infused poking stick + erdtree greatshield made quick work of the one in caelid on a relatively low level character(~60). about to try again on a level 20 character with no upgrades. i'll come back with an update later.

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A strat I found that makes this boss much easier (and which I can't find mentioned elsewhere) is to generally avoid dodging (for most attacks) and instead use a decent medium shield (e.g. brass shield) to block the attacks. You can just walk towards him with your shield raised, try to get behind him, and then punish when most of his attacks miss (raising your shield again once he faced you again or dodging if/when you run out of stamina).

Obviously whilst doing this you need go be alert for his aoe attacks (these tend to be slow or have a long build up - just move away until its over and/or dodge the one with longer range/direction) and his weapon spinning attacks (it gas a long animation so just try to get behind him by dodging when he does the attack in either phase).

In general though, fighting one's instinct to dodge all of his attacks and instead walking towards and then around him with your shield raised + punishing during the obvious opportunities (during his long animations where attacks are missing or gaps) turns this fight from frustrating to almost easy (my experience/character at least).
Good luck!

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Actually a great boss unlike his fat brother. I used Piercing Fang with blood affinity on weapon. Killed him in about 5 attempts.

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He's so non-aggressive in the first phase I just let him walk through a bunch of night maiden's mist for almost a 3rd of his health before even attacking me.

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Great and iconic design but feels wasted. Randomly encounters you in Farum Azula in a mock up Smough/Ornstein fight. Why there and not elsewhere? Cause of Maliketh who killed their goddess? We will never know. Thanks for nothing I guess...

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Beat the one in Caelid at level 30. Had to be perfect or he one shot me, great fight. But also, f**k this guy.

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Dolores the Sleeping Arrow. Go get her ashes off the dead merchant's body near 3 Sisters. Nothing else worked. Dolores keeps this dude sleeping through most of the fight. She's beautiful!

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This skinny mothertrucker makes me so absurdly angry. It's almost hillarious. I just want that damn foreskin he's wearing, geez.. and who gave this little shite permission to dodge almost all of my spells? Sometimes I just hate enjoying caster builds the most.

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Dolores sorted out the one in Caelid for me.

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This bossfight is very fun, plus the rewards are awesome. 10/10

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To anyone running a strength build: Use a curved greatsword with the newly buffed bloody slash art of war and you'll be amazed at just how fast he drops. The one with the lowest dex requirement is the Beastman's Blood Cleaver (requires 14). You have to farm the Azula Beastman you can encounter through the Four Belfries portal to Crumbling Farum Azula, but it's well worth it since it scales very well with Strength.

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I was able to reliably poisebreak the one in Caelid Divine Tower with a two-handed Warhammer (Great Stars) using one charged attack and one jumping attack. As soon as you poisebreak him the first time (the Stonebarb Cracked Tear can help immensely for this), use the charged as a wake-up and then follow up with a jumping attack. He can punish you after the charged, but if you have 20 Vigor+ you should be able to tank it. Make sure to let your stamina regen a little bit before riposting him as well.

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I beat my face against this boss (Caelid Tower) for a good couple of hours. Tried with my Halo Scythe +5 because of the tracking on the Miquella's Ring of Light... Didn't do so good. I eventually switched over to 2-handing my Sword of St. Trina +4 because of the sleep and did better but still kept dying. I decided to try my Flame Art Jawbone Axe +12 with Flame of the Redmanes on it and beat this SOB the first time. It was very easy and recommend trying it out if you are struggling. I used Page +3 Spirit Ash because the constant pressure forced the Godskin Apostle to dodge often which was nice. Page actually dodges himself too so survived the majority of the fight.

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Carian Retaliation saved the day for me. I swapped some of my HP flasks for FP, summoned +2 Jelly, distracted him long enough for him to get poisoned, and then just spell parried him all the way to 0%. I was having a tough time at level 54 with a Claymore and ran up to Carian Manor just to try this strat and it paid off — second attempt I got him. Pretty easy if you’re halfway decent at parry, and his black flame spell is really well telegraphed and slow enough to parry without any difficulty. I was doing ~480 per parry, which is about what I was getting with a charged R2 with a claymore in 2 hands. Safe, and I still had a few HP flasks by the end of the fight.

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That's how I did it, walk-in sleeping pot, and then buff the hell up, and then stance breaks them (I use square off heavy attack, have seen other using morning start with heavy attack-wild strike*6-end with heavy that can apply frostbite and bleed), and then do the misericorde(my main weapon) critical, roll back and throw another sleeping pot. Godskin will do the phase change move and stand in the sleeping mist and fell asleep again and then do another buff-stance breaks-critical and that should clear the health bar (at least most of it)

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was able to take this guy down on my 4th try, using Towershield soldier ashes. One of them made it thru with 5% health; they kept him distracted just long / often enough for me to cast at range, then roll into his phase 2 carwash airman thing and take him apart with Moonveil blasts. Felt VERY lucky and like I had actually accomplished something in this game.

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If anyone is having issues with the godskin bosses especially the duo fight at Farum Azula or anyone who just doesn't like fighting them Dolores the sleeping arrow is a very good option to have available to you for these bosses. I used her for the duo fight and she kept the apostle out cold for the majority of the fight.
You don't need to follow Ranni's quest any further than entering her service to get the necessary dialogue options from Seluvis if you only want access to the puppets and it isn't complicated or difficult to get DtSA well before Farum Azula.

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