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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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Foreskin Apostle lmao

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foreskin apostle

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He's challenging but he's fun to fight.

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If the Godskins have the hardest boss music currently, imagine what the Gloam-Eyed Queen's boss music must've been like. Imagine how epic the fight between her and Maliketh must have been from a musical standpoint.

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Heres how I did it (after much suffering): flame of the redmanes x2 then riposte with frost greatsword rinse and repeat, always maintaining some distance. No way around some moves besides learning when to dodge. Cerulean dagger talisman to conserve some FP

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Mimic tear +4 and bloodhound fang +9 did a number on the Caelid one pretty nicely. I think I was probably a little over leveled too, though…

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The final boss of low level runs.

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This dude is fun to fight.
The Godskin Noble, on the other hand, can go choke on a fat horse cock.

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After fighting this guy multiple times without leveling and without upgrading I learned to love the fight, to master it. It's really fun imo. You can use his input readings to your advance and end up reading him instead, as he's very predictable.
On the other hand, the noble can eat my d*ck and balls.

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TLDR: Baited him with Carian Retaliation

I had an extremely hard time with this guy as a Magic user. The Caelid one f'd me up a lot, especially since my summon got caught on the guy in front f the door half of the time. After dying to him a lot, I noticed that the sword projectiles from Carian Retaliation do much more damage than any of my attacks. So I just backed away until he did his black flame projectile and caught it with Carian Retaliation Weapon Art on my shield. The fight was rather cheesy and easy from that point on.

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I had a very hard time with him.

Used a remedy for help, walked in boss room panicked cause I couldn’t use my summon. Ended up soloing him, but we traded.

Got cocky with the monk and lost my runes. Rip

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god i love when he does his whirl move, it has so much swag

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try mimic tear ashes
and then sleep
and then bonk

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Why the **** is the summoning pool at the top of the tower. So useless

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Caelid one seems a bit overtuned.

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In terms of Presentation, the Music, the Drip, the Weaponry: S Tier.

In terms of the actual fight? Just no.

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Any enemy can be difficult when it reads your input, has unlimited stamina, unlimited poise, and extra long reach.

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Reduvia's weapon art obliterates this boss, his only ranged attacks are a flame sling and the helicopter move which are reasonably easy to see coming. Less effective solo where he will close the gap after a proc, but its wonderful for juggling aggro in coop.

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jellyfish +0 saves the day here big time if you are bad at dodging and don't have a shield. Wait for jelly to get aggro, then attack from behind, then keep this up until it's dead

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Finally got the him at my faith build, level 54 with 20 vigor and 15 in arcane. I’ve used Rotten breath and Skeleton Militiaman +2. The trick is to wait until he focuses on skeletons and then use rotten breath for full fp bar and let the scarlet rot do its business. The beauty of skeletons militiaman is that they keep respawning as other undead in the game and keep him busy (be careful sometimes they die if he hits them when they are down). DO NOT use rotten breath if he focuses you as he will throw his blackflame fireball when you are casting and interrupt it.

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Turns out the fanged imps are amazing in this at +0 they can tank about four hits and proc bleed in about three hits and usually one of them survives to about half why through phase two

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I was having big trouble with the one in Caelid using my trusty Engvall summon. This time he failed me and just got wrecked by this guys close range attacks

I switched to Page and got it first try. So ranged summons it is.

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Rocksling poisebreaks dude in caelid

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The votes are in, this boss sucks

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Godskin apostle, my beloved.

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One of my favorite boss encounters, they truly feel like a duel with how artful and punishing they can be if you lose Rhythm. For sure one of those bosses where you “dance” with them to battle them. Especially with the choir going wild in the music.

Different page, but nobles are fun too. Easier to parry, but they replace this with retaliation and roll catching by… well, rolling.

To me, Godskin duo is meh. It is much more stressful, but it isn’t my least favorite boss in the game. Would prefer the normal Godskin Apostle or Noble solo, however. My least favorite boss is those Valiant d*ckheads with area denying poison and other bull crap.

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Two words, one item: sleep pots. These dudes (including the Nobles) are insanely weak to the Sleep status effect. Make some Sleep Pots, throw them at the ground as they approach you, and watch as they become completely helpless. Once, they’re asleep, the best course of action is to use a weapon that does major chunks of damage to get the most out of situation.

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Summoned my mimic while i was holding 2 sleep pots. I was pretty sure if i used the ones i was holding it would be a waste, i.e. i'd sleep him but die during the fight. Used a +4 Ghiza's Wheel after reallocating stats so he couldn't one-shot me. Beat him on my 4th try today after about 17 deaths yesterday. He couldn't punish jump attacks in phase 2 as the crouching animation let me "duck" his punish and then roll away. My mimic fought better than i did until getting cornered shortly before phase 2. Didn't want this guy's weapon or armor but he had bodied me too many times to just walk away. Got a full Blackflame Monk set plus 2 extra chests, 2 extra gauntlets, 1 extra pair of boots in the process. Set my Physick flask so i wouldn't lose runes which took a lot of pressure out of the fight and made it less frustrating. Tried to parry but got chopped to pieces as i was attempting to parry literally every attack like a moron. Being a scrub is tiring.

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Put Glintblade Phalanx that you get from Rogier after defeating Godrick on any weapon, 2 relatively quickly casts (14 FP per cast) to break his pose and critical strike with your main weapon. 1st phase becomes a joke, 2nd is a little tricky because every time he executes one of his new moves, his poise resets and can't be broken before his attack ends

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GODSKIN CHEESE AT DOMINULA: Load up on blue flasks, get poison mist, sneak behind apostle, proc poison and then Wait for the effect to wear off before casting again because if you cast it while its still afflicted it won't do anything. This cheese requires patience but if you're a level 45 weakling like me it's all worth it

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Do all of them in the game really have the same hp here of 14379? That doesn't seem right

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Serious question: do these godskin *******s have stamina limit? The noble one once went his sonic spin for 3 minutes non stop then stopped and immediately started spinning again and this long strechy douchebag can blend 4 of his different combos together without stop

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His OST has no right being so good

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If you're having a tough time with the one in Caelid: Okay, so I was having a tough time with him, but I figured it out - get a slashing weapon with bleed, katana for example and use the blood slash for it, it's super cheap (only 3fp per cast) the animation is quick and does quite a bit of dmg to him. Next use a ranged summon, I did so with the Page. During 1st phase just dodge him and try to get hit as less as possible. As soon as you see him turn his attention to the summon hit him once and dodge right away, because he will turn to you with a quick strike, don't get greedy unless he's charging a black fire ball at your summon, then you can punish him until the end of his cast. Also save your FP for the 2nd phase. While you have the aggro let the summon do his work. Kite until you get to 2nd phase.

Once you're in 2nd phase, circle around him and dodge his abilities while waiting for him to do the extended helicopter blade spin. Mid to longer range seems to trigger him to use it more often. Once he does that, dodge straight into it, so you can get to his legs and use the blood slash once , then back off. Repeat until dead. Ez pz.

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