Godskin Duo | Elden Ring Wiki

most annoying boss in co-op. The fat one always starts rolling then randomly changes to target the host mid roll and the host dies. this happens literally 90% of the time

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Beams of fire sweep through my head

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+10 mimic +9 rivers of blood and 11 charges of +9 estus makes this **** easy

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What level are we supposed to be when reaching them ? I dont know if I was overleveled but the fight was really easy, beated them in my second try

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The sad thing about multiboss fights is that they weren’t thoroughly designed to create some synergy like that of Ornstein and Smough. They were literally added as two or more enemies that will gank on you relentlessly, like creating a deathzone that you must go around and poke with a sword every 30 seconds which I really don’t find compelling.

The only explanation behind them is the fact that you would use summons which is pretty much what you can do to avoid nuisances. In fact that’s why godskin duo and crucible duo were not engraved in my memory as horrible experiences and in fact became kinda neat. When I did them alone though I wished they didn’t exist.

But summons have the issues we all know they have: they make the game terribly easy. I believe not all fights should’ve employed spirit summons but rather only in places of duo or multiple enemy fight like the game does in open world, instead of placing them for every boss fight like with radagon godfrey or malenia.

And even though you can limit yourself to use them in certain fights like the ones proposed, I still don’t understand something: why most people don’t use them in those instances? Is it pride?

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Such a great reference to Hotep and Huy from cinematic masterpiece Prince of Egypt.

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AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

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Amazing that the best part of the ost is shown only in the godskin duo fight when everything I listen to is the sound of my mouth cursing in disbelief and outrage of how garbage a duo fight can be.

Lit burying gold in the middle of sht

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Beaten these guys first try with Dung Eater Puppet +10 to hold aggro so we had 2 1v1s.

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I don't know if this still applies to the latest patch, but the sleep mechanic is apparently bugged. To the player's favor.
The godskin guys have an ability that allows them wake up sleeping allies.
However, IIRC the godskin duo's boss room or rather the enemies around it seem to interfere with the AI and prevents the wakeup.

Almost ironic that a bug is somewhat a saving grace for this boss fight.

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I've been trying to figure out how to do this fight without using consumables, status effect or ashes of war (in other words, "raw" combat), and here's what I've found:

- Just like with crucible duo, stay relatively close to one of them (preferably noble), while the further is only two-three Miyazakis away. If you walk away too far, the further one will spam black flame and approach. If you get too close, the further one will melee you. However, if you keep the further one at medium distance, he'll sometimes jump away when you swing your weapon, maintaining passivity, only rarely throwing a black flame;

- Stay unlocked, and always have both of them on your screen, to dodge any black flames they might throw anyway; locking on is death.

- Noble Presence (black belly flop) is almost too fast to react to, so once noble is below 50%, you have to be ready to preemptively dodge after your attack;

- Longer, heavier weapons like colossal swords allow for reliable hits and frequent stance breaks. You can do this with a small mace, but it will tighten your windows of opportunity dramatically.

- Obviously, you can now add any frostbites, bleeds, ashes or consumables to this strat as you see fit. Bear in mind, using many consumables/throwables triggers an action from the duo, either a black flame, or rushing you.

It's an insanely annoying fight that nonetheless is doable with just basic weapon attacks and rolling, so long as you work on your spacing and dodging their moveset. The trick is to not sprint away constantly while repeatedly healing, since it tightens their positions, rollcatching you the whole time. If you need to heal, sprint away behind a pillar, heal up, and return to proper melee spacing asap.

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so does the destined death debuff from blade of death effect drain there individual health or the shared health bar

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Bro, they but more effort into belfry gargoyles then all the duo fights in ER, hope the DLC changes that.

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Equip Lord of Blood's Exultation and Carian Filigreed Crest.
Sleep Pot on Fatty.
Kill Skinny.
Pull out Ghiza's Wheel.
Walk up to sleeping Fatty.
Locate your Art of War button.
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Wait for Fatty #2 to spawn.
Sleep pot.
Drink a flask.
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Laugh at how little health Skinny #2 has to work with now.
This works wheelie well.

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Wanna make this fight super easy? Get yourself Mohg's spear and the Mimic Tear, then spam Bloodboon Ritual once the Mimic Tear has drawn aggro.

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just beat these guys and had a skinny one spawn in after the fight and chase me around before i could sit at the grace. thank you fromsoft very cool

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My fight bugged out and i had to defeat both of them twice and even after that godskin noble revived again despite entire health bar being gone so i've defeated a total of 5 boss in this encounter...

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"The reason it is unused is because it is bugged due to the Banished Knights patrolling the area as well as the hidden enemy that acts as the Foreskin Duo's total HP."

I was unprepared for this.

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>Godskin Duo
>Three of them

You've done it again, Mr. Miyazaki

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Honestly I'd rather fight this discount version of Ornstein and Smeg again over the dragon bosses.

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Fighting them with magma sorceries and family heads. Awful terrible, their resistances are so high.

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Am I alone in finding this boss relatively easy nowadays? I came back to the game to do this boss on two different unfinished characters I had made, and I did them first try twice, with very little flask usage. And yet the very next boss is a completely different story.

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aight i'm curious, which one do you hate more? Skinny or Fatty:
Skinny = downvote
Fatty = upvote

Personally I dislike skinny more because sometimes it just decides to never stop basic attacking... ever... constantly, mad mix-ups and almost no recovery time topped off with attacks so quick you have to guess half of the time, meanwhile you can usually get attacks in safely against fatty, and the only issue with him is the roll, but you can just run after them in a smaller circle and just avoid it completely (I'm aware of the animation cancelling he does with it)

[ Which button I chose is based on their weight :) ]

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>The Godskin Duo have an unused interaction where if one of them is put to sleep, the other will scream to wake them up. The reason it is unused is because it is bugged due to the Banished Knights patrolling the area as well as the hidden enemy that acts as the Foreskin Duo's total HP.

Please fix "Foreskin Duo" from the Trivia tab.

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Stan & Ollie :D

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Actually pretty easy fight if you have sleeping pots and bleed weapon with you, if not then gg rip

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I summoned a +10 Black Knife Tiche and then just backed away while throwing Black Flames at them. The combined health drain of Tiche's Death Blade and the Black Flames made their health drop pretty quickly.

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They appear to be glitch, where they take double damage from "night maidens mist" not sure why

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The Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing [4] will drop on the 1st playthrough not NG

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The Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing [4] will drop on the 1st playthrough not NG

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I defeated this boss on my second try with Lvl 167 dex/vgr built and hand of malenia +10. First, I defeated the fat one by walking around the pillar and after I killed the other one, they came back, but they were already low on health. I don't know if it was luck or if I was overleveled, but I thought It would be very difficult. Because I'm not good at gang fights.

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the greatshield soldier ashes can tank both bosses for the entire fight if other strategies aren't working for you

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Anyone else see in the notes section foreskin duo? Hehe hahahaha LMAO!

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"lol guys doesn't this remind you of the actually good boss we made that time?"

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This boss is terrible. I know it, you know it, we all know it. But a lot of the time it ends up being really fun on my runs because of how chaotic it is. I always summon Bernahl and spirit ashes. I usually have some sort of spell that chunks their HP while the summons distract. Fighting them 2v1 is something I never intend to do. I refuse to give this boss anything.

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Foreskin Duo l m f a o well played

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Is it me or they made them go trought the broken pillars?

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Found a bug, if you deplete the hp bar as soon as one of them respawns, you’ll get the victory message and runes, but the guy that spawned will remain and attack you.

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Soloing these bosses melee without spirit ash is painful.

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Four kings at home:Living failures
Living failures at home: godskin duo

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If you see or summon someone with a purple torch for this boss, please do not attack the godskin they are attacking, It's like you are inflicting madness IRL to the torchbearer if you do.

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this fight has grown on me ngl, status effects dunk on them so hard, even weak stuff like poison knives

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incredibly lazy and disappointing for an ultimate godskin fight. but i wont lie and say i dont have fin every time i get to fight these guys

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I fought these dudes legit my first playthrough. they've gotten cheesed every possible way since then. **** em lol

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Everything about this fight is great except the fight itself

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this fight so fun when you dont got some ***** in your ear telling you it sucks

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Four kings, how about Two chungi

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Top 5 most bullshit encounters in Soulsborne:

5. Royal Rat Authority
4. Godskin Duo
3. Dragon God
2. Forzen Tiger Gank
1. Bed of Chaos

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Spaghetti and Meatball

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I fought these guys for like two hours and then thought "hey those are optional bosses anyway, whatever" but nope they just put two optional bosses together in one room and make them a mandatory fight, incredible.

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The fact that there are pillars that impede the player but not the ganky boss duo shows that this fight wasnt designed with any theme or strategy beyond being annoying lol

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am i the only one who didnt get the smithing stone bell bearing 4??

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As close as a boss can possibly be to Bed of Chaos tier. Nothing will ever beat Bed of Chaos in terms of being awful but Godskin Duo comes pretty damn close. Just use the cheesiest strat you can be that Tiche, Bleed Mimic Tear, Sleep, whatever, just get through it, there’s nothing for you here.

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Yeah it's a Rivers of Blood/Mimic Tear cheese for me f*ck these two

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People give this fight a lot of ****, and end up comparing it to O&S a lot of the time. Problem is- this is obviously an homage to Four Kings, not O&S. Shared health bar, four enemies, and functions as a DPS check just like the kings. I don’t think this fight is fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s kind of annoying when people judge it on something it’s not trying to be. At least it’s more nuanced than Four Kings with the boss room design and attack patterns being more complex.

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I somehow managed to kill them 1st try. Godskin peeler blood afinity. Although I did just r1 spam and did not understand they have shared hp and mashed one of them down fast then the other one so the fight went down quickly. So IMO bleed is the go for strat if u havin issues and have not tried it yet

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Just did my 1st play through and beat this guy on my 4th try with melee solo no sleep pots. All you have to do is get a weapon that does decent enough stance damage and after you kill one of the godskin duos play super aggressive against the remaining one and he either won’t have time to respawn his friend, get stance broken, or he’ll die doing it. Repeat the 1v1 process until they all die. I recommend learning or at least getting an idea of each individual boss moveset 1st for the 1v1 and it should be easy no cheese needed.

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Advice for true melee, never attack the noble. 3.5 Apostles with a slow and easily kiteable ****head spamming projectiles is a hell of a lot easier than any other version of this fight. The pillars are youe friend, especially when waiting for apostle to respawn. If youre struggling as melee but generally feel comfortable with Apostle, this is a slow but very consistent way to deal with this fight.

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It seems I really didn't struggle with this boss nearly as much as others.

I was able to beat them on my 2nd try. And the only reason I lost on my 1st try is because my dumb ah didn't even realize I was in the boss room and was taken completely off guard when they spawned out of the blue once I got close enough, so I was forced to fight them without any buffs and missing a few flasks, and I still got really close, but I ran out of both hp and fp flasks before I could finish them off.

I didn't even have any sleep pots or have the cookbook to make them, I just pulled out the Torch of St Trina I conveniently had in my back pocket and never used before and spammed the weapon art on the fat one until he went to sleep so I could solo skinny. This was especially easy because by this point I had fought both of them invidividually before as solo bosses, and on those fights I won first try without abusing sleep at all, so using the St Trina torch basically just let me go through those fights again multiple times in a row.

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They don't sync their attacks or their placing, not even avoid clipping into one another or anything, they're just two AI dumped in the same room. They can attack through pillars because those are too thin for their attacks not to go through, if you kill them both you awkwardly have to wait for one of them to respawn, summoning turn the fight into an undescribable mess, there is a troll Site of Grace beside the arena you might have missed and had to do the long run to the boss room. But damn the scenery and the music is dead serious. This is Dark Souls 2 level of sufficiency.

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Tempted to assume most people who complain about this boss being too difficult is just refusing to use Spirit Ashes. A fully upgraded Kristoff can easily handle aggroing one of the Godskins, which leaves you in a 1 v. 1 against a boss you've probably fought twice before. I don't even find Sleep Cheese necessary when I have a good Spirit.

You can whine about Spirit Ashes making the game too easy all you like, but it's not going to stop me from using the tools the game has given me in a situation where I'm very obviously supposed to.

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it´s kinda funny when you kill all of them but a pixel of boss HP is left so you gotta wait for 1 of them to spawn just to hit them once

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This boss fight makes OnS look like a joke, XD they being part of a game with cheap animations dont help them either, anyways, great boss, hope we get some more lore on them, they look like a interesting gang, kinda sad there is only 3 variations of black flame wielders (Apostle, Noble and Monk)

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if you equip sleep pots and summon mimic tear he will use them without consuming them

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After following usual sleep cheese strat I’ve put the fatty to bed and killed duo by finishing the skinny one. To my surprise after victory achieved message fatty respawned and greeted me with a stitcher to my ass. Also tried to summon skinny but to no avail. Luckily I still had some sleep pots so after another 2 minutes of frantic attempts to secure my 170k of runes I’ve dispatched fatty, without any reward. Seems to be a bug, this is ps5 on 1.10

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i feel bad for the people that started with this as their first from game and thinking this is the best duo boss they'll ever see

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Park up behind a pillar and rot breath these two as Bernhal tanks them. Completed as a RL1 with no upgrades, and even though Bernhal died, I was able to sap them down to 5% hp, and then just used Carian Retaliation on their black flame throws to finish them off. Not sure what the big deal is about people struggling with these two…easily cheesed, and if you aren’t limiting yourself by levels/weapon levels, then they should be pretty easy. Just focus on killing the Apostle if you’re worried about the Noble’s roll.

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Weirdly Bernhal didn't show up as a summon before the Godskin Duo (though he has before). I want back to Volcano Manor, made sure he was gone (he was) and when I came back to Crumbling the Summon was there. No idea why.

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2 questions,
So the duo managed to get to farum azula and were tantalizingly close to the rune of death. Were the banished knights keeping them locked up? No way the duo is there to stop you from getting to maliketh since that's what they want to do. And they cant be locked in there since they can teleport. Maybe we showed up shortly after them? Time flows different in farum anyways. And I also want to know what Gods they killed and mocked with their incantations. I really hope we get more lore in the dlc cause these guys are my favourire

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I don't know man, this fight is a joke with sleep pots and daggers. Sleep them both, kill fatty and skinny before they can turn around and attack, repeat once more and hit fatty with a nice slap to drop them both.

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"oh boy OnS, Friede and Ariandel, Demon Prince were so cool, I cannot wait for a new boss duo in Elden Ring"

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Good night,boys. Oh,don't mind me, I'm just charging an attack,Nothing interesting

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Just an FYI; “as each one resurrects the other” kinda implies that if both are dead they won’t respawn, which is absolutely not true (you do get a couple seconds to heal and buff and stuff, though)

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The design of this boss is kind of lazy.

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You met the 4 Kings, now get ready for... the 3,5 douchebags.

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pov it´s your first day of high school and you´ve been designated the class victim for the bullies

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Honest question: how on earth do I stagger these suckers?

I was doing a colossal sword run on NG+12, and these guys were the first major wall I hit. I powerstanced Zweihanders, mixed up jump attacks and L1s, used Giant Hunt, etc., and neither of them even flinched. You'd think the Apostle would be easier to stagger, but no he was just as tanky as the Noble. I always just ended up trading/getting killed instead.

I finally beat them thanks to Tiche, but it was maddeningly frustrating even with a summon. Took me more tries than any other boss. Has their poise been buffed in an update? Is it because I'm past NG+7? Are Zwei's just not good at stance-breaking?

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Wario and Waluigi ain't here to fk about.

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Fatty and Skinny

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if you dont want to use mimic tear its your problem, the game is designed arround it. cast the summon, sleep pot, and R1. thats all it takes to win this boss, its easy

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This is like O&S if you fought O&S 4 times each before Anor Londo and they made it deliberately bad.

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This is the first time I have ever thought "I would rather go fight malenia"

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Just beat them 1st try in my 2nd run (not NG+), without summons or sleep strat.

1st step: Use the pillars on the start of the fight to split them and kill Apostle on 1v1, using the pillars to block the Noble's ranged attack.
2nd step: 1v1 vs Noble, keep aggression 100% all the time and it will not summon back the Apostle, because it will attack you instead of summon.
3rd step: Keep doing step 2 with whoever spawns first until the end.

for reference, my build was:
PSed Heavy Great Stars +25 (Prayerful Strike / Prelate's Charge)
RL128 - 58 VIG - 55 END - 46 STR

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This happened to me irl once

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wish posture bar was visible so i could easily stance break the foreskin **** when he's about to revive his friend

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I like the boss. Am I crazy?

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Just beat this boss at level 92, and now I have no clue how I did it

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why is the fat one faster

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save your sanity and summon bernahl

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tHIs bOSs iS So wELL DEsigNEd LiKE aLL oF ELdeN riNGs dUo bOSsEs!

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pretty bad but not the worst.

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Orangutein and Smonke

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This Boss makes bed of Chaos seem fun and Well Designed

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Worst Boss ever Made by from, It Is an absolute piece of BS, why are there No good Duo Bosses in ER?

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my brother killed him second try ever. after all the hype these guys get?!!?? im still in shock

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I solo'd them for the first time after 6 play throughs. I'm on a lvl 50 build using ice spear, with the spellblade set, magic scorpion, rune sword and shield with magic tear and hard bubble tear. It was a bit rng-y but very doable. Enter the room and lock on and start backing away down the wall firing off L2 using the pillars to block the fireballs. I took out the noble first. Ice spear staggers them on phase change so they don't get into phase 2 because they die and the apostle followed. The apostle can be tougher to hit because it will dodge the ice spear at certain distances. However after an attack they can't dodge. Once it was a one on one it was manageable. Easier than the fire giant with a similar tactic.

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This duo made me fatphobic

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Magic kills them so fast lmao

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For those using strength builds, here's what I recommend.

Dual wield 2 golems halberds with the cragblade ash of war, and apply the bleed affinity. Wear the highest poise armor you can find while still having medium load, as heavy rolling can and will get you absolutely stomped on.
Enter arena and use cragblade to boost poise damage, then have fun stance breaking these guys while inducing bleed every couple of hits. I recommend using jump attacks only as they hit hard and look cool. Absolutely shreds them.

If you're still having trouble, then either summon bernahl or use mimic tear. Both are great at tanking and will help demolish these idiots poise.

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The phase 2 Godskin music really matches the chaos of this fight as you get closer to winning and start to panic

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