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| Location | Crumbling Farum Azula |
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 170,000Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing [4] (NG only) Ash of War: Black Flame Tornado |
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| HP | 26,350 |
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HolyGodskin Duo is a Boss in Elden Ring. In this dual boss fight, you'll have to fight against a Godskin Apostle and a Godskin Noble simultaneously, as each one resurrects the other. This is not an optional boss as players must defeat it in order to advance in Elden Ring.
The black flame could once slay gods. But when Maliketh sealed Destined Death, the true power of the black flame was lost.
Elden Ring Godskin Duo Boss
- This fight has a single shared health bar that must be fully depleted to win the fight
- If you kill either Godskin, the other will use a special move to resurrect it shortly afterwards
- If you kill both Godskins, one of them will resurrect on its own shortly afterwards
- This is not an optional boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Dragon Temple Transept
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss
- NPC Summons: Knight Bernahl. You can find his summon sign near either entrance to the boss arena.
Elden Ring Godskin Duo Location
From the Dragon Temple Transept Site of Grace, just head north to the boss arena's fog gate. [Map Link]
When you first encounter this fight, you're likely to approach it from the Dragon Temple Site of Grace. However, there are two Banished Knights between this Site of Grace and the boss door making the boss run both long and risky. The Dragon Temple Transept Site of Grace can be reached by jumping off the ledge directly west of the Dragon Temple Site of Grace, then turning around and jumping to an even lower platform and heading east.
Godskin Duo Combat information
- Health: 26,350 HP
- Drops 170,000, Ash of War: Black Flame Tornado, Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing [4] (NG only)
NG+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 26,350 | 26,560 | 29,216 | 30,544 | 31,872 | 34,528 | 35,856 | 37,184 |
| Runes |
170,000 | 340,000 | 374,000 | 382,500 | 408,000 | 416,500 | 425,000 | 433,500 |
Godskin Apostle Combat information
- Health: 6,668 HP
- Defense: 118
- Stance: 80
- Parryable: Yes
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken or parried
- Damage:
Slash, 
Pierce, 
Fire
Negations (or Absorptions)
Magic
LightningThe negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances
Poison: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
Scarlet Rot: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
Hemorrhage: 251 / 293 / 391 / 681
Frostbite: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.
NG+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 6,668 | 6,721 | 7,393 | 7,729 | 8,065 | 8,737 | 9,073 | 9,409 |
| Defense | 118 | 118 | 121 | 124 | 130 | 136 | 142 | 154 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
| Scarlet Rot |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
| Hemorrhage |
251 / 293 / 391 / 681 | 268 / 310 / 408 / 698 | 272 / 314 / 412 / 702 | 276 / 318 / 416 / 706 | 280 / 322 / 420 / 710 | 284 / 326 / 424 / 714 | 288 / 330 / 428 / 718 | 292 / 334 / 432 / 722 |
| Frostbite |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
 Sleep |
251 / 293 / 391 / 681 | 268 / 310 / 408 / 698 | 272 / 314 / 412 / 702 | 276 / 318 / 416 / 706 | 280 / 322 / 420 / 710 | 284 / 326 / 424 / 714 | 288 / 330 / 428 / 718 | 292 / 334 / 432 / 722 |
 Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Godskin Noble Combat information
- Health: 8,000 HP
- Defense: 118
- Stance: 80
- Parryable: Yes
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken or parried
- Damage:
Standard, Pierce, Fire
Negations (or Absorptions)
The negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances
- Poison: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
- Scarlet Rot: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
- Hemorrhage: 251 / 293 / 391 / 681
- Frostbite: 345 / 443 / 733 / 1190
The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.
NG+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 8,000 | 8,064 | 8,870 | 9,273 | 9,676 | 10,483 | 10,886 | 11,289 |
| Defense | 118 | 118 | 121 | 124 | 130 | 136 | 142 | 154 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
| Scarlet Rot |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
| Hemorrhage |
251 / 293 / 391 / 681 | 268 / 310 / 408 / 698 | 272 / 314 / 412 / 702 | 276 / 318 / 416 / 706 | 280 / 322 / 420 / 710 | 284 / 326 / 424 / 714 | 288 / 330 / 428 / 718 | 292 / 334 / 432 / 722 |
| Frostbite |
345 / 443 / 733 / 1190 | 368 / 466 / 756 / 1213 | 373 / 471 / 761 / 1218 | 379 / 477 / 767 / 1224 | 384 / 482 / 772 / 1229 | 390 / 488 / 778 / 1235 | 395 / 493 / 783 / 1240 | 401 / 499 / 789 / 1246 |
| Sleep |
251 / 293 / 391 / 681 | 268 / 310 / 408 / 698 | 272 / 314 / 412 / 702 | 276 / 318 / 416 / 706 | 280 / 322 / 420 / 710 | 284 / 326 / 424 / 714 | 288 / 330 / 428 / 718 | 292 / 334 / 432 / 722 |
| Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Elden Ring Godskin Duo Boss Guide
Godskin Duo Boss Video Guide
[video coming soon]
Godskin Duo Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Godskin Duo:
- Put one boss to sleep and focus down the other. Refer to Sleep Strat below.
- Use the Hoarfrost Stomp skill and spam it behind a pillar. Refer to Hoarfrost Stomp Strat below.
- For Incantations, Dragon Communion spells can be used throught pillars. Borealis's Mist will prove useful.
- The structures in the arena are your allies, use them to gain space to heal, or to separate them and fight them one at a time.
- If you use a Spirit Ash, don't stall too much as your Spirit ally won't last too much, so be aggressive while the Spirit Ash is active.
- The Commander's Standard's weapon skill Rallying Standard can be used to increase the survivability of your Spirit Ash.
General Information
This boss fight is extremely tough to beat with most conventional methods owing to the fact that you are fighting two of the most difficult bosses together simultaneously. Additionally, each Godskin boss has an individual health bar in addition to the collective health bar labeled "Godskin Duo". Their collective bar is depleted as you deal damage to either boss, but depleting both bosses' health bars does not end the encounter. As long as the collective bar still has health, one or both bosses will re-appear and you will have to keep fighting and killing them over and over.
When only one of the Godskins has been killed, the other one can perform an attack where it creates a sigil in the air over its head to resummon the other. This move leaves it quite vulnerable, but the newly-summoned Godskin can attack immediately so be wary when taking advantage of it. If both Godskins have been killed, one or the other will respawn even without this special attack.
Sleep Strategy
One way to deal with this duo is to use sleep-inducing items such as Sleepbone Arrows, Sleep Pots, Soporific Grease, or Sword of St. Trina to put one boss to sleep while you deal with the other. Once one is dead, wake the sleeping boss up and then let them re-summon their companion before putting them to sleep again. Rinse and repeat until their collective health bar is depleted. You could also summon a Mimic Tear with Sleep Pots equipped, who uses pots often and won't purposefully wake the sleeping bosses. This saves the pots for multiple attempts and future use, at the cost of the Mimic Tear often using all its equipped pots quickly.
Hoarfrost Stomp Strategy
Another effective method is to imbue a weapon with Ashes of War: Hoarfrost Stomp and then summon your most powerful Spirit Ashes to distract one boss. Lure the other boss to one of the pillars while you stand behind it and keep spamming Hoarfrost Stomp which will deal its damage through the pillar. Be careful when they destroy a pillar, though: they can still get stuck on the base, but their attacks will go through. This strategy can be combined with the Sleep Strat above, but in that case you may want to refrain from using summons to avoid waking up the sleeping Godskin. If you summon Mimic Tear, it can also use Hoarfrost Stomp to deal massive damage to the bosses.
Melee Users
This boss is extremely difficult to fight for exclusively melee users. The solo strategy revolves around having both the Godskin Noble and the Godskin Apostle within view at all times. They can both throw black fireballs, so you have to be incredibly cautious when attacking one, as the other could be throwing one if they're at a distance. It is also imperative to abuse the pillars around the arena, to block one from attacking you while you attack the other. However, once either one goes into their second phase, they will gain attacks that allow them to destroy these pillars. The Apostle's phase-two attacks are mostly slow and locked to a specific location, which can give you opportunities to get in a few attacks on the Noble. Most of the Noble's phase-two attacks aren't particularly threatening, but Godskin Wheel is very dangerous. It's likely to use this attack immediately upon entering phase two if you're some distance away from it, so your best bet is to stay close during the phase transition to force it to use the easily-dodgeable Godskin Crusher instead. If you can't, run behind a pillar—although the roll will destroy the top part of the pillar, the base will still block its movement. (Note that it can roll up onto a pillar at the very beginning of the attack, so try to hide behind one a little further away.)
Magic and Ranged Users
For magic users, using the spell Comet Azur and a bow loaded with sleep arrows will trivialize the fight. Bait the Noble away from the Apostle, begin to fire around 5 arrows until the sleep sets in. Do not attack him. Then proceed to attempt to put the Apostle to sleep close to the Noble. After both Godskins are asleep, cast Terra Magica and drink a Wondrous Physick with Cerulean Hidden Tear. Line up the Godskins, target whichever one is further away to make sure the spell accurately hits both of them, then simply charge up and fire to watch their health melt away. Keep firing, even though their bodies will disappear their hitboxes will allow further damage for a short time. One will respawn and might attempt to resurrect the other, if this happens just use sleep arrows again and finish off their healthbar. For best results do not use any Spirit Ashes as they may awaken one of the Nobles.
Godskin Duo Attacks & Counters
| While the Godskin Duo are fought simultaneously, they have the same movesets as their solo counterparts and have no added attacks or skills for this fight (aside from re-summoning their dead companion). | ||
| Refer to the Godskin Apostle's page for its moveset and counters here. | ||
| Refer to the Godskin Noble's page for its moveset and counters here. |
Godskin Duo Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- The Godskin Apostles' theme is not in Latin. Youtuber Antonius Tertius (aka redditor MAGISTER-ORGANI), a Latin scholar, contacted some music producers and confirmed the official lyrics and backstage information regarding their creation, which he published on his channel; the lyrics are mostly nonsensical latinish syllables and vowel sounds arranged in a way that makes them sound like some ancient language, thus they hold no meaning, no lore, just like most of the lyrics in the game.
- Even after a Godskin is dead, attacking its corpse will damage the shared health bar for a short time.
- Player can trigger Blood loss/Frostbite during that time, but this will bear no effect on Godskin Duo's healthbar.
- Bug: Godskin Wheel always goes for the host, even if host did not attack the Noble
- 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 Godskin Duo's total HP.
Godskin Duo Image Gallery
Anonymous2 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"
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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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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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
Foreskin duo, unvaliant gargoyles and crucible boyfriends are the 3 fights that NO ONE, even the purest "souls veterans" should argue against summoning for. Like even IF you think summoning and ganking is cowardly, at that point you should be flaming the bosses.
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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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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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Just beat this boss at level 92, and now I have no clue how I did it
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tHIs bOSs iS So wELL DEsigNEd LiKE aLL oF ELdeN riNGs dUo bOSsEs!
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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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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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Putting a redditor as evidence in the lore section has to be a meme, right?
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Burn o flame + Bernahl + Mimic... = beat them in the first try
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This ripoff made me appreciate Ornstein and Smough LMAO. Worst boss in the game so far.
Fighting either one 1 on 1 gives very little window for attack, while fighting 2 there is mostly none. Black flame spam. Also on PS4 it's really laggy, roll animation start often resulted in lag/frame skip.
Tips: do it Ongbal way - parry the fatty with a buckler and finish with whatever you like. I recommend Ordovis Greatsword because when he's rolling into a pillar (behind which you wait), you can use it's special attack to deal decent damage, and stagger him with another one.
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These fellas did try to 1v2 me but no it was 3v2 with my mimic and Bernahl haha. We got them in like 30 secs, one of the easiest boss fights at all.
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It calls them the Foreskin Duo on the lore, notes, and trivia section
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Which wise guy added the final paragraph to the lore, notes and other trivia?
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Wow, that ended up being far easier than I was expecting. Put one to sleep then Mimic Tear and I went ham with Eleonora's Poleblade on the other. When that one was finished, the other had a rude awakening. Third one spawned and was swiftly despatched. 3rd try. I was really not expecting it to be as simple as that. Maybe I got lucky (level 141).
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This is one of my most memorable fights in this game. You cannot imagine how histerical I became learning they could respawn on their own. I had previously studied how to kill them both by carefully putting both to sleep with a single pot, upon success I felt great, for about 0.5 seconds. With half an healtbar to be depleted, I randomly panicked as the big one resspawned, running around searching for a summoning snail or sum. Damn it's been truly one of the experiences ever
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Tired of their **** ? Equip Sword of St Trina + a greatshield, summon your Mimic Tear, then switch to a bleed weapon loadout (dual katanas are great for that, but anything works). Your Mimic will put one to sleep quite regularly, allowing you to bleed the other undisturbed, and the greatshield will help them survive longer than usual. Repeat until death.
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I feel like they have more than 40% fire resist. Blasphemous Blade is absolutely pathetic against these guys. Taker’s Flames dealing 100% fire damage, meanwhile hitting them with Black Blade, which is 100% holy damage, does significantly more. And they supposedly have the same amount of resistance to holy as fire.
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Ruins great sword works great on these on typical str build with heavy armor. Ash can hit both of them for heavy damage. R1 hit like truck tue.
Granted ultras were buffed, this was not a good strat on release.
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Equip deathbed dress, blessed dew talisman, erdtree blessing and rotten breath with bleed weapons. Run inside behind pillar, summon mimic tear and benefit from double dipping of aoe healing for free as well as massive bleed and rot damage. Makes the fight trivial.
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After I won the fight the apostle didnt despawn. Scared the hell out of me.
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duo underwhelming they are easy to solo with great sword +23 with lions claw. you can jump attack spam noble and stagger him at phase transition and kill him without him rolling.
then its just 1v1
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Beat them first try with the bolt of gransax. Big guys roll must have been nerfed cause the roll was severely shortened. Still shaking after the fight though cause of all the hipe.
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my first time fighting these guys was super memorable. realizing that their health isn't half gone after killing one then the dramatic shift in the music and the resummon genuinely startled me a bit and I laughed my ass off after dying.
on subsequent playthroughs, they really aren't that bad. just use some talismans, weapons, buffs and spells that synergize well and you'll be fine, it's just a late game DPS check. wear some heavy armor with defense buffs and don't worry about getting hit too much and it's definitely more fun than some of the other duo bosses.
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I don't remember how I did this fight since it was so long ago. I just remember using Radan's swords and bonking them to death. They honestly have some of the most annoying patterns though I don't think I could've beaten them if I hadn't been overleveled from not knowing where to go and just being a murder hobo for the first twenty hours of the game.
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Just for sh*ts and giggles I summoned Bernal with a +10 mimic with maxed out RoB and Blood Uchi and me with maxed out bleed whips
I was barely able to see their health bar
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If you have an arcane build with some vigor, this fight can be easier. Use mimic or another tank summon and Bernal and have them agro the bosses. When they’re aggroed, you can spam dragon communion attacks, elzykes decay would probably be best. After switching to this strategy with a +9 communion seal, I got them in like 2 tries
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Always, always attack the apostle first. He's definitely the weaker of the two, he gets staggered and killed fairly easily.
The noble on his own is actually not as bad as when you fight him at Volcano Manor. Once you can keep one enemy alive at a time, it's pretty easy.
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1st pull (no summons, no bhs, no spellcuck stuff). melee 2h lvl150. just hide behind pillar on roll.
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The single fact you can't dodge the wheel attack makes this fight design pretty bad and annoying.
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Remember kids, the pulley crossbow and rivers of blood will make this fight quite easy. Shame I used Rivers on Fire Giant for my every boss with a different weapon run
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Easy boss get sleap pot throw on tbin one then use parry on godskin nobble…easy win…
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actually the only boss I've had to use an NPC summon for because I'm just sick of their sh*t
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The choir going off as the godskins perform the goofiest looking attacks ever:
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This fight is a great lesson for game designers. There's a difference between well designed duo boss fight and lazily put 2 bosses in the same room.
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On my first run with only my trusty pickaxe, I noticed I could kill the fast one pretty easily, so I did just that. Then rather than fighting the big one I just ran arround until resurect, rush in and kill rinse and repeat. Since fatty didn't go to phase 2 it was somewhat easy to hide behind pillars while waiting for the rez. Two hand pickaxe, +23 or 25 at 56 STR.
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Solo'd these bosses by cheesing with incantations that can go thru walls like Radagon's Ring and Triple Ring of Light.
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Really unfortunate boss. They take two good bosses that were unique but not all that challenging on their own, put them together, and it makes a boss that’s difficult, but probably not in the way they intended. They work so unbelievably well as a team that it’s probably one of the most realistically difficult bosses in the game. But that doesn’t make it fun.
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For my challenge-like melee solo (no summons) run this fight is Hell.
And by the way... SLEEPING ARROWS do not work anymore.
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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 Godskin Duo's total HP.
Source? I tried looking this up and just Godskin Duo cut/unused content in general and found nothing. I find it especially dubious because these enemies are known for being silent.
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For some reason in my run when one of Godskin Duo is killed the other didn't resurrect it. Only when both die that they'll take turns being resurrected until the fight is over so i always fight only one boss after one dies.
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Can't wait until Shadow of the Erdtree, when Fromsoft blesses us with the Godskin Triplets. We could even get the Godskin Quartet if we're lucky.
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Something tells me Fromsoft is running out of ideas….just a hunch tho….
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Fought these guys with Glintstone Academy Staff +17, and Carian Knight Sword +9. Used a Crazed Perfumer +10 summon to draw aggro on skinny, while I hosed down fatty with Great Glintstone Shards and the odd Carian Grandeur. Killed skinny after doing the same thing and then kept hitting fatty until they went down.
Use a summon to divide aggro and make sure to roll into fatty's rolling attack, makes it a lot easier to dodge it
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I'm fighting them with a whip arcane build.
After 5 tries I've turned the whip on myself to feel better
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Seeing a message that says "praise the mimicry!" in the boss arena made me laugh way harder than it should
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They aren’t strong enough there needs to be 10 of each and they should all use placidusax’s laser at the start of the fight and then immediately go into second phase and spam black flame fireballs and rolling and maybe then they would be at most a half decent challenge come on fromsoft
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high poise strength build, +21 cold brick hammer with chilling mist and a mimic tear. the tear died pretty fast but it split them up at least. poise broke them over and over by just tanking their hits when i needed to and hitting them back. it actually helps that they respawn since it resets their frostbite proc scaling
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Fifth try got it right. Erdtree blessing before entering. Summon mimic+10 with spells (swarm of flies, Borealis hteath, lightning spear, pest threads and various heals and buffs. Pulled back 2-3 swarm of flies on apostle then bloodhound sword+10. Luckily mimic had put Noble to sleep. We kilked apostle. Noble still sleeping. After a couple of seconds thinking what now? We killed Noble. Apostle came back and we killed him as well. Only had to heal once at the end.
Used the wrong entry so did not find the summon sign of Bernhals.
Propably hardly more than a minute.
Guess you need some luck with what mimic does...
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If you have a somewhere tanky summon you can distract Apostle and kill the noble then you can easy kill Apostle who doesnt have a bullshit 5 minutes attack and wait for the next spawn. Did work for me.( sorry for my english)
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I didn't even know sleep existed in this game. I just gave up trying to melee them and spammed them with poison/blood loss crossbows.
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The Fire Giant almost made me quit playing this game. Then this duo did make me quit playing my first playthrough with a Dex Bleed build. The very next day I started a new game with a Mage build. I finally got back to this boss fight last night and beat it on my first try. I didn't use summons at all in my first playthrough, but use Lhutel in every boss fight in my second playthrough. I also didn't see the Knight Bernahl summon on my first playthrough. Glad to finally be able to play rest of the game.
Any suggestions on what my next playthrough build should be? I've never done a NG+ in any game. Is it worth it in Elden Ring? Can you add a second build in a NG+? Like say I want to start an Incantation build, is it better to do in a NG or NG+? I'm sure I could just look all this up, but figured I could get a more direct answer on here.
- Anonymous
I was scared shitless when I first encountered them but the sleep strategy works pretty good. Beat them on my 2nd try
- Anonymous
Beat them within my first few tries as a lvl 126 melee build. It was either luck or I’m actually semi good at the game
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Easy win after I used swarm of flies summon a sprite ash for distraction mine is my go to Demi human ashes and spam one with the flies till they die once you have one down the other is easily taken care of and just repeat shouldn’t have them both alive after that
Beat them first try solo in my recent playthrough running a faith/arcane build. Use Pest Threads to take care of fatty and then just kill skinny asap so you basically have to 1v1 them most of the time
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Godskin Duo? More like Godskin Five in my case, the respawn mechanic is so silly on this
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Players really seem to hate this one, and while most of the critiques are valid, I can't help but enjoy this boss. The black flame fireball was the most difficult part for me, but when I learned to watch out for that one, it basically became a nice crowd-control battle with one of the best OSTs from the game.
And if you're ok with summoning, just get Bernhal for the fight, he's an absolute beast and will literally solo one of the godskins, just keep the other one aggrod so he won't get overwhelmed.
- Anonymous
Beat them with pure melee, no summons, and no status effects after a few attempts. Free aim is a must so you don't back into a wall or a pillar. Use the pillars to separate them and hide behind so you can heal. Focus on the Apostle and just kill him multiple times. Ignore and avoid the Noble so he doesn't start phase 2 and whip out Godskin Wheel. Also, fighting the Noble up close takes up half the camera and it is difficult to see what the Apostle is doing.
- Anonymous
If you trigger hemorrhage, which health bar dictates the damage number? Does it do 10% of the individual enemies health to the boss bar, 10% of the boss bar to the individual, or is it a different damage number for each health bar?
- Anonymous
Majin Bu and Gumby tag team was a terrible idea for an RPG boss... but hey, this game is full of bad ideas, so why not?
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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