Lesser Burial Watchdog | Elden Ring Wiki

this is just straight BS.
give us absolutely no reliable practice with these guys for 90 percent of the game then at end game just make us take on 6 of them for Sh1ts and giggles while dialing the scaling up to eleventeen.
FU fromsoft.

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equipped a strike weapon as recommended, died, killed the bloody thing with a bow and the ice towers, then i left the strike / tower shield on and died to the little ones in the next room...... my runes shall live in this place forever.......

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This takes my hatred for cats to a whole knew level

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Why these mfs harder than the boss of the dungeon?!?

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Mom theres a WEIRD FKlN CAT IN MY DUNGEON

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damn these mfers gave me a worse time than 70% of the main bosses

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fym "lesser" these guys are harder than the boss variant

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night maiden's mist

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Float, slam. Float, slam. Float, slam. Float, slam. Float, slam. Seriously, these guys are the epitome of spamming a single attack, an attack that can also somehow clip through floors and hit you if you're above them (looking at you, Giants Mountaintop Catacombs). God-awful design, forget farming for the sword. Just avoid them if you can, bait into the pillar attacks if you can't.

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Remember how in Dark Souls 1 they reused the Taurus and Capra Demon bosses as regular enemies latter in the game? When you first encountered them as bosses they were both really hard, but then when they return as regular enemies you've gotten much stronger while they've stayed the same. The player gets two great moments out of this; a feeling of dread when they first see the crowds of demons, "Oh god, not again, there's so many," then they attack and just obliterate them and feel like a total badass. That two-step experience is the entire point of reusing bosses as regular enemies, to show the player just how far they've come.

And then here's Elden Ring, which just forgot that point completely. These ****ers are buffed up so much that they're all effectively still boss fights. They do massive damage, they've got a ton of health, you have to be just as careful and on-point with them as you were as the ones back in Limgrave.
And it sucks. Everybody hates them. You're either good at Watchdogs and it's a chore, you're bad at them and hate fighting them, or your eyes are glazing over because there's not a single new enemy in this entire ****ing area, or some combination of the three. And if you want that Greatsword than **** you, idiot, have fun suffering.

I hate it. I hate it a whole lot.

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You can parry them. Funniest ****

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Grab their agro and use an ice trap to kill it

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I ran into the Giants Mountaintop Catacombs basement, grabbed the Ashes and died. Just do that. Dont waste your patience, energy on fighting such idiotic enemies. Worst enemy type in the game.

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I'm getting OHKOed with 40+ vigor, Morgott's Great Rune, and Crimson Amber Medallion +1...on NG. Like WHAT?

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I could surf on all the tears in here. Strike and/or magic damage, friends. Also poise-breaking skills/spells/attacks. Use a 100% phys shield & shield boosting talismans if having trouble dodging. Or just avoid them.

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I like how these take three minutes to kill and are placed in nearly every single room in late-game catacombs.

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My strategy for fighting them: hold a greatshield and keep circling around it to its behind. Only counterattack when it do the horizontal slash or tail whip, and charge a heavy attack when it almost finish the spining breath.

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"Some inhabitants of Lands Between are to be left alone." - True Lore.

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Consecrated catacombs, lure into the frost emitting pillars then duck into tunnels.

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these MFs are harder than the original

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'Lesser' and yet has more health than any boss version. I feel like these guy's health should be tuned down a bit, it's seriously excessive even for the Mountaintops!

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worse enemy of the game, simple as that, pretty confident those things could take on most, if not all bosses, and win
insanely high health pool? check
stupid high defenses? check
hit like a freight train? check
kill in 3 hits (2 if unlucky)? check
AoE attacks spam followed by a jab/sweep move to take at least 1/3 of your health? check

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The answer is the ash of war of the darkmoon greatsword, couple R2 hits, staggered, crit hit and done

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If you want to farm these. USE FLAME OF THE REDMANES. Stunnes them in 2 hits and makes farming waaayy easyer.

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Love these things. Hate fighting them though. And where's my Watchdog mask eh Miyazaki? Better be in the DLC or else.

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Oh wow, yet another recycled boss made into a mob with stupidly overtuned damage.

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Crystal Daggers....craft a lot of them

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The frost breathing one i consecrated catacombs was so annoying

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"Flame of the Redmanes" easily breaks their poise. Two hits and they're stunned

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Came here looking for a weakness and found...NOTHING. i actually HATE these mother****ers, they're an absolute nightmare, i just wanted the sword...

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The ones on GMC are not worth the runes, time effort or frustration. Run past and cheese when you can safely do so.

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These enemies are really annoying!

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Black Knife +5
49 Faith
Rinse & Repeat

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The number of times this enemy was reused, along with the imp statues, throughout the entire course of the game is a little appalling

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Lesser Burial Watchdog... LESSER...

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Beat fire giant solo and thought I was good, till I met these guys lol

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lesser rune bears, the giant crows and this lesser burial watchdog are c**ts plan and simple.

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Yeah F- these guys. They have a permanent spot on my "just run past them" list.

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tried not to cheese any enemy in my first run. but this one, I had to.

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After spending nearly 2 hours trying to farm their sword I found Ice Spear works really well against these guys, despite them being immune to all status effects the projectile does pure magic damage which they are not resistant to, it also has a slightly longer range than their frost breath attack, if you stay the right distance from them they'll keep spamming that and won't do the AoE slam attack

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For the first one in the catacombs if you run back up the stairs after hitting it from the high ground you can either run back and avoid it. Or in my case it glitched and I cheesed it while it was stuck in the stairwell.

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The watchdogs are INSANELY weak to the "Flame of the Redmanes" ash of war. Two casts will stagger them, and can be pulled off before the watchdog can do a single attack. You can chain stun/riposte them to death without taking a single hit.

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The Watchdog Greatsword page has a great explanation for these guys locations. I dont know if someone with editing privilegges wants to copy that over to this page too.

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If there was an accessable npc attributed to inventing/creating these things in-game, becoming Elden Lord would have been put on indefinite hiatus until I was able to destroy them. The ever-decaying and failing world would just have to wait.

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These enemies are very weak to shield & poke tactics.

Equip a 100% physical shield with highest guard boost you can use. Further increase guard boost and stamina (max + recovery) using talismans as required. Equip a poking weapon (e.g. lance or pike).

Simply block your way through all of his attacks while poking him with your stick (w/o lowering your shield). Watch your stamina and recover it in time by lowering your shield in between enemy moves.

There's only 2 moves to watch out for using this tactic:
1. Breath attack. Simply sprint away and wait it out.
2. Levitating attack. Simply move backwards a little bit, so he does not hit you on the head but hits your shield instead. You can guard counter this attack if you want (or just stick to poking (pun intended)).

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If you want to practice on these, go to Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave, sneak past the monk, go to the right through a fake wall, then jump out of one of the windows onto the light circle. Kill the 2 imps and then agro the watchdog and bring him up to the light. This is how I farmed the sword they drop, and it's also a very safe way to recover your runes in case of death. These guys used to give me all sorts of trouble and by now they are a piece of cake.

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Using crystal dart's short-circuit and will first stun it and then have them go berserk attacking anything. Works on imp's too.

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Flame of the Redmane 2 hits stunned run back use flame of the redmane 2 times and stunned

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Strongest enemies in the game

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In giant conquering hero's grave, you can kill them one at a time by getting in a hit, then hiding behind the elevator until they lose interest.

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Seems pretty clear most people here are not playing as a caster. lol

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FALLING STAR BEAST JAW @ +9 WILL STAGGER EVERY 2 HITS. YOU CAN TAKE THEM EASY ONE AT A TIME.

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LESSER BURIAL WATCHDOG NOTES & TIPS
-Notes and player tips go here

Pure sadness...

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Are you tired of getting 2 shot and just want the sword?

Well heres your solution. Make your way to the Giant's Mountaintop Catacombs and get to the first elevator, and the secret room beneath it. Here you'll find a Stake if Marika. Next go past the first Watchdog and the two Cold Blasters. Now you're face to face with the Sword Watchdog. Aggro him and bring him to the hall, dodge some attacks and go back to the room with the chest. Trigger the Cold Blaster and freeze that Stone Freak! About 7 hits and boom.

(If symptoms persist go defeat your local wolfman or troll instead)

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You can 100% cheese these fights at Giants mountain top. The lower one you can pick off from above. His and run back up the stairs. The second you can hit and run back to the lift. Don't go down. He will turn around and go back up the stairs. I snuck up and hit him and ran back. He will keep turning around and going back up his stairs.

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In Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave I got one to slam a fire monk and it killed him in one hit with 2119 damage. The easiest way to kill one of the duo watchdogs is to get them to teamkill each other. Just aggro them both and watch them slam into each other for about 1400 damage. But know the only reason to bother killing them is farming for their greatsword drop.

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In Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave I got one to slam a fire monk and it killed him in one hit with 2119 damage. The easiest way to kill one of the duo watchdogs is to get them to teamkill each other. Just aggro them both and watch them slam into each other for about 1400 damage. But know the only reason to bother killing them is farming for their greatsword drop.

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Decided to farm this thing for the only collosal sword I didn't have in my STR char.
Now I have the sword and the nightmare.

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Love how salty people are about these guys, most people are just under leveled at this point, if you are not at least level 180 by the time you face these guys you are under leveled.

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It's not ideal by any means, but these guys are weak to guard counters and terrible against shields. Use cragblade or royal knights resolve to speed up guard break.

Seems slow at first, but it beats waiting out never-ending slam attacks and losing half your flasks.

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after luring both into the light and so making them mortal you can throw Crystal Darts at one of them and after like 10 of them they will become frenzied and attack each other (might need to make one of them hit the other for them to actually fight.

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Literally died to this thing more than all of the bosses in my NG+ run COMBINED. Immune to all statuses, not weak to any damage type, ridiculous health pool and at max vigor and heaviest armor in the game they'll still 2 shot you with ground slam attacks that they spam nonstop with no opening and need millisecond precision to dodge. IF you do manage to stagger it for a crit, it recovers literally faster than you can walk around from behind it to in front where the crit point is. So effing dumb.

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Bruh that's literally a cat no matter how you look at it lol

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I don't know why this boss...I mean "regular enemy"... doesn't just leave this dungeon and become the Elden Lord itself. OP as ****, could easily take any of the late-game bosses, especially in those small-ass rooms you have to fight them in.

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By far one of the worst mob enemies in the game. Incredibly high hp and damage, with many AoE attacks. In addition, difficult to stagger or poise break and immune to all statuses.

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The ones inside Consecrated Snowfield Catacombs almost one shot me with 55 Vigor. And they call these LESSER?!

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I used Falling Star Beast Jaw's skill: Gravity bolt to walk right through these dogs. Each hit stuns them, and you can fire quicker than it can recover.

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Crystal darts aside, these are perfect examples of enemies you should just run away “From” Yes pun intended. They don’t even follow after you get a certain distance away and not worth fighting IMO. Plus their jerky movements are really kind of irritating to watch.

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If you are in melee range when he casts that freezing breath attack, you are 100% dead.

60 Vig just deleted in a second + the insane tracking on it.

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against solid/armored/scaled enemies, strike damage, should be natural by now... scrubs.

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dog

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Lesser my ass

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Nice tracking when they do the frostbreath, at this point they should just stare at you and you get frostbitten

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Worst enemy in the game by far past the early stages. I ran past all of the ones on Giants Mountain because they completely removed any aspect of fun from this video game I was supposed to be playing for fun.

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Ah yes, another bullshit enemy thays supposed to be cool but just abuses infite poise and spams the same attack over and over again like people want to dodge 10 ground slams in a row


Once again another thing that they want you to actually fight, but you're better off cheesing it. Just use like fallingstar weapon art and range spam them till they die

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Been just messing around, exploring, and helping people with bosses, so I’m almost lvl 150 right now, +10 legendary armament, and these guys are STILL a pain to deal with. If they broke like the crystal soldiers, that would be one thing, but they don’t…

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Better to just run away. Don't drop **** for runes, dont drop **** for loot. Waste of time. Strongest enemy in the game, even worse than any bosses.

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They appear to be relatively weak to magic damage. If you have something that can deal heavy magic damage and concurrently stagger the enemy, you're in good shape.

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This thing need to be nerf, bad. Their attack ignore all your defense and resistance. Their jab attack is a ****ing channel, but have the same animation as regular attack, you get hit multiple times even if you dodge into it. Stupid as ****.

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Slam spam can kill you through floors whether you're above or below.

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A tip for fighting this guy, get a 100% Hvy Shield and a Thrusting weapon, if it's doing the ground slam remember to move back a bit from the the center of the impact so the shield can block it, or jumping also help. If he's spraying then run away then use darts/ kukri/ spells. For other attacks turtle behind big shield and poke him to death. Last thing manage your stamina bar, move away if it's at 20-25%, regen then back in.

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and it gives what? 2k souls? Thanks From.

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It's not listed here but they can drop a Watchdogs Greatsword

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Best tactic I've found (for low lvl, Im level 39 w/ +4 weps) is to bait them in to the corridors then shoot the pilers up and make them breathe ice on them. Also using crystal darts seem to make them geek out for a short period. You could also send the elevator up and they will try to slam you, but you are behind the elevator pilar. Then use Nox flowing hammer to trash them

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You can use the frost trap to (help slowly) kill them i the giants dungeon if you are farming them. Other than that just run away, The time/effort/potions to kill these things (like many late game mobs) is just not worth it

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"Lesser" my foot. These things are absolutely ridiculous. Doesn't stagger, tiny openings, hits like a truck (two shots guaranteed or your money back!), tons of health, and there are always MULTIPLE of them in the dungeons that they show up in. They reused a boss as a regular enemy but forgot the part where it becomes reasonable as a regular enemy.

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I found that using magic damage dealing swords was the most effective on these guys. I used moonveil and the meteoric ore blade.

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you can beat the first elden lord,
you can slay a god
but doesnt matter how much powerfull you are
in the end this piece of **** one shots you.

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**** this mob

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This thing and it's higher level versions are a nightmare to fight as a melee build

Best strat I can come up with is build to a posture break. never attack directly from the front/back (It will punish you immediately) and make it whiff it's basic swings then following a running heavy or jump attack. Keep up the pressure til it posture breaks and crit it.

Never attack it after it does a slam down, it will spam it and punish you back with a oneshot.

This sorta works, best I can come up with for now.

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Clicked the link for this mob hoping to learn it's weakness. Appears they have none. Just gotta keep hitting it until it stops moving.

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Is my issue with these guys I need some kind of hammer or blunt damage?

I cannot seem to do much to take out their health other than use like 3 buffs and a dragon breath.

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Just run past, clear the first pillar room, aggro gargoyle from range, wait for it to die to the frost pillar.

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In order to beat the 2 easily, bait them both on the light, and then use the consumable "Crystal Dart" on each of them. It staggers them shortly and then they fight each other.
Has to be crystal Dart consumable, Lore text of it: "Long ago, it is said that a golem crafter employed a similiar crystal tool."

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Piece of shxt
It’s fine to have tough enemies, and considering the budget limitation, copy and paste is understandable
But at least pick smthing that’s fun to fight…

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It's an easy fight but a very long and boring fight my god. Hate these guys :D

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Thought I'd try respeccing into the new meta -- arcane blood. Ran upon this dungeon, and my god.....all enemies immune to bleed (I should have expected that). But this guy.....THIS GUY...is ridiculous. Worse than nearly ever boss so far... Thing I hate, is now it's made me regret respeccing....

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It's both comforting and disappointing to know that everyone is equally as annoyed with these mfers as I am.

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In my first playthrough this enemy was pretty easy using Rock Sling. Decided to go dex for NG+ this enemy is by far the most annoying to fight. The AOE from its jump attack has to be broken. I've rolled managed to roll cleanly out of the way and still get hit for full damage.

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They are tanking everything I throw at them, is their a shitty strat I don't know like the heal that kill the royal revenant ? Hitting this thing for so long is not fun especially when you get one shot when he is finally at 3% hp... Some ennemies are just hard to kill not even fun to fight, did from software expect every player to use comet azur + moonveil with mimic tear, wtf ? With the recent buff to sorceries it really seems like it.

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