Preceptor Miriam | Elden Ring Wiki

This mf of a sorceress is why Leyndell went to war with the Carians and the academy betrayed Rennala.

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Just used a short bow with barrage to spam rot arrows and hid. Couldn't be bothered to deal with it myself

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I used cannon f haima to knock her down when she casted spells eventually killing her

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I recommend poisoning her on her second teleport (the balcony before an elevator. When I did it and then hurt her as much as I could before the teleport, the poison was enough damage to finish the job without me needing to go up there. Should only take like 2-3 poison pots. I don't know if deadly poison would have enough total damage, but I wouldn't risk it. (Deadly poison does damage faster but it does 2/3 as much per application (less with the fetid pots))

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#1 most annoying enemy in this game and its not close

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I don't know how, but when I inverted the tower and she started bow spamming me, I just parried with Carrian Retaliation and she just fell off??

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She can be cheesed with a shortbow. You can shoot as she begins to crouch and you'll be able to move again (and thus dodge) before her spell reaches you (and if you manage to land a headshot it'll interrupt her outright).

Same energy as the longbow tip listed in the notes, but safer since if you mess up your shot you'll still have the opportunity to dodge.

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Honestly, I wouldn't mind her so much if she wasn't such a blatant example of the AI getting infinite FP. She's clearly a tarnished, down to having her name above her healthbar if you lock on to her, but she NEVER stops casting. At least the Crystal Sage in DS3 had the excuse of being clearly a different thing than the player character.

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This confuses me

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Unfortunately very late response, but to magic builds ambush shard is super free against miriam. simply stand behind a corner and mash that fire button. works on all phases as she almost always stands close enough for it to spawn behind her and it casts usually just barely faster than her spells for added insurance

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I have high faith. I used the incantation Lightning Spear on this. worked like a charm

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fighting this magic archer in the inverted study hall is pain and suffering, I dare you to make a boss more annoying! not even Malenia's difficulty, the Elden Beasts spam or Godfrey's AoE pain or even Maliketh's constant DoT or somehow the Godskin Duo's continued existence as is is THIS annoying.

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Her teleport have a limit when you first encounter in the circle room, she can only teleport 2 circle, i clear all the puppet and she teleport 1 more circle then fight me in melee range.

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Preceptor Miriam is asshoal!

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Night comet/night shard. Free aimed giants flame over a ledge. Carian/golden retaliation. One eye shield. Hand ballista or jar cannon. Radahns bow. Any gravity magic that can pull her off the cliff. Blood fly spell spam. Frenzied burst/vykes spear into O flame execution.

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Miriam? More like Mir-I-am on the verge of ending it all if you keep teleporting away ajAjsjdj@+#$+

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Cannon of Haima. Outside of where you first find her in the inverted tower, there is always a spot where you can stand where she can't hit you, but you can charge a cannon up and hit her.

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golden retaliation

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Bow spam, but in Elden Ring. no really this is pain.

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if a game bullshts u dont be afraid to bs it back

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didn't know she was a struggle for so many on my first play through sure she was annoying but she wasn't that hard.

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dear intelligence builds!!! carian slicer is the answer!!!!!

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She jumped off and killed herself first time i was here, didnt understand she was a boss.

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dear faith builds!!! frenzied burst is the answer!!!!

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Sometimes I have to run 20 laps until it finally decides not to instantly teleport away without any animation whatsoever in the middle of a spell charging. Thing is, this wasn't like this on my first playthrough in early June. The NPC teleported after a few damage, but not just insta-spawned 50 meters away. Meaning, it's glitched. So FromSoftware, was it really that important to buff Moonveil again instead of fixing this thing?

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Once i fought her and instead of Preceptor Miriam, her name was changed to Preceptor Seluvis, and her attire became blue (like a spirit summon). Has that happened to anyone else?

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Inverted Tower variation is the true end boss of Elden Ring.

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As an unga bunga (Great Hammer build), I tried to faceroll her and died several times. I even tried throwing arrows at her but she'd dodge away from them most of the time. So, I took the advice of the NOTES & TIPS above, and ranged her to death with Great Glintstone Shard. I put on all the Int gear and talismans I had, threw on a staff, and switched all my flasks to Cerulian Tears. As long as you're careful and back up when she's firing arrows at you, you'll kill her in no time.

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I cheesed her so hard. At the top of the second elevator, I stayed by the wall out of her vision and she stopped attacking and started walking towards me. A quick unsheathe and a few strikes were enough.

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Haven't seen it mentioned yet so I'll drop my technique for killing her.

Ascend the tower as you would, killing the summons and doing enough damage that she teleports away. Continue this until the final stage where she just casts and teleports. Get close to that ladder so she teleports away again and then climb the ladder to the rafters. She stops attacking, allowing you to drop attack her. When i did this, she didn't teleport away again allowing me to finish her off

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raggedy saggedy ass old lady who hates fun

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Small correction, Miriam isn't an invader, she's an actual hostile NPC. Similar to Moongrum in Raya Lucaria academy. There has to be a warning sign when you get invaded and invaders tend to be red. These guys simply approach you once spotted.

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Hit her with the Greatsword. She'll die quick enough.

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This is listed as a npc invader, which is false. Its a named npc. Invaders are red

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wait until you get the carian inverted statue then begin the fight with her. run back to the table and place it. when the hall inverts she dies. no chasing.

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Frenzied Burst helps immensely in this fight, she can't dodge the frenzied burst shot and will always get hit by it. I also found that she doesn't teleport when she reach her 3rd and final position in the tower if we keep hitting her with this incantation (when we didn't used the inverted statue). Also, Carian Retaliation helps too when closing in the distance after you parry her magic greatbow spell.

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In regular Carian, after she killed me twice, I decided to just run past her and went all the way up the beams.
From there I assaulted her with the rock sling, until suddenly she stopped attacking. Couldn't find her.
Then suddenly I saw her standing like a lifeless puppet on the 2nd floor. Let's backstab, why not. Couple more hits when she was getting up and job done.
Haha.

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I killed each of her summons, then I was able to get to here, hit her with my claymore a few times and then she teleported. Rinse and repeat. Top level keep on smashing her with my claymore until dead.

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Serpent Arrows can poison her, can confirm on Inverted Tower encounter

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Calm your tits Gwyndolin

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Someone recommends using kukri to kill her quickly and easily, this does not work unless it requires throwing them from a certain spot, she rolls away as soon as you throw one, another says to make her flinch with a throwing dart before she can get off a cast of loretta's greatbow but this isn't as easy as it sounds either.

What just worked for me though was 'rain of arrows' AoW and bleed arrows. Using 'arrow's sting' and 'arrow's reach' talismans she can be killed without too much trouble. The only tricky part is keeping her target locked long enough for the cluster of arrows to hit her. But 'rain of arrows' only uses one from your inventory for every shot, so its not expensive if it misses her now and then.

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hate

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I fought her both in the reg and secret (inverted) and she is supposed to drop the lucidity spell but I somehow didn’t get it?

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OH MY ****ING GOD SHE JUST WONT STOP TELEPORTING

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An NPC named Miriam in an inverted area....nice homage to Castlevania stuff (or at least it is a coincidence)

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I found her one of the most irritating enemies I've yet faced. Thankfully she just straight up fell off the bridge in the inverted study hall before I'd even gotten near her.

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she will have teleport glitch on the top floor if you hit her from the elevator area with great bow. She will keep teleporting back and forth without attacking and you just need to make sure you have a good long range aim to walking target

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Such an easy fight if you just craft or buy some rot arrows. She never dodge when casting and scarlet rot will get rid of like 80% of her hp. No hassle for chasing her as melee player.

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Such an easy fight if you just craft or buy some rot arrows. She never dodge when casting and scarlet rot will get rid of like 80% of her hp. No hassle for chasing her as melee player.

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Nice work fromsoft. What a challenging fight. I've had so much fun chasing non-stop teleporting and magic spamming trashmob that takes half of my hp bar with a single hit. Top notch enemy design right here. Hats down!

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Also seems like there's no concept of mana for mobs in this game. Looks like only player needs mana to use magic huh.

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She will stop attacking if you climb the ladder to the beam and will try to climb. If you jump on her before she gets on the ladder she won't teleport.

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seluvis, miriam... what's with preceptors and being horrible, horrible, evil people

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Stop pretending. Micolash, I know it’s you.

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her magic arrow is awesome and will blow you up. Unlike advice here, she didn't care what so ever for my glintblades and is always behind 9000 ghosts that will interfere with your aim. Imo just rush her and roll through the arrows.

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Forget Magic Downpour and Lucidity, I want the Instant Teleport While Doing Other Things Too spell.

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A simple bone dart or any other kind of throwing knife will cause her to flinch, cancelling her magic greatbow's channeling.

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stop using magic for one second (very hard)

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In the normal Carian Study Hall you can jump into a little doorway while on the first elevator ride.

From there if you sprint jump as far in as possible into your watery death, the Lucidity-spell popup will show up shortly after.

That way you don't have to deal with her in the inverted version of Carian Study Hall later.

Confirmed working as of 1.04.

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new players: "this fight is bs for melee builds"
kukri: "am I a joke to you?"

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She deals a lot of damage with her greatbow spell and can soak up a lot of damage, but she can be staggered VERY easily. Even a tiny bit of damage can interrupt her rather long cast. If you manage to close in to her (which, in the first phase of the non-inverted version, you can do by just sprinting up the staircase before she spawns) or lure her close, you can easily drain her health with a chain of fast melee attacks and she can't do anything about it. In the inverted version, you can chain ranged attacks at her as the balcony you stand on gives you great cover against her ranged atacks. She can't dodge while she casts her greatbow and, in my case at least, she often immediately tried to re-cast her spell rather than panic rolling if you interrupt her.

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Piece of ****

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I managed by luring her close and engaging her at melee range. Melee attacks interrupt her arrow spamming. Repeat until dead.

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In the inverted version, I hugged the wall to the left of the bridge, started to spam glintblade and apparently she jumped to her death. RIP

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After getting her down to like 1/4 of her health, you can just spam bleed arrows and poof she's gone.

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She charged up her bow, jumpscare teleported then 1 hit me. In the true omae wa mou shinderu fashion.

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I waited by the elevator hidden and she came looking for me so I smacked her to death on the top floor. I was getting so angry trying to chase her around.

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My first playthrough, I actually rank her as one of the hardest encounters in the game. She took WAY more effort than she should've as an invader type enemy. Easily stands up with the last run of bosses, and honestly outclasses Gideon by a great deal.

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On the top floor, I ended up baiting her back to the elevator and ambushing her. Worked surprisingly well rather than chasing her as she teleports around the area.

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Guys I think shes a bit underpowered, she needs A Call Beyond when you actually get close to her

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got her to jump off the platform by spamming greatbow right before she could

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As an "invader" type enemy, she is susceptible to madness. Can be very easily taken out by ducking in and out of cover while using Frenzied Burst.

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She's very annoying and tanky, but doable even without cheese. While she has good defense and high HP, she has low poise, thus you can interrupt her Greatbow by throwing darts or knives at her while she's casting. Take out the mobs and keep putting pressure on her while staggering her from casting and she should go down in no time

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Carian Retaliation

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I didn' have a huge problem with Miriam myself, but I can see why folks would have an issue. If I could fix the fight, I'd make it so she can only teleport every 10 seconds in phase four instead of yeeting left, right, and center like a spastic ape

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so ****ing stressful

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Seems like people either easily forget that poison arrows are a thing or they’re just beating their heads on a wall for no good reason.

This fight is even more simple with a serpent bow+serpent arrows. Takes two or maybe three hits to procure and just wait til she dies.

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15.000 runes for NG+ FYI

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Primal Glintstone Blade is a talisman. How does that help here? There is no Glintstone Blade. Someone said you mean Magic Glintblade? That's the default spell for prisoner and it's slow and weak. Who wrote this?

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*Melee build*
Really had a hard time with this boss. She keeps teleporting at the last phase and can't chase her. Tried killing all the spirit enemies starting from above and going back to her. I don't know why but finally she stops teleporting when at the top floor and defeated her.

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Two words: Inescapable Frenzy

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I punched this dastard all the way to the first elevator, and then when we both got down I went back up and she died. Melee bros have to innovate.

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This enemy is a kilometric ton of bullshit. She is coward, overwhelming and full ranged. She just uses Loretta Greatbow, Magic Downpour and Phalanx of Glintblades. Nothing else!

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knocked her off with a greatbow, ez

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protip if a sorcerer build: use eternal darkness. makes this so much less painful.

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Pure melee build here, had problems with the inverted version but killed her on the third try. I focused on her summons when she was on the top floor, and when all but one were dead she finally stopped teleporting and I finished her off. I don't know if it was an AI fluke but she was literally tp'ing nonstop until I started killing summons, maybe her ability is tied to them in some way. I didn't know about the jumping attack from the rafters before I fought her

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Apparently this enemy is meant to be fought during Ranni's questline, as when you attempt to fight it while in Liurnia during a regular playthrough, it'll be noticeable that she is VERY overtuned, and you'll probable resort to cheesing her somehow.

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I can’t breathe, I’m waiting for the exhale
Toss my pain with my wishes in a wishing well
Still no luck, but oh, well
I still try even though I know I’m gon’ fail
Stress on my shoulders like a anvil
Perky got me itching like a anthill
Drugs killing me softly, Lauryn Hill
Sometimes I don’t know how to feel

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For melee, the answer is the ladder. Would have been a good gimmick fight if there was maybe one or two more ladders on that upper floor. She stops firing as soon as you start walking on that ledge, like she lost sight of you.

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in the noniverted version, i killed her before she reached the second area, and she didnt drop anything. is this intended?

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Rock sling worked better than Lorettas imo, for faster casting.

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Highly recommend Eternal Darkness for ranged magic users.

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Highly recommend Eternal Darkness for ranged magic users.

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So, in the non-inverted version of this fight, I figured out a pretty good cheese-method. From the moment she first teleports in, run straight back to the elevator. After goading her towards it a bit, take the elevator back down. Stay near the downed elevator and she will start trying to shoot you through the ground, but eventually fall to the same level with you. Now, the trick is to goad her back off the elevator, run around and take it back up. Go ahead and run off the elevator to the banister on the other side of the room. It might take about a minute or so but she will fall through the elevator hole and die. Reproduced this twice, so definitely wasn't a rare fluke in the AI, it's definitely repeatable.

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On the last level after clearing out adds, I just crouched behind something until she lost aggro and started casually walking my way. Waited for her to enter melee range and made my attack. She stopped teleporting away and I just pummeled her to death at that point.

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On the last level after clearing out adds, I just crouched behind something until she lost aggro and started casually walking my way. Waited for her to enter melee range and made my attack. She stopped teleporting away and I just pummeled her to death at that point.

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After the elevator where she just always teleports from you, what I did as a melee player was run back to the elevator. She'll walk close, but then lose aggro on you and start walking back. From there I was able to sneak attack backstab her. It looked a little wonky as she still teleported but the hit landed even though she was a mile away. Did the same thing right after and then she just started melee'ing me might be a bug but definitely wait and hide by the elevator then sneak attack was the way to go for me.

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Very weak to poison. Vs inverted, used serpent bow +6 with poisonbone arrows (fletched). First mighty shot made poisoned. Used two more mighty shot storming bone arrows before I saw how fast she was taking damage. Took two arrows to reapply after that resolved, but that was enough to kill her.

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Already killed them before inverting tower, then i invert tower hours later and they are alive again, what kinda bs is this

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This enemy is bullshit and deals far too much damage for how little damage she receives.

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