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| Location | Stone Coffin Fissure |
| Drops | 220,000  RunesRemembrance of Putrescence |
| HP | ??? (LEGEND) |
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HolyPutrescent Knight is a Legend Boss in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. Putrescent Knight is a knight and horse combo and is found in Fissure Depths. This is a fairly large boss that looks like a mutated skeleton. Be aware that this boss deals fairly large amounts of damage, and you may want to stack up your Scadutree Fragments before challenging it. This is an optional boss as players don't need to defeat it to advance in Shadow of the Erdtree.
Elden Ring Putrescent Knight Boss
Putrescent Knight is a LEGEND Boss found in Fissure Depths
- This is an optional boss
- Putrescent Knight is a Legend boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Fissure Depths
- Multiplayer is allowed for Putrescent Knight
- Players can summon Spirit Ashes when facing Putrescent Knight
Elden Ring Putrescent Knight Location
Putrescent Knight can be found by heading East from Stone Coffin Fissure. The foe can be encountered by jumping off a cliff up the stairs in front of the Fissure Depths Site of grace. Once you land at the boss area, roam for a few seconds, and the boss will run towards you. See the Putrescent Knight on the [Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Link]
Putrescent Knight Combat Information
- Health: NG (??), NG+ (??), NG++ (??), NG+3 (??), NG+4 (??), NG+5 (??), NG+6 (??), NG+7 (??)
- Absorptions: ??
- Stance: ???
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken
- Damage:
Standard,
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Magic - Inflicts:
Frostbite, - Drops Remembrance of Putrescence, and 220,000 Runes
Elden Ring Putrescent Knight Boss Guide
Putrescent Knight Boss Video Guide
Putrescent Knight Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Putrescent Knight:
- Use the ?? Ash Summons
- Use the ?? Spell
- Bring ?? Item
Melee Users
The Putrescent Knight is a large boss, a combination of a normal-looking horse and a mutated undead skeleton knight. The knight wields a skeleton-shaped blade curved like a half-circle with grips on both sides. As the battle starts, the Putrescent Knight charges at you, leaping with its sword to stab you. Your immediate action is to roll and dodge this initial assault. The fight is made more challenging because of the horse, who appears to assist the knight from time to time.
The key to fighting the Putrescent Knight lies in a defensive strategy. The knight's attacks inflict very high damage and can defeat you with only a few hits. So, staying on the defensive is a must. Look for windows of opportunity to do heavy blows, primarily when the knight swings its blade with a heavy attack and takes a moment to recover. During these recovery periods, dodging and rolling followed by a quick counterattack is the most effective tactic.
Remain observant of your surroundings throughout the fight, as the horse will charge at you randomly. Even when at a distance from the knight, stay alert, as the knight will throw its blade like a boomerang, forcing you to dodge again. One of its strongest attacks is the Fire Barrage, where the knight levitates with its horse surrounded by dark shadows and hurls multiple blue fire projectiles around it. By staying in defense, carefully timing your heavy attacks, and staying aware of the horse’s and knight's presence, you can gradually wear down the Putrescent Knight.
Magic and Ranged Users
Strategy Writeup for Magic Users
Putrescent Knight Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Leaping Blade Strike | The knight leaps from its horse while running and strikes the ground in your location. | You can evade this attack by rolling to either left or right just before the knight lands its attack. |
| Double blade Swing | At close range, the knight swings its blade downwards twice towards you. | Can easily be evaded by rolling twice to either left or right. |
| Horse Charge | While you're busy fighting the knight himself, the horse will sometimes charge at you. | Check the surroundings, and once the horse appears from the ground, immediately roll to a side that's clear. |
| Spinning Cyclone Attack | At mid-range, the knight will spin its body with its sword and hurl towards you. | This can be evaded by rolling to the left twice. Or, you can roll towards the attack. |
| Swing from Horse | The knight jumps on its horse and charges at you like a cavalry then swings. | Can be evaded by rolling to the left just before the duo strikes you. |
| Blade Throw | At long-range, the knight will throw its blade at you, acting like a boomerang. | Rolling back twice can help avoid this attack. |
| Horse Roar | When the knight and horse is overwhelmed, the horse roars and knocks you back. | Once you see the horse about to roar, immediately roll back. |
| Blue Fire Barrage | One of it's strongest attacks is the Fire Barrage which has the knight levitating from the ground with it's horse and hurling multiple fire projectiles around it. | Once you see the foe levitating, immediately roll back multiple times to avoid the damage area. Failing this, you can jump over the flames. Time your jumps with any flames racing towards you across the ground. |
Putrescent Knight Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Voice Actor: ??
- Other Notes and Trivia Go Here
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Putrescent Knight Image Gallery
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AnonymousThis boss takes a few fights to learn but he's not that bad once you do, his health is really low. Once you learn his timings (some of his swings have agonizingly long delays) and that you have to JUMP the fire, not roll it, the fight becomes trivial. The most difficult move for me is either when he gets off the horse and spins at you with the horse attacking in between or when he throws his sword at you. The sword comes out FAST and feels designed to catch you when you stop to heal.
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I was not expecting to find the Orphan of Kos in Darkeater Midir's arena.
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basicaly elden beast using a horse. did not enjoy this fight at all.
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Probably one of the worst bosses in the game. Not because of damage, but because he's constantly running away from you. It's tedious and boring. The roll catches are also pretty cringe since all of his melee windups look the exact same (and I'm saying this as someone who thinks Mohg is a great boss) I beat him in 5 attempts solo so no "skill issue" here either
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As a dex build, I struggled with keen beast claws, and keen unsheathe nagakiba. I switched to rolling sparks firespark perfume bottles and got it in two tries. Rolling sparks in some cases just shredded huge chunks of his HP off.
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The Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana's skill chunks this guy a LOT, made this fight genuinely trivial.
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Elden Stars made this fight much easier. Bulked up so my mimic could tank then just spammed Elden Stars at every opening. Only took 4 of them.
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Where do i put down a summon sign for my friend to summon me?
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Rings of Miquella destroy this boss; even the new rings incantation you find just before, from the leonine, can be used when he stands still preparing to cast the flames
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When doing this guy online the horse will sometimes charge three times which seems to be a bug. The third time it charges happens while he is mounting his horse so there are two horses simultaneously.
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As i jump off the bull's horns and land in the arena, the horse charges me. After drinking my phsyic and mentally preparing, it jumps off it's horse into an attack. I dodge the first two, but a 3rd attack instantly comes out after the 2nd one, i watch in awe as half my healthbar dissapears, and then the other 49% dissapears after its horse instantly runs me over before i even got up from the attack as miyazaki intended, i continue dodging the next 7 attacks in the chain before it finally whiffs my elbow once and i die, gazing up to the roof of the cave as my mimic looks down at me, thinking it truly has been a shadow of the erdtree
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I like this boss more than id expect of myself, good fight
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Also really weak to bleed. I used Mohg's spear on him and he went down with the ash plus one critical attack.
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u can aggro him. he can get staggered if you set it up correctly. i used glintblade phalanx and savage lions claw. u dont have to play that passive just respect the spin and fire.
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Multiple references to the previous games: he has the humanity sprite's face, is inside of a cave that looks like Midir's and is accessed like Rom's lake, and has the Orphan of Kos' weapon
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Halo Scythe and its weapon art Miquella's Ring of Light works well. The Rings are homing-ish which really helps with how fast this boss moves. Didn't use a single attack, just dodged rolled until there was an opening to use the weapon art. Had the Mimic out to attract attention but any tanky spirit would probably work. Also used wonderous flask with recover HP and holy damage immediately after summoning mimic at the start of the fight.
Halo Scythe needs Faith of 15. With base class faith of 8, I got to 15 with Ruler Mask and Two Fingers Heirloom. I did have Halo Scythe at +9 already. Talismans were the Heirloom, Alexander Shard, Dragoncrest, and Two-Headed Turtle (for rolling).
As the Fextralife boss video notes, almost all his attacks come in pairs, except the fire pulses with are 3 in a row.
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"kos on a horse" is conceptually a terrible idea, but they managed to make it quite fair (very weak to holy, the horse doesn't actually run around like crazy, very good hitboxes and lots of punksh windows). Hits hard yes, but very fun to solo.
kino boss
when you get the timings for the combos one of the most satisfying fights in the entire game
Very fun boss fight; managed to solo on NG+ using lightning infused (arena is covered with water) backhand blade and its blindspot AOW. Use blindspot to counter his melee attacks; roll to the side when the horse charges at you, and jump over blue fire barrages.
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Holy damage works well on this guy, but I found that any strike weapon will do. Even a properly imbued cestus will eat through his health bar decently quickly. It also seems like he's immune (or at least fairly resistant) to most status effects, though I didn't try sleep or madness by the time I got him, so I suggest that arcane builds invest in an occult strike weapon if they don't already have one. Hope this helps!
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actually neat boss, wish i had known you have to jump TOWARDS the fire to dodge it before spending two hours dying to that one attack
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As a melee I found this horribly boring; A good comment suggested rolling backwards only and it helps a lot with being able to punish!
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I didn't realize how weak to holy it was before a single cast of the envoy's greathorn weapon art took out 20% of its HP in one go. Had to switch weapon to not kill it too quickly. Fun fight overall once you understand it's pattern as most attacks are telegraphed and don't need to react on instinct.
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Def. a interesting boss, frustrating at start but later after defeat its quite satisfying. Much spamming attacks, but he have some quite low hp pool. (he takes a lot of dmg, if you start to hit him)
For casters you can use rannis/rennas moon to avoid the aoe fire circle moving from outside to inside (very good opportunity to cast it)
Dont pref it for the Blue Fire Barrage since you can avoid the first aoe but most likely you get hit by the 2nd one. (maybe with good timing you can avoid both)
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the developers must have been on a crazy ketamine high when they designed this dude
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My favorite boss so far out of the divine beast, rellana and Golden hippo.
He seems incredibly unfair the first few tries until you understamd that the best strat is to be hyper aggro and stay near him as much as possible. His attacks do a lot of damage but they are highly telegraphed. Since to be hyper aggro means your dodges need to be on point I highly reccommend using the tear that gives you lightroll the diferencie is huge.
The fire attacks seem completely unavoidable at first until you realize you are meant to jump almost all of them, I legit beat him on the try I realized jumping was the way to go, you only have to dodge the fire attack that goes on a straight line.
Overall 9/10 boss, very frustrating at first due to his damage and seemingly unavoidable attacks but once you figure him out it's awesome!
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1 direct-hit (or 2-3 whiffs) with Scarlet Aeonia will Rot the Boss. This Boss seems generically "weak" to nearly everything, it reminds me a lot of Maliketh or Radahn. I wish it had more health and did a little less damage. Cool fight, but win or lose it ends too quickly.
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Another excelent exemple of a bad boss: Piss easy if you are ranged, but melee? Well, I hope you want to become a no-hit runner, because trading is impossible, also, janky hitboxes, you don't hit him despite being glued to him because the game decides you won't get to hit him.
Also, amazing that they had two years to see why people hated elden beast fight, attempted to correct it making it so you can use the horse in it, then make this fight, another one that you don't participate in it, just have to run constantly. Amazing how this dlc has a lot of good bosses, but also some very, very bad ones.
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+25 Greatsword with holy infusion, Curved Sword Talisman, Deflecting Hardtear and Savage Lion's Claw, I managed to beat this boss in under 2 minutes, and completely skipped his second phase.
By deflecting every attack, you'll find clear openings for guard counterng, and with lthe Greatsword's swipe and it's range, you are guaranteed to hit him even when he's running away from you. Each guard counter went up to 2500 damage, and could go even beyond with Golden Vow and other buffs
Around 3 guard counters to stagger him, which at that point a critical hit will leave him almost without health. Finish up with the Savage Lion Claw
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Using the martial arts weapon with Palm Blast with all the damage boosting talismans made short work of this guy. Tank the hit with the AOW as he is attacking you and he'll take so much damage.
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simply blocking with a decent shield made this fight very manageable.
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So f'ing anothing how there's no marika on this boss, why do i have to spend 15 seconds jumping off a cliff every single goddamn time?
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there are some fun bosses in the dlc. this is not one of them
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Guys, if you wanted another utility for the sacred relic sword other than farming mohgwyn, wave of gold deals chunks of damage against this boss.
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Does NOT count as Undead for abilities like Order's Blade, Sacred Order, or Last Rites.
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Jump towards the direction of the flames when he uses them to doge them. Don't hit him when he's dismounted that's when he's the most dangerous, focus on dodging and hit him when he remounts after 3 lunges. Similar to Abyss Watchers keep an eye out for slams because they mean the end of a combo and a window to hit. Get your hits in but don't try to out aggression him you'll lose, he's miles faster than you and hits harder. He's weak to fire too I'm pretty sure.
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Couldnt crack it with backhand blade dex build plus mimic so reached into my bag of old tricks and beat him first try with black knife tiche instead of mimic instead of having to change my build to some holy cheese
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I just repeated jumping attacks with Giant Crusher + RKR until the ****er died (solo). Jump the blue flames and don't bother trying to attack when him and the horse separate and charge you from different directions, just dodge.
Didn't even feel good beating him, it felt like finally pooping out a 5 kilo turd when you're constipated. Not a victory, a good riddance. Next time I'll just summon Ashes and delete him.
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Look at Dark Soul 3's Great Soul Dregs spell picture and come back.
"great dark soul dregs that have stewed for ages, far within the deep."
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honestly the part that bothers me the most about this boss is how he always holds his weapon above his head even if hes not going to slam down. always makes me second guess
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Probably my favorite weird boss in elden ring so far, love this spinny boy
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Yet another case of a potentially amazing boss being ruined because you spend the whole fight trying to chase it down. Same exact thing happened with the Scadutree Avatar. You think they would’ve learned this lesson the first time with Elden Beast, especially now that they’ve enabled torrent in that fight but I guess not.
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similar to those stupid death rite birds in a way since they both do absurd damage while having pretty big weaknesses to compensate
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Devonias Hammer jump attacks + fully charged L2 on stagger was extremely effective for me.
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Best way I found to dodge his fire is to run back and jump towards him as the flames reach your feet.
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He's weak to scarlet rot, also. 1 quick dragon blast and he's proc'd.
Makes me miss the Orphan of Koss :C
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hunterbunney the horse comes always from the same direction than the knight ends up after attack
-knight jumps from horse and slams to ground then does the spin you roll in then where he ends up the horse dashes dodge it and right after dodge the spin again and repeat
It’s actually one of the easiest moves to dodge from him
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really struggled with this one. what really worked for me was dodging unto him on most attacks
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Can someone edit the strat for the fire attack? You can jump over the flames into the direction they are coming from.
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If you're struggling on this guy with a Sorcery build like me, just summon an ash that can tank a few hits and learn to dodge his biggest attacks. Then simply keep your distance and spam star shower until dead. Ez pz.
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Recording here that after going through 4 other remembrance bosses including rellana and messmer, this bosses shitty hitboxes and stalling finally did my patience in and I bounced my controller off the floor. He is not a hard boss, not even close, but one that won't stop running around paired with *yet another* stupid dodge check instakill true combo JUST TO MAKE SURE that you don't kill him in your first attempt. I thought better of you fromsoft. Rip xbox controller 2022-2024.
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Trying without Scadu Fragments. He just 1 to 2 shots me. Pain.
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Not going to lie, I found this boss to be pretty lame. Most of his attacks seem to launch him well outside your range, so you spend a lot of time just chasing him. I did eventually get him (Strength/Faith, hell yeah), but I wouldn't say I had a lot of fun fighting him. Also, and I know this isn't true, but I'm halfway convinced that the Shadow Blessings actually have zero effect on your defenses. I was apparently rocking 75% damage negation across the board, and I was still getting chunked for a quarter of my health on every hit. I *shutter* to think of how much damage I'd be taking without the blessings.
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Scarlet rot chews through this guy pretty quick. Rot breath is a big help here.
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>Once you see the foe levitating, immediately roll back multiple times to avoid the damage area.
This doesn't work but ok
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>Once you see the foe levitating, immediately roll back multiple times to avoid the damage area.
this doesnt work, it covers the whole are but ok
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Use Flame, Grant Me Strength for extra damage and a holy Uchi or any other katana with Unsheathe, and you should poise break him 3 or 4 hit and do tons of damage
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his severe weakness to holy would have made this fight manageable if he actually stayed in one place after attacking and didnt stay EXACTLY out of your range for the entire fight. whats the point of having him die in like 9 hits to holy attacks if you will NEVER hit him to begin with
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Brass Dorito Shield + Sacred Relic Sword. Forward dodge into it’s attacks. Stand still and jump the flames. Hit it with holy damage. Gg
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This boss is actually pretty easy if you know what to do. Don't bother chasing him, make him come to you. Jump over his fire and roll towards him not away. Standing in front of his horse usually triggers a horse stomp and 2 swings, which are very punishable.
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Tree Sentinel Armor, Brass Shield, Sacred Relic Sword
WAVES OF GOLD, BABY
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If you're struggling, it takes 5 hits from Bolt of Gransax's ash of war to kill him.
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Epic when you get summoned for this fight and by the time you get down there the host is dead.
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I just use sacred relic sword along with holy damage boosting items,talismans,and tears. I haven’t beat him yet but the skill ends up taking off like a 8th of his heath bar at a time.
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Lightning melts him as well, bolt of gransax will do the job
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Okay. But why does it throw back that dumpy when remounting the horse though
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The flame pillar attack is just plain unfair. Probably the most unfair attack in the game.
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He's one of those bosses who feels like BS until it clicks. The main thing is his attack timings having those nasty unpredictable delays. Admit it, you're just facetanking attacks over and over. The phase change flame attack can just be jumped. Stop eating every melee hit and survive that phase change and with some defense buff stacks you'll probably be fine. Also you get Multilayered Rings of Light right before this, which does excellent damage to him and has openings when he runs out of range.
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Honestly? Not as bad as everyone here made it out to be. I expected much worse. Took me around an hour to beat it with lvl 8 scadutree blessing. Once you learn the rhythm of his attacks, it begins to feel like a dance, kinda like fighting the godfrey shade.
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Sacred relic sword AOW is busted here when you get a chance to attack
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Remember when From made good boss's and not just semi-permanent explosions who throw explosions at you?
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Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike is very effective against her killed her in five cast
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In this DLC, Fromsoft solves the biggest problem these games had. Being able to hit the boss more than once between combos
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Looks like holy and strike work pretty well. I used the wild strikes ash of war after he does is triple horse charge attack. The horse will life him out of water allowing you to get 3 strikes and a heavy follow up. That should stagger and the crit should push the knight into his ghostflame wave attack. I think you can jump over, but blocking significantly reduces the damage.
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Easy **** boss that is 'hard' for all the wrong reasons. You can get his pattern down and make him look like a fool quite consistently, but that doesn't change the fact that this is an Orphan wannabe that is extremely boring and unfun. It's a dodging simulator with a few attacks here and there whenever he has his tiny openings. Nonstop aggression and running away, huge arena wide AOE, obscene damage--all from a boss with a lame moveset that is the same five hits on repeat.
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Very weak to Holy, strongly recommend Sacred Blade to maximize holy damage and to attack during fire waves for melee.
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So how am I supposed to predict where the horse is going to come from when he does the dismount combo?
Worst piece of **** fight ever designed by Fromsoft. God damn is this trash
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