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I hate the elphael ones, they spam golden land over and over the second they see you.

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Its crazy that the dragonburrow variant is stronger and more difficult than Radahn, who's a demigod, the main story boss of caelid, and the one to bring Malenia to her knees

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probably the easiest boss in the game. no idea how people would ever find this difficult. even getting 1 shot by the one in dragonbarrow is manageable (because the attacks are so easy to dodge) for a free 140k runes with the right setup.

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I found the one in dragonbarrow pretty easy, and definetely "cheesable" with frenzied burst and a couple buffs (only had the flame shrouding tear, faith tear, and golden vow, 25 fth 25 int golden order seal when i Last did it. I think i like, 5 shotted it in the rain). Grab anything with fire damage, frenzied burst is great cause you can go on horseback and it has so much range you can get like 3 before repositioning. 91.000 runes are also almost double of what greyoll (the big dragon everyone bleed up for a head start) gives, and with a pickle and scarab you get 141.960 runes from it.

Definetely adding this lad to my early game setups, specially cause im sure that if you are fast in reaching it and pop the pickle only as the avatar dies, a flail with a few bleed greases should Last just long enough for you to kill greyoll with it active, for another 78k runes, 219k+ in total.

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This has gotta be one of the worst enemies in the entire game. Especially the Elphael one because of the environment...

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If your main upgraded weapon is infusable with Ashes of War, try this strategy for the Dragonbarrow Putrid Avatar :

1) put Flaming Strike Ash Of War on it (you get it outside Redmane castle)
2) Get Alexander's warrior shard if you can (if you'd rather keep him alive, you can skip this)
3) first use Fire Strike to easily kill the Caelid Tree Avatar nearer to Limgrave to get the Fire Shrouded Tear that you will put in your Physics for extra fire damage.

with a +10 to +15 weapon, the flaming strike damage should be good with this set up on the Dragonbarrow Avatar and it shouldn't take many casts. If you're confident in your dodges, you can also use the Fire Scorpion talisman for even more fire damage.

Dodge staff attack, cast flaming strike (with the follow up), dodge next attack and cast flaming strike again, or run if rot ground slam. Repeat. Run diagonally sideways for the golden land ranged attack.

This guy with Golden Scarab + Golden Fowl Foot will get you 141 000 runes and it's pretty fast to do with some practice, relatively early in the playthrough

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Killing these guy early with flaming strike and firebombs has become part of my build making routine. soooooo many runes

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bro just sharted scarlet aids all over me

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unironically the worst boss in the game

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I was having real trouble with the Elphael Avatar. You can kill it with about 15 volcano pots, I have 52 Strength, and threw them from room above the tunnel to the site of grace.

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Guys, don't be greedy... these things are pretty tricky.

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I finally beat the one on dragonbarrow using magic on a horse. Really takes a while and i empty my entire flasks. My main enemy is not actually the boss, it's Torrent's ability to turn back that's inconsistent. How many times i try to turn back and sprint and instead still go forward and have to panic dash and jump.

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Dodge to their side if they do the ground slam. Leaves them wide open for hits

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Best advice I can give is dont use target lock on this boss. Makes it alot easier to sprint out of its rot spray when it jumps.

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Favorite mini boss in the entire game. I love fighting these guys. Is like a more agile version of the Asylum Demon. The rot spray is a guaranteed punish and you can do even 2 charged attacks if you're quick to stand break them with ease.

If you're an incantation caster the Black Flame simply melts them or anything fire, really.

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this boss is harder than Malenia unironically

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Don't try to use dragon communion incantations against these unless you can take a hit. You have to be extremely patient and a little lucky to find openings, and then you have to exploit the opening as soon as it begins. If your timing is off at all, you'll get stomped in your recovery animation. It's making me second-guess my dragon communion only build. It's been so strong against a lot of stuff, and then gets stomped by the really agile bosses.

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I've been trying to kill this one for awhile. I've killed 3 others (I've been skipping all over the game) and this is the one I've struggled with the most. I ran around the tree to refill my flasks, etc. (after trying a million times tonight) and then got distracted and walked away for a bit (15 minutes maybe). When I came back I couldn't find him - running all around and then I got the message that Enemy Felled - big glitch with the Playstation.

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The one on the bridge in Elphael seem to have extremely broken ai, if you aggro them at all, any time you get within like 40 meters they just spam the staff slam with 4963 projectiles of holy light or whatever making it literally impossible to approach until they're completely de-aggro'd.

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I love when he jumps in the air, knocks me down, and spews scarlet rot all over the place that kills me once I can finally stand up. They really just give you so much variety in the things you can do to avoid it.

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I always die on one hit form this boss

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idk, i love this boss. i've made a base level prophet character that im not equipping anything to or upgrading anything on, just to fight the dragonbarrow one. poise breaking them is so easy, even with a base spear, and you can use the snap-to-the-right-spot feature of the riposte to avoid damage from the rot. by the time your i-frames are over, the rot will be gone. if the rot isnt going away fast enough, layer in a charged R2 between the poise break and the riposte. for the people that say it sprays 2-3 times in a row in all directions, you're circling too much and letting him cover a wider swathe of ground with rot. if you position yourself right, the first rot will be more than gone by the time the third rolls around. hope this helps.

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Area Denial: The Boss. I swear to god this thing is explicitly programmed to spam the rot ground pound and the projectile attack as much as possible.

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I dont know if im lucky or if the rotten staff is a common drop, both putrid avatars dropped a rotten staff in elphael. I now have 3 rotten staffs on my mage

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The one at Haligtree can be killed from a balcony using fire pots or any spells. He may also drop to his death in the process. The second one just uses Comet Azur after unlocking the grace behind him.

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Volcano pots work very well on them and they scale to STR so if I get two or three hits before it uses that homing holy damage bollocks it rips big chunks out of their HP.

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I handled the one in Dragonbarrow by just hitting it with crossbow bolts while constantly retreating, staying out of range of its swings and dodging (or sometimes blocking) its magic attack. Eventually I would back up so far that it would reset its position, but I could run up and resume.

Probably a scrub strategy, but I say that whatever takes out the enemy is gud enough.

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Using the gold scarab medallion, I get a total of 476 runes killing the guy in Consecrated Snowfields minor Erdtree. I receive more than 1000 runes killing a lone Albinauric in my way up to the tree

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Stanky Avatar

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Yes you can roll to its back to dodge the rot stomp, but it can do it twice, thrice in a row, covering both front and back of his surround with rot dot, and possibly followed up with the "run for three seconds or die" laser, in a relatively narrow terran full of stones and tree roots made for you to run into or stuck on. Just use summon ash and burst this thing down asap to save yourself from dying to bad RNG and BS.

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ANOTHER ****ING ASYLUM DEMON RESKIN

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I too enjoy fighting a boss with uncontrollable diarrhea.

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192,000 runes on NG+.

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Flame of Redmanes completely annihilates these things if you are struggling with them

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the hardest part of these fights is fighting the ****ing landscape. can't outrun their bullshit homing missile barrage without getting stuck on a ****ing shrub and dying.

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"For fans who find FromSoftware's former franchises fun, this foe feels familiar. Keeping the Asylum Demon in mind tends to turn the tides of this tough tussle towards the track of trivial trifle."
Who tf writes using alliterations with the " f " and " t "?

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Just killed this thing in Dragonbarrow and got like 91k worth of runes on the first ever playthrough. Is that supposed to happen?

Not complaining, got 3 levels from it lol

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Beat this guy in Northern Caelid with a friend and it only dropped 71000 runes instead of the 91000. Has this happened to anyone else?

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Is that their name? They dont even have a damn head just a hole

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If you can wield the damn thing (at this RL, I can't without stat-boosting armor/talismans), the Godslayer's Greatsword just completely ENDS this boss, Dragonbarrow variant. Like I think at one point he actually started crying and begged me to stop. I didn't. "Yeah, yeah. Keep whining and throwing a tantrum with your butt-rot slams, they ain't gonna save ya... Nothing will, now..."

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Black flame (the ball toss one) works great on these. They're trees after all, so they burn nicely. The scarlet rot kept doing me in with melee, so I dropped a summons and played monkey in the middle using the tree or rocks to hide from that horrible elden stars-like attack. The one in consecrated snow field was the easiest of all the avatar battles due to rocks you can hide behind. Stay on torrent and just burn 'em, drop a summons to tank.

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I got ~100,000 runes from the dragonbarrow one in playthrough one. I had gold scarab equipped, but no pickle foot. Was this a glitch?

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There is no god damn reason for this thing to obliterate my truck sized health bar in one hit every time Fromsoft. They seriously need to tone back the damage on the Dragonbarrow one, that **** is ridiculous

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The one in Elphael guarding the entrance to the Elphael Inner Wall Site of Grace is very cheesable from the plateau to the right with the two ballistas . Clear plateau,

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It says you can parry him but I’ve been trying for a while and can’t get it. Maybe the non-boss version is parriable. Idk

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Sometimes the Elphael Avatar drops two staves. There is a guaranteed drop when killing it, and there is a chance for another one to drop as a purple item.

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Northern caelid drops 91000 without golden scarab on NG so it would be more in NG+

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garbage enemy

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Chuckles, pulling up with the Blasphemous Blade

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wtf the one in dragonbarrow just dropped 120.000 runes to me in NG

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Whoever wrote the "best tips" section, very nice usage of alliteration

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The ones in Elphael are so tanky and basically 2 shot even with 50 vigor. Took me longer to kill than Malenia

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seem to be designed to be hit with fire on horseback from a safe distance. fire pots, arrows or spells

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For the one in the Consecrated Snowfield, there's several steppe-rocks that you can stand on to hit it with Flame Sling/arrows from safety.

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When it jumps to spread rot, you can roll into/under it to avoid the rot for the most part.

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This game doesn't just read your inputs. It reads your entire loadout. I had never used magic from horseback until this fight, and the very first time in the entire game I unequipped my melee weapon and only had a seal, this thing didn't do the Scarlet Rot jump a single time. Every other fight, it would jump all over the place, yet somehow it knew it would be a sitting duck this time. But you know what it did do? That damn Holy Magic attack. Four times in a row. It favored that magic attack more than anything else, even when I rode in close. Cheap tricks are not a substitute for difficulty, just like cheesing is not a substitute for skill.

TLDR: Tossing black flames from horseback obliterates this thing.

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The Ash of war Eruption worked okay. Too bad the boss one-shots you most of the time. At least the fight is always short.

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The one that drops the staff apparently has a chance to drop another one that you can pick up? Ended up with 2 Rotten Staffs with 266 discovery.

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Throw a bunch of fire pots for ez wins

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A cheese method for the one in Caelid at the minor erdtree in dragonbarrow is if you run to the back of the tree, you'll see a spiritspring you can use. When you get up the cliff, go to the edge and throw any kind of fire pot at him. You'll probably have to aggro him with arrows because he disappears back to the start, but you can reach him from the cliff.

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"For fans who find FromSoftware's former franchises fun, this foe feels familiar. Keeping the Asylum Demon in mind tends to turn the tides of this tough tussle towards the track of trivial trifle."
To whoever wrote this: I hope your writing career takes off, lmao!

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there’s a typo for the rune drop in eastern caelid, on the right it says 100,000+ and on the left it’s called the western caelid avatar and drops 9600. 9600 is correct. also on the map it isn’t referred too as putrid, just a regular avatar

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couldn't deal with north caelid one with my spellsword build; kiting him up the hill with loretta's greatbow on torrent finally worked, took ages though

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Hit and run with fire pots isn’t a bad strategy. You’ll have more than enough materials to make them.

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A fire infused Giant-Crusher +18 can demolish these guys in a less than a minute. Faster than that with buffs.

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Haha catch flame go fwoosh

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page spirit ash is really good for this guy. pretty sure their arrows deal fire damage, and theyll stay a good distance away so they wont be killed instantly

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I killed it, came back looking for the spot for the painting, then out of no, it came back, I already got the loot, so I know for sure I killed it. Is this a known bug?

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The first one (in Northern Caelid) was very hard for me and my level 57 Greatsword build. ! Here is how I handled it.
* Gotta learn the dodge timing for his attacks. He hits hard enough to two-shot me, so the margin for error is quite slim.
* But his attacks come relatively slowly. It's not too hard to disengage and get a pot.
* When he uses his AOE just run far away.
* The lasers are quite annoying but if you've got some distance from him you can just strafe sideways and they will all miss.
* The main risk once you know his attacks is getting caught up in some world geometry; this is how I died mostly. To mitigate this, leverage the AOE to reposition him to areas you like. I ended up identifying two parts of the area around the Erdtree that were relatively open and I just kited him back and forth every time he used his AOE.

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It is a tree so use fire! any fire even black fire, fire arrows, pots, fire grease, and etc...fire does x2 dmg

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My mind is kind of blown at just how effective Black Flame is against these things. On my unupgraded SL1 character the Putrid Avatar in Consecrated Snowfield was proving to be a nightmare. Since they are immune to rot and bleed and resistant to frost, my options for DPS were extremely limited as those ailments are typically necessary for late game bosses. Then I had the idea to give Black Flame a try. Even with an unupgraded seal black flame does insane damage due to it's effect of doing a percentage of the boss' HP as damage. That combined with their weakness to fire meant it only took like 15 or so casts while riding around on Torrent to kill it. This was dramatically easier than the other approaches I attempted and worked on my first attempt at using it.

If you're fighting one of these on a level 1 run, black flame is the way to go.

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I like to think of this boss as free runes, the slam attack? easy dodge, just keep strafing until it just about lands and roll sort of behind it, the rot and slam will miss completely

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I like to think of this boss as free runes, the slam attack? easy dodge, just keep strafing until it just about lands and roll sort of behind it, the rot and slam will miss completely

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Ah, so it's the later game where I can abuse magic like this on a horse

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i find lightning spear easier for inc users does fair damage and is fast for mage rock sling with summons too pull agro will stagger him. for melle use fire grease

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i find lightning spear easier for inc users does fair damage and is fast for mage rock sling with summons too pull agro will stagger him. for melle use fire grease

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this guy isn't hard when he does his jump run to the right and roll two times, easy dodge. The rest of the moves are easily dodged.

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Black Flame turns this boss into a joke.

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Flames of Warmanes breaking his poise so hard, and doing tons of damage since he is weak to fire. Best AoW against this type of enemies.

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The gold-pickled fowl foot does work with this ****er. I also had the gold scarab equipped and rode out with 142k runes.

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Why does it say the Northern Caelid version drops even less runes in NG+ than in NG. I hope that's not actually the case

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Love how these guys look, hate when they spam the shooting stars skill. Other than that they're pretty simple to dodge and really easy using any kind of fire dmg

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**** this boss

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People need to stop saying it’s bad because it’s challenging lol.

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Use fire grease and make sure you have plenty of healing items - for you and Torrent. I recommend any upgraded strike weapons, as they tend to help. As for Talismans I used the Lance talisman & Winged insignia talisman (Consecutive attacks deal more damage); you should focus on clearing the arena before dealing major damage.

Once clear learn his attack patterns and strike his wooden tail/Cape. If you're good at maneuvering torrent circle around him as you strike, he will bug out a little and wont be dure how to strike you - but dont get cocky, he'll rick you if you do. As soon as you see him Jump or begin an attack steer clear - If he swings left and right move in the direction of his swing - sticking close, and you should be able to avoid damage.

Took me a few tries, I only died to getting stuck in trees/jars when he does his ranged attack(Clear the arena!). His scarlet rot is pretty simple to avoid, since he uses it a cone in front of wherever he's facing. Avoid getting close until the rot fades away, then gallop to him to strike. Be patient and strike hard when you can.

Good luck!

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Whoever wrote the "just run around and time your jump and you will welcome the scarlet rot attack" is a freak. This mf rotates in the air idk how can you get behind him

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Not too sure if anyone else has already mentioned this, but the Dragonbarrow/Northern Caelid Putrid Avatar/Erdtree Avatar south of the Bestial Sanctum and the bridge with Greyll on it doesn't give 91,000 runes in regular NG.

I died a bunch and had 0 runes and the runes I lost and regained after the fight were only 500 runes, and my current rune count is 72,393.

I'm pretty sure that summoning someone doesn't decrease the amount of runes you get, and I'm also pretty sure they don't receive a percentage of the runes you get and the runes they do get are separate from the runes you get in your own game for beating it.

But anyway, yeah my current runes being 72,393 after getting my 500 runes from before I died, it seems like he actually only gives you about 71,893 runes.

Though there may be a chance that I had more than 500 runes since I do get random runes from enemies dying in random places nearby without me doing anything or being near them. If I had to guess, if might be whatever enemies were in the way of the iron ball trap on the walkway below the Minor Erdtree and Bridge area on the lower path that leads to Lenne's Rise from Dragonbarrow Fork, but I dunno for sure.

What I do know for sure though is that the Putrid Avatar definitely didn't drop 91k runes, but closer to 71k (71,893 more or less to be exact, while also taking into account the random runes gained from random enemies dying elsewhere nearby). At least for base/NG/first run

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The PA at Mountaintops of the Giants - Minor Erdtree, across the bridge from Snow Valley Ruins Overlook Grace - was able to lure it over to the bridge, and off the side it went, to its doom - also taking care of the "twin", still on solid ground. Hope this helps anyone who has trouble with this one... there's no real vantage point to climb up to get away from his repetitive golden spams, damn

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Northern Caelid Avatar was a pain with melee at level 62 so I cheesed him with fire pots. Jumped on Torrent and went clockwise around the tree (from Stake of Marika) while staying out of aggro range. Came up behind him and locked on, threw a couple of pots to aggro (each from about 480-524 damage or so) from a bit out of his melee range, disengage lock on and kited him around the back where the Spiritspring is and jumped up on the cliff. If I could, I'd chuck a couple more fire pots at him from the clifftop (can lock on from this height) while avoiding his magic attack by moving backward slightly, until he either disengaged or reset back to his original position. Rinse, repeat. Wasn't counting but did this maybe 5-6 times.

Can also confirm he dropped 91k runes.

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Black Flame melts this boss.

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Western Caelid avatar seems to only drop 9.6k now. Or at least it did for me.

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30fait/17arcane with Dragon Communion seal: Two full Dragonbreaths (111 FPx2) killed it.

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the butt slam attack only shoots rot aoe in front of the boss. roll behind him as he uses it and you can get a few free hits. makes this fight way less cancer as melee

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Yesterday I went up against the one in Consecrated Snowfield, expecting it to be a long, brutal fight... but my +10 Blasphemous Blade just tore it to shreds.

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I perched Latenna the Albinauric on an overlooking branch. She continued to snipe him while I kept him aggroed on myself. You can use Shabrini's Woe to keep him focused on you, so he won't shoot any lightbeams at Latenna. You can roll or (better still) duck behind a trunk or rock to avoid getting hit while keeping him busy.

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Western Caelid: Sit up on the tree limb jutting out of the cliff and drop fire pots on him. Takes about 15.

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strat if you are fighting him with a melee character and no torrent

close in on him, attack and when he's turning red, roll back 3 to 4 times and you get away from his scarlet rot aoe attack. Let him close in, if he swings the weapon just roll into the attack and punish. Of course, this strategy requires you to be careful of not having stuff behind you that prevents you from rolling back
also get a 100 absorption shield, and block and roll into his attacks. If you don't get the timing right your character will just block and you can get away from it since he doesn't chain his attacks

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Get a bow and snipe him from the cliff above will take a while but free damage for the calid one

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why cant fromsoft just put a cooldown on the god damn boss magic abilities so i dont get attempts where enemies like putrid avatar just spam their magic missiles and scarlet rot abilities...

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Just confirmed, the one in North Caelid drops 91,000 runes, the other drops 9,100. Visually they look the same, but the 91k one hits harder and has more health. You'll know...

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