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It's so strange how they seem to get a free round of golden land if the golden land projectiles hit a wall or other obstacle. Very noticable in Elphael but also happened in Caelid even

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He did 9 jump slams in a row once. Then got stance broken and did 6 more haha. I think its lot likely to happen when you are strafing and are hanging around their side. I dont remember Asylium Demon ever spamming its jump like that.

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With the West Caelid one, just run past it, open the door to the tomb and duck inside. You can now cheese it to hell and back with a ranged attack since it will give up every time you go back inside.

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Annoying yes, but easy to deal with. Get up close and wait for his rotten body slam. Dodge around directly behind him when he uses it, so you avoid all of his rot puke, and stay close and punish him as he has a long recovery. If you're lucky he will use it again immediately afterwards, and the time between each slam will allow the rot puke to fade each time. You can keep him locked in this loop for half the fight, or the whole fight if you're lucky. If he uses lasers, then there should be no puddle directly behind him so you can run there to gain space to side run and avoid lasers. Get in close again as the lasers fade and repeat until victory.

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There are a lot of great bosses in Elden Ring. This isn't one of them.

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Annoying, especially the one close to Dragonbarrow.

Just:

1) use fire dmg weapons or coat your weapon with fire grease
2) use fire pots
3) summon spirit ashes
4) Torrent Torrent Torrent Torrent Torrent (!!!!!!!)
5) equip the right talismans

Or, if you want the safe and 100% efficient way:

study a bit his attacks, get close to him with Torrent and trigger his reaction. Run away as soo as he starts attacking, wait for the end of his combo and approach him again. Hit him once, MAX twice if the attack was a heavy one. Repeat everything until he falls. Piece of cake.

Attacks/combos list (as far as I remember):

Rot vomit (lol) attack, dumb af just run away
Triple combo (heavy hit, rolling hit, heavy hit)
Double combo (heavy hit, rolling hit)
Heavy hit
Rolling hit
Lasers go brr (just run sideways with Torrent or hide behind the minor Erdtree roots)

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Maybe I misperceived, but fighting the western Caelid one it felt like you only had to roll into the boss rather than necessarily behind it to avoid the rot puddles as they landed a slight distance in front of it. But fighting the Dragonbarrow one that certainly wasn't the case and I suspect that the uneven ground is the culprit, with the spray traveling a shorter distance when facing uphill.

Or I'm just a dolt and always managed to roll behind on the first one and remember it wrong, though I clearly recall getting ripostes off without taking damage.

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please for the love of god just spam flame of the redmanes every chance you get. destroys them

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But I believe Putrid can save the world.

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Cancer. Literally. That diarrhea attack is stupid. Oh, btw Miyazaki, I have a dlc boss idea: Putrid Tree Duo. A putrid avatar and a putrid tree spirit in a tiny room. Filled with poisonous swamp. Yes, that will do it, methinks.

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i actually went git gut dodging all its attacks, tho i found that guard counters are nice too as a last resort

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The Putrid Avatar from the Walkway in the Haligtree dropped two Rotten Staffs. One from the guaranteed drop and another as a normal drop.

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People who are complaining about the difficulty, -100 fire resist, please... Str and Dex aren't the solution to all problems

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TIL you can literally just walk to the right and completely avoid the golden missiles if youre at anything more than close distance

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Fire zwei, 4 charged his, crit, "Well, what is it?", repeat

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If you're having as much trouble as I was, summon spirit ashes to distract, hit them with a cold damage ash of war to get the 20% damage boost, then spam fire pots. Took out half his health right off the bat. Then like others have said just make sure to roll BEHIND him for the scarlet rot attack, and you should be set. Also wmake very sure to steer clear of obstacles, I died a few times panic rolling into roots and jars.

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If you're having as much trouble as I was, summon spirit ashes to distract, hit them with a cold damage ash of war to get the 20% damage boost, then spam fire pots. Took out half his health right off the bat. Then like others have said just make sure to roll BEHIND him for the scarlet rot attack, and you should be set. Also wmake very sure to steer clear of obstacles, I died a few times panic rolling into roots and jars.

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This really shows you the evolution of Fromsoft boss design. You'll be having fun with the aslyum demon moveset then he delay hits, casts a **** huge AOE that eats 80% of your hp and procs rot, then immediately launches homing death missles as he segues into his next attack.

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flame grant me strength + nightrider glaive with flaming strike = didnt expect weak foe

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That’s a nice host you have there.

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These guys have no right comboing their Golden Lands attack with ANYTHING considering they're tracking

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f*cks me up how its obviously just the DS1 tutorial boss reskinned

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For any Dex/Faith builds out there, try either Shadow Bait or Darkness. Darkness may work better since it stops them from being aggro, and won't swing wildly, unintentionally killing you which happened to me an infuriating amount of times (being more than once).

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the rot from their ground slam doesnt go behind them so try to dodge to their side and behind their back for 2 or 3 hits

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So these Erdtree avatars are the easiest IMO. The only real threat I have had trouble with is the ground slam where he shoots 100 lights at you. But if reality if you just run away as soon as the animation starts and turn to dodge before it starts shooting you should be fine. If you can get him to repeat jump up and slam the fight is as easy as can be. The thing is the jump and slam of rot is a frontal cone. Simply dodge into him as he slams the ground and just start swinging at his side/back. Don't be greedy and dodge the weapon swings normally and you will be fine. Literally can kill this guy without ever getting hit if you can dodge stuff well. Just be patient and beat his ass its np.

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The one on the elpheal bridge is utter bullshit. "Hmm, what should we put on the narrow bridge? Maybe the boss with a attack where you have to run sideways to not get hit?" The ones in the haligtree are basically just encouraging cheesing the bosses.

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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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