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I’ve played every souls game and have to put this on the Unfair Enemy list. Don’t have a shield or have a healing spell? Get hit 30 times with a single stunlocking attack and die ❤️

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Once I couldnt run past of one of these (At least thought so). I equipped to colossals and went "AAHAHAA!!!!AAJHAHA!!!AAH!" (Not saying that this is a good strategy - but it worked on that instance)

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You can see their mucky looking aura when they're still below ground, easier to catch during the night or in a cave. If crouched, they won't surface until you're almost on top of them. Usually takes them long enough to surface in those circumstances that you can nuke them from orbit if you've got the right tools to hand.

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This enemy's existence is a Level-Up Point tax for anyone other than Faith builds. The only slightly reasonable response is to always have Heal equipped and have either the points invested into Faith to cast it (screw you Prisoner class w/ your 6 FTH) or to carry the necessary FTH boosting equipment and hot swap over to cast Heal.

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Why do healing spells hurt them? Well, "revenant" is a term for Undead creatures, and it is a fantasy trope that the Undead are harmed by life-giving magic.

But I think there is an explanation that better fits the lore. I think healing spells target all the individual grafted limbs and attempts to heal them, thereby messing with the grafts and this enemy's structure.

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Great enemy FromSoft, nailed it, good job

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I know poor enemy design gets thrown around a lot but THIS dude is a prime textbook example of how not to design an enemy.

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blasting them with healing spells opens them up for a crit, but this is a trap. you might not finish them off with the crit, but theyre stunned long enough to just recast heal and clean off the other half of their hp

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Sigh... Another enemy who's main method of attack is acting like spastic moron... It teleports, has a dash and poison attack that's fast and goes a football field in terms of length, and doesn't take stagger damage. Enemies like this make it hard to fully enjoy Elden Ring...

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I really ****ing hate these

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REEEEE REEEE RREEEEEE *SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP* YOU DIED

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Man, I hate these things with every fiber of my soul. All I have to say is that if you aren't running faith builds, you may as well cry yourself to sleep tonight. Actually you won't survive until tonight cuz these things teleport behind you.

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You need 12 FTH to cast heal. But I couldn't safely get near the one in Haligtree to get off 2 heals. I used Assassin's Gambit to walk right up behind him, then hit with two quick heals.

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Pure pain in any Form fast hard hittin Lots of HP. Best is to avoid when ever its possible

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If the guys at the bottom of the haligtree area are giving you trouble and you don't have the healing spells mentioned above, try summoning the Finger Maiden Therolina spirit ash. She uses these heal spells and they do massive damage to them. Seriously its like half their hp gone in one heal.

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Worst enemy in the game

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This is like all the worst aspects of Dark Souls 3 enemies brought together in a single creature

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The speed at which this thing moves is genuinely terrifying.

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The fact that it screams at you while hitting you with that shove and that rapid barrage of slaps already makes me hate this enemy with a passion. So damn rude.

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You know when you watch a no hit or something, and you go "Huh, I didn't know you could just stand that close to them!"
The design of this enemy is why.

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How are these guys harder than most bosses? Like wtf? At this rate they're the only thing in ER I make a point not to fight and just up right bypass them. Who thought this was a good enemy design? I want to know! lol

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I was getting so mad fighting the one in Shaded Castle. I was so pissed until I noticed where the wiki says healing spells damage it. It was a cake walk after that. I should have checked the wiki sooner smh.

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No back rolling. I repeat : NO BACK ROLLING! ONLY SIDE ROLLING.

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their attack speed is blink or you’ll miss it fast

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One of the only enemies in ER that genuinely TERRIFIES me. Their screeches made me think I was playing Bloodbourne for a bit, only for their aggression to show that I indeed was. Healing incantations and waterfowl obliterate these guys, and while they tend to be in the worst places possible, I hate them a lot less than runebears. **** runebears.

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Most busted ****ing enemy...

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Finally killed my first one; at Laskyar Ruins.

At first I thought Revenants were ridiculously hard, however roughly 5 attempts at killing this monstrosity was enough.

I'd recommend getting a 100% damage reduction shield and staying medium range from it, attacking after the flails or long attacks.

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Ghost Gloveworts are not 100% drops from this guy, I've killed the one in Shaded Castle multiple times and getting no drops whatsoever.

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if we get projected heal in the DLC these guys will be a joke on faith builds. also pls myazaki we need projected heal.

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Killing goldy eyes on NG+7 with gold scarab and gold fowl foot gives 241,087 runes.

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yall need to start using healing spells in your kits, theres way too much complaining about this enemy when its like the easiest things to kill, sorcery arent the only spells in the game guys.

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Biggest nope I have found in this game.

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Warming stones heal these guys. Don't ask how I know.

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I'm on my 2nd play through, it was going good then I remembered these things exist! There's one at the bottom of the subterranean shunning ground, at the end of maze of pipes. In a dark water logged chamber, nightmare fuel. Without a heal spell, they end you fast, hope my mage can deal with them because my 1st melee character couldn't fight them.

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scarier than any scary movie or videogames.

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I am genuinely impressed that someone making a video game can come up with these. Nothing about this enemy is fun, not even remotely

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As much as I absolutely loathe these things, they really aren't even half as bad as people on this page are acting like they are. Runebears in late game with their 4 billion HP pools doing more than half your health per swing are far worse.

The trick I've found to dealing with these guys is that you can nuke them for the entirety of the time they're first spawning out of their portals. As long as your build has reasonable damage, and you aren't in an area notably over your intended RL, you can usually kill them before, or right as they finish spawning, and if you haven't, they're typically so close to death that you won't really care.

They also aren't that difficult to dodge, like, at all. Dodge TOWARDS them, not away from them. Their worst attack is that continual flurry, and if you dodge past them they can't turn it fast enough to continue hitting you with it so they're basically opened up to free damage. If you can't nuke them before they have a chance to start hitting you, then they're the epitome of requiring patience.

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Are they a massive pain? Yes. Yes they are. Does that sap away my joy from playing the game? No, no it does not. I actually have a love/hate thing for them. Maybe I'm just a masochist, but I like the massive challenge. The challenges aren't impossible.

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They forgot to put Putrid Glintstone Crystalian Revenant duo boss into some mid-game dungeon.

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I hate revenants, Why?
Because they dont automatically apply madness and sleep the moment they see you and dont apply death blight for being in a 1 kilometer radius of him, smh myazaki fix the revenants

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Was having trouble beating these shits on a pure strength build while 2 handing. Equipped a shield and they became easy. I’m convinced at this point they just aren’t beatable with a pure melee build without using a shield. They’re dumb

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Give them bleed

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Easiest way to deal with these is to get a greatshield and counter attack them since the shield stops their constant attacks.

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Revenant Duo

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The first time I ever saw this 'thing' was at the Lunar Estate Ruins. The ruins/area looked mostly vacant, everything was pretty calm as I was exploring looking for the basement stairs for the treasure every ruins has. All of a sudden this THING appears that looks like a mini scion but still pretty big. I try to fight it since most of the enemies I had fought up until that time had been manageable... but my attacks were doing almost nothing and it's fast as hell. I'm like "screw this, I'm out of here" as I'm now almost dead and have a large amount of ruins on me that I don't want to lose.

I call/mount Torrent and start galloping across the field away from the ruins at full speed. This THING is teleporting behind me, like those dogs in Dark Souls 3, AND keeping up with Torrent at full speed! I was like WTF!? Even Torrent can't outrun this thing!! It had a very long distance before it 'leashed' and left me alone, but I was a long ways away from the Ruins before it finally did. I later found out it was called a Revenant. IMO, it's the hardest/scariest enemy in the game and I avoid it at almost all costs now. Screw that thing!

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This single enemy existing is literally the entire reason I don't recommend this game to anyone. It's actually like it was designed with the sole purpose of sapping fun from the game

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finally, my miracle build has a use

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Love that almost every comment on this RESPAWNING MOB's page is pretty much just 100s of ways to say it's overtuned, and yet it will remain in its exact state forever. Cause they only fix broken **** that players can use, not **** that saps all fun out of the game that it possibly can

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Mind blowing how blatantly overturned they made this enemy just because they justify it by making it die to aoe healing spells... something basically ****ing NOONE would have normally in their kit... so ****ing stupid

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What if you wanted to have fun playing Elden Ring, but a Revenant said: REEEEEEEEEEE-

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Why? why make a thing so fast with so many attacks?? i hate them so much

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lost a total of 240k runes over two instances to that ****ing alley in Elphael. Really avant-garde level design i say

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I have a question, the revenants taking a lot of damage from one of three heal incantations that have an AoE is a well known thing, but it's very rare for me to have any kind of heal incantation in a spell slot so I avoid them as much as possible but obviously I have been caught out.
I did know about the handful that spawn one a little further down the walkway than the last at Elpael brace of the Haligtree, I had 'lord's heal' ready and it shredded them. But afterwards I started to wonder if I had needed to use lord's heal in the first place and if either 'heal' or 'great heal' would have done the exact same thing to them for less FP.
Can anyone confirm if these incantations work the same way on revenants as they would if they were offensive where 'heal' does the least damage and 'lord's heal' the most?

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My son heard me saying curse words because of this f****ers

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As a tip for beans fighting them in melee; doing everything you can to get behind them feels like the best strategy to me. They don't seem to have any attack they can actually do once you're there in the way some enemies/bosses do, so once you're back there they become far more predictable as they try to turn around. Fast rolling/quickstepping are good ways to achieve this, or just sprinting when you think you have an opening

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>sees wiki say they take damage from heal spells
>tries to use great heal
>gets slapped to death while casting

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The horrors of the Haligtree Revenant St. will remain with me for as long as I play this damn game.

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let me heal man

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I can’t decide whether this or the Tree Spirits are the worst enemies in the game.

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Tip: in Elphael, you can get them stuck at a tiny gap in the street. I can't really describe exactly where, but usually there are messages around alerting you to the opportunity. From there, just safely poke them or gun them down if you're a mage. Just stay as close so they just can't hit you to keep them aggroed. This will prevent their teleporting.

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Why the hell are there FIVE of them in the same street in the haligtree?!

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Why are there 5 of these in Haligtree? No nno wait let me rephrase: Why do they exist? \

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Fighting these ****ers 1on1 feels like you're a geriatric trying to go up against a bloodborne boss on crack.

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Beat Godrick just to get completely destroyed by this guy

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Is this enemy grafted?

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Trash enemy with poor mechanics. The developers gave players a reason to cheat when the game cheats. Now it makes sense why hacks are used. The bullsh*t in this game is real..

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Yeah, 5 revenants in Brace of the Haligtree. Little overkill to me

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I'll never forget the first Time i was making my way through Elphael.
After careful exploring, i arrived in the alcove in front of the bridge where they snipe you from the right, while a Putrid Avatar and 2 strong knights with buffs are ready to bully you.
After a couple of unsuccesful attemps to get there from the front, i saw a stair in front of me, but It required to jump down while sticking to the wall, in order to avoid death from fall damage.
So, i get down, and i summoned the Mimic Tear because i sensed something was not right.
Then, i get to the stair, i start climbing, but i hear some strange noises.
I turn the camera, and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I SEE MY COPY FIGHTING 3 OF THESE SONS OF B****ES.
I frantically go up, only to be greeted by a slam dunk by the Avatar that aggroes the other two enemies.
I quickly realized i had no chance to come out off this situation alive, so i started to run in search of the next site of grace.
Luckily, it was just around the corner, but as soon as i activated it i was horrified to see not only the three dangerous foes i left behind me, but also ONE OF THESE TELEPORTING NIGHTMARES.
I don't know how he got up there, but it scared the sh*t out of me.

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Strange that Elden Ring does not include a scarlet rot variant of this enemy. Hopefully the DLC can correct that oversight.

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So far from my experience, these ****ers only teleport towards you when both of you are in an even ground. For example:

During my exploration of the Shaded Castle, when I was in the upper level where there was a wandering Cleanrot Knight I saw a Revenant below in the poison-filled courtyard, so I decided to snipe it with spells. I climbed up the walls by jumping on the barrels nearby (while trying not to destroy them instantly with my character). There I started barraging the Revenant with Loretta's Greatbow.

Initially, the Revenant was aggroed, but it wasn't able to teleport towards my position. It didn't do the acid spit too, instead it just stood there looking at me, so I kept barraging it with LGB until it died. I was confused and happy at the same time.

Then there came the time where I legitimately fought the Revenant without gimmicks. You know how that turned out. But that's when I noticed that they only teleport when both you and the revenant are in the same ground level.

I could be wrong but this was my observation so far.

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this guy, ulcered tree spirit and cat on crack can kick rocks

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2 things:
1 they are not the only enemy in the game harmed by healing, any cursed enemy is
2: Frok have stealth altered these guys recently, initially casting Heal would stun them long enough for 2 casts, now they recover & will dodge a 2nd cast

Tested this in my first character, a fait build with 30 dex & my 3rd character, an int build with 40 dex, both had Radagon's talisman equipped & both times the revenant recovered before the 2nd cast

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This is a sekiro enemy put into a souls combat system

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Melenia was easier for me to fight than these abominations. Cost me 300k runes in the Haligtree! because they decided to teleport behind me when I thought I cleared all of them.

You know all those mods that just change every enemy in the game with the endgame boss and whatnot? I bet someone will make a mod like that that changes every enemy in the game with these shitstains! Including the flying mosquitoes!

And that person will have a special place in hell waiting for them!

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Creating these should've been a war crime or something

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Demon of Stunlock

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At least drop the crown.

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Why? Just why?

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Use blessing of the erdtree on haligtree ones. They will be reduced to a one hit kill once the blessing wears off

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Revenants be like: (loud screeching sounds, bones crunching sounds, thousands of limbs slapping the floor)

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This is Miyazaki's way of telling us that we shouldn't play his games ever again. Because bullshit like this will be the norm going forward.

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This enemy was not playtested

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That would be dope if someone made a mod that just deletes these things from the game.

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Yo dawg I heard you like cancer. So we put cancer in your cancer so you can die while you die. - Miyazaki.

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is great heal better than heal against them?

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why do these guys have so much poise, they're so lanky and their "armor" is literally a piece of cloth. i'd like some more internal consistency

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worst enemy by far

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Just roll to the side.

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Seems to have to see you in order to teleport to you successfully. Alerting it of your existence with an attack is not sufficient.

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I was calmly exploring the Liurina region when I heard that god-awful otherworldly shriek and saw one of these climb out of the ground. I though it must be one of those faithcaster guys and then I noticed it's horribly misshapen face... took a few steps back and the thing literally emerged from underground and darted at me with lightspeed.
I unstantly called for the horse and ran like 3 miles backwards. It's been a long time since I saw something in a game that horrified me that much as these creatures.

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Oh cool, Ludwig from Bloodborne can teleport now.

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This enemy represent everything I don’t like about elden ring. Use godrick’s rune if you don’t have any faith and put on heal. This enemy should not exist.

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This enemy is the main reason i want poise

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This enemy doesn't deserve an honorable fight. Don't waste your time actuallt trying to fight them and just heal them to death. If your foe cheeses you with BS, cheese them back.

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jump heavy attack with big bonks can kill them fast, but this thing is so fast it might knock you out of the air

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Oh yeah nothing better than when you almost wasted all your stamina on non stop dodging attacks, you feel there's finally an opening to hit and this sh t teleports away to spew poison and immediately after atarts with another 1257 hits 5 minutes combo.

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I did a test, warming stone doesn’t work on revanents

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STR/FTH Golden Halberd type - I had a terrible time with the one down in the sewers. Tried (nearly) everything and kept getting two-shotted/combine harvester mashed. Then I tried two AoE heals, just the standard "Heal" and it killed it.

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Rivers of blood is awesome against them. They are bleed succeptible.

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I’m glad they never had a duo boss fight with these guys.

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