Ulcerated Tree Spirit | Elden Ring Wiki

i love the melee users fight strategy section of this. its very encouraging lol

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The one at the Lake of Rot has a golden seed and a few runes

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I just came back from a coop session in stormveil, and this bs ****ing enemy did the explosion 7 times IN A ROW until we all died. This is some bullshit wtf

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The one in the Minor Erdtree at Mount Gelmir suffers from ****ing inclination issues, I perfectly avoid a hit but it's hitbox is a little higher than it should and it hits me anyways

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They actually have super fun moveset but they suffer from camera and how much they're being reused real bad. So it's fun to fight them only when you learn the entire moveset and can tell what attack they're about to do judging from the slightest movements.

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You can NOT summon spirits against that one in Stormveil Castle.

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Low cost tip: use an uchigatana, imbue it with bloodflame and use sword dance AoW. Don't neglect your vigor please; if you can survive its self explosion and its grab-attack (bites you and burn you inside its mouth) you're well prepared to fight them without so many dificulty. You can block its blast with ANY 2-handed weapon just to mitigate the damage, and for the grab-attack, use equilments, talismans, buffs and physick to increase your defenses. Be a tree spirit serial killer.

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Just remember: stay close; check if your vigor can tank an explosion; it attacks only with mouth, head/neck, hand and tail, the remaiming not even stagger you; it deals damage when it's attacking only; use fire, and one more thing: it BLEEDS.

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if someone asks me what "la creatura" means ill show them this thing

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Miyazaki, it's 15th time you bring Ulcerated Tree Spirit to class

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Thank goodness most of them have like decent arena's to fight, I shudder in fear if they put this in like the Full Grown Fallingstar beast arena or PCR's

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too much movement for its own good...

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Trying to fight one of these is like trying to fight inside a tumble dryer

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Absolutely hated these the first few times I fought them, they were tanky, had erratic movement that placed their hitbox just outside of range, and their attacks covered a massive area.
By the time I fought 3 of them back to back in the ashen capital I learned to roll trough their swings, lashes and breath attacks and felt quite accomplished.
They were also a great preparation for the final boss, as the elden beast have similar hitbox/move pattern.

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Fun fact, something like this boss appeared as a shadow in a dark souls 3 poster, but never added. Then it was probably introduced to elden ring, which the devs liked it so much they put 20 in the game

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These guys are really intimidating and seem incredibly difficult at first, but there's a simple trick to beating them: stay on their left side (i.e. move to your right). Most of their attacks have a blind spot on their left side and can be easily avoided that way.

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it has vicar amelia's slam but without the projectile

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My best tip for these guys: unlock your camera.

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Can you stop moving? Can you stop can you c

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The one in Mt. gelmir can be done with poise mist if you are able to sneak behind him (use unseen form and crouch). It won't Aggro, and for a fragile Caster it is a easy way to get one of the best mage tears if you are patient enough

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I got one of these with glowing eyes in the dlc

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was this sentient piece of dookie such an amazing enemy that it deserved 7 apperences in the base game and 4 in the dlc, i think fking not.
i would have rather fought anything else

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what's this bloodborne enemy doing in elden ring

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just want I always wanted, another handful of these guys just scattered in the DLC like sprinkles on ice cream

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The one in shadowkeep spawned when there were water and just died...

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You can't summon ashes in Stormveil Castle for it.

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I think these have a really cool design and are genuinely fun to fight, but man, there are just way too many of these in the game. You know Miyazaki was laughing his ass off when he decided to put two more in the Church District.

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Best boss in the game, i love this boss, the way it moves, the way it reappears, love this boss

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its not even that bad to fight, i just think they look gross

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Four of these in the DLC. Why? The mind boggles on all cylinders.

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>see miniboss arena
>ask miyazaki if this boss is crucible knight or tree spirit
>he doesn't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is crucible knight and what is tree spirit
>he laughs and says "it's a good boss sir"
>its tree spirit

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Fromsoftware didn't have the balls to make a Deathblight Ulcerated Tree Spirit. Cowards

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Genuinely curious why we got more than 3 of these in the dlc. Nobody asked for that. Couldn't you have spammed one of the newer bosses.

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Man I love Elden Ring, but I swear Miyazaki went down in terms of ideas of bosses for many. Never seen a game with a load of recycle assets,moveset and bosses. Sheesh.

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i need to make my ulcerated tree spirit green really fast

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remember the boss that we repeated 12 times in the base game? we also Ctrl C + Ctrl V in the DLC thanks for the 40$ guys

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For open area fight, poison arrow until it gets poison. And then sip some tea until all poison damge is done. Then repeat until it dies.

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Please just try fighting these with a shield if you're one of those people who finds these annoying to deal with. They are so easy to beat and figure out if you just get a shield, and find out that a lot of their attacks where they flail do not actually deal damage, and the ones that do have windups so long that they can't hit you even if they break their guard because before they wind up a second attack you're already recovered and can block again. Even their mid transition explosion can be blocked to majorly reduce the damage if you're uncertain about dodging it, the only attack that's threatening to block strategy is the grab, and a badly positioned breath attack if you can't hug them enough for it to miss naturally.

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An easy way to kill the one in Belurat is to sneak behind it and cast freezing mist on its tail. Boss won't aggro and just dies to frostbite. Can be done even at rl1 with talismans and int boosting gear.

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One more down in the pest ruins at the scarlet rot lake he spawns when you aproach 2 dead bodys in a small river arm

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noodleboy treeman

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Ngl, encounter this at the basement of the castle for the first time plus encounter godwyn's face, it was a great moment

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There’s another one of these in the dlc that’s not listed here. I found it in the river on my way down to the cerulean coast. I don’t remember exactly where but it dropped the horned bairn and a pretty good amount of runes.

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That's why he's the GOAT

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i have killed this dude so many times in so many slight variations and in so many different locations that i kinda developed a relationship of rivalry and respect. go on king keep showing up at the worst possible place at the worst possible time for no reason other than being the true supreme hater you are

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These bosses really aren't that bad, while yes they are peak for camera issues their attacks are at least well telegraphed enough that you can tell what they are going to do even when your camera is trying to crawl it's way up your butt. First time I fought one of these I struggled hard, now I could almost kill them with my eyes closed.

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That's what I call a bad developed boss.

It's hard to find which part of its body can hit you. It's need to memorize the moves that can be an ok animation or an attack.

The camera makes you confused by x-ray vision inside its model; it gets invisible near camera and you be always afraid of being hit by his giant body smashing you in your point of view but miraculously not doing any damage sometimes.

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"This boss is peak, therefore I decided to make him appear over and over again, even in the DLC"

-Hidetaka Miyazaki, probably

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"This boss is peak, therefore I decided to make him appear over and over again, even in the DLC"

-Hidetaka Miyazaki, probably

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these dogshit enemies were cut from ds3 for a reason but noo they had to bring them to elden ring to fill the open world with those and they even added these shitty creatures to dlc

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Don't fight the three in Ashen Capital! I was crazy enough to go through that torture and it does absolutely nothing! They respawn, they don't drop anything at all. All they do is stand between you and the FaP talisman which you can simply grab and leave.

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I cant wait to fight 20 more of these in the DLC!

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When fighting in Stormveil Castle, run past it and duck down in the right corner beside the skull tree trunk. You'll stay underneath him and he can't reach you.

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they are making a reappearance for dlc for anyone really hyped up for shadow of the Erdtree

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This enemy brings the quality of the game down significantly. The way it moves through walls and clips through solid pillars to the point where it disappears makes it seem as if it does not belong in the game. What were the developers thinking?

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No wonder they cut this **** of a boss from ds3 and the only reason they used it in elden ring because they didnt have enough time or simply didnt want to design more bosses and used this disgusting thing 20 times

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These are beyond disgusting, badly designed, badly made and badly balanced. **** like these are why one simply can't consider this game perfect or a 10/10. Awful enough that it's spread throughout the game like a blight, but also with a crowning placement at the haligtree, gatekeeping a quest of an amazing npc.

Says a lot that the best way to "deal" with those are either not engage at all, ignore it, or buy a lot of **** to kill it at a distance.

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These things are such trashfires. I fight them by just holding up my shield and randomly walking in counter clockwise circles. Works surprisingly well for how caffeinated their movements are, you only get unlucky if they grab you.
In conclusion, I can confidently say that this is, indeed, a boss that exists.

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My favourite boss in the game. I'm so happy I can encounter it 17 times per playthrough

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Flame of Frenzy will melt these things. Get in close, dodge it's attacks, wait for one that has a long cool down (the tail strike is a good one) and show it the madness.

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The one in the Haligtree area is able to hit and grab you through the hill on the left. This time the game is cheesing you

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Yes, they're relatively easy - that does not mean they're fun to fight.

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i honestly like these quite a lot. should there be so many of them No. but out of the repeated bosses this is the most fun one imo

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I found a way to cheese the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in Stormveil Castle. It does take some time though (at least it did for me since my gear isn't that great yet). Jump down to get the UTS to spawn and run through the area to find the MGS3:SE (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) ladder (some of you may know what I am referring to here lol), and climb all the way up to get out of there. This puts you back at the GS (Grafted Scion) hall. Go through that hall to the courtyard and run past all the enemies and head to the Liftside Chamber Grace Site.

DO NOT ACTIVATE IT! Go through the door to the previous area down in the basement to get back to the UTS and stay up on the upper platform, and even better get up on the stone arch above that. Just take it out with any Range/Magic and Pots when it comes close. It will never hit you and you can kill it easily.

Also, they lied about how you can have Multiplayer help or be able to use Spirit Ashes for this Boss. Just like many things I have found to not be true at all in this guide as I am using it to figure out where to go. I hope this helps you all out.

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I can literally never tell whether any one of their movements are part of just moving or an attack pattern. In any case, at least these things are weak to Bleed, so I just burst them down with Bleed proc setups.

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After a while you get used to fighting them, then you start to enjoy them. Except the one in the haligtree, **** that one

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Really easy to beat. Killed multiple at lvl 24 all the way up to Leyndell.

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My least favorite fromsoftware enemy, just because it feels like it belongs in a different game. You can make big enemies fit, this guy does not. Like Almudron in Monster Hunter, he's just too damn big for his movements. Go back to the Dark Souls 3 design works!

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why make flashy attack animations when it clips over everything everytime and you cant even see it properly because of the sht camera

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the camera isnt bad on here at all. the attacks are so telegraphed that even if u cant see anything u can still dodge them

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These guys have the most telegraphed attacks in history. Camera isn't even an issue if you dont lock on. Easy as hell to stagger. Seems like people panic real easily because these have big, dramatic bursts of movement, but it doesn't change the fact they're attacks are super telegraphed.

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Why does it not list the one in the Lake of Rot?

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As of 2/18/2024, the following about the triple spirit fight in Leyndel, Ashen Capital is incorrect:

"These enemies do not have boss bars, but they will not respawn when killed." They indeed do not have boss health bars, but they do respawn, and in the same spots. The first one is always already roaming, of course.
"Closest Site of Grace: Forbidden Lands" This is true, unfortunately :D but it'd be worth adding that, worst of all, there is not even a stake of Marika anywhere and you cannot summon Torrent at all: you have to go through two elevators and two long segments all on foot to get there.
"Multiplayer is allowed for this boss" No, there is no summoning pool anywhere that I could find. You'd need the seamless coop mod.
"You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss" No, there is no rebirth monument anywhere near.

The good news is that there's almost no reason to fight them, they only give about 19k each, they hit reasonably hard and the Erdtree Favor +2 that they guard can just be grabbed by sneaking around the edge of the arena and grabbing it.

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They filtered billions, despite being really well designed imo. They have a bunch of safespots during attacks too

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At the Haligtree one all you have to do is trigger the creature, then jump down and run back up the branch where you entered the area. It's then possible to spam rotten breath (or any range attack) from a safe distance (the point where it braches to the right). Just remember to temporarily change your flask allocation for extra FP beforehand.

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im gonna take a break from this boss and go play some palworld

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I actually like those guys
They're funky and wobbly =)

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You cannot use spirit ashes for the Stormveil one.

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Someone at fromsoftware got really pissed that this boss didn't make it into DS3 so now they were hell-bent on making sure you see this fkin thing, multiple times

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I just want to know if this dudes are more hated than seluvis. I just limit myself to morally disliking both .

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My teen spirit be like

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I bloody hate this dawn thing, fought only two of them and both times they did the bite grab attack right as I killed them, both times I died so I gained zero runes/souls. I hope they fix this because it's unfair. (Note: we were on opposite sides of the area when I kill them so me being bad is not a excuse, the damn thing teleports.)

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I cheese the one in mount gelmir with *Lantenna the albi spirit ashe xD just stud near a fire where the boss goes back, then come s forward, then back and so on

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I cheese the one in mount gelmir with Loretta spirit ashe xD just stud near a fire where the boss goes back, then come s forward, then back and so on

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Friend ahead

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Highly recommended that you fight these with your camera unlocked. Helps a lot with the "camera eating" and makes it much easier to control your rolling angle.

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Can't see ****, captain

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Screw you all, actually a decent boss/enemy. I didn't mind them a lot even on my 1st playthrough

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Whichever sh!thead wrote "they will not respawn when killed" on the Ashen Capital ones, hope you burn nice and slow. And same to the lazy ass bunch who never bothered to update it too.

Those mtfk in Ashen Capital do respawn, and they still do when this chat was sent. Checked it personally on my own save literally seconds before writing all this.

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As a newbie to souls games I had a lot of trouble with these guys early on as they are rather intimidating and don’t give you any space, but I think that is part of the gist. They might even be something of a teaching tool since like with a lot of the bosses the best method is to roll into their attacks so you can be close enough to strike them. Granted, you need to learn the timing, but in this case it’s not super tight. On a vaguely philosophical note, I’ve also learned over my time playing Elden Ring that it is best to approach fights with some analytic calmness and to forget about your lost runes. It makes the game a lot more fun. If you’re still having problems then just set away your pride for a minute and watch a YouTube tutorial. We aren’t all gaming gods. We are but tarnished.

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Very chill guys

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Enemies that are "hard" simply because they block your camera and you cant tell what's going on is just straight up bad game design.

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no wonder this was originally an enemy removed from dark souls 3 what an awful camera-eating monstrosity

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Just exploring Stormveil with my wife watching me play and then we get to the bottom and then all of a sudden the ground rumbles one of these monstrosities pops out of the ground and both of us yell "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ****ING THING?!!"

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This enemy wouldn't seem so obnoxious if there weren't FIFTEEN of them (counting the putrid variant)! Like, why does there need to be that many? A handful, four or five, would be just perfect. But when you just keep running into more and more and more and more, one every couple hours or something... like, wtf. At a certain point, it just becomes really lame and annoying.

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What is the HP of the one in the Haligtree? It is not written.

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So, counting the Scarlet Rot version too (because it's basically the same thing)... There are almost fifteen of these things. Talk about overused.

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this has to be one of the most idiotic bosses i've seen, i can't see a damn thing in these arenas

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annoying to fight? check! seemingly random hitboxes? check! therefore should be a double or triple boss fight in the DLC? check!

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This page is missing the tree spirit in the Haligtree area. The one you have to defeat to progress Millicent’s questline.

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