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| Location | Mt. Gelmir |
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| Fringefolk Hero's Grave: Mt. Gelmir: Mountaintop of Giants: 48,000 |
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| HP | Mountaintop : 17,428 Mount Gelmir : 11,427 Fringefolk : 6,157 |
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Ulcerated Tree Spirit is a Boss in Elden Ring. Ulcerated Tree Spirit looks like a corrupted and deformed tree and is found in Mt.Gelmir. This is an optional boss, as players don't need to defeat it in order to advance in Elden Ring. However, doing so yields useful Items and Runes.
Elden Ring Ulcerated Tree Spirit Boss
Ulcerated Tree Spirit is a Field Boss found in Mt. Gelmir, in the Giant's Mountaintop Catacombs, and in the Fringefolk Hero's Grave.
- This is an optional boss.
- Closest Site of Grace: Stranded Graveyard.
- This boss can be fought in multiplayer.
- The player can summon spirit ashes for this boss.
- Drops Golden Seed and Glovewort Picker's Bell Bearing (2)
Elden Ring Ulcerated Tree Spirit Location
- An optional variation of the boss can also be encountered at Fringefolk Hero's Grave, which is located next to Stranded Graveyard's site of grace, behind the fog gate, which you remove by using 2 Stonesword Keys on the imp statues there. Elden Ring Map Link.
- This variant drops 15000 Runes (NG+ 72,000), Banished Knight Oleg's ashes and a Golden Seed and it can be fought in multiplayer.
- A non-boss version can be found in Stormveil Castle , at the bottom of a gutter. The crypt entrance location is close to the Liftside Chamber site of grace. Defeating it grants a Golden Seed, and it guards the Prince of Death's Pustule talisman. Elden Ring Map Link.
- A non-boss version can be found in Grand Cloister. It spawns upon approaching the waterfall found on the north side of Grand Cloister after climbing down from the Grand Cloister Site of Grace. It drops a Golden Seed upon defeat.
- A variant can be found within the Giant's Mountaintop Catacombs located in the Mountaintops of the Giants region. Defeating it grants 48,000 Runes, a Golden Seed, and a Glovewort Picker's Bell Bearing [2]. It is guarding a chest containing a Deathroot. Elden Ring Map Link.
- A non-boss variant can be found in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree. It is hiding beneath the second lake of rot, past the second set of branches inside the inner walls. It will emerge as you approach the lake. It drops a Golden Seed upon defeat. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- It can be found at Mt Gelmir, east of the Road of Iniquity site of grace. Drops Leaden Hardtear and Cerulean Hidden Tear. Elden Ring Map Link.
Ulcerated Tree Spirit Combat Information
- Health: NG (6147), NG+ (??), NG++ (??), NG+3 (??), NG+4 (??), NG+5 (??), NG+6 (??), NG+7 (??)
- Defenses do not change between phases - a firebomb will do the same damage in phase 1 as in phase 2.
- Deals Standard Damage and Holy Damage (2nd phase).
- Parriable: No
- Can be poise broken: Yes. Can be riposted afterwards.
- Takes more damage from headshots
Absorptions:
The absorption numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example if an absorption is 60. 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% is absorbed. Bigger number= less damage. An absorption of 100 means no damage goes through, and a resistance of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances:
Poison: 252
Scarlet Rot: 252
Hemorrhage: 252
Frostbite: 112- Death: Immune
- Sleep: Immune
The resistance numbers is the buildup amount to trigger it. For example if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of whatever aux buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs.
Elden Ring Ulcerated Tree Spirit Boss Guide
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Ulcerated Tree Spirit Fight Strategy
Melee Users
"Don't Panic" is the motto of the Ulcerated Tree Spirit fight. Most of the times when it's flopping around it won't damage you, so learning when the few times that touching it hurts is the key to this fight.
Setup: Shield and enough armor to survive its bite attack.
Optional Setup: Holy Defense and Fire Damage, such as Fire Pots and Fire Grease
The most important thing to watch out for is the roar before the bite attack. Immediately after the roar, it will crawl up on the wall and charging at you with mouth wide open! Shift left when you see it and you should avoid it. Be ready to roll if it is too close.
Phase 1: Keep pushing towards his left side with your shield up until you are in range. If your Guard Boost is too low, it will stagger you, but its melee attacks are slow enough that you can recover before the next one starts. If it starts a breath attack, get in close if you are near enough, and run to the side if you are not. You can get some solid swings in while it is breathing everywhere else.
Learn the one crawling animation that does damage you from touching its entire body and avoid t.
Watch out for the start of Phase 2, since it does a large AOE with lightning strikes when it first transitions. It can do this AOE later in the fight as well, so continue to watch for the windup. If you are already far, run away. If you are close, move away with your shield up and just eat the damage.
Phase 2: The Tree Spirit starts doing holy damage with its attacks, so blocking with your shield will do chip damage to you. Don't Panic. The strategy is the same as phase 1, but hopefully you've got some timings down and can roll through a few of his melee attacks. Don't be afraid to take the chip damage on your shield instead of a full strength attack.
Repeat enough times to learn the windups and you'll be able to pick out the ones where there's enough time for a charged attack or multiple attacks. Eventually, you'll put this tree back in the ground.
Some more specific attack patterns for roll-focused characters:Starting off the fight, it will either lumber toward you and prepare for melee combat, or it will charge at you for its three-hit, double-charge combo. For the Double charge, dodge LEFT then LEFT again, then wait until you see it climb the wall and wind up, then dodge LEFT one more time to avoid the grab. Now, once you are in the fight, it is recommended to stay close to the boss's left arm (right side looking at the beast) where it meets the ground. You can punish almost every melee move with multiple light attacks and this strategy mostly keeps it from using the dangerous yellow breath attacks.
So if it claw swipes, dodge RIGHT, read for another move, then get in a light attack and repeat. If it raises its claw to stomp, then roll RIGHT, count two stomps with the claw you just avoided, then jump attack and reset. If it flops its neck down, roll RIGHT, turn to your left and get a couple of light attacks, then read its next move and reset. If it starts winding up its tail, back away from it then Dodge Roll right, then punish with a jump attack. Finally, if it hunkers down and cranes his neck up and begins to glow, SPRINT AWAY quickly. This is the beginning of phase two and the explosion will kill you or lower your health to where you can be killed easily. It is a grind in the early game because of the beast's high HP, but you can do it! Study the moves and develop a reaction to each one.
One weakness of the Tree Spirit is that its claw and mouth attacks can often overshoot the player. Staying as close as possible allows for easy damage, only being threatened by the tail whip attack. The whip can be blocked with a decent amount of stamina, since there's enough time after the block to recover from a stagger.
Magic and Ranged Users
You should bully him like a melee build. It is so large that you can't really make a gap that it won't immediately close, and it will also go for a bite attack if you get too far out. Don't start any attacks straight in front of it unless you're sure it's not about to go for a breath attack, and try to shoot for its side after it flops past you.
Stagger Bug:
If you stagger the Ulcerated Tree Spirit during its phase-change animation (the move where it explodes with golden light), the AI of the boss will stop acting in any way. This will allow you to damage the boss however you see fit from safety. Be warned however that after about 8 seconds after the AI stops functioning, the boss will resume moving. So it is in your best interest to continue staggering and Critical Hitting the boss so that it remains immobile while you work towards defeating it.
Ulcerated Tree Spirit Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Double Charge | It roars and lunges at you, then writhes once with its body, then climbs the wall and lunges again. The 2nd lunge is a deadly grab. | Roll LEFT, roll LEFT again, wait for it to climb the wall, the avoid the 2nd lunge with another roll LEFT. |
| Charge Grab | It roars, climbs the wall, then lunges at you for a deadly grab. | When you notice it climb the wall, roll LEFT as it charges. |
| Yellow Spew | Its mouth will glow yellow and it will shoot a long-distance spew of yellow fire. | If you are at a distance, sprint horizontally and then approach him to punish once out of the line of fire. |
| Charge then Spew | It will perform "Charge Grab" then coil up and spew fire right below its head. | Avoid charge like normal, then sprint to its leftish belly (right side looking at the beast) and punish. |
| Claw Swipes | It will swipe with its left claw, hesitate briefly, and then swipe with its right claw. | Roll THROUGH each swipe. So roll LEFT then roll RIGHT. |
| Get Off Me Swipe | It will swipe with its claw on whichever side you are on front-to-back to clear you off of its side. | Roll THROUGH. If you are approaching to the right, the claw will come from the left, and vice versa. This attack can have a follow up, see below. |
| Tail Swipe | It will wrap its tail around its back then swipe it right to left if looking at it head on. | Back away from it as it winds up, then roll RIGHT, and sprint to punish. |
| Claw/Tail Combo | It will perform "Get Off Me Swipe" and follow up with a jumping "Tail Swipe" | Roll THROUGH then hesitate a short moment, then roll RIGHT through tail. |
| Claw Stomp | It will raise its claw and stomp in a 1-2-1 rhythm. So two stomps on the side that it stomps first, and one on the other side. | Roll out of the way of the first stomp, then wait until second stomp happens then punish. HIGHLY PUNISHABLE because it never changes or adds a follow up. |
| Swipe then Pound | It will perform one claw swipe from the right looking at it head on, then it will raise both claws together in a pounding motion. | Roll through the first swipe, then SPRINT to its belly (off-center) and the pound will miss you. Punish with a few light attacks. |
| Neck Flop | It will flop its head over and slam its neck down directly in front of itself. May follow up with another neck flop or a neck swipe. | Roll RIGHT out of the way, turn to your left and punish with 2 light attacks. |
| Neck Swipe | It will roll its neck to the right (its left) and wind up a heavy swipe that will hit for over half your health. | This attack has a massive windup. Be patient, then dodge through to the RIGHT. Similar to the Tail Swipe, I had more luck avoiding this by being slightly further away from its body then by being up against it. |
| Yellow Fire Explosion | It will hunker down, and crane its head up, beginning to glow with yellow fire. Yellow fire will blaze at random points on the floor of the arena. | This seems to have 2 hit boxes. An AOE explosion around the beast that will WRECK you and stun you and an AOE on each pillar of yellow fire that blasts upward from the marked places on the floor. As soon as you notice this move, SPRINT away while being mindful to avoid the pillars that will soon form by watching the floor. |
Ulcerated Tree Spirit Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Voice Actor: ??
- Variation from Stormveil Castle can be killed with ranged weapons/spells with ease - the player should place summoning sign near 2nd boss fight from that area and run to area from that side. If the player manage to get summoned shortly before ascending to the area, where Tree Spirit appears, the player will spot him with most of his attacks being harmless.
- Inside game code covering this boss AI there is a reference to "Snake Soul" - a boss concept that was planned for Dark Souls 3.
- Tree Spirit bear some resemblance to Pus of Man, an enemy from Dark Souls 3.
- Other Notes and Trivia Go Here
Ulcerated Tree Spirit Image Gallery
AnonymousThis boss had potential, but with its woooonky hitboxes, tiny arenas, and repetition; it's kind of lame. It should have been fought one time below Stormveil, the Ulcerated one on Mt Gelmir, and then the gank trio in Ashland. They diluted this guy to being more common than a Black Knight.
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The actual fun in fughting them comes only during rabdomizer runs, where they get stuck in the silliest of places. Once i had one stuck somewhere in Miquella's Haligtree, it kept falling and giving me runes. I think it had golden eyes once cause it gave me like 81k lol
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he sounds like pus of man when he do the gold explosion thing
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This boss was originally cut Dark Souls 3 content, and quite ****ing frankly it should've stayed that way because these things just suck, they aren't overly hard but they are super janky and slippery, annoying to fight and most importantly they are reused way too damn much to the point that whenever i see one of these stupid things for the 100 billionth time i just roll my eyes into the back of my head.
Came here expecting to see the "WeLL AcKShUALlY ItS A ReAlLy EaSY B0sS!!!!!11" comments and was not disappointed.
Never change souls community.
the one in the haligtree can be kinda cheesed with moghwyn spear, awaken it then run up the left hill to the top and the tree spirit will stay under it so you can use the ash of war. It can still hit you though and theres also a chance he will run up the hill aswell
So, you can fight all the versions in the same play through?
If i kill stormville castles, he's independent, and the others are still there?
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slow down their moveset, increase their hp, increase arena size and there we go, a better boss now
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Anyone else find it weird that these guys can bleed despite being both made of wood and a spirit?
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for pure caster/sorcerer - Adula's Moonblade works extremely well.
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I'm kinda curious on the backstory on what the hell these freakish things are.
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Beware of the one in the haligtree. It can inflict rot, even if you don't stand in the swamp or get attacked by it
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These aren't my favourite boss types but they don't worry me either.The only one I died to was at the bottom of Stormveil on the first attempt. But there is a rotten version that procs scarlet rot at the brace of the haligtree, that in itself is bad enough but the area you fight is a pool of knee deep rot water you can only wade through slowly, there is a ledge around this pool but with a massive drop from most sides of it, I don't need the seed I only tried it out of curiosity and it knocked me off the edge first hit. I don't know if poison mist will work on this one but even if it will this thing is likely to have a big enough health pool to make it a tedious exercise for little reward especially if you don't need any more seeds.
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Surprised to see so many don't like these guys. Maybe the powerstanced SS makes the combat flow easier than other styles, but this is one of my favorite fights in a From game. Roll timing isn't hard to figure out, and the dynamic movement is epic. I was blown away seeing my first one after Radahn, and wanted to make a duplicate save to replay it whenever. Always excited to encounter another.
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Fun fact#1: This enemy can be seen amongst the concept art for Dark Souls 3. It was cut, replaced with the Pus of Man
Fun fact#2: They managed to make these worse 10 times than the pus of man. They're simply too big for the camera to function as intended. Which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't sprinkle about 25 of these everywhere.
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Flame of Frenzy is very effective against these, since it not only does good damage to them since they're weak to fire damage, it also stance breaks them very quickly, 2 casts is often enough, especially since it has deceptive range, and the Tree Spirit will often take the whole attack due to how big it is.
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Oh, that's ulcerated tree spirit. I can't see the tree over here. I just assumed that was, uh, Turd Man. Wiggly Turd Man.
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I hate this enemy. Not because I think they're overpowered, or cheap, but because visually I can't tell what the hell I'm looking at.
During the fight this thing is moving all around like a dying hagfish, and I can't tell if I'm looking at the head or the ass in the heat of the moment.
Makes it much harder to react to telegraphed attacks... I wish they had given it googly eyes or something
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These things aren't hard but jesus christ does it get annoying how frequently these stupid things keep showing up again and again and again, these are probably the most commonly reused bosses/enemies in the entire game.
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just get some claws and get up in their guts, never mind seeing one because they go down easy
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How many Tree Spirits are there in the game? I have this:
Lesser ulcerated tree spirits:
8 of them (1 location with 3 of them)
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Lesser+Ulcerated+Tree+Spirit
- Stormveil Castle
- Leyndell, Royal Capital
- Grand Cloister
- Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree
- Leyndell, Ashen Capital
- Leyndell, Capital Outskirts (3)
Ulcerated tree spirit:
2 of them
Those are just boss versions (with health bar) of ulcerated tree spirits
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ulcerated+Tree+Spirit
- Mt. Gelmir
- Mountaintop of Giants
Putrid tree spirit:
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Putrid+Tree+Spirit
- War-dead catacombs
Am I missing any?
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Ignore what the combat information says about the tree spirit being strong against poison, bleed and scarlet rot, having a resistance of 252 does NOT make it strong against those status ailments.
The wiki for the Omen also says they are strong against poison, scarlet rot and bleed, their resistance numbers are tiered from those encountered early in the game like in stormveil castle at the lowest end to the highest for the Omen in the shunning grounds much later.
Their resistance at the shunning grounds is given as 250 but I had no problems inflicting the poison status effect with both poisonbone arrows and poisonbone darts, it doesn't take a lot of hits to make it happen either. It's the same for bleed you see the damage burst just like you'd see with any enemy that isn't listed as being strong against those damage types.
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They were really proud of these slippery flailing angry noodle beasts considering how frequently recycled they are
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These look like the bodies of the tree roots have come alive, possibly some connection to godwyn messing with things even in death.
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So yellow fires?? Are they mainly affected by holy resistance or fire?
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This appears to be made of the corpses returned to the Erdtree?
Thematically resembles Rykard's family, as well as corpse jars and grafting.
Seems like maybe the outer gods dine on puree of tarnished.
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Don't know why everyone is complaining, they aren't that bad and they have some very interesting lore implications like they're the spirits of the minor erd trees the larval form of an elden beast. Since we find them at the tree roots where godwyn's influence is the strongest he's likely corrupted them into servants of death.
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Why is the 1 in Capital not on here? I'm not scrolling forever to check comments, but didn't see if mentioned?
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If you have enough at the haligtree: activate the boss by the cliff right behind him. After that jump to the root to leave the area. half way you can attack the boss with something ranged without beeing hit once. crappy boss in crappy location needs crappy solution.
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First, I was fine with them. Not my favorite design, unnecessary hectic in cramped spaces, but also not that hard to beat, as they often dash into walls, giving the player time to attack or heal.
But that one in the Haligtree though...
This SoB either pushes you over the edge, or into the lake infecting you with scarlet rot in no time. He is tanky as hell, may one- or two-shot you and after some time deals fire damage with every attack. I used the raised cliff to my advantage. He often falls down, giving you time to heal. A Greatshield also helped a lot with my melee build. Just hide behind it, when the camera goes bonkers again during his crazy moves. This was a long fight and for me more frustrating than Malenia.
Vaati actually revealed in a video that these are unused designs from a past game.
So theres a reason these come off as filler bosses.
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The one in Giants loves to partially clip out of the arena, lol.
- Anonymous
I defend all copy-pasted bosses except this mf. It doesn't even have any REAL lore and is too sh!tty to fight. I would rather deal with millions of Erdtree avatars than this garbage.
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I died like 30 times to the one in the tree but 6 times to melania. Wtf
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If anyone REALLY feels the need to kill the Stormveil Castle version, drop off the ledge by the Liftside Chamber site of grace. Kill a few rats then drop down into the north end of the pit. Run as fast as you can and pray to whatever gods you worship that you make it to the ladder at the south end. Scramble up the ladder until it can't hit you. Wait. Climb down ladder. Fire single shot from bow then scramble back up ladder.
Rinse and repeat for 20 minutes. Your reward? A talisman you'll never use.
You're welcome.
- Anonymous
FS game development strategy:
1: Make boss ridiculously big so camera locks don't work
2: Put boss in tiny arena with lots of player-stopping obstacles
3: Make rewards for winning disproportionately small
4: Don't correct IGN when they fail to call out the game's bullshit
5: Rinse
6: Repeat
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Elden ring fans explaining how copying the same shi!t boss 300 times is essential to the lore of the game
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of all bosses to copy and paste all over the place, why choose the jankiest boss in the game
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hitbox is bugged, please fix
at first its somewhat interesting boss until i realize it hitbox is stupid. my jump attacks is somewhat miss a lot , even if my character bumb on it still not registering.
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seemed easy … i used the torch + i was on the horse. i just kinda hit the tail and stayed on its left flank. i got off the horse + used the flame spray skill if it seemed like it was gonna stay put.
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seemed easy … i used the torch + i was on the horse. i just kinda hit the tail and stayed on its left flank. i got off the horse + used the flame spray skill if it seemed like it was gonna stay put.
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The one near Malenia is the worst. You have to worry about scarlet rot, falling off, and this stupid thing. L design.
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Things like these make me appreciate sekiro's camera more. It wasn't perfect, but you can see at least 90% of your enemy most of the time.
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Not complaing or anything but why is it not immune to bleed . It is a tree spirit makes no sense for it to bleed
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I discovered a decent tactic in my rl1. Using Flame of the Redmanes AoW (and both assassin dagger talismans), you can stun lock the tree.
The first poise break requires 3 casts. Then, after a crit, you have time to cast the AoW twice, which is enough to poise break the boss again, rinse and repeat.
The neat part is that, due to all the animation cancel, the boss never switches to phase 2.
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Why they would put these into lakes of rot with tens of thousands of HP all for a mere Golden Seed is beyond me. Its like FROM genuinely has no sense wtf they're doing at times.
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Also one south of the outer wall phantom tree site of grace
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Like, The boss wouldn't be as dreadful if they placed them in places big enough to fit their models. Most of their attacks will cause them to clip right through walls and hit you at awkward angles.
I fought enough of these guys that eventually I'd reach a fog door read a message and think, "oh greater will please don't let it be another one of those damn tree things!"
It was another damn tree thing.
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The one in the Mountaintops of the Giants is located in the Giants' Mountaintop Catacombs. The location section doesn't seem to mention this
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"whew that was hard. I hope I don't have to fight two of them at the same time..."
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"whew that was hard. I hope I don't have to fight two of them at the same time..."
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The game is full with enemies and traps like this. Not using magic and broken builds is just masochistic
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NOTE: you can just RUN, grab all the items and go up a stairs opposite of the giant face on the right. it will take you all the way to the grafted mini boss.
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You'd think they would know by now to just pan the camera out and give these bosses bigger areas to fight in so we actually know what's going on
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For the Ulcerated in Stranded Graveyard, Flame of Frenzy works amazingly well. Just took it down with a +0 Lhutel and Finger Seal +4. Just gotta choose your moments.
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I've been able to beat them relatively easily as a melee player just by sticking to their left flank and hacking away. The trick is to never let them create distance between you: if it starts freaking out and jump away, you run your little legs out to get right back here. It starts trashing? Shield up and wait for it to pass. The only thing to really watch out for is its AoE but it's pretty well telegraphed (and you can block it too, might take a bit of damage but really not much)
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The Haligtree one is easy to cheese. After 20 times dying to his grab attack, I hopped back into the root you come in from and let the arrows fly. Also tossed all my kukuris and fire pots to make it go faster, but arrows or bolts alone would've done it.
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enemies like this make me think burning the world with frenzyframe is a good choice
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Brace of the Haligtree version: Almost killed him a few times straight melee after beating my head against the wall for about 45 minutes, then decided it wasn't worth it. Equipped the Dragon Communion Seal +10 even though I'd respec'ed in such a way that I basically had 0 scaling with it. Triggered the boss, then ran back and jumped to the lower branch and climbed back up to where I was on the higher branch and out of his reach, like others have suggested. I set my flasks up to where I had 10 Cerulean, equipped the Faith Heirloom and popped a Godrick Rune Arc, so I had the Faith and Arcane to cast Dragonfire. Also equipped the Faithful Canvas Talisman to buff my incantations. Cheesed the **** out of him from the branch with the Dragonfire. Killed him with 5-6 blue flasks worth of FP with 18 mind unbuffed, 23 with the Rune Arc. Totally worth it.
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Huge fast one shot boss in a confined area? What's not to like?
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There's also one that appears on a camp in Altus Plateau, at the capital outskirts, to the south of the Outer Wall Phantom Tree.
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Blood arrows work well. It’s resisted but not immune. Needed about 99 of them for the haligtree one but it worked.
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The Mt Gelmir one can be cheesed with rotten breath and breaking line of site at the southeast edge behind the big tree. It will lose aggro and you can sneak up behind it to apply rot again.
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The one in Stormveil Castle can be cheesed if you're ranged (mage or decent bow) - it's a bit of a pain but is so worth it. Basically, when dropping down the ledge into its spawn room, aim to the right. As soon as you hit the ground, immediately sprint all the way to the other room where the talisman is. You'll actually be behind the boss by the time he finishes his intro animation and then he won't have any idea where you are and will be looking in the wrong direction.
Now you can loot the talisman if you like, but you're not done yet! Climb the ladder to get to the room where the guardian was, and go to the right to take the elevator to the rampart grace. Now you have to walk all the way to the Liftside grace. Do NOT rest or fast-travel or the boss will be reset! So use FP sparingly if you're a mage. You can avoid all enemies in the courtyard by just sneaking around the perimeter after dropping down.
Anyway, once you get to the liftside grace area, drop back down into the crypt. Now you can walk onto that ledge you were originally on, looking down on the boss and being able to fling spells and/or arrows at it from perfect safety!
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They must have been really proud of this one, considering there's like 20 of it. When three of them turned up at the same time outside the ashen capital it was like the game was mocking me.
- Anonymous
bring shield and get in SUPER close, like directly under his belly. half his rolling attacks don't hit. the ones that will can be pretty easily blocked (except his the fire explosion move, but that has a very obvious tell)
- Anonymous
Killed the Haligtree one with about 60 bloodbone arrows. Lured him out, ran back and jumped onto the branch I came from, stood back a ways, and let fly. Took like 15 arrows per bleed procc but I also took zero damage
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Fun tip: night maidens Mist for the one in the Haligtree. Aggro then run back to the safety branch. Charge up a cast so it's nice and big and let it work. Go make a sandwich. Does about 1700 per cast and only requires 14 int so non casters can grab some int boosting gear and slap it on with a basic staff and watch him slowly wither
- Anonymous
This could have been a fun boss but they decided to put it in the worst places possible where it keeps clipping through the walls, did anyone even test this?
Also the design of this thing is terrible lmao, it's literally just a goop. Even Bloodborne's atrocities had a bit of design.
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For the stormveil castle encounter; Run PAST him and up the ladder. Navigate around the castle and back to the ledge above him and spam fire at him.
https://gameclips.io/AfterCrow/740548cb-3f0a-4de2-a02f-3816c11624f1
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I can't kill the one in the haligtree.. bleed doesn't work, fire doesn't do much.. physical dmg even with high AR is negligible..
and then it will bite you to death.. that's a one shot kill.
..and it will make you fall off the edge sometimes.. then there is the rot, so I can't even walk everywhere while fighting it..
bloodflame surrounding it..
fire breath..
it uses bloodflame storm (like the old firestorm spell)
..this is pure cancer and I can't seem to do much to it even when I tried the fingerprint shield to see if it would help..
and then there is the pest on the way to the fight.. just to waste your time and effort a bit more. :/
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If you have the patience, a maxed out Crepus' Black-Key Crossbow with about 150 bolts and an Arrow's sting talisman will whittle the Haligtree variation's health down a good bit if not taking it out completely. With no room to maneuver and the Scarlet Rot building up, this was my best option to take it down.
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The 1 on Mt Gelmir on journey 4(ng+3) drops 60750 runes and has approximately 16150 health
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Don't know about the holy version, but flame of redmanes ash of war works wonders on the scarlet rot one, I think it's weak to fire and the aow also staggers pretty well, so you can try that
- Anonymous
For NG+ and beyond with the one at Haligtree, you can use the Blasphemous Blade weapon art and kill it quite easily. Once you trigger the spawn, run back around and up next to the wall. The spirit will be in the rot pit still. Just keep spamming the weapon art and you will hit it in the head because it's just too darn big. Be careful not to get too close to the edge or it CAN hit you. Eventually, the spirit will come around and up to where you are. Just drop down into the pit and run back around and up to where you started before you get rot. If you get rot, use an item or spell to get rid of it but you really shouldn't. The spirit will follow you down into the pit. Once back up on the ledge, just spam the weapon art again. Rinse and repeat as necessary. This is by far the worst location for these and you can take huge amounts of damage very quickly. I purposely tried to NOT use my RoB on this and had to get creative. ;)
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For NG+ and beyond with the one at Haligtree, you can use the Blasphemous Blade weapon art and kill it quite easily. Once you trigger the spawn, run back around and up next to the wall. The spirit will be in the rot pit still. Just keep spamming the weapon art and you will hit it in the head because it's just too darn big. Be careful not to get too close to the edge or it CAN hit you. Eventually, the spirit will come around and up to where you are. Just drop down into the pit and run back around and up to where you started before you get rot. If you get rot, use an item or spell to get rid of it but you really shouldn't. The spirit will follow you down into the pit. Once back up on the ledge, just spam the weapon art again. Rinse and repeat as necessary. This is by far the worst location for these and you can take huge amounts of damage very quickly. I purposely tried to NOT use my RoB on this and had to get creative. ;)
- Anonymous
Fought one in the area after lake of Rot, my mimic saved my ass but even with mimic distrscting him, this ******* still made me use 10 healing flasks almost one shot me with the grab move where he gives you scarlet rot, spams attacks after atacks but if you hug him he will miss around 80% of the attacks, moonveil was actually really good against this abomination, in short i did it!
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The Envoy Long Horn bubble attack wrecks these guys. Just tooted the one in the Haligtree to oblivion.
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Who tf said it's scarlett rot resist was 255? After cheching the wiki i tested it and it seems to be completely immune.
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From looked at the BS Yatsu-no-kami from Nioh and were like "This is brilliant"
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Perfect example of how awful 90% of Elden Ring's boss design is. Too big for the arena, too big for the camera to function properly, flails around wildly (your guess is as good as mine where it's hitboxes are), spams AOE attacks constantly, has an auto-kill grab attack (at least this one is incredibly easy to dodge, most are not). If they just removed this boss entirely, as well as the 12 copies they placed throughout the game, the game as a whole would be better off.
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Has anyone been able to dodge the explosion attack while standing beside it?
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What a garbage boss. The only good thing about it is it's hit boxes.
- Anonymous
First encounter: woah, I was not expecting to see *this* after that chariot. And right behind the stonesword key door at the very beginning? What a banger of a boss!
7,364th encounter: I wonder if this one will bust through my screen to put me out of my misery.
- Anonymous
I really wish Fromsoftware would remember that have been playing their games for FUN. This boss, along with many others present in Elden Ring, are spammy, camera abusing, one-shotting bullshit. Not to mention how most of the main bosses have enormous health bars and what seems like unlimited stamina. I'm a "souls veteran" (I hate that term) and I found that both Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3, while having their share of BS fights, are full of fun and FAIR bosses. Elden Ring just feels like the designers went "our games are known for being hard, right? Well let's make all the bosses just like Orphan of Kos!"
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lmao so i went to leyndell ash, trying to get the erdtree favor +2... So there is the ulcerated tree spirit that is already there and then a second one that spawns from the ground.. So first i painstakingly kill the one that spawn after, and after a long ass fight i finally try to run to the talisman because the otehr tree spirit is far away.. And what do i hear ? I hear the othersercond one spawning again LMAO WTF FROM ??? WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD YOU MAKE THIS ****TY ASS BOSS SPAWN AGAIN ??? PLS TELL ME ITS A BUG i just dotn want to believe they actually are that bad at balancing their game, + gotta love going from a solid 60fps to barely 20 in that area, optimize your ****ing game, PC coomunity are the only ones keeping your old game alive and running, respect us just a litle please, on console no one even play your older titles anymore cause they suck and no one still have a ****ing ps3 anymore, in ten years the only way to play elden ring in good conditions will be on PC.. from rly remind me of nintendo, they can just count on the army of sheep that are the souls community to fix and excuses litterally everything that they are too lazy to fix, patch or just make. Maybe y'all dont know, but Dark souls is the only AAA game out here where you actigvely NEED the work of community modders to play with the most basic security features and the most barebones quality of life iumprovement.. Ughh cant wait to get the 100% achievemnt so i can finally stop playing this game and go back on DS2.. Oh wait no, BECAUSE THE SERVERS ARE STILL DOWN LOL
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
ez pz with terra magica + Loretta's mastery + flask
I love dat cheese on this boss :) , thx for sharing
If anyone is looking for a way to cheese the one in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree: Trigger the spawn, then book it back to the branch you used to get to the island. If you go halfway up the branch you will be in spell/incantation range and just outside of his attack range. I stood there and laughed maniacally as I pelted him with black flame fireballs.
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