Ulcerated Tree Spirit | Elden Ring Wiki

Oh boy, oh boy! It's time for another episode of "Miyazaki, What the hell is that thing!?"

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Wiki needs to be updated. These do respawn. You cannot summon spirit ashes. I honestly haven’t even tried killing all three but I don’t think that would effect them respawning.

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Honestly I think it's a good fight. Not great, overused by a lot, but not bad either. And I dont consider it to be bs, it's one of the bosses that when you gain some experience fighting them, you'll never die again against them, unlike many truly bs things, like Revenants, Lobsters, or Death Rite Bird's ghostflame explosion and Malenia's waterfowl epilepsy

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Bugs > Tree

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I don’t care what anyone says, this is by far the worst enemy in the game

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Why is this trash in the game? Seriously who play tested this and said “golly, this sure is an engaging fight!” Then put 13 of them in the game…are you serious?

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every FS game has that one hated enemy and it looks like this is one of them.

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"a snake-like creature with the appearance of a tree"
A tree? the first time I saw this ugly son of a ***** I thought it was some short of undead dragon or some other crazy beast

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whoever programmed this turd also programmed the lobsters and the revenants and the final boss

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One of the most overhated side bosses in the game imo. Once you get a feel for their moveset the camera issues don't really matter that much and it's honestly a pretty satisfying kill. Would definitely rank them lower than the really fun fights like Tree Sentinel but still a decent boss.

Screw the Putrid ones in Grand Cloister/Haligtree though, those fights can be brutal.

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It seems you cannot summon spirit ashes for the trio in ashen capital, might be recently (1.09)

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Our design philosophy with the bosses of this game were to not have them just be powerful, monstrous beasts, but to have an heroic and mythological element to them, like this giant tumor-covered tree snake that barfs pee fire and flails around like a gargantuan tantrum throwing earthworm on 1000 trucks worths of crack

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I think I may have gone insane. These combine the worst design tendencies of both Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring, but somehow I've started having fun fighting them. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome or something.

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Would be great if its head doesn't clip into the ground every time it staggers for a crit...

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The one in the haligtree needs to be added or map needs to point to the putrid one

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These guys are just annoying. Their attacks are easy to dodge, but I can barely see them half the time.

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Not only does the 3 tree spirit in Ashen Capital respawn, they also respawn immediately after you quit and reload the game.

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Folks may complain Elden Ring doesn't have much enemy variety but jesus we could have skipped that one. I swear the real difficulty is the camera when fighting this guy.

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I LOVE this fight. This boss is so much FUN.

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Where is the fire resistance???

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the one in haligtree needs to be added

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I can't even see half the boss

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One in capital outskirts can be 5x Runes/ "Goldeneyed". Can't remember if it showed as such, but surprised the hell out of me when I got 44K runes from it.

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Love that the one for Milicent quest is in such a small arena and the terrain is so buggy all my spells deal no damage even thought I’m hitting it

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Best boss in the gamr

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For the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in Leyndell Royal Capital you can get it to spawn then walk back into the room the Leyndell Knight was in (assuming you killed it), lure the spirit over, and use Night Maiden’s Mist to safely kill it from within the room. You’ll have to repeat the lure/mist a couple times but it’s a safe way to get it done.

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You can't summon spirit ashes for the ulcerated tree spirit fight in stormveil castle.

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They respawn if you only kill 2 in the capital. Does anyone know if they will come back if you kill all 3? I would like to keep them there to replay the fight. Especially fun juggling 2 in a big arena.

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Where do I riposite?!

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Man I love when their entire body is a hit box

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The last one at the little poison pool is harder than 90% of main story bosses. Only fromsoftware can make a rotting sausage harder than literal gods. Really feel like these should've just stayed on the editing floor of Dark Souls 3. At least that game is not tainted with these disgusting ****

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that's one smelly fish

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really feels like they needed a dungeon boss so they just reached into the bag of unused enemies from previous games and stuck it in unchanged. it’s maybe the only unfair boss in the game because you can’t tell if it’s attacking or just moving. also you can’t judge what it’s doing because it clips into the ****ing walls

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A huge pain in the ass if you rely on dodges, because it moves in such an erratic way.
Not a big problem for shield users though. When in doubt - raise the shield and wait for an opening. The only thing that needs to be dodged is the telegraphed grab attack.

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Anon 15 Nov 22:45 is right about one of these spawning in the same encampment where the hearse that holds giant-crusher is located. This can potentially be a problem, it was for me in my first playthrough, UTC spawned and I killed it but the camp was trashed.
When I read the colossal weapons wiki I went back for it but it wasn't in the chest. I tried the usual, fast travel reloads but the chest was empty every time. I was getting the prompt to open it but no prompt to search it and no purple glow you'd expect from a weapon chest. Obviously when the camp reloaded after killing UTC the chest was bugged.
To avoid that sneak to the encampment where it spawns, when it does DO NOT aggro it circle the camp and use the entrance furthest from its head and sneak to the hearse holding the hammer.

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This is the truest shitty boss from the game. Not only it is spammed around, it has no lore and is a pain in the ass to beat. Everytime there is a secret area, the devs just thought "oh what if I dump this mf here hehe that sure will be hard".

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A non-boss variant is found In the same encampment where the “Giant Crusher” is located just South of the Outer Wall Phantom Tree grace site in Capital Outskirts.

Drops +8820 Runes and (1) Golden Seed

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I didn't know where else to put this, but near the Mt Gelmir Tree Spirit, there is a female Wormface. And I swear sometimes it just isn't there, it's like only 25% of my runs. Can anyone else confirm/offer an explanation?

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Crucible knight duo was far more fun to fight, and those guys had me pulling my hair out.

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There's also one in Leyndell, isn't there?

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Stormveil Castle easy and legit tactic. A few posts below there were a couple of suggestions about how to defeat the UTC in Stormveil Castle. One related to popping up and down the ladder, and the other related to running up to the ladder and working all the way back from the Tower Grace Site and plink the boss from the entry ledge. Neither are necessary.

Just run and dodge roll your way to the south end of the room where the large stone face is lying flat on the ground. On the right side of this face, as you approach it, there are a number of deep folds. You can shelter in those to heal up, toss pots, and take strikes at the boss as he moves around trying to get to you. IF the boss finds a position where he can hit you, just jump over to the next fold and have at him again. Don't forget to use Fire Pots and especially Fire Grease on your weapon or Fire Arrows or Fire spells; UTC takes +20% damage from fire.

I was able to down him first try using this tactic. And I am not really that good at the game (yet). :)

Good Luck

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It isn't mentioned here but there is a non boss version in the capital outskirts that spawns in the same encampment as the caravan holding the giant-crusher colossal hammer. I don't know if it has been put right in an update but in my first playthrough it destroyed the caravan with the chest and it was bugged on reloading after killing the tree spirit with nothing inside it.
If anyone wants to be sure they get the hammer sneak close enough until it spawns, make sure it doesn't see you and aggro then sneak to get the hammer from the chest before anything can happen to it.

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Spirit Ash is NOT available in Stormveil Castle version of this fight.

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I have a dislike for a bunch of Bosses in Fromsoftware games but I usually just do them quickly, but ulcerated tree spirit takes the cake for being the most unpleasant boss ever, its worse than Maneater duo, Bed of Chaos, The Reborn One, Darkeater Midir, and Guardian Ape. I genuinely hate it but the one in Haligtree was just pure agony, what type of a sicko game tested that specific one and allowed it get past quality control. Jesus

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First and only boss I ever cheesed. This arena does not add fun to the fight, it adds needless pain.

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worst boss in the game

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The one in Mt Gelmir was the fifth Tree Spirit I defeated. But it became the first I actually had an opportunity to grasp full-scale because finally there was enough space for both of us to move around. This enemy certainly has a right to exist, but I don't see the reason of putting it in a narrow rooms of dungeons where it doesn't provide quality experience for most players. Some players surely find it cool even in dungeons, but that's likely a more dexterous and skilled minority who can genuinely have fun with them, unlike many of those who genuinely can't.

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The one in Haligtree is a huge pain to fight without resorting to cheese methods using ranged attacks. On my strength build, finally killed it by spamming flame of redmanes. Even when it’s stance breaks, keep spamming flame of redmanes. Also, just heal through the rot. Not worth trying to constantly remove it mid fight

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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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This 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.

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Came here expecting to see the "WeLL AcKShUALlY ItS A ReAlLy EaSY B0sS!!!!!11" comments and was not disappointed.

Never change souls community.

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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

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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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The capital has one too

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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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Volcano pots are good for these tree spirits.

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literally just don't fight them.

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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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The one at Mt. Glemir can be easily killed on horseback

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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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Wish we had their yellow fire somehow

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Lore??

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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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