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| Location | Minor Erdtree (Altus Plateau) |
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| HP | ≈ 8587 (Field Boss) |
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Runes (NG)Wormface is a Boss in Elden Ring. Wormface is a large, humanoid creature wearing a long cloak with a head comprised mostly of worms and is found at the Minor Erdtree in Altus Plateau. It is the greater version of the Lesser Wormface that can also be encountered. This is an optional boss as players don't need to defeat it to advance in Elden Ring.
Elden Ring Wormface Boss
Wormface is a Field boss found at the Minor Erdtree (Altus Plateau)
- Wormface is an optional boss
- Wormface is a Field boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Bower of Bounty
- Multiplayer is available for this boss.
- Spirit Summons are available for this boss.
Elden Ring Wormface Location
Wormface can be found by the Minor Erdtree between the broken bridge and the Woodfolk Ruins. [Map Link]
Wormface Combat Information
- Health: NG (??), NG+ (??), NG++ (??), NG+3 (??), NG+4 (??), NG+5 (??), NG+6 (??), NG+7 (??)
- Can inflict Death Blight
- Parriable: No
- Can be poise broken, which allows for a critical attack.
- Has a Blight-inflicting ranged attack, which can be mitigated with the Prince of Death's Pustule or Prince of Death's Cyst talismans and the Immunizing Cured Meat consumable, and cured using the Order Healing and Law of Regression incantations or Rejuvenating Boluses consumable.
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: 154
Scarlet Rot: 154
Hemorrhage: 154
Frostbite: 154- Death: Immune
- Sleep: ?? (staggered only)
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 Wormface Boss Guide
Wormface Boss Video Guide
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Wormface Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Wormface:
- Use the Lone Wolf Ashes Ash Summons
- Use The Flame of Frenzy Spell
- Use Order Healing and Law of Regression for curing
- Bring Prince of Death's Pustule or Prince of Death's Cyst Talismans
- Bring Immunizing Cured Meat consumable for Death Blight mitigation
- Bring Rejuvenating Boluses used solely to Alleviate death blight buildup
Melee Users
As a melee user you are susceptible to whenever it performs its mid ranged Death Blight attacks so you will have to be extra vigilant. When anticipating its spewing and cloud release. Try to have larger trees to your side to have something to duck behind. To quickly deplete its health as a melee user, as much as possible you can hug this creatures feat, but circle behind so it cant grab you and deal your series of attacks on its legs from behind. This creature has one of the more slower moving actions but its attacks deal great effects so be careful when running in. Run in between attacks and keep to its legs from behind so you are out of range to be affected by melee attacks as well. Keep focusing on hitting its legs until it is defeated. Bring extra talismans that can mitigate death blight for more aid and Rejuvenating Boluses to decrease buildup.
Magic and Ranged Users
Keeping at long range against this boss may invite it to also counter with its main long ranged Death Blight attack. Getting hit by this puke attack causes serious damage and serious Death Blight buildup. Since it is encountered in the open world, use large trees to your advantage to avoid its effects. At mid range, you can also still be affected by the cloud AoE it releases. This moves relatively slowly so back away as this approaches. At this range the wormface may also attempt to run at you. It isn't a very quick dash however it closes the distance very quickly and then will usually follow up with an attempt to grab. From here, circle away from its grasps, if you would like at this point, temporarily switch to melee to get some hits on its legs. Since it doesn't have the fastest actions, with ranged combat wait for its attacks to and and deal an attack of your own in between each completed action until its HP has depleted. Use Order Healing and Law of Regression for curing if available.
Wormface Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Head Smash | Slowly pulls its head back and brings it down to the ground for a head smash | Roll during this action |
| Head Sweep | Performs one quick head smash then proceeds to sweep its head left and right while on the ground. | Roll during this action or back away |
| Death Blight Spew | Spews a cloud of worm-riddled toxins that build up Death Blight. Can be performed in a combo. | Use the obstacles in the environment to your advantage. Duck behind trees. Prepare to do so as soon as it pulls back its head in preparation for this action. Roll back as far as you can and keep backing away until you are sure it has stopped. |
| Cloud | Spews a slow moving damaging cloud with an AoE | Back away and avoid the area of effect |
| Run and Grab | Wormface runs towards the player and closes any separation quickly before going in for a grab. | Circle around him to avoid its arms and deal some hits to its legs from another angle |
Wormface Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- The file names for the Wormfaces are Deracine_Male for the small ones, and Deracine_Female for the large ones.
Deracine could come from a French word for uprooting trees, or it could mean “displaced.”
Wormface Image Gallery
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You can cheese this boss. Sneak behind him and throw poison mist. He will not wake up. Do that a few times while having a coffee break and he is dead.
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devs should copy the vore move and give it to malenia in a future patch
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all i had to do was wack the feet a few times and strafe right around the boss. for some reason i only stood in death fog for a few seconds max the entire fight. probably had to do with the boss moving away from the fog. would recommend
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Of course the evil worm infested black skinned zombie monsters that inflict deathblight are holy-resistant :/
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There's a Wormface near the Mt Gelmir minor erdtree, except that sometimes it's not there. I can't find any rhyme or reason as to when it spawns, can anyone confirm/offer an explanation?
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My least favorite enemy in any fromsoft game. I'd rather fight 5 pus of men at once than a single one of these things.
It's not that they're particularly hard to kill, the noises they produce make my skin crawl. Plus, their ****ing faces! I once killed a big one, and when it fell, its face went right in front of the camera. I've played these games for a long time, but this was the one moment I was ever truly jumpscared.
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Honestly because I'm such a collection freak I need to know. The smaller worm face mobs carry a weapon. Is this weapon something that they will drop?
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Do we have any lore at all for these guys? What they are, why they're like that, etc. Did From just forget to include any at all for them? Extremely interesting creatures, Altus Plateau which is the 2nd brightest area in the game and then we have these abominations around a minor Erdtree, which are supposed to be sacred. Nothing at all?
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what I hate/love is they still seem perfectly sentient, like you hear them talking to each other and some seem to be mourning at various gravesites
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And of course it has a disgusting grab attack. Of course it does. It wouldn't be a Souls game without a large, disgusting abomination trying to defile you.
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Just don't bother with this thing or it's smaller versions, it drops paltry amount of souls and it's poo. overall a disgusting and pointless experience
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God these guys are creepy. Got shivers down my spine whenever they tried to grab me over and over
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For melee users, just do it on horseback. Turns it into a cakewalk.
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Killed him in a few hits while two-handed wielding giant-killer with sanctified ash of war. He was basically staggered the entire time. I didn’t even get to see any of his animations.
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The currently listed resistances are either wrong or outdated. The Wormface at the minor erdtree in the altus plateau took 6 light hits to bleed from a weapon with a bleed buildup of 61, meaning it has a bleed resistance of 300+, twice as much as is listed. It took me 5 hits to inflict frostbite at 80 buildup, implying a resistance of 320+; again, twice as much as currently listed. And it took 5 hits at poison buildup 83 to inflict poison, so again, at least twice what is listed. I don't currently have a weapon that inflicts scarlet rot, but I doubt the results would differ from what I already found. Please update this page when possible. Thank you! :)
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She's extremely scary but I cheesed her by killing her 3 guardians and sneaking up to poison mist proc every time the status runs out, what can I say? She kills me in 1 hit :(
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I’ve noticed that when using Flame of the Redmanes with a +17 Flame Art Uchiganta, Wormface takes barely any damage on the first shot, and gets staggered and loses almost half of its health on the second. Not sure if this is a glitch, but it made fighting this boss REALLY easy, as he dies in about 5 shots from Flame of the Redmanes. Using the Mimic Tear summon allowed me to use multiple FotR bursts so he went down even faster.
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Pure bullshit at it's finest. Honestly now I think Malenia isn't so bad after all after facing that goddamn face roll attack so many times
What the actual hell is this? How came this to be? Why do they wear clothes? Why are they attacking us?
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Why are these strong against Holy damage if they're part of the undead group of enemies that gets shredded by Holy damage?
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There is also a Wormface in Crumbling Farum Azula, guarding the Glovewort Picker's Bell Bearing [3].
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I hate how creepy and fast these things are. First time I saw this thing running mach speed at me I nearly **** my pants
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i succesfully dodged 4 grabs in a row just for him to pull a 5th grab and kill me instantly from full health. best boss in game
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Thank you Zullie for showing me an up-close angle of their face. Now I can sleep slightly less better at night.
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Not even a hard boss since it has like 3 attacks, but damn does it leave an impression
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The glitchy vore animation is kinda scary, whenever it actually swallows you when you die if you don’t land where it’s mouth is in the animation and end up floating on the side you see the tarnished’ body crushed and contorted into a ball to mimic what your character should look like when it is swallowed by this monstrosity.
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Death's Poker's Ash, Ghostflame Ignition (coolest name in the game btw) works incredibly well against these. You can just keep hitting L2 and the ghostflame will stunlock them and quickly drain their life. Or you can just use it once, and then use a heavy attack and the ghostflame explosion will do huge damage. Though I'd recommend just hitting L2 multiple times so you can stunlock it and not get any deathblight.
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Theres this naked one near volcano manors erdtree. On the way down to kill the ulcerated tree spirit, he was NOT there I swear...but after I killed it (the tree spirit), I reloaded the area and went back down to where the tree spirit was and got VORED by a completely naked, VERY FAST, different moveset wormface.
Idk if it was rare but ive never managed to see him again, and he was enormous wth lol
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This is a fight you don’t want to summon Mimic for. Unless you want it to run into the death cloud and die instantly.
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Yay, more of the Dark Souls trademark "grab attacks that ignore iframes, poise, everything else and also interrupt all kinds of attack" xD
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With these guys you either succumb to vore galore or death blight wrecks your life
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Hilarious that once again, a boss is highly resistant to holy damage. Even though it inflicts death blight which usually means Golden Order spells might finally be useful… 40% mitigation! Why do they do this???
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Anyone know where the summoning effigy for the one in Altus Plateau is?
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during the deathblight death animation you can actually be grabbed out of it, dunno if it prevents deathblight from killing you though since i died to le grab
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A note here, this boss can kill your Mimic Tear with Death Blight easily...
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My spirit ash (Oleg+8) basically soloed this guy. I just occasionally cast charged Night Maiden's Mist to help out. Rest of the fight I was crouched in Unseen Form. Boss never managed to land an attack on me due to me ducking behind walls and he could barely detect me anyway. Spirit was on 80% HP by the time this thing died.
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wormface try not to grab or spam deathblight challenge (impossible)
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I think it’s the creepiest enemy in the game, when it’s a bit dark and you’re creeping through the ruins and you just see large tall hooded figures looming over with worm faces that will spit at you which easily kills you
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But why is he so fast? He doesn't look like he'd be able to move like that.
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There's also one at Farum Azula and Mt. Gelmir (near the Road of Iniquity)
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Be careful fighting ranged. This guy is deceptively fast and will full sprint on you. Keep moving.
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There is one on Mt.Gelmir before the ulcerated tree spirit. I have no clue why no one brings up this one nor why its not in the wiki yet. Does this one go by a different name?
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Grab does like 50% with medium armor and 35 vigor. I think people don't know that you can escape the throw and think it's a one shot.
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BEWARE: Killed it with arrows from the floating platform and it did not drop the tears loot, only got runes
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I died at the same time as "Wormface" yet I was still able to claim the rewards through a button prompt while I were in the "You Died" screen. Not sure about the runes, sorry.
Ultra Obvious, but I recommend NOT going there at night, the death blight will be hard to see and you'll be prone for an ambush. I think the other loons out in the woods are patroling or somehow notice when you start the fight (who wouldn't). Better clear out some before to make sure. Just as most things flesh/fur they're weak to Fire.
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If you have a faith build the Flame of Frenzy destroys these guys.
Players with emetophobia, beware these dastards. Highly recommend fighting them muted, as they make horrendous vomiting sounds... ugh.
If you are worried, they're quite contained in their areas, thankfully. Main areas with them are the forest of Altus Plateau (where the Minor Erdtree is) and an optional area of Farum Azula. Other than that, there is a single jumpscare one in Mt. Gelmir west of the dead Minor Erdtree that's disguised as a burning corpse enemy. It only spawns if the thing dies (but it blows itself up, so be wary).
Wolves Ash summons +7 and all I had to do was ride by and whack him once every few seconds. Never got hit or grabbed or puked on. This boss just looks like it will be a pain but it's a pushover by the time the average casual player gets here.
Wolves Ash summons +7 and all I had to do was ride by and whack him once every few seconds. Never got hit or grabbed or puked on. This boss just looks like it will be a pain but it's a pushover by the time the average casual player gets here.
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That death blight spit attack is crazy, he spat it at me once and I got death blighted instantly...
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very underwhelming i cheesed him to death with the fingerprint shield
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janky ass fight... janky ass hitbox. Seriously, camera doesn't lock on to legs nor the head. it locks on to the damn body. Entire fight, you have no idea wtf is going on and not even proper sound cues like the fire giant to circumvent any of the camera problems.
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For those wondering: he can use the ranged attack of the Lesser Wormfaces; fought him with Loretta's Greatbow and used the ruins and roots for cover and Avionette Soldier Ashes for the fire damage, not difficult at all if you can avoid the death blight.
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The one in Crumbling Farum Azula that guards the Glovewort Bell drops 6812 souls and no items.
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Bosses get lame when they are this big, you just can't see crap of what they're doing. I thought they realized that after Giant Lord but apparently not.
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Spirit Ash summons appear to be immune to deathblight. Wolf pack trivialized this fight.
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Anyone knows if Farum Azula version has something interesting?
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Found another, non-boss version of this guy in Mt.Gelmir, on the road between Volcano Manor and the destroyed Minor Erdtree. It's disguised as one of those flaming kamikaze zombies. Easy to ride past and miss at first and pretty damn alarming to look behind you after hearing the big boom only to see a 25 foot tall, death-blight spewing aberration appear out of the smoke.
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Wow his grab kinda sucks. I was standing behind him and he grabbed me. One of the worst hit boxes for an attack I’ve seen in this game. Just spam him with holy spells or fire and he’ll go down easy, but that grab has a terrible hit box so watch out for it
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Poison seems to work really well on him coming from my jellyfish summon
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He does have a grab attack but it's not insta death and doesn't apply death blight at all iirc.
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Updates to attacks: He does similar death blight attacks to the lesser wormface but in a massive AOE cloud, he also spams repeated what I assume are grab attacks, but I didn't get hit by them. I assume its likely an instant death. He also does a smash with his head that's fast, as well as a bigger telegraphed massive slam of his head into the ground.
Also, wow he is EASY, I didn't get hurt, and I mostly just spammed a few holy spells. Seems very vulnerable to fire, frankly, I think he's easier on horseback than a regular wormface as he didn't seem to do any of the ranged death spews.
Fromsoft is amazing at making monsters. Everytime I need to get my last larval tear from the colossal, I shiver a bit.
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