Gurranq Beast Clergyman | Elden Ring Wiki

The things I'd let him do to me. . .

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Far as I can tell you need to do about 1000 damage to calm him down.

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people acting like its so bad he doesn't disappear after killing maliketh... when it would be way worse to lose all his exclusive items... that's so funny. i love wolf man 666 would give pets and peace of the soul 24/7

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It's baffling to me that there's still people that think Gurranq and Maliketh are 2 different people despite all the evidence proving otherwise.

I mean, it literally can't get any clearer than the fact that Maliketh RECOGNIZES YOU if you gave Gurranq all 9 Deathroots.

The Beast statues surrounding Gurranq in the Bestial Sanctum are EXACTLY like the ones in Farum Azula. You know who else is in Farum Azula?

Gurranq and Maliketh (first phase) use the exact same model, wield the exact same weapon, and use the exact same spells. You can even see Maliketh's helmet under Gurranq's robes. Considering the importance of Maliketh's character, I doubt this was an oversight or laziness on FromSoft's part. (Also, if Gurranq and Maliketh were two different Beast Clergymen, you'd think there'd be More, right?)

Both lament being betrayed by Marika. Maliketh's Remembrance explicitly states that Marika betrayed him. ("If I had a nickel for every time Marika betrayed a Beast Clergymen, I'd have Two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." Did it really?)

Farum Azula is frozen in time, therefore existing outside of it, while time outside of Farum Azula continues to pass. And "projections" of a person's Being existing in a separate place from them isn't exactly anything new. This is why Gurranq (if you neglected his questline) will remain even after you've killed Maliketh. (Though this is likely just FromSoft's way of making sure players aren't locked out of handing in Deathroots after killing Maliketh.)

Maliketh doesn't reside within the natural flow of time, but Gurranq does. So killing Maliketh has no affect on Gurranq's memories or status. However, when Gurranq's time in The Lands Between comes to an end, he "returns" to Maliketh, and thus Maliketh gains the memories from his "projection".

Anyway, thanks for reading. Praise the Malipuppy!

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so i killed maliketh before finishing gurranqs questline, but gurranq is still alive and i can still see his little hand medallion that he stabs to get his colossal sword. im fr kinda confusing

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the lack of understanding and immediately shitting on fromsoft here is insane

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Gave 6 deathroot... And still quest does not progress... Not shop. He already attacked me and the dialog was not matching the item he gave me...
Nice job Fromsoftware..

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The reason that gurranq is still there after killing maliketh is simple. Fromsoft just didn't care enough to do anything with it. If you kill any shard bearer before Godrick all the round table hold dialogue will proceed as if you had just killed godrick. Even if godrick is still sitting safe and sound in storm veil.

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"This NPC does not move" isn't entirely ture.
In my playthrough I fed him only one Dearhroot so far, but quite made some progress in the world, including to killing the Black Blade Kindred infront of the temple.
As I went to his place later (daytime night), he was missing inside the tempel but a deep howl/roar could be heard every few seconds. Facing the entreance I found him then right of the building, sitting on the ledge roaring at the earth tree in the distance.

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"Marika...why...wouldst thou...gull me? Why...shatter..."

As he is dying, he laments that Marika betrayed him, as gull is another word for betray/take advantage of. For those wondering about lore

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How is Gurranq still be found in the Bestial Sanctum after killing Maliketh? I mean, if I understand it correctly Farum Azula is stuck in the past since time stopped there and if it's in the past and we kill Maliketh in the past should Gurranq, who resides in the BS in the present day, also be dead? Could this be one of these nonsense time paradoxes?

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On the 9th dose of Deathroot, my cleric gave to me,

A smithing stone for forging, shock waves for gorging, Great Hammer swinging, giant boulder flinging,

5 rending claws!

Really deadly yells, healing spells, lots of pointy rocks

And a Beast's Eye and Clawmark Seal!

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idk if you're joking or not but gurranq is maliketh. Well, maliketh is the past version of gurranq. if you remember the game stated that farum azula was caught in a storm outside of time (stuck in the past).

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Dude has the same medallion Maliketh had to summon his blacksword, this intentional or fs just reusing npc models?

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Damn it, I killed him XD I didnt realize I could have spoken to him while he was stunned... I thougght he just got stance broken

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He’a angry because he wants more death but there’s still death in his bowl

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absolutely shat my pants when he got agressive

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dog hungy feed dog

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Give it to me. That thing, your Scooby Snack.

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Beastclaw greathammer is the 8th, not the incantstion.

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“Shouldn’t there be a transformation here?”
“Yup.”
“And this is the bestial sanctum.”
“Yup.”
“There are beastman statues and you give beast incantations. That means there must be a beastman transformation.”
“That makes sense to me.”
“Then let me transform.”
“There are no transformations in Elden Ring.”

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He bugged out big time and never calmed down no matter what I did. So be wary of bugs.

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He never stopped being aggressive.

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voiced by Jonathan Keeble, the voice of like 70% of Warhammer 40k audiobooks

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>Players should go to Summonwater Village and defeat the Tibia Mariner there, then return to D at the Roundtable Hold to continue his quest.

You don't need to go back to rountable hold. After you kill the mariner, he moves closer to the water part of the village. If you talk to him there, he gives you directions.

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Does Gurranq die after killing Maliketh (ie his quest can’t be completed and any Deathroot rewards that aren’t the Anceint Smithing Stone are unobtainable)? I’m trying to get everything I can do before killing Maliketh and triggering ashen capital (not doing a good job tho cause I have already locked myself out of multiple things)

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Kinda cool if you rotate your camera angle after Clergyman aggro/de-aggro you can see Malikeths face/skull hiding under the hood.

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Yharnam called, they want their citizen back

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When he aggro'd on me after the fourth root I just used lion claw on my spiked bat on him a couple times and he got the memo. It honestly kinda felt like smacking a dog with a rolled up newspaper lmao

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When he aggro'd on me after the fourth root I just used lion claw on my spiked bat on him a couple times and he got the memo. It honestly kinda felt like smacking a dog with a rolled up newspaper lmao

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screamer

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me antoje yo de una dona y me fui para McDonalds y me dijeron, que en el McDonalds no venden dona.

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Actually sometimes he moves outside temple, found him on rainy night, howling in direction of Isolated divine tower.
https://i.imgur.com/rjsCppA.jpg

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dawg is FIENDING

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If you cant do enough damage to deaggro him, you are not beating the game.

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Doggo

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I just had my game bug out and i was not able to get the final deathroot i needed, good to know i can just kill him and get the stone anyway.

unsure of what happened that caused the last deathroot i need to vanish, but i still got everything.

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Sooo in NG+ I killed him after only giving him 6 Deathroot and it still gave me the Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.

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I've read in a guide that if you give him 8 deathroots (the max is 9) and then kill him, he drops a somber ancient dragon smithing stone. I'm gonna try that, in my playthrough, and report back (it might take days tho).

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So I got to the point where he became hostile, but then after I died about four times he STOPPED attacking me entirely.

Not sure what happened there, unless my poison got him to where he needed to be as I died.

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So I was testing out the new incantations that I just got from turning in deathroots & after casting Shadow Bait (while standing at the front entrance),Gurranq became hostile. I tried resetting aggro at church of vows with a celestial dew but it says "you don't need absolution". I even tried going back to damaging him some & trying again but still can't drop his aggro. I think it's a bug.

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Imagine if we meet him again in the dlc because he got there in his journey ( assuming dlc will be a New area or future and not past or a dream)

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Would be nice if this had some impact on the maliketh fight, like it starts with maliketh and skips him.

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"... and that he will go on hunt them down alone"

No, he doesn't. He says he now must be left alone, with his appetite as his only companion. He knows there are no more Deathroot to eat and he blame Marika for this king of course where he's appetite will not be satisfied even after having complete his duty.

(Source:
- Official Elden Ring Strategy guide
- Gurrank dialogs
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Just like patches - badly written fight. It seemed I dealt so much damage that i met his re-aggro thresholt and ended up killing him too. Make them invulnerable when they beg for mercy ffs. Like I care about some random dialogue in the midst of a fight... just glad I don't need his items otherwise I would be really pissed.

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Dude just needs a warm fuzzy hug and some ice cream. Those deathroots are not good for mental health.

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He is cute. I love him.

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"More... I am not... sated" - me after two bowls of rice crispies

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Ahhhhhhhh, I'm gonna consoom!!!

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you guys should've seen my face when i saw how my blasphemous greatsword (which i made me feel invincible at the time) deal such a miniscule amount of damage to him. thankfully after getting my ass toss around a couple of times i remember that i have the black flame incatation, so i just throw some flames at him and let the percentage based damage sober him up

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no thanks

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Was around level 40 when i got him to get angy with me and i just sat inside the place dodging his attacks and slowly chipping away his health with my uchigatana+11 for about 10 minutes then he was chill all of a sudden i was so f***ing confused

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It's a shame you can't tell him about Ranni being behind the night of black knives. It would finally give him a bit of solace after everything he's been through.

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Agreed. Use a Greatshield. Use some Poison arrows. Wait. Once Gurranq goes face down in the temple breathing hard, Then rest at site of Grace reloading.

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this is a huge stab in the dark, but i can’t help but feel like there may have been some sort of ending or something bigger planned with this guy. The quest itself mirrors dung eater (bringing deathroot/seabed curse) and takes way too much effort for it to just end abruptly. that paired with malikeths dialogue changing makes me wonder if he was super to be more important than he actually was

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i think If you die enough times to him, he eventually stops being aggressive. I THINK.

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this is a huge stab in the dark, but i can’t help but feel like there may have been some sort of ending or something bigger planned with this guy. The quest itself mirrors dung eater (bringing deathroot/seabed curse) and takes way too much effort for it to just end abruptly. that paired with malikeths dialogue changing makes me wonder if he was super to be more important than he actually was

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i think If you die enough times to him, he eventually stops being aggressive. I THINK.

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After giving him the fourth deathroot, I didn't get to hear his dialogue after he sobers up from his rage when you smack him around enough because I thought he was merely poise broken. My instinct and adrenaline from the fight had me continue wailing on him with my two power-stanced Blood Great stars+17. In my confusion not understanding why he wasn't getting back up I hesitated and I already re-aggroed him by that point and he killed me. Kind of glad he did though so I could finish his quest. Gurranq was definitely in some trouble had I not hesitated though. lol

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Does anybody know where he goes when he dissappears after feeding him the last death root? Or is he just gone completely?

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wiki doesn’t mention this and i have no idea what triggered it, but when i went to bring him the 2nd root in NG+ he wasn’t in his temple but i heard some weird noise outside and found him by the cliff roaring his lungs out into the ocean… had the same dialogue after i talked to him and accepted the deathroot. anyone know why this happened??

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I like how he seemingly becomes more coherent as you feed him more deathroot, he's just snarling and speaking in broken sentences when you first meet him but by the end he's talking in full sentences. It makes me think that as you reunite the pieces of the rune of death you also reunite the pieces of his mind so to speak.

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Can confirm the rot doggy did his job here I just had to distract Gurranq long enough for the dog to do his work

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So if gurranq is maliketh, why is he still in the temple if I killed maliketh? Like I killed maliketh and I can still speak to and give gurranq deathroot

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if you have Latenna's ash, you can go outside of the chapel when he aggros and just plop her down facing the door. takes a little while but she can chip him down little by little and you don't have to do anything (unless Gurranq does the Beast Claw move which you'll probably have to heal her some)

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When he aggros you can hit him with two lightening spear incantations and he goes mellow.

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I got consumed more

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Gurranq attacking is NOT part of D's quest line. Don't remember when I gave him the 4th death root, but came back here after finishing D's quest line and he attacked. Also must've completely missed his chill phase so I ended up killing him. Knew I f'd up when he dropped the ancient dragon smithing stone. Welp, this playthrough is ruined.

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So I gave him the four deathroots. I left and came back and didn't realize he would be aggressive. I tried fighting him but I was getting slapped hard. I tried hitting him with poison at one point,and it stunned him pretty hard,but then he just finished me off with one hit. Got slapped like,a dozen times in a row or so? Thirteenth respawn,he's no longer aggro,and his only chat is "..." And resting at grace,fast traveling,and advancing time don't seem to change anything. Black blade isn't dead yet,still too weak for that fight. Is he glitched?

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Go outside, equip a greatshield and a crossbow with poison bone. Wish I'd figured it out before he took all my runes...

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I'm so mad. I got killed just before he fell on his knees from my poison damage, so when I respawned he was no longer aggroed and I couldn't get the rewards early.

Now I gotta go grind more deathweed. Ugh.

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He attacked me for no reason. So I killed him.

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I was honestly struggling rolling through his close attacks, because they are fast and erratic. What worked for me was using a shield to guard his fast/close attacks and then rolling on his slow/ranged attacks and then attacking. If your stamina gets low get away from him to recover.

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I was honestly struggling rolling through his close attacks, because they are fast and erratic.
What worked for me was using a shield to guard his fast/close attacks and then rolling on his slow/ranged attacks and then attacking. If your stamina get away from him to recover.

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I accidentally sold two of the first deathroots is there anything I should do

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If you feed him more than 5 roots in a row, you have to rest once at the site of grace. He will then attack you and you will ripost gently (or not). While he is not anymore in aggressive state, speaking to him will gant you the other stuff.

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My friend just found him outside after the festival ended.
So he does move!

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If you rot him when he agros and wait outside it only takes one cast and very little time

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i love that he has the same amount of hp as maliketh despite being acessible in early game

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Accidentally killed him lol

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I gave him Deathroot x3 for the first time, what lore dialogue did I miss?

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I tried feeding him 6 deathroot at once and it only gave me one reward and talking to him again gave no results

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Have any of u ever had to meet him outside of his building.. It was night time, I came back to give last root. When I spawned in I heard loud roaring coming from my right.. never heard it befor. Then I see guranq isn't in his normal spot so igo outside and to the north and hes standing there roaring into the sky.. I can interact with him to give last root and he says and does everything as normal with one last roar to the sky befor he turns to ash and gives smithing stone. Not sure what cuased this. But my events went like this.. I gave him one at beginning of run.. then gathered up 7 more and gave them to him.. had to go in and respawn a couple time to go through the fight and all the talking .. go get the ninth and come back he's outside like I described.. so anyone know how this is triggered.?? Thanks

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The beast clergyman would only leave his sanctum to bathe under the sadness of precipitation. Keep seeking a rainy night for his departure.
Remind him of his duty as he roar, departing to the crumbling lands in solitude and gnawing hunger, under the rain.

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I realized I was one deathroot short and rather than go back for it...I gave him death. Got the Somber Smithing Stone and all was good. (I already had all of his spells).

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I want to hug him

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The black blade kindred only attacked first after I handed over 3 deathroot, any lore reason for this?

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Gurranq reminds me of a Wendigo, at least in one of the many interpretations of them. Giant beasts that are cursed with an insatiable hunger, than only grows more severe the more they eat.

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Gurranq occasionally moves to the right side of his sanctum outside if the blade blade kindred is dead but only on rainy nights

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Since I'm a wimp, another way I've found to cheese him, granted you've already taken out the gargoyle and can't bait him into hitting Gurranq, is immediately run outside once he's hostile, whip out a bow and bop him a few times with some poison arrows to proc poison on him until he's non-hostile without taking any hits

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if you kill him here can you just skip the maliketh fight?

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Most of his attacks weren't too bad to dodge, but when he does the rock sling move, it kicks up so much dust that I straight up can't see my character anymore and had to hail mary dodge. It's more manageable when you fight him as a boss, but his actual room is too damn small to fight in. What's weird is, after he killed me with said rock sling attack he "calmed down" and I was able to continue to give him deathroot even though I didn't even get him to half HP.

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I just calmed him in one hit with a frost weapon, looks like the cat doesn't like cold...

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If your having trouble making gurranq calm down then go outside and bait the black blade kindred into using it’s far ranged attack, it will knock gurranq into calming down immidiatley then rest at the grace

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So, he jumpscare the living **** outta me, then hes impossible to kill cuz he kills u in 2 hits and atks faster than its possible to dodge... take distance to heal? nah he got range and will destroy you if you try that... go all in and try to smack his ass? nah hes smacking faster and harder then you ever will.
Tip: Die (you will) > leave the place > never go back.
This is simply bad design for a fight and it 100% ruins the game.

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"you will have to bring his HP down until he stops attacking, then you can speak with him," He's almost dead and still hostile.

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I got 4 deathroots before I discovered him. I gave him those. Then I went on my way 'til I got the 5th one. I gave him that and he only attacked me after I rested on the grace inside the Sanctum. Fcking scared the **** out of me.

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I gave him the 4th deathroot to aggro him and we fought, but after he calmed down (suspiciously fast, judging by the comments) he grunted and didn't say anything.
I wonder if I skipped his dialogue by hitting him before he was able to talk?

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I do not get startled easily, but when this guy aggroed on me after I teleported to the sanctum thinking I was just delivering another deathroot, I almost had a ****ing heart attack!!

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Absolutely ****ing absurd you're expected to beat him into submission at the point of the game you're able to find four deathroots.

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