Magma Wyrm | Elden Ring Wiki

This boss is actually really easy and fun, I beat makar at like level 25, they take hella stance! Takes a few charged heavies but you can attack often

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Curses! Foiled again by weird camera angles and lock on spaz!

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For my RL1 homies:

If you're following Alexander's storyline, you'll have this bastard out on the Fort Laeidd lake. Rotted Breath works great on it, along with Poison Mist, whilst it is *distracted* first and foremost by Putrid Corpse Ashes. Use Black Flame to whittle down his health 2% per second. Kite him around his arena using Torrent. Keep your distance, and you'll have an easy win and a solid amount of Runes.

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Stone of Gurranq melts Magma Wyrms.

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Once had the one in the volcano do that run attack for an hour, straight out of its own aggro range (it vanished as soon as it started doing "normal" attack). What a goddamn meme of a field boss. I don't know, I don't think it would be asking much to let us stagger it out of those attacks with, say, a fully charged heavy to its head while it's charging (not like it would be easy to do so). Maybe let Greatbows & Hand Ballista/Jar Cannon shots to the head do so as well. Not like they have much utility anyways. Just SOMETHING to make that attack more interactive. Not looking for "easy/dumbed down", just "more interactive".

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Their “Rolling Swing” attack is so adorable to me. Just a big guy doing a lil spin.

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I was willing to let the one at Mt Gelmir live. I was willing to leave him alone. But he was guarding Alexander, and we had a date. So this guy hands me my own butt for lunch four times in a row, and I punk out and use rot arrows. I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT MAN, BUT YOU JUST COULDN'T LEAVE IT ALONE

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He's extremely telegraphed, so you'll likely be able dodge all of his attacks after seeing them once. Unfortunately, his crotch takes up the entire screen once he stands, making you unable to see ****.

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I wanna have this things babies.

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When he charges, just back up until it stopped, and then run past him in the left side of its body, and keep distance off him

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I found that using bloody slash AoW on it's head does alot of damage even without the bleed and when it does the bullshit triple charge stay near its bottom left leg, I found that the wyrm will get stuck on a wall and not turn around when you do this

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bruh black flame's dot deals more dmg than my lightning bolt even tho he's fire immune

BRUH

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"Your magma vomiting days are over. Give me the Yamato."

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Smegma Wyrm

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Who would win in a fight inside MT Gelmir: A Fire Giant who protects the only source which can burn the Erdtree, or a Guy who ate too many dragon hearts

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Kind of amazing how terrible these guides and comments are. Doesn't once mention Dragonwound Grease

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Using halberds and you either chain critical it or it spams the charge attack and never stop moving. One of the elden ring bosses of all time for sure

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My dumbass brain thought that the game glitched out because I do no damage in my Catch Flame only run. The Wyrm is 100% fire-proof. Duh xD

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Oops, I think my tarnished is doomed to become a wyrm…

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Spirit Jelly ashes turned out to be a surprisingly effective summon. Seems she can float over the magma breath without taking damage.

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WYRM

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The unlucky akainu

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Hella BS their entire body turns into a hit box during that stupid charging attack that they can spam back-to-back several times in a row... the one in the Gael Tunnel chained together four charges in a row on me once which in that tiny arena was pure hell.

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this is one of my favorite bosses, or atleast it’s 1st phase is, whenever it does it’s charge attack it can chain it up to three times, try staying near its head and when you see the charge attack run to the left or right and then it will do a u turn towards you and if performed correctly you can get a free charged heavy on its head between charges

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Imagine a jumbo plush magma wyrm with built-in heating, or a pocket to stick hand warmers in for the same effect...

Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!

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Tried killing this overgrown lizard before killing godrick the grafted (lvl 35~40,+0 single katana,bandit armor,dk how underleveled that is),got my **** kicked in,but also got the blue stick.
Dont use ashes,just stand under it and hit it in the head. Its quite slow so you have a lot of time to hit it and stack bleed,unseathe is also quite useful for stance break.You can hit wings or tail if it decided its dashing time.Avoid slam at all cost.Otherwise its just dashing and some patience.

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Mag ma

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There is the 5th one called Great Wyrm Theodorix. You can find it following the river on Mountaintop of the giants, to east from Inner Consecrated Snowfield site of grace
Didn't count its hp, hate them all, and using mimic after 2 first meetings, but this one drops 180k runes

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Slapped a poison mist ash of war on my weapon and boy it sure helps, plenty of time to see the poison tick as it goes to take his triple charge again and again

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Ahah, the funny lizard did his magma charging attack three times in a row. Totally GOTY behavior if the coding police asks.

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Im so tired of getting summoned to these. They get more health, since its coop mode, but i still have to solo them because the hosts keep spamming fire incantations.
Like cmon, the madness laser didnt do any damage the first time, why should it the 20th?

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Why did you have to give me a $hit arena to fight him?

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just more evidence the camera is the true final boss of all souls games

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Game of the Year! The best game designers of the moment! Takes true geniuses to create this kind of boss (see also Death Rite Bird, Dragonkin Soldier, Putrid Avatars). Kudos!

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This boss has attacks besides charging? News to me.

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Just done the fort laiedd magma wyrm. Blasphemous at 10 n was struggling (natch), so tried the bloodhound fang at 5 and done on first go. The bear just after was still a nightmare tho

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Why is he weak to sleep? Why is he so eepy?

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Overall a cool boss fight, but the max amount of times that the charge should be done is two. I've seen them do these attacks up to five times in a row, which just artificially prolongs the fight and becomes annoying. Had the charge attack not even been created, these fights would probably be one of the more fun and fair fights in the game.

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Kindve cute

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Sword of St. Trina + a Misericorde will get rid of these bozos nice and easy

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The boss itself is fine imo, except for the one in the Volcano Manor. you have to fight it along 3 very small platforms and it becomes extremely difficult to dodge its charge attack when you don't have enough room to actually run away and it becomes an absolute chore trying to kill it without a lot of vigor and armor to simply tank the damage.

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In no world should a boss be able to do an attack 5 ****ing times in a row, let alone it be some shitty charge attack with the worst hitbox known to man

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Would be a cool enemy all around, but that charge that makes his whole body a hitbox, what the ****? Sometimes it does that attack up to 5 times in a row. Holy cringe
I love the game but sometimes bosses have such bullshit moves and mechanics that score goes from 10 to a 7.

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Fun fight. Wish it had some trick moves

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The one by Fort Laiedd appears to heal from sitting in the lava, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere. I'm playing a caster build, and anytime I moved away to heal or drink a flask, if he was in the lava, his health would be just a little higher when I came back in for a few hits. After I got him to half health, there were times where he would turn to go back into the lava pool instead of chasing me until I hit him again. I know if you get too far away he warps back and his health appears to partially reset, but that's not what was happening. I stayed in range of his arena the whole time. Has anyone else noticed this? Or was it just human error on my part? I didn't think to actually sit there test it before I killed him.

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who the **** thought of putting this guy in a mining area

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oh wyrm?

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Rock throw go hard on this guy

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Honestly, I really do love the magma worm, and I also love the magma worm sword. Such a good enemy to fight normally that, but it’s actually a good challenge because then it prepares you for the fire damage you’ll be taking in the future hint hint, but overall, I really do love the game and I love how much of a challenge it actually is

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In what world are these things strong against frostbite?

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Such a dumb fight on Fort Laiedd. They make half the fighting space unavailable, and then put uneven rock formations and trees to get caught and stuck on against an enemy that locks you and/or Torrent if you just so happen to skim his lava pools or get caught next to him or under him if he slithers.

I'd rather just his whole move set be his second phase. Strikes, close fire plumes/lava pools and slams. This who "don't touch the lava" mechanic is just terrible and not fun. And they make you fight him THREE times.

Definitely the worst/least fun fight (Fort Laiedd) I've had in this game so far.

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Wish there was a way to counter their charge, such as by landing a perfectly-timed jump attack. As is, the charge turns a decent field boss into a non-interactive chore for what can feel like an eternity.

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Hot take but I'd love to see a Wyrm equivalence to the dragon covenant from Dark Souls in Elden Ring.
Like once the tarnished gets those yellow dragon eyes after consuming too much from the Dragon Communion, you get a special item that can morph you into a semi Wyrm form until death.

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The one in volcano manor can be super easily cheese with an envoys longhorn by dropping over the ledge next to it, just turn around and free aim cast it over the ledge, the bubbles come out over and his attacks can't reach you even though it thinks it's in range so it keeps trying

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Fun fight (usually), but I just had one of these guys use his magma charge attack 9 CONSECUTIVE TIMES IN A ROW! Fight might need a little tweaking

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Is it just me or are these things oddly cute? They almost look like giant Bearded Dragons.

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In Volcano manor you can use spirit ashes to lure and distract. You can run back to the elevator, go up and chase down it from above with rock sling or other range method without any harm. (It is good to previously get rid of the serpent that patrols that upper area.)

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"Magma Wyrm is incredibly susceptible to magic damage." - The absorption number (+40) indicates differently

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I like this boss design as it reminds me of Quelaag. Only complaint is that you have to sometimes wait half an hour for it to stop crawling around and being a hitbox.

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These guys suck. Making the entire arena impassable isn't a fun mechanic.

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I hope a future update adds a cooldown to their charge attack, because waiting there and taking damage while this thing charges 3 times in a row and covers the entire floor in lava is pretty bullshit

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If he resists 40% of magic damage, he isn't "incredibly susceptible to magic damage". There is a mistake on this wiki

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For magic users Rock sling is an excellent spell because it does physical damage instead of magic (he has 40 resistance to magic and only 10 to strike/standard), it also staggers him quite fast, allowing for a good critical with your trusty misericorde. Aiming the head seems to do much higher damage too.
And I'm stupid because it's already written in the wiki. Oh well. I just confirm this lol.

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If you are a mage trying to get moonveil, i recommend using glint-stone pebble ash of war against magma wyrm. Rogier sells it, and the lazuli glintstone sword have it as it's standard weapon art. Another option is using meteorite staff + rock sling (both found on caelid), but it takes more time to kill.

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Don't follow the strategy above on strategy for Mage. Unless you have 40+ Int and 6-8 blue flasks, glintstone phalanx is garbage damage. At 28-30 Int with the Metorite staff, Great Glintstone Shard takes him down quicker and with less flasks. The most effective strat I found was bait his "Tigrexesque" charge and roll to the side each time, when he stops you typically have 20-30 seconds where he does nothing, just go ham on his ass (literally where his bum hole would be) with carian slicer. He almost always then follows up with spin attack - if you have a shield just block this, rinse and repeat.

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At least one of these, the one by Fort Laidd, is completely immune to fire damage. Probably because it has to run around on the lava and not die. Pure fire damage spells/skills did nothing to it at all

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No way, they put Rathian in Elden Ring!?

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I only really hated this dude in the small arena in the tunnel. With more space, I found this boss to be more fun.

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The one in gael tunnel did his stupid unpunishable charge attack 9 times in a goddamn row. Their AI is absolute garbage.

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You can afk the one at Mt gelmir with Latenna by climbing a big rock with Torrent and spawning her at a sniping spot, or you could fight it with latenna as support instead.

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So cute!

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Same tactic as Starscourge Radahn. Rotten Breath with summons for aggro. Keep the rot on him and keep away from the magma charge.

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He collapsed into a ripostable position from the host and I was stuck between his arm and leg and died in lava lol

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Just managed to screw myself out of getting runes on this boss by having the boss die just a second or two after me. My summon killed it as I was fading away, and I got his loot but 0 runes. It was the volcano manor one too so it was a pain in the ass with all the added lava.

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Glintblade phalanx x100 and golden halberd when he's down

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I love these guys I always die to them multiple times but I think theyre cool and cute

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Midir but considerably less epic and with that DS2 jank. And a random blade.

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love this guy, he looks like my bearded dragon

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1. What is this thing doing with a random katana?
2. How did he get in there?

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Summoned the Jellyfish and beat him down with a completely stock mace to proc bleed. Kept him on me the whole fight, wasn't too bad.

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I love this boss, he's just a goofy lizard that stands up and gets all angry, he doesn't look too mean but a definitely meaner than the others wyrms.

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Hands down the worst desgined boss in all Elden Ring.

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I think there should be i-frames when you get hit by his fat ass and lava at the same time

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There is one more in a lava cave in Volcano Manor. This one is not a boss.

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The arena is way too ****ing small dear Marika

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I am ashamed to say. I try to play as a lightning throwing paladine. But simply throwing kukris was more effective against him. Noooo. Now I hate my build.

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Jellyfish ash spirit and Rotten breath make the one in Gael easy

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Is weak to pest threads.

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Fromsoft “put a big boss in a reasonably sized arena” challenge

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I dont like this person

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On journey 4 (ng+3) The magma wyrm south of fort laidd drops exactly 64125 runes

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"The Best Tips for Magma Wyrm:

Use the ?? Ash Summons
Use the ?? Spell
Bring ?? Item"

See, now this is the kind of in depth, high quality information I come to this wiki for. I never would have thought of this.

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The Gael tunnel one got destroyed by my level 36 sorcerer with meteorite staff and spamming rock sling (no summons). Massive poise damage and the boss got staggered like 3-4 times.

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If you're melee I think its best to try to stay under it and do r2 attacks to break its stance - I went into this fight unprepared with a +6 fire infused weapon and still won. Obviously, you'll want to run when it starts to spew magma. Also, use a spirit that is mobile so it doesn't get melted by the magma... I had the greatshield guys with me at the time and they went down pretty quick. Maybe Letenna could work too if you drop her right at the entrance?

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Slow & steady is the name of the game with this guy. He is very slow and very passive and cannot really follow up on a guard break; even hiding behind a not-upgraded kite shield I took no damage when I finally killed him. He likes to do his little charge move multiple times in a row.

Any of his breath/fireball attacks can just be strafed out of while holding your shield up and punished with a charged r2 or several r1s. Otherwise, just pop him with a quick r1 or 2 after every attack and chill. The safest thing to do is stay generally in front of him and bonk him on the snoot, his frontal attacks are very easily blocked.

He has one overhand attack that you actually have to dodge but he only uses it if you are trying to cast or flask while 15ish yards in front of him as far as I could tell.

He's VERY resistant to fire so don't even try. Bleed hits him hard but does not build up quickly at all, I think I only got 3 procs, but they sped the fight up dramatically.

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Magma Wyrm in the lava lake south of Laiedd gives you 57000 runes in ng+

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Slow & steady is the name of the game with this guy. He is very slow and very passive and cannot really follow up on a guard break; even hiding behind a not-upgraded kite shield I took no damage when I finally killed him. He likes to do his little charge move multiple times in a row.

Any of his breath/fireball attacks can just be strafed out of while holding your shield up and punished with a charged r2 or several r1s. Otherwise, just pop him with a quick r1 or 2 after every attack and chill. The safest thing to do is stay generally in front of him and bonk him on the snoot, his frontal attacks are very easily blocked.

He has one overhand attack that you actually have to dodge but he only uses it if you are trying to cast or flask while 15ish yards in front of him as far as I could tell.

He's VERY resistant to fire so don't even try. Bleed hits him hard but does not build up quickly at all, I think I only got 3 procs, but they sped the fight up dramatically.

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Rotten Breath very quickly runs this guy down, like many bosses. Semi-cheese strat but you still need to avoid dying. Use a weapon with frost to speed things up.

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I like the lore. fight is cool but kind of annoying, 6/10

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Looks tough and takes forever to kill it a low levels without bleed, yet its resistant to it. Circle strife at a healthy distance to avoid most of its attacks, and the sword can easily be blocked (don't worry about guard breaks, it can't follow up on them). Run to the sides (don't bother with rolling) and you should be safe from the magma dash.
Killed it first try at level 15 by wacking it with an uchi for 10 minutes straight. At low levels you likely lack the sorcery to damage it so might as well allot everything into hp flasks and focus on bleeding it.

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