Ulcerated Tree Spirit | Elden Ring Wiki

Yes, they're relatively easy - that does not mean they're fun to fight.

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i honestly like these quite a lot. should there be so many of them No. but out of the repeated bosses this is the most fun one imo

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I found a way to cheese the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in Stormveil Castle. It does take some time though (at least it did for me since my gear isn't that great yet). Jump down to get the UTS to spawn and run through the area to find the MGS3:SE (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) ladder (some of you may know what I am referring to here lol), and climb all the way up to get out of there. This puts you back at the GS (Grafted Scion) hall. Go through that hall to the courtyard and run past all the enemies and head to the Liftside Chamber Grace Site.

DO NOT ACTIVATE IT! Go through the door to the previous area down in the basement to get back to the UTS and stay up on the upper platform, and even better get up on the stone arch above that. Just take it out with any Range/Magic and Pots when it comes close. It will never hit you and you can kill it easily.

Also, they lied about how you can have Multiplayer help or be able to use Spirit Ashes for this Boss. Just like many things I have found to not be true at all in this guide as I am using it to figure out where to go. I hope this helps you all out.

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I can literally never tell whether any one of their movements are part of just moving or an attack pattern. In any case, at least these things are weak to Bleed, so I just burst them down with Bleed proc setups.

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After a while you get used to fighting them, then you start to enjoy them. Except the one in the haligtree, **** that one

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Really easy to beat. Killed multiple at lvl 24 all the way up to Leyndell.

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My least favorite fromsoftware enemy, just because it feels like it belongs in a different game. You can make big enemies fit, this guy does not. Like Almudron in Monster Hunter, he's just too damn big for his movements. Go back to the Dark Souls 3 design works!

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why make flashy attack animations when it clips over everything everytime and you cant even see it properly because of the sht camera

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the camera isnt bad on here at all. the attacks are so telegraphed that even if u cant see anything u can still dodge them

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These guys have the most telegraphed attacks in history. Camera isn't even an issue if you dont lock on. Easy as hell to stagger. Seems like people panic real easily because these have big, dramatic bursts of movement, but it doesn't change the fact they're attacks are super telegraphed.

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Why does it not list the one in the Lake of Rot?

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As of 2/18/2024, the following about the triple spirit fight in Leyndel, Ashen Capital is incorrect:

"These enemies do not have boss bars, but they will not respawn when killed." They indeed do not have boss health bars, but they do respawn, and in the same spots. The first one is always already roaming, of course.
"Closest Site of Grace: Forbidden Lands" This is true, unfortunately :D but it'd be worth adding that, worst of all, there is not even a stake of Marika anywhere and you cannot summon Torrent at all: you have to go through two elevators and two long segments all on foot to get there.
"Multiplayer is allowed for this boss" No, there is no summoning pool anywhere that I could find. You'd need the seamless coop mod.
"You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss" No, there is no rebirth monument anywhere near.

The good news is that there's almost no reason to fight them, they only give about 19k each, they hit reasonably hard and the Erdtree Favor +2 that they guard can just be grabbed by sneaking around the edge of the arena and grabbing it.

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They filtered billions, despite being really well designed imo. They have a bunch of safespots during attacks too

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At the Haligtree one all you have to do is trigger the creature, then jump down and run back up the branch where you entered the area. It's then possible to spam rotten breath (or any range attack) from a safe distance (the point where it braches to the right). Just remember to temporarily change your flask allocation for extra FP beforehand.

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im gonna take a break from this boss and go play some palworld

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I actually like those guys
They're funky and wobbly =)

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You cannot use spirit ashes for the Stormveil one.

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Someone at fromsoftware got really pissed that this boss didn't make it into DS3 so now they were hell-bent on making sure you see this fkin thing, multiple times

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I just want to know if this dudes are more hated than seluvis. I just limit myself to morally disliking both .

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My teen spirit be like

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I bloody hate this dawn thing, fought only two of them and both times they did the bite grab attack right as I killed them, both times I died so I gained zero runes/souls. I hope they fix this because it's unfair. (Note: we were on opposite sides of the area when I kill them so me being bad is not a excuse, the damn thing teleports.)

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I cheese the one in mount gelmir with *Lantenna the albi spirit ashe xD just stud near a fire where the boss goes back, then come s forward, then back and so on

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I cheese the one in mount gelmir with Loretta spirit ashe xD just stud near a fire where the boss goes back, then come s forward, then back and so on

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Friend ahead

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Highly recommended that you fight these with your camera unlocked. Helps a lot with the "camera eating" and makes it much easier to control your rolling angle.

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Can't see ****, captain

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Screw you all, actually a decent boss/enemy. I didn't mind them a lot even on my 1st playthrough

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Whichever sh!thead wrote "they will not respawn when killed" on the Ashen Capital ones, hope you burn nice and slow. And same to the lazy ass bunch who never bothered to update it too.

Those mtfk in Ashen Capital do respawn, and they still do when this chat was sent. Checked it personally on my own save literally seconds before writing all this.

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As a newbie to souls games I had a lot of trouble with these guys early on as they are rather intimidating and don’t give you any space, but I think that is part of the gist. They might even be something of a teaching tool since like with a lot of the bosses the best method is to roll into their attacks so you can be close enough to strike them. Granted, you need to learn the timing, but in this case it’s not super tight. On a vaguely philosophical note, I’ve also learned over my time playing Elden Ring that it is best to approach fights with some analytic calmness and to forget about your lost runes. It makes the game a lot more fun. If you’re still having problems then just set away your pride for a minute and watch a YouTube tutorial. We aren’t all gaming gods. We are but tarnished.

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Very chill guys

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Enemies that are "hard" simply because they block your camera and you cant tell what's going on is just straight up bad game design.

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no wonder this was originally an enemy removed from dark souls 3 what an awful camera-eating monstrosity

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Just exploring Stormveil with my wife watching me play and then we get to the bottom and then all of a sudden the ground rumbles one of these monstrosities pops out of the ground and both of us yell "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ****ING THING?!!"

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This enemy wouldn't seem so obnoxious if there weren't FIFTEEN of them (counting the putrid variant)! Like, why does there need to be that many? A handful, four or five, would be just perfect. But when you just keep running into more and more and more and more, one every couple hours or something... like, wtf. At a certain point, it just becomes really lame and annoying.

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What is the HP of the one in the Haligtree? It is not written.

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So, counting the Scarlet Rot version too (because it's basically the same thing)... There are almost fifteen of these things. Talk about overused.

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this has to be one of the most idiotic bosses i've seen, i can't see a damn thing in these arenas

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annoying to fight? check! seemingly random hitboxes? check! therefore should be a double or triple boss fight in the DLC? check!

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This page is missing the tree spirit in the Haligtree area. The one you have to defeat to progress Millicent’s questline.

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The first tree spirt I found was the one in Finger folk grave at rl 15-20.The thing exploding from the ground, the writhing mass of flesh and bark, the cadence of the fight It really sucked me in. Granted I was very under prepared for the fight, one attack was almost my full heath bar and I only had like 5 flasks, so 5 mistakes. Died dozens of times but I got close in a couple of cases. Came back when I was a maybe 10 more lvls and a bigger weapon and finally took down this beast. All the spirts afterwards were kind of a cake walk, taking maybe 1-3 tries (and I definitely carried whenever I was summed for these bosses). Probs because I spent so much time on that first one . So if your like me and run into them (or any repeated boss for that matter) the first one is always the hardest and will eventually click.

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Did a new playthrough and suddently these seemed harmless - strength / faith build with a shield and BB and they go down fairly easily regardless of all the thrashing about

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I really enjoy fighting these things tbh. I get to jump over their tail swipes, which is cool in my eyes, and their grab attack lets me do some dramatic finishes, which is absolutely baller.

And honestly? Most of their arenas are perfectly fine, even the ones you fight in the catacombs. The only one that really sucks is the one in Elphael on account of the *lore* arena.

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For the Haligtree one, just cheese it from the branches. Don't bother fighting it in the rot pool. This one is just horrible design.

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One word: disorienting.

Which direction is it facing? What obstacle is your camera going to get stuck behind? Is it idle or winding up for an attack? Which attack is it even winding up for? Are you dizzy yet? Nothing about these things is particularly difficult; its visual design is just disorienting. Every attack I eat from these things -- which is many -- I can pretty much chalk up to to not being able to tell what's happening.

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fighting this without a shield is horrible experience and not fun at all

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A lot of negativity out there about the one in Heligtree. As an arcane mostly melee build using an occult great stars.
I found that one easier then the rest.
To the left of the rot pond when facing how you enter off the root, there is a descent size area of land.
I found that his big movement attacks had him falling off into the pond breaking his rhythm. Giving me time to heal or regroup.
Using the brass shield I just focused on blocking more than dodging and got in hits when I could.
He falls off so much this fight was way less aggressive then he is in other areas.
When he knocked me into the rot pond I just ran back up. He usually tried to follow, falling into the pond too, and I had time to bolus if needed as he made his way around the cliff again.

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While normally I'll often suggest fighting bosses through trial and error and learning their move sets, the Ulcerated Tree Spirits are hard exclusion. I don't doubt the viability of the guides suggested above when trying to defeat this things. However, their movement and attack animations blend too much with other, and often become indecipherable to use as tells as to when they are open for damage.

My personal strategies for these Tree Spirits are to simply stack as many damage buffs as possible then melt them before they can deal any considerable damage. Since they are weak to Bleed and Frostbite, I heavily suggest using weapons with inherent Bleed buildup combined with a Cold-affinity Ash of War. Their vulnerability to Fire makes Rivers of Blood and Eleonora's Poleblade excellent choices, too.

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I dont think these stats are correct. It says they have 20 magic absorb, but in my testing, they have very high magic absorb. Rock sling does tons more damage to them compared to glintstone great shard for example.

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Fighting the one at the Haligtree is undoubtedly one of the worst experiences I've had with this game.

Nothing they do is particularly difficult to deal with in a vacuum, but it's everything around the boss that makes it god awful. Horrible camera system that both doesn't know where it wants to look and can't show the whole boss? Check. Tiny arena, cluttered with awkward objects and a miniature rot swamp? Check. Massive AOEs and hitboxes that are hard to maneuver around in the already limited arena? Check. Clipping every time the boss moves around with no visual clarity? Check.

Having these bosses put anywhere that's not on a large, flat plane is such a recipe for disaster, but thankfully they only did it about four times.

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You CANNOT summon spirit ashes for the Ulcerated Tree Spirit @ Stormveil Castle btw

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These guys are actually not that bad to fight, with the right method. Don’t bother locking on, just hug them as best you can and most of their attacks will just whiff or are easy to dodge even if you can’t see exactly which move they are doing. Only moves you will need to worry about are the AoE explosion and the leaping attack where it grabs you in its mouth. The latter is very telegraphed and easy to dodge, though it might take a few attempts to get the timing down. It’s also the only time I recommend locking onto them. I got my sh*t rocked many times by the first one of these I fought, but after I figured out you just need to stay right next to them then they became some of the easiest bosses in the game. Good luck out there Tarnished!

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This has all the traits of a dishonest shitfest of a boss fight with bad camera angles yet it's somehow an extremely fair fight regardless.

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Not really a difficult boss, but so ****ing terribly designed and massively overused. If there were just one or two you could call it a fluke, but they specifically chose to have 12 copies of this bastard (3 with rot), and locked flask charges behind it.

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Stormveil Castle Basement - for that one I couldnt use ashes to summon, so either its cause I ended Godrik before, or dunno.

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I love this fight man. What´s the boss doing way out of camera´s view? Its a mystery. Why didn´t him running into me hurt me that time but it did the next? It´s a mystery. Why does his breath attack go backwards sometimes? It´s a mystery. Why did he glitch onto higher terrain and then somehow glitch back through it and grab me? It´s a mystery!

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This page says the three in the Ashen Capitol don't respawn. They do. I ran all the way back there twice, the first time after I killed one. When I saw it roaming around, I thought it was the second one I found. But then when I went back the SECOND time, it turns out all three of them were still alive and that one was one I killed the first time. I get killed by an easy boss simply because it has the world's worst camera tracking with impossible to perceive attacks and damage that knocks away half my health. I had an easier time with the spirit in the Haligtree, and that one was terrible. This is just disappointing.

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not locking on helps with the camera issues

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I don't even care about the fight I just want to know the lore

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This is the absolute worst boss I have ever fought in any game I've ever played much less a dark souls game. Shitty camera, shitty arenas. just an abolute abortion of a boss. Whoever designed this thing should be ****ing ashamed and banned from boss design

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**** this boss. After going through the tough section with the iron chariot thing I wasn't expecting a boss to skull-**** me with two of the worst fromsoft boss tropes. Ridiculously large monster that you can rarely see fully and a tiny ****ing boss room, that unholy combination makes this boss an absolutely chaotic chore with a **** ton of flailing, unclear attacks and a shitty camera.

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I'm genuinely surprised to find out that these guys are so despised. They're one of my favorites tbh, up there with Dragonkin and Makar. The big beasty bosses are so satisfying to defeat. Learn when to roll, give em a wallop! Humanoids on the other hand... They get the benefit of precise tracking AI and will funk you nine ways to Sunday.

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Idk whats going on, I am by no means good at this game. I cannot beat most of the main bosses without spirits or summons, but I have never died to these guys, even the 3 protecting erdtree favor +2. (helps that they can damage each other)

Using a melee tanky-bloodloss build (dual bloodhounds fang, or dual gargoyles twinblade), if you stay super close to THEIR back righthand side, and spam jump attacks they almost never hit you, even without dodging.

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These are actually really enjoyable to fight but I guess I am one of the 10 people who actully like them, lol.

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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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