Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast | Elden Ring Wiki

Beat him at level 75 with 40dex 40vig lightning flamberge in 3 attempts.

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Make sure to stay close to him otherwise its easy to whiff attacks and move to his side to punish him.
When he charges you, run to the side then go to the opposite side when he charges again, repeat and he'll always miss by a big margin.
Dodge super early on the jump-roll.
Fight him near the center of the arena so you don't get knocked off.
When he does his phase 2 charge with the beam attack, run up the side of the crater and the beam will shoot into the floor.
!Use elemental damage!, I was running keen + bloodflame blade (he has no blood) before and died often, but lightning slash made quick work of him.
For me, don't use horsey. Being staggered on horse hurts bad. Doesn't mesh well with being super close to him for landing hits.

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I'll get back to you when I'm level 200

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Full Sorcery build strat:
Used Meteorite to bring it to stagger and then moved in with Carian slicer. I also had Wing of Astel and used Nebula to help bring it down a few times but I'm really bad at juggling weapons so it was mostly just the other two spells.

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I used Dragon Halberd + Horse for entire fight. Only used the Halberd's elemental when the boss was 1/4 health left. It requires some good timing and patience, but the main strategy is to sprint into the sides of the boss when safe to do so and do 1-2 hits before retreating.

Be careful of the rock throwing attacks. Pay close attention to the animation for these and get out of the line of sight if you see it happening. If the boss is doing the rock throw attack that uses his head and you are close to him, this is a good time to get some attacks in.

The purple lightning attack that targets you is also a good opportunity to get attacks in. Circle around the boss and continue hitting him, retreating when the large final lightning starts. There will be 3 lightnings in total for first phase, and 3-5 lightnings during the 2nd phase.

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Garbage fight, just get 12 faith and cheese him with poison mist spell. Use the horse jump thing and sneak behind him by staying close to the ledge. Whatever you do though, don’t spam the poison once behind him. Cast it once, if he’s not poisoned by the time the cloud goes away then cast a second time. Spamming is how you waste magic and run out.

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Worst boss fight in the game

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I like the part where homes in on me while on horseback no matter what and two-shots me after getting staggered of my horse. Such a great boss.

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This fight is amazing, so many cool attacks, aggressive af, cool looking, the fight has such a nice learning curve and it's probably my favorite beast boss.

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Really good fight IMO. Has a nice rhythm to it

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A charged attack can knock him out of his charge, kinda hard to do it without trading though.

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Finally got him with great club +18 and mimic tear with same.

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Please let me summon Spirit ashes then you can attack me :P

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Hilariously under-XP'd for the difficulty. Entire body turns into a hitbox during some attacks and yet some weapons just plain miss it even at point blank range. Full grown one spams AOEs that make it difficult to get in close enough to attack. Not worth fighting unless you really want the loot.

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just give it a lil poke w a thrusting weapon that has good distance on it as it charges you & you will knock him every time

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this broken loser has a nearly unavoidable one hit KO attack that isn't listed anywhere

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It says you can stop his charge by hitting him in the face with a throwing pot or any attack that deals stance damage and this is just not true. I hit him with Sacred Blade, did nothing. Next attempt I used a throwing pot, did nothing. Was this changed with a patch or did somebody do a little trolling?

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Killed this Beast with Shamshir and feel great. Well, Coil Shield did the trick.

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Got him after 4 or 5 tries. Actually not as hard as I initially thought, he leaves a lot of openings to attack. Somehow I found him easier than the juvenile one in Sellia, I guess it helps to actually have space to fight him in.

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Hardest version of this guy. Drops worse loot than the one in Selia Crystal Tunnel.

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Booooooooring

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Went here on blind playtrough saw the ladder and spring that made me ask why would I ever use the ladder and hopped up just to be greeted by this thing charged right where I land. Knocked my ass of Torrent and proceeded to spam magic attacks.

At first I panicked then after gaining some distance it became mage battle, found out if I just rock sling it’s face it’s super easy critical rinse and repeat.

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EXTREMELY weak to Black Flame, my RL1 character with the minimum 20 faith (+1 royal helmet, +1 commoners, +3 marika seal and +5 faith talisman) was doing 600-700 per Black Flame with a +0 talisman.

Quick Cast it, charging it doesn't increase the %health damage

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Though it resit strike damage I still bonk it to death.

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Just fought him. Harder than I expected. The boss is very tanky and has a lot of annoying attacks that can force damage on you. A pro tip is that after his phase 2 charges twice, run towards him as he charges up the energy orb as his attacks would pass over you while you get to poke at his face for free until the attack ends. I did the bulk of my phase 2 damage after noticing this vulnerability after 8 or so attempts. Without it I would certainly have taken dozens more.

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Worst part is the incline of the boss area making your weapon hitboxes so finicky. At that point it stops becoming a fun challenge and just feels unfair.

I've noticed that you can hit a jumping heavy attack on his head during his charge that will knock him out of it, but it's very risky. The better openings are using torrent, jumping to hit his eye when he's casting his ranged spells.

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super hard for melee. easy for casters. not the best boss balancing.

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one of the worst bosses in the game. Very few openings. Undodgable attacks. Somehow always strafes physical attacks. Uneven arena that leads to crits that can't be done due to terrain. Very very poor boss design.

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Beat this easily 1st try with a faith build, lightning spear and Torrent.
Probably my favorite entrance and location of a boss fight thus far.
A crater on top of a mountain next to a lava castle, c'mon. So Epic.

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undodgable attacks, 1 charge up animation for atleast 5 attack

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Greatblade Phalanx knocks him down when he charges you. I dodge right he falls down and I blast him with the comet stance using Sword of Night and Flame. Guess you can hit him with anything because you get a free hit.

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Placement makes this boss extra cancer: inclined terrain makes half of your attacks to the head not register. About fight itself, I've noticed that gravity magic (Gravity Well especially since it is faster to cast) stuns it out of running charge attack. You can even do critical afterwards, though timing is shorter than for legit posture break. Interrupting is less useful in second phase of the fight, since it will do its kamehameha beam after charging 2 times, which is a big opening for counterattack (run towards its right)

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prophet + dark flames + a car = cheese burger'd this boss

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This ****er is better at dodging than 90% of the enemies in this game. Half of my hits just WHIFFED.

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Boss leaps around everywhere so you spend like 90% of the fight just chasing it. A bunch of its attacks drop my frame rate to like 5 fps. If that wasnt bad enough its one of those "just dodge" bosses where you just have to wait for your window to get 1 hit in every 20 seconds. One of the worst bosses in the game.

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Best way I found:
Torrent + Lightning Spear + Lightning Scorpion Charm
Use Mimic Tear to take aggro and just keep hitting it with Lightning Spear. Got it down to more than half HP before I lost Mimic Tear.
If it gets too close just ride away and keep going if it follows. Turn around, get to within Lightning Spear distance, throw and ride away. Repeat until its done.

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Best way I found:
Torrent + Lightning Spear + Lightning Scorpion Charm
Use Mimic Tear to take aggro and just keep hitting it with Lightning Spear. Got it down to more than half HP before I lost Mimic Tear.
If it gets too close just ride away and keep going if it follows. Turn around, get to within Lightning Spear distance, throw and ride away. Repeat until its done.

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Tip for melee users, stick to the ****er’s left side like glue. If you have a 100% phys absorb shield and can afford to mid roll, even better. Use the shield to learn how laggy 80% of its moves are, and once you learn them you can roll into it and sneak a heavy jump attack or charge attack. Did this with a morning star of all things and managed to poise break it four times. If you manage to dodge the grab, enjoy the two free charge or jump attacks. When it does the jumping divebomb attack, roll backwards. Apparently Fromsoft had the braincells to not code a lingering hitbox once it lands so you can get another two free jump/charge attacks. When it does it kaioken-looking-ass laser attack run TOWARDS it and to its right. You can do some light attacks or even a jump attack as you move around it.

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In co-op if you’re a ranged build and have a melee summon fgafb will do the stomp gravity stone attack while facing you but the gravity attacks will actually blow up on your summon. Hilarious to watch him getting blown up thinking he’s safe to charge in only to find himself getting exploded on while it’s not even facing him

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You know it’s a horrid design when all the “this is how i cheesed him” comments are getting massively good ratios and all the fromsimps are farming reds. I don’t plan on cheesing this boss. He’ll die to melee like he deserves. Long, grueling death for this pile of bull.

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I can see why this is an optional boss. A boss that four-shots even the highest vigor characters? A boss that resists ALL forms of physical damage? A boss with incredibly large AoE hitboxes that can stun and knock you off your mount constantly?

And then it's loot is for a melee caster? What are we doing here?

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I will tell you how I took him out. Pure STR build, using Executioner's Greataxe, I used my physick and used golden vow, got on torrent, and jumped into the arena. I used poison grease on weapon, and didn't get off torrent, unless I was thrown off it. It takes way too long to put the poison in, but eventually you will get it. After that, start applying elemental grease on your weapon, I used lightning. Killed him the first try I could apply the damn poison. Fighting this guy is deadly dismounted, there are many attacks that you need to learn perfectly, he 4-shots you even with 40 vigor.

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Wing of Astel's nebula decimates this boss, just like it's daddy, which is hilarious to think about because Astel is countered by....his wing

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This boss teaches some good lessons. Like some attacks you have to run rather than roll (spikes from below), and some attacks don't actually track after they start so you can snap turn and he'll run right by you (charging with pincers open)

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this has to be the hardest non-rememberance boss in the entire game,and for all the wrong reasons

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As bad as it gets. Worse than Bed of Chaos, worse than the twin king's pets, worse than ANY boss you could possibly think of.

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They removed this from Sellia Crystal Tunnel and replaced it with the much easier not full-grown one. So lame. Hate how FromSoft always makes their games into far inferior, far easier versions after the first month from release. Who is that for? Your fanbase loves the challenge, and you patch it out one by one, every time.

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A fee tips for melee-only builds:

- The grab attack always comes from your left (the beast will chatter and wind back first), dodging through it is difficult, it’s easier to dodge towards the beast’s back legs (and it has a long recovery, making it a perfect window for some hits).

- Guarding with a 100% physical absorption shield makes things much easier, but keep an eye on your stamina. Don’t worry too much about blood loss - it only builds up from hits from the tail, which usually won’t occur frequently enough to fill the meter.

- Elemental greases are very useful, but opportunities to safely apply them are rare - it is better to avoid a hit and try again later.

- Slash weapons are basically soggy noodles to this guy, so leave the Bloodhound Fang at home

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And this Tarnished came upon the mount and said doot doot doot with my Envoy's Long Horn. And the full grown fallingstar beast said "doot doot? have my loot!"

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another one of those great fights, youre supposed to fight on horseback. and how dare you fight it any other way.

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Try Meteoric Ore Blade and Rot Breath if you can get it, I'm an Arc build but I reached Meteoric requirements with intelligence and Strength tears along with a Glintstone Crown, you can usually get a rot breath in when the fight starts cause he'll begin his charge but sometimes will continue it while hitting the edge of the cliff, use your Physick and use Metoric Blade heavies to punish his attacks, for rot breath I reccomend doing it when he does earth attacks cause they usually leave him vulnerable long enough to get a full spray on him, once he's taking DoT from rot just survive, at that point he should die from the ticks.

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AoEs not big enough, a few corners of the known universe unaffected :(

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One of my favorite bosses

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imagine climbing a ladder for 10 minutes only to reach the top and get gored by a rhino beetle

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Unfun boss and exactly why reach means everything in souls

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Didn't drop the smithing stones...

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bull in the china shop type enemy

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proc rotten breath twice = win

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not fun

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Flaming Strike is crucial for this fight. Staggering the best with it is much easier than with pots, and it opens reliable window to attack.

Non-staggered beast is too fast, moves back and is crazy difficult to reach with non-collosal weapon.

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When you turn the entire boss into a hitbox it stops being a boss fight and just becomes a walking environmental hazard which is fun for nobody.
Also you should be able to launch this guy off the edge. It's a bull boss in a cliff stage, it practically writes itself.

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This boss isn't bad, but the difficulty dramatically increases when using anything that has a long windup animation or poor end lag. Starscourge Greatswords at +7 did not obliterate this thing like I thought they would, even with the +30% Gravity advantage. I would get caught by pretty much every follow-up and had very few openings due to how slow I attacked. Overall would not recommend colossals for this fight, probably best to use Meteoric Ore Blade if you want that extra damage still.

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Was able to beat this thing using a +6 dragon halberd and a +3 mimic tear summon (the mimic never got through the first phase). It’s defenses are so absurd that you need to use something with elemental damage. It’s attacks are slow, pretty easy to read, and can be negated with a 100 dmg resist shield. Heavily recommend the shield as this thing’s attacks can cover large areas and be difficult to dodge. The hemorrhage attacks don’t buildup a lot so you won’t get blood loss unless you’re just looking to get hit. Dodge the small attacks and gravity magic, block the larger attacks, rush to the left when it’s charging the laser, watch your stamina, and stay calm. Do that lengthy dance with this thing and you’ll find it’s really not that bad.

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Summon horse, only attack when he does his purple chain ground magic, hit twice, kite. gravy

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I tried using rotten breath on this boss and it actually worked quite well lol

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fun, high energy, aggressive fight. don't listen to the comments about how it's poorly designed for melee, it's best fought with high dps low recovery weapon like the shamshir with an elemental infusion and a self buff AOW like lightning slash or flaming strike. big weapons work fine as well but you'll definitely need to be a bit more patient.

p.s. flaming strike, despite being slightly nerfed, has a million active frames so staggering it when it charges at you can be made relatively easy with it.

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Guys I might be wrong but I feel like the fallingstar beasts and the naturalborns are the same species. If you look up the life cycle of an antlion you'll see how the larvae are sort of plump and rely on their huge mandibles to hunt (they create trap pits wich look a lot like craters to me) and the adults (known as antlion lacewings) become very thin, long, agile and with 2 pair of long wings.
Is there some continuity in the designs of these bosses to justify this claim? Well yes there is: both bosses have in common a rather large blue eye, a heavily spiked tail and huge mandibles and rock-ish skin.
Why would the naturalborns have a face then? I think it all comes down to a Lovecraftian reading of the cosmic creatures created by From, in this case horror would come with the discovery that what we recognise as a human face is just a pattern that creatures beyond space and time have alredy developped, leaving us stripped of what we would normally pridefully and rightfully recognise as "us humans, a remarkably unique species".
This may be a pretentious reading, or a totally banal one idk, if someone already has talked about this I'm sorry for I haven't watched any lore video yet, as I haven't finished the game yet :>
Also sorry for the bad English, it's not my first language, let me know what you think :>

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As a spaniard, this is one of my favorite (bull)fights in the game if not the most. Pure melee!

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I'm level 74 with a +20 uchigatana, and a +6 brass shield with barricade shield, I got him to about a quarter health, and he went into his second phase, which I didn't know existed, and shot me with a comet azur like beem that insta - killed me, and sent me halfway across the arena

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Genius desctiption of how to get there. Might as well write "Once you get to the crater, he is in the center."

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My dex and bleed build had a hard time beating this boss, because he’s immune to hemorrhage, he beat me up quite a bit, but he was a fun challange!

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Easy fight.
1. Climb ladder
2. Summon Rotten Stray
3. Climb down a few rungs to avoid his big AoE
4. Wait for him to die of rot.

Nothing better than watching your loyal pup chase cattle!

Unga Bunga smash, mage Abracadabra, and Faith praying to God(wyn) ain't the only ways to crush a boss. Use all the tools & terrain :)

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Comments on this page really illustrate why gatekeeping is a good thing.

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H I T B O X E S

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If you hit it with a projectile straight in the eye during its Charge move it'll play the stance break noise and it'll stagger, interrupting the entire attack and stunning the alien bastard for a few seconds. No crit tho. Tested with Lightning Spear.

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''Weakness: None''

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Annoying ass boss but the beast jaw makes the elden beast a joke so worth it

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>pushes you off the cliff

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Whittle its health down, then once it goes for the laser, run up to it and use Dragonfire.

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>more health than some Demigods
>one-shot potential
>AoE that covers 3/4th of the area
>crazy combos paired with high mobility
>resistant to literally every damage type in the game

There was not a single character or build that I have tried where I enjoyed fighting this boss. Eventually on new characters or NG+ I just use the poison cheese method. I'd rather stand behind the boss for 10 minutes using Poison Mist than fight this boss the normal way. One year later, and duo bosses not included I genuinely think this is one of the poorest boss designs.

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I had such a hard time at first and this Boss seemed ****ing difficult. However, after 20 tries, horse or whatnot, I just calmed myself down, went back to the basic of good timing and dodging and boom, beat it very easily.

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All you guys complaining about difficulty need to take a step back and remember that the game is SUPPOSED to be frustratingly difficult. There are some truly badass players out there who will find any amount of difficulty easily surmounted but for the average person the game is supposed to catch you off guard and constantly test your mettle. That's part of what makes the souls games and elden ring and sekiro so great. Stop whining because the boss kicked your ass 97x. Do you enjoy playing games where you coast through and anhialate the enemies? If so then this isn't for you. Especially since Elden Ring is the most accommodating of the group.

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"Ninth Mt. Gelmir Campsite Site of Grace" wtf?

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Ninth Mt. Gelmir Campsite Site of Grace what the hell is that

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The best way to make this boss half as frustrating to fight is to turn off the music because of how insufferable it is.

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Might be one of the few people that liked this fight as melee. Its a hard fight to get the hang of but once you do it becomes a very fun fight.

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Lance talisman + Nightrider flail charge hit on horseback will help vastly in this fight

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Quite possibly the most irritating boss to fight in the entire game. I'm all for difficulty, but not poor design.

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I found fighting him on horseback with a greatsword much easier to get in and out of his combos than fighting on foot. Still interesting, engaging fight and by no means a cheese, I just found it much easier and almost like we're supposed to be trying horseback for this fight.

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Didn't understand why everyone hated this boss because I had always fought it over leveled. Recently did a run where I planned on using the Jaw, and now I get why people hate this thing. It takes so much damage for this thing to die if you're using melee, and it feels like there's no effective way to go about fighting it. I thought horseback was good, but you basically leave getting hit up to random chance because Torrent has the maneuverability of a semi when he feels like it. This thing is absurdly tanky for how early you can fight it, and everything in its moveset feels like its telling melee users to stop using melee.

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It turns out it does not fire the Gravity Ray only clockwise. It swept clockwise, then after I dodged the beam it turned back and just focused right on me.

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My hot take as a melee player is:

Bed of Chaos had a better Game Design

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As a traditional melee player, this is probably the only boss ever i beat with staff, glintstone peble and a shield

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this boss is good, for me to poop on


seriously who gave this boss the go ahead, one of the worst bosses in elden ring

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Boss was a little annoying but a poison antspur rapier with poison moth flight will destroy this thing. Scarlet rot plus poison, and poison being used like bleed. If you don't wanna DoT/status proc it and only go bonks, bonk its face as it staggers easy with heavy weapons. And range cheese always works too. Good luck.

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This thing has almost twice as much health as Goldfrey, and way higher physical resistances, but most players will run into this thing before getting balls deep into Leyndell. Really odd design choice.

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I don't remember King Bob-omb being this difficult

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For melee users: use Storm Blade and hit him with wind blast to the face when he does triple charge attack. One blow to the eye will stun him temporarily. Other than that good luck tho, lol.

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Poison mist goes brrrr

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“He don’t bite”

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21K runes is the final kick in the pants you get after defeating this challenging optional boss. This is insulting.

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