Red Wolf of Radagon |
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| Location | Raya Lucaria Academy |
| Drops | 14,000 |
| HP | 2,204 |
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Hemorrhage
SlashRed Wolf of Radagon is a Great Enemy Boss in Elden Ring. This giant red wolf wields sorceries and guards the found in the Grand Library of Raya Lucaria Academy. This is an optional boss as players don't need to defeat it to advance in Elden Ring, though they do need to defeat it to advance further in Raya Lucaria Academy and to achieve a certain ending.
Lesser Red Wolf of Radagon is the normal enemy form of this boss. Red Wolf of the Champion is another variant of this boss.
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Boss
- This is an optional boss, but is required to reach Rennala Queen of the Full Moon and thus being able to respec.
- Closest Site of Grace: Schoolhouse Classroom
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss
- NPC Summons: Sorceress Sellen can be summoned for this boss fight after completing most of her questline.
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Location
Head out the door south of the Schoolhouse Classroom Site of Grace and along the corridor past several Glintstone Sorcerers. Once you get into the next room, turn west and head up both flights of stairs, then head east down the hallway to the fog gate leading to Red Wolf of Radagon. [Map Link]
Red Wolf of Radagon Combat information
- Health: 2,204 HP
- Defense: 107
- Stance: 120
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken
- Position for riposte is on the side where there is no flashing light indicating broken Stance.
- Damage:
Standard, 
Magic - Drops
14,000, Memory Stone
Negations (or Absorptions)
Strike
Pierce
Fire
Lightning
HolyThe negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances
Poison: 324 / 422 / 712 / 1169
Scarlet Rot: 324 / 422 / 712 / 1169
Hemorrhage: 530 / 820 / 1277
Frostbite: 530 / 820 / 1277
The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.
NG+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 2,204 | 4,066 | 4,472 | 4,675 | 4,879 | 5,285 | 5,489 | 5,692 |
| Defense | 107 | 117 | 120 | 123 | 129 | 135 | 141 | 153 |
| Runes |
14,000 | 56,000 | 61,600 | 63,000 | 67,200 | 68,600 | 70,000 | 71,400 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
| Scarlet Rot |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
| Hemorrhage |
530 / 820 / 1277 | 575 / 865 / 1322 | 583 / 873 / 1330 | 592 / 882 / 1339 | 600 / 890 / 1347 | 609 / 899 / 1356 | 618 / 908 / 1365 | 626 / 916 / 1373 |
| Frostbite |
530 / 820 / 1277 | 575 / 865 / 1322 | 583 / 873 / 1330 | 592 / 882 / 1339 | 600 / 890 / 1347 | 609 / 899 / 1356 | 618 / 908 / 1365 | 626 / 916 / 1373 |
 Sleep |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
 Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Boss Guide
Red Wolf of Radagon Boss Video Guide
Red Wolf of Radagon Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Red Wolf of Radagon:
- Use a spirit ash with high defense, like Spirit Jellyfish Ashes, to allow you to get in hits more reliably and whittle away its relatively low health
- Use fast-castling spells like Glintstone Pebble and stay mobile
- Use Marionette Soldier Ashes to pepper it with arrows and make it dash over and over, giving you time to get in hits safely from range
- Use Barricade Shield to block its larger attacks without breaking your guard
Melee Users
Bait and Slash: Stay reactive and don't get greedy. Wait for attacks with long recovery times like Rearing Bite, Blade Plunge, and Glintstone Cometshard, nail the dodges, and get in only as many hits as you can afford before going back on the defensive. Experiment to figure out whether your weapon deals more damage with a few quick hits or one charged heavy attack. Don't bother attacking if there are Magic Glintblades active, or you're likely to take more damage than you inflict.
Turtle Up: All of the Red Wolf's melee attacks deal Physical damage, so if you're good at stamina management you can get a lot of mileage out of a shield with 100% Physical reduction. Try to keep your shield up as often as possible as long as you've got the stamina for it, since its Bite attacks can come out of nowhere and cover a surprising amount of distance. Check the combo chart to see when it's safe to get in a guard counter and try to build towards breaking its considerable stance.
Magic and Ranged Users
Baby in a Corner: The Red Wolf will usually dodge ranged attacks, so try to maneuver it into a corner to limit its range of motion. Take advantage of the windups for its attacks to get in hits, but be ready to dodge those attacks as soon as you're done casting.
Magical Melee: Ignore its ranged dodges entirely by using close-range spells rather than projectiles. Follow one of the melee strategies, but instead of attacking with physical weapons use spells like Carian Slicer or Catch Flame. Weapons that deal physical damage but scale on Intelligence and Faith, like Rosus' Axe or Winged Scythe, are even more effective due to the Red Wolf's high elemental resistance.
Red Wolf of Radagon Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Bite | Steps forward and bites at the player | Roll forward, step back, or guard |
| Rearing Bite | Rears up on its hind legs, then plunges its head down and forward while biting | Roll forward and attack during its long recovery |
| Leaping Bite | Leaps forward and bites, then lands on the other side of the player and pivots 180° to face them | Roll forward as its head starts to descend |
| Golden Blade | Summons a magical golden sword and swings it in wide arcs | Roll in the direction the blade is swinging or guard. This deals Standard damage, so it can also be safely blocked with a shield with 100 Physical reduction. Some variations of this attack have very long windups, giving players plenty of time to back away |
| Blade Plunge | Summons its sword, leaps high into the air in a corkscrew motion, then slams the sword down on the ground | Roll forward as it begins to fall and get in a hit during the long recovery |
| Magic Glintblade |  Moves a short distance left or right, creating a magical orb as it goes. Shortly afterwards, this orb fires a single magical glintblade at you |
Keep moving to the side and the glintblade will miss you, so focus on dodging until it's gone |
| Glintblade Dash | Dashes to the left or right, leaving three Magic Glintblades as it goes |
As above, just keep moving until all the glintblades have fired and missed. It will keep attacking you after they're created, so focus on evading until you're no longer under double threat |
| Glintstone Cometshard | Jumps into the air and shoots a large magical projectile |
Run forward when you see it jump and you can run underneath the cometshard and attack after it lands, or else roll forward when it's at the apex of its jump |
: Attack can be spell parried
Red Wolf of Radagon Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Red Wolf of Radagon is heavily inspired by an unused concept for a boss fight concept from Dark Souls 3 related to Old Wolf of Farron
- Follows a trend of large wolf bosses in Souls games, Great Grey Wolf Sif and Gravetender Greatwolf
- Bug: If wolf lands on globe above him and try to jump back on the field of battle, it will die due to gravity fall.
Red Wolf of Radagon Image Gallery
AnonymousTurns out he likes using glintblades, but he's not so keen on having the AoW version used on him.
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I haven’t dreaded walking into a classroom this much since 12th grade physics.
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The best thing about dying to this thing for the tenth time is knowing you're going to have to do the sorceror gauntlet again just to have another shot at it.
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Stupid dog! You made me look bad!
*Equips omensmirk mask*
ABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGA
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diavolo suffers infinite deaths but the guy who put this thing with 14k hp in the middle of frigid outskirts 2 surrounded by 7 other wolves gets off scot free btw
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I actually liked this boss a lot. It was a refreshing to get a boss that's simply aggressive and fast instead of another guy swinging a telephone pole at you while pretending that momentum doesn't exist.
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I don't know why they keep making Sif fights....like Sif lore wise was good, but the fight it self was annoying to deal with, and yet they keep bring back the same fight but worse every time
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People had issues with this? I just got to this boss and beat it first try. Am I over-levelled at 54?
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Bro I’ve been utterly perplexed by the lore of this boss since release, but the most confusing this is wtf the orange blade he summons is. First of all, only specific red wolves can cast it, the two(?) boss versions, and ONE lesser version in the mountaintops. The orange blade does pure physical damage, which makes it even more confusing because now we can’t even narrow down if it’s an incantation or sorcery. The only thing I can think of, is that since only CERTAIN red wolves can cast this weird special blade spell, and one of them that can is confirmed linked to radagon, I think it’s a safe guess to say that he may created it as a fundamentalist incantation and… ****ing taught it to wolves?? Why/how does it do pure physical damage? Can radagon summon pure matter?
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this boss isnt bad if you have a build that can do alot of damage in a single hit, alot of his openings dont allow for much, so if you can do a bunch of dmg with 1 attack he goes down pretty fast since he has like 1/3 of margits hp
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While I agree it should have a closer stake of marika, don't get people complaining about this runback. You know you can easily just run through every area of the game, right?
I don't want to sound like the 'just roll' guy, but I've never been tagged by the spell-casters running to this fog gate. It's not that bad.
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Siluria's Tree absolutely melted this guys health in 3 hits
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I want his sword... Why isn't his flaming sword move a sorcery available to players? He uses magic glintblade and comet, but the one unique thing he does isn't a boss kill reward. The memory stone we get on kill could've just been got from a chest.
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on literally every other playthrough I shredded through red wolf without a second thought. This playthrough I am doing rl1 +0. What the **** is this boss. Most attacks can combo you to death if you don't time your dodges right and hey guess what even if you do it's already doing another attack. And good god the runback. It's funny how fighting bosses without any real hp shifts your opinion.
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CAN WE STOP PUTTING OVERWORLD BOSSES IN TINY GODDAMN ROOMS FOR THE LOVE OF ****ING GOD
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i didn't know that people think red wolf of radagon is the hardest boss in the game
clearly some people on this website are game journalists
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Clearly Radagon cared about Rennala very much. Left her an egg with a great rune, and a magic using guard dog. Disappointed not to find any lore here.
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Wow - such an easy boss and the comments are full of people crying about it being hard for various ridiculous reasons. I wonder what they would say about late game monsters.
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fromsoft try not to make a wolf boss insufferable challenge (impossible). Yes i'm salty. I just wanted to play astrologer.
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Just use bleed ice and fire build which will proc ice in one hit ( because of the fire) and bleed u can use as an extra but pretty easy boss
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petition to add aspects of the crucible: snoot uppercut because that's gotta be the strongest attack in the game. unreactable and will do 60% of your health. let's make it happen
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- you know, people liked Sif, lets make another giant wolf boss
- but sir, Royal Rat Authority, Gravetender's Greatwolf and that dograt from Bloodborne were all garbage, maybe we should do something diff..
- MAKE ANOTHER GIANT WOLF BOSS
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Seriously he needs to be nerfed his resistance is way to high and he changes direction mid air
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A cool boss undercut by a terrible arena. Red Wolf of the Champion let’s you appreciate the moveset a lot more without getting stuck on furniture.
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I hate this boss. He's a wolf enemy so instant points docked there. The runback sucks, not hard just tedious.
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Magic glitter fox flailing a big light sword in its jaws, summoning little projectiles and vomiting lazers at you occasionally. Definately one of the more goofy boss concepts in the entire series.
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What if Elden Ring bosses actually had windows where you could safely hit them??
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ER early game bosses are harder for me than late game DS3 bosses.
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Really wish they just let you instantly try again outside the boss door instead of having an in-world explanation with stakes of Marika. Boss runbacks aren't fun or challenging, so forcing them in one specific area because someone in the fictional game world got cucked by the person associated with those respawn points... It's just infuriating
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Anyone have the down-low on how to summon Sellen? How far must her quest progrees? Where's the summon sign?
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Does anyone know what sword he uses? Morgott uses actual weapons found in-game so I was thinking it might be the same with the wolf here. I'm thinking it might be a scimitar but the handle looks a little different so I'm not sure.
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This boss gets a lot funnier when you realise that Rennala took the dog in the divorce.
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Nah this boss is more annoying than hard. The 0 recovery between its attacks is what really frustrates me!
I would rather bang my head against a crucible Knight than go up against this stupid mutt!
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Fromsoft owes an apology to all mage build for the one at the moonlight altar
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Defeated this boss pretty easily. Shield in one had and finger seal in the other. Catch flame with faith and flame buff in physic. Stick real close and just burn it down. Real low health pool. Also used wolfs bell for a little distraction. Took me only a couple tries.
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This is hands down one of the best bosses in my first run so far, it was so hands on and wasn’t like massive aoe and stuff along those lines. It was like here’s a dude who’s fast and will kill you if you aren’t on your toes. It was the first fight where I took the time to learn his loved and it taught me to keep on my toes and dying is a part of the learning of the bosses. Hands down I love this guy
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This boss was EXTREMELY painful for me when trying to use Magic Glintblade against it. The visuals in Elden ring are usually kind of just... blobs of color, so telling how far away something is tends to be quite hard. There would often just be a mist of blue on my screen and I was telling myself aloud "oh god I hope that isn't one of his". Also despite the visuals being the same his glintblades are just 3x as fast as mine.
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Rather miffed. I beat this guy for the first time without too much difficulty, only to realise that Steam had been having bugs with achievements during the time that I did, so I didn't get the achievement for beating it. Now I'm going to have to wait for a second playthrough to get it. And playthroughs in this game are LONG!
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I hope that the upcoming dlc will let you have the wolf's golden blade as a weapon. It'll either be a greatsword or curved greatsword. Most likely curved greatsword, given it's general appearance.
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Not sure which is the worse example of boss design: this or the syphilitic yeet spirits. Both of them are awful for endlessly running around spamming attacks and making it painfully obvious that you're the only creature in the entirety of the Lands Between to be bound by a stamina bar.
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This dog is so infuriating, I'm half tempted to call the ATF on this castle and tell them the wizards are manufacturing mgs without a tax stamp.
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god forbid I actually get a chance to attack. really teaches you how shitty this game's bosses are early, from the constant jumping around, projectile spam, 0 recovery on 90% of it's attacks, and horrible telegraphs.
The boss wasn't too bad, I just hate how this guy never stops moving due to the lack of any cooldown lag between attacks. Makes the boss more annoying than hard...
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Lvl 40, melted him in about 10 seconds with bleed infused Bandit's Curved Swords. Opaline Bubble Tear tanked the first hit, so I swang through the first attack to get a feel for how much damage I would do and how he reacts to my offense, and he was dead before I even realized what was going on.
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Beat him on my second try with a dual dagger build. He’s only hard in pure melee if you hold forward and expect it to work. Let him cast his darts and then when he comes in punish, easy as that.
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Killed in 15/20 seconds with a double curved sword guy with magic buff on main hand. Probably lucky but its low health was quite key to melt it down fast
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Wow so much hate and ridiculous analysis of game mechanics. I’m sure precisely none of these people complaining this hard have taken the time to actually learn any bosses move sets in any souls game.
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Hey friends, please stop blame this boss. This wiki rocks, just read it carefully. Marionette Soldiers +3 easily win the fight with some help of my 1lvl Wretch wielding Harp Bow +4. I am actually surprised and forgot to count arrows. If you are melee and 50-60 lvl, just take an upgraded great shield like Golden Beast Crest or some nice Lion Claw infused Zweihander.
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Absolute agony to fight for pure melee. Endless stamina, retarded high shield damage, area denial, for some absolutly ****ed reason 120 stance.
Well, nah. 2000 hours into the game and I still hate this unoptimized boss the most. Makes Foreskin duo seem well thought out.
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I'd like to see someone from Fromsoft fight this boss, because a genuinely don't know when they intend for you to attack. The wolf jumps around like he's on bathsalts nonstop.
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Surprisingly easy fight with rock sling. Killed him in one try.
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No stake of marika. Seriously? I'm supposed to jog past 8 sorcerers with a glass cannon build every time I get killed? Screw it, this is just tedious, not fun. Not worth my time.
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After many playthroughs, I still find this guy more difficult than Rennala on almost every build. Rennala is the weakest shard wielder in my opinion, but still.
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Died a couple of times to unfortunate spell and melee spam, so I decided to bring a gun into a sword fight and use a summon. Oleg +5 pretty much solo skull****ed this dog. I feel a bit dirty and unsatisfied but it got the job done.
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Tried a bunch of ways and this one worked immediately: with a 100% phys shield, keep it up, get in close, and chip away. Used lone wolf ashes to distract.
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I don't really understand. My character is a mage and I'm sure she is not over leveled and this boss is "resistant to magic"... That was supposed to be a hard fight, right? I mean... In Dark Souls magic resistant bosses are a pain if you're a mage. How strange, this is the easiest boss I've faced so far (not saying this is bad xD).
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I spend more time running up to this ****ing boss to hit it than anything else
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Really fun fight, given how quick and clean his attacks are learning the timing on his combos so that you don't get rollcatched over and over allows you to be extremely aggressive while still feeling tense.
10/10 Sif but fun instead of sad
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The number of times I have gotten two-tapped by this boss because of homing magic daggers followed by a charging furry hitbox. If you don't get hit by one, you're getting hit by the other. Sprint, jump, dodge, block? doesn't matter. The only way you're avoiding that craptastic stackup completely is by luck.
That's my problem with this boss. Feels like a fight with interesting mechanics that get stacked infuriating, non-counterable ways. Couple that with hyper aggression and pathetic glass cannon health, and it feels like when I beat this PoS, it wasn't because I got gud. Rather I got good RNG that he didn't stack glintblades with comet azur into a charging headbutt.
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Got earrings and sht, long fur looks matted tho, poor good boi
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It's literally impossible to land my weapon art on this piece of sht. Prayerful Strike on Great Stars. What BS. Well I've landed it a few times but it shouldn't be that hard. And it kills my summons instantly too and I'm not about to go look for upgrade mats just to deal with a stupid dog.
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Wish we've got the flame sword incantation as well. Kinda like the lansseax glaive but fire. Oh and this bad boy can cast comet also.
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Everyone seems to be hating on this boss.. but I loved it. It was such a breath of fresh air to fight something different, unique, majestic and yet terrifying.
Yeah.. the sorcery spamming wizards are a joke.. but dang this boss was cool.
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This boss just forces you to change your weapons because if they are too slow , he will just either hit you or jump away, **** this boss
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Does the game really expect us to kill 10 wizards and a huge pot and then face a boss that is faster than the speed of light?
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Can someone out there please help me understand why this wolf is where it is? It's just hanging out in a classroom? I just don't get it. It's an academy, not a kennel. Thoughts?
The guy, or maybe girl I suppose, doesn't even has a name, it's just Red Wolf of Radagon. Not "Charlie, Red Wolf of Radagon" or "Bobik, Red Wolf of Radagon", just Red Wolf. Radagon clearly left the dog he didn't loved to Rennala lmao.
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