Royal Knight Loretta | Elden Ring Wiki

Nice boss but a little bit too easy.

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Didn't know that the bone in the DS3 Undead Settlement belonged to an Elden Ring boss. Why didn't Greirat tell me this? Is he stupid?

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Actually not that hard. I beat her first try at level 10 with a +4 dragon halberd. She never even got to use her greatbow.

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Used my cool new halberd (thanks Edgar) to deliver the big blue ***** str8 to kingdom kum. Light load for dodge spamming helped a bunch

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- mimic tear
- 7 deadly buffs
- bleed
- rot

death in the end

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so the souls you get from this boss is wrong on the page, you get 10k from her when you defeat her

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STOP SPAMMING GLINTSTONE STARS

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I killed her at level 18 with a bleed build by parrying her to stumble her and getting one hit in before running like a wuss.

It took over an hour but I wanted Carian Retaliation for my shield.


After that slog of learning parry timings, I finally figured out how to parry in a Souls game

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she drops 10k runes on ng, not 7.5k

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spammed her with honed bolt for a little cheesy easy win

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Very weak to bonk. Just don't die.

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I was expecting to have a hard time in this fight but at SL90 faith Dex lighting armament and FGMS with a +5 Engval I only got to hit her twice and then Engval finished her. It was the fastest boss fight so far.

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I don't normally enjoy horseback enemies that much, but this fight was surprisingly fun.

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Resistant to magic? She took like... 5-6 regular, uncharged Comets.

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Tree sentinel but she throws magic rocks in your eyes

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Dodge Simulator

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This boss is easy just use the ever brilliant PKCS -PKCS Pope

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More like trash knight loretta lol. Utter trash.

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the bugs still works guys

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There is a spot where you can quit out and you respawn in the arena. It is by the big bowl thing, on the right side there 2 two crevices that will let you quit out and respawn in the arena. This allows an easy kill.

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So 7500 or 10000 runes? which one is it?

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does her death cancel Liurnia overworld player summoning?

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I was fighting her on my third play through when my game decided to drop to like one fps I’m on a PlayStation 4 can someone please explain why she randomly dropped my fps

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SL1 idiot here: you'll need to abuse every tricks because this boss is a cheating rat. It will use magic and physical attacks at close intervals to trick you and the windows for attacking it are very short. Better carry as much defense stats and bloodhound step because it will be a long fight.

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remember the tree sentinel? ok so we took out the fun jumping part, added annoying glintstone pebble spam instead, and made it way less challenging

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Not only is she weak to lightning, having 0 lightning negation, but a huge portion of the arena is covered in water, which boosts lightning damage against anyone standing in it. I don't know if this is unique to incantations or also the case for weapons with lightning infusion or weapons buffed with lightning from grease or incantation, but I assume it works the same.

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Not sure if the wiki is wrong or if there was a weird interaction going on with my set up, but I was able to bleed her when I fought her. Playing on Xbox One. Have not attempted to replicate it yet (on my first playthrough still). Setup as follows.
Left hand 1- Carian Knight Shield (no ashes)
Left hand 2- Clawmark Seal
Right hand 1- Lordsworn Cold Greatsword (Glintblade Phalanx ashes)
Right hand 2- Forked Hatchet (Golden Vow ashes, standard enhancement)
Banished Knight armor (altered head and chest)
Hammer Talisman, Arsenal Talisman, and Curved Sword Talisman (in that order)
Active Godrick's Great Rune

Switch to Clawmark Seal and Forked Hatchet. Enter arena. Use Godrick Soldier Ashes. Drink Cerulean Tears. Use Golden Vow ashes. Cast Bloodflame Blade on Forked Hatchet. Switch Clawmark Seal to Carian Knight Shield.
From there, Godrick Soldiers died really fast. I stayed close to her and kept hitting her with the Forked Hatchet. I bled her 3 times relatively quickly and she died before the Golden Vow ashes wore off.
If anyone has any idea why, I'm curious. I'm figuring it's a one off glitch or something. I'll attempt to replicate at some point and update with what I find out.

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Demi-Humans +4, Sacred Keen Rapier +11, finished off with some regular arrows from Red Branch Shortbow +8 because I couldn't be bothered to run over to where she had leaped off to.

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Had a weird experience... was fighting her with a +5 dragon seal and ok stats, she killed me a couple times, so I decided to see if she could be rotted.... never got a chance to find out. Rot Breath just killed her in 2 breaths

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Lhutel the Headless and lightning spears took care of this on my first try.

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Greatshield Soldiers summoned at the back top of the stairs boxed her in. Hammered her and over in less than 30 seconds.

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this game was not playtested

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lol Twinsage Sorcerer Ashes was horrible advice. She killed it in 3 hits

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I think Loretta is worth 10,000 runes. Not 7500.

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What a ridiculous fight. Constant stunlocked by magic bolts, you CANT USE TORRENT, and any summons get wiped in 20 secs.

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I might be misreading something, but the Attacks & Counters section doesn't seem to mention that she can use her signature Weapon Skill (Loretta's Slash)

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one of the easiest bosses to parry, even without the crit follow up parrying makes this fight a breeze

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skeletons summon is the best for him

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Mohg (very hard boss) comment section: bro he's so easy he was dead before I even realized I was fighting him bro
****ing *Royal Knight Loretta* comment section:

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Okay, so I'm on a Level 1 character that I had drop-traded Daedicar's Woe for a melee challenge run, using only the plain no-bleed Caestus.
I am dying a LOT.
After HOURS of struggling with this boss, learning every mechanic, and painstakingly baiting the few attacks I could punish...
...all while hoping I'd EVENTUALLY have that perfect, flawless run...
I tried popping the Stonebarb Cracked tear to break her stance easier.
Turns out, with this tear, I was able to stunlock her the whole time with jumping attacks, and had to dodge zero attacks/mechanics while her health went from hundred to zero.
I hate everything - my recommendation: you get a free jumping attack at the start - dodge the blades she summons and then resume jump attacks.
At the right angle, you will hit her twice on the way down and can trivialize this boss with stance-breaking, provided you let your stamina replenish while she's stance-broken strategically.

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Loretta is I think a different kind of difficult than a lot of people are used to. I know I wasn't and she killed me a dozen times before I figured her secret out: letting Loretta set the pace and position of the fight will 100% get you killed.

More specifically, she has almost no melee attacks that go to her left side. So if you always move to her left (your right), she'll get stuck in constant turn-around, then try to curb stomp or Glintblade Phalanx her way out. When she does, you wail on her HARD!

She'll still sometimes jump away instead but then you're only dealing with the Glintblades which you can sprint to avoid, magic arrows which can be dodged, and cuckoo stars which can also be dodged. Although sometimes she layers the Glintblade with the 5X cuckoo stars in phase 2 and this is a little busted IMO. They require different evasions, so chances are you're either get roll caught or staggered. My advice is just pick one and usually the hit isn't too bad.

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Is she Greirat's(DS3) Loretta? That'd make ER a prequel to DS3 I suppose.

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I'm surprised to see so much whining and bitc*ing about Loretta in the comments here. Every one of those players knew they were buying a game made by From Software and they bought it anyway knowing full well it wasn't going to be Kirby's big adventure, that it was going to be challenging. But nearly every boss's wiki page has a vocal minority throwing their rattle out of the pram because this or that boss wasn't just standing there politely for them to kill it.
Loretta is NOT a difficult boss but it is easy to get the wrong idea and feel intimidated from reading her move-set and the combat information for her. Magic damage negation helps but even that isn't essential to beating her if you pay attention. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when everyone whinging about Loretta run face first into Malenia's difficulty wall.

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I'm new to the whole Soulsborne genre with its core dependency on learning enemy movesets, and I still remember how I was completely devastated by Tree Sentinel in Limgrave. Back in the early game, it took me 4 separate sessions up to 2 hours each to beat him. I didn't counted but there must've been hundreds of deaths. For me, YOU DIED turned its meaning into YOU SUCK. I was about to quit the game for good in my desperation. But when I finally succeeded, oh God, how I yelled into the air praising my victory.
Now that I ploughed my way through Caria Manor like a cakewalk, I'm starting to appreciate how the skill is honed over time allowing you to operate with better efficiency in the heat of battle and adapt to new threats. I defeated Loretta on the first try without any prior knowledge of her or preparation. The contrast with fighting that first TS was insane.
Though I'm still not that far on my way of getting good, and I haven't overcome my major flaws yet (such as greed and panic rolling), and my timing happens to be crappy, I now recognize how things are supposed to work in this game. The lesson I learned, that should learn everybody who struggles -- be persistent and keep your back straight, practice is gold, your effort will pay off eventually, and in the end you will prevail.

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Favourite boss so far. I don't use ashes so she was consistently on and after me, plus her attacks just flow in a way that I never felt cheated when hit. Sure she's magic and has ranged attacks, but they are telegraphed and consistent on how you dodge them, plus right after she fires those off she's ****ing on you.

I see a lot of bellyaching about this one here, but maybe if you lot didn't summon familiars for her to chase after, you might have found it more fun.

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Oh boy i sure do love bosses that run away from me when i try to get into melee while spamming spells non-stop.

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One of the easiest bosses on this or any fromsoftware games. As a knight i just used the wolves ashes and hit her when you can. Killed her in 3rd try. Im an average gamer at best.

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Boss is annoying at for melee users at low level, but it's doable if you utilize the big astrolobe at the top of the stairs to bait her attacks into it constantly. Her attacking the corner of the object allows you to stay close, get a few swings in, then get back around the corner before her projectiles launch

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Loretta has four options for engaging you

1. Magic. Run perpendicular to dodge the carian phalanx, and roll into/through her pebble, star, or bow attacks

2. Greatslash. Roll spam usually works by the time you realize she's doing this attack. The two swings are spaced apart with enough time that if you dodge the first one properly, the spamming a second roll asap will usually always dodge the second swing.

3. Jumping melee combo. The jump will ALWAYS be followed by the exact same swing. If you roll through her jump swing, making sure to finish your roll right at her side, you can easily learn the timing to parry the second swing.

4. Close distance and wide slash. This one can be followed up by literally any of her attacks.



With this in mind, if she's not casting a spell, she is almost always going to close distance and use option 3 or 4. If you can learn the parry timing for just two attacks (the post-jump swing in #3 and the initial wide slash that starts any version of #4's combos.) If you can get the parry down for just those two attacks, the only challenge is dodging the magic attacks. Loretta can't be critical-hit, but hitting her after a successful parry does more damage and stuns her for long enough to get a second safe hit before you back step for some distance and repeat.

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That's a good melee build you have there.

It'd be shame if I

used only ranged attacks.

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Worst ****ing boss in the entire game. Whenever you try to punish any attack, she just pulls a follow-up out of nowhere. Bs design. From is getting sloppy with their games.

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I really hate these type of enemies especially if has horse or something! Just look at that ***** completely immune to status effects. In short we use the old ways (bonk time)

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She also uses Carian Slicer twice in quick succession.

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Heavens, she was already dead…

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This was an awesome slideshow of a fight

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Tree Sentinel 2
She even uses the same music

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**** this boss

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Skeletal Militiaman go great on this fight. They self rez, and she doesn't intentionally finish them off.

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If you do a jump attack on her back it hits twice

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Spirits that summon a lot of allies like Demi-Humans or Wolves can be great against her. She doesn’t have too many moves that hit multiple targets.

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I'd been dreading this boss because of what I'd read on here making her sound like a nightmare, and knowing she needed beating sooner or later in order to get access to Ranni's quest-line, but I beat her on the second attempt. She only killed me on my first try because I'd forgotten to use the magic defence incantation and hadn't equipped the spell liver. Her wiki entry here makes her sound a lot harder than she actually is, as long as you are confident in your dodge timings and have some armour or defensive buffs that can mitigate some of the magic damage. I used the lordsworn's greatsword+11, carian knight armour and a bronze medium size shield with no upgrades but has the barricade skill that drops from nights cavalry in the weeping peninsula, I used spiked cracked tear and the greenspill crystal tear in the Physick, I have some offensive incantations and a decent faith stat but had to use any distance or spare seconds to heal and even then she was hitting me before the crimson flask had fully recharged my health bar, she doesn't give enough time when she sort of resets herself to heal and get off offensive incantations, she keeps the pressure on. Interestingly though she only used the "Loretta's Great-bow" spell twice and it wasn't anywhere near as hard to dodge as this page makes it out to be because she didn't hit me with it either time. Just so that there is no misunderstanding though I'm not trying to make out like she is an easy boss fight or that I have mad skills because that really isn't the case, she isn't a walkover but she isn't Orphan of Kos hard either.

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easy boss but something about this arena and to a lesser extend the entirety of caria manor really f*cks with my framerate, dipped down to like 5fps at times when i fought her

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....ya know maybe level 80 was a bit overkill. That was easy

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She isn't required to access the northeast sections of the map. I found a jumping puzzle that allows you to get there

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idk who did these stats (maybe its since an update) but she seems to be immune to both poison and rot as of 1.06

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Straight bodied her first try lvl 40. She has to be one of the easiest bosses in the game up to this point. Her magic is easy to dodge and her windups are easily predicted

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She seems to be immune to Rot, Bleed, and Poison.

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Seems like she's either immune or has a much heavier resistance to rot

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I just killed that darn mob with meteorite staff using blessed dew talisman, Godrick Soldier Ashes+3, and Rock Sling. It took one try after I set everything up but died once when nothing was set up. Pretty easy. Thanks for the encouraging comments everyone!

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If they asked me whether I must fight against this guy or those ****ing hands in the garden, I would choose this guy without a moment of hesitation.

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the stats are definitely wrong for status afflictions as I absolutely pummeled her with a bloodflame enchanted flail and didn't proc bleed even once

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Ranni's dark moon blocks all of her magical attack. Make this fight much easier.

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Unless I missed something, Loretta is not a mandatory boss. The entirety of the Haligtree is an optional area. I'm guessing the writer meant mandatory to progress through the Haligtree, but that wording is misleading. "She is encountered again but in physical form and as a mandatory boss at Miquella's Haligtree, named as Loretta, Knight of the Haligtree. "

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How are people summoning spirits for this boss its not letting me in the arena

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She has multiple attacks that true-combo AFAIK. The jumping side-swipe attack, and the magic-imbued glaive attack both true-combo and hit twice.

this is causing me strife on my NG+2 INT-FAI run

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i found that using Godrick soldier's ashes help with great distraction as they were a little bit fast and allowed me to dodge and heal when needed.

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Lhutel the Headless is a very good summon for this boss fight. Hes tanky and can teleport out of most magical and physical attacks.

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cirno boss
too easy

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The 3 Sisters did not get unlocked after killing her, sadly

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Easiest great boss by far. Just use the wolves. Only took two tries

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If you beat the physical form Loretta at the Haligtree first, can you skip this phantom form? Anyone tested this?

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I just managed to beat this boss after about 3 hours at level 40. Goddamn that was tough.

She always 2 shot me and sometimes even 1 shot me so I had to be perfect

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Ok, Loretta is here but WHERE IS GREIRAT!!!
I just want my buddy back dammit.

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just move right and she can't hit you. She jumps away. Rinse and repeat, just look out for homing soul mass bullshit.

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**** this ***** and her immunity to melee attacks.

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She is parryable, but doesn't offer a riposte. Similar to tree sentinal.

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I did not get the ash of war just the spell. Anyone know why?

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Has anyone else not gotten the achievement for killing her? I was going through mine today trying to figure out how I had missed one and sure enough, she's the one I'm missing somehow. Trying to understand what I could have done that would have glitched the achievement but nothing comes to mind.

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The fight was very easy until she hit 50% health and started throwing stuff at me from the other side of the arena

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Immune to poison and scarlet rot.

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She's weak to pierce and strike, not all physical.

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She has rot immunity. 4 full rotten breaths wont infect her with rot

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Is there a way to run past this boss?? Just looking to grab the Wolf Mask further on. Will come back to the boss later.

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Doing a SL1 today and after beating her, can confirm that, whether a glitch or not, she was immune to scarlet rot. 4 breaths of rotten breath and no rot. Unsure of the rot values on rotten breath though, but it rotted other bosses. eh.

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This boss also has an attack where if you go behind them, their horse kicks you, evadable by dodging in any direction other than forward (I think)

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I beat this as lvl 20 today :D

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I beat her with Rogier's rapier + buckler. Her first swing the chain is fairly easy to parry consistantly. The way I beat her with very few tries was pulling her towards the pillar thing on the left at the stairs and basically LOSing all of her spells which made her second half of life infinitely easier. Parrying her stuns her for a bit and you can get off and charged hit, I imagine a colossal weapon would be incredible after you hit a parry. However, beware that after first hit during her stun, she tends to jump back a bit, still stunned. I got two jump attacks per stun on her consistantly.

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thanks fromsoft magic battles are sooo fun

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Kind of a cool boss if not easy. I think the full white ghost look ruins her and the arena's atmosphere, though.

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if you need help activating the site of grace, it is bugged and can only be activated from another location near the site of grace. The interactive button prompt is somewhere in a radius around the site of grace.

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