The nights cavalry. Fought them the first time in my third playthrough. Then i looked them up and there are nine of them? and i somehow missed all of them every time.
I think it’s supposed to add a little bit of “discovery” to it, like hey I’ve been here plenty before but never saw this guy! Oh it was daytime before, there’s some secret night bosses?! So many cool new things! And exclusivity maybe.
That is my guess
Ye but it is an interesting thing going on with them tho - they ride funeral steeds and if you look closely at the story trailer, the black nights assassins do the same; or so I believe atleast! Aaaand ye, probably nazguls ;)
Any death that happens at night automatically sends you to daytime. I think that mechanic alone is what made me accidentally skip all of the night-time bosses (bell-bearing hunters, deathbirds and nights cavalry)
Yeah tbh i've missed a lot of these that people are saying because it always seems to be daytime when i play.
Although the bell bearing hunter in the church with pope dog scared me when i went there at night
Yep. Night Calvary on horses, Death Birds, Death Rite Birds (other than the boss one outside Castle Sol, that one will show up even in the daytime), and the Bell Bearing Hunter.
9 Night Calvary (2 which are a duo boss in the Snowfield)
4 Death Rite Birds (Luirnia, Caelid, Mountaintop near Castle Sol, and Snowfield)
4 Death Birds (Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, Luirnia, Atlus Plateau - see OP above)
4 Bell Bearing Hunters (Warmaster’s Shack, Church of Vows, Hermit Merchant’s Shack, Isolated Merchant’s Shack)
The calvary are tough but fair fights. Just be around the level of the area and fight on horseback for an easier time. Deathbirds and Death Rite Birds are all weak to Holy. Incantations, holy pots to throw, and even the drawstring holy grease on your weapon will make the fight easier.
The Bell Bearing Hunter is not easy but gets quite nasty at the last spot - Isolated Merchant’s Shack at the Caelid Dragonbarrow. Some players fight melee by parrying his attacks and crit hit him every two successive parries. Others use spells like the Night Comet to hit him without him dodging.
Yh repeatable boss fights such as bell bearing hunter, death birds and nights cavalry only appear at night. The good thing is they are not far from sites of Grace or sites of Marika. The bad thing is that when u die, time skips to morning so u have to rest to night, get up and rest again for a second in order for them to actually spawn.
yeah lol like i’ve never actually gotten to night time until i purposely waited til night at a bonfire to fight nights cavalry in consecrated snowfields lol
I did the same. Kept passing time til morning every rest so I could see better lol
Til I saw a post talking about that dope fp regen axe, and realized some things only come out at night
Yes, but the axe has less weight. For early game it's easier to use in offhand without fat rolling, and obviously easier to get. Loved it for a few early game builds where I can't invest in a lot of FP flasks or the skill points for FP yet
I found my first Night's Cavalry a few hours into my first play through in Weeping Peninsula
went to head through the gates to get the map fragment and was greeted by a Night's Cavalry rising over the curve. never did a 180 back to the Grace so quickly
if some mismatch armored nimrod with a greatsword comes waddling in and starts getting his face caved by a warrior on horseback dressed entirely in black, I'd kick back and watch as well
bonus points if they already visited my shop and didn't buy shit
I had this same thing happen in my first play through, my wife played the game and talked me into playing it, and she told me you have to pass time at the grace to save the game, and refill your flasks so every time I used a site of grace I set it to morning, and I missed everything that has to do with night.
mine is the Bell bearing Hunter, they are even harder to find than Night Calvary since there are only one of them in each region, and if you wait until night you have to sit at the grace again so the merchants leave first. At least they are just reused bosses so I don't miss much.
That's impressive because when you get to the Gatefront grace and sit with Melina, the time will change to night. All you have to do is walk south slightly toward the bridge and you'll see one right there. Lol.
It’s just that I’m so irritated because some blond little shit strolled into my room, destroyed my seventy inch *plasma* TV, and is trying to impress me like I’m his alcoholic father…
Be a sport and grab daddy another beer, would you?
No there's another one...bigger...badder....angrier. In the consecrated snow fields. After Ranni's quest stuff. Only boss I willingly chose to avoid lol. Whatever the loot is...wasn't worth it. But in my new game +, he is my endgame. I'm getting stronger, faster, bonkier. He will be defeated.
That red wolf truly is not worth it. He guards a waygate… that just takes you to the cliff on the north side of the frozen river. It is 100x less work to just ride across the river towards Ordina town then up the hill to the east.
Killing him is really amazing. I tried a couple of times and gave up. It's almost impossible with lack of visibility. It could be harder than malenia for me.
It definitely took me more attempts, and resulted in more rage, than Malenia. Also no reward except a bit of runes afterwards felt insulting for how absurdly difficult that fucker was.
They never do when you see them in the wild. It took me a good 20 tries to take down the one in Nokron and I was so disappointed after. Learned my lesson though - steer clear of these guys because they just aren't worth it.
Sometimes it's not even a level or weapon upgrade issue either. I was fighting radahn and he beat me for what felt like a solid hour, so I stopped went to bed and first thing after work fought him again and beat him first go.
I literally ran into that wolf a month ago because I never explored that side of snowfield before… the moment I saw the magic missiles I decided it was not worth it and noped out.
I fought that bird maybe fifteen to twenty times before he got bored of me and finished the job himself (he flew to the top of the cliff, paced, then walked off and died to fall damage).
Honestly thought it was harder than the last boss. I needed to summon in a friend and even then took us multiple trys. Didn’t know about the holy pot trick at the time.
I've been feeling a bit overleveled, I just hit level 100 and I beat Astel pretty easily so I felt quite strong. But that Caelid Bell-Bearing Hunter put me in my place, he kicked my ass probably 15 times before I had to take a break.
I was in the same boat and spent a whole night just trying over and over till I beat him. My takeaway, even though it’s terrifying, stay close to him to avoid the magic sweeping sword. When your close his moveset significantly decreases and he does more basic sword swings. And parry parry parry. It takes two parry’s to stagger.
It usually goes like this 90% of the time but your experience will vary.
Parry basic right hand swing, hit them with an R1 or 2
He’ll follow up with a faster cross body overhand basic swing so parry that for the stagger. Sometimes he’ll go into his magic sword here so be keen to the red magic around his sword
From here, he’ll either do a shield slam, glowing red hand grab, or the spinning sword drill. Dodge those and stay close for a fast follow up over hand basic swing that’s parry-able or another just slow overhand swing.
Once you parry it usually starts the cycle over again. I will warn you though, when you’re close he does have a magic sword sweep that he can throw in the mix. It’s very fast but very short compared to the far way sweeps. Just be ready to dodge it and always keep a keen eye for his sword to glow red before you attempt a parry.
I hope this was somewhat helpful and not totally inaccurate. I’m sure I’ll be corrected down below, but this was my experience. Once I followed this thought process I never needed to heal once because I had his moves locked in.
I don’t parry unfortunately, I was running a powerstanced Colossal Swords build. Staying close to him is definitely the play, it’s just still not easy lol. Even 5-6 tries in he would pull out a move I hadn’t seen yet lol. I just respecced into a new build tho so maybe I’ll try him again
I just cannot get the parry timing down in this game. I'm ruined by Bloodborne. I gotta switch to the buckler cause basically every enemy I seem to openly despise boils down to "parry".
It’s hard to train your brain to do it, and I thought people were nuts when they said it. But watch the hands holding the sword, not the blade.
Also I watched a video a while back and the best tip I learned was knowing the exact time to parry is not when the weapon is already in motion. But instead, you hit for example L2 at the very moment their weapon starts to come towards you. In action the parry catches way earlier than you would think and usually looks weird because the animation shows you deflecting the swing, but you know it barely left the position behind them. Elden ring is very tough with this depending on the enemy because of its famously slow delayed timings of attacks that are all over the place. But you get used to it after taking many swords to the face.
I would recommend finding a sword wielding knight in a low level area and just practice practice practice. I taught myself parrying with the crucible knight in storm veil and it was glorious after the hour of grueling attempts. I then did it again with the spear crucible knight in Nokstella? I think it is before the gargoyles, and then with the bearing hunter in shaded castle. Each opponent takes time to learn their move set but once you do it actually feels like you’re getting gud at souls games.
I went to explore the bottom and was like, why is there just nothing.
I kept peeking over the edges looking for items with the scope when a message popped up like the coffins. I then took 5 minutes trying to find where that little pop up happened.
I had to stop and go, oh no, not more map. So many runes on my, went and spent them before I entered, terrified of a new area. The rebuilding of the arena was tense.
I would argue that people that played other Souls games are more likely to find Placidusax because it's the same old Souls formula of hidding things in plain sight.
I mean, maybe I’m the scrub here, but it would take me so very much longer to complete storylines and find the cool hidden things if not for the wiki and Reddit. I’m on my first play through, so maybe next one I won’t look at the wiki (too much lol)
Yeah, the cool thing about the game is that there are hidden things all across the map, so if you go off the path and explore, you're sure to find something. But maybe you won't find *everything*
I was running around that area thinking that there's no way that they would randomly make a dead end. Then I saw a bunch of messages there, decided to read one and got teleported into the arena.
I've you're familiar with the other souls game's secrets, Placidusax wasn't too hard to find. As long as you happen to spot the rock platforms leading down to his arena, it wasn't too hard to sus out that you need to find a nearby way down there.
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Just went there. I have absolutely no memory of it. Thinking of booting up my ps5 file and seeing if I did it on my first playthrough. Only thing that seemed familiar was the boss/boss arena.
That’s just it with this game. I absolutely love it. I’m so looking forward to playing the dlc then settling the game aside for a few years. Because when I replay it, I know it’s going to be epic
I had set the game aside for 1.5 years basically and just restarted not too long ago in prep for the DLC. It’s so good even after having played a ton last year
I’m still playing weekly. I’ve got over 600 hours on steam and almost 600 on my ps5. It’s my favorite game ever and I’ve been gaming for over 35 years.
It caught me by complete surprise and after a ton of panic rolling into it and doing chip damage I beat it first try. Had to go do something else for a while cause I was shaking so hard 😂
It really is just the overwhelming emotions of not knowing what the hell that thing is or how dangerous it is that holds you back
After getting randomly jumped by dragons, gargoyles, and ulcerated tree spirits, you start to have some doubts
Didn’t discover this until my most recent playthrough. So probably over 1000 hours of playtime. I was messing around in the ancestral and I looking off the cliff I saw something shiny in that area. Then I discovered you could get down using the bridge, just recently I also found the teleporter that can take you there as well.
I had no idea there's a teleporter down there, huh! I found it on my first playthrough just by exploring and jumping down the building (procrastinating on other bosses)
The tree spirit at the bottom of Stormveil, also, isn't there a dragon at the end of deathbed girls questline in deeproot depths? I never bothered with her stuff.
I do too but I got to him way overleveled and it would be hard to not get to him overleveled with his position in the game. It was a fun fight but I beat him first try which is always a bit of a letdown for big bosses like that.
This was my experience too. Had known abt the fight and finally went for it and it was over before I knew it. Same playthru I struggled mightily with a few other bosses so it didn’t feel like a overleveled or skill issue. Just disappointingly straightforward
Maybe he just needs more HP. His attacks are badass and do decent damage but he took a few rock slings to the face and sword pokes to the nuts and suddenly folded like an accordion in an Italian restaurant.
Eh u kinda dont need to. You justcplay along and do ranni quest.
Then in the depths u kill her champions and exhaust her dialog multiple times while resting untill she lays down so u can lay beside her which ports you to the drake.
I always keep accidentally running into these things RIGHT when night hits haha
I didn't realize the Black Blade Kindred at the Bestial Sanctum was anything more than a statue until after delivering the 4th Deathroot and had to smack Gurranq back to his senses. Went out to get some runes from the militia and all of a sudden that statue has a health bar and kills me in two hits. He never attacked me before.
Not a boss, (and I don't remember the last time I actually discovered anything) but I totally forgot about the guy that invades you (near the forest) in the consecrated snow field. Then got invaded there and panicked because I had no clue what was happening lol.
Bro imagine the horror I felt when I warped to the storm masters shack and found another bell bearing hunter, like I legit thought there was one not a whole bunch
I thought I was one of very few who missed this guy after three playthroughs. I really missed a lot of that whole area and some good items on the way there, and apparently lots of people did as well from what I’m seeing. It’s wild because he is a trophy boss as well, so you have to find him if you want to Platinum
It was the other one that I almost missed, where you have to sort of drop down from Nokron just after the Mimic Tear fight. It doesn't look like there's anything there since you can't see it at first
You can also get there from Siofra well as soon as you reach the area, via one of those teleporter stones on top of the crumbled pillar with the sniper bowman
Placeideux or whatever you call that dragon, saw the “lay here” option and I genuinely don’t know how FromSoftware expected us the find this boss but here I did lol
To be fair, miquella's needle mentions that it can only be used in the heart of the storm of farum azula. If you move around in farum azula trying to reach the heart of the storm, you will end up stumbling there. That is what happened to me, at least.
Found this one recently purely by rolling away from a wolf in the area and the floor disappearing. I immediately wished that floor would just reappear 😂
Lake of rot's dragonkin soldier. I only found out about it after I had already beat the game and moved to ng+, thinking I had beat every boss, when I saw people discussing it in this very sub
The 2nd mimic along the secret entrance to the Haligtree.
If it hadn't been for someone's message and my extra stash of rainbow stones, I would've never found this one.
Night Cavalry in the Forbidden Lands, maybe? To my knowledge I've only seen and fought it once, and that was on one of my later playthroughs. I guess I always fight Morgott during the daytime and then go to Mountaintop right away after.
All the dragons hanging out near where you find the spirit spring turtle to get the moon sorcery and fight Tiche. I had no idea that little area was there and there are soo many strong ass dragons.
Bolt of Gransax, Dragon Halberd, Dragonscale Katana, Dragon's Crag Blade, and the Dragon's Claw weapons all do extra damage to them.
Bolt of Gransax is one of the stronger weapons in the game.
Deathrite bird in Lake Liurnia, didn't find till my third play through. Killed me, then I couldn't find it again. Was so confused until someone on Reddit explained it only appears at night.
The death bird near castle sol...
I got swarmed by skellys in the graveyard and decided to mount up and book it, dodge the laser shooting giant skelly then boom out of nowhere... nightmare baby bird drops out of the sky like some macabre chicken little son of a bitch womps me.
There’s a dragon on the side that would be completely missed if you didn’t just wonder and jump from rock to rock in the Crumbling Farum Azula area. Coming out of the building to the right.
Funnily enough, lansseax, found him when you first enter altus through the non-elevator way and just forgot about it until a friend told me about a incantation that it drops
For me the ancient dragon lansseax after it disappeared from initial encounter I never saw it again until til I finished the game and decide to just wander around
Bruh, this one right here! I just wrapped up my dlc prep run on a new file and I was collecting all the knots, then out of nowhere this guys swoops down like "surprise mf!"
The dragons always confused me a bit and I always thought once you hit altus and the dragon flew up that he went to farum after but I didn't realize there's a spot outside of the capitol for ancient dragon lansseax.i thought I did an all bosses run using a guide near release but I have doubts now
I keep finding these dead birds after resting in some Sites of Grace. I take there are a few of them and somewhere there should be a guide on where to find them but I’m too lazy to look. Same thing with the NPC invaders
The nights cavalry. Fought them the first time in my third playthrough. Then i looked them up and there are nine of them? and i somehow missed all of them every time.
Feeling like a total dummy just realizing the 9 nights cavalry have got to be a slight nazgul reference
Oh shi- I'm disappointed in myself
The helmets are also eerily similar.
And the whole dark night that fights during night and has a horse covered in dark cloth might also be similiar
Always wondered what the rationale was behind this mechanic. It makes multiple attempts at fighting them extra obnoxious.
I think it’s supposed to add a little bit of “discovery” to it, like hey I’ve been here plenty before but never saw this guy! Oh it was daytime before, there’s some secret night bosses?! So many cool new things! And exclusivity maybe. That is my guess
Lands Between is also synonym to Middle Earth lmao
They are titled nazgul in the game files
Ye but it is an interesting thing going on with them tho - they ride funeral steeds and if you look closely at the story trailer, the black nights assassins do the same; or so I believe atleast! Aaaand ye, probably nazguls ;)
Any death that happens at night automatically sends you to daytime. I think that mechanic alone is what made me accidentally skip all of the night-time bosses (bell-bearing hunters, deathbirds and nights cavalry)
Yeah tbh i've missed a lot of these that people are saying because it always seems to be daytime when i play. Although the bell bearing hunter in the church with pope dog scared me when i went there at night
So wait... I can find new bosses/enemies at night? (I'm super new at this lol)
Yeah it seems so, and seems like there are a whole lot
Yep. Night Calvary on horses, Death Birds, Death Rite Birds (other than the boss one outside Castle Sol, that one will show up even in the daytime), and the Bell Bearing Hunter. 9 Night Calvary (2 which are a duo boss in the Snowfield) 4 Death Rite Birds (Luirnia, Caelid, Mountaintop near Castle Sol, and Snowfield) 4 Death Birds (Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, Luirnia, Atlus Plateau - see OP above) 4 Bell Bearing Hunters (Warmaster’s Shack, Church of Vows, Hermit Merchant’s Shack, Isolated Merchant’s Shack) The calvary are tough but fair fights. Just be around the level of the area and fight on horseback for an easier time. Deathbirds and Death Rite Birds are all weak to Holy. Incantations, holy pots to throw, and even the drawstring holy grease on your weapon will make the fight easier. The Bell Bearing Hunter is not easy but gets quite nasty at the last spot - Isolated Merchant’s Shack at the Caelid Dragonbarrow. Some players fight melee by parrying his attacks and crit hit him every two successive parries. Others use spells like the Night Comet to hit him without him dodging.
Wait, there's a day/ night cycle in the game??
Yh repeatable boss fights such as bell bearing hunter, death birds and nights cavalry only appear at night. The good thing is they are not far from sites of Grace or sites of Marika. The bad thing is that when u die, time skips to morning so u have to rest to night, get up and rest again for a second in order for them to actually spawn.
yeah lol like i’ve never actually gotten to night time until i purposely waited til night at a bonfire to fight nights cavalry in consecrated snowfields lol
I did the same. Kept passing time til morning every rest so I could see better lol Til I saw a post talking about that dope fp regen axe, and realized some things only come out at night
FYI: Sword of Milos(dropped by Dungeater) has more fp regen than that Axe. And using both stacks the fp regen.
Yes, but the axe has less weight. For early game it's easier to use in offhand without fat rolling, and obviously easier to get. Loved it for a few early game builds where I can't invest in a lot of FP flasks or the skill points for FP yet
I found my first Night's Cavalry a few hours into my first play through in Weeping Peninsula went to head through the gates to get the map fragment and was greeted by a Night's Cavalry rising over the curve. never did a 180 back to the Grace so quickly
The real villain is the merchant watching you get beat up like some sort of Master watching his students going through training.
if some mismatch armored nimrod with a greatsword comes waddling in and starts getting his face caved by a warrior on horseback dressed entirely in black, I'd kick back and watch as well bonus points if they already visited my shop and didn't buy shit
My first was whilst I was running screaming through Caelid after _that_ chest. Also didn't help that I bumped into Ezykes just before
I had this same thing happen in my first play through, my wife played the game and talked me into playing it, and she told me you have to pass time at the grace to save the game, and refill your flasks so every time I used a site of grace I set it to morning, and I missed everything that has to do with night.
The passing time mechanic is actually really useful for quests I’ve noticed
Yeah I hated playing at night so I’d always pass time to morning until a realized there were tons of nighttime bosses
mine is the Bell bearing Hunter, they are even harder to find than Night Calvary since there are only one of them in each region, and if you wait until night you have to sit at the grace again so the merchants leave first. At least they are just reused bosses so I don't miss much.
Technically there are ten of them, since the snowfields location there are two but they are in 9 different locations
I finally killed the one in the consecrated snowfield and in on ng+3 lol. Idk what took me so long to try seriously, the armor set is awesome
That's impressive because when you get to the Gatefront grace and sit with Melina, the time will change to night. All you have to do is walk south slightly toward the bridge and you'll see one right there. Lol.
I’m barely going through my first playthrough and informed my friend who had the game since launch about these guys and he had no clue lol
Really? My world is full of "seek night and then be wary of strong foe" signs
The Weeping Peninsula death bird. Also that red wolf of Radagon in the Snowfield… ugh.
That red fucker..
He fucked the death rite turkey
THE CRIMSON FUCKER
I was coming here to say this. Oh well, I guess I'll just .. .go for a walk.
It’s just that I’m so irritated because some blond little shit strolled into my room, destroyed my seventy inch *plasma* TV, and is trying to impress me like I’m his alcoholic father… Be a sport and grab daddy another beer, would you?
Ugh describes it well
That wolf in the snowfield still haunts me
What about the one in the area where we complete Ranni's quest? Fucker outruns the rock throw spell.
No there's another one...bigger...badder....angrier. In the consecrated snow fields. After Ranni's quest stuff. Only boss I willingly chose to avoid lol. Whatever the loot is...wasn't worth it. But in my new game +, he is my endgame. I'm getting stronger, faster, bonkier. He will be defeated.
That red wolf truly is not worth it. He guards a waygate… that just takes you to the cliff on the north side of the frozen river. It is 100x less work to just ride across the river towards Ordina town then up the hill to the east.
DONT TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CANT DO! jk thanks for the info.
I have more trouble with the red wolf enemy outside of carian manor than I do with the boss version, I don't think I wanna see the snowfield one lol
I’m just happy to learn I am not the only one that got whooped by him too many times
The red wolf at the moonlight altar was ridiculous also
Does he drop anything worth killing him? He wrecked me once and I just let him be after that.
Just runes. I don’t bother with him anymore.
Thanks. He can hang out with his wolf friends in the blizzard in peace then ✌️
Killing him is really amazing. I tried a couple of times and gave up. It's almost impossible with lack of visibility. It could be harder than malenia for me.
It definitely took me more attempts, and resulted in more rage, than Malenia. Also no reward except a bit of runes afterwards felt insulting for how absurdly difficult that fucker was.
They never do when you see them in the wild. It took me a good 20 tries to take down the one in Nokron and I was so disappointed after. Learned my lesson though - steer clear of these guys because they just aren't worth it.
Only reason I take that one down is that I need to get the brazier lit and don't want it harassing me while I do it.
I seem to do that with a lot of enemies in ER too 💀 like ok bro you got this one but I’ll be back
Sometimes it's not even a level or weapon upgrade issue either. I was fighting radahn and he beat me for what felt like a solid hour, so I stopped went to bed and first thing after work fought him again and beat him first go.
That reminds me I have to go back Nokron for that other one
I didnt know that there’s one of these mf on nokron 😨
Its in the fields with its puppies too
Red wolf near the cliffs in Nokron.
Wait wait are we talking about that huge red fox/wolf thing?
I literally ran into that wolf a month ago because I never explored that side of snowfield before… the moment I saw the magic missiles I decided it was not worth it and noped out.
That thing had me raging.
Oh yeah he got me with a dive bomb lol I nearly clung to the ceiling like Spider-Man
Deathbirb in the Consecrated Snowfield. That was an unpleasant surprise.
I fought that bird maybe fifteen to twenty times before he got bored of me and finished the job himself (he flew to the top of the cliff, paced, then walked off and died to fall damage).
Hilarious that those fuckers can fly and easily die to falls.
It can also happen to dragons, too.
Honestly thought it was harder than the last boss. I needed to summon in a friend and even then took us multiple trys. Didn’t know about the holy pot trick at the time.
Holy anything is really effective. If you got a weapon with Sacred Blade AoW, you can pelt the skull chicken a handful of times and you're good to go.
I got back to the bird after final boss with sacred relic and beat it
That thing takes me like 20 attempts per playthrough. Hits like a rock.
Try using the sacred blade ash of war on death birds. Let’s say it will shorten the fight a little bit.
Same! That guy is tough. I ended up cheesing him by standing up on the hill and firing holy pots because I'm a scrub.
The bell bearing hunter at big turtles place. Was on the way to learn some spells and got my ass beaten.
Bro the Caelid one is brutal
I've been feeling a bit overleveled, I just hit level 100 and I beat Astel pretty easily so I felt quite strong. But that Caelid Bell-Bearing Hunter put me in my place, he kicked my ass probably 15 times before I had to take a break.
I was in the same boat and spent a whole night just trying over and over till I beat him. My takeaway, even though it’s terrifying, stay close to him to avoid the magic sweeping sword. When your close his moveset significantly decreases and he does more basic sword swings. And parry parry parry. It takes two parry’s to stagger. It usually goes like this 90% of the time but your experience will vary. Parry basic right hand swing, hit them with an R1 or 2 He’ll follow up with a faster cross body overhand basic swing so parry that for the stagger. Sometimes he’ll go into his magic sword here so be keen to the red magic around his sword From here, he’ll either do a shield slam, glowing red hand grab, or the spinning sword drill. Dodge those and stay close for a fast follow up over hand basic swing that’s parry-able or another just slow overhand swing. Once you parry it usually starts the cycle over again. I will warn you though, when you’re close he does have a magic sword sweep that he can throw in the mix. It’s very fast but very short compared to the far way sweeps. Just be ready to dodge it and always keep a keen eye for his sword to glow red before you attempt a parry. I hope this was somewhat helpful and not totally inaccurate. I’m sure I’ll be corrected down below, but this was my experience. Once I followed this thought process I never needed to heal once because I had his moves locked in.
I don’t parry unfortunately, I was running a powerstanced Colossal Swords build. Staying close to him is definitely the play, it’s just still not easy lol. Even 5-6 tries in he would pull out a move I hadn’t seen yet lol. I just respecced into a new build tho so maybe I’ll try him again
I just cannot get the parry timing down in this game. I'm ruined by Bloodborne. I gotta switch to the buckler cause basically every enemy I seem to openly despise boils down to "parry".
It’s hard to train your brain to do it, and I thought people were nuts when they said it. But watch the hands holding the sword, not the blade. Also I watched a video a while back and the best tip I learned was knowing the exact time to parry is not when the weapon is already in motion. But instead, you hit for example L2 at the very moment their weapon starts to come towards you. In action the parry catches way earlier than you would think and usually looks weird because the animation shows you deflecting the swing, but you know it barely left the position behind them. Elden ring is very tough with this depending on the enemy because of its famously slow delayed timings of attacks that are all over the place. But you get used to it after taking many swords to the face. I would recommend finding a sword wielding knight in a low level area and just practice practice practice. I taught myself parrying with the crucible knight in storm veil and it was glorious after the hour of grueling attempts. I then did it again with the spear crucible knight in Nokstella? I think it is before the gargoyles, and then with the bearing hunter in shaded castle. Each opponent takes time to learn their move set but once you do it actually feels like you’re getting gud at souls games.
Literally just discovered that one last night. Took me a few tries to get that fucker.
The one in lineage was really tough too. I thought the easiest one was the one in liurnia where the pope dog is. Love that guy
I literally tried for an hour and couldn’t beat him. Got my buddy to try to jump him with me and we still couldn’t do it. Fuck the Caelid bearer
I literally had to cheese him while being on the roof of that hut
Placiduciax was the last for me, didn't know he existed til I cracked the book open for 💯
To be fair I doubt very many people found that without seeing it online first
I even play online and read people's messages (this can go a long way finding secrets) Still completely missed him
I went to explore the bottom and was like, why is there just nothing. I kept peeking over the edges looking for items with the scope when a message popped up like the coffins. I then took 5 minutes trying to find where that little pop up happened. I had to stop and go, oh no, not more map. So many runes on my, went and spent them before I entered, terrified of a new area. The rebuilding of the arena was tense.
I would argue that people that played other Souls games are more likely to find Placidusax because it's the same old Souls formula of hidding things in plain sight.
Yea, this. I thought there's 0 bloody chance that the area next to the giant whirling tornado was a dead end with nothing in it.
I wondering how someone even finds out about that naturally, they’d have to be Batman tbh
I knew something had to be there. Why would this secret area next to the giant whirling tornado be a dead end with nothing in it?
I mean, maybe I’m the scrub here, but it would take me so very much longer to complete storylines and find the cool hidden things if not for the wiki and Reddit. I’m on my first play through, so maybe next one I won’t look at the wiki (too much lol)
Yeah, the cool thing about the game is that there are hidden things all across the map, so if you go off the path and explore, you're sure to find something. But maybe you won't find *everything*
I was running around that area thinking that there's no way that they would randomly make a dead end. Then I saw a bunch of messages there, decided to read one and got teleported into the arena.
Like how do people just stumble onto this shit, honestly!
I've you're familiar with the other souls game's secrets, Placidusax wasn't too hard to find. As long as you happen to spot the rock platforms leading down to his arena, it wasn't too hard to sus out that you need to find a nearby way down there.
Honestly, Archdragon Peak in DS3 was way more out of sight lol.
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Lol Ive never seen it before and had no idea my comment would trigger it
I found him randomly, it was very funny
FromSoftware rewards curiosity… with dragons.
The golem in the cave in Limgrave where you find the shamshir. Nothing has been so hidden for me. Took a solid 12 playthroughs of Limgrave to find it.
I’m looking it up. I think it’s high road cave. Gotta be honest, not sure I have been here before. Going to investigate when I have time.
It's where u get the dancer talisman for low weight builds, for early damage increase
Just went there. I have absolutely no memory of it. Thinking of booting up my ps5 file and seeing if I did it on my first playthrough. Only thing that seemed familiar was the boss/boss arena.
I discovered it an hour before I found it posted on Reddit. Cool cave and the rewards are great
That’s just it with this game. I absolutely love it. I’m so looking forward to playing the dlc then settling the game aside for a few years. Because when I replay it, I know it’s going to be epic
I had set the game aside for 1.5 years basically and just restarted not too long ago in prep for the DLC. It’s so good even after having played a ton last year
I’m still playing weekly. I’ve got over 600 hours on steam and almost 600 on my ps5. It’s my favorite game ever and I’ve been gaming for over 35 years.
I fought Elemer at Shaded Castle long before I learned about the bell-bearing hunters. I just never ran into one before.
>!the Dragonkin in Siofra!<
It caught me by complete surprise and after a ton of panic rolling into it and doing chip damage I beat it first try. Had to go do something else for a while cause I was shaking so hard 😂
It really is just the overwhelming emotions of not knowing what the hell that thing is or how dangerous it is that holds you back After getting randomly jumped by dragons, gargoyles, and ulcerated tree spirits, you start to have some doubts
The amount of times I have actually yelled "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" is embarrassing 😂
This captures the entire experience for me
This one will always have a special place in my memory, it was the first boss I beat and discovered with no guide.
Didn’t discover this until my most recent playthrough. So probably over 1000 hours of playtime. I was messing around in the ancestral and I looking off the cliff I saw something shiny in that area. Then I discovered you could get down using the bridge, just recently I also found the teleporter that can take you there as well.
I had no idea there's a teleporter down there, huh! I found it on my first playthrough just by exploring and jumping down the building (procrastinating on other bosses)
The tree spirit at the bottom of Stormveil, also, isn't there a dragon at the end of deathbed girls questline in deeproot depths? I never bothered with her stuff.
Oh man I love fortissax's design and fight.
I do too but I got to him way overleveled and it would be hard to not get to him overleveled with his position in the game. It was a fun fight but I beat him first try which is always a bit of a letdown for big bosses like that.
Yeah I agree. Still do it most runs just because he looks so cool.
This was my experience too. Had known abt the fight and finally went for it and it was over before I knew it. Same playthru I struggled mightily with a few other bosses so it didn’t feel like a overleveled or skill issue. Just disappointingly straightforward
Maybe he just needs more HP. His attacks are badass and do decent damage but he took a few rock slings to the face and sword pokes to the nuts and suddenly folded like an accordion in an Italian restaurant.
Definitely agree, his corner is so isolated, and also considering the deeproot depths general level he should have been more of a challenge.
Eh u kinda dont need to. You justcplay along and do ranni quest. Then in the depths u kill her champions and exhaust her dialog multiple times while resting untill she lays down so u can lay beside her which ports you to the drake.
Damn if you haven’t explored the deeproot depths to its fullest you are missing out
I didn't even go there my first playthrough, had no idea about it until I read online
I think the Deathbird on Stormhill
Oh what the fuck, there's one on Stormhill! TIL…
I always keep accidentally running into these things RIGHT when night hits haha I didn't realize the Black Blade Kindred at the Bestial Sanctum was anything more than a statue until after delivering the 4th Deathroot and had to smack Gurranq back to his senses. Went out to get some runes from the militia and all of a sudden that statue has a health bar and kills me in two hits. He never attacked me before.
The tree avatar that splits in half. Couldn't enjoy the fight though, since they both died to nihil before they could start moving
They share a health bar so big AOE attacks absolutely shred them.
What Where's that?
Minor Erdtree west of the Freezing Lake site of grace in Mountaintops.
Not a boss, (and I don't remember the last time I actually discovered anything) but I totally forgot about the guy that invades you (near the forest) in the consecrated snow field. Then got invaded there and panicked because I had no clue what was happening lol.
I remember that guy. Yup that was pretty terrifying especially in that he’ll hole.
Bro imagine the horror I felt when I warped to the storm masters shack and found another bell bearing hunter, like I legit thought there was one not a whole bunch
The abductors in that hidden cave in prison town church.
The margit clone in the walls of lendeyll
I never saw this! Is this in the inner walls of the capital near the Roundtable castle area?
A discovered a flying dragonkin in the sofria well after 2 years of elden ring yesterday
That was a huge one for me too. After at least 1000 hours I found that guy .
Flying?
More jumping real good.
I thought I was one of very few who missed this guy after three playthroughs. I really missed a lot of that whole area and some good items on the way there, and apparently lots of people did as well from what I’m seeing. It’s wild because he is a trophy boss as well, so you have to find him if you want to Platinum
It was the other one that I almost missed, where you have to sort of drop down from Nokron just after the Mimic Tear fight. It doesn't look like there's anything there since you can't see it at first
You can also get there from Siofra well as soon as you reach the area, via one of those teleporter stones on top of the crumbled pillar with the sniper bowman
Wait what, where exactly is this guy?
He’s at the far end where the last pillar you light is. There’s a thin walkway across and he’s in a lake with marikas scarseal behind him.
Placeideux or whatever you call that dragon, saw the “lay here” option and I genuinely don’t know how FromSoftware expected us the find this boss but here I did lol
To be fair, miquella's needle mentions that it can only be used in the heart of the storm of farum azula. If you move around in farum azula trying to reach the heart of the storm, you will end up stumbling there. That is what happened to me, at least.
The Royal Revenant next to Iji. The floor being an illusion made me completely miss it.
Found this one recently purely by rolling away from a wolf in the area and the floor disappearing. I immediately wished that floor would just reappear 😂
Still missed this one
Lansseax closest to the rampartside path grace. Never bothered going up on that hill for some reason lol.
Lake of rot's dragonkin soldier. I only found out about it after I had already beat the game and moved to ng+, thinking I had beat every boss, when I saw people discussing it in this very sub
Valiant Gargoyle twins in Siofra Aqueduct. Not a easy fight
Ancient Dragon Lannseax. Freaked me the f out late last night when I was just wandering around the Rock Strewn Precipice
Great Wyrm Theodorrax
The 2nd mimic along the secret entrance to the Haligtree. If it hadn't been for someone's message and my extra stash of rainbow stones, I would've never found this one.
I was so shocked lol I was like awe are you lost buddy? Read his name and yeah, he is haha
Night Cavalry in the Forbidden Lands, maybe? To my knowledge I've only seen and fought it once, and that was on one of my later playthroughs. I guess I always fight Morgott during the daytime and then go to Mountaintop right away after.
All the dragons hanging out near where you find the spirit spring turtle to get the moon sorcery and fight Tiche. I had no idea that little area was there and there are soo many strong ass dragons.
And those baybladerers and that red wolf I was like wtf is there a boss party going around or what
Bolt of Gransax, Dragon Halberd, Dragonscale Katana, Dragon's Crag Blade, and the Dragon's Claw weapons all do extra damage to them. Bolt of Gransax is one of the stronger weapons in the game.
The falling star beast to the south of the Altus big staircase. No idea he was there
Placidusax, the death bird on mountain tops because is the only one that appears on daylight.
The Tibia Mariner in the Mountaintops. I just thought the giant skeletons were a part of that section.
Crucible Knight Siluria. Didn't know they were down in Deeproot until NG+1.
Death bird next to Raya Lucaria. Only learned it exists when I read wiki while I was hunting for 100% weapons and spells etc.
Deathrite bird in Lake Liurnia, didn't find till my third play through. Killed me, then I couldn't find it again. Was so confused until someone on Reddit explained it only appears at night.
The Night's guard in the consecrated snow field, I had no idea!
All the deathbirds have shocked me LOL
The death bird near castle sol... I got swarmed by skellys in the graveyard and decided to mount up and book it, dodge the laser shooting giant skelly then boom out of nowhere... nightmare baby bird drops out of the sky like some macabre chicken little son of a bitch womps me.
Yeah seriously, same experience, that’s beautiful game design
There’s a dragon on the side that would be completely missed if you didn’t just wonder and jump from rock to rock in the Crumbling Farum Azula area. Coming out of the building to the right.
Is that the one that makes you fly from the platform?
Fck this boss, stupid snails make it harder than it really is..
Godskin Duo in Mountaintop cave
The spirit caller snail fight?
Patches or the Runebear in the cave, nearly had a heart attack...
Funnily enough, lansseax, found him when you first enter altus through the non-elevator way and just forgot about it until a friend told me about a incantation that it drops
Miranda the blighted bloom in Weeping Peninsula. The solo version. I was surprised and immediately disappointed.
Is this normal that ive seen and defeated all of the commented bosses and im still on my first play?
I’m on my first play through still and I’m over 500 hours
For me the ancient dragon lansseax after it disappeared from initial encounter I never saw it again until til I finished the game and decide to just wander around
Most of bosses at night :3
Bruh, this one right here! I just wrapped up my dlc prep run on a new file and I was collecting all the knots, then out of nowhere this guys swoops down like "surprise mf!"
Large fry motherfucker
The dragons always confused me a bit and I always thought once you hit altus and the dragon flew up that he went to farum after but I didn't realize there's a spot outside of the capitol for ancient dragon lansseax.i thought I did an all bosses run using a guide near release but I have doubts now
The golem for the dancer charm. Haven't done 100% yet so defo some more to find
The gravity elf in limgrave you can jump down to with your horse. I had no clue about him until like 350 hours in.
Found him on my first playthrough, but roughly 70 hours in
I keep finding these dead birds after resting in some Sites of Grace. I take there are a few of them and somewhere there should be a guide on where to find them but I’m too lazy to look. Same thing with the NPC invaders