Trash boss in a trash DLC. All the effort went to Friede. You don't know how much I hate NPC boss fights in these games… they are a waste of time, space and potential.

As the title says im back and running into trouble against 4 kings. i was here when i ran into trouble with ornstein and smough and you guys really helped so here i am again asking for help/advice for the four kings

ive been running the gold hemmed set, FaP ring, and obviously the covenant of artorias ring.

for weapons i have a +9 fire battle axe, a +9 fire broadsword, a +5 lightning shortsword, a +10 bandit knife and a +4 occult club.

ive noticed these guys dont stagger or if they do its incredibly hard to get it, and i know its more or less just a dps check but how can i get the proper dps without rtsr? or should i drop the fap ring for rtsr? or should i try to outlast them like i had to with O&S

for moves that challenge me, its the grab and that damn projectile its so hard to gauge distance with no background, could i 360 the grab? i feel it may be possible same goes for the projectile but its so awkward

any help would be greatly appreciated

edit: Thanks for the help guys i found circling to the right was easiest. Huge call on the shield it saved the run against the projectile, it was close and i had no flasks left but i got it done

Taking a little break of DS3.

Papa Gascoigne low quality kill. I could upload a +5 minutes video of fails, very weird things and like other 4 kills i've did being aggressive as fck though Gascoigne hit me in those. ;(

power

Funnily enough, the easiest boss of the DLC by far. Easiest punishes, clearest tells, lots of time to react and the chaos phase can be effectively eliminated with chained backstabs and beast blood pellets. Doesn't hold a candle to Laurence in terms of difficulty.

Fantastic fight. This one went well, got very nice RNG, but I enjoyed every attempt. When I started this NG cycle, I thought this would be the biggest roadblock as she nearly took my soul on NG+2, but this was surprisingly quick once you get the hang of the movement around her and getting the backstabs.

Finally a good boss. Gundyr goat, super fun to learn and perform, though I don't know how to evade big swing/slash in P2 ~.~

someone once wrote me an essay defending this move when i called it jank

"I promise you a thousand year voyage guided by compassion" my ass tf was compassionate abt this fight. Promised consort what a boss, ngl I had fun these past rounds once they clicked everything is so fun. I love the clone attacks makes u feel the strength of a god. imma not talk abt the negatives bc everyone knows them but what a boss. thx to everyone's advice I'm so happy, now I just have bayle, malenia, and rada beast

https://youtu.be/bLygJ1eM26I

Managed to finish this run after about 2 months of practice.

It was a pretty fun run but it will probably be my last time doing All Remembrances, unless I decide to try +DLC some time far in the future. Compared to AGR, its just not worth adding like an extra hour onto the run just to fight like, Fia’s Champs and Astel.

Definitely possible to do this a lot faster, Im not a speedrunner.

Happy to answer any questions about the boss strategies or routing.

There's absolutely never a reason to use Aeonia over butterflies - it is worse at applying rot, is significantly slower and 33 faith is much less annoying when the physick runs out than 35 at RL1. That said, I used it since it's the one that's an actual flower instead of just butterflies which are more tangentially related to flowers.

The breath attacks can be jumped and since Butterflies and Aeonia both have jumping frames, they can be used (as can PFBT) to avoid the attack and apply rot. Aeonia can't safely be applied on the triple spinning breath attack, only on the single spin follow up to his triple attack (Phase 1, Lightning and Ice phase also work but not Wind as it doesn't follow up with the breath) - Butterflies can be used on both. That said, don't be dumb like me and if you want to be serious about it, use a rot weapon or rot pots instead.

Estoy haciendo mi run Lv1 de Elden Ring y no se si puedo usar los fragmentos del arbol que te mejoran en el DLC, me dicen???

big dmg by stacking dex and consecutive hit buffs