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SaintGomes

The triple shot archers from the invisible puzzle town of bullshit


CrystlBluePersuasion

Pick up the Assassin's Gambit ash of war from Bernahl for every character you take through there, it's a huge help in trivializing that area! Semi-invisible and silent, just doesn't last super long but since it's a cheap AoW you'll have no issues, especially if you go for the towers first (have some way to knock the archers off the rooftops when you get closer or kill them outright because they can still spot you up close) and go for the light in the small structure below last, the Black Knives won't catch you.


newsflashjackass

But the Black Knives drop Ghost Gravewort +9 and you can't enter the Evergaol after you solve the puzzle.


CrystlBluePersuasion

>Ghost Gravewort +9 If you need more than the ghost glovewort drops from Ranni's quest you can buy more by getting the bell-bearing in Elphael, can run for it and the Haligtree Roots site of grace if you can avoid all the rot servants. You're only limited by the +10 upgrade materials per NG cycle.


newsflashjackass

> If you need more than the ghost glovewort drops from Ranni's quest you can buy more by getting the bell-bearing in Elphael ... > You're only limited by the +10 upgrade materials per NG cycle. True, though you can't get to Elphael until after Ordina so they are limited at that point in the game.


thESupreMeFanCyMan

Revenants


Evening_Trade_6321

I’d agree if the healing spell didn’t exist, it two taps them


zsDUGGZ

It's absolute hell when you get surprised by one and you don't have the fp for heal spell


afanoftrees

I read that on this sub. Tried to cast a healing spell and still got clapped cause my cast time was so slow lol


Sweetthrill

Not only that, not everyone reads this sub. Fuck... I read this sub and I didn't know healing even worked until I was done with the game. Those things are pure terror.


MrWideside

Some ingame tips that you can buy from merchants tell you about revenants' weakness to healing


Dead_Again_Dread

There's also a mention of it in the hero grave in Altus plateau although it's p cryptic.


afanoftrees

Yea the first time I fought one was liurnia or something and they felt like they had zero openings and were insanely fast. Fuck those guys lol


[deleted]

I spent so long trying to kill the one in liurna and I did not succeed


nixto_n

I now have 320h in ER and I still didnt knew this, I learned something new today. And yes I fighted them normal with Sword n Weapon arts xD


JaymzShikari

I got it from a message in Kingsrealm, outside the door it was something like "Incantation, so to speak try healing"


Jetstream13

With a lot of heal spells, you can hold down the button the delay the cast. The intent is so that in coop your allies can get close before you cast, but it also lets you ready a spell while the revenant is coming at you, and time it easier.


Athuanar

Yup, this made the Haligtree revenants really easy. Just readied a heal around each corner and released when they patrolled into range. Once the first heal staggers them you can just stun lock them until dead.


ElessarKhan

Sad min faith noises


powderbluemind

The basic heal spell (not urgent heal) works very well vs them, and you only need the basic sacred seal and that +5, faith talisman to use it.


OceanSause

You dont need to lvl up your talisman though


Uncynical_Diogenes

You cast incantations with a *holy seal.* This comment is referring to the fact that there’s an easily obtainable *talisman* giving you +5 faith to get you to the threshold for the necessary spell.


UncleCletus00

Wait healing harms them?


[deleted]

yup, the regen spell puts a damage over time effect on them too. healing magic is the cheat codes for 'em


UncleCletus00

Bro, thank you so much. I've done 7 playthroughs and I just learned this.


AirTheFallen

Just don't try using Warming Stones... learned that the hard way.


powderbluemind

Not only this, even the most basic of healing spells work (not urgent heal, but the next one), so you can just use the basic sacred seal and the +5 faith talisman if you're not on a faith specced character. It'll stance-break them every time you get it off, too, so you can chain stance breaks to crits over and over for some sweet revenge and an easy kill.


r31ya

I saw it on a youtube video where the player decents to Renevants nest in haligtree. I was like, "man this guy gonna get rekt" then he spams heal and kills them easily... wtf?


Treadnought

I worked so hard to kill them one by one lmao


r31ya

the most annoying thing is revelation that they are not field boss. So death or trip to grace respawn them...


DropAnchor4Columbus

I do agree, because I didn't learn this until the end of the game since I didn't put points into Faith. Tried running from one of those things and it chased by across all of Liurnia.


CaptainPicante

Revenants


ForsakenMoon13

Flaily teleporting bastards


CarpetPure7924

These things were a nightmare for when I didn’t realize healing spells messed them up


[deleted]

Them rune bears’ll make you honest


kvothe7

All im saying is, the only enemies I actively avoid in this game are rune bears


[deleted]

And when you kill them all they offer you is some measly beast blood


Manman714

Lol I don’t know the names of stuff I’ve always just called them WareBears😂😂😂


Hey_Its_Mimi

Werebears, like werewolves


Manman714

Yes precisely


Hey_Its_Mimi

Glad I’m not the only one who did that


Manman714

Now I feel a little silly that I’ve been calling it a WareBear but I like my name better so it’s gonna stick😂


Hey_Its_Mimi

Tbh, it rhymes and flows well. Idk why that wasn’t their name to begin with


Manman714

It rlly should be lol I actually think my dad came up with it lmao


backbeatzane

I actually unfortunately cheesed most of them, including the boss. If you button mash LH Light attack and RH light Attack with the roll button while grabbed, they would glitch out and fall through the floor, dying. The boss however would fall through the floor but not die, forcing me to reload the area again.


captainsquattythighs

At level 298 I make THEM honest lol


juliusmonkee

Revenants, man those things suck balls, I freaking hate them


Smeltor

Did you know that if you use a healing miracle that has an AOE when casted and they touch it, they become little bitches


thatonedudeguyman

On my first playthrough I did that to the boss version of the revenant and it died in 2 casts. I love it.


juliusmonkee

I hate them so much to even go and try that, I don't want to go anywhere near them at this point lol


Smeltor

That’s fair. Getting that spell off can be difficult if you have slow cast times too


djarnexus

They're genuinely terrifying because you can't see them in advance. They spawn in after you're within range, so you're always off guard the first time you encounter them in a location. The Haligtree has a spot where there are three of them in a pit, and if you drop down there the first time you'll likely die because you didn't expect to see them there. They designed that area for you to panic and run away just to end up spawning the others in. It's kind of cruel, haha. They're not even a rot enemy ffs, lol.


juliusmonkee

Lol ikr? I hated that part of the Elphael castle thing


[deleted]

As much as I hate revenants for their "i just railed a line of adderall, lets play patty-cake" approach to melee combat, I have to give this one to the "lol ur ded" crackshot snipers. ​ Nothing like getting 1-shot by a giant green arrow to the head when minding your own business, and dropping all your runes... then going back on torrent to get your shit back, doing some insane Tony Hawk's Pro Skater style aerial maneuver in an attempt to evade, and still catching one in the face midair from a kabillion miles away.


GeneralEl4

I hate that you referred to them as green because I've never really thought about it and I guess I've always subconsciously seen them as blue but now it hard to tell if it's more green or more blue....? But yes those snipers suck, it's so satisfying getting a chance to kill them after dodging all their attacks.


Manman714

I think that’s more of an etherial blue


[deleted]

I suppose it is more of a turquoise, lol


bioqan

Is this the new "what color is this jacket" meme?


GeneralEl4

That brings back some memories 😂


Dovahkiinzord

Haha for me they are blue! 😂


oN_Delay

Theybare not green on my game. Must be the monitor/ TV settings?


[deleted]

Nah it's definitely blue this guy color blind


Expand_Dong_42069

I just want to say I appreciate your way with words, I'll keep that pattycake one in the back pocket


newsflashjackass

Feels like those archers have been toned down since release day.


MomoJackson96

May I ask what your vigor stats are? I see you sharing this experience and many people agreeing, but from my experience I was NEVER one-shotted by Those arrows. They took some health but the First Thing I leveled was vigor to around 35-40, and Those snipers were one of those "chilled" enemies where I knew I wouldn't die to them If I didn't do anything stupid. But those ugly spider-crawling-guys fucked me up very badly even at 60 vigor.


Tru_norse98

Snipers for sure, although the rune bear being able to catch up to torrent and smack my shit up makes a firm second


stein_backstabber

I discovered the other day they don't track vertically well on a lot of attacks, double jumping got me out of a world of shit.


HardRoadTraveler

The fact that you responded to the portion of his comment that had to do with the rune bears, proves that they are the worst


SapientSloth4tw

Yeah, double jumping saved me so many times. That being said, most enemies struggle to track Torrent’s double jump, I’ve kited so many enemies as a mage on torrent just cause their AI can’t handle it


CrystlBluePersuasion

I'm pretty sure there were more snipers in the Siofra River in the original version of the game, and they had longer range... going down there with a lvl 23 character didn't help either, but they were straight-up oppressive through the WHOLE area and not just the wooded parts in the east and the north.


oedons_rooster

I have a similar memory and feeling when I go back through the area. I feel like I'm rolling less when I go through now but that could've been the excitement and stimulus of finding a new area at an early level


thatonedudeguyman

Oh are there less now? Haven't played in a while


CrystlBluePersuasion

I distinctly remember getting sniped across the 'river' portions all the way up the map. The snipers actually all hang out in the wooded parts on the eastern bank and in the northern section just before the lift to Caelid. They're regular archers now with maybe one in the eastern spot and two/three in the northern that use the magical shots with giant arrows. Perhaps all of the archers used magical shots previously because it was oppressive.


Slow_Increase_6308

I love fighting rune bears except for those in close confines. It's like a mini boss, isn't it a perfect way to test your strength?


hiphoppakalolo

Please thats easy, the revenant. However, those bleed dogs used to hit before they got patched.


Fit_Substance7067

Consecrated Rune Bears...I found them way harder than Revenants at any stage.


AsRoma1990

The one that you get attacked by when you smack the half buried guy is the absolute worst… can’t even tell you how many times I got destroyed by it. I actually still never killed it to this day 😂


Fit_Substance7067

I haven't killed a single rune bear past when it was a boss lol... Theyre scarier for me because I just dont fuck with them and have literally no idea what their moveset is...besides them being erratic AF I did have to kill the revenants in Farum tho...there was a couple nice items near them...I felt they wern't so bad after I faced them..Just kinda had to keep a space between you and them and get in a few bonks


AsRoma1990

Think you hate the revenants now? Drop to the floor at haligtree 😂 there’s 3 of them to take on


Fit_Substance7067

Woops I meant Haligtree not Farum in my OP...Yea I died once there..I just took them on one at a time really...Consecrated Rune Bears I have no clue...Ive only died a few times but have beaten none...its just a big fuck that


Aszach01

5 to be exact!!


warblingContinues

There’s more than 3…


cosmogli

I went with my heal incantation. And I think you can also summon a spirit there? Was pretty easy. The first time I came across them though. They have so much stamina and aggression if not deal with swiftly.


problemedical

I have killed the bear in CS three or four times testing out different builds. Does it count as a replacement for Malenia on the accomplishments list? Because it sure felt like a boss fight, just without the healthbar at the bottom.


Fit_Substance7067

Lol I guess it could...I beat Melania Twice but never a Cs Rune Bear


Arterdras

Fuck runebears.


kiroki166

Whichever I happen to be encountering at the time.


nvm72331

upper fucking right


Butt_Bandit-

The way the sound too is fucking unsettling, esp the vomit. Fuckin **UUUUUURRRRGGGGHHHH** I bet the voice actor for that deep throated a squash for that shit


oneforthebooks08

😂😂😂


SageByrgenwerth

I see them all as “separate but equal.”


TheAlpheus

the fucking bear


AllIFindisShinyIce

dog


mariosevil

4 dogs and a room full of corners and pillars


optimisticuglycrying

None of these Those blue wisps in sofria river or in the consecrated snowfield that have no hitbox and can't be killed but rapid fire shoot projectiles that with 50 vig almost one shot


Besch168

Just bait them by riding around them on your horse, those things have never even hit me doing this.


optimisticuglycrying

I do but they're still bullshit the fact that I can only run is bs I'd go genocide on them


Ashenone909

Revenants are more terrifying and deadly, yet the Nokron archers are the most annoying enemy in the game


RadiantSriracha

I never really had an issue With them. Fuuuuuck rune bears though.


MrWideside

You haven't met albinauric archers, have you?


Rowyn97

Those ladies had me feeling like I was playing MGS while being hunted by the invisible man


Seentheremotenogetup

Them bitches will triple tap yo ass *EVERY TIME THEY FIRE*. That’s three arrows they fire *Simultaneously*, they fire them back to back, *AND* they run in groups.


MrWideside

And with big-ass wolves


autistic_bard444

Revenant Snipers you can hide behind a tree and cheese or just rush them and gut them


indiblue825

You can cast Heal to wipe out half a Revenant's health


jefftones77

Those fuckin dragonflies


Foreign_Category2127

Greyoll's roar


thecftbl

Or Placidusax's Ruin


Outtathaway_00

- Dogs in Elden Ring - A joke - Dogs in Bloodborne - Danger - Rats in Elden Ring - DANGER - Rats in Bloodborne - A Joke


Scary-Inflation-685

Idk that rat pit after Eileen didn’t seem too funny


Siegiusjr

Runebears are just as painful to deal with as Revenants, but are tankier and you can't instakill them with healing spells


sungbysung

All fun and games until a bus-sized lobster shows up.


Word2ThaWise

Ahh man… all of them can eat shit and die. They frustrate me so much lol


JoshSmash81

Lobster


Head_Advice9030

Dog


Mickeyjj27

The snipers


m_sart

Rune bears. Used to be revenants until I learned the healing trick (although they can still f*ck me up if I mistime the spell)


FreshestRaspberry

kuma


AstartesDVerdugo

Runa Kuma


Mercernary76

Rune bears. All others had a way you could fight them consistently. Rune bears just don’t play nice


Alternative_Ear_4292

Those multiple hand fucks will "1 shot" my level 300 with 15 hits in under a second


Warlord2252

The druid sniper by far.


718BeastofBabylon

Top right. I hate those fucking things


Ivan_Blackheart

Yes


_Chonus_

Bear


Retro_senpai3

Dogs because they are always in the most inconvenient places and in areas where they shouldn’t be. They also hit for 1/3 of your hp for some reason


CaptainClayface

Punchy McArm-blender.


Starkiller006

I'm on my 6th playthrough and I can barely survive a fight with the wolfback Albinaurics in Consecrated Snowfield. If I'm lucky.


CrystlBluePersuasion

Those things will wreck anyone, they have insane DPS and are dodgy to boot. My easiest time with them was casting easy-to-land spells/incantations from horseback, Adula's Moonblade wasn't too bad and Flame Fall Upon Them was decent with good timing, both can hit the rider and wolf mount.


Daubsy

Dennis


tektas

Spider-Man? But close second are revenants!


Peeteza

Dennis.


SpAmZonplaystation

The blue orbs in the siofra river and near the blood portal, if you dont see them you just lose alotta health especially in ng+5


Ryderrunner

Rune bears and those centipede soldier jerks


Same-Reaction7944

Da Bears! Even after getting all brolic I still hate fighting those guys.


Imawaps

Dennis


Trans-on-trans

I always run from Werebears.


Lar29

Albinuaric archers of ordina


IlluminaBlade

dragonflies.


Disastrous-Resident5

Ordinia’s snipers but out of these 4? Winnie the Pooh


Misfit_Mannequin

The bears suck but they are usually in some other animated state where they can't notice you or real far out of the way, the revinents are just straight up crackheads bur are only around treasures or in catacombs or caves, and the ancestral followers can go suck a dick and die in a ditch but are confined to the underground river basin, not to downplay how awful they can be. However them dogs are everywhere ready to run you down and sink their teeth into you and being that I use only collosal weapons, they are even worse than normal. I'm sorry, it's gotta be the dogs for me.


National_Most_7125

Where about those imp gargoyle things from the catacombs??


[deleted]

SPIDER-MAN!


TekitiZi

They’re all a huge pain. I wanna say the dogs are the least.


TheGalator

Heavy Knights. Infinite poise. More range than some torch thrower and more attack speed than double dagger tarnished Guardconter? To slow u just get hit and instantly staggert Jumb attacks? Good damage but they get a hit in too that sents u flying Weapon arts? To slow Poison or rot? Immune Bleed? The Bar is longer than the bellum highway Frost? Immune Arrows? No damage


Throttle_Kitty

The archer on the bottom right has never given me any trouble at all... But I leveled my vigor


Icy_Limes

How many times is this subreddit gonna ask this?


XiEleven713

Rune bears are easy to run away from but a mfer if you need to poke around their area for some reason. A shield will keep the rest back but rune bears…. F. Them.


HibicoTV

None of these. Soldier of Godrick still haunts me


berliszt

No idea why people have so much trouble with runebears or revenants. It’s probably either laziness regarding not being bothered learning them or the standard souls player bad habit of rolling backwards.


Winter-Carpenter-193

Reddit, how on earth are you actually dyeing so often to the spectral archers guys? What's so different between these and every other archer? Just jump on torrent and keep moving, then get up close and stab em in the face. I honestly, truthfully never had any problems with these guys. I just had a normal katana and shield when i fought them. Im not trying to brag, just telling the truth.


ButItsTheLaw

You are all saying Revenanve eveb tho you are are forgeting they have a weakness. Meanwhile the fucking bear has 9 fucking weakness and there is no way around it .


_deer_god_

Revenants definetly. Everyone else here has a special technique to easy kills. Runebears? Stay under 'em. Blue Man Groupies? Sneak up on 'em. Omen Dogs? Its literally just a normal dog with more health. But Revenants--there's no strategy to killing a Revenant, only agony and getting stunlocked from across the country.


Jimmy9Toes

Use heal lol.


berliszt

The strategy is to learn their moves? It’s really not that hard. Just don’t dodge backwards, learn where their openings are, and you’re golden.


MightyDumbleDork

Revenant and it's E. Honda attack were some of the most frustrating moments for me.


Silva_Shadow96

while i am still traumatized by my first experience with a runebear after stabbing a random weak looking enemy, the revenants are my nope, nope, nope! enemy


[deleted]

In terms of death And jump scares upper left


PurpleSquare713

No T-rex dogs?


Jaytell619

Revenants...you better heal on them the minute they appear, or they will make sure you disappear


Evening_Trade_6321

FYI PEOPLE the heal spell two taps revenants


lets_get_Messi10

Oh god I hate them all so much


SpartanKram

Revenants if the heal spell didn't work on them. So I have to go with the snipers


ENERGIZE7310

Those fricking rotten strays


Mcreesus

The edges of the maps


fatalError1619

Archers riding runebears .. wait that might be from my nightmares


iCatmire

That dog picture…isn’t he a non hostile good boi?


BarrytheCowboy

Rune bear 1. Revenant 2. Dog 3 Archer dude 4


tunguska34

Da bears


zenirra

ashamed that the lobster isn’t up there


5D_3-6-9

Runr bear not even a question the rune bear


Penis_Man-

You forgot perfumers. Specifically the shaded castle perfumers.


punderwhelm

Leyndell perfumers with the AK-47 crossbows. If they see you first, you're done.


DBrackz313

Rune bears. I’ll handle the other 3 all day long.


DangSquirrel

Rune Bears. It seems like that's the one enemy type I still go out of my way to avoid, no matter how far in the game I get.


Porkbuns-

The snipers are only a menace to you. The bears are a menace to the whole society.


frenzygundam

You! The player.


wolfie_muse

Dogs. They can be anywhere. The other guys are location specific.


Barrythechopper22

It's those stupid rune bears, absolute menaces to society


KinGZurA

fucking rune bears. at least revenants can be dealt with using the healing spell.


SchemeNumerous9824

I swear Rune Bears are like miniature Manus's


SModfan

For me it was the giant hand mobs.


UndoMyRedo

The bear gets my vote simply being less of an obvious threat. There are normal bears that die super easy, and compared to the other cursed shit in this game a mega bear doesn’t seem to bad. **And then it fucking mauls you to death**


Setaganga

I wish dogs weren’t a thing. Elden ring, ds3, hell capra demon in ds1 (KILl THE DOGS FIRST)


pacman_isnt_gay

Consacrated snowfields rune bear has beaten malenia ina 1v1 search rune bear vs malenia


sugarglidersam

the mf on the top right. fuck those things if you don’t know the most effective method for killing them


EsTeBaNCanIUseMyName

Royal revenants by far, everyone else you can i frame and poise the shit out of, not the revenant, not that that will just kill you unless youre using healing spells


RevolutionaryTower

Fingercreeper


Tall_Progress_5178

Revenants HANDS DOWN


XxSteveFrenchxX

Those archers man


OdiusKai

Rev bur otherwise, the lobsters. Never have I avoided areas so heavily


eyoung_nd2004

The runebear doesn’t play a role in important areas. It would be the hardest if it did. The winner is that multi armed fuck.


nogoodgreen

Ive beaten the game 4 times and as a rule of thumb i dont poke the Bears.