Elden Ring Defiled Root Monster

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Elden Ring guide: Stormveil Castle basement grave and root monster boss fight walkthrough

Discover the subconscious area, and beat the root monster

By Mar 4, 2022, 4:40pm EST

Elden Ring's Stormveil Castle is bigger than nosotros thought, and in this Elden Ring guide, we'll show you how to achieve the most hidden surface area in a Legacy Dungeon total of hidden areas, destroy some rats, collect items, and defeat a boss who isn't exactly a boss just is totally, actually, unquestionably a dominate.

We don't know exactly what to call this unnamed expanse in Stormveil Castle. It's kind of the basement. Information technology's kind of a grave. Forgive us if nosotros use the descriptors interchangeably. Or together. Which nosotros totally will.

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How to find the basement grave in Stormveil Castle

You've got two options, depending on what you lot've done so far. We'll tackle them in their own sections below, just we tin can't recommend the first option more.

Either way you go down, pillage the corpse on the broken flying buttress for Smithing Stone [ii] x2 and the body on the ground for Golden Rune [2].

Option 1: The Liftside Chamber locked door

If y'all've unlocked the door nigh the Liftside Bedchamber site of grace, information technology'south easy: Walk correct through the door, and caput down. If y'all haven't, check out our guide to opening the Liftside Chamber locked door. It's worth the trouble.

Option ii: Over the corpse ledge

If you actually don't want to unlock the door, leave the Liftside Sleeping room room into the courtyard and turn left.

You tin can drop downwards here, merely you'll waste precious health.

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Drop downward the ledge. You'll survive the autumn, but you lot'll lose a significant corporeality of health and have to burn a healing flask, which is much more valuable to have in the upcoming boss fight.

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Rats and items

Ahead of your are four rats: three small and 1 large. Take down the iii small rats kickoff, ideally from range, and never all at once if you can avert it. They're the quintessential kind of FromSoftware enemy that seems relatively harmless solitary only is mortiferous in a grouping.

The giant rat is hiding behind the pillar, waiting to ambush you.

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At the opposite stop of the room from which y'all descended, you'll encounter a corpse to pillage. The giant rat hiding in the darkness behind a colonnade is much more difficult to see. Accept information technology out, and pillage the nearby body for Poisonbloom x3, a crafting material.

Wait a moment and listen for the faint ringing of bells, which means that there's a Teardrop Scarab nearby. Sprint through the room on the right, and come out swinging. Defeat it, and you'll go Rancorcall, a sorcery that "summons vengeful spirits that chase downward foes." It requires 16 Intelligence and, interestingly, xiv Faith.

The simply thing left is the boss fight, and it's a doozy.

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Ulcerated Tree Spirit boss fight

Here's where you'll fight the root monster

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At the bottom, past the rats, you lot'll face an Ulcerated Tree Spirit root monster. Here'due south the matter: It'southward conspicuously a boss fight, but it's not named, and it doesn't have a boss' behemothic wellness bar at the bottom of the screen. You tin can actually find it (or thinks only like information technology) in multiple locations, Stormveil Castle being simply one. In some of those places, it gets a name. So Ulcerated Tree Spirit is what we're going with.

You lot don't have to fight it now. You lot can come back. Only defeat information technology, and y'all'll receive a Golden Seed to upgrade your flasks. Loot the corpses in the surface area for the post-obit:

• Stonesword Key
• Throwing Dagger x8
• Smoldering Butterfly
• Prince of Death'southward Pustule, a talisman that raises vitality

Once again, defeating the root monster here is optional. Yous can always come back. Just it's likewise achievable. Our communication is simple. Information technology's all about execution.

• Use a blood loss weapon. Weapons that crusade blood loss, including the Wolverine-like Hookclaws that you lot can easily detect well-nigh the Stormveil Cliffside site of grace, cause blood loss buildup. Essentially, every hitting fills an invisible meter. When that meter is full, you lot cause blood loss, which is nothing more than than an incredible amount of damage. Against relatively weak enemies, this isn't terribly useful because they can dice before the blood loss takes effect. Only strong enemies like bosses are ideal for building upwardly and dealing blood loss.
• Equip a 100% physical harm shield. The root monster'due south standard attacks are devastating to your HP. If you lot hold up a shield with 100% Physical damage, like the Fauna Crest Heater Shield, it will negate all damage (in the first half of the fight, provided y'all accept enough stamina).
• Haligdrake Talisman. In the second half of the fight, the Ulcerated Tree Spirit glows yellow, which as far every bit we're aware means Holy impairment. The Haligdrake Talisman, which yous can find in a cave off of a beach in W Limgrave, "boosts holy damage negation."
• Don't get greedy. Your job, since this root monster is so powerful and difficult, is mostly to stay alive. Concentrate on blocking its attacks, managing your stamina, and only attacking a couple hits at a fourth dimension. This is a state of war of compunction that you can win slowly.
• Run away from explosions. In the second half of the fight, the dominate will occasionally burn brighter yellow, and then explode. Run abroad earlier you get caught in the explosion. It'south basically instant decease.

You tin can warp your way out, or you can take the ladder. Yous should totally take the ladder just to encounter where you end up.

Source: https://www.polygon.com/elden-ring-guide-walkthrough/22958785/stormveil-castle-grave-rats-boss-fight-root-monster-ulcerated-tree-spirit

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