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  • Decease Rite Bird Overview
  • Death Rite Bird Attacks
  • Strategies
  • General Tips

Death Rite Bird is a Field Boss in Elden Ring. The dominate is optional and is non mandatory for whatsoever ending in the game. To confront the boss, one must modify the time of the mean solar day to Night Fourth dimension for a Death Bird to spawn. Death Birds are considered one of the easier bosses in the game. However, Death Rite Birds are different. They have a dissimilar motion ready, more harm, and can inflict statuses such as Frostbite and Death Blight.

Every bit the boss is optional, yous can come back to it anytime in the game. Here is all you need to know to defeat Death Rite Bird.

Decease Rite Bird Overview

Tarnished facing Death Rite Bird in a snowy area.
Death Rite Bird Overview
Location
  • Liurnia of the Lakes
  • Caelid
  • Mountaintops of the Giants
  • Consecrated Snowfields
Optional Yes
Summons Players and Spirit Ashes
Drops Liurnia of the Lakes:
  • seven,800 Runes
  • Ancient Decease Rancor
Caelid:
  • 15,000 Runes
  • Death'due south Poker
Mountaintops of the Giants:
  • 77,000 Runes
  • Death Ritual Spear
Consecrated Snowfields:
  • 220,000 Runes
  • Explosive Ghostflame
Weak To
  • Physical Strike Damage
  • Holy Impairment

In that location are four Death Rite Birds, located in various areas, and they merely appear at night fourth dimension. The boss fight is optional, and y'all tin can come up back to them later. There are no summonable NPCs for the fight equally these are Field bosses. Sometimes the Death Rite Birds might be close to enemies causing them to bring together the fight. To avoid this, make sure the area is articulate earlier taking on the boss.

The boss is Immune to most statuses and is Stiff against Lightning Damage. Defeating each boss will give you either a melee armament you tin can use or a Sorcery for Magic users.

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Death Rite Bird Attacks

Death Bird Rite slashing the player with the Death weapon.

Compared to Death Birds, Expiry Rite Birds take a variety of new attacks. The attacks to look out for are Death Roar and Black Flame Pelting.

Jumping Smash

Death Rite Bird jumping and try to stomp the player.

The boss jumps up in the air showing its paws and and so smashes down on you. The dominate stays in the air for a couple of seconds before coming down.

Counter : Dodging sideways equally the boss comes down will avoid the assail and give you plenty time to get a few hits in.

Peck Attack

The boss pecking the player with its beak.

Decease Rite Bird lowers its head and starts to peck the histrion multiple times.

Counter : Roll to either side and endeavor to become behind its back so that you tin get free hits in.

Decease Roar

The boss roaring at the player to cause Death Build Up.

The boss starts to Roar making a terrifying noise and causing Death Blight to build up if a role player is in range. The boss Roars twice. If Decease Blight status is filled, you lot will die instantly.

Counter : Every bit this attack does non have much range, you tin run abroad from the dominate as yous see information technology doing the kickoff Roar. Stay abroad until information technology does the 2d Roar, afterwards which you can go dorsum to it.

Thrust Fire Explosion

The boss thrusting its weapon to cause AOE explosion.

Death Rite Bird thrusts its weapon at the player and forms a Blackness Flame Ball which causes an AOE explosion to take place.

Counter : You have to roll sideways for the thrust as well equally the explosion that comes right after it.

Black Flame Rain

The boss causing Black Flames to shoot from its wings.

The boss floats up, flies back, and fires multiple spears from its wings into the sky. After a second, these spears start to pelting down on the player.

Counter : You tin run away from the area as you see the boss firing the spears from its wings. You can also coil effectually the expanse to dodge most of the spears if yous can not run away from the area.

Black Flame Row

The boss using Black Flame Row on the player.

Death Rite Bird sweeps its pikestaff and causes a trail of Black Fire to form ahead of it.

Counter : This attack is slow telegraphed and tin be dodged to either side with ease.

Black Flame Slash

Death Bird Rite slashing the player with the Death weapon.

The boss uses its weapon covered in Death Flame and slashes at the player one to three times. This deals damage over time, and getting hitting past multiple attacks can impale you.

Counter : The attacks are slow and have a little delay in each slash, giving you plenty time to roll towards the boss and counterattack it.

Jumping Black Flame Slash

Death Rite Bird jumping to the air.

Death Rite Bird jumps up in the air and dives down to perform a Black Flame slash attack on the player.

Counter : Dodging this equally the dominate comes down to slash you lot is the only way to avert this. Your dodge timing for this attack needs to be precise.

Blackness Flame Explosion

The dominate charges its weapon with Black Flame and slams it downward on the ground causing a massive AOE and making flames spread effectually the boss. The assault can one-shot your unabridged health bar.

Counter : Equally the dominate starts charging, try to run away from the boss and sentry where the flames spread so you tin can avoid those areas.

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Strategies

Mount Combat in Elden Ring

At that place are three master strategies for fighting Death Rite Birds:

Melee Strategy

The player using a melee weapon to attack the boss.

For the melee strategy, it all comes down to positioning. If you tin manage to stay below the dominate the entire fight, you lot can contrivance nearly of its attacks. It does take a few attacks that it will execute to get away from y'all, like the Jumping Smash or the Black Flame Rain. An armament with expert Strike damage is your best tool for this fight. The boss is exceptionally weak against strike impairment. In addition to this, the boss is also weak confronting Holy attacks. This allows the player to use Faith weapons like the Coded Sword or Gilt Lodge Greatsword.

Endeavor to exercise as many Jumping Heavy attacks as you tin can on the dominate. If using a Greatsword you lot will cause the boss'southward poise to break much faster, giving you the opportunity for a free critical hitting for massive damage. In the case of the Decease Roar, if you find yourself also close to it virtually of the time during this attack, you can brand use of Order Healing (Incantation) to alleviate Decease Blight build-up.

Mounted Strategy

The player attacking the boss on Torrent.

For the mounted strategy, you can choose betwixt going melee or ranged. If y'all become melee, then you can brand Torrent stick to the boss while you attack and focus on the dashing through or away from most of the boss's attacks. Dashing on the mount allows you to get behind the boss relatively quickly so that you tin can constantly attack the boss without worrying most getting hit.

Ranged Strategy

The player attacking the boss using Sorcery.

For the ranged strategy, you tin use powerful Sorceries that will whittle down the boss's wellness bar. Rock Sling is an optimal choice as it does serious harm and breaks poise allowing yous to do a critical hit. As the boss is non Allowed against Scarlet Rot, you tin use Rotten Breath or Ekzykes'due south Decay and inflict the dominate with it. This will permit you to stay away from the boss while its wellness bar gradually goes down.

Black Knife Tiche is an excellent Spirit Ash if you lot desire to summon 1. She tin get close to the boss and become out to avoid attacks. She also has a high damage output allowing the dominate to focus on her while yous spam Rock Sling. Y'all can find her Spirit Ashes past defeating Alecto, Black Pocketknife Ringleader, in the Ringleader's Evergaol in southwestern Liurnia. Brand sure to bring Cerulean Subconscious Tear to brand FP consumption zero for the side by side ten seconds.

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General Tips

Fighting a boss on a Mount in Elden Ring
  • Be the recommended level for the surface area when fighting its Expiry Rite Bird.
  • Its caput takes more than harm than the other trunk parts. Try attacking it to take down his wellness bar relatively quick.
  • The boss is immune to virtually Status Effects except Scarlet Rot and then try inflicting it with Rotten Breath.
  • Stay under the boss most of the time to avoid most of its attacks.
  • Summon an online histrion if you are facing difficulties.

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