This is a clip from my gameplay footage of 2022's popular video game "Elden Ring" on Playstation 4.
If you're unfamiliar with "Elden Ring", here's some quick info:
[Gameplay] In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting. (Wikipedia)
[Story] Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. (Wikipedia)
This video is my 2nd attempt at the Erdtree Avatar near the Minor Erdtree in the Southern parts of ... I think it's called Limgrave (?)
Anyway, I start the fight by dodge-rolling to pick up my runes from earlier and then put some distance between me and the boss.
The Erdtree Avatar looks like a fat headless wizard made out of wood and wields a giant hammer-like staff.
As per usual, and since he's made out of wood, I use the Flame Frenzy incantation and take out almost one-fourth of its life.
He swings his staff around but hits nothing but air so I light him up again with Flame Frenzy and its so effective it breaks his stance, allowing me to roll on in for a critical-hit.
Due to Flame Frenzy damaging me with madness if I cast three times in a row too quick, I switch to the Flame Sling incantation and toss a fireball at him while waiting for my madness bar to go down.
Flame Sling does nice damage but it's not as devastating as Flame Frenzy.
I dodge-roll away from his swings and toss another fire ball at him while he stabs the ground with his staff ... and summons a shower of golden laser beams.
They're not too hard to evade as long as you have enough stamina but while I was focused on the lasers this giant tree wizard hits me hard with his staff -- taking out more than half my life.
I'm a bit stunned by that so I summon Torrent which is amazing since it's super-helpful to be able to create some major distance between you and a strong enemy, especially if you need to heal.
After riding away, I jump off and start casting Heal incantations to fix my lifebar but Erdtree decides he's ready to rain the same shower of lasers down on me again but thankfully I get out of the way and dodge-roll diagonally-away from both hime and the lasers and this time escape his groundslam hit.
When I'm far away again, I launch another fully-charged Flame Frenzy but he decides to fight through the pain and brings down the hammer. I'm down 75% on my health again.
I get as far away as I can and drink a Crimson Tear Flask for my life since I don't want to risk dying while casting Heal -- and this dude decides to stab the ground again and summon his damn lasers.
I don't get hit by any of them but since my magic is low I go for a Flame Sling fireball instead of Flame Frenzy.
And with that last fireball, it's strike three for this boss and he's out of here.
For killing this headless tree wizard, I get a Opuline Bubbletear and Crimsonburst Crystal Tear. No idea what those two do but it sounds awesome.
Hope you enjoyed this boss fight!
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