What do you think of Consort Radahn?

[Alex(ITA)]

Every time I search online for information about this boss I read a lot of insults so I'm very curious to know if people hate him that much.

I honestly feel that the first phase of this boss fight is a true masterpiece, all the attacks understandable and dodgeable, very high damage but correct in my opinion, and in general a true final boss.
As for the second phase... well... it's not exactly the best, every attack becomes a shock wave of holy rays, attacks that seem to have been taken from Dragon Ball with Radahn leaving afterimages, orbital rays from heaven that melt both the screen and the PC... In short, for me it's a dirty second phase, badly designed and exaggerated but this is my opinion, what do you think?

P.S. I just want a comparison with other players even more experienced than me so don't insult thanks!!!

[toughnails]

I just used a greatshield + blood sword lance like everyone else, won 2nd try ez-pz (got my heart stolen the 1st try). It's fun watching streamers die to the boss over and over though.

Also, my INT build playthrough is getting there, wonder if I can beat him with brass shield + clayman's harpoon, provided I keep casting scholar's shield. Should work I think.

[patrol]

I'm fine with the boss being harder to beat than malenia, what i'm not fine with is the seizure inducing level of particle effects

[toughnails]

Originally posted by patrol:

I'm fine with the boss being harder to beat than malenia, what i'm not fine with is the seizure inducing level of particle effects

No way dude, Malenia is way harder cause you can't just turtle up and invalidate the whole fight lmao

[so007]

the problem with that boss isn't that it's hard. i beat him with a greatshield and a zweihander on my first run of the dlc. the issue is that second phase blinds you, makes it impossible to read attacks, and all that garbage drops your fps. there is no satisfaction beating that boss. the second run of the dlc , i just opened up a trainer and 1 shot the boss. the end. that's what that boss design deserves, to be forgotten, skipped and cheesed. no respect.

[Fineous🔥]

Hmm he basically spams this incantation during P2 in various ways.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Light+of+Miquella

He (and you after beating him) call a holy "airstrike" in a area marked by a big white circle.
Usually after the phase transition and levitates for a while after casting 4 light of Miquella circles, so paying attention to the floor works better than anything else....then you can outrun it and take 0 damage. He also uses a instant wimped version of it after some melee combos so holy resistance and reflexes moving away are pretty much a must have.

The fight was amazing, specially getting there without knowing who was waiting for me and having my main man Ansbach explaining EVERYTHING even with his mid fight quotes so in the end everything made sense. The most common and valid complain about the fight is some people unable to see ♥♥♥♥ with all the holy rings all together a completle white floor.....this ruined the fight (rightfully so) for a lot of people.


Anyways i loved everything this expansion added to the main game. From uploaded the official soundtrack to Spotify hours ago and i cant stop listening it...GOD TIER quality, specially Radhan "redux" theme!. It pains me how little some players appreciate the game artistic design or refuse to summon memorable NPCs (not even for their first kill lol...) not just to get more loot, also for more epic fights.......They dont deserve this game.

[toughnails]

Originally posted by so007:

the issue is that second phase blinds you, makes it impossible to read attacks, and all that garbage drops your fps.

That's just not true, every attack can be dodged rather consistently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE31NW1Njyk

As for the frame drops, go to graphics options, set EFFECTS to LOW, this will fix it 100% (unless your CPU is really old).

[patrol]

Originally posted by toughnails:

Originally posted by patrol:

I'm fine with the boss being harder to beat than malenia, what i'm not fine with is the seizure inducing level of particle effects

No way dude, Malenia is way harder cause you can't just turtle up and invalidate the whole fight lmao

You can, you just have to outdmg her healing and frankly the only though part about dodging her is the waterfoul dance, but if you have good aim you can cancel it with a freeze pot

[Nemerlight]

Hate is strong word but i found reading his attacks is way harder than any other boss in the game. Took me 4 hours to beat him but felt more like luck than skill.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

First phase is too easy, second phase is too laggy

[Despiser]

I think he's a pompous, pedantic, narcissistic stinking pile of doo doo... figuratively speaking.

[Lord Klauth]

I've been fighting him for several hours without success now, and while I feel like I enjoy the fight less and less after each attempt I don't find it to be as abhorent as Malenia's.

Phase 1 is fine but phase 2 is an absolute spamfest of attacks and effects.
Except for some rare occasions like Miquella's grab, the windows to land hits are so short and sometimes even feel nonexistent between his attacks. I honestly don't know how you'd defeat him with bigger, slower weapons or even as a spellcaster.

The most glaring issue tho is the constant shower of holy beams that he keeps summoning right between the character and the camera, obscuring his attacks so, so often. That, in my opinion, is straight up bad design.

Also so far I've survived to see the meteor move 3 times only, never managed to survive it once lol. Even the one time I managed to dodge the first beam from the orbital strike the following ones nuked me, not sure how I'm supposed to avoid them all.

[swolblu]

First phase is pretty easy, second phase is only difficult because of the visual clutter. Miquella's glowing hair makes it a lot harder to see what's going on.

[Fineous🔥]

Originally posted by ∞ ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧ッinfinitypunk:

His DLC armor set is worse than the one in the base game :(

Amen brother.....also you get FOUR swords.....LOL. Thank god i saved like all the base game mausoleum with bells to duplicate demigod remembrances (there are tombs for duplicating them in the Shadowlands but i stumbled only upon one during my first clear) so i got all is "booty" but still they all SUCK.....i only used Miquella light and the crown.

[Eren Jäger]

I thought the fight was epic. A worthy conclusion to the DLC

[Eltia]

First phase is not bad. You can mitigate most damage with a shield with 100% physical resistance.

Second phase seems intimidating at first. Once you figure out most of its damage is holy based, you can mitigate most damage using Lord's Divine Fortification with Golden Braid.

You can DoT the boss to death with rot. Look up how Malenia beat Radahn before.