{"id":488359,"date":"2025-11-14T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/elden-ring-taking-on-godrick-the-grafted\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:42:53","slug":"elden-ring-taking-on-godrick-the-grafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-taking-on-godrick-the-grafted\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring: Taking On Godrick The Grafted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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While Limgrave offers players a variety of smaller-scale dungeon and boss experiences, Stormveil Castle looms over the entire zone and features two major bosses. Many have already seen Margit the Fell Omen, who punished players in the closed network test. During my hands-on time with the game, I had the chance to face off with Godrick the Grafted himself, the current lord of Stormveil, and a serious challenge, especially for an \u201cearly game\u201d boss. Granted, you don\u2019t have to fight Godrick at all to get to other adjacent zones to continue exploring and powering up, so my path to the many-appendaged tyrant was brisk. I didn\u2019t really do a whole lot of leveling up or gear optimization because the clock was ticking during my 10-hour play session, and I wanted to see and do as much as possible. It\u2019s safe to say I was fairly underleveled compared to when From Software expects players to take on Godrick, but it\u2019s important to reiterate that because of the open-world structure of the game, everyone\u2019s experience is likely to be quite different. If you do wander into Godrick early on, perhaps it\u2019s best to take a detour and check out the surrounding biomes before attempting to take him on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, the first thing that struck me about this fight was the sheer breadth and depth of Godrick\u2019s moveset. It\u2019s something more akin to say, Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne, where even after plunging back into battle many times, I was still seeing new animations and abilities. Now, Godrick is definitely not as tough as Bloodborne\u2019s pinnacle monstrosity, but he\u2019s also fairly early in the game, and his large array of skills will likely\u00a0keep players on their toes for a multitude of attempts. Now, he still has some core telegraphed abilities to look for and exploit, and like many other From Software bosses, these abilities can change or be altered as he enters \u201cphase two,\u201d which occurs at around 50% health or so. As many have already seen in preview footage, Godrick grafts a dragon head to one of his many arms at this stage, unlocking a new and deadly set of skills, some of which augment his already dangerous abilities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s a question that\u2019s been on everyone\u2019s mind \u2013 do the spirit summons trivialize or minimize the impact of big battles like Godrick? Based on my experience with him, absolutely not. Granted, I had not yet found the ability to upgrade my spirit companions, which\u00a0I assume is tied to a character named Roderika.\u00a0So, mine were \u201ctier 1 spirits\u201d, but Godrick was able to completely obliterate most spirits I\u00a0experimented with\u00a0in one or two attacks. Early on, I attempted to use a spirit jellyfish summon that would splash poison on Godrick from afar, dividing his attention between us and making sure that I \u201cpulled aggro\u201d from him before he\u2019d kill my little buddy. However, once he got it in his mind to crush the critter, it was over fast, so even though the poison ticking seemed useful, I tried other options. My spirit wolves and townsfolk were beyond useless, as Godrick\u2019s repertoire has multiple and frequent area-of-effect attacks, making these packs of companions useless. Of my magic menagerie of spirits, the Skeletal Militiamen proved most useful, though honestly, they still were just really a speedbump for him. Their value? These skeletons can come back to life after they fall, so they probably bought me more time and hit windows than any other spirit summon.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That said, the spirits overall did almost nothing to dull Godrick\u2019s edge. A vast array of extremely fast melee attacks, point-blank-cascading area-of-effect attacks, and fire attacks with the dragon head make Godrick a real issue. In phase two, I had my best luck attempting to trail Godrick when he would use a sort of sweeping flamethrower attack where he points the head at the ground and slowly moves forward. This is a great chance to get some shots in at his back, but you have to be careful all the same, as some of that fire trickles back behind him and can hit you if you get too close or err to the side.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When defeated, Godrick drops a \u201cRemembrance of Godrick,\u201d which I could use to gain many runes. Like a lord or Boss soul in other From games, I assume this can also be used to transform into a serious piece of armor, a weapon, or a spell. I also obtained one of the key Great Runes that I assume are tied to progressing to the game\u2019s final canonical area or boss, similar to how the Lords of Cinder are structured in Dark Souls 3. Godrick took me quite a few attempts, and if he\u2019s the \u201cfirst\u201d boss of the demigods to take on, that leads me to believe that others in the hierarchy are going to be quite challenging indeed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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While Limgrave offers players a variety of smaller-scale dungeon and boss experiences, Stormveil Castle looms over the entire zone and features two major bosses. Many have already seen Margit the Fell Omen, who punished players in the closed network test. During my hands-on time with the game, I had the chance to face off with Godrick the Grafted himself, the current lord of Stormveil, and a serious challenge, especially for an \u201cearly game\u201d boss. Granted, you don\u2019t have to fight Godrick at all to get to other adjacent zones to continue exploring and powering up, so my path to the many-appendaged tyrant was brisk. I didn\u2019t really do a whole lot of leveling up or gear optimization because the clock was ticking during my 10-hour…<\/p>\n

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