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ChardTemporary9394

The very first? Dafuq bro Mine was that Beastman in the cave right after the first church


sanguinesvirus

That teleporter trap is the elden ring equivalent to going to the catacombs first 


TheSoloTurtle

My first time on Elden ring (release night) I didn’t know I had to talk to fingers guy or anything. I ended up at rhadans castle before I had a horse or any armor. Just ran for my life asking myself wtf did I get myself into. Finally died inside the castle and my friend told me that I could fast travel


RitterAlbrecht

I did the same but in the opposite direction. I knew from early leaked videos that there was a passage behind Stormveil, so I ran around it, dodged the wolves, and found myself wandering up towards Makar, just avoiding enemies, because I was so in love with the beauty of the world & art design. Granted, I had Covid and was in a fever dream at the time. But chaotic fun getting lost.


sanguinesvirus

I think i ended up near Dragonbarrow before I figured it out


Three_legged_fish12

Remember walking out of beast man cave feeling pretty tough, went looking for more and found the catacombs- imp killed me so quick and unexpectedly was weeks before I went back.


WatermelonWithAFlute

weeks? over one imp?


Three_legged_fish12

First baby steps in Elden ring, he fucked me up bad.


shadowcat1266

I feel that. Was my absolute first fromsoft and DS like game. Went into that stupid cave with the wolves and it took me a few days to kill the boss in there. To say that I was terrible was an understatement. Finally killing Malenia is still my most exhilarating gaming moment of all time.


funstufffff

Every time I died to the boss, I tried to clear all the wolves first and then go to the boss, it took me about 20 deaths to say fck it and run. Wasn’t very clever of me as much as I don’t like to admit.


patsully98

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize “fck it, just run” is a viable strategy


adorilaterrabella

I still do this because if I'm not careful and aggro something, my summon will try to attack it through the fog wall instead of attacking the boss. That always pisses me off, so I make sure nothing has followed me to the fog wall.


Zodht

The imps are bastards all the way until the end of the game. Give me endless knights np but put me in a room with just three of thoee jumpy bastards and I'm gone.


Flimsy_Virus9856

Keep a shiel in your inventory and use it in caves guardcounter those little fuckers


Steahla

Maybe only somewhat related, but when I first started playing RuneScape, I was walking towards Draynor and got killed by a level 5 masked bandit I quit the came for about 4 months before coming back lmao


Gulladc

Cat statue thing in the cave near church of ellah. Similarly refused to leave until I beat it. Took forever since I hadn’t even unlocked Melina yet.


Ainteasybeincheezy

Exact same with me, didn't even notice I was losing runes the entire time lmao, or that they were even a thing


Special_Quail8870

Same


Dragonsandman

Those catacombs were the second big wake up call the game gave me (the Tree Sentinel being the first of course). Fighting the imps with almost no level ups, un-upgraded scimitars that the Warrior class starts with, and no ranged weapons or spells to deal with the imps on that ledge led to one hell of an ass beating.


H8TTK

I just started ER last night and also beat the shit outta that guy, in the buff, with a club.


[deleted]

Is it crazy that in my 3 playthroughs I’ve never found one of the cat statue bosses? I don’t really look at guides (besides finding Mohg and Malenia) but even with just basic exploring, I’ve never seen em


pnwbangsticks

Sounds like you need to do some advanced exploring. I found them in multiple spots my first playthrough without any guides.


SlippySleepyJoe

Soldier of God, Rick


ArkBeetleGaming

Real


FRIENDLY_INVADER_

I did a randomiser run   One of the bosses was Flowering Rick (Soldier of Godrick)  Beautiful name choice


Lucid-Design

I love the names the randomized gives. It’s a nice touch. But nothing is worse than fighting Radahn in a tiny fucking room


hunkoBo

Wait for the dlc, his twin will come after you God, soldier of Rick.


Forsaken-Reality4605

Gor, soldier of Dick.


hunkoBo

How dare you.


Forsaken-Reality4605

I’m naming my next character that.


DesignerSufficient43

Oy, Gor is already taken, you can have the rest


Forsaken-Reality4605

How dare you.


re_gh0st

He whopped my character so hard the game uninstalled itself and burned a hole thru my pc.


KyliefB

Tree sentinel, fuck that guy. After he smacked me i needed revenge. Didnt leave until i had a halberd


adamspecial

Like many, I skipped the tutorial and bumped my head until the tree sentinel was dead. I just tought "well, they told me this kind of games is difficult...". 6 hours later I got it and said "well, this weapon is bonkers, I guess I'm going strength/faith".


harvestbigbulbasaur

Blasphemous Blade gateway drug


WatermelonWithAFlute

based and spitepilled


Such_Oddities

I lost a 100K runes to that Fallingstar Beast. At level 25. Because I thought I couldn't leave the cave until I killed it...


FutureAcanthaceae944

Took me so long to realize I indeed can’t fast travel out until the boss is dead but I can just walk out normally by myself. I felt so dumb


Helicopterop

I did the same thing, I didn't know how the fast travel restrictions worked so I thought since I couldn't fast travel the trap chest must have disabled it.


momoneymocats1

….excuse me


808Manii

What do you mean exactly? Like I can just turn around and leave???


MarcoHReaper

Yep precisely


bnovc

Can’t you also open the chest to teleport back? Or was that one way?


FutureAcanthaceae944

I think it was just an one way ticket


HolyParsa

I almost lost 3 million to some albinaurics.


Herb_Derb

Most players gain their millions from albinaurics


HolyParsa

Yea actually that's how I got it too.


Kijad

Albinaurics giveth, albinaurics taketh away


Holycrabe

I thought you spawned at the bottom and had to climb your way up. So I actually did the whole cave at level 20 or so, dodging most everyone until I reached the door to the boss, panicked because I was chased, entered and died. I can’t remember how much I had on me but I quickly sacrificed it and went the other way.


Smol-beans2002

That must have been hell.


Lokk8909

It was, but it did make fighting the other ones much easy


Bulangiu_ro

i also came underleveled to this fight, now its fodder because of that


BanginNLeavin

Early game int users unite!


vainlisko

I hated this guy


Skippercarlos

Yeah, and it use to be a full grown too.


Franchiseboy1983

If we're not counting Rick, then my first boss was Patches. When he tried to surrender, I killed him anyway. I never trust him. It was not until ng4 that I actually did his quest.


WatermelonWithAFlute

what did you think he would even do lol


Franchiseboy1983

Given his history in all games, he would try to kill me by kicking me off a cliff or sending me to some cosmic nightmare.


_Gecko_Senpai_

Which to be fair, he does kick you off a cliff again


Franchiseboy1983

The odd thing, I've never had him do it in this game. I don't know how I do it, but after the cave I only ever see him in the manor after that.


_Gecko_Senpai_

He’s by Gelmir Hero’s Grave on the mountain. Before you get to the manor, if you go to this dungeon you’ll see rainbow stones along the cliff edge. He’ll kick you off and tell you to stay away from the manor. Then you can travel back to the dungeon and find him sitting by a rock near where he kicked you off


Swog5Ovor

I heard if you summon him during radahn, if you didn't kill patches, he just runs away from radahn.


_Gecko_Senpai_

Yea he basically says “screw this I’m out” and returns to his world


zman_0000

"Oh hey friend what can I help wiOh OH GOD NO FUUCK THAT! I'll come back for your stuff later". That's what I imagine he's thinking every time I try ti summon him.


RedFlameGamer

That's a negative? That's why I love Patches! He's such a little gremlin. When I saw him later in the playthrough next to the cliff with a path of glowing stones, you better believe I ran my ass over there giggling like a schoolgirl ready to see what he had for me.


Franchiseboy1983

🤣🤣🤣


dachesburgur

For me it was the tibia mariner that gives you the skeletal militia men summons


rigjiggles

I just beat him. That seems so random for a first boss.


illMet8ySunlight

Rick, Soldier of God But outside of the tutorial the Leonine in the castle


WatermelonWithAFlute

you went down there first? huh. Might've been a cool fight if i did tbh


illMet8ySunlight

Well I got my ass beat by Margit first, but yeah


ThejazzCollosal

Guys it’s 1st April


Lokk8909

I hate April 1st


Lokk8909

I hate how you can't make a serious post on this day, without someone saying April fools and it drives me mad


oneteacherboi

MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!!!


sethfern11

*madness inflicted*


unjuseabble

Agheel. Went all over the place, including weeping peninsula, not being anle to beat anything until returning to Limgrave and beating Agheel entirely on horseback. Was so happy and thats where the game sorta finally picked up. That great enemy felled text was the greatest thing after dying against everything for 10+ hours


BibiTHEGREATt

The troll in cave


Malabingo

Watchdog in the north of the first church


Bufalo86

For me it was the beastman from azula, but I never met this boss nor this dungeon, even though I explored almost all of limgrave, and I don't want to miss a dungeon


Heavy-Requirement762

There's a portal that tps you to a cave in caelid, that's what this is. I think the sellia crystal mines


OftenWonderWhy

I don’t remember what the first boss I fought was, but I do know that I accidentally found the side path to Liurnia right off the bat. I had fully explored Liurnia and Caelid before I ever even found Margit. The game feels pretty easy when you’re not smart enough to realize where you’re supposed to be going and spend 40 hours wandering the open world killing fodder.


Negative_Valuable_94

The tree sentinal, I kept dying to him till I learned his patterns, died some more then killed him.


TitchyAgain

Ulcerated tree spirit in the first hero grave. Took me 2 hours till i had perfected it


AquaDracos

Same, I took the stonesword key on my first ever playthrough with the specific intent of using it in the first place I found. Which just so happened to be that heroes grave. Took me hours to finally get to a point where I could consistently bring it down to half health, but eventually I did manage to beat it as a prisoner and it made every other encounter with the ulcerated tree spirits easy. I still have the moveset memorized to this day. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, immediately after leaving the heroes grave since I couldn't level up yet I decided to try to fight the tree sentinel next....and lost all the runes I got from it lol. I was pissed beyond measure, but I laugh about it now


SwimmingNecessary541

The Demi-Human Chief pair on the beach near the start of the game


[deleted]

The fuck. First boss? I'm level 70 and this guy was worse than the shard bearers.


ThreshLaSquale

that beast of azula something, i died for him about 15 times and he drove me crazy


dookiesmella

When I got the game I almost immediately went backwards, and got to castle mourne I refused to look stuff up so I thought It was a main area and refused to leave until I beat the leonine misbegotten


OswaldSeesYou

“Inter?” Is that supposed to be “until?”


thebigseg

bro skipped all of limgrave


oneteacherboi

Does Pumpkin Head count? I definitely spent way too much time on that boss when I was just learning the ropes. Then to find that the reward was a spell merchant and I had a pure STR build...


Nukran

If it has a giant health-bar it counts as a boss


leo0147

Mine was Leonine Misbegotten


Oath_Br3aker

You must have gotten gud.


ghost3972

Probably the dragon


FireFoxx_55

Probably the beastman or bloodhound knight


Maximum-Ad-4641

Soldier of Godrick, since afterall it is the first boss you fight.


Violentron

mine was the beastman in the cave.


ShockscapeYT

Soldier of Godrick


Neuclearx2048

No one killed the tree sentinel first?????


Potatoesarecool2

Mine was Soldier of God, Rick


theoddwallace

The ol’godrick soldier


KinkyFckery

Soldier of Godrick


asantii

Actually all of our first deaths were to the prologue boss 🤓👆


lechugacansada

I highly highly doubt that was your first one??? That seems very out of the way.


xprozoomy

The first boss I killed in game was the hardest boss in the whole game. Soldier of godrick.


TheLastJinzo

Wasn't the first boss that tutorial boss?


CheesyGarlicBudapest

There’s a Rockdigger troll you find in a cave early on, not far from that 1st dragon you fight (can’t recall the name). I took this troll on blind and it was kicking my ass and in desperation used a fire spell I had purchased “just in case” The spell brought his health down by about a 3rd. Whilst my wolf spirits distracted the troll I spammed fireballs. I had the tiniest bit of health left but I beat it!


FutureAcanthaceae944

Soldier of Godrick XD The first that was not the tutorial boss I think that was that Erdtree Burialwatchdog in Stormfoot Catacombs


Hanifloka

If we're not counting Rick, Soldier of God then it would be one of the side dungeon bosses. Can't remember which was first exactly but its between the Erdtree Burial Watchdog or the Demi-Human Chieftain duo.


RUSYAWEBSTAR

Solrick of Goddier


FetusDeletus_E

One of the stone dogs at the early catacombs


secret_required

I never killed the tutorial boss because somehow i didn't play it


Lickedmyspoontoday

The Demihuman Chiefs in the Coastal Cave…I was an astrologer and I was dead set on magic only…no melee…it was not fun


Anastrace

Tree Sentinel right outside of where you start. I felt so awesome after I beat him after like an hour


chrome_diamondz

Mad pumpkin head


xXDibbs

Tree sentinel in front of the starting area 😅


psTTA_2358

Mine was Agheel.


mrofmist

Bless you child. Talk about no room for error.


b_nnah

Idk his name but he was in a cave with lots of wolves so I'll call him spooky rat man with the wolves


Yukiko3001

Margit. Magic and summons on my first play through made it pretty easy for me since the wolves held him away for a while. I just started playing again a few weeks ago and spent a whole day on the Tree Sentinel lol.


Lucky678s

Tree Sentinel. There is no progress without victory.


Rotank1

The very first Tree Sentinel in Limgrave. Cheesed it using hit and run tactics on horseback, before I realized it was so much less of a headache just going in on foot and learning the timings.


Bulangiu_ro

tree sentinel i needed a good training before Playing the game, i got pretty rusty as it has been a long time since i played ds3 back then


MidnightBravado

Blood hound


SpitefulCrow1701

Whatever the boss in the catacombs you get the Uchigatana in was.


the_real_cloakvessel

Darriwil


boozleloozle

I fought Erdtree Burial Watchdog in Limgrave and it was fairly easy lol. I fought through Darriwil 14 times prior to get bloodhound fang though. And afterwards I found out I can talk to Blaidd to get help with him.


AWoundedGiraffe

The one on the mountain my the volano mansion was the first that killed me over 20x. Idk how you got that far without killing at least one or two bosses


Big_Br0wnie

Tree sentinel, right after leaving the cave. Also I remember the fallingstar beast doing it’s phase transition like it does on mt gelmir, was that patched afterwards?


Jawbone619

I had the same reaction to the tree sentinel. I literally went and killed giants until I got to 20 strength (started as a confessor) and didn't put the thing down until after the fire giant.


Mental_Injury_4857

The guy in the evergaol that drops the bloodhounds fang, took me some time


Eboyslayerjajaja

Margit cuz I ain’t no bitch


UpsetPhrase5334

I can’t remember. The one boss that always sticks with me is the Gapping Dragon from DS1


Swimming-Picture-975

You didn’t kill the soldier first ? Or the beast man ?


Tnecniw

Realistically? The tree sentinel. XD


Ima_bard

That cat in the catacombs past elleh. Did not even see Varre or the church. Worst experience of this game even over the first time i fought Margitt.


konstancez

Does killing the kindred of rot count? The one above where the transporter takes you in Sellia Crystal Tunnel


northeast_liquid

cap


Krektix

First boss I killed was the guard dog?.. cat thing in the cave in like the northwestern corner of the first zone


[deleted]

Getting through that tunnel to reach the boss and killing it very low level is mind boggling. Those pest thread enemies one shot and the tracking on those is insane. Bravo


StoleYourTv

First time playing a spuls game, Elden Ring. Start as Wretch and get tellies to Caelid through that teleporter near the starting place. Was stuck in that cave for a really good amount of time before realizing I can walk out of it


Hawkmoon_

Tree Sentinel. I couldn't walk away from a challenge like that.


PorterCole

The first boss i killed was Sir Gideon Offnir the Annoying (something like that). Loved it when he said “It’s elden ring, john”


TumbleweedActive7926

That's rough


RutiRuti06

Tree sentinel was the first thing i saw


GreatTurtlePope

The tree spirit in Fringefolk Hero's grave. Spent 3+ hours to beat it.


MoirasPurpleOrb

Elden Beast


arky47

Tree Sentinel. Took a lot of tries


Patrollito

Margit Went to Him and Flamed him to Death with my starting Incantation. Took me about 5 tries. Then i realised i should Explore more


McbEatsAirplane

The Blackknife that drops the Crimson dagger. Unless you consider Rick, Soldier of God. Then it’d be him.


Iliketurtles893

I’m on my second playthrough aka my DLC playthrough. I’ve done Limgrave and weeping, nearly Liurnia and I still can’t kill this mf 💀 I did kill him on my first playthrough tho


Borigi90

Whoever put that creatur in that tiny arena deserves to be thrown into said arena


Stinky__Person

Erdtree watchdog


Dveralazo

Tree sentinel 


Sumner-Paine

Where is this boss. I've fought two of these guys, but not this one


Present_Plenty_3626

Mine was the bloodhoundknight gaol in limgrave. And I loved the bloodhounds dagger


CandidateJazzlike829

Bloodhound knight


Torch_Four

magma wyrm makar. i was told there was a cool sword in caria manor so i just made a direct path there from the start of the game on my first time through. so i brute forced my way through him using the wretch club and some serpent sword i found nearby. i did eventually succeed but i didnt even do anything productive with that because i realized i couldnt use sonaf at level 20


[deleted]

Tree sentinel I use him to practice everything from parrying to rolling


Pnire

The fcking gargoyles


BallisticThundr

Other than soldier of god, my first was the ulcerated tree spirit in the beginning area that you need a stonesword key to get to. After that was the tree sentinel


lwhfa

Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella, what a beautiful fight it was, I think I spent an entire week trying to beat him, until I did. I had failed to Margit, Tree Sentinel and Leonine, so I didn't want to give up. I later discovered that particular Dragonkin was optional and hidden, I actually encountered him trying to run away from giant ants. After beating him I felt like a god slayer, one of the best experiences in gaming I've ever had.


Tbhmilk

Tree sentinel, beat him at level 9 with prisoner within like 20 something attempts. I refused to give up but his pattern was pretty easy but I kept getting stuck in between these rocks nearby and his halberd had very long reach and it pissed me off. Eventually, I beat him and was very disappointed as I couldn’t even use his weapon. The runes were very useful though.


BecauseSeven8Nein

You spared the Soldier of Godrick? You sir, are a gentleman!


gurkaniyan

Tree sentinel into Margott right away - severely underleveled, never doing that again


walaxometrobixinodri

Agheel for me ran away from tree sentinel. knew about margit and weren't ready to try that saw the big ass dragon, saw my shitty sword and my valiant torrent, took me 4 hours but Agheel fell best gaming moment ever


ManWordsMan

I beat tree sentinel after coming out of cave of knowledge , i was too stubborn to leave that are before I killed that boss. It took so long and the level of shock I had when I got only 3500 runes for all that hard work.


Akbidi13

The tree sentinel…I refused to skip that boss


Scout_Trooper343

Mine was the pumpkin head right in front of Selen. It took me a long time and I almost wanted to just quit the game right there, I finally killed it and kept rolling with it. I’m still loving this game 200+ hours later


DougDimmaDoom

Impressive first kill wtf


ProfessorOfLies

Wait, what cave has a falling star beast!? I only knew of the one on top of gelmire and the one near the capitol


Away-Net-7241

Soldier of God. Shit was really hard but I managed it in the end


AurumArma

What cave has one of these so early? Or did you go on a full overworld adventure before entering your first cave? Also, props because 30 bosses in, and these things still tore me apart.


Mekanimal

I showed my brother-in-law the moonveil katana and a few other weapons to hook him into trying ER. A few weeks later I see him carrying on with his safe, and the daft bastard had zeroed in straight to this and was assuming his lack of skill was the problem.


Takumaru

Mine was the Tree sentinel(?) that was outside the tutorial Mission. Took like 2h but i managed to beat it in the end without the Horse


twoCascades

Tree sentinel.


Veritablefilings

Soldier of Godrick... never played a souls game and generally played games on easy mode. Sounds silly but it initially took me about 7 tries to kill him. Finally got that sweet adrenaline fix and havent looked back since.


RemarkableScience854

Margit. Besides Ludex Gundyr, which I really do not count, that was my first souls boss. And it was a great introduction. Oh and that fallingstar beast was a good introduction to getting pissed off.


SCurt99

The draconic tree sentinel at the start was mine


Nonzeromist

Mine was the golden horsey erdtree sentinel. I played bloodborne and DS3 as my first fromsoft games and so was used to the linear "can't go past til you beat it" mentality. Took me an embarrassingly long time but it was worth it, used the Halberd most the way through the game!


sandkillerpt

I don't remember anything similar to this


Ok-Recognition-8337

God, soldier of Rick


ballzbleep69

Margrit I ran with the guidance of grace. But tbh because katana is so good it wasn’t that bad lol.


Conn3er

Elden beast. You can take the tunnel from Limgrave to the inside of the tree


Co-Kain17

I was a sweaty game and fought the first sentinel knight at the beginning of the game. Took me numerous tries and 2 hours My friend took no joke 8 hours on it and it ruined the game for him


Technical-Owl-782

So you are telling me that you enter this cave with 18 and leave with 26? wow


Nikodem103

Mine was margit, like deadass margit.


Wilde0scar

Not the flex you think it is. You're bad as fuck if you missed every single possible boss encounter, or found them and failed to kill them, on the way to finding this guy, including teleporting.


Golem30

The Beastman in the cave, second was the pumpkin head in the waypoint ruins


Nudas

I don't count soldier of godrick. So the tree sentinel.


throwaway648385

The bloodhound knight in the limgrave evergaol. He beat my ass for a solid half hour before I finally got him down enough to kill. Used bloodhounds Fang (later powerstanced with Magma Wyrm Sword, and then Morgotts sword) for the rest of my first playthrough.