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  • Esgar, Priest of Claret Overview
  • Esgar, Priest of Blood Attacks
  • Strategies
  • General Tips

Esgar, Priest of Claret, is a Field Dominate in Elden Ring. You encounter the boss inside the Leyndell Catacombs after activating the switch inside the depths. Defeating this boss can be challenging despite his depression wellness pool, mainly because of the two dogs he is accompanied past.

While the boss himself causes Bloodloss build-up on every assail, the dogs also can do that, and then haemorrhage out in the fight is often mutual. Merely fifty-fifty if this is a three-on-one fight, information technology can be made piece of cake through proper planning and coordinated dodge timings. Hither is all you know you demand to know about Esgar, Priest of Claret.

Esgar, Priest of Blood Overview

The player approaching the Esgar, Priest of Blood.

Esgar, Priest of Blood Overview

Location

Leyndell Catacombs, Leyndell, Royal Capital

Optional

Yeah

Summons

Players and Spirit Ashes

Drops

  • 30,000 Runes
  • Lord of Claret's Exultation

Weak To

Lightning

Esgar, Priest of Blood, is located in Leyndell Catacombs found within the Subterranean Shunning Grounds. After reaching the depths of the Leyndell, y'all will enter the Catacombs. The boss fight is optional, and not fighting the dominate will not bear upon any catastrophe in the game whatsoever. Yous can come to the fight later on on in the game if you are facing any problem. Defeating the boss volition become you lot Lord of Blood'south Exultation which is a useful Talisman to utilize if you lot utilize Blood weapons or Incantations.

Getting rewards for defeating Esgar, Priest of Blood.

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Esgar, Priest of Claret Attacks

The boss doing a Bloodflame claw animation on the player.

Esgar, Priest of Blood's attacks are pretty uncomplicated to dodge and do not pose much threat. However, mixing his attacks with bleed and the dogs who can also bleed makes it all necessary to avoid.

Esgar, Priest of Blood Attacks

Encarmine Thrust

The boss about to thrust his weapon into the player.

Esgar, Priest of Blood, equips his dagger dual-handed and rushes forrard to thrust it, causing harm and Bloodloss buildup.

Counter : Rolling away from the boss or to either side can easily avert the attack.

Jumping Set on

The boss jumping in the air to attack the player.

The boss jumps high in the air and performs a dagger set on.

Counter : Rolling towards the boss in this blitheness so that y'all can get a few counter hits in.

Encarmine Slash

The boss shooting a Bloody Slash at the player.

Esgar uses his dagger to throw out encarmine slashes that travel out in a wide arc. He can do this ii to iii times.

Counter : Contrivance to either side to avert the attack.

Swarm of Flies

The boss unleashing a swarm of flies on the player.

The dominate releases a swarm of flies that travel toward the player causing harm and Bloodloss build-up if they are in the range of the AOE. The assault has proficient tracking simply is slow.

Counter : Equally the attack is quite tedious, yous tin roll through it and keep your distance from the flies keeping an eye on them until they disappear.

Bloodflame Talons

The boss doing a Bloodflame claw animation on the player.

Esgar slashes the surface area in front of him, causing a claw mark to appear that explodes later a few seconds, causing AOE harm.

Counter : Roll away from the claw animation and stay away until you come across the explosion.

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Strategies

The player approaching the boss with their weapon.

In that location are two strategies for this fight:

Melee Strategy

The player using melee weapon on the boss.

For the melee strategy, you need to separate the dogs from Esgar and focus on killing them kickoff. Taking them on all the same time is risky and can crusade you to dice from Bloodloss. Once both the dogs have been dealt with, then yous can face Esgar solo. Using a heavy weapon can be quite useful for this fight every bit you lot can focus on all three with one strike of your Greatsword. The boss usually gets staggered from heavy attacks leading to almost of his attacks existence canceled. Jumping Heavy Attack can deal serious damage to the dominate and can crusade his poise to break relatively quicker.

Having Stanching Boluses tin can alleviate impending blood loss from the boss or dogs. Having resistance to Bloodloss is keen for this fight. For Talisman, you equip Stalwart Horn Charm, and for Armor Set, you tin can wear Hoslow's Set, both of which increase Robustness. You can larn the Armor Set by killing Juno Hoslow equally part of the final contract for the Volcano Manor Questline.

Ranged Strategy

The player using Comet Azur on the boss.

For the ranged strategy, you will want to keep your distance and spam any AOE spells you lot have. Brand utilise of whatsoever multiple mob Spirit Ashes so that they can attract the boss and dogs and lure them to one side while you bandage your spells. The boss can exist inflicted with Reddish Rot, so having Ekzykes's Decay tin be a great option. Ane to two well-placed breaths can cause Crimson Rot making the dominate'south health bar become down gradually over fourth dimension.

The Creature-Repellent Torch is a great item that can solve the dogs' situation in this fight. It will crusade the dogs to dorsum away from y'all while you deal with Esgar. You tin equip it in your left hand and bandage spells from your correct hand, and make it so no dog approaches you. The torch does not require high stats to use, so all classes can employ information technology.

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General Tips

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  • Be Level 70 or above.
  • Focus on the dogs first.
  • Stagger the boss with Heavy Attacks.
  • Use AOE spells to deal with dogs and boss at the same time.

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