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What is an Elden Ring Boss?

Elden Ring Bosses are powerful enemies that have huge health pools, unique movesets and are usually encountered freely roaming the overworld, or at the end of Elden Ring’s various dungeons.

While you can technically beat the game by only killing 8 out of Elden Ring’s 238 bosses, you’d definitely be missing out on some of the best content in the game if you skip what can be considered the “optional” bosses of Elden Ring.

What Rewards come from killing an Elden Ring Boss?

Almost all Elden Ring bosses drop one or more precious items, including rare upgrade materials, weapons, talismans, armor sets. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that you’ll get a ton of Runes for felling some of the game’s more difficult bosses.

This goes double for the few “main” bosses, such as Godfrey or Maliketh, who are mandatory for progressing the game.

How hard is it to kill all the Elden Ring Bosses at a low level?

In one word: Very. Bosses in Elden Ring don’t have ‘scaling’ like some others do; their health pools, damage and movesets stay the same regardless of your level, meaning that if you end up going to a more difficult area while underleveled, you can expect to get oneshot by almost all of their attacks.

Irregardless of level, many of Elden Ring’s bosses require a lot of skill, patience and perfect timing to bring down, and being underleveled just makes the whole thing that much tougher!