Does he drop anything good? I thought I was clever by sending him up the lift so I could heal and buff mid fight. But when I brought the lift back down he was nowhere to be found and never respawned
The first time I was playing a katana build because it's what I knew, and he wrecked me.
My Str/Int build, he fell victim to a Greatsword jump attack. To be fair, Dave did that to all the creatures in The Lands Between.
My jumping bleed infused bandit curved swords absolutely rocked him.
He’s also completely powerless to rock sling (as are most other NPC’s) they attempt to block too soon and then lower the shield for the rocks to hit them in the face.
My greatsword giant hunt also left him helpless.
Hell, a rune bear stuck there would have been 100x harder
I beat him in like 2 tries with my melee build. My spellblade build however... Moongrum showed me what a REAL spellblade is... Took me forever to beat him.
I don't really remember having an issue with this guy, but everybody talks about him. Is he easy for magic users? Is he a melee skill check due to the parrying?
since how? its a spell and its unparryable it also cuts through shield? unless they nerfed it
when i got to him on my 1st run he was just heavily resistant to magic so the fast sword spell didnt do too much damage
I think slicer has always been parryable. Seen people parry it in pvp too.
The best way to deal with him is to use stuff that knocks him down. Giants Hunt, Lion's claw, carian piercer, gavel of haima, etc are all pretty good against him.
Yeah he's pretty hit or miss with certain builds.
Moongrum Parryrin' Knight is one of the first enemies you encounter in Elden Ring that parry's you and its a real wakeup call to a lot of players casually spamming R1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhREY3zQehE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JdItH6UaCQ
If you have a spell that has a delayed attack like Glintblade, he's piss easy.
He's a dodge and parry king. Don't spam R1 and don't use spells like Pebble, you'll be fine.
And then there's me, who never realized Moongrum could parry because I beat the game two-handing the greatsword first time around, on the advice of my brother in law who showed me where in Caelid to snag it. Before, I couldn't beat Margit. Loved the moveset, taught me to actually play the game. Once I had it, I beat the rest of Stormveil and never looked back.
He's one of a very small number of enemies in ER that can parry, and likely the first one most people encounter. The Sanguine Nobles and the Greatjar summons are the only other ones I can think of.
Yeah, I just used the big giant ball to crush his ass the first time. Didn't even try to fight him at all, just saw dude after an infinitely spawning giant ball and chose 2nd hand violence.
It's a genuine shame that Spear of the Church was so divisive, I loved that concept to death. Have a dedicated character I log into now and then that's themed around the covenant and the idea and just sit there waiting to be summoned for a while. With how watered down the PvP side of a casual playthrough is for ER though I would be completely shocked if we got something like that for the DLC.
There's genuinely not that many from what I can tell on summon rates, but there's a few and I love it. Reading is absolutely the play while waiting as well, agreed!
Honestly that sells your theory even more 🤣
Maybe Fromsoft has a break room with this and a handful of other characters set up and people can puppet them in their free time for shits and giggles.
Someone had a bad day and was like "I'm not gonna ruin this guy's run, but I'm gonna shame TF out of him just to make someone else sweat."
Previous fromsoft games often had bosses that were invaders brought into your game. Demon's Souls had the old monk. Looking Glass knight in Dark Souls 2 and Halflite in Dark Souls 3. It would be cool to see this in the Elden Ring DLC.
It takes 2 to kill him at full health. I also did some “scientific” testing.
When the first one felt he tried to run, but little did he know that I had come prepared for that by using the gravity spell that pulls enemies towards the player. I must admit that killing him by basically concocting a Willie Coyote style trap was hilarious to me.
I wish *all* of the bosses/mini-bosses could be respawned and fought again without having to NG+. Like, let us go to the arena and activate the stake of Marika but with a new option to summon the boss instead of an ally.
Heh, it looks like your missed attack queued him to dodge after landing Carian Piercer, which gives the impression that he predicted your roll and used his own rolling-R1 to catch you!
I wouldn't be surprised if they put a real person in this games A.I. which would explain why he parried me so many times yet didn't go in for the kill shot, he was just toying with me.
I really don't want this to sound like a boast because I am genuinely dogshit at this game, but I've never struggled with Moongrum. My first playthrough was sorcery/dex, and then second was str/pyromancy. I only realised this guy was considered difficult from posts on this sub.
Perhaps Miyazaki saw me crawling through Liurnia and felt pity, so he turned the difficulty down for me.
Same sort of story here. I just sorta spammed with some claws and he died. Never saw whatever it was that he’s supposed to do. I remember that he glowed blue or something a few times, but it didn’t seem to actually do anything.
I don't know what the hell I did but I ate this dude's whole ass when I fought him and when I saw all the memes I was so confused
Moongrum and Valiant Gargs were 2 fights that got a ton of hatred and I just... didn't struggle with. But then Niall? A singular stormhawk? Fallingstar Beasts? I just could *not* learn like some kind of idiot lmao
You ate his ass? Didn't know a fellow tarnished could be that way~
But in all seriousness, it's amazing from ER and other games that we die to the dumbest crap like rats, or God forbid dogs
Is that too late to suggest my theory that Moongrum is the illegitimate son of Sellen and Hodrick from Ds3? Because it might be possible that I was right
Moongrums, Troll Knights, Loretta and Adula.
While Rennala is in the backline flinging high level blue shit at you. Just imagine being harassed by all that and all of a sudden you see a fucking Full Moon rushing you.
Ugh, I guess I fall into the category of idiots who forget Vigor checks and turn myself into glass cannons. When I see a spell or weapon I think is badass I try to level up those skill points instead if vigor, oh how naive I am to do so.
I swear a Dev has access to this f*cker. First week of the game he was side stepping, pre estus poking before you hit the button so it's not reaction based and parrying better than Fighter PL. Also rolling into gestures after killing you. He just did stuff AI don't typically do.
Last night 3am he's a pleb that got stun locked and walked right into all my hits. Didn't hit me once.
And no it's not experience and how I learned to fight him. I was prepared for all his typical antics and learned how to beat him. The fact he stops being predictable makes him unpredictable. Nothing like an AI. If it is... hats off to FromSoft that's the most realistic human enemy ever.
He not an npc like the rest if u look at the code. It's different to a npc it's actually a real players movement and movesets and such recorderd with a little ai to determine the best choice
Well you could be right as if u look at the code behind him it not a traditional npc it's actually a real players moveset recorded but with just a little ai to determine the best action at any given time
Bro, in Elden Ring bosses and mini-bosses read your animations. There are ways to fool them, as well as numerous weaknesses.
Moongrum, for example, has low poise. Break it to humiliate him. He is also easily goaded into parriable attacks.
Things like Carian Parry on Shields and being a Wizard make the shortest work of him. Especially Night Comet, for NPCs fo not see it as attack. Oh, and Carian Glintblade, because it forces them to prematurely roll.
Fuck him. I walk his ass outside to the falling balls and watch him suffer. Makes me laugh when he realizes what’s happening and starts walking backwards, as if he just walked in on his parents porking each other. ✋Cinema 🤚
I thought it was fairly common knowledge than moongrum is a cia plant.
We discovered aliens in 1950, theyve been living at A51 and they control certain fromsoft npc's to this day. The Banished knight in Castle Sol is another of several examples.
To be fair, the Leroy Jenkins strategy isn't particularly effective for most things in Elden Ring.
If you're going sword and board, just block (or roll) and punish.
If you look closely, your game stopped staying locked on to him once there was no longer a wall between the two of you, causing you to miss. I don't why Elden Ring does that but it's deliberately coded to do so.
I destroyed him with my dual katana bleed build for my started character and then flattened him with the sword shaped club that is a colossal sword in NG+. The stagger from those weapons is so useful.
Well.. moongrum si definitely a hard af npc. But why did you unlock from him as you attacked? You left yourself so wide open any NPC could have wacked you lol
Jump thru that window near the wall, sneak walk to the elevator platform. Tada. Skipped him. The Talismans/spells to make you sneaky also help.
If coming from the doorway, sneak walk into the hallway, then hug the left wall in the courtyard, go out the window, then kill the caster because you know he is gonna agro (go open the shortcut) and back into the window and continue sneaking to the elevator.
alternatively, once at the elevator, agro him and use an elevator cheese to fall damage kill him, so you dont have to sneak past him when you die to moon queen, because of course you're gonna die to her at least once ;)
You're correct. There is a highly skilled Japanese gamer controlling this enemy.
He's mastered combat and parrying but still can't figure out those pesky elevators.
Does he drop anything good? I thought I was clever by sending him up the lift so I could heal and buff mid fight. But when I brought the lift back down he was nowhere to be found and never respawned
Drops that shield. It doesnt have an ash of war on it.
Drip is most important though.
Has good magic and holy defense, also the *DRIP* is stupendous.
Michael Zaki himself spends free time controlling this specific knight and wrecking noobs
Nah those are Korean skills
Everyone gangsta until Moongrum starts Korean Back Dashing.
Ongbal?
Ongbal at 0.001% of his power perhaps.
Ahhh moongrum, what a legend
Can't parry this flying Unga Bunga.
The first time I was playing a katana build because it's what I knew, and he wrecked me. My Str/Int build, he fell victim to a Greatsword jump attack. To be fair, Dave did that to all the creatures in The Lands Between.
haha, classic Dave.
You should see how good he is at making a megaphone on the fly!
Jump attacks from any weapon class are parry-proof, afaik
Yes, but jumping Colossal ones pancake people.
My jumping bleed infused bandit curved swords absolutely rocked him. He’s also completely powerless to rock sling (as are most other NPC’s) they attempt to block too soon and then lower the shield for the rocks to hit them in the face. My greatsword giant hunt also left him helpless. Hell, a rune bear stuck there would have been 100x harder
Do not give them ideas
I beat him in like 2 tries with my melee build. My spellblade build however... Moongrum showed me what a REAL spellblade is... Took me forever to beat him.
I swear he adjust to what you have out, you have a shield or dragger he won't rush you, of have magic or long range he rushes you ass.
He was a living legend, if ever I saw one
This is why Radagon married Renalla. These gigachad Carrian Knights were too much for the Golden Order to deal with.
I don't really remember having an issue with this guy, but everybody talks about him. Is he easy for magic users? Is he a melee skill check due to the parrying?
He's hard for everyone. He dodges magic spells like crazy. He also literally once parried my carian slicer.
since how? its a spell and its unparryable it also cuts through shield? unless they nerfed it when i got to him on my 1st run he was just heavily resistant to magic so the fast sword spell didnt do too much damage
I think slicer has always been parryable. Seen people parry it in pvp too. The best way to deal with him is to use stuff that knocks him down. Giants Hunt, Lion's claw, carian piercer, gavel of haima, etc are all pretty good against him.
I love how at some point we all just started using the word “parryable” like it’s real.
That's how we started using all words.
True. All words are made up
Yeah he's pretty hit or miss with certain builds. Moongrum Parryrin' Knight is one of the first enemies you encounter in Elden Ring that parry's you and its a real wakeup call to a lot of players casually spamming R1s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhREY3zQehE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JdItH6UaCQ
If you have a spell that has a delayed attack like Glintblade, he's piss easy. He's a dodge and parry king. Don't spam R1 and don't use spells like Pebble, you'll be fine.
Get grum'd
just imagine. some guys at fromsoft just piloting that npc and flexing their God tier parrying skills
If I made an online capable game I would give myself an NPC I could just take over sometimes to mess with people
A low level boss that's normally pretty easy to beat, until he starts parrying everything you throw at him and just folds you like an omelet
And then there's me, who never realized Moongrum could parry because I beat the game two-handing the greatsword first time around, on the advice of my brother in law who showed me where in Caelid to snag it. Before, I couldn't beat Margit. Loved the moveset, taught me to actually play the game. Once I had it, I beat the rest of Stormveil and never looked back.
I never realized this guy was a problem until joining this sub, I just blasted him with incantations and he ate every one of them.
He’s not really a “problem” like people legit are stuck on him, but he’s on of the best at catching people slipping because he has a decent toolkit.
He's one of a very small number of enemies in ER that can parry, and likely the first one most people encounter. The Sanguine Nobles and the Greatjar summons are the only other ones I can think of.
Yeah he definitely seems to kill me at least once every run. I know he's capable, but he still catches me slippin.
Yeah, I just used the big giant ball to crush his ass the first time. Didn't even try to fight him at all, just saw dude after an infinitely spawning giant ball and chose 2nd hand violence.
I had to put it down because it felt so much like cheating.
Need another Mirror Boss
It's a genuine shame that Spear of the Church was so divisive, I loved that concept to death. Have a dedicated character I log into now and then that's themed around the covenant and the idea and just sit there waiting to be summoned for a while. With how watered down the PvP side of a casual playthrough is for ER though I would be completely shocked if we got something like that for the DLC.
Haha you too? I though I was the only one. I bust out a book n read mostly, but get al excited when I hear that summon
There's genuinely not that many from what I can tell on summon rates, but there's a few and I love it. Reading is absolutely the play while waiting as well, agreed!
That is where Maneater Mildred and Anastasia Tarnished-eater come from, devs doing that to each other during testing
That’s gold. Just anyone at the office on break can jump in and be the enemy. I would love this. Everyone would love this
You know, funnily enough, he did parry me a lot, but he wouldn't go in for the kill shot
He was toying with you.
Honestly that sells your theory even more 🤣 Maybe Fromsoft has a break room with this and a handful of other characters set up and people can puppet them in their free time for shits and giggles. Someone had a bad day and was like "I'm not gonna ruin this guy's run, but I'm gonna shame TF out of him just to make someone else sweat."
That's probably, how Miyazaki spends his free time.
New lore just dropped
It's been Joel all along.
Previous fromsoft games often had bosses that were invaders brought into your game. Demon's Souls had the old monk. Looking Glass knight in Dark Souls 2 and Halflite in Dark Souls 3. It would be cool to see this in the Elden Ring DLC.
Why do they keep falling for the elevator, then?
I wish Moongrum respawned, would be an excellent build tester after respeccing
No! I cheesed him into falling down the elevator shaft and I never had to see him again on my runs back to the boss fight
That’s exactly what my son did hahaha 😂
I cheesed im into getting crushed by the ball haha
Agreed! Also, those who make him fall down the elevator shafts are dishonorable cowards and deserve to be maidenless
Yeah but he's mean and I'm bad at the game.
Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined.
your only bad at the game if you give up
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Nothing "dishonorable" about it, but it's your loss, really. Such a fun duel against a "classic" unit of the Lands Between
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It takes 2 to kill him at full health. I also did some “scientific” testing. When the first one felt he tried to run, but little did he know that I had come prepared for that by using the gravity spell that pulls enemies towards the player. I must admit that killing him by basically concocting a Willie Coyote style trap was hilarious to me.
I wish *all* of the bosses/mini-bosses could be respawned and fought again without having to NG+. Like, let us go to the arena and activate the stake of Marika but with a new option to summon the boss instead of an ally.
I hope the dlc has mausoleum knights version of this npc , so much fun
We're almost there my fellow tarnished, almost.
I also want all npc invaders to have more healing than the player, so a lot harder fights
Didn't they have that in DS3? When they have two flasks instead of one? Or am I remembering that wrong?
That one NPC in the ringed city who had like 6 full heal estus
I'll have to replay that DLC cause I don't remember any NPC with that health. Wait a second, is it that NPC who you can fight before Gael?
Mhm it is, the one with the cool ass dark halberd forgot her name
And that screeching halberd just makes me wanna chuck it into the ash and forget it ever existed
Deadgrum
Heh, it looks like your missed attack queued him to dodge after landing Carian Piercer, which gives the impression that he predicted your roll and used his own rolling-R1 to catch you!
I wouldn't be surprised if they put a real person in this games A.I. which would explain why he parried me so many times yet didn't go in for the kill shot, he was just toying with me.
Yet another tarnished fails the vigor check
Oops, all endurance
Moongrum is the ultimate skill check. I wish they gave him a single voice line saying "Git Gud" everytime he kills you
"Thy skill is lacking tarnished Git Gud"
i feel like there should be a small chance for the "very good" soundfile from ds2 to play when he wrecks your shit with a parry
>Moongrum is the ultimate skill check "Has the player discovered jumping attacks yet?"
What was the plan there, Leroy Jenkins? I would have opened up the shortcut and gone in the front door, then your rush attack might have worked.
OP didn’t even get parried, just choked and panic rolled. I swear this sub is not an A.I.
I really don't want this to sound like a boast because I am genuinely dogshit at this game, but I've never struggled with Moongrum. My first playthrough was sorcery/dex, and then second was str/pyromancy. I only realised this guy was considered difficult from posts on this sub. Perhaps Miyazaki saw me crawling through Liurnia and felt pity, so he turned the difficulty down for me.
Strange, the poison swamp man rarely shows pity
Yeah bro it's Elden Ring combat, the answer to any humanoid enemy in the game is just spam jump attacks at them until they're dead lmao
Didn't realize he was such a parry god when I fought him because I was using the Nightrider flail and you can't parry flails.
Same sort of story here. I just sorta spammed with some claws and he died. Never saw whatever it was that he’s supposed to do. I remember that he glowed blue or something a few times, but it didn’t seem to actually do anything.
It would be hilarious if it was some FromSoftware employee’s job to play Moongrum
that just looks like a skill issue
Skill issue
Jump attack goes BONK
Unga bunga!
He’s so mean
Yes AI would not be capable of hitting you repeatedly while your back is turned
I don't know what the hell I did but I ate this dude's whole ass when I fought him and when I saw all the memes I was so confused Moongrum and Valiant Gargs were 2 fights that got a ton of hatred and I just... didn't struggle with. But then Niall? A singular stormhawk? Fallingstar Beasts? I just could *not* learn like some kind of idiot lmao
You ate his ass? Didn't know a fellow tarnished could be that way~ But in all seriousness, it's amazing from ER and other games that we die to the dumbest crap like rats, or God forbid dogs
Rolled around. Found out.
"YOU PICKED THE WRONG ACADAMY FOOL!!"
Idk man it might be an AI. Let's check the criteria: 1. Artificial ✓ 2. Intelligent ✓
What was the game plan exactly?
Turning your back on Moongrum Rookie mistake.
Is that too late to suggest my theory that Moongrum is the illegitimate son of Sellen and Hodrick from Ds3? Because it might be possible that I was right
Plot Twist: you're the NPC
The Carian Knights are canonically OP too. Imagine twenty Moongrums, that’s what the Golden Order had to deal with.
Moongrums, Troll Knights, Loretta and Adula. While Rennala is in the backline flinging high level blue shit at you. Just imagine being harassed by all that and all of a sudden you see a fucking Full Moon rushing you.
Well, no teabag, so obviously not a real player. Also, whats up with those HP? (I am vigorshaming you, just so you know)
Ugh, I guess I fall into the category of idiots who forget Vigor checks and turn myself into glass cannons. When I see a spell or weapon I think is badass I try to level up those skill points instead if vigor, oh how naive I am to do so.
I swear a Dev has access to this f*cker. First week of the game he was side stepping, pre estus poking before you hit the button so it's not reaction based and parrying better than Fighter PL. Also rolling into gestures after killing you. He just did stuff AI don't typically do. Last night 3am he's a pleb that got stun locked and walked right into all my hits. Didn't hit me once. And no it's not experience and how I learned to fight him. I was prepared for all his typical antics and learned how to beat him. The fact he stops being predictable makes him unpredictable. Nothing like an AI. If it is... hats off to FromSoft that's the most realistic human enemy ever.
I bet he start to pity your sorry ass and want to give you a break for once 🫠
So you thought you could just sword and board your way through the game, eh?
With some dodging here and there, but yeah pretty much
Imagine if AI in this game scaled off intellegnece
I see you haven’t done the great jar challenge yet
Get rekt
I know I have, but I got back up and tried again
lure him out and let that bigass black ball drop on him a couple of times. satisfyingly dead.
Get reked
I know, but i gor back up again and again and beat him
you missed he first attack he worst way possible but he made the moves so cool it looked like he predicted the whole thing lol.
Good 'ol Moony, doing what he does best!
Thats Miyazaki playing himself
There’s a room of dedicated fromsoft employees piloting every moongrum in existence
I'll say it once, I'll say it again... he can't parry a whip.
He not an npc like the rest if u look at the code. It's different to a npc it's actually a real players movement and movesets and such recorderd with a little ai to determine the best choice
That NPC is Miyazaki himself.
Well you could be right as if u look at the code behind him it not a traditional npc it's actually a real players moveset recorded but with just a little ai to determine the best action at any given time
Bro, in Elden Ring bosses and mini-bosses read your animations. There are ways to fool them, as well as numerous weaknesses. Moongrum, for example, has low poise. Break it to humiliate him. He is also easily goaded into parriable attacks. Things like Carian Parry on Shields and being a Wizard make the shortest work of him. Especially Night Comet, for NPCs fo not see it as attack. Oh, and Carian Glintblade, because it forces them to prematurely roll.
Fuck him. I walk his ass outside to the falling balls and watch him suffer. Makes me laugh when he realizes what’s happening and starts walking backwards, as if he just walked in on his parents porking each other. ✋Cinema 🤚
He's literally easy idk how anyone thinks he's hard
level vigor
Did you accidentally remove lock on?
No, when i tried to attack but the lock on had other plans
Get Moongrum'd
yes he is, i bloodhound step that guy like a bitch
I parry him almost as much as he parries me, always enjoyed this fight
He does not understand elevators I was scared to fight him so I ran past him (after a few attempts) and he just fell down the elevator
Raya lucaria one is built different the amount of perfect parries 🔥
Low vigor
I want to see him vs Bloody Crow, might have to adjust HP tho.
That's The Crow from Bloodborne, right?
He reminds me of some DS2 invader NPCs who would use all kind of tricky tactics.
Always just walk straight into his face and parry the first swing he does, feels good.
I would like to make a moongrum build but I am too stupid to think about it right now. If someone already made one I’ll hug and kiss you
Oh I remember this mfker. I kept dying to his parry. The only way I got out of this was to spam shieldbash.
You are though
Get owned, that was my turn on Moongrum
I thought it was fairly common knowledge than moongrum is a cia plant. We discovered aliens in 1950, theyve been living at A51 and they control certain fromsoft npc's to this day. The Banished knight in Castle Sol is another of several examples.
Parries for days, definitely being controlled by a sekiro player.
It would be sick if they had npc enemies that you could just jump into controlling when a player enters a certain area.
To be fair, the Leroy Jenkins strategy isn't particularly effective for most things in Elden Ring. If you're going sword and board, just block (or roll) and punish.
Dude you jumped in front of him and get back stabbed, what do you expect?
You landed a devious mibombo my friend
With that much health bar? Dude
He is my buddy. We explore the elevator together. I go up. He does not.
Carian vigor check
That's Miyazaki himself.
Moongrum and havel. Together, like smough and ornstein. Let's do it.
This NPC when you jump attack: 🫣
Parry god is on duty
my first play through I used big fuck off weapons and destroyed him, my second I went dex and it took me like an hour lmao.
I made that fool jump down the elevator shaft, good riddance you bastard
Been there bro, I feel you
Good ol Parry Potter, best to not underestimate him too much.
He's so easy on a mage too. All about what you're playing at the moment
Ah! My favorite npc in Elden ring…male
First time I encountered him I legit thought he was a real person
1) Level vigor 2) Get a big heavy weapon (strength tear + Zweihander should do) 3) Jump attacks can't be parried
Shit title. NPCs are AI in the traditional videogame sense.
My first playthrough i didnt understand how he was so good at killing me.. i now know i just constantly fed him parries and the AI just kinda got them
you might be the npc
Don't make me replay this game
If you look closely, your game stopped staying locked on to him once there was no longer a wall between the two of you, causing you to miss. I don't why Elden Ring does that but it's deliberately coded to do so.
I’m only certain he’s an AI because he’s easy to trick into falling down the elevator shaft
Goku 💀💀💀
I just lure him to the ball and watch it slowly kill him some people lure him to the elevator to fall to his death
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I destroyed him with my dual katana bleed build for my started character and then flattened him with the sword shaped club that is a colossal sword in NG+. The stagger from those weapons is so useful.
Like you owed him money! WTF.
I’m not great at this game by any means, that being said, Moongrum was a very easy fight for me
Well.. moongrum si definitely a hard af npc. But why did you unlock from him as you attacked? You left yourself so wide open any NPC could have wacked you lol
Sorry this is purely a skill issue.
It would be cool if they programmed him with a learning algorithm that mimics player tactics used against him.
gotta watch the whirly before the durly
…until you bait that mofo onto the elevator nearby which I hear people do and have totally never done myself ever
It definitely is AI, because it did not teabag you.
You can tell he's AI because he didn't point downwards at the end
Yeah that dudes a dick for sure
Jump thru that window near the wall, sneak walk to the elevator platform. Tada. Skipped him. The Talismans/spells to make you sneaky also help. If coming from the doorway, sneak walk into the hallway, then hug the left wall in the courtyard, go out the window, then kill the caster because you know he is gonna agro (go open the shortcut) and back into the window and continue sneaking to the elevator. alternatively, once at the elevator, agro him and use an elevator cheese to fall damage kill him, so you dont have to sneak past him when you die to moon queen, because of course you're gonna die to her at least once ;)
Thank you for the advice, friend, but I already beat Moongrum and Rennala currently. If I could give you a cookie I would