Elden Ring: Mohg, Lord of Blood (Mohgwyn Palace) Boss Fight

As you probably know, bosses in Elden Ring are divided into three tiers. From lowest to highest: Field Bosses, Greater Enemy Bosses and finally Demigods and Legends.

Mohg, Lord of Blood is in the highest tier, Demigods, and is the end boss of Mohgwyn Palace. He is technically an optional boss in the sense that he is not required to be defeated to complete the main story of the base game, but he is a Shardbearer and at least two of the five Shardbearers must be slain. Also, killing this boss is mandatory before you can start the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.

If you think my character’s appearance has changed from previous videos to this one, you’re right. I have recently come across the awesome Black Knife armor set, so I could finally ditch the old leather armor that I “liberated” from Patches so long ago back in Limgrave.

With armor that looks so cool, I also decided it was time to try something other than the Guardian’s Swordspear, as the colors didn’t really go with the armor and more importantly, I recently realized that two-handing a weapon that only scales with Dexterity doesn’t provide as much bonus damage as I thought. Trying to embrace the whole dark assassin style a bit more, I decided to switch to dual-wielding katanas, namely the Nagakiba and the Uchigatana, which seem to be the best options I currently have available, even though I think the Nagakiba looks comically long.

This is the first boss I try out the new weapons on, and I must admit I haven’t really gotten used to them yet.

Anyway, I found this boss fairly difficult to take in melee as he attacks very quickly and both does high-damage melee attacks and high bloodloss-building area of effect attacks, so it was difficult to find openings for getting some hits in.

On one attempt, I tried to kite him back and forth and just shoot him with my bow, which seemed to work okay, but took a long time. When he switched to phase two and did that big area of effect that covers most of the area, I was unprepared and he managed to kill me while healing himself quite a bit in the process, so I finally thought enough is enough with these shenanigans.

I’m too busy being the main character and rocking my awesome new look to let some random Demigod stand in my way for longer than necessary, so I decided to call in galpal Black Knife Tiche for some backup. With my new armor we look great together, but once again Tiche made the fight feel almost too easy. She somehow managed to hold his aggro really well while also doing very high damage to him, so I struggled a bit with actually getting hits in because I had to chase him around a lot.

In hindsight, it would have probably worked better if I had used a ranged weapon since he seemed very focused on chasing Tiche, but I in turn was too focused on testing my katanas on something with a large health pool. I actually think Tiche did more damage to him than me though.

Oh well, now for the usual boring details about my character. I play as a mostly Dexterity build. My melee weapons are the Nagakiba with Keen affinity and Piercing Fang Ash of War, and the Uchigatana also with Keen affinity. I was level 160 when this video was recorded, which I think is a bit high for this content, but it was still a fun and reasonably challenging fight. Summoning Black Knife Tiche almost trivialized it though. I’m always looking for the sweet spot where it’s not mind-numbing easy mode, but also not so difficult that I will be stuck on the same boss for hours ;-)

Fanart

Anime-style scene showing Mohg, Lord of Blood, standing imposingly before a Black Knife assassin in the blood-red halls of Mohgwyn Palace. More information

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