The dreaded Sentient Pest makes his long-awaited re-debut in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring Nightreign in a new and terrifying form. If two enemies weren't enough on the battlefield, you can now try your hand at besting three. How about besting three enemies that repeatedly revive themselves, making a gank i🌺nevitable?

Thankfully, compared to previous fights in the Everdark Sovereign series, Sent🍬ient Pest is a pushover in strength and complexity. However, this fight is not abo๊ut skill, dodging long chain attacks, or clever builds. This is, first and foremost, the ultimate test of Stamina and strategy.

How To Prepare For Everdark Sovereign: Sentient Pest

Everdark Sentient Pest is a strange creature in that having any strategy at all makes this 💛boss extraordinarily easy when compared to other Everdark Sovereign fights.

This fight's flow completely depends on how you wish to best the Pest. This is because of the unique gimmick of this fight:

When one enemy is downed, Animus temporarily possesse🌄s their body and makes them into a stronger version of themselves.

Having tꦚhis knowledge beforehand will be your💜 key to success, as:

• If you hate the scorpion, Faurtis, you should target the moth, Gnoster.
• If you hate Gnoster, you should target Faurtis.

Build a strategy around the boss you want to prioritize. If you cannot remember the movesets of these bosses, refer to our 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:official guid✱e on the normal Sentient Pest.

Sentient Pest is weak to Fire damage - applying to all enemies. Therefore, armaments t🌼hat deal Fire damage are a high priority.

Recommended Characters

How you prefer to fight the Sentient Pest in this form will determine the best characters to fight it.

• If you prefer melee-style combat, Wylder and Raider are the best choices.
• If you prefer ranged-style combat, Ironeye and Recluse excel here.

However, there is one character that does well regardless of style and should be brought: Duchess.

Revenant is an odd duck. Her ability to use Incantations is useful, and her summons can distract Faurtis (the scorpion). However, several AoE attacks can cause Reve🥂nant to struggle; she dodges poorly, and FP management is 🌞a concern for a fight so long.

Everdark Sovereign: Sentient Pest's New Moveset

Attack	Wind-Up Tells And Attack Description	Suggested Counters
Rising Phoenix	Animus appears and rises from the defeated bodies of Gnoster and Faurtis. It healℱs them both in waves (to approximately 25-30 perce𒉰nt health).	Ranged characters should target Animus, while melee characters should continue hitting the boss that is the target.
Possession	Animus takes over the body of the first fallen ally. This deals damage to Animus while restoring the health of the target. Attacks that deal damage to the possessed entity transfer damage to Anim🧸us as well in small increments.	Rapidly hit Animus as he becomes infused with the target.
Red Pillars of Light	Like the original lighᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt pillars from the second phase, pi✃llars will indicate their incoming position on the ground with red light. After a brief delay, these pillars will fire. However, unlike Phase Two, these pillars are numerous and fire multiple times over the arena. ♊Eventually, they will condense into one massiღve pillar, which creates a circular wave that expands into a larger area and continuously fires. During this time, Faurtis will be hardened and immune to damage.	Dodge and sprint out of the pillar of lights' range. When the large pillar appears, run away and keep distance, aware that the circle can expand.
Animus-Possessed Gnoster
Magic Barrage	Gnoster gathers several orbs of magic energy in front of them. They deceptively look small in number but th🐬en expand to 12 orbs in total. These orbs fire shortly after they reveal themselves, firing in two back-to-back waves that sligh🉐tly track the player.	Run toward Gnoster if in melee to dodge under. If at range, sprint to one side and dodge twice in that direction.
Wave of Poison	Shivering, Gnoster makes a bell sound before letting a wave of poison flꦡy out in sparkling red particles that then form a cloud.	Sprint in any direction to avoid the particles. If the poison is in your way to Gnoster, dodge forward th𝓰rough it (repeating if necessary🤪).
Sweeping Grab	Forming purple energy in front of itself, Gnoster makes an audio cue before reaching for the player. It then turns around and performs the grab attack a second time if the first fails. If grabbed, the player is poisoned with Gnoster's unique infestatiജon.	Dodge diagonal-forward. Pause. Then dodge again.
Rain of Red Stars	Gnoster rises high above and fires red magic beams into the sky. The skybox takes on the appওearance of a hundred red stars. They then begin firing down on the 🌟arena in rapid succession and at angles. Gnoster begins seizing in the sky before🧸 falling to the ground. Once oꦅn the ground, Gnoster will be immobile for a short time and then be separated from Animus to return to its Phase One attacks.	Rapidly dodge in a single direction (any direction). Do not pause to drink flasks or revive teammates. Once the stars are finished, either attack Animus or revive any fallen teammates.
Possessed Faurtis
Red Wave Stomp	Fa✤urtis stomps in any direction (side or forward) as he would in his normal first phase. However, after stomp♒ing, he creates a delayed wave explosion on the ground instead of spikes.	Dodge into Faurtis and then dodge again on the explosion.
Lunging Bite	In close melee, Faurtis punished aggression from the front with a quick bite attackꦯ.	Dodge forward or back.
Roar	Raising his head, Faurtis lets out a stagꦆgering, multi-hit roar that deals damage in melee range ar⛦ound him.	Dodge rapidly away and keep your distance.
Waves of Red	After a brief roar, Faurtis begins to bash his head into the ground. Where he bashes his head, giant, fanning red waves appear and detonate after delay. He does this five times before pausing for a roar and one final, big head-bash and red wave explosion. After, he falls limp on the ground and is immobile for several secondဣs. This will separate Animus and Faurtis.	Like Rain of Red Stars, continue dodging to the side, sprinting where necessary and dodging forward through a wave if unable to reach the far side of a wave. Keep your distance from Faurtis's head to avꦜoid needing 🍎to double-dash and overuse Stamina.

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The moveset of the Sentient Pest depends on whether any bosses are incapacitated. In Phase Three, Animus will appear to possess the boss that died first.

However, Animus will have a single move that he can use when he is not possessing.

How To Defeat Everdark Sovereign: Sentient Pest

As touched on above, the primary takeaways from this fight are as follows:

• Animus will appear at the beginning of Phase Three to heal his teammates.
• When one boss falls, Animus will possess them and change their moveset.
• If a boss falls while Animus is possessing, that boss will remain incapacitated until Animus is free.
• Animus will end his possession by using the Ultimate of the boss.

This fight will only end when Animus's health bar is depleted. Once Animus i♒s gone, all bosses on the field will die.

There is a known bug we encountered where, on a revival of Animus and Gnoster, the duo will appear out of bounds. Only ranged attacks can reach them. However, once separated, Gnoster will no longer be able to re-enter the arena field. This is one of the few times that a bug is actually helpful, as the only enemies left are Anim𝔍us and Faurtis.

Therefore, the way to end this fight is to defeat Animus. To damage Animus, you can:

• Attack in melee at the end of Red Pillars of Light.
• Used ranged attacks on Animus.
• Hit possessed enemies (split damage).
• Continuously defeat the two bosses on the ground.

The last is possible because the possession Animus performs will remove a large chunk of health.

You can strike Animus and the possesse🧔d boss for great sums of damage at the end of a possession as well. After an Ultimate, the possessed boss will be inert for several seconds, allowing you to hit both.

The best strategy to deal with Everdark Sovereign: Sentient Pest is to follow these steps:

1. Choose the boss that you like fighting the most and focus on that boss with two players.
2. The third player should focus on distracting and slowly dealing damage to the other boss.
3. Focus on dealing lots of damage during the beginning and end of any Animus possession.
4. Where possible, deal damage to Animus (especially if you have a ranged group).
5. Ideally, the second possession should take place when both bosses are knocked out, meaning there is only one boss up on the field.

If one of your party members falls during this fight, the best time to revive them is at the end of an Animus possession when he and his host are incapacitated and when Gnoster is performing a dig atta🎉ck. Party Members should be left alone if an Ultimate attack or the Red Pillars of Light are active.

Eventually, with a♈ lot of patience (this is a very long f൲ight) and no small amount of juggling, you will overcome the Sentient Pest.

As a reward for the first clear of the fight, you will receive x25 Sovereign Sigils as well as the right to purchase a new Relic from the Collector Signboard: