He’ll also use his spindly arms and legs to do wide sweeps and smash down on you, and will occasionally stand up and just… just try and fall on you, although this is fairly easy to avoid and makes the weak spots on his limbs more available for walloping. He’ll sometimes lift himself into the air and do a butt slam on top of you, which also generates some acidic liquid around him that gradually corrodes away your health if you’re standing in it, until such point as it clears again. The first phase of the Greatwood involves him shuffling out of his corner to start attacking, which can do damage at close and long range. For the moment he’s happy hanging out in the left hand corner there. The Greatwood is surrounded by a few hollowed undead and if they aggro at you, so does he. You can get a good way into the courtyard before anything happens, but don’t just keep running in unless you’re good and ready. The doorway into the courtyard is on your right if you’re coming from this direction, but you can also get there by starting at the Dilapidated Bridge bonfire and going straight through the graveyard, in which case the courtyard will be on your left. You’ll know as you get close because the ground becomes covered in roots and pink flowers, and once you step into the courtyard itself there’ll be pink petals floating upwards from the ground (it’s actually quite pretty, which is a shame considering what comes next). The Greatwood is in a big stone courtyard.

You should be able to see a big set of stone steps leading into what looks like a massive kind of stone temple. From the bonfire, go out onto the thatched roofs of the building and look left from where you’re standing. Getting to the Curse-Rotted Greatwood is easiest from the Cliff Underside bonfire at the Undead settlement. Defeating the Curse-Rotted Greatwood gets you the Transposing Kiln, which you can bring to Ludleth of Corland to get some potentially kick ass weapons from boss souls you collect. The boss for the Undead Settlement is the Curse-Rotted Greatwood, and he’s… well he’s a big tree, is what he is.

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