FromSoftware rolled out a new update for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree on Wednesday, and the biggest target is the game’s final boss, who has been hit with a significant nerf. That change will likely come as great relief to Elden Ring fans who struggled with Promised Consort Radahn/Radahn, Consort of Miquella, one of the game’s most challenging boss battles.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree latest patch notes, for version 1.14 of the game, lead with balance changes to Radahn, which are officially described thusly:
- Changed the action pattern when the battle starts.
- Adjusted some attack moves.
- Decreased the damage of some attacks.
- Decreased stamina damage of some attacks.
- Decreased the attack range of some non-weapon-based attacks.
- Improved the visibility of some attack effects.
In practice, this translates to multiple moves being adjusted, which makes them easier to dodge and gives players extended opportunity to counterattack Radahn across his two phases. One of the most notable nerfs affects Promised Consort Radahn’s cross-slash attack, during which he swings each of his swords individually, then slashes at the player with both. Radahn’s cross-slash is now much slower and has a longer recovery window.
Multiple moves that Radahn uses in his second phase (Radahn, Consort of Miquella) have also been adjusted. Radahn is now easier to follow when the screen is filled with Miquella’s light-based incantations, which no longer obscure the action or the boss’ whereabouts.
FromSoftware’s changes to Promised Consort Radahn/Radahn, Consort of Miquella come after months of complaints from Shadow of the Erdtree players, who slammed the boss fight as a low point in an otherwise beloved expansion to Elden Ring. Players didn’t merely criticize Radahn’s overwhelming and frenetic attack patterns, but that they often had to resort to completely different play styles just to defeat the boss.
Radahn has a notable history of being nerfed in Elden Ring. In the base game, he appears as Starscourge Radahn, a boss that was similarly criticized for being too difficult in his original form. FromSoftware adjusted Starscourge Radahn less than a month after Elden Ring’s original release, but later reversed some unintended changes to the boss’ damage and hitbox sizes. Starscourge Radahn became a point of pride for Elden Ring players, some of whom like to boast that they defeated him pre-nerf, a trend that will almost assuredly continue with the latest changes to Promised Consort Radahn/Radahn, Consort of Miquella.
The rest of version 1.14’s changes are largely focused on weapon, magic, and skill adjustments. You can read the rest of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s new patch notes below.
Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.14
PvP-exclusive balance adjustments
- Decreased the damage of Backhand Blades against other players. (The Smithscript Cirque’s throwing attacks are not affected by this change)
- Decreased the damage of Spears’ dual wield attacks against other players.
- Decreased the damage of the Pata weapon against other players.
- The “Spread Crossbow” weapon will no longer cause the headshot damage motion when hitting another player.
- Decreased damage against other players.
- This skill will no longer cause the headshot damage motion when hitting another player.
- Decreased the damage animation value generated by this skill when hitting another player.
- Decreased the poise value of follow-up attacks when using this skill against other players.
General balance adjustments
- Increased the attack speed of the uncharged version of the first heavy attack for the following weapon types:
Dagger / Throwing Blade / Straight Sword / Great Sword / Colossal Sword / Heavy Thrusting Sword / Curved Sword / Twinblade Sword / Katana / Great Katana / Axe / Flail / Great Spear(Except Serpent-Hunter) / Halberd / Reaper / Whip (Except Urumi) / Hand-to-Hand Arts / Beast Claw.
- After performing left handed attacks with weapons of the Great Katana category, cancelling into subsequent attacks using the right handed weapon will now take longer.
- Hand-to-Hand Arts weapon type
- Increased damage.
- Shortened the recovery time between some normal attacks and follow-up attacks.
- Colossal Sword weapon type
- Increased the move distance when attacking.
- Increased the speed of the first normal attack.
- Backhand Blade weapon type
- Decreased the attack speed of normal attacks from a crouching position.
- Small Shield and Medium Shield weapon types
- Increased the damage negation of some shields when blocking physical attacks.
- Increased the guard strength of some shields.
- It will now take longer to be able to cancel into most actions after performing one-handed normal attacks with the Swift Spear.
- Extended the Smithscript Dagger’s throwing attacks range.
- Increased the attribute scaling of Rellana’s Twinblade for lower Intelligence and Faith attributes.
- Rellana’s Cameo Talisman
- Reduced the delay before the damage enhancement activates.
- Increased damage enhancement.
- Reduced stamina consumption
- Increased poise damage of follow-up heavy attacks.
- Increased the movement distance of the first follow-up heavy attack.
- Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when the second follow-up heavy attack hits another player.
- Cancelling other actions to perform this weapon art will now take longer.
- Increased the light wave range, poise damage, and attack speed of the stance’s normal attack.
- Increased the poise damage from the stance’s heavy attack.
- Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when a stance’s heavy attack hits another player.
- Increased attack power.
- Extended the attack range of the Great Hammer’s spin.
- Increased poise value and poise generation speed.
- Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when a charged attack hits another player.
- Increased attack range for the first and second attacks.
- Reduced the knockback distance of the second attack.
Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns
- Increased attack power.
- Increased attack power, stamina attack power against guarding enemies.
- The close-range hitbox now follows the movement of the player
Aspects of the Crucible: Bloom
- Increased attack speed, increased size of the hitbox.
- Shortened recovery time between using this incantation and follow-up actions.
- Decreased the minimum delay between consecutive hits.
- Increased range.
- Cancelling this incantation into rolls will now take less time.
- Increased poise damage.
- Increased enemy knockback distance.
Midra’s Flame of Frenzy
- Increased attack speed.
- Increased Frenzy status buildup range against enemies.
- Decreased Frenzy status buildup when using this skill.
Bayle’s Flame Lightning
- Black Pyreflies items will now correctly reappear when resting at a site of grace.
- Fixed a bug where performing a Light Greatsword heavy attack while jumping did not consume stamina.
- Fixed a bug where unintended Weapon Skills could be used when equipping the Ballista in the left hand.
- Fixed a bug that caused critical hit damage dealt to Taylew the Golem Smith when using certain weapons the be lower than intended.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the player from acquiring runes when an enemy was killed while holding a shield.
- Fixed a bug where casting the Inescapable Frenzy Incantation using the Staff of the Great Beyond would cause its hitbox to be generated incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug where whiffed backstabs with the Pata weapon had a smaller fist hitbox that intended.
- Fixed a bug where some attacks of the Lizard Greatsword weren’t registered as strike attacks.
- Fixed a bug where Euporia could increase the attack power of other weapons when its luster is restored.
- Fixed a bug where the restored luster effect of Euporia was sometimes displayed on different weapons.
- Fixed a bug where the power of some Weapon Skills of a right-handed Falx changed depending on the level of the weapon equipped in the left hand.
- Fixed a bug where the enchantment effects of certain skills were being applied to some attacks that did not use weapons.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect player motions to be performed when using lock-on for the following Skills.
- Wild Strikes / Spinning Strikes / Unending Dance
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks Skill to go through some terrain.
- Fixed a bug where the Blades of Stone Spell did not hit targets at a different height level correctly.
- Fixed a bug where some attacks of the Bayle’s Tyranny Incantation did not hit multiple enemies.
- Fixed a bug that caused the attack of the Bayle’s Tyranny Incantation to go through certain terrain.
- Fixed a bug where Godfrey’s Icon Talisman did not apply to some Skills, Spells, and Incantations.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the player from becoming translucent when the Crepus’ Vial Talisman is equipped and the Unseen Form Spell is used.
- Fixed a bug where the hitboxes of some attacks of Rellana, Twin Moon Knight were different than intended.
- Fixed a bug where the “Leave” option could not be selected in the inventory menu for some equipment.
- Fixed a bug that made some Site of Graces difficult to touch under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug in some areas where the invasion spawn-in position was different than intended.
- Fixed a bug where the displayed name of certain areas was different than intended.
- Fixed a bug in which, under certain circumstances, the combat state was not released after defeating an invading NPC.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some effects from being displayed correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the Watchful Spirit Incantation’s attacks were sometimes invisible to other players in multiplayer.
- Fixed a bug where the effects of some tools and incantations were not correctly applied when trying to deflect or cancel.
- Several performance improvements and other bug fixes
- Corrected a descriptive error in the game’s credit that was incorrectly added in patch 1.12
