Dark Souls 3 has a number of bosses that appear in different areas of the game. Most of these bosses are mandatory to face in order to proceed further into the story. Crystal Sage is the main story boss that you will face in Road of Sacrifices. Being one of the easier main story bosses, the fight should be over in a few minutes.
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Defeating the boss lifts the fog gate in the back of the room, allowing you to traverse towards the next main area in your journey. Here is all you need to know about Crystal Sage in Dark Souls 3.
Crystal Sage is located in the Road of Sacrifices. The boss fight is not optional, and you will have to defeat it in order to get any ending in the game. For summonable NPCs, you can summon Eygon of Carim to help you in this battle. Aside from him, summoning online players is still available.
Defeating the boss will drop the Soul of a Crystal Sage. You can consume it to gain 3,000 Souls or transpose it to Crystal Sage's Rapier or Crystal Hail.
Do note that you can only transpose boss souls if you have defeated Curse-Rotted Greatwood.
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Crystal Sage has a variety of attacks that it performs throughout the battle:
Soul Spear
The boss casts a Soul Spear at the player.
Soul Rain
The boss causes a rain attack on you regardless of your position in the arena.
Crystal Soul Mass
Crystal Sage casts a homing soul mass that follows you and deals damage.
Teleport
After taking a few hits, the boss disappears, creating Ice Crystals around the ground. After a few seconds, it comes back to a random area of the arena.
Clones
At 50 percent health, the boss starts to spawn clones that cast Magic of their own. They can be taken down by a
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