Elden Ring is full of extremely difficult boss fights, but not all of them are required for players to beat the game. In fact, some of Elden Ring's toughest battles are completely optional fights, like the infamous fight with Malenia or the battle with Mohg, Lord of Blood. There are ways to make the Mohg fight much easier, but for players that don't know what items to equip or the other tricks to winning the fight, it can be one of the game's most difficult boss battles.
One Elden Ring player claims to have been stuck on the Mohg boss fight for two days. After many attempts at beating Mohg, Reddit user qwertypatootie2 finally managed to get the job done, reducing the boss's health bar to zero. However, Mohg's blood loss spell kicked in at the last second, so the Elden Ring player also died after killing the boss. They then made the heartbreaking discovery that, even though they managed to kill Mohg, the game doesn't consider the boss defeated until «VICTORY» flashes on the screen. Had they succumbed to blood loss just a couple seconds later, they likely still would have gotten credit for defeating Mohg.
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Qwertypatootie2 says that they «almost had a mental breakdown» when they returned to Mohg's location in Mohgwyn Palace and saw the fog door still intact, but luckily they managed to beat the ultra-tough boss on the next try. So while the realization about double KOs was a heartbreaking discovery, at least their attempts at defeating Mohg had a happy ending.
Mohg is one of the most interesting optional bosses in Elden Ring, mainly because of the lore surrounding him and the location of the boss fight. While players are fighting Mohg, they can see a large egg in the
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