Top 5 optional bosses in Elden Ring and where to find them?

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Elden Ring, just like every other Souls game, is filled with both compulsory bosses as well as optional bosses (bosses that do not require to be beaten in order to progress the story).

These optional bosses are quite challenging and are primarily tied to side quests or different endings, which are ideally intended for dedicated and more hardcore players. Nevertheless, beating these bosses has its own advantages as it is easy to obtain brilliant armor, weapons and spells from them.

Apart from that, they also drop a lot of runes that players can use to upgrade various stats to enhance their characters.

Before moving on with this list, it is important to mention that Elden Ring has a plethora of optional bosses. Therefore, the choices of players will vary quite a lot.

Thus, the list mentioned here is not conclusive, however, it definitely comprises of bosses that most of the players would love to face during their playthroughs.

This a fight that many newcomers will love to skip, while veterans will be hungry to face. It is because, unless players have experience with fights involving two bosses rushing aggressively at them, then it is going to be a nightmare.

Both Crucible Knight and Crucible Knight Ordovis will chain lock players into their combos and finish them off quite swiftly. It takes a lot of endurance to come out victorious and definitely a lot of experience as well.

Location: Auriza Hero's Grave in Leyndell, Royal Capital

Unless players are going for one of the secret endings within the game, they will probably not come across Lichdragon Fortissax. However, for those who do, they will be greeted with one of the best dragon fights in all of Soulsborne.

This dragon uses red lightning and its attack patterns are quite insane.