How Elden Ring Boss Tricks Daily Actually Works
I started following Elden Ring Boss Tricks Daily around three months after the game launched, when I was still dying to Malenia in a loop that felt more like punishment than gaming. The series itself is straightforward: a daily post on Reddit's r/EldenRing sharing one specific trick, build adjustment, or positional insight for a particular boss. Not everything works for every playstyle, but the ones that do tend to stick with you. The format is usually brief. Someone posts the boss name, the condition required (spell, weapon, stamina window), and either a video clip or text explanation of what to do. That's it. No lore paragraphs, no five-paragraph structure. Just the mechanic and the execution. I've found that skipping the longer essays and going straight to the mechanic-focused posts is faster, especially when you're stuck on the same boss for hours.
Elden Ring Boss Tricks Daily — How to Get the Most Out of It
Here's the part most people miss. The tricks aren't always about defeating the boss faster. A lot of the daily posts are actually about shortening the time between attempts. I ran into this with the Godrick the Grafted trick where you lure him out of the arena and kite him around the outer pillars. The trick itself takes about four minutes to execute once you know it. But the real win is that it cuts my average attempt time from roughly twelve minutes down to something closer to four, which means more data per hour about what's working and what isn't. One edge case I hit that the subreddit didn't cover well was the trick for dragging Mohg, Lord of Blood out of his phaselink phase by standing directly under the chandelier during his third health bar transition. The post assumed you had 40+ faith and the Sacred Relic Sword. When I tried it at 25 faith with a standard incantation, the phase reset before the damage window even opened. What worked instead was positioning two meters to the left of the chandelier so that when Mohg initiates the phaselink, the animation pushes him slightly off-center, letting you break his stance with a single well-timed Ash of War hit instead of spamming healing incantations. It cost me three deaths to figure out because the original post didn't mention the faith threshold at all. The common pitfall is assuming every trick is build-agnostic. They aren't. Some tricks require specific talismans or weapon upgrades that aren't obvious from the title alone. I've seen people try to use the Ranni's Snow Witch Set trick against Rennala without realizing the trick only works when your frost buildup is at least 35 per hit, which means you need the Cold Uchigatana or a similar weapon. If you try it with a standard katana, the boss phases out before the buildup triggers and you lose twenty seconds of progress.
Another thing worth noting: the daily posts that get the most upvotes aren't always the most useful. The algorithm rewards novelty, not reliability. A trick like "roll toward Rennala's glowing eye during her sorcery phase" might get hundreds of upvotes because it sounds clever, but it actually has a 30% failure rate depending on RNG in her spell selection. Meanwhile, a low-vote post about spacing yourself at exactly seven meters during the second Mogh stage because that's where his Dauntless Whirlwind range ends is far more consistent. Learn to read past the vote count. There are also times when the tricks don't apply at all. If you're playing on a controller without gyro aiming, certain positioning tricks become significantly harder because you can't micro-adjust your camera angle. I hit this with the Starscourge Radahn trick involving launching yourself upward with a tear jar and hitting him mid-air. The post assumes pixel-perfect timing on a mouse and keyboard. On a controller, the margin of error is wide enough that most attempts miss by a full meter. In those cases, falling back to the standard phase-two stagger method used before the trick became popular is faster than trying to adapt it. What I actually do is maintain a simple spreadsheet. Column one has the boss name, column two has the trick from the daily post, column three has whether it worked on my build, and column four has the approximate time saved per attempt. After about forty bosses, the spreadsheet tells me which tricks are worth memorizing and which ones I should skip. It's taken me about six hours to set up, and it saves me roughly an hour a week compared to wandering into fights blind.
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