
Most of them are related to his newly formed hand which can hit horizontally or do a hard-hitting pound. He can do all of the attacks from the first phase in addition to some new ones. They will reform and a giant arm will emerge from them. The second phase starts once you've killed the balls for the first time.

It's acid and will deal damage to your equipment's durability. The most annoying attack is him lifting his wooden butt up into the air to drop back down and release some yellow/brown-ish stuff. He can also roll over, which looks harder to avoid than it is. In Phase #1 he can sweep or crush you with his arms. Take those out alongside with the balls and he's down to 50% health. The easiest ones are probably the ones on his left hand and leg. So taking out other weak spots before makes the much more difficult second phase shorter. While you can take them out first it's best to destroy some of the other bulbs first because as soon as you got his balls phase two starts. Most prominently, right in the center between the legs are the community namesake of the boss: The tree's balls. The trick is navigating the various attacks while continuously dealing damage to the bulbs that make up the weak spots.
Then the weak spot explodes, blood gushes everywhere and a huge chunk of health gets blown off of the bosses health bar. Not only that, you barely do any damage until you've dealt enough to the weak spots. The community calls this thing Treeballs and the game calls it a Greatwood.Īs far as Dark Souls bosses go this is an odd one because you can only damage it in specific weak spots: The bulbs. Instead I will do it at the beginning of the next video.


Unfortunately I forgot to make a weapon showcase for this video and only noticed once it was already uploaded.
