The Bed of Chaos |
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| Location | Lost Izalith |
| Health * | NG: 2 |
| NG+: 3 | |
| Souls * | NG: 60,000 |
| NG+: 120,000 | |
| * Recorded in PATCH 1.05 |
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| weakness: cheese,damage |
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The Bed of Chaos is a Boss in Dark Souls.
The Bed of Chaos Information
In a futile attempt to prolong the Age of Fire, the Witch of Izalith tried to recreate the First Flame. The ritual was a failure and its power formed a bed of life which would become the source of all demons; trapping two of her daughters in the orbs on either side, and herself within it.
On your way to the boss' chamber below Lost Izalith, you will be attacked by a corrupted Daughter of Chaos. If you are keeping count of the Daughters of Chaos, excluding the spider sisters and the three we've just mentioned, that's only 5; the body Ceaseless Discharge guards and attacks you if you loot, is another sister, as well as Quelana - who you meet in the Blighttown swamp and asks you to help free her sisters.
Drops
- Lord's Soul
- 60,000 Souls
- 1 Humanity
Lore
- The Bed of Chaos is generally assumed to be The Witch of Izalith. She may be conjoined with two of her daughters.
- In an effort to rekindle the First Flame, the witch produced the Chaos Flame which mutated her, and her children.
- The various demons in the area are presumed to be the spawn of The Bed of Chaos and the Chaos Flame.
Attacks
Swipe & Slam
She will often do a slow sweeping attack in which she drags a hand across the ground then raises her fist - a little slowly - and slams it down quickly afterwards, on the side the arm is located on. The animation for her lifting the arm up after the slam is a bit slow. While this attack can be blocked or dodged, if it makes contact with the player, will stagger them; the sweep will push while the slam will act like most overhead attacks in which will cause the player to fall momentarily.
There's a slight variation on this attack; instead of a swipe and slam, you'll be met with two quick swipe attacks. One arm from the side the player is on, followed by a quick sweep from the other arm. The starting animation looks the same so look for the end of the first swipe, to tell which attack is coming.
Fire Scythe(s)
After destroying one glowing root, the fiery being will free one large scythe-like appendage from within the boss's back. This has a longer range than the boss's hands and will attack stab down at the ground, and drag its scythe and the player, towards it. Not only does this attack deal serious fire damage, it does a bit of physical as well. The fire-scythe is constantly poking around the ground, and can be evaded by rolling sideways.
The only variation in this attack is that destroying the second root will cause the Bed of Chaos to free its other appendage, which will also attack the player in a similar fashion. This just means there's more to dodge.
Firestorm of Chaos
After destroying both glowing roots, the Bed of Chaos will start being able to cast a spell that is similar to Firestorm by lifting its fire scythe-like arms then thrusting them into the floor which reveals circles of fire on the ground, dictating where the pillars of fire will soon rise. Make use of these indicators, and dodge them appropriately. While very deadly, this attack is slightly rare, but its main danger resides in that it can be cast anywhere, including the small tunnel where the bug resides.
Chaos Fireball
The Bed of Chaos may also shoot out fireballs from its torso. These are lumped upwards then fall while moving outwards, spraying the entire arena. While dangerous, they are slow moving and can be avoided by simply walking away from where they're landing. They do not home in, and hit the ground randomly. This attack is extremely rare and it is possible to go through countless battles with the Bed of Chaos without ever witnessing it.
Fire Gate
If you loiter around the base of the tree, without proceeding into the tunnel, the Bed of Chaos lets out a scream before setting the area on fire. To avoid this, once you get to the base, run into the tunnel, and complete the mission.
Strategy
This boss, akin to the Dragon God from Demon's Souls, is a puzzle boss. Upon entering the arena you will notice two large, non-respawning orange orbs, one on either side of the boss. These spheres contain one glowing root each, surrounded by normal roots; the glowing roots can be destroyed by normal damage while the regular roots can also be destroyed by rolling into them.
The two glowing roots need to be destroyed to proceed with the fight, but doing so causes a fiery being to emerge from the boss itself, increasing the boss' attack options and severity, and also causes the floor to begin to crumble in specific locations. The main danger of this fight is falling into these bottomless pits. Make sure not to sprint mindlessly as you will fall in the collapsing floor; stay attentive to the floor, more so than the boss.
Once you take both the orbs, carefully proceed down the middle, but expect a mass chunk of the floor to fall through. This will expose a little ledge you can jump off of and onto a thick tree branch. Before you do so, pay attention to the pattern of melee swings of the boss, so that they do not hit you midair and cause you to fail the jump. Run up the branch, rolling through the little branches sticking out of the cave entrance. In here, you'll find a small tunnel with more little branches you need to roll through.
Defeat the Bed of Chaos, by killing the Chaos Bug at the end of the small tunnel; any amount of damage will do the trick.
Easy Range
Bows can also be used to great effect in this fight, as it is possible to snipe the glowing roots without having to enter the orange orbs yourself, making the ordeal safer. Be careful that the hitbox of the glowing root lies behind regular roots, and while these can be destroyed by arrows, it may take a couple of tries after clearing them up as the hitbox of the glowing root is small. You will however, have to position yourself in a good-enough position to see the glowing roots while remaining at a relatively safe distance, and avoiding more falling platforms.
Tips and Notes:
- Since the orbs do not respawn, and going from the starting area of the boss arena to either of the orbs or towards the boss itself is easier than going from orb to orb or from them towards the boss, quitting the game after destroying the glowing roots can be used to great effect. The next time you log the character, you will appear just outside the fog door, and you can instantly enter again and head towards the other orange sphere or attempt to make the jump to the tunnel in an easier fashion.
- Even after a successful jump to said root, the Bed of Chaos can still knock you down into the pit by clipping your character with bits of its arms or with its scythe-like appendages.
- While inside the tunnel, you're safe from all the other attacks but you are still able to get hit by the Firestorm spell, thus victory is not assured until the bug is slain.
- The Chaos Bug itself will not take any damage from fire, which is only a concern with pure pyromancy, as the physical damage of any Fire or Chaos weapon is still enough to kill it in one swing.
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through recent experience (remastered, 2023)... despite being called rare, the fireballs were used several times on me. perhaps it's used more often under certain circumstances?
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After years and years of wondering why there's a chaos bug in here and that's the only thing we need to hit and knowing that Solaire also had a chaos bug on his head which made him go mad, I'm just now realizing that maybe the chaos bug attached itself to the witch's head and caused her to go mad? Pre or post chaos demon, idk but still a pretty good assumption
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All i wanted is to play Dark Souls not The Incredible Machine...
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One must imagine bed of chaos combatants happy
(Idk if this works in the remaster, but in ptde I'm usually able to bait the firestorm to happen while sliding by holding my shield up before and while going down, hopefully that's helpful)
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There's a train track near my house. I think I'll just lay there and wait.
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I was always under the impression that she was trying to re-create a new flame, rather than rekindle the first flame, which led to the creation of the chaos fire that is the 'first flame' of pyromancy. Did I miss some dialogue or something?
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I think we can all agree that this is the worst boss Fromsoft has ever created
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Sliding down and hitting the branches is more fun than what comes after
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I love how this boss gets an extra 1HP in NG+ as if that’s going it do anything.
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spent more time on the walk backs than i did actively fighting this boss.
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Another lovely thing about this totally fantastic, very well-designed, not at all hair-rippingly frustrating and totally not unfair and stupidly designed boss fight is that it has one of my favourite tracks in the game, but you can't even appreciate that because it resets every single time you break a root, everything about this boss is so fun and well designed! (Spoilers: it's ****ing not, every aspect of this fight other than aesthetics is utter dogshit)
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I was a pyromancer when going to face this sh!t. I thought I'll directly fight the witch of izalith herself and our battle would be a true Agni Kai between two of the greatest "firebenders" in all of Lordran,but I was f***ing wrong
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"Nooo you don't understand it's not psychological torture under the thin veneer of a video game, you just need to git gud!!!!!!"
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I died because the bed of chaos is not dark souls it Mario platforming combined with a cranky mutated witch the loves spamming fire and slapping you in to holes.
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quit and reload when getting the first and second branches so you dont have to walk over to the other ones
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I just realized after ten tries on this abomination, that only masochism makes me going on...
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This "boss" killed me more times than anything else in the whole trilogy until I learned how to cheese it... I remember my first time playing the game the only way I managed to get past it was by tanking the stupid swipe spam with a greatshield, and even then I still got killed a handful of times by getting swiped while falling to the branch... Budget cut or not, there's no excuse for this boss to rely on platforming shenanigans instead of just having a regular healthbar.
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I had to cheat engine my way out of this abomination of a boss after 4 ****ing hours of it creating a f****ng wall of flame at the end of the ****slide and killing me without even a way to dodge it.
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First: The Witch of Izalith didn't make the Chaos Flame to prolong the Age of Fire; she did it to make her own. Also, the body guarded by Ceaseless isn't a sister, Quelana faked her death, and that is a decoy.
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yay, a better boss fight than slave knight gael and ludwig the holy blade.
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Bad boss
Me no like
Me hate boss
Poor design
Pls remove
Pls make me use four kings sword
Remove curse
Make titanite chunks and demon titanite’s buyable
Increase the damage of giants halberd
Thanks
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Holy actual **** .. I'm coming here to rage. I'm in NG+4, got a little bit annoyed the 3 times I beat it before, but ultimately took me less than 10 minutes each time. FOR SOME REASON, I have been stuck on this mother****er for 45 minutes now. I can't tell you how many times I've jumped, landed on the branch, only to instantly slide off or be knocked off by the Bed's chest area or whatever tf that blocks the whole path up when he leans forward. I'm actually infuriated. the run isn't tooooooo long, but it's just long enough to where I'm getting frustrated as hell running back every time.
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Just look up the cheese. The fight then becomes as easy as killing Capra with fireballs.
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Just barely managed to beat this glorified obstacle course in my first try, almost died to a Chaos Firestorm right as i reached the bug and barely survived with a tiny sliver of health left, still don't know how the hell i managed it,Not that I'm bragging at all, afterall this boss is complete RNG bs
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Not as bad as I thought it would be but it was still not very fun. The way I found works best is just sprinting to the sides along the most obvious path and for the center just sprinting and jumping onto the root. All the times I died I was trying to think about my next move instead of just blindly running towards it.
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Can you cheese this boss with multiplayer? Have someone next to each root and destroy them both back to back?
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I'm glad the last few fromsoft games have avoided these gimmicky fights. They are one of the worst things about early Souls games. I really don't know why they thought these were good ideas.
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How am I supposed to get even remotely close after removing both orbs?
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This is the only difficult boss where I would actually advise AGAINST Havel armor. What worked for me was using the shadow armor + DWGR and rushing straight to each Orb. Easy win
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guys you gotta understand that this game is made for masochists who enjoy suffering and pain such as me so if you are not a masochist or you are afraid you might enjoy it kindly piss off
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Don't even bother trying to fight it normally. Like the capra demon, cheese it with firebombs
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Something that isn't mentioned many places is that there are differences between the left and right side, and the order in which you kill the two roots changes the rest of the fight significantly. If you go left first then getting the root on the right is harder, same for the left one if you kill the right one first. Just something to keep in mind for people going through this ordeal for the first time.
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A lot of people say BoC is a boring or **** fight. Counterpoint: any boss fight is significantly improved with the right music, and Surfin' USA made BoC way better
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Is this possible to make this Boss without shield? I complete almost all souls games (no sekiro elden ring and demon souls) without shield and i dont wanna use it. I died like 20times already
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i now realised it has that fire with a look of elden rings frienzied flame. cool!
Destroyed left root. Died. Attempted to destroy right root multiple times. Died a lot. Finally did it. Died several more times trying to get the floor to cave in the center. Finally got naked, slid down, and just ran for it -- got to the bug on the first try.
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This is definitely, absolutely, without a question, an enemy. I dare say it's very freaking.
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Still the most ridiculous boss fight in perhaps the entire series.
Just forget about your build, wear full Havel and a big shield. Boring.
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What I really don't understand is why the devs didn't even bother to fix this boss in the massive 1.05 and 1.06 patches
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Elden Ringers may have Fire Giant, Godskin Duo, Elden Beast, but their pain is incomparable to this entire area and this bossfight.
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I’m sorry everyone, I simply do not dislike this fight, I’ll go ahead and turn in my fromsoft fan certificate at the counter
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i'll never know how **** this fight would be, im glad i spoiled this fight for myself
hate it
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Just driving by to say **** this fight with a rusty running chainsaw.
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I just ran through this and miraculously got both roots, then died. On coming back both roots were still out, and the floor holes were as they were, and I was able to just run up and jump in the pit to the tunnel. Was that a lucky bug, a revamp over the original or was it always that way? I'm playing the remastered edition on switch.
This is the worst designed boss in any game, ever. Worse than the Elden Beast.
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Died to the fire in the final portion, went to retrieve my souls afterwords and died to the pit :(
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A big **** to Bandai Namco to let this boss Unchanged in the Remaster ! **** YOU !
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Yeah well, no one should walk into a boss fight with too many souls or humanity.
I rather spend it on equipment extras, spells or miracles, even if I am a knight only.
So thats stuff I dont have to buy for NG.
Overhead of Humanity is sacrificed on kindling bonfires or chipping it towards Daughter of Chaos to raise in rank and open the short cut door to demon cave ...
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bed of chaos is elden ring in a nutshell : Annoying, Stupid, broken, really weak in general, and not even worth it
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Not as bad as I expected. Honestly I anticipated worse - the fact the orbs don't respawn was a nice surprise.
If you have a bow and some fire resist, this is more or less a cake walk. A long cake walk beset by very slow demons, but a cake walk.
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Me before the fight: surely people were just overhyping it no way its THAT bad.
Me after fighting it: *typing in google* how….to cheese…bed of chaos
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(PTDE) A puzzle boss with a falling floor,
required failable jumps and the inability to recover
from the "chaos" of random movement would have had the decency
(or the basic level design idea) to let the bloodstain at the fog door.
>Recommended to enter with no souls nor humanity <
(for those who have no time for tired of guessing by themselves while randomly dying by design).
This scenario is nothing more than the cleansing and stripping of everything
that you've been doing and depending upon so far, besides a ragequit test.
Your weapons, equipment, your method of playing... you can put all those on hold while completing this.
If you can bear this, you can certainly face any job interview, loss or catastrophe in your life and press on.
I've only lost 09 humanity and 60k, but it was the first time feeling disappointed with the game.
See, if you do these things right the first time, there's no need for remasters.
But of course that's another issue altogether.
Oh my, look at everything one has to write to avoid saying "**** this 'boss' ".
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(PTDE) A puzzle boss with a falling floor,
required failable jumps and the inability to recover
from the "chaos" of random movement would have had the decency
(or the basic level design idea) to let the bloodstain at the fog door.
>Recommended to enter with no souls nor humanity <
(for those who have no time for tired of guessing by themselves while randomly dying by design).
This scenario is nothing more than the cleansing and stripping of everything
that you've been doing and depending upon so far, besides a ragequit test.
Your weapons, equipment, your method of playing... you can put all those on hold while completing this.
If you can bear this, you can certainly face any job interview, loss or catastrophe in your life and press on.
I've only lost 09 humanity and 60k, but it was the first time feeling disappointed with the game.
See, if you do these things right the first time, there's no need for remasters.
But of course that's another issue altogether.
Oh my, look at everything one has to write to avoid saying "**** this 'boss' ".
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As others have said, the runback is the thing with this boss. So much incentive to kill it first go, and yet something always goes wrong. My favorite way to die is killing both the side things, dodging the BS arms, pulling off the jump, and then having something one-shot me through the floor before I reach the bug. Priceless.
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Your character might as well be Usain Bolt after you beat this ***** with the quarter mile you run every time
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Guys, even if this boss exists i stil thank god. You know why?
Imagine if you had to kill all three orbs every time you fought it.
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Worst boss in the game... I get it, it's a puzzle boss. And It wouldn't be so bad were it not that you had to run a long gauntlet every time you die just to try again. Just bad game design. It isn't challenging and fun, it is just tedious and frustrating.
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I don’t get it. This boss is not as bad as what people are saying
I’m a Italian plumber btw
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Y'all know Alluring Skulls and Aural Decoy make the boss not target you, making this fight easier than partying Gwyn?
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I'm calm with this boss right up until the titanite demon one-shots me on the way back to the fog gate. Happens at least once per NG cycle
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After lots and lots of tries at NG+ -- this freaking tree chunk pissed me off. How the heck i should guess where i should saving myself from its swipe? Because if i roll earlier -- it hit me. Roll when its almost touched me -- it hit me. Like game is locking your roll when this branch ready to swipe and above you at 2-4 meters, and game think you already got a hit. It just inevitable at some points. Aaaah, and i forgot about random Fire Scythe and fire storms that just oneshot you with AoE damage. This boss is such a trash for rollers. Like dude, just take a shield. SCREW YOU. Four Kings have problems too. Like.. they are not four. Now i understand how Sekiro much better and satisfying than this
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Dunno how, but bed of chaos is the easiest out of lord soul bosses. My both, tanky knight and bloodlust glasst wanderer runs were just 3-4 attempts, mainly dying due to falling floor. Nito was harder for me as wanderer, while for knight... Uhhh, knight is op, no challenge but fun
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IMO Bed of Chaos would get much less hatred if it wasn't so far from the nearest bonfire. This boss is almost guaranteed to kill you at least a few times in seemingly arbitrary ways, and that 90-second jog through the lava and stone demons after every single death really puts a cherry on top of the frustration sundae. Manus, Kalameet and Gwyn all have a similarly lengthy commute, but when you die to them you at least know it was your own fault.
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My character has ran the same path for miles, just to be smacked around by a giant wooden doll.
My thumb hurts.
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****ing **** of a boss, I lost my 50k souls and 2 humanities
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If you don't get lucky and beat her super fast, the most important part of this boss fight is getting into a rhythm and calming your stress. You're very likely going to die repeatedly and for stupid reasons. Turn on some music or a podcast, talk to a buddy, just do something to distract you while you let muscle memory take you into autopilot. Even if it ends up taking a long time, if you're not pulling your hair out after every death, your day will probably go a lot better.
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Wait, are the runes that suround the bed of chaos actuly fire sorcery?
QUELAG had runes coming out of her spiders hair.
Perhaps these runes are the lost flame sorcery?
Bed of chaos, more like... Bed of bad! heh, gottem.
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