Gold Skeleton

Gold Skeleton

General Information

Location	Shrine of Storms: 4-1, 4-2
Description	Big Skeleton wielding a massive cleaver
Souls	White: ??	Neutral: 614-1944	Black: 16756-??
HP	White: ??	Neutral: 347-539	Black: ??

Attacks

Attack Type	Attack Name			Damage Type
Melee	N/A			Physical
Ranged	Poison			Poison
Special	Poison Spray			Poison
Special	Acid Spit			Physical + Degrades Armor
Spell	Poison Cloud			Magic

Attack Patterns

• Horizontal slashes.
• Overhead chop.
• 2-handed horisontal slashes.
• 2-handed heavy overhead chop. Short wind-up.

Strategy

• These guys carry massive two-handed cleavers.
• While they are slower and don't roll around, they advance with the cleaver up to block 50% of incoming damage.
• Due to the size of their weapons, they aren't stunned by most attacks.
• They also dish out a lot of damage and use simple combos that can quickly kill you.
• Sticky White Stuff makes your weapon extremely potent against any gold-armoured enemies.
• A blunt weapon with Sticky White Stuff on it (or Enchant Weapon) with make short work of these guys.
• Approach slowly and let him begin his massive swing at you.
• Dodge it, then smash him a couple of times.
• Alternatively, you can strike with a heavy attack just as he lets his guard down to attack you and then get in a single quick attack immediately after, then back away until he brings his guard back up and repeat.

Shield

• They're actually really easy one to one if you have a weapon with knockdown and a decent shield with a high hit resistance.
• Simply let them strike your shield when doing their basic diagonal slashes and they'll rebound after one hit.
• Simply knock them down with a strike from your weapon, and follow up with another before they can get to their feet.
• For magic users Soul Arrow does good amount of damage (even in New Game+), but they are immune to Death Cloud.

Ranged strategy

• In 4-1, there are 3 golden skeletons, one after the other, on the cliff near the end of the level.
• It is possible to lure them all back to the place where you dropped down to the cliff, right after the narrow path behind the castle wall.
• You can then climb back up in the direction of the narrow path, hopping up three ledges, and the golden skeletons can't follow you up there.
• From this position, you can easily kill them with magic or arrows, without ever even coming close to them or their cleaver.

Cliff Strategy

• This makes quick work of them, but gets rid of their loot.
• Just equip a weapon that has a push move (such as a spear), and simply shove them off the cliff.
• Watch out for the Storm Beasts as they like to shoot you while you're dealing with the skeletons.

Hit and Run! Strategy

• Essentially if you wear the Thief's Ring , it makes you undetectable in the fight against these three, so it is recommended.
• You approach them from behind and hit them with an arrow, they will come towards you but about half way to the cliff drop off mentioned above, they will stop and turn around, making them easy targets.
• This works well on the second and third skeleton, but it works pretty good on the first one too. he's just less likely to turn around and walk away though.

Item Drops

Shard of Bladestone

Chunk of Bladestone

Kilij

Enemy ID and Stats

The information below reflects the game's hard programmed values for enemy stats and values. However, these values don't always align precisely with values seen in game. This is due to Special Effect Multipliers (similar to NPCs) and World Tendency Multipliers.

Name	ID	Location	HP	Souls	Defense						Resistance
					Physical	Slash	Blunt	Thrust	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Gold Skeleton	402000	4-1	257	614	125	125	45	150	62	50	999	999	999
Gold Skeleton	402030	4-2	257	1944	125	125	45	150	62	50	999	999	999
Gold Skeleton (Black Phantom)	402001	4-1	257	1227	125	125	45	150	62	50	999	999	999
Gold Skeleton (Black Phantom)	402031	4-2	257	4688	125	125	45	150	62	50	999	999	999

Special Effect Multipliers

Special Effect Multipliers are blanket multipliers that are applied to NPCs, including Black Phantoms. For example, if the HP multiplier is "x2", the NPC will have twice the health that the player would have if they had identical stats and equipment. The NPC's attack multipliers are applied before the damage is affected by the player's defenses and resistances. Damage received by the NPC is slightly more complicated. When the player does damage to the NPC, the raw damage is put into a formula and computed against the NPC's resistances. These resistances are multiplied by the values in the Physical/Magic/Fire Defense columns before calculation. Afterward, the remaining damage is reduced by resistances, it is then multiplied by the Damage reduction multipliers in the Physical/Magic/Fire Reduction columns. The output damage remaining is the dealt to the NPC.

Enemy	Location	HP	Stamina Damage	Attack			Damage Reduction			Defense			Resistance
				Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Gold Skeleton	4-1	x1.35	x1.19	x1.52	x1.52	x1.52	-	-	-	x1.15	x1.15	x1.15	Immune	Immune	Immune
Gold Skeleton	4-2	x1.55	x1.3	x1.75	x1.75	x1.75	-	-	-	x1.25	x1.25	x1.25	Immune	Immune	Immune
Gold Skeleton (Black Phantom)	4-1	x2.7	x1.19	x2.28	x2.28	x2.28	-	-	-	x1.725	x1.725	x1.725	Immune	Immune	Immune
Gold Skeleton (Black Phantom)	4-2	3.1	x1.875	x2.625	x2.625	x2.625	-	-	-	x1.875	x1.875	x1.875	Immune	Immune	Immune

Trivia

This is the guy in the opening cinematic who shows up after the knight has been fighting the Slave Soldiers.