Judicator |
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| Enemy Type | Giant |
| Weakness | Strike, Dark, Lightning |
| Resistances | Standard, Slash, Thrust |
| Immune | Bleed, Frostbite, Poison/Toxic, Rapport, Alluring skull |
Judicator is an Enemy in Dark Souls 3 DLC: The Ringed City.
Judicator Enemy Description
- A giant, respawning enemy encountered in the Ringed City.
- There are four found in the Ringed City.
- The first one is found at a distance after the Mausoleum Lookout bonfire, and will summon many Ruin Knights to unleash a barrage of arrows at the player. Using the terrain and moving between volleys, players can eventually reach the Judicator.
- The second one is found patrolling the abyssal swamp at the bottom of the Ringed City. Unlike other Judicators, this one can attack the player directly, in addition to its usual summons. Using the Hidden Body sorcery can allow one to pass undetected.
- The third one can be found past the hidden ladder near the Ringed City Streets bonfire, on the path leading toward the Purging Monument, accompanied by two Ringed Knights. To reach it, one must use the Chameleon sorcery or a Young White Branch in the abyssal swamp to transform into a Humanity sprite, and then move toward the message on the wall that says "show your humanity."
- The last Judicator appears in the Spear of the Church boss fight, and will die upon summoning Halflight or another player. Unlike the other Judicators, this one does not respawn, but can be revived at the Purging Monument to allow players to challenge a Spear of the Church again.
Judicator Combat Information
- Summons three to six Ruin Knight phantoms, which fire a volley of arrows from a distance. However, first Judicator can summon several Ruin Knights phantoms. This attack deals Thrust Damage.
- Summons a Silver Knight Ledo phantom, which uses strong attacks with Ledo's Hammer. Deals Strike Damage.
- Summons three Black Witch Zullie phantoms, casting a spell similar to "Dark Serpent". Each hit deals Dark Damage.
- First one may also summon hollow using Dragon Head Stone, whose attack will deal high Fire Damage.
- Sweeps their arms and smashes the players dealing Standard Damage.
- Weak to Strike Damage, Lightning Damage and Dark Damage.
- Resistant to Standard Damage, Slash Damage and Thrust Damage.
- Immune to Poison/Toxic, Bleed and Frostbite.
- Using Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring and Hidden Body at the same time DO NOT prevent player from aggroing them (checked with the first one encountered only).
Judicator Notes & Trivia
- Judicator at the swamp can easily be avoided using Hidden Body spell. However, that strategy does not work with Judicator met near Mausoleum Lookout Bonfire or Purging Monument.
- The Ruin Knight phantoms are the same Ruin Knights the Ruin Sentinels were based off of from Dark Souls II.
Judicator Variations
First Judicator
| Location |  |
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Drops |
| The Ringed City | 2200 | 4000 | Titanite Chunks |
Swamp Judicator
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Drops |
| The Ringed City | 2200 | 4000 | |
| In the center of the swamp after the Ring City Streets bonfire. | Divine Blessing Hidden Blessing (once per NG cycle) |
Purging Monument Judicator
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Drops |
| The Ringed City | 2220 | 4000 | |
| From the Ring City Streets bonfire, go through the shortcut and up the ladder after you "Show your humainty". He's sitting down before the Purging Monument |
Divine Blessing (once per NG cycle) |
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its rare where i think any thing in souls games id actually bad but... what the **** where they thinking
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Good work fromsoft thats exaktly how you schoud threat new guests in the ring city
That stupid Mothe**ucker
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That fu**ing thing can't be killed or i'am to dumb how to do it please help
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For the first one get to the last set of gravestones. Kill the 2 skeletons that come along. Then snipe him from between the graves with the great bow. His summons won't hit you while your doing to him what he is trying to to do to you.
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Got to the first one in sight, got invaded by sun bro. Thought proper greeting is in order, queued praise the sun gesture. That bastard judicator summons his archers(this is the first time i'm seeing this) and peppers me with arrows while i'm praising instakilling me. Invading sun bro just went 180 and bailed, job done. Funniest **** in a while,
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The 2nd one should be said that it the arrow summons shoot up to 7 times instead of the 3 from the first one I count 7 while panic rolling I stopped rolling after their 3rd barrage and they just kept going even after killing that tall POS. Also he can summon all his summons at one time?? I had him 1 hit away and he summoned arrow dudes a dude with I think a hammer or club and another one with some fast weapon I couldn't tell exactly because I was busy rolling my ars off dodging his swings the arrows hammer dude swinging and the curved sword katana or something like that dude at the exact same time. This fight alone really made me think badly of from soft because just throwing all these enemies at you at once that can kill you in literally 2 seconds at THE SAME TIME is just bullsh*t and horrible horrible HORRIBLE enemy design making stuff unfairly hard isn't good there is no balance getting 2 shot by a enemy but fighting many of them at once while arrows that can kill you in one barrage is shooting 7 times a summon and on top of that THEY RESPAWN?? And you don't get ANYTHING worth that fight it's by far the hardest fight in the game and even if you kill him his summons stay their full length so if you killed him with arrows coming at you thinking it makes since he dies the summons die well you're wrong because they don't vanish they stay at least 20 seconds after you kill the worst enemy in ANY game like this history I seriously mean that. There is no balance in this fight it's only there to kill you Over and over and over
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They are sh*it. Especially the one when you first enter the city
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Witch Zullies are using the frayed blade weapon art. You can even see the slam down of the katana if you look closer
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Can you get the weapon the witch summons use? A sword that cast dark serpent or similar?
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I came here to check out some DS2 lore/theories and I'm genuinely confused by how so many people think these guys are difficult. Annoying perhaps, but difficult?
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I'm fairly sure I've died to the first one of these ****s more than every boss in the game PUT TOGETHER
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For the first one, you can use the Pharis Bow or Onislayer Greatbow (feathered arrows or onislayer greatarrows). Just get behind the 3rd set of gravestones that you use for cover, you can find a spot on the right or towards the middle is an space you can fire arrows between
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"Yess I finally killed him. He is not going to respawn"
*Reloads area*
"............."
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I thought the Anor Londo archers were bad.
LITTLE DID I KNOW.
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They made the best area and filled it with the worst enemies
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Dragonslayer greataxe WA and using light load for run speed blows these guys up.
1st 1, run from the ladder direct to him, use WA x 2 in a row
Swamp guy, wait behind the big rock where the locust ambushes u until he's close. Run to him and WA x2 in row
Monument guy, run past the knights, WA him once, move a bit to avoid stuff, WA again, run around a 2nd time to pull the knights away, then run and WA a 3rd time to finish him off.
The knights u can pull aggro to drop to lower levels after that then climb back up the ladder to plunging attack or arrow them. U can keep plunging attack all the other knights and fatty hallows from the monument level and bridge. Makes u feel like god once u fill the whole street with their bodies and pick up all their armour drops to make a full ringed knight set. The silvercat and gold serpent +3 rings help.
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I hate myself that i needed to avoid fight with him i feel like a **** right now thanks dark souls
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The one walking around in ringed city swamp looks creepy af
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You can't imagine the pain i felt when i realised these guys respawned
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Judicator: Cum, let's do some mass orgy.
So why no lore speculation about these guys? I thought you like to speculate?
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1st one - run your ass off hiding behind grave stones, use stairway behind him to lose aggro and heal between attack rushes
2nd one - Cheese with a bow 2-3x shots and then running away until aggro loss, repeat
3rd one - Buff up in every possible way on ledge, then drop down and charge him and unleash before ring knights show up.
That's how I do it anyhow.
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vs archers run sideways away from him
vs witches roll sideways slightly towards him
vs ledo just walk away from the guy lol
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imagine him dropping a miracle that gives you 2 ruin sentinel archers to go pew pew, that would be really fun and neat and cool and epic and pog
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Oh? You almost finished the game? Here. Take some God damn suffering.
- the devs porbably
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By far, without a doubt, the most annoying enemy in the game. They make me hate playing the game
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You're far away from me? Archers. You're right next to me? Archers. You're standing a medium distance away? Archers. You're half the map and away from me with 50 feet of stone walls between us? Here, take Ledo.
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Honestly I think Miyazaki wants to ensure no one enjoys his games, and is just astounded that he hasn't made the entire community quit playing at this point. He keeps tryin tho.
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Storm ruler sets this guy on his ass bc its particularly effective vs giants. Lol weebleedees
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Summoner enemies are the worst type of enemy, worse than even dogs.
they didn't make the angels respawn but these guys do? why?
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If only they dropped their summons as a spell... i would spank the gank city just right with 5 black knight phantoms behind me
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I’m not sure if this is my imagination but I don’t know if it was him summoning it or if there were two invaders in this world I joined, but I swear this man summoned a dragonstone NPC who used the twinkling dragon headstone and it exploded instead of breathing fire.
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why do these enemies respawn, these are the type of enemies that would never respawn and would serve as a mini boss. In the first souls game there were unrespawning crystal golems, who are easy as hell to kill, but these enemies, harder than a sh*t ton of bosses across all 6 games, respawns?
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The first one does not summon "several" archers. He summons all of them.
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The ringed city dlc is what the main game should have been. but you can run past almost everything, the best weapons just lay around and the lord of cinders don't deserve their names. Just pick up any weapon, str infuse it and go 66str, there you have it. You've broken the game.
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Why is everyone posting about how to kill him once you get to the ladder? What’s the point? You’re already past him and at this part of the game you should really already be able to buy chunks from the maiden in firelink.
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Why do these f*ckers respawn? They're just an environmental hazard if anything, but it's totally annoying that they get to respawn.
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These guys summon almost as many phantoms as the hosts I invade!
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These guys are a mother*****er on ng+. It’s also the first time I’ve experienced the witch summon
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The first Judicator is easily beaten as follows: Run up the stairs and turn right. Pass him and run down the next steps and stop at the corner, out of the reach of arrows. He'll then summon a melee guy with a hammer at your location. This is when you run back up the stairs, hit him 2-3 times (depending on your weapon). When you're stood in front of him he usually summons arrows, so run run back down to the corner until he summons a melee at the stairs again and repeat.
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For the first one I just went to the 3rd circle of graves for cover and was able to use my oni great bow and oni arrows to do 100 dmg a hit and cheese him down between the grave marker cracks. Be aware that enemies patrol the wall and will attack you periodically. They are very weak and only take 2-3 hits.
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harder then midir,
faster then gael,
and has more sunbros compared to solaire
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One of the worst enemies in 3, possibly in any of the souls games.
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this is not boss... okay... but why his summon is fvcking anoying like angel, no... his summon even more annoying than angel.
the game feel is more nonsense to play, simply, defense stat build is worst, and limit hp is just 3000 if for hp builder, how you can survive in journey more than 100 with this sh1t enemy ? rolling ? not much help because stamina draining fast.
omg i just frustrated with this being -_-
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Id love it if you could get a spell that summons a phantom for 5 seconds. Would be fair in PvP due to high FP cost, and short duration, and fair in PvE because they already have rapport for lots of enemies.
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Probably should put enemies that are fun to fight or engage in the slightest in the game instead of annoyances to be ignored. 90% of the enemies in Dark Souls 3 I just run by because they aren't enjoyable to fight, which is unfortunate since fighting enemies is kind of the entire point of the game.
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I usually just use Millwood Bow and snipe them from afar. 4-6 shots
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Reeeeally wish these enemies didn't exist. All they do is spam the ruin summon and I can't even move an inch without getting***** on by the constant arrows
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You can four shot him using sunlight spear, with the following rings equipped:
Priestess ring
Ring of the sun's first born
Sage ring
Lloyds sword ring
My consumable was green blossom.
Just make it to the ladder without taking damage, use the green blossom, and run up the steps. You should be able to get three spears in before the archers start firing. Dodge the first wave of arrows after you've thrown the first three spears then fire the last one once they stop. Watch out though, once the archers are summoned the second time they will keep firing until that wave has stopped.
Hope this info helps. :)
Oh dear,
Anyone lure Iron Dargonslayer armor and Judicator at the same time?
It's madness. LOL
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My tactic to burn through one with a 42 strength, 42 dexterity build (2nd playthrough):
- Refined Morningstar +10 (strike damage)
- Human Pine Resin (dark damage)
- Pontiff's Right Eye
- Green Blossom
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-Mikko
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today i got invade at the first judicator, pop a giant seed, he tot im buffing, boom he died
I find it very cheap that these ugly arseholes are respawnable. Very obnoxious.
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Sometimes I wish FromSoft would stop getting out of their comfort zone with enemies like this.
Sheesh, buggy as hell. Sometimes he summons two Ledo spirits at once. Or six Zullie spirits as their attacks clip through walls.
Then summoning those Ruin Sentinels while you're directly in front of him.
Eh...not to mention I got one shotted (1414 HP with a lot of defense) by Zullies dark attack.
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So is it ever explained how these giants can summon archers, ledo, zullie, and a dragon's head just by yelling into the sky?
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The one in the swamp is constantly mumbling about searching for something I think. Vocal enemies are awesome, though I never live/let them live long enough to hear their entire script. Cool guy tbh as long as he isn't sicking his ghosts against me.
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Just causally strolling from the first bonfire and I get insta-raped by a million arrows, classic dark souls
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This is wrong! Magic actually takes more health from him than physical attacks. Lightning seems to work really well too. Dark takes a nice amount too, but not more than lighting or magic. Dark magic destroys him.
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I never knew about that dragon one, really strange how that single Judicator has a special summon, I'd love to know the lore reasons.
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god I wish these guys would have dialogue if you had killed NPCs, like judge you for murder
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I think they can be farmed for Divine/Hidden blessings. Can anyone else confirm?
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The first one you encounter can also summon what appears to be Hellkite Dragon's head to breathe fire at you.
Idk why people hate on these guys, some comments on this page are unreasonable at all. Much like angels in Dreg Heap they are basically IQ check and not that hard to deal with once you figure out the way. Also the sound of them summoning phantoms is pretty orgasmic
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