The curse of rotten is a mysterious phenomenon that has prevailed in folklore and legend for centuries. It is said to be a curse that befalls those who engage in wicked and immoral acts, resulting in a decaying and rotten existence. According to the tales, the curse of rotten originates from ancient times when a powerful sorcerer cast a spell upon those who betrayed him. It is believed that anyone who commits treachery, deceit, or any other heinous act will be cursed to live with a rotting soul and a decaying body. Legends tell of individuals who, after committing such acts, gradually experience physical and mental deterioration. Their bodies become emaciated and covered in grotesque wounds that ooze with foul-smelling pus.

Curse-Rotted Greatwood | Dark Souls 3 Wiki | Boss Guide, Location, Drops, Stats and Tips

Curse-Rotted Greatwood is a Boss in Dark Souls 3. This Dark Souls 3 Curse-Rotted Greatwood Guide features locations, strategies and videos on how to defeat Curse-Rotted Greatwood easily, as well as tips, weaknesses, trivia and lore notes for the Greatwood boss.

The Curse-Rotted Greatwood is a giant tree with human-like limbs. It is covered in sacs that act as the hitbox of the boss. When the player encounters it, they will find a couple of undead in the arena that will fight alongside it during combat. After being brought down to a certain health threshold, instead of going through a transformation, the battle arena changes. This massive tree is filled with curses, and is the object of worship for the Undead Settlement's inhabitants.

Players should find the Mound-Makers covenant before defeating this boss, or they will need extra steps to enter the covenant. It is recommended to bring a weapon with long reach to deal with the Curse-Rotted Greatwood quickly. This boss is optional, but must be defeated for the Transposing Kiln required for Soul Transposition.

Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.

Dark Souls 3 Curse-Rotted Greatwood Location

Where to find the Curse-Rotted Greatwood in Dark Souls 3?

You can find this boss near the end of the Undead Settlement. Cliff Underside is the nearest bonfire after opening the shortcut door in front of the boss area.

Curse-Rotted Greatwood Drops

What do you get from defeating the Curse-Rotted Greatwood in Dark Souls 3?

Souls: NG (7,000) | NG+ (35,000) | NG++ (38,500) | NG+3 (39,375) | NG+6 (43,750) | NG+7 (44,625)
Co-Op Souls: NG (1,750) | NG+ (9,625)
Transposing Kiln, Soul of the Rotted Greatwood

Curse-Rotted Greatwood Combat Notes & Tips

What should you know about fighting the Curse-Rotted Greatwood in Dark Souls 3?

Deals Standard Damage.
The undead in the first phase will respawn a few times if killed, but will eventually stop. Avoid them and let the Greatwood swipe them away. They deal Standard Damage, Thrust Damage or Strike Damage.
Wooden areas take no damage, aim for the round fleshy growths on his body. He will have some at his stomach, back, ankles and thighs. Destroying egg sack stuns Greatwood for a few seconds.
Weak to Slash Damage (Hand and Egg Sacks), Thrust Damage (Hand) and Fire Damage.
Has the most extreme fire weakness in the game, at -110% absorption.
Pestilent Mist will not break up eggs, therefore 2nd phase will not trigger. Similar effect can be achieved without this spell, provided player can deplete the boss health bar within breaking 3 available egg sacks.
Immune to Poison/Toxic, Bleed and Frostbite.
Can be fooled with Alluring Skulls.
Damage him by taking out his back legs so he sits down. Attack him from behind while he is on sitting. 4-5 attacks will stun him and cause major damage.
Try to move to the bosses right side when he stands up. When he falls the arm will be on that side, letting you get good damage in.
You can skip first phase altogether by killing all of the Unkindles before waking the boss up. You will end up fighting normally for a brief time and the second phase will commence straight away. Also, Greatwood will not drop other unkindles on you

Curse-Rotted Greatwood Stats

Playthrough	NG	NG +	NG ++	NG +3	NG +4	NG +5	NG +6	NG +7
Health	5405	15,444	16,988	17,761	18,533	20,077	20,489	21,622

Damage Type	Standard	Strike	Slash	Thrust	Magic	Fire	Lightning	Dark
Absorptions	44%	-20%	30%	30%	-14%	-110%	-20%	-20%

Dark Souls 3 Curse-Rotted Greatwood Boss Guide & Strategies

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DS3 Curse-Rotted Greatwood Attacks

Attack Name	Attack Description & Counter
AoE Slam	Boss slams its posterior on the ground, doing AoE damage and unleashing an AoE pool of corrosive liquid. Back up, used range if you like. You can actually move in and score some hits. As long as you don't abuse the corrosion, or play around, most equipment won't break right away and the damage it deals is low. You can use range or hit arm or leg weak spots while waiting for the corrosive liquid to vanish.
Grab-slam	Brings both arms around the ground in a grabbing motion. Stops for a moment afterward with hands in front of its chest bulbs, allowing for easy hits on its hand bulbs. Standing directly in front of its chest bulbs will never let the boss hit with this attack.
Stand-and-Fall	In the underground part of the battle, the boss will stand up, then immediately topple over, face down, onto the player. Get out of the way, run, roll, etc. Once it falls down, you can score attacks as it takes time for it to stand. This is perhaps the only time where the bulb on its right arm (not the white arm protruding from its chest; keep to your left if you were facing each other) is safely vulnerable to melee attack. Provoke this attack by maintaining your distance from the tree when you have aggro; quickly move to its right side, remembering that it's face down, so it's on your left if you were in front of it, and try to pop the bulb before it sits back up again.
Spin	The boss will plant its hands on the ground and quickly whip around in a 360. Its arms and legs are what hit you. Move away, use a roll's iframes, block, etc.
Roll	The boss will roll on its side in an attempt to crush the player. Move away. Preferably to the side, be ready to land some hits after the roll.
Ground-Pound	The additional arm (the white one) will slam the ground 2-3 times in the player's direction. Its limbs can slam down on the player with minor AoE effect. Best dodged, not blocked. Aim for its back weak points as you circle it/dodge toward the back.

How to fight and beat Curse-Rotted Greatwood

Strategy 1 (Melee)

Immediately after the boss becomes active charge its left hand and left leg and destroy the egg sacks there. Back away and wait for the boss to do a kicking attack, fending off any undead as needed. As soon as you recognize that it is raising his leg to kick, charge to its groin and attack it as much as you can and then block or roll to dodge the imminent blow from its arm. Repeat until you fall into the pit.

Once in the pit, you'll want to stay away from the boss while determining where the remaining sacks are. You are entirely safe if you stay locked on and circling him, out of range. The Greatwood has a few eggs on its lower back and a few more on its right elbow; manually-aimed ranged attacks work best here, bows particularly for the targeting reticule, but you can also attack it in melee following the Cursed Wood's stand-and-fall attack, but you have to be quick; the white arm that emerges from its stomach/groin is also vulnerable. Once you've gotten rid of the groin sacks, and the lower back sacks, you may have to attack its white arm, as the remaining sacs are impractical to reach. This may require you to fight locked-off. Watch out for the arm's attacks, it has a grab that's particularly nasty. Simply dodge whenever you see it doing something, all its attacks have considerable recovery that should let you get in 1-3 blows.

The best time to do massive damage is in its second phase. Goad it into it's falling attack. Dodge and you will have a good opportunity to get some hits in on some of the sacs you couldn't easily hit before.

As soon as you see the boss stand up and lean forward, sprint to you're coming from behind it, to its left hand side. When it falls down the white arm will be vulnerable for about 5 seconds. This is a perfect time to score a combo. When you see it stand up, if you have any, use a Pine Resin and imbue your weapon with either fire or lightning and maximise the amount of damage you can get in the small window. If you've destroyed all of the sacks, this is the safest (if slowest) tactic.

Strategy 2 (Sorcery)

The best strategy for pure magic with this boss is to spare him until you have the spell Pestilent Mist. With it, this boss gets rather easy, just get near him, cast the spell, move out of range, wait, repeat. Since the boss will only break the ground if you are near him, with Pestilent Mist it is possible to avoid stage two completely - the boss will break the ground when he dies, but not before. The only things you have to watch out for are the undead, that spawn until the boss is dead, and his ground rolling attack.

Another very easy method as a Sorcerer is to use White Dragon Breath to destroy its sacks. In phase 1 you run up to the right side of the boss and target lock. Move with the boss to the left side and when one of its sacks is in the line of sight between the white target lock dot and you, cast White Dragon Breath.

Phase two is much easier then, always keep the boss target locked and bring your self into position. The advantage of White Dragon Breath is that it follows the ground and upward, which is why you should keep the boss target locked and only cast when one of its sacks in between you and the lock. You can aim for its middle sack after the white hand swiped 3 times, sometimes even hitting the hand and the sack.

It is also possible (and not very difficult) to hit the egg sacks with unlocked spells; the large aggregation on the Greatwood's back in particular is just barely out of range of many melee weapons, but easy to hit with unlocked soul arrows.

Strategy 3 (Pyromancy)

This boss is weak to pyromancy, giving you a good advantage. As soon as the fight starts, start lobbing fire at the big egg sack on his crotch. You'll be able to quickly destroy this, progressing the fight into phase II. During the phase transition, if you're quick enough, you can destroy the egg sac on his left hand.

While in the pit, prioritize targetting the sacs on his hands, feet and back. Once the boss has low health, you can just target the white hand that has now emerged from his stomach. Be careful not to get hit by his sweeping attacks, and be prepared to evade his body splashes.

Strategy 4 (Baiting a fall)

Follow the same Phase 1 strategy as the guides above, but once you get to phase two you can cheese it. If you run out of range as far as you can the Greatwood will stand up and do a belly flop a lot like the Frog Boss in DS2. While he is down you can hit the arm a couple times and run away before he can do any damage to you. Simply keep on doing this over and over again and the boss should be easy for any build. Keep in mind he does have an attack where he stands up and rolls sideways that you have to avoid; its a bit more rare and does not give you a window of opportunity to do damage, but seems to only come up after he has done half a dozen of the regular belly flops.

Curse-Rotted Greatwood Lore Theories

According to the Soul of the Rotted Greatwood, it used to be a spirit tree until it was used as a vessel for unwanted curses by the inhabitants of the Undead Settlement. This lead to its transformation into a grotesque beast.
Considering the tree's presence above the pit of hollows it is possible the Mound Makers and their murders are at least part of the reason for the tree becoming steeped in curses, as hundreds upon thousands of bones are found in the pit of hollows at the shrine of the Mound Makers.
May be related to The Bed of Chaos, may also be part of an overarching theme that links plants to chaos and fertility.

Curse-Rotted Greatwood Trivia

In the second phase, a large white arm will emerge from the center of his body that you should avoid as it can pick you up and throw you. Observe it - if it is still, and not about to grab, you can score hits on it.
Bug: Just happened in my playthrough. Tree fell into second arena in a slow stuttering fashion and failed to grow more egg sacks and limb! Fight became impossible to win. Remaining sacs do not do enough damage to kill him.
Bug: Boss became a tree and fell a few feet into the ground. Was unable to move for a few seconds. It eventually popped out and started fighting normally. Silly tree, you ain't no tree no more.
Bug: Boss would not go into his second phase and drop into the pit - however he was still beatable as the egg sacks would not pop and simply continued to take damage. The floor broke after he was defeated and the pit could be accessed normally.

Emma Stone’s new TV show is stirring up very divisive reviews from critics

Just days before its release, Emma Stone's new TV series The Curse has been met with divisive critic reviews online and on Rotten Tomatoes despite its current 83% score.

The genre-bending show, from minds such as Uncut Gems’ Benny Safdie, follows Stone and comedian Nathan Fielder as a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring in their new home-improvement show. But whilst on the job, the pair encounter an alleged curse. The project, co-written and co-directed by Fielder himself, acts as a parody of popular American home remodeling shows on HGTV.

While Stone has found major success this year with her movie Poor Things, which scored 100% on RT, her new role in this off-the-beat creepy comedy, seems to be drawing more mixed reviews.

Judy Berman from Time Magazine commends the show, saying “Once again, it’s Fielder, a man whose face seems frozen in a flinch at the constant awareness of his own existence in this humiliating world, who makes the experience so transcendently uncomfortable.”

Similarly, Kristen Baldwin from Entertainment Weekly states that the show's “Blending cringe comedy with contemplative character study and undertones of horror” makes The Curse truly hard to forget.

However, not everybody is a fan. “In the end, the mix of tones and genres is more confounding than exciting,” says Alan Sepinwall from Rolling Stone, “as if Fielder and Safdie weren’t sure what they ultimately wanted to accomplish beyond hours of oppressive claustrophobia in desperate search of release.”

Kathryn VanArendonk from Vulture echos this, saying the show leaves a lot of its ideas undeveloped, “especially from its central themes about race and constructions of the self.”

These contrasting comments suggest that The Curse is truly not for everyone, but if you have the humor of Fielder and are a fan of mad parodies, then you may enjoy the show. Then again, maybe you won't.

The Curse will be available to stream on Paramount Plus from November 10. For more of what's hot on Rotten Tomatoes, check out our list of the highly ranked top 10 shows you can stream this month.

Their bodies become emaciated and covered in grotesque wounds that ooze with foul-smelling pus. Their minds become clouded and consumed with guilt and regret, leading to a perpetual state of torment and despair. The curse of rotten is often used as a cautionary tale in various cultures, encouraging individuals to lead virtuous lives and treat others with respect and kindness.

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The series premiered on November 10 on Paramount+ and gained great approval from review sites, including Rotten Tomatoes, which had impressive numbers.

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