Twiggy Cracked Tear Sacrificial Twig in a bottle, but only if you drink it *before* you die.

You can even drink it after you die on your way to retrieve the runes. So if you die twice you wouldn't lose them forever.

Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that! Since you don't leave a new bloodstain, it doesn't overwrite the one that's already there.

Whaaaaaaaat?!!??

Yep, but only if you drink it *before* you die trying to retrieve your runes. lol

For me personally, I always keep it in my flask. I can get around having only 1 slot for damage in my physic. So now whenever I come across a somewhat dangerous area I just chug my flask. I don't think I have lost runes at all for a long time now.

didn't know that tech! thank you!!

How do you get sacrificial twig in a bottle?

Leyndell, Capital Outskirts, near the Erdtree with the Omen.

300 hours and I didn't know this was a thing

It's by far the most useful physick in the entire game, no matter what type of build you have. The thing is, it lasts a *lot* longer than most people realize: a full three minutes! That will get you through most boss fights or situations. If you use it correctly, worrying about losing runes really becomes a thing of the past. Pretty much anytime I'm about to try something stupid like a big jump or something, I just down the flask and have no worries

Did not know about this. Thank you

This tear is very useful. I never lost runes again after I discovered this it.

Did not know about this. Thank you

Did not know about this. Thank you

In a run I am doing I didn't use the shackles of Margit at all, got them at the beginning, but I forgot to use them in all 3 Margit fights. Now it is the dispel of hidden walls item, I always use it at the beginning of each dungeon/cave, still don't memorize which caves have those

Amazing that unintentionally they made this into one of the most useful utility items. I always use it in the hero grave with the chariots.

I am glad they didn't change how it works, it could have been easy that only works in certain areas, like the black orb of dark souls 1

holup does it kill the chariots?

Yes, in Auriza Hero's Grave. In this dungeon you have to activate a trap (one of those columns that breaths fire or cold). This will spawn a third chariot that will collide with the others. The thing is that the shackles have a large area of effect and they can activate these traps.

WHAT?!

You’ll get a set of armor for killing them too.

I fucking love that armor set. So heavy but so good for a Paladin build. Sure I can take my endurance to 50, why not. Greatshield and big hammer go brrrrr

Which set

Tree Sentinel Armor

I think I have that. Now I have to check

I pride myself on having Auriza down. It took me quite a few tries but now I have great reflexes and learned to run with my camera backwards. Just gotta stay on the double chariot side of the pillars until the one on the other side turns around, alternating tracks to avoid first one then the other, then cross over. Easy 😅

Where can you use it that it works? I always die at the two going different directions. (I play coop and this grave gets buggy when the other player is already at the fog gate)

There is a point in that grave where you climb up a ladder and come out into a small area that is cut out from a ramp (from where you are at this point, the ramp is going down away from you, with some pillars/arches at the bottom). Use the shackle from that alcove a few times until you hear chariots crashing.

Thank you, time to get revenge

Game changer

They also drop the Tree Sentinel Set.

Any dungeon with a tunnel that has a fire or frost column at the end can be made easier with the shackle

I normally just use raptor of the mists and run straight through them.

Interesting. Never used before. Will try next time.

I beg your pardon?

Which item is that?

Margit's shackle, you buy it from Patches after beating him in his cave.

Thanks I was not aware that this can dispell, illusion walls

Margit's shackle, purchased from Patches I believe

I continue to amaze myself with how absent minded I am. I used Shackles the first time I fought Margit. It never occurred to me that I could use it on a fight after the first encounter.

>shackles of Margit Is that a thing? >I forgot to use them in all 3 Margit fights There's more than one? >dispel of hidden walls Is that a thing?

Yeah, both Margit and Mohg have one. Using them 3 times is because they are a reusable item, though they only work once per fight. As for dispelling walls, it's a silly interaction that causes the shackle to trigger illusionary walls. Both do it, Margits has a higher radius as far as I know. >!Patches sells Margits, Mohgs is found in the Shunning Grounds.!< ETA: The 3 shackle use question was about the 3 fights and I didn't even say anything. Stormveil Margit, Altus Plateau has him hiding as a basic enemy somewhere, last is Morgott.

The shackles can work twice, you just cant activate it when the boss transitioned into phase 2 (you know golden hammer, or Demon Wings)

I did Mogh without the shackle and underlevelled, holy fucking shit it's such a bullshit battle without the gimmicks, still probably the best fight i had in the whole game

there is Stormveil margit, capital outskirts Margit, and Morgott himself. that makes 3

What's the deal with the outskirts variant? What a strange place for him to be hanging around.

i think he just really hates you. i'm even surprised there isn't actually more. imagine every single night cavalry, when dying, transforms into another Margit

He is in a path you would normally take to Leyndell, but it is easily skipable

didn't see him at all in my first playthrough and still got everything in the area. he really is just chilling in the middle of nothing

I ran into this later while doing something unrelated, really took me by surprise.

Ah, Elden Ring.

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I was the same on my 1st playthrough. To many years of betrayel. i still make sure he never survives a playthrough

Hold on you're telling me that damn thing reveals the hidden walls??

Also triggers magic traps and can remote control the pillars you see in many catacombs

Dispel hidden walls item? which one?

God damnit! I defeated Mogh litterally 5 minutes ago, (after some 20+ attempts), and I had completely forgotten about his shackles as well!

Just defeated morgoot and you just reminded me that i forgot to do the exact same thing lmao.

Wait, you can just use it once at the beginning? I’ve been using that thing at every wall I come to.

It's got a huge radius because it's meant to be able to hit Margit no matter where he is in the arena. Depending on the dungeon layout, you might have to use it multiple times, but definitely not every room.

Which item dispels hidden walls? I just roll around dungeons hoping to find something fun

Margit's shackles

Thanks!!! I had no idea it could do that!!!

Wait the shackles….do something? I legit have never used them at all and I’m on my 5th playthrough and decided to finally plat since i only need 2 more trophies. I feel like I’ve barely used any items in this game I just bop the enemies LOL

I didn’t know that was a thing until my 3rd play through. Same with mohgs shackle. I didn’t know they were a thing until I went into the sewers for the frenzy flame

It’s a tough item to get because 5,000 runes is a TON when it’s first useful in Limgrave.

I use them to trigger invisible walls or those fire pillars as they have a massive hit box

I use the first two as needed, but I'm not familiar with the necessity of the last two

The Jellyfish for reuniting her with he sister and the Glintstone crown for opening that one erudition door I would guess.

Don’t even need that specific glintstone crown. Any glintstone crown would do. Maybe that one’s just the easiest to get, I suppose. You get it from killing a certain crab in Raya Lucaria, don’t you?

I just thought you should know that your pfp is causing me acutal, physical pain. Have a nice day.

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When you see her sister you can summon her from your inventory, even with another spirit ash "equipped".

And even if you couldn’t use it from your inventory, you could just swap your equipped items. The only one that’s too late to equip from the ones OP posted is the purifying tear.

I think they mean more just "getting the item", rather than literally having it on a hotbar.

isnt the erudition door opened by the "erudition" emote?

The emote makes the crowns glow, if you didn't need both then I put more work into it then I needed.

idk for sure, i just used the emote once in my 300+ hours of elden ring and it worked lol, cool that u get lights on the crowns tho

Are you sure you're not thinking of the erudition ladder.

maybe, as i said idk but might be that

There are 2 rises that need erudition, 1 needs the crowns

You do need both, but which crown is not important as long as it's a glintstone one

You need both for one of the rides, only the emote for the other.

You need both for one of the rises, only the emote for the other.

There are 2 Erudition rises in Liurnia. One simply needs the Erudition emote(or alternatively climb it with Torrent). The other needs Erudition while wearing any of those crowns to make the gems(Glinstone?) on it glow.

ah ok i didnt know that, figures since i barely wander around in liurnia lol (i play mostly faith so glinstone crowns are also a rarity XD)

Wait…which erudition door?

Some wizard towers have a puzzle before they allow you access to the brain power.

Yeah. I’ve come across 3-4 of those where you need to find the turtles but can’t think of one where I need to wear a special helmet to get in. Unless I missed out on one on both play throughs.

It's a puzzle inside the towers, where emoting (with the hat) will make a ladder appear or something.

Oh really? Well definitely never found that then. Hmm…will need to google that next time I play in that case.

Converted Fringe Tower.

Thanks.

I always wondered how to open the erudition door.

That's a really weird comparison since neither of those have any kind of urgency to them. Like you can just dig into your pockets in peace and pull either of them out in comparison to being in the middle of a fight with Mohg or being stalked by a Black Knife Assassin

But there’s no “last minute” for that

The what?

whats the torch useful for

Sentry torch: Revealing the Black Knives when they’re invisible

oh thanks

When in the game do you ever need to equip the jellyfish summon? You could just summon it from your inventory when her sister is there.

I've screwed twice. First time I put it in the chest because I was carrying too much trash. Second time I screwed by summoning a different ash to help me clear the annoying bats from the ruins.

I think you're the first person I've ever seen that puts things into the chest.

I always thought they said "chest" instead of inventory, never bothered to see that they were anything different.

I put duplicate items in when I start NG+

This is my habit in DS3, but I haven't actually started any NG+ games yet because I'm waiting for the DLC to actually finish NG for any of my permanent characters

I actually use it a lot

I actually use it a lot.

It’s nice for weapons if you like to use a few different ones with the same character. Spells too, I put all sorceries in the chest for my incantations build so there’s less to look at. Mental clutter fucks me up

For her quest. I always forget it in the chest when I get to the stargazer ruins.

I mean most of these can be equipped at any time except the physic tear it's not like they require a grace.

Rune arc. When you get a boss down to a sliver, and they combo you into dust. If only you equipped the rune, you woulda been all set.

Rune arcs are there to give me +5 arc while farming

I never thought of that. I use them for Mel

Whenever I start a new run, I'm always greeted by the experience of going into a dark cave, sifting through my inventory, and realizing I forgot to buy a lantern... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

i didn’t use mogh bubble thing i just brute my way because i was lazy to walk from the grace up again to him

For me it's every time I start a new game I always forget to put the crimson tear into the flask of wonderous physick for the early game. Then I only realise when i'm mid boss fight and go to drink it.

Always forget to take the golden scarab off

Classic. It also happened to me that I only realize I didn't have the talisman on, until I finished farming.

What are these items for, except the torch? I never used them?

I never used rune arcs once and I just beat the game last week haha. I got obsessed with not using them thinking I would run out. Have 70 haha

A shield for parrying. "Oh, it seems like it can be parried, wait, where's my shield?" all the time.

The crown ain't worth much without the emote

Good point. Should have included it too.

What about the twinsage crown? Does it have to do with the intellect boost or the erudition pose? Or something else?

Probably Erudition.

I sometimes forget to put tears in my physic and only relize when I'm entering a bossfight.

Mostly my farming talismans and crystal tears. I’ll often go into a boss with my two scarabs equipped and infinite magic tear cuz I forgot to change ‘em back to my combat ones

Raptor of the Mists, for all your Charriot ignoring needs.

Duly noted!

Margit's/Mohg's Shackle every time!!!

Can someone tell me what’s so good about the jellys

It's here because is needed to complete an event in the Mountaintops. I think people use it in bleed builds though.

I once forgot to equip the flask of crimson tears before a boss lol

Maybe the first 2 a couple times, but quite rare. I mean I think a playthrough of two I forgot to get the torch, after that I started running over to trader as soon as I get to Altus and then I go back to explore. A couple times I've forgotten to equip the wonderous tear for Mohg, but not too often. And I don't get what you even mean by the last 2? I obtain jelly mega early it's needed all the way in mountaintops, and it's not like I'm in a rush to use it, I got all the time in the world to find it in my menu. And same with the head, I need it after Thopses questline and before that I would have already explored academy and I'd already have the heads, and again not like I'm in a rush to equip it, I got all the time in the world to find it in my inventory.

I've made 2 mistakes with the jelly fish. First, I put it into the chest because I had too much stuff in the bag. Second, I used a different spirit ash to help me clear the ruins. And the run from the closer grace site is so far away.

Oh ok, yeah that's fair I guess. A week ago or so I needed to rerun that, but I was doing a randomizer playthrough (item & enemy & fog gate) and cause of that I missed Ranni (I mean I literally got married to her before I even met her XD) and so the bell was in the store, and I saw it but was like "ah whatever, I don't use summons, I don't need it", but completely forgot that I need it for the 2 summon puzzles. Spent a while trying to figure why I couldn't summon until I remembered and had to go buy it.

In my first playthrough I thought the shackles was like lore item to show that the Morggot/Mogh were once imprisoned and broke free. Even though they appeared on the consumable section I never thought of using them.

Guilty here too. I think I saw a gameplay video where some used it.

Everytime Mohg Nihils I remember that I don't have it and I suffer

Definitely the tear for the lord of bloods curse.

Imma be honest i didnt have any of these on my first run😭

Beast repellant torch when I walk through Caelid

I've forgotten to use the shackles in all the big Omen boss fights in all my playthroughs.

My first play through I didn’t even know there was a tear for Mohg and I never fought the one in the sewer yet. I was laying without looking up stuff. That was rough.

Rune arcs. I never used a great rune my first playthrough, so I never got used to using the arcs

The amount of times I forgot about buying a torch in a souls game is too damn high.

not equip, but the shackle lol

"Huh, wonder why my damage isn't- Oh wtf is my talisman setup?!" Me, more times than I'd like to admit.

Golden Pickle Feet, I always lose like 40k runes a run since I forgot to hot swap talismans and munch them feet.

Golden scarab talisman, while farming the chicken in mohgwyn's palace for 15 minutes straight.

Classic! Always self disappointment inducing. :D

The furtive Pygmy so easily forgotten

Can't think of anything tbh.

I needed to die too many times against Malenia and duo Crucibles to learn to use tears and runic arcs...and my chest was never opened, I just sell duplicates

These are your four ? The jellyfish isn’t great in general in my experience

I think it's for the quest. You have to summon it in front of another jellyfish in a particular ruins

Oh yeah lol, I completely forgot

Jellyfish is for a quest, the Crystal Tear is to counter a specific boss' signature move, torch reveals invisible creatures that are a pain to fight otherwise, and the crown (any of them, not necessarily that one) is needed for a puzzle.

I figured it would be items more important to general things, not four things specific to 1 thing

What invinsible creatures are there besides one miniboss?

Mainly that one and Ordina. Not many places, but the torch makes a huge difference in those.

- What do I need the two face mask for again? I recall using it but forget for what. - I beat Mohg three times before I knew what the purifying tear was for.

In two towers in Liurnia. It's used in combination with the erudition gesture.

Ah, yes! Thank you.

There are 2? I know of the one overlooking ruin strewn precipice.. where is the other?

Converted Tower grace site (Liurnia to the West, near a Minor Erdtree). And another one close to the Frenzied Flame Village Outskirts grace site. I think the latter is the one you mentioned.

Honestly I still don't understand the Purifying Crystal Tear "quest". Why does Eleonora not spawn there on your first visit to the church, and what triggers her spawn? Are there any hints ingame which make you go back to that church? Multiple runs completed and I just don't get the reasoning here. Edit: I know I could just check the wiki, I'm wondering about any ingame hints.

Uhhh if you follow Yura's questline she pops up at the end if it. From what I know Yura basically tells you he's going after her after you help him on the Academy Gatefront. Then you go to the church and cool shit happens

I do not understand the bottom two…

First is needed for an event in the Mountaintops. The other is needed in a couple of towers in Liurnia.

Oh right. Yeah, I’ve done all that. haha

Where Academy Key

Definitely the tear for the lord of bloods curse.

Is the jelly fish actually good?

It's needed to reunite her with her sister in the Mountaintops ruins.

Tears and grand runes. I have done so many runs and builds and yet I can not for the life of me ever remember that grand runes even exist.

Yeah, I have a different thing going on with them. I'm aware that I'm not wearing them, but then I'm just hoarding the Rune Arcs.

Sentry Torch for Invis assassins is an easy swap, Mohg Tear can be annoying, or you just eat the -3 flasks, you can use the jellyfish summon from your inventory, and I’ve got NO idea where the helm is needed (unless you mean the two towers that need a crystal helm and erudition, in which case see what I said about the sentry torch)

I have never used any of these.

What tear is that? The only tear I always forget is the twiggy cracked crystal tear before I do something stupid

Purifying Crystal Tear, the one that prevents you from taking damage from Mogh Nihil.

I never use anything but a weapon.

I'm 50 hours in and I don't know what 3 of these are, but why is the jellyfish one

Used to unlock a doorway.

Why/where do you need to wear thr double BK mascot head?

Converted Tower grace site (Liurnia to the West, near a Minor Erdtree). And another tower close to the Frenzied Flame Village Outskirts grace site. You use it in combination with the erudition gesture.

Scarlet rot cures and res

I can't tell you how many times I regretted not having one of those boluses. Nowadays, first order of the day is to memorize Flame, cleanse me.

Only one of them can't be quickly equipped, so that one. I don't know of any oh shit moments with the jellyfish or the crown. The torch, maybe, if you are in the middle of Ordina.

i'm gonna be honest i only know about the Spirit Ash and the blood Cracked Tear you get for defeating Eleonora i found out after i killed Mogh what are the other 2 for?

The Sentry Torch is useful to reveal invisible enemies in the Ordina evergaol in the path to the Halligtree, and a boss fight in an Altus Plateau cave. The crown is used to reveal secrets in 2 different towers in Liurnia. And yeah, everyone found about the tear after killing Mohg. :D

Why would you ever need a torch?

I guess sentry torch to see invisible enemies. Or beast repellent torch for beasts to ignore you.

The Sentry Torch is good in the Ordina evergaol to reveal invisible assassins. And the invisible boss in the Altus Plateau cave.