Blackflame Monk | Elden Ring Wiki

Most under-utilized enemy in Elden Ring, as there are only 3 in the entire game

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I wonder if there ever will be a Blackflame Prelat - I would love to have his armor. :D

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they can also drop fire blossoms but its super rare

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They are very easy once you realize their only gimmick : near unbreakable hyperarmor on casts. And yes it's NEAR unbreakable, but you can stunlock them nevertheless. That's how I farm them at low level : take any greathammer or colossal weapon, use either some fast aow like stormcaller or just spam r1. Weapons of this size will stagger them out of casting animations in 2 hits (which is doable for greathammers) and open them up for crits in 4 hits. With slower weapons you better off charging a heavy: their cast animations are lengthy enough for you to hit and stagger them. If you choose to back off when they cast, remember that their spells have deceptively long range.

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Why yes, I too have a blackflame monk in my basement

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Using the fire, magic and ice breath incantations I tested their damage resistance. Fire = 140, magic = 295, ice = 241 so they some to resist fire damage pretty well but are weak to magic. Also tried rot breath which did 240 damage on hit before applying rot.

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I farmed for the weapon they wield, the sword, for 3 hours... Wish I had checked the wiki first.

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How is this guy not a mini boss yet the scaled misbegotten is?

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How do you even beat this guy? I’m level 46 and he one hit kills me every time

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everyone talking about the black flame "catch flame" bro screw that i want an ash of war thats akin to the blackflame spinning slash they are using

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These guys use a blackflame version of O, Flame. Where is it for us, Miyazaki?

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Caelid Tower Basement sog dropped a lot better for me

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One of the drippiest sets in the game imo, fits the black flame perfectly

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Took me less than an hour to get full set using both silver pickled fowl foot and silver scarab talisman. Definitely farm the one in Caelid's divine tower. He often tries to stop you stunlocking him with a hyperarmor, blackflame version of O' Flame. Just back up and shoot a spell at him

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Killed it for like 50+ times. I got the armor, gauntlets, grieves, no hood for me.

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this man is just a jacked godskin apostle

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I've spend days trying to get the gauntlets form the first monk in the Caelid tower. He's dropped the chestpiece, hood and grieves multiple times but still no gauntlets. I swear to God, if they really do have the same chance to drop as the rest of the set, then I must be some sort of statistical anomaly because this isn't the first time this has happened to me.

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One of the dumbest choices in the game is that they don't drop the Monk's Flameblade, meaning that the only two ways to obtain one are
1. In the Mountaintops of the Giants in the late-game
2. having one dropped to you.

The unaltered Banished Knight chest piece is a pretty unreasonable farm, but that one at least makes some sense because there are only two enemies in the game seen equipping it, that's not the case with the Monk's Flameblade as there are two Blackflame Monks that wield it. Yet for some god-forsaken reason they don't despite using it and it also being an obtainable weapon.

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Killed the one in the tower of Caelid 50 times. 6 hoods. 1 greaves. 1 gloves.

In the first place I only wanted the damn chest piece. Greaves and gloves came back to back on kill one and two, so I thought this would be easy. Then I kept on just getting the hood again and again.

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waoh, just got the armor, gauntlets, and greaves all at once in the same drop. I wonder if it'll take a bunch more tries to get the head, although the head is the part I cared about least anyway...

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For the one at the bottom of the Caelid Tower... I cheesed him a little and then realized Lightning Bolt casts faster than his black flame until you run out of mp... Then elevator is your friend

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Got all pieces of the armor in about 20 trys, no repeats. 11 faith.

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Spamming Reduvia Blood Blade worked well for me

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It doesn't really make sense that they don't drop the flameblade, even though they are clearly wielding one.

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i wanna cry, somebody on the page for Monk's flameblade said they could drop it, i farmed for so long, partially b/c i knew how much of a pain the one is in giant-conquering hero's grave is by comparison
5x hood
17x armor
10x gauntlets
18x boots

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need me that Catch Blackflame incantation they casts

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I so wish they dropped their sword

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Why these monks have incantations we cant use? Like the blackflame catchflame

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What are these guys even weak to? Severely underleveled Trying to get to Caelid Tower Basement Grace so I don’t have to later and that one monk is unkillable.

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Really wish there was a black flame version of o flame the player could use. My go to method of dealing with heavy shields lol

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at 274 discovery took me 11 kills to get full armor set (4 pieces). Pretty easy with proper setup as compared to some other drops.
Good luck!

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Weirdly rare enemy, there's only two of these in the whole game afaik.

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The Blackflame monks use a blackflame Catch flame / O, Flame. Is that available in the game?

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Hey from soft, maybe fix the flameblade's drop rates?

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Why are enemies always so cooler than you? We get access to like 1/3 of the magic and moves these guys can pull off

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Please update this for more awesome loot drops, such as that badass looking sword the Black Flame Monk is using there!???

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The one at the bottom of Divine Tower Caelid just hit me through the fog gate

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there's also one outside the temple of eiglay. which i assume also drops the set since it dropped the torso and hood. it seems to be a relatively quick farm from here

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So I hear a lot of people complaining about terrible drop rates. Personally, I got a full set in probably 12-13 kills, with duplicates of everything but the chest.

Only like 12 arcane and a silver fowled pickle foot, so really pretty low discovery.

I have NO idea if this is true, but I was wearing a Godslayer's Seal and Godslayer's Greatsword when I did my farming, and was getting a drop literally every single kill. Similarly, I have gotten Flame Monk armor EVERY KILL all game while using godslayer's seal. HOWEVER, I have gotten VERY few drops from almost any other enemy; compared to the ## of each enemy I have killed I probably have like, 15x more flame monk / black flame monk stuff to any knight. For example took me probably 120+ kills to get my first brass shield, also while playing with super pyro gear.

I do NOT want this to be interpreted as "scientific evidence", but it may be possible that your stats / armor / build affect your drop rates, to make it more likely you get gear that "associates" with your build. If you have been bashing your face against the basement monk looking for that chest piece for 30 minutes maybe try just... equipping some fire spells and the godslayers seal and see if it helps. Again, no scientific evidence, but my FEELS compared to the FEELS reported in here are VERY different.

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If your discovery is NOT above 250 then stop crying about drops. All 5 pieces only have a 3% chance of dropping. Use the silver scarab talisman, eat the silver chicken foot, and put your best arcane helmet on. Like the Silver Tear Mask and then, and maybe you're not aware of what real farming is because your used to just buying items, but GET TO F'N FARMING. Work for the set instead of killing 50 and expecting to have the whole set. 3% means 1 out of every 33 (if you round down) times you kill that ONE guy, it should drop you 1 pieces of the set. AND guess what?! You may get the same piece.

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With the 1.04 patch, farming the monk at the Caelid Tower Boss door is almost risk-free with a Colossal Sword. Just spam attack while 2-handing an he'll never get a blow in . That said, there is *one* attack you need to watch out for, when he pulls back and swings downward from his right shoulder; That one is fast enough to land a hit, and has a quick follow-up that will punish guard countering, so you need to either dodge or have the health&poise to keep swing through that hit.

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Easy farming for 2116 runes with gold scarb by boss door.

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He also drops smoldering butterflies ...

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They also drop Fire Blossom

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they also drop Smoldering Butterfly

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Also drops smoldering butterfly and Fire Blossom

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It seems their most common armor drop is their gauntlets. Same with the regular red fire monks.

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Wasn't expecting POISE...

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ehm im pretty shure they called cuckoo knights

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There is also a black flame monk guarding the godskin noble in the lower levels of Volcano Manor

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There is also a black flame monk guarding the godskin noble in the lower levels of Volcano Manor

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His weapon looks similar to monk's flameblade, which can be farmed in Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave.

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There's also a lower level blackflame monk on the steps leading up to Temple of Eiglay in Volcano Manor. Resting at the grace after defeating the Godskin Apostle there is an only slightly longer dash than the one in Caelid Tower Basement.

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Bloodhound finesse turns these guys into chumps, the strong follow up staggers them for a critical, the next finesse staggers with blood-loss and the follow up finishes them.

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Add to DROPS: After about 50 kills, trying to get set, I received approximately 5 Fire Blossom, 2 Smoldering Butterfly, and 1 Blackflame Monk Greaves.

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Does the armor set still drop after you defeat the Godskin Apostle Boss

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For anyone wondering how to get the sword. The blackflame monks don't drop it. But the Flame monks on mountaintops of giants DO

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What!? No weapon drop??

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Seems like most bleed weapons totally stagger these guy. Reduvia +2 staggered every other hit.

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****ing finally i got his full set

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Can confirm he does not drop a weapon. Tested using a trainer set with 100% drop rate. He dropped his full armor set, a fire blossom, and a smouldering butterfly. No weapon though.

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I’d love to know all the spells they use. Seems they are impossible to obtain

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If you guys found any information on their weapon please notify us

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Winged Scythe special attack absolutely destroys these guys .

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cheeseing them out to get the set, he just won't drop the armor! I got so many gloves boots and hoods I could start an Emporium and still no chest piece!

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whats the armours stats? the armour link doesnt work nor is listed with the armours

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Someone below mentioned using frost stomp, and i tried it out, and it turns these beasts into into almost laughable enemies so thank you person on the internet

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They also drop Smoldering Butterflies a ton

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Probably futile, but I'm gonna farm them just a bit more for that nonexistent sword. Also, when they have the golden glowing eyes they drop 8820 runes.

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Gee, sure wish I could kill these things as quick as they kill me.

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do they drop the sword?

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