Carian Study Hall | Elden Ring Wiki

Meanwhile I just hunted Miriam like a rabid dog with my Zweihander.

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Preceptor Miriam is trivial if you have the rain of arrows AoW. If you equip the arrow's reach and arrow's sting talismans it's a monster AoW even on a shortbow. One arrow shot from the bow hits the target as a cluster. Take the time to find a spot where you can get a target lock on her but her spells can't hit you and she melts to bleed or serpent arrows. I killed her this easily this way a while ago with bleed arrows and with serpent arrows earlier on with the tower inverted, she didn't get one hit on me second time around.

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After beating Miriam I found this to be an easy rune farming site for level ~40-70. ~5.5K runes in a couple minutes. Lots of ghost nobles will keep respawning and they are slow, predictable, and die in 1-2 hits.

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I was able to make it to the tower after getting to the upside down and riding the thing down... but still why is the elevator shaped like spiral steps? Is there any way to walk on the steps themselves?

Seems odd there would be some spiral steps if it is just an elevator.

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got to the top of rafters , how to you go up the spiral stairs in the non inverted one
its about dum you cant go any further up there's no ladder unless theres a switch but theres not even a walk through for the non inverted one

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It says you need item to complete Ranni's quest, but i finished Ranni and now I am running the tower.

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Miriam is a piece of cake. Longbow and 30 arrows, on the top floor of the place. Her magic will always hit the balustrade while your bow wont. Or, just repeatedly shoot her to interrupt her casting.

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8X butterfly + 2X Holyproof Dried Livers in cadavers in the beams in the INVERTED version of the map

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On the top floor after killing Miriam there's a ladder you can take up to balance on beans and fight rats. Is there a treasure? Up to you to find out

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I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but in the regular (non-inverted) version of this tower, you can jump off of the first lift early and end up in a weird doorway. You can see this doorway as you are riding up the lift. It looks pointless because the doorway just leads into a flooded room, and jumping in kills you instantly; however, I jumped in and received the spell Lucidity upon death, which helps with sleep and madness. I'm not sure if this spell is something you're supposed to get from the inverted version of the tower since I wasn't interested in doing Ranni's questline, but I think it's strange that you can get this spell here... has anyone else found this?

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As of 1.04 putting the Inverted Statue onto the pedestal crashes my game, always worked fine before

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As of 1.04 putting the Inverted Statue onto the pedestal crashes my game, always worked fine before

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So you’re telling me I can’t shoot a arrow at the very top to hit the upside button? Duped by a message again

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This place feels like a Zelda dungeon

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Ambush Shard was fantastic against Miriam since you don't have to line of sight the spell, just be close enough to be within range. Also useful against fingers in the reversed map.

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The huge water basin at the bottom of the main room reminds me of the Research Hall from Bloodborne or the wax pool from the Grand Archives in DS3

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Someone needs to add that you get the mask of confidence from the upside down version.

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Can anyone confirm weather the ghost nobles drop the nobles estoc?

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This area is a clever reference to Zelda Ocarina of time - Forest temple, which had those hand-like monster and where you were able to reverse the floor too. Brought me back!

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Can't confirm Selvius appearing in the manor. Personally I think it was someone not paying attention that the name is Miriam, as Miriam appears here twice, once for each phase of the tower.

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It’s obvious but once you get to Miriams final phase where she’s teleporting, just shoot arrows at her

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Now with poison arrows makes the npc a joke

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if youre level ~30-ish rn and havent really explored liurnia of the lakes yet, i can recommend beating miriam and then using the dungeon to farm money, bc one trip to the highest floor killing everything in your path is relatively easy, doesnt take too much time and gives you at least like 8000 runes, which for me at that point was still a lot of money and when going multiple times it helps a lot for levelling

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Thanks for the walkthrough. I’m massively grateful, thou tarnished one.

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Miriam utterly wrecked me first time through playing as a sorcerer, as she did everything I did but better. Second time through one a greataxe character was much easier, just run at her and roll through the bow shots and its straightforward enough to wear her down.

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Melee just throw daggers to cancel her casting

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As a caster, this NPC was not hard. She staggers with each spell I cast and the magic swordsmen can be ignored almost completely. Third try for the kill. Great farm location (223/swordsman) when she's dead.

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As a caster, this NPC was not hard. She staggers with each spell I cast and the magic swordsmen can be ignored almost completely. Third try for the kill. Great farm location (223/swordsman) when she's dead.

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Beat this one with Uchigatana +3, Bloodhound’s Step and Loretta’s Greatbow spell. Bloodhound’s Step was useful to dodge the arrow spell and get close to her. The last bit was difficult because of the constant teleportation that I had to use Loretta’s Greatbow spell.

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Came here without the key item. You can climb up into the rafters and sneak, then drop down on Miriam's head when you lose aggro. After you do this she won't teleport again so Try Beating To A Pulp.

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Is this ****Merriam staggerable?

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I don't understand why so many people are struggling here. I literally just ran the npc down. Got both fights done first try.

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Avoid this place entirely until you acquire the hourglass.

The great rune here is a quest item and is not useful until you progress further into an NPC questline much later.

The NPC is clearly leveled with this in mind. They are a cakewalk.

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Can't say i am the biggest fan of the instant transmission 1hit kill arrows in phase 3.

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I lured her down the elevator, hid around the corner, popped my 1-free-hit physick and ran past her and activated the elevator. She fell to her death. I don't mess around with these ridiculous NPC invaders.

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Couldn't tell the difference between this NPC Sorcerer and a PvP Sorcerer.

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The movesets and attack patterns in this game make no sense.

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Don't fight until you can invert the hall. Then drive them to the top where they start teleporting around being super annoying. Have to do enough damage that they stay there.
Then go invert the place. Bam dead

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Why is this place like nowhere near Caria Manor? Thanks for that

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If you just want to progress the quest you can just run by the invader.
- Flip the tower, jump down the elevator on a ledge, kill or run by the hands and take a right.
- Drop down, run to the center, turn right and keep running along the wall. At the end drop down.
- Invader can't hurt you from this point.
- Drop down further onto the wooden beams. Look down where you can see an elevator in the center.
- Make your way over there by stairs on dropping down. Ride the elevator down.
- Exit the building, get Grace.
- Mount up and fight the blob or just run by.

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Get Carian Retaliation on a shield and she's an easy win. Same with all other spell casting bosses.

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Bad enemy design. That fight against Preceptor Miriam was boring, tiresome and stupid. If you're melee, just buy a crossbow, some bolts and kukris for the third phase. I've beat her with a paladin bleed build.

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Listen, I get that they were trying to be cute about coming back later by placing the broken sorceress at the entrance. But honestly, next time you don't want me to go somewhere, try blocking the entrance or something. Just a thought.

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Best way I found to kill her is to go up the ladder at the top and she'll aggro sometimes and slowly walk to the ladder where she will climb it. She wont tele away there.

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tip: you can roll INTO her arrow shots if theres distance between you two. You'll eat the shot if you roll point blank but you go through the shot if she fires it far away from you

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killed it with swift glintstone ♥ butwhat do i do here for

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is there a way to summon here or no

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you can stun her out of the arrow shot if u hit her fyi, just be fast about it when shes pulling back. she doesnt charge her shots fully so pay attention

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The NPC can be killed with a regular bow quite easily if you loop the spawning in the final area. if you hug the corner but then peak out to shoot they will keep firing arrows at the rail. You should shoot them while they are taking aim as that's when they are the slowest.

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just poison arrow the preceptor and use horse to run past fatty on bridge easy peasy

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To any of you complaining about this npc fight.
A nice dose of poison or scarlet rot did the trick for me, just hit her until she's a bit over half hp and on the balcony area with the throne, give her the ol' one two status effect of your choice and watch the money roll. Not too much of a problem, another nice addition to my sorcery collection.

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I destroyed this NPC with STR build. Not sure why everyone is complaining. If you're patient, it's not hard.

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the mage fight is bugged and can be won without fighting. i ran past her clearing out the upper areas first. then went down and outside the tower. inside again she was gone but i could still hear her. when i reached the upper floor again i heard her dying and got her item

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Just line of sight the npc with a bow if you're having that much trouble.

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To all the commenters saying "the teleporting is impossible", just use the ladder, climb up to the rafters, and jump down where she teleports to. Think and use the level design to your advantage. Like come on, it's not hard.

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(Spoiler alert) In reply to question regarding accessing the rafters:


For the non-quest version of the study hall,
there is a ladder to climb on both the library level, and another -once you get to the first set of rafters.

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People complaining about the contents of the place when I can't even find the entrance

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Does anyone have a good strategy for the fatso on the bridge after the hall? I cant pass him

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Does anyone have a good strategy for the fatso on the bridge after the hall? I cant pass him

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How do you get to the area above the rafters?

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not sure why people are complaining about the NPC. The fight begins when you ascend upstairs, basic zombie nobles will appear through out the ZONE not the fight... meaning you can run ahead of the NPC, trigger these very basic units, kill them, and run back to kill the NPC. She has 3 primary attacks whilst teleporting, the one you MUST watch out for is her Magical arrow which will explode on contact. The battle is basically like this until stage 4 (her fourth major teleport) where she ascends around the library of the tower where she will begin teleporting all throughout the fight to bait you into more mobs (you can trigger these mobs like before though and deal with them without her there). It then becomes a bit of a kite fight where you can bait her as much as she's baiting you... Simple ways to combat her are
Quickly throwing darts
ranged attacks that are faster than her magical arrow
Any Ranged magical attack
and if you're just a brute... take care.. she occasionally teleports directly behind you with a fully charged magical arrow ready to blow you sky high.
All her attacks can be dodged and she spaces them out enough to heal yourself plenty. I prefered throwing darts as it was a rare moment to utilize them to great effect... I would rate this NPC about a 5/10 on difficulty. Scary at first, easy to learn, easier to beat once you get the rhythm. good luck have fun.

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The secret area is amongst the very worst thing I've ever encountered in a game. The first fight with the mage was absolutely dreadful. The second one is pure pure garbage. The later sections of this game including bosses like Melania are so poorly thought out it blows my mind. It stuns me how awful this area is. And the second time through is so bad I can't possibly imagine they weren't told in play testing how horrendous it is.

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Before the elevators, just run past her to kill everything then come back to fight her. After the elevator, avoid being in the same corridor as her, if you're not in a straight line, her arrow cant go high enough and will always hit the wooden structure, your arrows, however, can go over it and hit her with ease. Even if you don't have a build for bows, you can safely chip away her health as she will never get close and none of her attacks will be able to hit you.

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i never NOPE'D out of a place faster than this.
the recycling of this "caster that teleports around the location" was stupid in DS3, and it is stupider now.

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Tried rotten dragon breath on the npc and it almost one shot her, she had about 400 hp left after it finished ticking. She will mostly flee and you can pick off the summons at your leisure.

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Just go on the rafters with the ladder and shoot down at her. It was easy as a faith build and thunder bolts

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This area is what happens when nobody is in the room to tell the developers no. What a terrible idea this fight was. What were they thinking?

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You can run past the mage pick off all the summons at your leisure. The mage doesn't teleport until you do enough damage to her.

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I recommend avoiding unless you enjoy frustration

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Golden needle in chest here.
Trade Scrolls and Prayerbooks with NPC to unlock purchase of incantations and spells.

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prepare for the worst encounter in the game :)

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The Study Hall is the building before the bridge that leads to the Divine Tower of Liurnia on the map, for anyone wondering. It's south east of the Artist's Shack. The name can be misleading, since it's not anywhere near the Caria Manor.

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pretty sure this place can be turned upside down, tho i dont know how yet

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