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The Cleanrot Knight that stands right outside the Prayer Room site of Grace at Miquella's Haligtree can drop Miquella's Lily's.

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hobo Ornstein

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fire is your friend and helps immensely in stagger-locking them - you can beat the two in the gold scarab cave relatively early with judicious use of fire and good spacing/avoiding greed (the sickle one chucking discus at you is the real danger)

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Should also mention , their buff Applies to YOU if you are an invader

Source : second invasion from Cleanrot knight invasion by Chasethebro

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Why do cleanrot knights lean on their spear in their idle state?

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what are the drop % as far as st trina lily is concerned

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Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet but the buff that sickle variants can buff invaders, it's a 40 sec 7 HP regen for free so might be a little worth it staying close to the sickle variants in invasions.

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Foolishness! The kings decree is not trifling matter. I Cleanrot Knight(spear & sword variant), shall deliver thee justice. Spear of the Church, sworn protector of our princess Fillianore harken to the call that summons thee. Make Haste! Make Haste! Spear of the church by the sacred decree harken to the call that summons the. Make Haste! Make Haste.....

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These are actually Kindred of Rot wearing armor, change my mind

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these give me golden saints from morrowind vibes, awkward but deadly and fast

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Seems like Sleep only staggers them a bit, they don't fully put to sleep

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yo uuhhh is the rot breath that they do obtainable

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Killing goldy eyes on NG+7 with the gold scarab and gold fowl foot gives 125,943 runes.

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Why is the spear grab's rot buildup infinite, and not just absurdly high... BTW the only other attack with infinite status buildup is mohg's nihil

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What does the buff do that the scythe Knight does? Sometimes, as regular enemies, itll spin around its Scythe and then they start glowing. Why tho? What does it do?

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For the love of god do not ignore the spear ones for even a second, they love spamming that stupid impale grab the moment you take your eyes off of them, unless you like feeling like a shiskebab.

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I don't know why but almost everytime an enemy hits me with a grab attack, i take it really personally and do everything in my power to murk their ass out of spite.

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You've got to admire the resilience of the Tarnished, they can take a plate armored valkyrie knight charging into them and impaling them on a spear before stabbing them in the face with a scarlet rot covered rapier and yeeting them like a wet towel yet they can just get casually get back up from that as if it was nothing more than a little flesh wound (unless they haven't leveled Vigor enough ofc).

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why they made of roots

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I love how the Scythe one's scarlet rot attack is that he pukes at you, while the Spear one just procs rot from the grab lol

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貴腐騎士, their name in Japanese, refers to noble rot, a kind of rot affecting wine grapes.

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Not very hard since they stunlock pretty easily if you focus them down and aren't too tanky, but can be very annoying if you give them even a second of breathing room partially due to that lunging instant scarlet rot proc grab that the spear wielding ones like to perform on you.

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best knight enemy in the series imo, managable health pool and aggressive moveset which still leaves openings, no Havel Poise, and they don't hide behind greatshields. Actually fun to fight when not parrying unlike most older knight enemies

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Giant Hunt throws them around like ragdolls, it's so satisfying to get payback for all the times they hit me with that impale attack

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Cleanrot spear ONLY DROPS FROM THE CLEANROT KNIGHTS THAT EMERGE FROM THE GROUND AND ARE HOLDING THE SPEAR! Simply go to Aeonia Swamp Shore grace and head SW past the mushrooms. There should be one that spawns a couple islands down on the north side of the island. Kill him and then head north east and look around that area, there are about 7 or 8 that spawn and they are likely marked by players messages.

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There’s one in the consecrated snowfield catacombs as well

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Their Scarlet Rot breath attack is missing. I think it's just a rarer attack. Unless I'm dumb, and it doesn't even exist.

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If you're farming their gear, I recommend right next to the heart of aeonia grace, they seem to have better drop rates for me there, there are plenty, and you can take them on one by one.

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Seems to not be mentioned in here, but the sickle version in the Abandoned Cave will heal both of them over time. Either interrupt the cast or be aggressive against the sickle one.

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Has anyone seen them do their own version of Golden Vow? I've only seen it once. THe knight seems to spin his weapon, while a white incantation circle appears in font of him. Idk what happens next.

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These guys really remind me of Valkyries, which is why I use their armor, because I love Norse mythology

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I just noticed something about them today, they are all left-handed it seems. Their backup sword is in their right hand while their main weapon is in the left, which is kind of neat. Could be because Malenia would have been left-handed before she got a prosthetic arm and they miniced this. The only problem with this is that my roleplay as a cleanrot knight will require me to left hand the main weapons, so I cannot use their weapon arts without two handing them and the sword cannot use the 'no skill' weapon art, while also the shield on the spear is pointing the wrong way -.-

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The scarlet rot spew attack from the knights damages you less over time than the swamp scarlet rot.

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If you’re having trouble, try using greatshield soldier ashes and firepots. While your summons distract them just keep lobbing pots from out of range. Melted them really quickly.

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wow i can hexa-wield the cleanrot knight swords!

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The spear ones are so annoying because they LOVE spamming that damn grab and they love doing it from offscreen when you're focused on something else even more.

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If you want to farm these guys early do the dragon burnt ruins teleport. You can summon Pollyanna from the Commander O'Neill bossfight arena and help you farm. She can also beat Millicent when she invades to punish you for being in the swamp too early like the naughty player you are.

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Farmed for about 30 min got the chest 7 times 2 lilies 8 gauntlets 5 greaves 7 swords 1 scythe and 1 spear. I recommend using silver scarab and I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence but try farming at night

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imagine cosplaying one of the knights in ds1 in blighttown

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most op overrated **** on the planet, literally crashed my game

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These guys really hate fire. Black flame spells are particularly vicious against them since the % based damage seems to get 20% extra dmg as well. Like 4 black fireballs with a +13 godslayer seal and 28 faith was all each one took to kill.

Their movesets are very easy except for a very annoying golden disc spell from the second one. Gotta roll towards it to get through, panic rolling away or sideways will get you caught every time.

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Noble rot wine is 貴腐ワイン(noble rot wine) in Japanese, so the exact translation of "Cleanrot Knight" 貴腐騎士 would be "Noble rot Knight

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The Aeonia ones can drop Miquella’s Lily still grinding and will see for Trina’s

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Got a Trinas Lilly from the one at Shaded Castle… one in front of lift leading to boss fight

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The ones in Elphael also drop the spear.

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The cleanrot spear is missing on the drops list.

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Golden greatshield reduces these dudes to punching bags

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The flower drops aren't exclusive

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The ones in Swamp Aeonia appear to have 1051 hp.

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Is millicent are cleanrot knight?

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I think the greaves might have a higher chance of dropping. I spent over an hour grinding and got 11 greaves, 4 helms, 4 chest pieces and 3 gauntlets. might just be luck

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U missed out a boss version... malenia blade of miquella, she's basically a cleanrot Knight her armor confirms it she probably is there leader lol I find it funny being a major optional boss she hasn't got her own unique armor

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Are they called cleanrot knights because they clean up the rot, or because when they get rot, their rot is clean (they get sick but don't die-are carriers)?

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The duo in abandoned cave drops 5000 runes not 7000

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Just a heads up, the cleanrot knights are female so this article using "him" is incorrect

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My advice for the two in abandoned cave is to fire imbue, summon skeletal ashes, and go full aggro

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its grab attack tracks the player so hard, near impossible to avoid without perfect timing

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Lorewise, weren't all Cleanrot Knights female?

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flame incantations absolutely destroy this guy. just pop a summon ash and spam any ranged flame incantation like flame sling and you can pretty easily take him down damageless.

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the one in front of prayer room site of grace at the beginning part of elphael is the best place to farm imo.

mohgwyn's sacred spear skill can attack from other side of wall.

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After struggling a few times trying to melee them with hammer and shield, I absolutely destroyed them just spamming rock sling. Hope this helps.

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Can farm these easily even at the start of the game by setting up on the south side of Commander Oniel's area and summoning your wolves. There's a sweet spot where you can nuke from the top of the mound and your wolves wont vanish.

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Ok, help, I can NOT beat these guys in the abandoned cave. I'm sure its my gaming skills. I have my lone wolf ashes and flame of the redmanes. I get in, summon my wolves and just cant get any hits in before I get hit. Any other advice? I'm like level 50 and just cannot beat these guys. Thanks in advance

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Haligtree ones drop Miquella's Lilly, though extremely rarely (got one after dozens while having 200 discovery)

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There are 3 Ghsot Cleanrot knights at the end of Raddans location, secrect cave. Those 3 Ghost cleanrot knight continiously fight Raddan's Ghsot soldiers. All of them respawn after 5 sec of killing them. They drop lots of runes and items as well. You can keep farming them without running forth and back!

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This guy as a boss isn't exactly difficult by any means, but if you don't have good access to fire and can't be bother to fight him (because the arena sucks), just use Warhawk's ash. The hawk can probably solo him. I only got like, 4-5 attacks in, and the hawk didn't even lose 1/3 of its health (Mine was +2).

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Been farming the ones in the haligtree area for runes and one just dropped miquella's lily.

One of the people saying they drop trina's lily says this happened in the heart of aeonia, which is where you find Trina's tomb (at least I assume it's trina's tomb, you find trina's sword in that area) so probably there's lore implications to the drop. Trina's Lily description says they signify faith in Trina, whereas Miquella's lily description says that they signify faith in the haligtree. Pretty neat little detail.

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So I was fighting one in the haligtree and noticed a red aura as if he was buffed, was wondering if anyone noticed something similar

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Not sure where to add it if I was to edit, but they do rarely drop Trina's Lily.

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I use Dragonclaw on them and do a 2 or 3 shot easy kills

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Why are they called "Cleanrot" when they are actually spreading the rot for Malenia?

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The Greatsword stuns these guys so well I almost feel guilty when fighting them

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The Bloodhound Knight Boss is named Darriwil.
Two of the Crucible Knight Bosses are named Ordovis and Siluria.
It's a shame there's no named Cleanrot Knight Boss encounter.
... At least we got Cleanrot Knight Finlay for summoning, but it's not quite the same, you know...

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A trick I learned to farming these for whatever you need, scythe, spear, sword, or just the armor is after killing O'neil (heart of Aeonia grace) to just go straight south and jump out with a horse. 1 scythe knight will be there and immediately hug left. 3 spearmen and 2 scythe knights. 1 is getting out immediately and the others stay laying down in the corners surrounding the item (or body if already looted). Once killing the ones you need the items from, just head back to the grace on horseback since teleporting seems to remove the silver-pickled owl foot status effect. seems like you kill all of them in under 45-50~ seconds depending your weapon.

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there seems to be 8 total knights in a semi-circle around the heart of aeonia grace. start from the north and rotate counter-clockwise. more than half will be lying down in the water, but player messages pointed them out for me. kill all 8, go back to grace, and repeat for drops

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Farmed in the swamp...no greaves but I obtained at least three of everything else.

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It took me 9 Clearnot Knight's Swords and a **** Ton of Cleanrot Armor Sets before getting the Cleanrot Spear... And I was looking for the Halo Scythe.

They definitely do exist tho.

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i have farmed the whole set together with my Wife, all armor pieces many times, several swords, she has gotten 5 scythes. 0 spears, i got 0 scythes and 0 spears. -.- she may be an outlier, or spear is more rare than scythe. cant confirm if spear is more rare than scythe but im feeling it.

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the Cleanrot set along with the Cleanrot Knight's Sword, Cleanrot Spear, and Halo Scythe can all be farmed in the center and southeast of Aeonia swamp, there are several of these knights(some hidden in the ground). I got all of it there.

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Bloody slash with uchigatana can stun lock pretty effectively. I just ran up to the first knight, killed them before the other spawned then did the same.

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I can conform getting
1-The clearrot knights sword
2-Cleanrot armor set
3-Halo scythe
4- couldn’t get the spear to drop but i’m sure they can be farmed.

To drop from the cleanrot knights south of the heart of aeonia grace ( where you fight commander O’neil )
There are two cleanrot versions
1- with spear
2- with scythe

Both versions can drop the armor pieces and the sword, but to get the spear, you have to farm the spear version and the same for the scythe.

*Notes
1-On very rare occasions they can drop two random pieces.
2- on vey rare occasions they can drop trina’s lily.

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This is the drop table that I've encountered from farming their set/weapons at Heart of Aeonia:
Cleanrot Helm (Uncommon),
Cleanrot Armor (Uncommon),
Cleanrot Gauntlets (Uncommon),
Cleanrot Greaves (Uncommon),
Cleanrot Spear (Rare),
Cleanrot Knight's Sword (Common),
Halo Scythe (Rare),
Trina's Lily (Uncommon).

Farmed this with 40 Arcane and Silver-Pickled Fowl Feet. Did around 200 kills trying to complete the drop table (to my knowledge).

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Theres an enemy at rose church not on this list.

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good farming spot for the armor, sword and spear: right before the elemer of the briar boss room, just start at the boss room grace and go down the elevator, one standing right there with back turned. just be wary of the dogs that all come out, they aren’t an issue if you can just one shot the knight and go back up the lift.

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Boss was super weak to fire. 5 bombs, and 4 Flame Sling to kill him

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I think there is like 6 or 7 Cleanrot Knights in the swamp if anyone is farming them there

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This is the drop table that I've encountered from farming their set/weapons at Heart of Aeonia:
Cleanrot Helm
Cleanrot Armor
Cleanrot Gauntlets
Cleanrot Greaves
Cleanrot Spear (Seems to be a Rare drop)
Cleanrot Knight's Sword
Halo Scythe (Also seems to be Rare)
Trina's Lily

The most common drops I encountered at 40 Arcane and using Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot were the armor pieces. Farming for the Halo Scythe/Spear took around a hundred or so kills

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Drops Helm and Armor in Caelid

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jumping r2 usually stun these, lightest weapon I tried was a straight sword and it stuns them every time

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Mounted combat with long reaching weapons and range (magic or arrows/thrown) is a good way to beat the normal ones. Not the boss.

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Is the spears existsnce some kinda mass joke that I'm not a part of? I've farmed the one Knight outside the haligtree prayer room for over 4 and a half hours, at 99 arcane with silver scarab and now I've used all 35 of my silver feet, I've gotten 151 pieces of armour and 13 swords, this spear doesn't exist and nobody can convince me otherwise.

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Boss variant in the abandoned caves in caelid drop a tailsman that increase rune drop the golden scarab i believe

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These are easily farmed in the War-Dead Catacombs, found in the North-East corner of the Starscourge Radahn boss arena. There's an endless amount spawning, fighting with Radahn Knights, and I can confirm they drop stuff even if they are killed by NPCs.

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Before anyone else wastes their time farming the spear, I swear to god it doesn't exist, I haven't seen any proof, and everyone who is claiming to own it is actually referencing the Halo Scythe, which is not the spear but is a drop from scythe wielding Knights.

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Can confirm that these knights in the swamp area can also drop Trina's Lily

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i don't think that image is a cleanrot knight

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In case the editors arent aware, the Link to the knight's sword just goes to an error page, while the one under the picture works.

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Backstabbing is highly effective off some of his attacks. You can dodge roll and strafe a few of them. Parrying is likely effective. Amusingly, I got poisoned after a backstab on him, despite both of us being on land.

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The first time I fought him in the toxic cave I thought it’s Ornstein

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Can confirm they drop the Cleanrot Spear: 16 STR 16 DEX 14 FTH requirement. Sacred Phalanx skill, D scaling on all those req. stats. Farmed the spear knights in the swamp for about an hour and finally got it.

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