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Crystal Dart is a Consumable Item in Elden Ring. Most Consumables grant various effects such as restorative properties for recovering HP, removing certain negative status effects or applying temporary buffs and debuffs, while others can be thrown at enemies to deal damage.
Throwing knife chiseled from impure crystal.
Craftable item.
Consumes FP. Throw at enemies to deal magic damage.
Long ago, it is said that a golem crafter employed a similar crystal tool.
Where to find Crystal Dart in Elden Ring
- Can be crafted with three Cracked Crystals after obtaining the Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook (11).
- Found on a gravestone in the western portion of the upper manor. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- 8 can be looted off a corpse in the Altus Tunnel: In the first cavern after the Site of Grace, head into the second room on the right to find the corpse sitting by some wreckage. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Looted off a corpse on the broken beam connected to the stars of the Iron ball trap in Raya Lucaria Academy. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Can be looted from a corpse in Sellia Hideaway, at the bottom of the second room with huge crystal formations [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Can be found on a body being devoured by Rotten Strays in the Consecrated Snowfield. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Caria Manor: Found on a gravestone in the western portion of the upper manor. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Five can be looted from a corpse in the gorepile by the ant nest near Ainsel River Downstream. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Located at the Converted Fringe Tower [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Five looted from a body in the middle of the enemies fighting each other at Liurnia Highway North [Elden Ring Map Link]
Crystal Dart use in Elden Ring
Crystal Dart can be used to inflict magic damage upon throwing on enemies at the cost of FP. In addition, Crystal Dart is able to frenzy golem construct enemies (such as Imps and Burial Watchdogs) upon enough hits, causing them to attack all enemies (including the player) around them.
Elden Ring Crystal Dart Crafting Guide
To craft Crystal Dart you need the Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook [11] as well as the following Crafting Materials:
Elden Ring Crystal Dart Notes & Tips
- You can hold up to 40 Crystal Darts.
- You can store up to 600 Crystal Darts.
- Sell Value:
20 Runes - Usage of FP is so low that it's very unlikely it will be a concern.
- Abuse of the frenzy mechanic on boss enemies, especially multiple bosses at once (e.g. the Erdtree Burial Watchdogs at the Minor Erdtree Catacombs) can be very useful to both deal massive damage to enemies while distracting both the targeted boss and enemies around it.
- This appears to NOT work on Crystalians, Iron Virgins, or Marionette/Avionette Soldiers.
- It works on Golems, but they may prove to be more of a hindrance than an ally.
AnonymousThe item description only mentions magic damage but these actually both pierce and magic damage. Specifically, game files show 66 base physical damage and 44 base magic damage.
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Has anyone tried these on the gigantic Bigmouth Imp in Darklight Catacombs? Seems like a potential for some interesting chaos.
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Surprised no one has ever asked how many darts does it take to frenzy a construct. How many does it take for a golem, big boi imps etc. could be nice info
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"Crystal Dart can be used to inflict magic damage upon throwing on enemies at the cost of FP. In addition, Crystal Dart is able to frenzy golem construct enemies (such as Imps and Burial Watchdogs) upon enough hits, causing them to attack all enemies (including the player) around them."*
see this part right here is what makes these darts cool so
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i ****ing hate how items are cryptic in this manner where you gotta solve an algebraic equation and consult the table of the elements just to figure something like this out outside of just looking the item wiki up.
its fine to leave some aspects of the game to experimentation, but this would have been good to know, you know, BEFORE i actually finished the game.
like why doesn't the game illustrate that this is a unique trait of these darts somehow?
make the player go through an area and have a god damn soldier of godrick use one on an imp, causing said imp to go berserk on another imp, or something.
that way you get a cool little cinematic fight and you're naturally introduced to crystal's dart hidden trait IF you are observant enough to look.
0/10 i hate when the game does this. no amount usefulness will ever change the fact that this is BS decision making on the devs part.
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187 magic damage on the unalert stormveil troll at 80 int with no talismans or buffs
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Hahahahaha, playing this game since launch as a mage and never knew about the frenzy effect. I never heard anyone mention it and thought it was a bug or something, as I was messing around and trying to clear out an area using only throwing knives. Theres no mention of it in the item description at all, weird but cool.
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This is basically a throwing dagger with added magic damage and stun potential on golem construct enemies. Is it just me or do throwing knives track the target very slightly?
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Weird weapon. Needs good positioning + room to retreat. Frenzied bosses keep aggro on you until something else hits them multiple times.
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makes doing that first caelid minor erdtree dungeon with the two watchdogs super easy at low level
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I like the idea that imps and watchdogs short circuit when hit by these, it implies how these things are little more than machines made by magic.
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Interestingly, this do a very little damage to miners.
I tested this in comparison to glinstone pebble on Radahn's soldiers, and the result was 150 damage by glinstone pebble vs 83 damage by darts (about 2 times difference).
But on miners in the exact same location (Gael's tunnel) the result was 120 damage by glinstone pebble vs 28 damage (about 4 times difference).
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i have literally not once ever had these successfully frenzy a golem/construct enemy
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I know we don't know a whole lot about this "golem crafter", but I have a small theory. Elsewhere in the game it is shown to us that Order Fundamentalists occasionally craft fine mechanical wonders, such as the Pulley Crossbow. Maybe this person was a Fundamentalist? It would explain why these golems tend to guard such important places, like the roots of the Erdtree as well as the Grand Lifts. Also, these darts look remarkably like needles. Who else do we know likes needles? Miquella. Draw your own conclusions from there.
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Good for adapting 9S into the world of Elden Ring. Feels like hacking.
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Trivializes the Catacomb Watchdogs. Especially great for the catacomb where you have to fight 2 of them. Short-circuit one of them and just watch them kill each other.
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It's a great weapon. I beat Radagon with this after whittling him down to a singe pixel of health with a Broadsword.
Cheese/10, would throw again.
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These worked a treat for me earlier in the minor erdtree catacomb, I quite enjoyed seeing one of those pr**ks kill the other.
I don't know its obvious to everyone else but it wasn't to me at the time, if you haven't done impalers catacomb but are going to do it at some point, don't throw the crystal darts at the imps in the boss room hit the burial watchdog with them instead. The boss has a much bigger health pool than the imps so using the darts on that is much better value for money, the watchdog will make light work of the imps for you.
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I've just seen for myself how well they work on the minor erdtree catacombs burial watchdogs. I target-locked and started throwing darts at one as soon as I crossed the fog gate then sat back and watched as one killed the other.
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what the **** where does this game even vaguely imply these things can frenzy constructs
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I don’t understand the frenzy mechanic. I’ve never actually gotten it to work by throwing a crystal dart at an enemy.
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Works on Godskin Duo for some reason. Completely cheeses that fight. Guess they're a construct of some sort?
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Actually It's working for Golem construct enemy.
I tested and confirmed for 3 kinds for now.
Any Imp - this made catacomb Imp less annoying.
Burial Watchdog
Bow / Halberd golem - need 4-5 constantly hit
Not sure if need to hit at cracked spot or any spot will do.
But it work for those big golem.
This also does a lot damage to the cracked chest
Though, Golem is slow and their move set design to hit player on ground.
2Golem fighting each other is the somehow a boring show. haha
Not work with Crystalians. they are crystal living forms. not golem construct.
Not work with Abductor and Marionette. They are magic powered machine.
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Damn, the hidden passive of frenzy would've been great to know about earlier. I'm assuming then the only way to find out is either trial and error or a merchant sells a secret note explaining this hidden property of the crystal darts.
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The Imp helms specify that they're actually Impish Golems, which is a subtle but interesting way of letting you know that this works on them as well.
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Really bummed that they don't work on the big gargoyles. I don't really have trouble with the other golem enemies.
Makes watchdogs duo fight cake walk. 4 of this and they will start fight eachover
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I had no idea these were so good. I've been sleeping on these for a long time because I thought the cracked crystals could be used for something else more useful and wanted to save them since I only knew of a cave in Caelid that was too high a level for me to farm safely early game. Turns out all the throwing knife type items are pretty good with their corresponding builds. They have excellent scaling for their respective build stats and can do respectable damage even late game. These crystal darts are great for spell blades and even sorcerers who want to conserve FP before a major boss fight. Granted, there isn't good faith or arcane scaling throwing knives, so perhaps there was an oversight there.
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Inconsistent when I'm a summon, not the host. I've only seen it work once, in Impaler's Catacombs on the Erdtree Burial Watchdog, and it took 8 darts. Many other times, 12+ darts didn't work.
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People who are confused about the frenzy mechanic:
"Long ago, it is said that a golem crafter employed a similar crystal tool."
This is a clear hint on what it works on: golem constructs. So basically only the little imps and catdaddies are affected.
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I've spent almost 130 hours using these and NEVER knew they could inflict frenzy!
That aside, these have been my favorite weapons with a Dex-Int build, and I can't begin to count the number of times I've used them to finish off a tough enemy or boss with a tiny bit of health left and moving in for that last attack was otherwise risky. Also an excellent use of spare FP to inflict some extra damage, or draw enemies one at a time out of a mob when sneaking around.
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Help I’ve spammed close to 30 on my gargoyle and it’s not doing a thing to him
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Most people sleeping on this because nowhere does this item even say it inflicts frenzy. I thought it was just damage.
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These things are insanely good people are sleeping on these. They do almost as much as Glinstone Pebble which costs 7 FP. These cost 1 FP and can store 40 in your inventory at once. and you can have 999 Cracked Crystals in your inventory to craft them again whenever you run out. Insanely good and efficient for spell blade builds where you want to focus on a weapon art usage rather than off handing a staff. The best farm for these that I've found is the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel. Rest at the grace run in kill the one Glinstone miner that is walking down the stairs then take a left and loot the 4 Cracked Crystal nodes then run back to the grace 10 feet away rinse repeat.
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These are almost certainly glitched. The frenzy effect, even on bosses with so few darts needed, is way too powerful. If you are stuck on a dual boss fight use these and sit back. Don't summon during the boss until one boss remains. Clean up the final boss.
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These might be a bit overtuned atm. For 1 FP and at the cost of a very easy-to-farm material (just scoop up all the cracked crystal in the Sellia Crystal Tunnel and reset), you get some serious, spammable damage. I thought it was just because I was using it as a throwing knife alternative on my Sorcerer for RP but no, these things are pretty nuts.
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I can report that crystal darts can cause some weird confusion effect on some enemies. Appears as bubbles around the enemy's head, interrupts their action and makes them vulnerable to other enemies attacks.
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These are very OP. Literally better than many of the projectile spells especially for PVP. Not sure why nobody has noticed yet.
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