Erdtree Greatbow | Elden Ring Wiki

this is my rivers of blood.

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Wow...I feel like this bow is really underutilized and I think thats because of the strange stat requirements. With you needing FTH to increase AR the most, most people would just opt for an incant for ranged attacks. On a 32 STG/ 80 FTH build(I just got enough STG to wield the distinguished great sheild for fun),I have the calculator saying I get 424 AR which isnt including the Golden Great Arrow or the 20% boost from it. It seems to be a really good crowd control/support item with the Golden Great Arrows giving you that buff too. Golden Great Arrows for damage and then Golem for CC looks like this would make this a very versatile, good weapon that I am looking forward to useing.

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I have been an avid Erdtree Greatbow stan for the past one and a half years, nearly a thousand hours with this dumbass Tree Sentinel cosplay. This weapon is great. It works. Don't listen to the haters. This is the only Greatbow with elemental damage that can be buffed by your physick flask (golem magic arrows don't count because **** you). Prioritize faith over strength, and strength over dex until you hit softcaps. This thing seriously chunks with the right setup, high strength and faith, Arrow Sting and Shard of Alexander, testing on the troll in Limgrave, Ng+7, I CONSISTENTLY hit for over a thousand damage on bodyshots with the Weapon Skill, and I've hit WELL over 2200 with headshots. Sure, this thing loses value the farther into the game you progress, but the Holy resistances only really mean much of anything on bosses. Unless you happen to be a dumbass like me, you're not going to be using Greatbows in a whole lot of boss fights anyways, unless it's Elden Beast or Placidusax I guess. Point is, don't let some idiots in a comment section tell you what you should be using. **** optimization, **** meta. This game is too big and too complex to give a **** about the "optimal" setup. Use whatever you want to use my dawgs. You can make anything in this game work. This weapon is good. I should know, because I'm the only person on Earth who uses it religiously.

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Just before we echo the common wisdom that it isn't good, let's test a second: Golem Greatbow with Golem Arrow vs Erdtree Greatbow with Golden Greatarrow. Both firing with Through and Through. 35 str 35 dex 35 faith (for shabriri's woe - if you are using a bow, scaling is crap so you get the best buffs you can get). Wait you say, I want 55 str! Great, that gives the Golem greatbow ~3.5% more damage for your 20 stat points......................
OK, now complete a suite of high quality bow buffs (rip jellyfish shield as of 1.09): (Howl), Commanders standard, Sting, Alexander shard, Ritual Sword and wait... Erdtree Greatbow can use Holy Cracked tear and Holy scorpion charm.......................... Result: Golem 1774 and Erdtree 1787. Not shabby either way. This is high enough to not fret so much about split damage. But wait, in coop Erdtree lets you give teammates a golden vow buff For Free and at Range! You can also shoot it at your feet to quickly refresh a buff when howl wears off.................. Add to all of this that golem arrows are a pain in the ass, the bow weights 3.5 more and erdtree bow is in limgrave. Golem arrow has a little explosion that is great for meme greatbow in arena pvp - honestly, love you guys that do that, but that is not the reason people say Erdtree isn't good. Most Golem users are going to go 55 str, and Maybe ash of war vow for 11.5% damage instead of howl. They'll do 1777 on through and through with this setup...... You can do a lot more with 35 faith. I like the Golem bow. Yes, you could go crazy and add a full extra radahn bow on your back and fire radahn arrows.... None of this means Erdtree Greatbow is bad. People just aren't counting the benefit of the Tear, charm and how good a buff howl is if you put in the Faith. When you do, the bow is just one more in the running, depending on your build.

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Completely useless unfortunately, I have used this a lot and tried to find any purpose for it. Even with 80 faith, golden vow and howl of shabriri, it still gets outdamaged by every other greatbow used at mere base stats.

I guess the only use for this is to cheese vulnerable pve enemies, or if in invasions you want to use golem arrows but lack the dex to use the other greatbows.

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This is an early-mid game bow for a str/dex/faith build. You also get the scorpion charm early along with the golden vow ash (and sting talisman if you want it). What is good about this bow is that you can very quickly get a build around it.
In the late game you'd be comparing this using golden great-arrows in a setup (maybe coop) that benefits from the easy re-apply of the buff from the arrows.
Comparing it on straight up damage is fine in one way, but not really how you'd be using it.

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good for eviscerating death rite birds, i don't care if it's marginally worse everywhere else, that's reason enough for me to use this. (use last rites, by the way. it's real good.)

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Can anyone tell me, can you get the +20% damage buff by firing a golden great arrow from another bow while holding the Erdtree greatbow in your off hand? That works with Radahn spears and the Lion bow, so logically, it SHOULD work the same here, but the wiki doesn't mention it.

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So i think i get why this is much weaker compared to other greatbows: if you take the combined base damage of both the physical and holy damage into account, it has pretty much the exact same base damage as Greatbow, but *here* there are also two damage types that have to deal with the flat defense modifiers of enemies, thus making it perform worse than greatbows that are just affected by defenses once

I could be completely misunderstanding this, though i'd like to hear some input from someone who understands this kind of stuff better than i do

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Easily the weakest great bow. May be usable at 80+ Faith if you don’t have high Strength for Golem Bow scaling, but you’re still better off just not using it at all.

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"timed it by 1 Mississippi"
Americans will use anything but metric lmao

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I don’t see any mention on the page about the buff applied by the bow when you fire a golden greatarrow near yourself or another player (I think it’s practically a budget version of golden vow)

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That tip about the timing to get the sentinel with the longbow is on point

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I have probably lost over 100k runes due to recklessness in this gods-forsaken, beautiful dungeon....

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Surprisingly very effective against dragons, since they have a massive head.

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please god just buff the faith scaling on this, id love a strength/faith build to have a truly long range, hard hitting option

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"Ah, this Greatbow? I shan't need it, with no dragons to hunt... I know not if a human could even operate it, but here. Thy need outweighs mine."

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I'm sad we don't fight a tree sentinel wielding this, that'd be so cool.

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I thought this would be a good replacement for Jar Cannon on faith build (16 str, 14 dex, 60 fth), but it disappoints really. It is locked into Holy damage, which sucks for most cases in this game. It is heavily forced to be used with golden arrows, which limits it's AoE capacity when using golem arrows.

Also, it's damage SUCKS. Really, I tested it on common soldier. Erdtree Bow +10 with Golden Arrow did measly 479 damage to him. For instance, my Cleanrot Knight Sword when 2-handed deals 499 damage to him in one light hit. It's just awful in what it's supposed to do.

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Very solid option for STR/FAI builds. Holy damage has very few ranged options, so don't sleep on this baby.

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Instead of through and through, this thing's unique skill should be firing that holy lightning bolt thing that radagon uses.

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I'm already a faith build on my main file and want to use this since it scales with faith, and I also just want to try something new. Is it worth it for PvE the whole game?

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I truly cannot speak highly enough of this baby. Complements really well with a paladin build like mine that opts to defend more than offend in co-op PvE. Damage is strong too, with arrow reach and sting talismans at 70 strength and 80 faith doing over 1100 damage on a non-buffed headshot, and around 1500 with the ash. Buffed with Golden Vow and the holy tear physic this thing is doing over 2200 to the albinaurics in Mohgwyn Palace. Love this thing to death, just wish the scaling was higher.

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this thing really needs a buff, lowest AR of any greatbow. though i suppose it is the one that can be grabbed most early in the game, and what the game considers the "standard" greatbow is found all the way in Altus.

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Duelists never expect me to be so ballsy to whip this thing out and start blasting across the arena.

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Im not sure if its a bug or not, but even when combined with holy arrows this doesnt seem to do the extra damage against undead enemies. Which kinda sucks because this thing looks absolutely swank

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After a couple of failed attempts at getting the bow, when I teleported back to the stranded graveyard grace, I had this weird glitch happen where I heard a troll (I think) roaring and groaning. It could be heard around the grace and in the nearby dark area that leads to the tutorial cave, but it stopped as soon as i went into the poison area. It happened three times in a row and I even got some runes from something dying, then the next time I teleported back it just stopped. It creeped the hell out of me the first time and I even looked around in the chance I unlocked a secret miniboss or something but found nothing of course.

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1 Mississippi is way too long. press R1 to shoot your bow when it hits the wall.

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At 20/47/47 STR/DEX/FTH this is worthless - it weighs more and does less damage than the basic Greatbow, even with golden arrows. On Gatefront soldier, Through and Through did 1097 with Greatbow and 963 with this. Had shard of alexander and arrow's sting talisman equipped.

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the timing really is 1 Mississippi after the chariot touches the wall.

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I got this one yesterday, Weapon skill is actually mighty shot and not through and through

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Everyone talks about how to get it but not how they use it. Useful in boss fights? Any good in pvp? Does the range/damage make it better for afk farmers than the cannon?

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The good: You can get this weapon early-game.
The bad: It splits half its damage into Holy... ( 6 enemies in the game are weak to holy)

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Actual strength requirement is 14, as it doesn't allow you to use it without using it two-handed. As such, 13 would result in an effective strength of 19.5, just barely short, and 14 results in 21, just barely more than enough.

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If you shoot the Dragon Knight now from one of the safe spots, he will teleport directly to you. Be careful!

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Seems to buff you if you use through and through with a golden great arrow and shoot into the ground

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You can draw out the Dragon Knight at the top of the lift by shooting at him from one of the safe spot arches at the bottom of the first ramp - the one with two enemies either side of the ramp. Just shoot him with a crossbow or whatever; he'll run out, jump down and get cleaned up by the chariot.

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Is that you Hawkeye Gough?

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the best way ive found to do this is get in place aim at the jar on the right and as soon as the chariot hits the wall below you fire. works with bow and crossbow both and hasnt failed for me yet. literally no counting needed just shoot when you here the chariot hit the wall

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The Erdtree Greatbow doesn't seem to perma kill skeletons, tested with Golden Great Arrows. The smaller Erdtree Bow using Golden Arrows does perma kill them though.

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"I used the longbow, and timed it by 1 Mississippi" is the most american thing I have read all day hahaha
Great tip for the timing tho anyway, thx!

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Is this thing bugged? Even when using the proper golden arrows, it deals less damage than the regular erdtree bow.

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You don't have to go through the whole thing. Dragon fire from the safe corner of the track (before the second ramp, below the pots) where the chariot turns around will sever the ropes too, I just got the great bow that way.

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lmao that 'Mississippi' tip is a godsend

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Why can't I put ashes of war on my Erdtree greatbow.

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what anon got after the Godfrey fight is the Erdtree Bow, whereas the Erdtree *Great*bow indeed drops as stated here

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I used this greatbow against the Draconic Tree Sentinel boss outside capital city.

+5 Greatbow, arrow's reach and arrow's sting talismans equipped. All shots fired using Through and Through war art.
31 STR, 14 DEX, 30 FAI

Regular great arrows did 395-405, golden great arrows did 690-700. Range was approximately the same for each shot, fired just past the rocks looking straight down the path towards the gate.

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Location of the bow seems wrong. I got it from the chest in the same room as Godfrey. After the fight climb up the root and approach the walkway to the Erdtree. Drop down the roof on the left and enter through a open window. You'll get Golden order principia (incantation spell book) and the bow.

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Anyone knows if it really gets stronger when you shoot the golden great arrows with it?

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Anyone knows if it really gets stronger when you shoot the golden great arrows with it?

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Use a dragon breath attack aimed at the roof just when it is turning towards you from the bottom and you will get the item. If you don't have a bow.

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Wrong image, thats the longbow not the greatbow.

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tomb of knowledge??

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Pure holy?

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