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| Location | Minor Erdtrees across the Lands Between |
| Drops |  63 - 1609 RunesGuardian Set Guardian's Swordspear Tarnished Golden Sunflower |
Guardian is a Humanoid Enemy in Elden Ring. They are found around several of the Minor Erdtrees, acting as the trees protectors. Guardians are hostile at close proximity and will rush forward to attack with their Swordspears.
In accordance with an ancient pact with the Erdtree, it is said that their deaths lead not to destruction, but instead to renewed. eternal life as guardians.
Elden Ring Guardian Locations
Where to Find Guardians:
- Weeping Peninsula near the Minor Erdtree (Weeping Peninsula)
- Liurnia of the Lakes near the Minor Erdtree (Liurnia Southwest).
- Capital Outskirts near the Minor Erdtree Church.
- Leyndell Royal Capital on the roots of the Erdtree.
- Consecrated Snowfield, near the Minor Erdtree (Consecrated Snowfield)
- Greyoll's Dragonbarrow. 29 can be found at Minor Erdtree (Dragonbarrow) starting from the Dragonbarrow Fork site of grace. Go up the trail to the Erdtree for the first half of Guardians then take a right when you reach the Erdtree and follow that path all the way down for the second half.
Elden Ring Guardian Drops
Item |
Drop Rate |
Additional Info |
| Runes | 100% | 63 - 1609 |
| Guardian's Swordspear | 2.00% | N/A |
| Guardian Mask | 1.50% | N/A |
| Guardian Garb | 1.50% | N/A |
| Guardian Garb (Full Bloom) | 1.50% | N/A |
| Guardian Bracers | 1.50% | N/A |
| Guardian Greaves | 1.50% | N/A |
| Golden Centipede | 4.00% | N/A |
| Tarnished Golden Sunflower | 4.00% | N/A |
Guardian Notes & Tips
- Deals Pierce and Standard Damage. Can inflict Poison.
- Some of Guardians found in Leyndell can evolve. This heals them and turns then weapon into "club on a spike", that deals Strike Damage.
- Susceptible to Fire Damage and Slash Damage
- The Guardians near the Minor Erdtree Church have a unique attack where the branch on the back blooms with flowers, causing the Guardian to grow in size, as well as growing roots around their swordspear, turning it into a large club-like weapon.
- One type is already blossomed, and drops a different Chest Armor piece, Guardian Garb (Full Bloom).
- Guardians can appear as a red flower with a thick tree root-like stem, only to climb the rest of the way out of the ground.
- Guardians can turn their back towards the player and thrust it in their direction, which expels a small cloud of Poison.
Elden Ring Guardian Image Gallery
AnonymousI've been farming these ****ers for the last hour and they dropped 4 helmets, 7 chest pieces, 1 arm, 4 legs and no ****ing sworspear
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Well the chest won’t drop I guess. But I now have 4 of all the other parts
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Just asking but cpukd it be that they literally became plants ober time? Like they can expel poison from the root on their back and full bloom can mutate into a more overgrown variant
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These guys are like the enemy equivalent of Morgott, have one of the sickest movesets in the game but die if you so much as sneeze on them.
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The easiest way to know if youre done grinding at Dragonbarrow Fork SoG is when you get your flasks replenished 3 times
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I don’t think those drop rates are right, I killed the ones in the weeping peninsula over 50 times and didn’t get there weapon, am I being dum?
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This "The Guardians near the Minor Erdtree Church have a unique attack where the branch on the back blooms with flowers, causing the Guardian to grow in size, as well as growing roots around their swordspear, turning it into a large club-like weapon." is not entirely true, I saw same attack from the guardian on the Erdtree rootes in Leyndell.
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From Smoldering Church grace, go east towards the Minor Erdtree, there's 8 easy to farm guardians along the path.
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Should be noted that the "full bloom" transformation gives them much more poise and fully heals them.
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I somehow think wormfaces are blight corrupted form of these guys
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233 Discovery at the 3 Guardians in front of Tombsward Catacombs.
32 in total and they dropped:
1 Tarnished Golden Sunflower.
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we should be able to get their self impalement as an AoW, like seppuku.
- Anonymous
These guys deserved to be an elite mob. An awesome moveset plus a second phase is fun to fight against too bad they drop down like flies and die in two hits.
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Why don't the non flowery ones drop their trees with the garb?
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The farming route at Greyoll's Dragonbarrow is even sweeter than the current description makes it out to be — Not only are there many Guardians on the slope leading up to the Minor Erdtree, there are roughly just as many waiting for you on the ridge up and to your right on the way back. You can kill so many in a single run that I frequently found that a single Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot didn't last long enough for a round trip. — Courh the Explorer
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I have a question about enemies in general, but I'm asking here because its the tree guardians up the hill from the dragonbarrow fork site of grace that I first noticed. The guardians here are all the same type, there are none like the ones in altus plateau that have a flower blooming on their backs. I would have assumed that the same attack on each enemy would do the same amount of damage to each guardian, but this isn't what I've been seeing. I don't know if this is how it is with every enemy type, where say, a couple of godrick soldiers will have more health than the others around them, I only noticed it here because of how many of them I've killed, whats muddying the waters for me is earlier on when I was killing them just to get some sort of idea whats happening with these enemies, its not always the same guardians in the same place that are able to survive an incantation that kills all the others in one cast. Anyone else noticed this with these tree guardians or any other group of enemies of the same type in the same area having differing health pools?
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One hour of farming these guys outside of the tombsward catacombs at 109 discovery. Killed at least 200 of these.
2 Masks
6 Garbs
7 Bracers
9 Greaves
No Swordspear. I am in pain
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There’s a very convenient, albeit late-game, farming spot that I haven’t seen mentioned yet. After defeating Lemon Godfrey, you’ll have the Erdtree Sanctuary site of grace – this is your spawn point. Go back out to the branch and use an AoE like Dragonfire to kill 6 of them at once. These ones also drop the Guardian Garb (Full Bloom)!
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These guys must be the wormfaces. Infected by godwyns body deep under the erdtree. Mutating them into sick suffering monstrosities.
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The best farming spot for this enemy is from Fort Faroth, go north, take the spirit sprint down the cliff and then follow the path west. Along this path is about 10 Guardians, once killed just fast travel back to the grace and repeat. Quick with a large amount of kills per run with no other enemies around.
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I tried farming them 15 minutes with basic pyro and they didn't drop shiz, I kill one with a weapon and it instantly drops a set piece, can anyone confirm if killing dem with fire reduces drop chance to 0? I think it might have been just a coincidence but IDK
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The ones with flowers on their backs in the capital can drop a variant of the chest piece called Guardian Garb(Full Bloom). It has a special effect that increases crison(health) flask recovery at the cost of fire damage negation.
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Been farming them at the minor erdtree in weeping peninsula first ten mins I got 4 guardian swordspear, 5 guardian masks, 3 guardian bracers.... been here an hour now no drops had to come here to check if they dropped the rest of the set.
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so the blooming guardians turn their weapons into clubs at around half health, anyone know if they can drop them, or am I wasting my time? I noticed that they haven't been dropping their spears after transforming, so I thought they might just be rare, but I'm having no luck
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I don't know how to edit the page but these guys are in Caelid around the Dragonbarrow Fork and give about 1100 Runes per kill, there are about 35 of them (roughly, I never actually counted) and all nicely spaced out so you are usually only fighting one at a time, and maximum 3-4 at a time if you aren't overly cautious about how you agro them. With a +15 Lordsworn Straightsword I am killing them in about 5-6 hits each and the path you go along to kill them all circles right back to the site of grace. Best rune farming spot that I've found so far, getting about 50k every 10 minutes.
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I get 1130 runes from each one of them. I am level 54. So why are 63 runes here?
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theres actually another spot these spawn, on the path to the minor erdtree in caelin theres about 10 of them that spawn there, really good farming place
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Is there a varient of the gardian garb like there is of some other armor sets?
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seems like you can backstab them If your close enough when they turn to do that poison tackle move
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They also drop mask and bracers I’m tryna get the whole set
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These guys also drop their armor, just so everyone knows.
I found that the best farming spot for their armor actually is the Tombsward Catacombs. By utilizing Torrent, you should be able to quickly make it to a small group of three Guardians with a fourth a small distance ahead closer to the Minor Erdtree. After killing that fourth Guarding, beelining it back to the Tombsward's grace should let the farming process be speedy, although the fact you can teleport back at any time as long as you're not in combat should also be considered if you don't mind seeing a loading screen often as you farm.
Okay so i might be reaching with what I'm about to say , but what if there's symbolism on their masks ? Because if you use their mask you can see there's a helix ( might be a double one ?) And what is the symbolism you ask ? Well if you read their gear it says that they swore an oath to the Erdtree so that theyw may never die , but as we see in game some of them are becoming more and more plant-like and some are even buried , so if they continue to degrade like this there will be a point where they will be basically dead but still alive in body , so what if Marika knew this would happen to them and fashioned the masks so the helix would represent their future state , wherein they'd be near death but nonetheless still alive ? Sorry if this all sounds like a load of horse crap , but I was playing the game and couldn't help but think this .
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