Night Maiden's Mist | Elden Ring Wiki

If this is physical damage… does that mean it gets boosted by dancer charm?

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Old Lord's Talisman does NOT increase this spell, nor fia's mist in duration.

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stand still boss slayer

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I've discovered a functionality to this that i dont think ive seen anyone talk about before, I'm not sure if its intentional or what, but this is very effective against abductor virgins. It will stun them, in the same way that lightning does, after they stand in it for a few seconds. its actually a very effective way for int characters to deal with them without spamming their whole FP bar on magic attacks. shoot one of these out at them, wait for them to open up, then fire away.

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This spell is mainly used by people with no skill who need to cheese their way through the game. I know this because I'm one of them.

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I've been getting good use out of this so far. It's a surprisingly fast cast. Situational but if your enemy is big or slow it's great for them. Good against Eartree Avatars. Particularly good against sorcers like in Raya Lucaria since they often don't give chase and just spam spells at you from where they stand. Hit them with this and count to ten.

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For anyone who cares, this spell does scale. Poorly, but it exists. AND general damage buffs apply as well. Golden Vow increases it's damage, staff of Loss on off hand add some extra damage. Jellyfish shield works as well. And presumably, Ritual Sword and Red Feather talisman would also work. As the wiki says, it deals physical damage, so the magic shrouding tear does nothing. If you really push it, you could get an extra 200 or so damage out of this spell.

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The loathsome frame eater

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i needed more cheese on my elden ring pizza and this spell is perfect.

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wanna try a vape-god build - Night Maiden's Mist, Freezing Mist, Poison Mist, etc.

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up, up, down, down, left, right, A, B, A, select, start

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michael zaki balanced it by adding hidden stat requirements to it; you need a 40 series gpu to cast it effectively

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Got this mist for the first time today. Pretty fun. I immediately went and cheesed the gargoyle at beastial sanctum with it. Another lol for the intelligence build

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I can't use this spell, my fps drops to 20-10 when cast. I have a good computer, and play on graphic sets at high with consistent 60 fps so I don't know, but this spell was broken since release. Maybe on console is playable IDK.

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what i wouldn't give to huff a night maiden's mist straight from the source

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Fun fact, this can damage Rennala when she's got her shield up

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Absolutely love this Sorcery. Perfect for bringing back one of my personal favorite PvE builds from DS3, the DoT Monster, with Toxic Mist, Storyteller's Staff Weapon Art, and Pestilent Mist. You could absolutely cheese bosses with that setup, and also zone-clearing with Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring as none of those damage sources alerted enemies as far as I remember.

For Elden Ring my setup for bringing it back is this: Poison Spraymist Perfume (Strongest poison in the game, and deals more damage per second than even Deadly Poison), Scarlet Rot from Rotten Breath (more damage than weapon-based Scarlet Rot, and also using weapons would defeat the idea of the build), Night Maiden's Mist, and maybe Swarm Pots as they are sort of a lingering DoT cloud that causes bleed and scales off of Arcane? Would want 45 Arcane to maximize the status buildup and help ensure a proc for Poison Spraymist considering you only get a max of 10 perfume bottles. Albinauric Staff would suit well with 30/45 Int/Arcane and give some solid scaling (307) to Pestilent Mist (which *does* scale with Sorc Scaling, just very, very inefficiently). Rest of the stats on an Astrologer would probably round out to 60 Vigor, 38 Mind, 21 Endurance, and 15 Faith (for Rotten Breath). Could wear rather heavy armor as the only weapon used that weighs anything is the Albinauric Staff. Mushroom Crown would be solid as it minorly boosts Night Maiden's Mist damage when its buff is active, which would be 50-60% of the time with the 30 second duration of Poison Spraymist.

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destroy your enemies, destroy yourself, and destroy the framerate

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"This sorcery deals damage to all targets, including yourself. The sole exception appears to be friendly players in co-op"

Spirit ashes aren't affected either.

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Since it isn't said here, the damage ticks deal flat damage along with damage based on scaling. BUT this flat damage isn't mitigated by defense at all. So if you cast it, no matter what, the enemy is taking at least 17 per tick. Bye bye crystalians.

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Cheese Godfrey shade for that 4th talisman slot by running circles around him.

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Asbestos.

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This is great in PVP! It smokes out people who stay at a range giving you an opportunity to approach, and if they stay behind it like a wall it gives you more chances to cast bigger spells. Not to mention how bloodhound's steppers will run with their tail between their legs at the slightest sight of AOE damage.

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Wait, this only has 14 int requirements? Support sorcery confirmed?

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This spell can be used to easily defeat the Godskin Noble. Whenever he starts to roll get behind a pillar and he'll just roll for a long amount of time. Allowing you to continously use this on him.

Also this mist completely and utterly destroys those Crystal bosses that you need to stance break. As the mist completely bypasses their absurd defense.

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Probably the most useful spell in the game, good damage, low reqs and not completely broken like Pestilent mist from DS3 (which I totally loved as well)

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Would be cool if you can hurt other stuff on the same team, help the host as an invader or kill the host as a hunter/furled finger

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Very good spell for dealing with stationary enemies with big HP pools, or enemies who don't move around a lot.
i.e. Bell bearing hunters, erdtree avatars, miranda flowers.

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The real power is in its ability to just lag everyone out.

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"However it doesn't destroy physical objects"
This is actually false as I tried it to verse a avatar and there's the massive arrow catapults that eventually broke from all the mist I threw are they not considered physical objects?

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Just let me kill hosts as a blue...

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great for low-level invasions where hosts/phantoms haven't leveled vigor enough and this spell becomes lethal in a few seconds

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really good anti camper spell, goes through walls, can be deployed at a distance, and does respectable damage

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S tier invasion spell. Good for hosts that are too scared to leave the bonfire room.

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S tier invasion spell. Good for hosts that are too scared to leave the bonfire room.

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Does this do ANY poise damage? Or rather can it at least stop the poise damage meter from draining?

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this thing is so helpful and it's only 14 intelligence
great for my dumb melee characters

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It's fun to use this to kill entire groups of electrified Silver Tears in Nokstella with just one cast.
As soon as the first slides in the mist and dies, it's electric explosion will spread to the others potentially killing them since they were entering the mist as well. I just enjoy the electric chain reaction as the mist keeps dealing damage.

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Might be a bug, so if anyone can confirm would be nice
Crystallians in Haligtree seems to aggro now as soon as any istance of the mist damage gets to them

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Discovered this in my pure mage playthrough: You can absolutely damage Rennala with this while she's in her bubble. However, after her health has been reduced to zero you still need to break her bubble and then smack her once with your stick. Good way to completely skip her gravestone gimmick in phase 1

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Does MASSIVE damage to my FPS.

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Standard physical damage, so its increased by ALL effects that increase physical or generic damage. It does scale, albeit poorly. it is NOT effected by Staff of Loss. So, Bloodboil aromatic, Blue Dancer Charm, both Sorcery talismans, and Ritual Sword Talisman is the most bang for your buck with Lusats staff at 80 int. Jellyfish also increases its damage, but not as efficient as blue dancer. Godfrey Icon increases its damage, but less than any of the aforementioned sources other than the smaller sorcery talisman (and only beats it by a very small amount). Blood/poison talismans/hats do boost it, but the buffs they provide don't last long, so you get better returns from any of the above sources. Against the troll outside of the Grafted's boss fight, I managed 2986 at 99 int, lusats staff, bloodboil, blue dancer, both spell talis, and godfreys (could have been over 3k with ritual sword)

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I wonder, could this be used to kill Bernahl from the secret passage at Volcano Manor? Didn't realize I wanted his armor until after he'd already moved to the manor, and not having to wait until Farum Azula to get it would be great...

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Any idea what type of damage it does? Is it physical, magical, or unnamed damage?

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I saw something yesterday using a +10 bolt of gransax with the right talismans and physik, I see a fully charged casts hit for just over four thousand in damage consistently, with rain boosting that even further. I like to use a bottle neck for bunching enemies together.
This time I cast night maiden's mist into that bottle neck for obvious reasons. I think the enclosed area had an unintended effect on the mist because it was stopping 'ancient lightning spear' dead in its tracks without getting anywhere near hitting one of the mages. This might have implications for PVP if it can be repeated.

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"This sorcery deals damage to all targets, including yourself. The sole exception appears to be friendly players in co-op. "
Damn i miss Life Drain Patch.... Killing hosts was a mad fun way of being peak ***hole. Just finished a boss and the host thinks all is well so they drop their controller and just stand about for a while without bothering to heal. Little do they know im not in it for the boss. Im the worst piece of **** theyve met. Im usually super helpful sunbro but once in a while the hosts being hopeless idiots just gets to me. making them suffer is nice way to get back at em lol.

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A fantastic and underrated spell in pve. Has a surprising amount of utility. Great for hitting enemies through walls, clearing groups (including annoying boss fights like the triple crystallians), and supplemental damage on large slow-moving enemies while you fire off your main damage spells. This spell single-handedly beat that stupid invisible assassin boss for me. Its ineffective vs fast enemies and risky in cramped quarters. The flat damage (about 1600 hp total) falls off in later NG cycles. Fp to damage ratio can either be great or a complete waste, just depends on when and how you employ the spell. Overall a good pick for a spell slot, especially for a first playthrough. After using it for a while, im finding it hard to replace.

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This seems to be doing MASSIVE damage to enemies with high resistances, like Crystallions and Miners. Could a NPC's resistance play a part in the damage this deals?

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This spell is fantastic for taking care of imps hiding around corners. Probably my new favorite sorcery.

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Very fun to use with meteor ore blade - using gravitas to pull into the mist

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Does this trigger the winged sword talisman?

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i like standing in this while also casting. area denial + power move

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Note when charging the spell: you can free-aim higher up to send the mist ball in an arc, where it'll hold its shape for a few seconds before spreading out. Very useful for gaining some distance while covering a significant area.

Also, this is how I destroyed the Frenzy-Flaming Tower summoners on my min-HP character. Charge casting it up through the floor has a wide enough radius to hit all but one through the floor, which you'll have to deal with yourself.

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Works on crystallians without alarming them. Tested on the 3 that guard the rotten crystal sword in the haligtree.
Stand on the roots and cast it. It takes 4 casts to kill them.

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Is the damage increased by anything? Like staff of loss? Or is it flat damage?

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Tanks my fps, lol.

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Can collide with black fire fireball in midair, destroying it. Discovered it on a Godskin Noble in that snakes castle and only tried there.

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Not sure of this has been pointed out but this can hit Rennala in her bubble in phase 1. You just have to pop the bubble once to deliver the final blow. Very useful for caster builds that struggle with her because of her magic resistance. It's also good in phase 2, just cast it at her and focus on dodging.

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This REALLY helped against the trio crystalian bosses until I finally had enough. Summoned Pumpkin Head in the middle, dropped a warming stone for him, and tossed the mist in the middle of the chaos while keeping my distance with BHS. Worked wonders.

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I've found a niche use for this in my taunters tongue playthrough. it is absolutely fantastic for zoning off chokepoints, like ladders or tunnels, giving yourself time to get to a grace or for a hunter to help

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its stacking infinitly, just saying

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Not as good as Pestilent Mist(do to it's scaling with enemies) but still a very good spell.

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If you give this to your mimic tear ash, their mist does not damage you (unlike your own mist).

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Melts certain bosses

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So it does 1500 damage overall regardless of INT level? because I tried it on one of the so called lesser rune bears in deeproot depths, they seem to have a massive health pool because this hardly made a dent in it. That wasn't because I only have 17 INT then?

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the damage it does can not be increased, so its very strong when you get it and the further you progress the less useful it will be. thats not to say it becomes useless though. once it stops being able to evaporate bosses you can still use it to great effect when you get swarmed by lesser enemies. cast at your feet and run to the edge of the cloud

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This spell deals a deceptively high amount of damage. If you're having trouble with a threatening foe, try putting down one or two of these and doing your best to bait them into it for as long as you can.
— Courh the Explorer

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Rosmarinus?

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So this spell basically deals 1500 damage over its duration that doesn't scale with anything? Neither with intelligence nor with the staff's sorcery scaling? That sounds like THE strategy for RL1 no upgrades, right?

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This spell wrecks rahdan first tried him with this they had a spell similar in Ds3 glad they added it to this game one of my favorites

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Does the damage from this awaken sleeping enemies?

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I use this on my monsoon (mgr) cosplay build, just pop it off and then use bloodhound step inside it to negate most of the damage while popping out to deal dual dagger attacks, don't worry yall I don't pvp it's just a fun thing for me to mess with in pve

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Did they nerf the vertical drop on this spell?

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Is there a remedy for this if it catches you?

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This spell is nasty. Came here just to say it shreds. Also a fan of the ice mist.

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Don't really know what is in that room/tunnel ahead of you? Want to find out? Drop one of these and back up. If it doesn't die, you better get ready...

It's like Drano, clears $&!+ fast.

12 scarlet rot zombies? (yes that's in Haligtree Town) Takes out 9 of them and severely damages the rest. Pipes in Subterranean Shunning Gourds? Clears slimes by the dozen. Crystalians? Let's start the damage NOW! Bush wacker Imps? Drop this in the room and see what dies.

Seriously, Get this ASAP and use it often. Talk to Gowry and O'Neill is a cakewalk if you stand on the branch to the SW and Rock Sling him (which BTW Rock Sling and the Meteor Staff are not far away). If you're dedicated you can get this spell by level 4-5. It's that worth it.

There is nothing that matches this for slow moving mobs. Squirts, flowers, Erdtree Watchdogs, skeletons, slimes, Broken Statues, Runebears if caught properly, snails, octopi, low level bosses, even golems and dragons if they don't move around. 1500-1700 damage -doesn't appear to scale so it's impressive for low levels.

Just don't get yourself caught in the cloud. That's a red 'YOU DIED.'

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No one is immune to this skill, it's insane how you can damage Rennala before she lost her sheild

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Must-have spell for any low-level invaders. Hosts and their phantoms are so thirsty for your blood they'll run right into this oblivious to the damage it's doing and they're dead before they know it.

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is this spell really that good? i never used it, kinda overlooked it because i found all the mist stuff to be underwhelming.

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Slug melter. Because when it looks like one but it's actually 3-5, this melts them all.

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This is the gank killer. Killed off the trio Crystallians and duo Crucible Knights with this. Highly recommend trying it out.

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does it still do % based damage? if so this spell can be really useful for taking out late game bosses with their gargantuan health pools lol

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The info on this page is wrong… it does destroy physical objects that do damage… flamethrowers, catapults, etc, and is very effective from a lower or higher ground. It doesn’t destroy random ambient objects but it doesn’t need to

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Enemies aggro when they take damage TrollDespair

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I just found out about this spell and wanted to do some testing. The scaling..... makes 0 sense.
I had 50 int, no armor/talismans and tested against the Giants pulling the cart outside of Sellen's shop:
+20 Staff of Loss: 1687
Base Astrologer's staff: 1627...

Also there was 0 change in damage while wearing the Magic Scorpion Charm or the Godfrey Icon (Since charging just makes the cloud bigger but I figured Id test it anyway). However, as expected, the damage went up to 1716 with the Stargazer-Heirloom with the +20 Staff of Loss...... BUUUUUUTTTTTT Unexpectedly the Astrologer's Staff damage stayed the exact same at 1627.... This spell confuses me

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You take damage if you stay inside the mist that YOU cast

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using the charged version kills my framerate damn

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Ah yes, my favorite class, the wrench

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A surprisingly fun spell to use.

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A surprisingly fun spell to use.

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A surprisingly fun spell to use.

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aggros unaware mobs unlike poison or freezing mist

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kills the boss as well as my framerate

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Does the damage increases when someone is inflicted with frostbite?

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This spell has been carrying my magic using *** even late game lol. It's fun to use tho seriously, over time you start to learn subtle tricks & ways it can assist in defeating ridiculous enemies / bosses, don't forget it can also be charged for a wider AoE.

For a little while I used it in the War-dead catacombs to farm, the enemies who fight each other will eventually gather down below in the rot water and continue fighting, at this point you cast mist into the crowd and giggle.

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Can anyone confirm.
I was fighting an evergoal boss ( Ancient Hero of Zamor ).
If I cast THROUGH the mist, he couldn't dodge, else he dodges all my spells.

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Does not let you damage pve enemies as an invader. The all knowing scepter also doesn’t debuff pve enemies as an invader either.

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At first i was like "Why do people say sorcery is easy mode?"

THIS
THIS SPELL IS WHY

crucible knights in melee? pretty hard died a few times
crucible knights vs this spell, cake walk, literally no damage taken

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Does this let you damage hosts as a blue?

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Can this Harm Hosts while I am a Blue Hunter? I wanna help invaders against AFK farms

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