Pulley Crossbow | Elden Ring Wiki

In a world full of spammy magic users my pulley crossbow is the light

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Pretty light, keep it in the softswap and spam rot bolts at the start of bossfights, specially in coop

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I had a fun build idea: two of these bad bois, lord of bloods exulation, rotten winged sword, and arrows sting.

What was not fun: farming mats for 10 minutes each time I want to fight a boss.

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Golden Order Fundamentalists, I need a bit of a help about this crossbow, cause I have a question...

How can you shoot 3 bolts with only 1 string?

Avelyn had 3 small bows on her, so it was pretty acceptable and explainable of how it shot 3 bolts.

But how can this shoot 3 while having only 1 bow with 1 string?

How pullies does help it???

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too bad we didnt get more of Miquella's brainy weapons

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Still the GOAT crossbow.

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Best projectile weapon in the game

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Does anyone know which other weapons override the kick when placed offhand?
Tholliers needle is the only one I can think of :(

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Likely made by a certain genius who learned Golden Order fundamentalism, you say? Does this mean Goldmask?

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Better bleed buildup, speed and range than most melee weapons on a non-arcane build. This is... Pretty op. Easily best ranged weapon in the game both PvP and PvE

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If you're a coop enjoyer, keep this on your back pocket. Just clapped a tryhard with burred bolts while he was locked into spinning slash. Goated

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This my friends is the best ranged weapon in the entire game.
It can take down almost any enemy or boss weak to bleed, frost or rot. It fires fast & reloads quickly. It's requirements are tolerable & it can be used one handed.

Pulley crossbow hard counters:
Erdtree avatars
General Nial & his buddy in caelid
Any dragon boss (yes that includes Bayle & Senessax)
Most NPC invaders
Any player invaders who don't strafe properly or spam long dumb spells like rock sling
Golden hippo
Metyr
Messmer (if you are patient)
Rellana
Need I say more?

If you need ammo just go kill the merchant in mohgwyn palace & use his bell bearing for infinite burred bolts. Everything else feel free to dupe (or farm if your a masochist)

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Great weapon for scarlot/bleed on the 2nd Astel... you know... the super bullshit one.

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now i can finally roleplay as gael

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dancing lion dont likes that trickshoot weapon

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is this worth upgrading if you're only using it for status effects?

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I suppose it's not particularly good for inflicting sleep, yes?I'd imagine that the status might proc on the second or first bolt and the enemy will immediately wake up after getting hit by the following bolt

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A very handy little weapon. 16/16 is pretty cheap for the value it brings. Said value is based in the fact that this crossbow can circumvent the usual weakness of crossbows due to their slow fire rate, when paired with status effect bolts, but mainly burred bolts. Rotbone bolts are a pain to get, especially in large amounts; burred bolts you can max out on easily. It's an easy, load-fire-forget source of bleed procs, and that's all it needs to be. Handy in co-op, where you've generally provided as much worth as you need if you get a single bleed proc off.

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How much poise damage would this thing do in pvp with a 3 round volley?

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So this is what those damn pages use to fire arrows at me...
I'll give them a taste of their medicine.

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Pretty awesome for when your a melee and don’t want to invest in mind faith and intelligence. I think it’s cool : D

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does it lower status bolts like bleed per bolt

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As an invader this is amazing to use on low level invasions if you use save backups you can have an infinite supply of rot arrows pepper the host with scarlet rot then once it hits run off and put on the mimic veil and wait for the host to die a slow death and unlikely to be able to do anything to stop it I find it works best in early limgrave dungeons and stormveil

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you talkin mad game for someone within mac-10 range

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This wood grain looks the same as the hilt of the Knight's Greatsword, some lore nerd tell me what that means

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I like how the reload looks like a Flamenco handclap

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Will always shoot in threes, even if you only have one bolt left.

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It's perfect to cancel out flasks in pvp.

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A very viable coop sunbro weapon at low-medium levels: it requires little investment (11/11 with soreseal), it has range, it can help vs bosses immensely especially with blood bolts (which can be bought en masse literally before altus), a nice change from the usual coop gameplay. I had a host perform the jumping from joy emote as I shot the birds in stormveil! It really gives them confidence to have a steady ranged support. And vs the invaders, this punishes vyke jumps and lightning spin to win easily, without requiring much skill (even better if you light roll). If you wanna invade as a ranged build yourself tho, better not use it as a main gun, grab a ballista or a cannon, a shortbow if you have time, or even radahn bow with golem arrows (if you're a cheater)

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Avelyn my beloved

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rot glock

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This is really handy in later NG+ journeys for melee builds. It'll allow you to keep up pressure against bosses that are big targets with lots of HP by applying bleed and rot from a distance, especially ones that make you chase them around big arenas. If you're playing a melee build and struggling with Fire giant, Astel, various dragons, etc., this could be very helpful. It's also great against Malenia during her scarlet aeonia recovery to proc bleed and take a chunk out of her. Luckily burred bolts can be bought in unlimited supply, though rot bone and black key bolts may run dry. Check boss resistances and immunities, I had to use way too many rot arrows on Placidusax for it to proc but bleeding him a couple times without having to chase him into melee was very helpful on NG+3.

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most op rl1 run weapon, period

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hope in DLC they introduce an elemental crossbow like Sanctum repeater crossbow from dark souls 2.

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Finally I can really feel like gus berk

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700+ hrs before discovering the elden blicky. Finally I can feel like a high page

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Guts?

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Run this and sleepbolts in your offhand with a colossal sword and watch as the hate mail rolls in while your crouching r1 true combos into it

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Repeating pistol anyone?

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Repeating pistol anyone?

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Hah you still blame about people who spam sleep bolts with this.
Have you ever heard about a greatbow in ds3 that fired gigantic arrows at the rate of 10 arrows per sec with full damage? Can you imagine how it feels to take all those arrows into your face?

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Hate using this thing; but when the short bow, light rolling, sleep arrow guy wants to get cute.. It comes in handy.

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Im in love with this thing to keep the pressure, on bosses and players alike, on my offhand with greataxe

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Does arcane matter on this weapon for applying status effects

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The Avelyn looking good this time around.

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What happens exactly if you don't meet the weapon requirements?
If I plan on using this crossbow solely for applying poison/scarlet rot, should I even be worried about them?

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Could be a nice crossbow for. Gael roleplay.

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A moment of silence for all the summons who had to, and probably will continue to have to, watch in futility as their host refuses to stop casting Rock Sling at 200/500 HP while my Pulley Crossbow is out.

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really usefull against radahn just get rot boltsand poison bolts and keep firing while summoning assistance all th etime

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I once got summoned to fight malenia and a guy was playing as a character named commander shepard, wearing black armor and shooting repeatedly from a crossbow inflicting different status effects, completely obliterated her
was this the crossbow he was using?

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You can use this alongside Sleep bolts if you want everyone in PvP to hate you

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Give this to your mimic if you want a not crippled version of latenna that can also proc statuses

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How to quickly get friend requests:
Step 1: Off-hand this weapon
Step 2: Main hand a hard hitting weapon of your choice
Step 3: Get an abundance of sleep bolts
Step 4: Partake in some PvP in the Colosseum

Note: Make sure to win, people don't tend to send friend requests if you lose, instead your loss seems invoke people to drop fetid pots on your corpse and use the point down gesture...

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This is really good in pvp as an interruptor if youre a straight melee. Elden Stars or U-Frenzy can get wrecked. Sometimes daggers don't cut it

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should buff perfumer bolts in addition to the perfumer talisman, i want my triple shot bazooka build god damnit

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This was made by…

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I summoned someone to help me out with Exzykes (doing a dragon themed build and i need as many hearts as i can get) and the person absolutely decimated them with this thing. His AI wouldnt let him get close enough to attack and the bleed bolts let them absolutely devastate the poor dragon.

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Base damage is so garbage u can’t out-damage arbalset while landing 2 out of 3 shots. Pls never use this for dps its a status weapon only

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everybody gangsta til the invader pulls out the blood bolt blicky

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It's Gideon.

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I just realized something, what if Radagon made the pulley weapons? Miquella could fit but he left the golden order and we see none of his soldiers with this crossbow in the haligtree if I recall. Goldmask wasn't an inventor but a philosopher plus seemingly a pacifist. One guy speculated it was Rykard but he probably never liked the golden order enough to become a fundamentalist plus most of his creations are either sorceries or torture devices. Radagon on the other hand is pretty much THE golden order fundamentalist and if you look closely those golden pages wield this crossbow and they are present in both Leyndell and Raya Lucaria, Radagon's two kingdoms. The crossbow is also a clear red color just like his hair and it would explain why we find them on Mt Gelmir since Rykard is Radagon's son.

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People saying the "certain genius who learned Golden Order fundamentalism" mentioned in this item description is either Goldmask or Miquella. But what if it's simply Rykard? You find all these advanced projectile weapons - Pulley Bow, Pulley Crossbow, Jar Cannon - in the Mt. Gelmir region after all.

Lets also not forget that in order to be a blasphemer, you have to have been a believer before. And indeed, as Gideons informs us, Rykard was once a justiciar and inquisitor. Of what? Of the Golden Order of course. To further support this, his are one of three kinds of spells that require both Faith and Intelligence. The first are Golden Order incantations, the second Death incantations, which are an inversion of the Golden Order, and the third are Rykard's blasphemous sorceries.

Maybe the answer really was right there in front of us the entire time.

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Using this to apply rot to large bosses like dragons or the fire giant is fun, really helped me in NG+3. Triple shots of rotbone darts against large targets gets that job done relatively quick from a modest distance. Some bosses like Placidusax are so resistant you may feel it doesn't pay to try, but theoretically they would succumb within 10 shots (30 bolts) from this crossbow.

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Do the bolts still apply status buildup if you do not meet the requirements for the crossbow?

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First you're gonna want to get the Pulley Crossbow and some Rot Darts. Then slap Repeating Thrust and a Blood infusion on the Antspur Rapier. Use Darkness (I know!) and the Crepus Vial or Assassin's Approach for spacing and you've got a lore accurate Confessor that can proc rot in two shots and kill most enemies before they get anywhere near you. Most Two Finger Incantations (lore accuracy) have low requirements, so I keep my Faith at utility level and grow my Dex/Arc. It fun.

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Imagine power stancing two with explosive bolt hehe

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De ting goes skrrraa
PAPAPAPAPA

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perfect with the cross naginata for a glock saint cosplay

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i need to kill fast but arrow too slow

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i see this as a shotgun

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A classic in the souls series, the M16 Assault Rifle.

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I got a glock in my pulley
30 shots no bone bolts

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elden glock

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Two hand this and you can shoot while jumping!

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did the guy that made this crossbow also write the description for it or am i trippin

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The enemies using this need to get removed from the game.
Not only nerfed, but straight up removed.
Fromsoft should have known better than to put garbage bullshit like this into a game.

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It's useless unless you want to kill someone that has 30 hp because you can't do more damage than that using this crossbow.

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It takes too many dex levels to equip this

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*Puts on Perfumer Bolts*

“I AM THE PAGE NOW, I AM THE PAGE NOW.”

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Avelyn, my beloved...

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Using this against Malenia you can sometimes get headshots off her.

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Unlike ds3 variant this does not recieve any penalty on status infliction. Monster if used with bleed and rot bolts.

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Anti-dragon-breath gat

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For love of god from software, please buff bows

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I hope the DLC adds more stuff like this and the jar cannon, the more renaissance inspired part of Elden Ring's worldbuilding is really cool and helps to set it apart from the more Dark Ages inspiration of most other fantasy games

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Oh how my blood boils

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"Where the f*** are all my arrows?!" bow

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Oneshot build, use this with sleep arrows. If all of them hit instant sleep.

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Hand it over. That thing. Your ammo.

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Reading the description and taking into context the location of the weapon, as well as the description of the Ghiza's Wheel, I believe Ghiza to be the one who made this crossbow since he would be familiar with gears and mechanisms and would be adept in making painful instruments like burred bolts

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I wonder if the genius mentioned in the weapon description could be Miquella. Might be a bit of a stretch, but he studied Golden Order fundamentalism, and according to Gowry is a master artisan whose needles are marvels of craftsmanship. Oh, and the Craftsman Shack where you find this crossbow also has a Miquella's Lily in its backyard. I'm sure it was put there for a reason considering Miyazaki's way of environmental storytelling,

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Oh dear. What was it? The mages? The moonveils? Or the horrible bleed? Oh it doesn't matter. It always comes down to the trusty sidearm to clean up after these sorts of messes. Tonight, the pulley crossbow joints the hunt.

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****ing machine gun

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Avelyn my beloved

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This crossbow un-upgraded can often hit foes from afar and not aggro them do to doing 0 damage; use this to your advantage by freely applying a status effect. Works well on the FGFSB in Mt. Gelmir, just shoot a few barrages then ride off after the status procs the aggro.

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This doesn't have the longest range, or the highest damage, it's also horribly inaccurate and chews through bolts like crazy, but I'll be damned if this isn't one of the most fun to use weapons in the game

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Put this in left hand because there put the bow
And maaaaan
Feels like Bloodborne when stop the enemy animation of a skill or atack then slash with pizza cutter xD

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Hopefully they fix the bug with this taking on the status of your main weapon.

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Can you still use proc bolts with this if you lack dex

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So we are now at the stage in elden rings life cycle where everyone uses sleep bolts to counter the other broken bugs in the game.

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