Ritual Shield Talisman | Elden Ring Wiki

Suprisingly effective since medium armor builds with 40 to 50 vigor will still meat plenty of enemies that can two shot you. Even bettern if you run a build with passive means of healing like blasphemous blade or prayerful strike wich will allow you to top back up without wasting a flask making proper use of the talisman in longer fights.

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Very powerful Talisman on a Prayerful Strike build, trading blows has never been safer!

Huge damage reduction from the shield, huge heal from the strike, simple!

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A fun thing with this talisman is that if you're poisoned but also have a gradual heal effect (e.g. crimsonburst crystal tear), and you heal to full HP, then the talisman's "bubble" animation and sound effect will start playing over and over as your HP fluctuates between full and not-quite-full. It's funny but fairly obnoxious and I definitely thought the game was glitching out the first time it happened.

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Good for RL1 run if u can't do it hitless, also good for trading damage with other player in invasion.

Also try uplifting aromatic if you need your talisman slot for something else.

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Useless talisman since I've never gotten hit in a souls game before

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This is the best talisman in the game for PVE for me personally, next to Radagon's Soreseal of course. It allows you to run the game at a low level and allows you to make 1 mistake for tougher end game bosses. It's especially busted if you pair it with Crimsonspill Tear or strong regen. You can stack takers cameo and use Blasphemous Blade and guarantee that you will always be at full health. For PVP it's only good for regen builds / Liftsteal set-ups. Practically a must as any chip damage removes the effect, but there are ways to get health back to full. I wouldn't recommend it at Meta level. but I honestly can't sing this talismans praises enough.

-Con

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This is the reason I use the Crimsonburst Crystal Tear in my Physick, the most common way for someone to break this in PvP is with Fan Daggers, which do such low damage (~26 on an 80 Strength build) that the regen can easily recover the damage over the course of ~4 seconds, which is even faster if you pair it with something like the Icon Shield or Blessed Dew Talisman, which gives you a practically "permanent" bubble until they actually hit you with something more substantial. Wonderful Talisman for increasing your longevity in Invasions where most players don't even throw daggers.

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if you don't get hit often you could not level vigor and use this + dew talisman and maybe the icon shield

that said they put this in leyndell of all places, like come on at least put it in altus so we can get it somewhat early

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If you want a really fun, really stupid PvE build, then run this on a pure "vamp/llifesteal" build. Great Stars/Butchering Knife with Wild Strikes. This + Swadling Cloth + Taker's Cameo (swap to something else for bosses), plus whatever fourth talisman you want. Optionally, off-hand either Sacrificial Axe (just lets you keep Wild Strikes going for longer) or Serpent God's Curved Sword (for even more healing). The sheer audacity your character has to simply not die while they cleave through the world with Wild Strikes is absurd, and I love it. For purely thematic reasons, I like to run this with Occult/Bleed infusions, but by no means it that required.

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Ah yes, the talisman that makes the first hit you take seem fair.

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behold, the skill solution

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It would be good if it wasn't completely neutered by throwing daggers

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how to become the worst enemy of melee users: talismans are dragon crest greatshield dragon crest shield ritual shield talisman bull goat talisman weapon is blasphemous blade and the armor is you guessed it bull goat armor the talismans will give you 37% physical dmg negation the ritual shield will give 30% dmg negation at full health and the bull goat for poise

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This paired with Blasphemous Blade is broken

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the dedicated "please for the love of god don't one shot me" talisman.

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goated

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Try using this if you're a faith build. Erdtree heal back to full hp and use black flame's protection to maintain 70%+ phys resistance, then hit hard with something like dragonmaw.

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2nd most useless talisman. So it helps you with one hit. Big deal. Rather have others that give me a better benefit all the time without a condition to meet. And lifesteal stuff is really bad in this game except for stacking the rykard stuff.

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This with ritual sword talisman, butchering knife with prelate's charge and maybe swaddling cloth

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My reaction to that information: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Fan+Daggers

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This is a great talisman if you have multiple healing sources to proc the effect multiple times in a fight. Works good with just flasks as well. Of course it's more efficient to just not get hit but if you're struggling with a specific boss this could be your saving grace.

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How does this interact with blocking?
Does the 30% damage reduction result in a similar 30% stamina drain reduction?

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This and the scarseals go hand and hand, use Blessing Of The Erdtree and you're golden (literally)

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Does it reduce damage by 30% in PvP too or is it like every other mitigation option and gets gutted cause FROM hates people surviving more than 3 hits and one shot builds in pvp ?

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Alright, I think this might be the single best talisman for pve. It's a refreshable borderline reverse tears of denial. If you feel like enemies do too much late game (especially after leyndell), while this won't fix all of your problems, I don't know if there's a single talisman that's better at keeping players alive. Most people try to heal to full anyways even if it technically slightly wastes flasks. If you are one of those people, as I said before, this is refreshable.

Instead of just telling people to level vigor (admittedly good advice but not even close to the only other option for surviving longer), I think recommending talisman is not only much less of an investment, but also much easier to sell people on. I really wish this thing was very early in the game because it's so good and genuinely makes the game a better experience for me and I think it would make the game more fun for many other people too. I would have used this if I found this in my first playthrough for sure

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You can still get this during Ashen Capital; spawn at the Leyndell, Capital of Ash site of grace, then run toward to colosseum to the south-west. There's a railed staircase near a bridge with a golden seed tree that you can jump from. Get on the railing overlooking the golden seed, and sprint-jump down, then head up the hill to the base of the colosseum.

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RL1 users should venerate this talisman

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This thing is underrated in pve. You can reduce damage taken by almost 80% at max hp with right build and indefinitely gain it back. For comparison opline bubbletear reduces damage taken by 90% for only once. Here's how you do it: Equip armor set for 35% damage reduction, dcgs talisman for 20%, golden vow for 10%, black flame protection for 35% and finally this talisman for another 30% at max hp. This way at max hp you take 0.65*0.8*0.9*0.65*0.7 = ~21% damage. Now equip icon shield+blessed dew talisman for 5 hp regen per second. Then finally cast blessing of the erdtree for 12 hp regen for whopping 17 hp regen per second. Now if you get hit by an attack at max hp that deals 1000 physical damage at 0 absorptions, it will be reduced down to 210 damage! With 17 hp recovery you will heal this damage back in just 13 seconds and regain the 79% damage reduction buff! You can even mix in talisman and body buff for some hybrid damage reduction setup. For example Radagon deals split holy-strike or pure holy damage, so in his case you will benefit more from lord's divine fortification than black flame protection. This is honestly the most op tank build I have played with so far.

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Amazing talisman for PvP, pair it with Blessed dew talisman so that hard to react to projectiles like throwing knives and bestial sling can't counter it and after you get properly hit switch it or both for the shard of alexander/claw.

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Love hardy adventuring with this and Bestial Vitality. Saved my ass so many times, and I use way less flasks which is just more fun.

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Pokémon Ritual Sword and Ritual Shield

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You can actually get if after Ashen Capital

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Can you still get this after Ashen Capital?

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Made a Radagon build for PvP while literally only using the Sanguine Noble Waistcloth for armor. I do so much dmg using Rad Soreseal, Great Shard, and Holy Scorpion charm and this talisman just rounds it out since I literally can get 1 shot by a jumping attack from a great weapon.

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This + opaline tear + unseen form sell, helps a lot when you are just running for site of grace or precious items.

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Would this still be viable for tanky builds? Just wondering, because I do like having this for reducing damage of initial hits.

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Mental how such an important for sl1 runs item is only accessible in endgame

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really like this talisman on mage/glass cannon build as the final 4th talisman, sure you are sacrificing some damage but the amount of hp this saves is invaluable.

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I like this more then the dragoncrest talisman, Just use the health regen physics tear and chip damage attacks will heal back very fast and it's much better insurance against potential one shots.

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I think this just saved me from a From Classic. Equip, now go find that Valiant Gargoyle. Blast from distance, keep blasting, keep blasting, he's down to 1/4 health, he keeps coming, down to 1/8 - calmly walking through all my ranged attacks, yup he slowly walked up to me and gut stabbed me, there I am hanging from his pike.

Wait. I lived. One backhand to the face and dead Gargoyle. Without this it would have been Groundhog Day back to the Site of Grace!

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"Increases your damage negation by an amount equal to 30% of what you would receive."
What the hell is this description? Does it affect your absorption or just the overall damage you take?

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Combine this with Rykard's Great rune to make going through any difficult area much easier.

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Is it possible to tweak the game files to remove the obnoxious noise? Would that be cheating?

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Lloyd's shield ring was great for sl1 runs in ds3 and it's again great here. Turns a lot of one-shots into two-shots.

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Is there a way to sneak to this item way under leveled ? I haven't yet finished caelid and I can't get past the tree avatar and the knight guarding the door behind. Is there a way around them?

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Does this work 1 for 1 in pvp too?

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What's the scaling in PVP?

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Amazing combination with DragonCrest GreatShield for level 1s

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it sounds like someone recorded the ocean with a 1999 nokia phone and then uploaded it to aol after compressing the size

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Love lloyd's stuff

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This talisman comes in handy in the Hero's Grave dungeons to avoid getting one-shot by those big chariot jerks

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can i still get this after the map change?

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I'd love to use it, but this thing's effects are an insult to my Elden Bling.

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Tank regen build must have.

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Best defensive talisman in the game, just keep your health topped off with incantations/flasks/HP over time talisman/consumables.

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The potential to avoid one shot on this talisman is absolutely insane. I dont see why every non tank not always run this to skimp on vigor

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best talisman to prevent one shots this is one of the good ones

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Wonder if these two help with progressing as a low level twink like they did in ds3?? Also is there a dark hand variant?

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Found East of the West Capital Rampart bonfire.

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Perfect for mages

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I would love to wear it but the sound it makes is so obnoxious. Who thought of that?!?!

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It also has a pretty annoying low rumbling sound effect while active

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lloyd shield ring how to get it early (for sl1 purposes)?

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The location of the talisman is in Leyndell. It's on the top of the hill where is the "colosseum", you will find it on its stairs. Coordinates: -107 , 111. (I found it in end-game, post-game. I can't tell if you can go there earlier)

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