Rykard's Great Rune | Elden Ring Wiki

Would have been cool if instead this gave 1 extra talisman slot (perhaps that’s for the DLC). I mean, if Rykard can wear 80 bazillion rings on his hands, why can’t I wear 5?

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perfect for long dungeons with few site of graces otherwise pretty solid qol rune

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Perfect rune for Blood Mages that tend to hurt themselves a lot.

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Not every single thing in the game should be designed for All Stakes 1v1.
The majority of the game is exploration and mobs and this an excellent thing to use for exploring and mobs. Fun flavor to it too.

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Stacks with Blasphemous Blade, and Serpent God's Curved Sword, and Taker's Cameo. Stack with every defense buff and you make almost every area in the game laughably easy. Build kinda dogshit on bosses though.

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Ring of the evil eye lmao

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A greatrune whose effect would only be useful in Dark Souls 2 or in very select challenge runs or builds.
I guess it might be okay for exploration, but the game practically encourages sprinting from grace to grace and only fighting when it's unavoidable.

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they should make this things effect trigger whenever you watch a bloodstain to its completion (the point where the character that died fades away), i know they won't because that would almost completely invalidate both red flasks and non arena fights against other people but it'd be funny to think about if it did have that extra perk and they kept pools of blood from ds2

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mediocre at best, i think a fun addition that they'll never add though would've been a limited use item that lets you summon a phantom great serpent that could damage you but do big damage to enemies like the madaras whistle on top of the healing so more people would be more inclined to use this instead of just blasphemous l2 + cameo all the time

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I think I can see some value in this with a medium shield build, where the health you lose from blocking can be easily restored without consuming a flask. I'd have to do some experimenting though-

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In the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds at least, now we can eat the very slugs togetha (and have functionally unlimited HP)

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Good for help with clearing challenging dungeons you're stuck on but that's about it. Most likely will not need it in the overworld/easier dungeons and it is of course completely useless for boss fight. Even then once you clear the dungeon and get to the boss it becomes useless again.

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This Great Rune may suck for most boss fights, however when exploring (particularly either Legacy Dungeons or the much bigger dungeons like Lendyell Catacombs), this Great Rune shines as while extra HP/FP/Stamina or +5 in all stats is great in all, those effects don't actively heal you like this one does. This can actively save you from needing to use Crimson Flasks as much, if not outright abandon Crimson Flasks outside of boss fights when on a Faith build.

This also shines in some boss fights where there are extra enemies (O'neil, Nial, Demi-Human Chiefs, Rennala, Godskin Duo, etc), that way when making progress by killing things you're also regaining some of the health back that you likely lost getting there.

I appreciate that they added a Great Rune like this, not all of them need to be good for boss fights, remember that exploration is a BIG part of this game as well.

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If the rune arcs weren't consumable or maybe if they didn't need to be replaced on each death, only needing to use a new one when you switch your great runes this would have had some value. Especially for clearing out the albinaurics around blood-filled lake for the fat coin purse and where cerulean flasks to replace FP used to kill them as quickly as possible are more important than crimson flasks, if you can't clear them all with two healing flasks you've gone there too soon anyway. Also, this could have been good for keeping the ritual sword talisman powered up for the rune farm, as it is though it's worthless.

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Kinda useless in pve since there are too many bonfires. Good if you are fighting several enemies but then again who tf does that?

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But does this stack with Taker Cameo ?

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Can someone help me, when I get rykard I don't get the blade or his great rune

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not sure if this is a bug or not, but I just got healed from viewing a bloodstain of someone on their horse that ran off of a cliff.
I was able to continuously view that same bloodstain and get heals each time.

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With Taker's cameo, Blasphemous blade, this Rune, and the Taker's flame weapon art. Killing someone grants you 17% + 405 HP which is insane when you have close to 2200 HP cause that heals somewhere in the ball park of 700-800 HP

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so i guess this run and godrick rune dont get you in the side gate of the city...... Im trying to do a frenzy flame speed run and i though that this would be faster be nope you need more then two or some dont count tword great runes....

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They really need to learn how to correctly explain stuff at FS just by reading it you read it heals you when attacking not killing. There Is multiple things In the game that says it does one thing but does another. Just say what it actually does!

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Sadly, this seems like a worse version of Malenia's Great Rune as it does not work for tough enemies.
Godskin Swaddling Cloth, Malenia's Great Rune, and Blood Tax with a lot of poise is really all you need to be invincible.

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Is the effect passive or do you need to pop a rune arc to activate it? Does the effect last forever as long as you don’t die?

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Not much use to this by the time we are intended to get it, because by that time, you will have about 10 charge on flask and +8 upgrade, which will keep you healed anyway, plus you will also get Godskin Swaddling Cloth, which is more than good enough for the purpose. There no reason to use this over Godrick's greatrune.

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Combine this with the Ritual Shield Talisman for exploring. These two synergise so well together

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It seems to also heal you if your summons die, making it slightly more useful in bossfights when used with summons that have a lot of boys.

Might also heal when skeletons “fake die” but haven’t tested

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This is arguably the best rune for exploring the open world as it also works on animals. If you are ever low on HP and out of flasks, but don't want to sit at a grace, kill a bunch of sheep (or goats,ram , whatever they are) and you are back to full in no time.

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good for clearing castles during NG+

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Unfortunately if you want to do the volcano manor quests you can't access this rune until you are pretty much at the end of the game.

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They should make this rune heal on both kills and successive attacks (basically a hybrid of Taker’s Cameo and Swaddling Cloth). I think that would make it much more useful all around for both exploring an bosses.

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Takers' Cameo + Blasphemous Blade + Rykrd's Great Rune

Have fun exploring without worrying about your crimson flasks

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The best Great Rune for exploring and generally content.

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absolutly great for exploring the world.

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Datamined it to check, it heals 7%+80.

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If it did what it says in the brief description it'd be the best rune in the game. Shame about that.

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This + godskin swaddle cloth + taker cameo = malenia's great rune but actually good. Perfect for curved swords as a running or jumping attack triggers all heals. And my build has all that AND the finger greatshield + talisman

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Restores 215 hp for me with 1930 max hp (65 vigor), or 213 with 1900 max hp (60 vigor)

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I mean this information feels like asking your wife what's for dinner, and her saying there's 'food' for dinner.

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So these heals are % based, I have 60 vigor and right now am using Rykard's Great Rune, Blasphemous Blade, and Taker's Cameo - I am healing over 400 HP per kill lol. Tested by killing a rider and his horse simultaneously and healing from 1010 HP to about 1860. Pretty goofy for exploring lol, like I really need to screw up badly to need to drink a crimson ever unless I've stumbled upon a boss which I'm always full flasks for running this :)

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didn't get it after i murked his ass by spamming the serpent hunter, maybe i just did it too quick and the games wigging out, oh well

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I was a little disappointed at first, since when you select the rune it states "Restores HP by attacking". It's only if you look at the details page that it instead states that it "Heals by defeating enemies." which is significantly less helpful.

Still, the heal is significant enough that you can remain at full health throughout most of a dungeon or while exploring, provided relatively decent play. Doesn't help you much against bosses, though. I'd say this rune is situationally helpful depending on what you want to do: Good for exploration, but switch to Godrick's if you're going to fight a boss.

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worthless

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I'd pick this over most even Goddrick's. Especially while doing dungeons so that I don't run out of flasks by the time I unlock the boss room, making me go back to the grace just so I have to plow through everything between there and the boss door.
Yeah it doesn't help against bosses, obviously, but who cares about that. There'll be NO BRAKES ON THIS RIDE!

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Pretty lack luster, Will never use it.

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either it doesnt work or its jack all for a healing ability, as of time of this comment it has zero healing benefits and would be better to choose a different rune

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either it doesnt work or its jack all for a healing ability, as of time of this comment it has zero healing benefits and would be better to choose a different rune

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Heals you for Ca 8,5% of your HP every kill

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despite the short description implying health gain on *attacks* it actually only heals you when enemies die, as the longer description states, a developer oversight or translation error

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...I suppose it's ok for dungeons, but why would you want to use it outside if you automatically get 1 or 2 flasks back is beyond me .

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Why are the Rune and Sealed Tunnel pages combined?

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Doesn't seem to be working for me

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I killed him and it's not in my inventory. What gives?

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I killed him and it's not in my inventory. What gives?

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you can activate it at the divine tower of altus directly behind the minor erdtree church. in order to access it you have to clear the sealed tunnel and the onyx lord boss. sealed tunnel can be found at the bottom of the moat on the outskirts of leyndell. image: https://imgur.com/a/bBfQKo9

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where do you activate this rune

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Way to the tower to activate runes is through Sealed Tunnel Se of Outer Wall Phantom Tree Grace

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anyone know where to activate it yet?

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anyone know where to bring it?

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