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Sage's Cave is a dark opening in the side of a mountain. Its dark depths are overrun by hostile undead, but those who brave it may find treasures beyond compare. |
Sage's Cave is a Location in Elden Ring. The Sage's Cave is found in Altus Plateau, west of Wyndham Ruins, under the cliffs. The cave's entrance can easily be reached by heading northeast from the Abandoned Coffin site of grace, past a large cluster of Poison Flowers.
Sage's Cave Map for Elden Ring
Sage's Cave can be found in the western cliffs of Altus Plateau, just south from Wyndham Ruins. It is only accessible from the south of Altus Plateau, by traveling north from the Abandoned Coffin site of grace. See the exact location on the Elden Ring Map.
Elden Ring NPCs and Merchants in Coastal Cave
- There are no merchants or NPCs in this location.
All Items in Elden Ring's Coastal Cave
Gather & Farm Items
- Budding Cave Moss
- Crystal Cave Moss
- Rejuvinating Boluses
- Nascent Butterfly
- Dragonwound Grease
- Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot
Upgrade Materials
- There are no upgrade materials in this location
Equipment and Magic
- Black Hood
- Candletree Wooden Shield
- Golden Great Arrow
- Raptor Talons
- Raptor's Black Feathers
- Skeletal Mask
- Family Heads (dropped by Necromancer Garris)
- Concealing Veil (dropped by Black Knife Assassin)
Sage's Cave Creatures, Enemies and Bosses in Elden Ring
Regular Creatures and Enemies
Field Bosses and Bosses
Walkthrough for Sage's Cave in Elden Ring
Past the Site of Grace, make your way forward until you reach an apparent dead end. There is an illusory wall here.
Go past until you encounter a skeleton near a waterfall. Passing another illusory wall to the right, you will find two chests containing Lost Ashes of War and Rejuvenating Boluses x5.
Jump down this waterfall, then pick up two Golden Rune (5). To your left is an illusory wall with four skeletons and four chests behind it.
You can get Silver-pickled Fowl Foot x5, Black Hood, Candletree Wooden Shield, and a Nascent Butterfly.
Four skeletons await you in the next room, among which is one with a large axe and more health. Another one faces a wall which is illusory, hiding a chest containing a Stonesword Key.
The next room holds three more chests with Golden Greatarrow x10, Raptor Talons, and Dragonwound Grease x4. Proceed until you are in an open cave with a waterfall, jump to the left, then hug the left wall and roll into the apparent dead end to uncover two more chests with Raptor's Black Feathers and Skeletal Mask.
Roll through the illusory wall on the opposite side of the room and get ready to fight Necromancer Garris who drops Family Heads.
Make your way back to the waterfall and stay left to face the other boss, the invisible Black Knife Assassin.
If you buy Sentry's Torch from the Hermit Merchant for 7000 Runes, you can put it in your off-hand to make her visible (even if you two-hand your main-hand weapon). One strategy is to fight her (without buying the item) is to simply stand on the patch of dirt, and watch for her footsteps in the water. You'll have to time your swing to hit her -- a weapon with a horizontal attack spread makes this easier.
After defeat, she drops the Concealing Veil.
Elden Ring Sage's Cave Notes
- This location has several secret walls, the Host of Fingers can dispel them with a single attack, jumping or rolling.
Elden Ring Sage's Cave Gallery
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AnonymousThe grab attack that the black knife assasin uses here is actually unique; unlike the normal black knives who kinda charge up their hand and dash in to grab you, the one here runs right up to you and sticks out her hand for 1 frame to get the grab, but she doesn't use it when you've got the sentry torch active.
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If you're kinda over levelled, watching the godrick's knight pair at maybe +4-+7 fight the assassin is funny AF. They don't even need help lol
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If you have mohgwyn’s sacred spear and a mimic tear just spam the ash of war and you’re golden.
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Summon Banished Knight Oleg (make sure you have him spirit tuned as high as you can). He can see the Assassin and chase her. When he hits her (he will, trust me), you can see her and join in.
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Wow, came back to play the DLC after getting all achievements 2 years ago. I used the save analyzer to see that I was missing that cool talisman. Totally missed the best cave in the whole game.
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I'm still on my blind playthrough I struggled with this boss and by the amount of tries i had i remembered the design, shape, corridors etc of this dungeon very well. I end up killing it iwth stormcaller. okai but here is something I dont understand: I got summond for this boss. and the Boss was something completly differnt!!! I had no other dungeon that looks similiar to that point means i couldnt mistake it for something else. the bosses were a skull thing and a mage with a bell. It wont let go off me, i need to know
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this is one the best dungeons, you just get a **** ton of loot and its a short dungeon too
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Made the jump with 100k runes on the line. My elden lord moment
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I went through for the first time but none of the illusory walls were there for me? They were already dispelled even though I'd never been there before.
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I went through for the first time but none of the illusory walls were there for me? They were already dispelled even though I'd never been there before.
I spent longer trying to figure out a way to jump down to avoid having to run through the skeletons every time I died to a boss than it took me to kill the bosses after I gave up. You can get really close to making it, but I think the stalactites block you. I hate it when I have to run back through the dungeon to get to the boss after dying.
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Trying out a battle mage build on a replay, this cave's bosses were tougher than anything I previously fought during this playthrough. Garris legitimately took me more tries than it took me to beat Margit, Godrick, and Rennala combined.
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The skeletons are harder than the main boss lol, if you have a summon or the torch
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First time of the fight: Me running in circles while trying to equip that damned torch.
Second part of the fight: Me running in circles while trying to hit that damned assassin.
Third part of the fight: Me wondering how a lunatic necromancer end up with a black knife assassin while running in circles to hit her.
It was fun, in a way.
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If you stumble on this cave with relatively low level faith, Rejection and either a fast-hitting mob summon, or a tanky summon, can help you a tonne. Rejection doesn’t care if they are in front of you, it just knocks the assassin on the floor. She’s quick to stand back up again so you might only get a couple of hits in, but it gives your summons time to get back on her
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rotten stray/wolves/any fast moving ashes + dragon incantation. she toast
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Worst dungeon in the entire game. Worthless. Poor, cheap design, nothing rewarding for all the cheating you have to deal with in there. Fanboys will seethe, but they know they didn’t get anything good from here either.
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Has anyone managed to get onto the alcove in the necromancer arena? I assume there's nothing there but it just bugs me that it's inaccessible. I think they simply reused the Murkwater cave Patches arena, in which that alcove is where patches jumps down from, which is also inaccessible afaik...
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I used Lhutel the Headless and just kept spamming Meteor and chugging cerulean tears. She was near dead by the time I ran out of focus and it was basically getting backstabbed, slapped around, clowned and dominated while I chugged crimson tears until Lhutel killed her.
Graceful? Nah.
But I ain't dead. She is.
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Anybody have any clues as to why there's hanged albaneurics in the black knife assassin room?
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Use a summon for the assassin fight because they can see her while invis. Alternatively, you can stay in the water and you'll see her footsteps when she comes towards you.
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Please edit this wiki so it says you need a Stonesward key to enter
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The directions should be to go from the lake with the giant flowers to the north of Abandoned Coffin grace, and tbe cave is at the eastern side of the lake's largest part.
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I can't tell you how many times I forget you can fight a second boss in this cave. I always kill Garris and then leave, entirely forgetting to fight a pretty cool invis boss.
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Unsure why people don't understand that ALL Black Knife Assassins are women...
Anyway, a friend and I were going through the cave for the first time recently and we beat the necromancer then wanted to explore more and were surprised by the second boss door. Going in and not seeing anything, we ran around for a minute before I got grabbed and stabbed. Our horror was that the boss was invisible and we were not prepared in the slightest. Got Rekt the first time, but second time we rocked her
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I'm not ashamed to say I just unleashed the Demi-Humans on the Assassin. He just couldn't stand up to the boyz.
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Bloodboon ritual aow from moghs spear shreds the black knife assassin
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I tried using my mimic and it can see black knife assassin.. I followed the mimic and kill him easy
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I used Latenna and stand beside her. Poking the Black Knife Assassin whenever she come straight after Latenna.
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THIS IS THE BEST CAVE! Two boss fights, good loot, fun enemies- 10/10 Would cave again
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I just smashed a shackle once or twice along the way. No more illusions.
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watch the water for his footsteps and strike, the torch is not required
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The sentry torch seemed to get rid of every illusory wall for me -worthwhile purchase
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"Hey, what was the maximum number of chests Mr. Miyazaki said we could put in a dungeon again?"
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Missed this cave and came here after beating the final boss. Everything died so quickly xD.
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best cave - tons of loot, two interesting boss fights, and easy enough to navigate through
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I did not want to use summonings in boss fight (too easy). It was also my first encounter despite second game run (i screamed a lot in rage because of him ^^). However i could beat him with phalanx spell, because of its high hit rate and he got staggerd for a second everytime.
Cool idea of the boss fight anyway
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Use the sentry torch… weak wanna be dnd players never reading item descriptions
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My mimic could see the assassin, I couldn’t. I played support in that fight lol
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I hoarfrost stomped the assassin into oblivion.
Along with lots of rage.
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marrionette summons trivialize this cheap encounter. After having died 30 times trying to fight this invisible asshat, im okay with it.
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Gravitas from meteoric ore blade against the invisible Assassin did the deed for me.
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Repeatedly showering the area with a spell like crystal release wrecks the assassin pretty quick, no summons required.
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I've only been in Sage's Cave once to grab the Grace (all the treasure chests were still unopened, so I know I didn't explore it), but for some reason every invisible wall was already gone for me
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Anyone know of a way to get to the ledge overlooking Necromancer Garris?
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there are multiple ways to fight the assassin, summons, lookign for footsteps in water, magic that doesnt need lock on (carian phalanx etc will automatically attack the assasin and makes the fight extremely easy), AOE skills and so on
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Walkthrough says to jump down the waterfall. I for the life of me cannot find a place where you can make a jump or even drop safely.
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A strategy for the assassin for any level and weapon: hold sentry torch in offhand; sprint around and away, whiff all their attacks (sideways for their projectile) and when they jump-slam into the ground, sprint behind their back, backstab and R1 once or twice, rinse and repeat.
This method worked for me even with claws doing 60 damage per R1, it just takes a while.
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Black Knife Assassin is a unique puzzle that is solved by the correct Ash's of War; Anything that summons multiples of things will do the job. I went with the Wolf Pack since they are swarmy and relentless and the poor Assassin spent the entire fight stun-locked.
Aside from that, try watching the footsteps in the water and strike when he approaches. I used the Katana's sheathed stance for extra cool points. Having enough HP to survive being stabbed when that fails is also handy.
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Compared to most caves in the game, this seems to have quite a lot of drops in it.
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Inside the necromancer boss arena there's somekind of plataform on the up right, there's a way to get there? I think it's just a hoax, but we never know for sure...
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ash summons can see the assasin so just attack and fight where they are looking. skeletal militia are a good choice for him.
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The sentry's torch reveals things even if you are 2-handing your right hand weapon and have the torch on your back.
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The sentry's torch reveals things even if you are 2-handing your right hand weapon and have the torch on your back.
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The sentry's torch reveals things even if you are 2-handing your right hand weapon and have the torch on your back.
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Literally only went to this area for the raptor's black feathers
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I did this dungeon with sentry torch constantly in left hand and i found all these items in their alcoves with no illusionary walls, i guess the torch also has a hidden function that removes those walls?
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just summon the marionettes and they will do all the job for you with the assassin, u just have to sit there and enjoy lol
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NPC Summons can see the Assassin when invisible. I used the Mimic Summon and it killed the boss for me while attacking non stop. I just swung where the summon was attacking hitting the boss and dodging away to avoid the grab.
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my game starts freezing on this cave only , I've entered many other caves and catacombs but its just this cave only , is it only me ?
I don't see any illusory walls. To be more specific, I can access the secret area without breaking the illusory walls at all for unknown reason.
I don't see any illusory walls. To be more specific, I can access the secret area without breaking the illusory walls at all for unknown reason.
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Highly recommend turning off music for the Assassin fight. Much easier to track when you can also clearly hear him moving.
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2 "bosses" in this area, the left fog gate is Necromancer Garris and the right one is Black Knife Assassin. Kill Black Knife Assassin to reward yourself with the "Return to entrance" portal
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You can track the invisible boss by his footsteps in the water
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From Abandoned's Coffin grace, move left towards lake/pond(?) area with the Poison Flower and head towards the horde of Jellyfish. Corner hole in wall. Appraise me.
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second boss is right below the waterfall, roll against the wall then roll against the wall in the hidden room
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The cave entrance is best reached from the Abondened Coffins grace since the cave entrance is found at the underneath the cliffs at wyndham ruins and not at the same altitude as Wyndham. (You'll see some jelly fish)
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Yeah this is nice and all but can we get the how to get to said cave, what required bosses must die before getting to said cave etc. Cuz I have no idea how to get to or find the cave.
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Treasure Chest everywhere, get rolling on every sussy walls you see.
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If you don't have the Sentry Torch, your Mimic Tear Spirit Summon knows where the boss is even when invisible
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Spirit Ashes seem to have no problems fighting the Assassin. I used the Ancestor Ashes and just attacked wherever it was attacking.
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If you trigger frostbite on the invisible boss you can easily see where he moves from the frost effect.
Accessed from Abandoned Coffin site of grace past the poisonous flowers.
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If you are a mage use phalanx spells with summons. Easy win!
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Need to add Necromancer Harris to the boss list. You can also find the Skeletal Mask and Raptor's Black Feathers here.
If you have the item "sentry torch" your life will be alot easier if you put it in your offhand for the black knife assassin boss you'll find in here.
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"Raptor Talons" claw weapon, "Raptor's Black Feathers" (chest) (strengthens jump attacks), "Skeletal Mask" (head), "Black Hood" (head), "Rejuvenating Boluses", and "Budding Moss" can be found here.
Necromancer Garris - Hidden boss in this level. Unseen form lets you scoot past the mobs to get there if need be
There is 1 more boss here hidden behind a wall, where you get the skeletal helmet
You can sneak past the 4 skeletons. Just make sure to also turn off your light source.
Also Banished Knight Engvall can see the invisible knight boss.
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