Scarlet Rot | Elden Ring Wiki

Or as I like to call it: The Scarlet Stinker.

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Toxic in Dark Souls 3 does a total of 9% max health + 1980 damage over the course of 90 seconds, which makes it much more deadly than any player-inflicted source of Scarlet Rot, but also nowhere near as deadly as enemy/environment sourced Scarlet Rot. So why the hell is it the case that I buy infinite Blooming Purple Moss Clumps for 1000 souls a piece that cure both Poison AND Toxic, but in Elden Ring I need to farm for a 3% drop rate crafting material from Rot Dogs to make more of the cure?

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It is very common in the alphabet community

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Why does this exist?

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The wiki says "The effect deals damage at a faster rate than poison, but has an overall shorter duration." but the duration is not shorter at all?
Deadly poison even lasts just 30 seconds, with less damage per second than the weakest version of scarlet rot.

From the description it seems that the overall damage would be similar from poison and rot, but rot simply does way more damage.

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If scarlet rot is malanias curse due to her origen... why does ant have scarlet rot, furthermore how does romania have scarlet rot before malania? After all the land of shadow comes before the lands between in terms of the goddesses influence.

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Any rotmaxxers?

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The list of immune enemies does not mention Black Blade Kindred.

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This looks like less of a rot and more of an alien invasion.

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A scarlet rot or Malenia RP build run would be fun if most of the weapons and incantations weren't end game accessible. Or if the best way to proccing Rot wasn't a dragon communion incantation. Rotten Breath and Ekzykes's Decay just do it best and easy

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Rot will continue to build up for a while if you roll through a pool of it

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holy **** Malenia's rot is so strong. even without the flat damage it'll put anything down in 30 seconds flat if they don't have heals.

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The scarlet rot from hefty pot and sorceries/incantations deals approximately double the one from weapons. What if you build up scarlet rot with a weapon then push it over the edge with a skill?

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Granted, it's dealt over a period of 5 minutes, but Malenia's Scarlet Rot deals a total of 7800 flat damage *plus* 9.9x your maximum Health, for good measure. That is some absolute BS game design, and I love it.

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Honestly, I see no reason why Scarlet Rot couldn't have scaled with Arcane. If it were to be too strong, there are a plethora of ways they could have adjusted it to be less so.

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Faith builds get infinite cures from a simple incantation with low stat requirements found early in the game. Everybody else has to farm crafting items or just give up and die. Great game design!

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how do you even increase your rot buildup?

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Scarlet rot and brain rot are closely related in the lore

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There is an Ash of War in the DLC as well https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War%3A+The+Poison+Flower+Blooms+Twice

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Does anyone know if Rot consumables (arrows/bolts/pots) apply the weaker rot, or the normal rot?

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There's 1 more scarlet rot type not mentioned here.

If you roll in lake of rot and leave you'll be dirty and still build up scarlet rot. If you don't use soap to clean it, you get a weaker version.

It still outdamages regen equipment+regen tear, but not as fast as the normal one from lake of rot.

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So a solid strat for dealing with low level hosts is to get a good supply of rot items I use both pots and arrows then make a back up that you can load to essentially get an unlimited supply once you run out load the back up it works best in early dungeons because the game doesn't give much that early so the only way the hosts can get a cure is by their gank squads using something like ce to drop boluses for them if you can get rot to proc you're free to run off and use the mimic veil to let the rot do its thing find a good hiding spot and even if they cure it they will have to live in paranoia until you decide to leave

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Cleanrot spear boosts immunity passively and should be in the mitigating section

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Lol

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I remember as a spear & shield user, the only way i can solo that WWE smackdown boss is by using this... Never know that rot can work on some bosses, lol.

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This is a blessing to all us invaders from Miyazaki to allow us to make the game as hard and miserable for low levels as possible love that in this time of cry babies he still supports us

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So sick of these low level twinks griefing my co op sessions man. So cool that you downloaded a cheat save with all the rot pots. You're dead but congrats you successfully rotted the host so now the session is over. That's just griefing lol.

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Does the old lords talisman affect rot duration?

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sadly, only rapier you can get relatively early

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Pity no curved swords have it.

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We should be inmune to scarlet rot while hosting the flame of frenzy. Change my mind.

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Been playing Elden Ring since launch with several different builds and decided I was going to try a rot build for fun on a final playthrough until DLC. Well I thought I knew the game well until I found out there are several different strengths of SR. I am so damn confused. Like when I saw Rotten Crystal Swords say "slight" buildup, I assumed it meant the build up was slow, not that it was a whole different category of damage scaling. I know there are two different types of poison, normal and deadly, but am I to understand that there are MORE THAN TWO different types of SR that players can inflict? I'm not that smart, so if anyone could explain slightly clearer than the wiki, well I think that would be cool.

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The fact that there's no rot ending is a damn shame, and a waste of such a cool concept.

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Why is rotten breath twice as damaging as other sources on top of being an AOE and easier to apply??

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For completeness's sake, assuming the given numbers are correct, both rot swamps do enough percent damage to kill you 3.6x over, plus 1440 for the Aeonia swamp (around 1 health bar with 40 vigor), and plus 5400 for the Lake of Rot (around 2 health bars at 60 vigor with Morgott's Rune). Not that the duration of the status matters a ton when the buildup is persistent.

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Anyone else really wish there was contact medicine for the rot swamps? Come on Miyazaki, you already know how to do this.

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People who think that we need more rot spells and rot affinity Ash of Wars certainly haven't touched PvP at all

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the crimson from terraria

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Where rot infusion and rotten armament spell? Why is weapon rot so useless? Where are the cool rot spells like the ones that frenzy, ice, and bleed got? and the last, most important question… WHY DOESNT HAND OF MALENIA INFLICT ROT!!!!!

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should scale off faith and all rot weapons get tiny faith scaling.
then you could put poison on one and us fai arc build who use stinky stuff can finally get some damn numbers.

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I just poked him with the Antspur Rapier, to apply Scarlet Rot once it was on I just kept my distance. It took 3 applications of the rot but it put him down.

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Sucks that there's no ash of war affinity

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They really need to have a rot mist, even if it's just to speed up the poison mist cheese people do.

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Because of game logic, nearly every enemy in this game can be afflicted with Rot that isn't a statue, already a Rot creature, or God itself. Because of that, it's not a bad idea to start every fight ever with a rot inflictor. Rot bone bolts from the Pulley crossbow, Rot pots, and Ezykes Decay if you're a faith build are all good options. Don't sleep on this status just because it doesn't have that many options to inflict it.

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It kinda sucks that two of the weapons that inflict Rot are unique, and the rest are just "another weapon dipped in rot". Wish we had more unique rot weapons.

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I don't know if I'm crazy, but it almost seems that attacking an enemy afflicted with rot with a weapon or spell that can also inflict rot, it does increased damage. Is this real, or I am just stupid? I'm thinking I'm just stupid.

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Totally not a menstruation metaphor

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It’s so cool they made rot from Elden Ring a real thing

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Malenia herself is not immune to Rot but some random assassin who is literally as far away from any rot exposure as possible is immune. C'mon guys.

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Also known as the most overpowered status affect against bosses.

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does scarlet rot scale with arcane if the weapon has an arcane scaling (infused with occult)

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"Immunity indicates that a target is impossible or near-impossible to afflict".... what, like do you even... say what?

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basically ''toxic'' in/of this game...

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When the wind is slow, and the fires hot, the vultures wait to see what rots

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To all those that wish this was better, just remember that this is already poison but better. The only advantage poison has is being slightly easier to proc

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Does this stack with Poison? It seems whenever I proc Scarlet Rot they lose the poison bubble and it only does regular Scarlet damage

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AKA the passivity destroyer. even better in conjunction with poison. if you gonna play like a b****, you're gonna die like one

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I love using this to invade putting it on people repeatedly from a distance and watching them panic with nothing to save themselves

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Wish the weapons were more viable than the incantations. It really needs to scale from arcane.

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Praise the Rot!!!

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I really like scarlet rot but I wish melee builds with it were more viable for playthrough. There are very few weapons that inflict scarlet rot, most of them are in late-game locations, and there are zero ashes of war that inflict it

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I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella.

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Malenia cause Scarlet Rot but she's not anywhere in the list of ennemies and bosses that cause it. Similarly, Radhan is weak to Scarlet Rot but once again he's not in the list of ennemies and bosses vulnerable to it.

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Mohg in Subterranean Shunning-Grounds is also immune to this. Should be on this list.

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poison... but better

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Warning majorly bugged right now if you roll in the lakew it will make you continue to build rot seriously needs a patching pls

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If 2 players have Scarlet Rot weapons and they are attacking the same enemies does it build up as one stack or 2 separate stacks and which ever one procs first cancels the other out?

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Dark souls 2 toxic be like

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Something to be noted is that holding the Cleanrot Knight Spear gives you bonus immunity (50), which makes you more resistant to Scarlet Rot ofc

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taco bell indigestion status effect

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The effect will build up over time when standing in pools of scarlet rot, but I've noticed that levels will continue to climb once you exit the pools, but only if you roll in it.

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The rot flowers the scarlet rot creates, especially during boss fights with characters fighting with scarlet rot (Malenia) look similar to a real-world plant disease called cedar-apple rust, it also produces orange colored flower-like structures on infected cedars.

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> "The Scarlet Rot effect can be mitigated by raising your Immunity stat"


Not really. If you invest heavily in it it'll cause it to build up over 4 seconds instead of 3 seconds. It's mostly just to make you feel better.

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"The Scarlet Rot effect can be mitigated by raising your Immunity stat" biggest lie in Elden Ring

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Currently bugged in Caelid root dungeons. Meter will build even when not in contact with anything that would cause buildup.

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All scarlet rot weapons in the game
Dagger, scorpions stinger 50 scarlet rot build up base and max non customisable
Straight sword, rotten crystal sword same as previous 50 build up
Thusting sword Antspur rapier base and max 55 build up can apply ashes of war but cannot increase build up with affinities can also apply blood or poison with the scarlet rot also if you use the ashes seppuku with poison affinity when seppuku is active you will apply scarlet rot poison and blood loss with every strike with the weapon when seppuku wears of u will still be applying poison and scarlet rot only
Great hammer,
Rotten battle hammer build up base and max 65 can be customised with ashes of war and apply 2 status effects together
Colossal weapons(2),
Rotten greataxe (my personal favourite scarlet rot weapon)
Build up base and max 65 can be customised with ashes of war you can apply frost and poison with the scarlet rot but blood loss will result in 0 scarlet rot build up
Rotten staff (not a staff) build up base and max 75 cannot be customised with ashes of war
Spear,
Rotten crystal spear
Build up base and max 55 cannot be customised with ashes of war
Glintstone staff,
Rotten crystal staff
Build base and max 50 cannot be customised with ashes of war note this staff requires you to make contact with the staff directly on the enemy in order to build up scarlet rot making it pointless to have scarlet rot at all considering next to no sorceries are capable of doing so.
You can also make any light bow, bow, or crossbow apply scarlet rot with arrows and bolts
And any seal can apply scarlet rot with certain incantations.

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FYI: Rotten Stray inflicts the "strong" version of Scarlet Rot, but unlike other sources it lasts 180 seconds instead of 90 which makes it twice as strong in long fights. PvE only though.

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Ashes seem to scale with Int.
Any other scaling = 50-55 Scarlet Rot on Antspur Rapier. But Cold scaling = 0 buildup

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Lowkey Rot Breath is the most broken spell they've ever added to any fromsoft game PvE wise. Crazy how they made that spell so outrageously good with such low stat req easy to get and the strong form of scarlet rot, but were too afraid to add more than 90 black key bolts.

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Wish this page had a bit more lore on it

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what are some good weapons to dual wield before end game? Scorpion's Stinger can be found mid game but there's only one of them so for NG what weapon would be good to power stance? What if I do like a bleed or frost dagger along with this?

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How does buildup of deadly and normal scarlet rot work?
Do each have their own buildup bar? If not, what determines which is procced if some buildup was done by each.

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why the hell cant there be a shield even a small one with this on it.... shield hero gets no love ;(

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Law of regression cures it as well. Would be good to add as INT builds can use it. (req min 10 faith for seal. 37 int for spell)

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Now, as a new feature, this stops working on bosses (100% immunity) if they reach 15-20% health!
Have fun, your Miazaki :D

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I tested different sources for scarlet rot:
weak Scarlet Rot: 15 + 0,18% per tick or 1350 + 16,2% maxHP over 90 sec
- Caused by Weapons, Rot grease, Arrows/Bolts
normal Scarlet Rot: 13 + 0,33% per tick or 1170 +29,7% maxHP over 90 sec
- Caused by Spells, Rotten Stray Ashes, Rot Pot
Only one weapon had inflicts weak scarlet rot written as passive effect but they do all the same so thats what i called it.
The normal scarlet rot scales a lot better so it may be better to use rot pots instead of rot weapons for non casters.

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wish there was a scarlet rot ash of war, or a way to easily farm rot grease.

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if i rot the godskin duo and then sleep them, will the rot wake them up?

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There's actually a scarlet rot source even more potent than the lake of rot: a 3.3%+26 per tick that lasts for 180 seconds. However I am not sure what exactly is this source.

My guess is malenia's virus bomb, if the initial explosion somehow didn't kill you.

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I love scarlet rot for the lore implications. It would be nice to have more viable builds around applying it in PvP bc rn it's just underwhelming

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dex rot weapon that is not Scorpion's Stinger?

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leprosy

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So, to be clear- the ultimate goal of using SR is to "fill" the target's "SR bar"- thereby applying 90 seconds of the DoT? And the damage is purely a function of the target's health pool? So bringing multiple sources of 'Rot to a fight is not then beneficial then (using the dragon incantaion, having the Rotten Stray, grease, etc)?

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Atleast this time, Scarlet Rot has a whole lore to it. The toxic effect in Dark Souls was just there for the hell of it and it sucked so much.

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Can we just say that it does ~ 1170 + 29.7% of max HP over 90/s or 13 + ~0.33% per tick? It feels much easier to express that way.

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Hi, i am currently build up my melee weapon.
May i know does the scarlet rot stack with FROSTBITE effect, please?

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Rot Pot coupled with Fetid Pot and high Arcane causes almost all bosses to just die on their own without much intervention, and with plenty unused pots left over after the fight. Add Swarm Pot or Swarm of Flies, and you almost never have to swing a sword once.

Damage-over-time play in this game almost makes me miss my Affliction Warlock in WoW. DoT and forget.

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Is there a way to apply this to weapons?

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Dumb question, but Poison can stack with Scarlet Rot, right?

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At least in the lake of rot, Immunity doesn't seem to have any effect on scarlet rot buildup speed at all. Wearing the full Mushroom set, with Immunizing Horn Charm and Mottled Necklace+1, the buildup was just as fast as it was while wearing the Bull-Goat set without the charms.

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