Sleep | Elden Ring Wiki

I know sleep has tons of bad rep for being a good status effect, but with the coming of the DLC, there is sure going to be a lot more of it. So people whining on the internet why they got their ases handed to them by a arcane build is only going to get more common. The main way to make sleep and other effects less of a issue is to remove phantom hits and fix the issues with latency. Then almost every problem with sleep disappears and the status becomes no better than bleed or madness.

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Best thing that a next patch can do, is to select sleep and madness for PvP as a forbidden option. Ah and pls give me the hate you triggered meta lords without RL.

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I'm so annoyed that there's not an affinity for this in the game yet. It might be really fun to use on curved swords, while the only two weapons that have it so far are both unique in a single world, so you need NG+ to actually try a power stance build. I really hope we can access it more when DLC drops.

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Is elder dragon greyoll vulnerable to sleep?

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Praise St. Trina! ...or Miquella?

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Pvp changes? I shleep. Pve? REAL ****

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As others have said I seriously think that sleep would be almost on par with madness if they just made it so that it didn’t cancel if you hit them before the stagger animation starts. Also, sleep spells.

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As of current patch, Ensha can be slept

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Token.

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Biggest weakness of sleep is how when applying it during a boss's attack animation you cannot deal damage to them or else the status will reset, causing the sleep stagger animation to not play after their attack animation. Some bosses, like Fire Giant, make it almost impossible to see if the status has gone off due to their colossal size. The only indicators for it are the purple fog around the head and a soft hum noise, which can be hard to recognize unlike bleed or frost. I would not mind the status reset if it reset only when the enemy has been flinched / staggered, but any damage at all will nullify it. It makes playing with sleep, ironically, a very patient and slow experience.

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Miyazaki told me that he will put a sleep swamp in the DLC. Didnt made it up. He visited me in a dream.

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You have no idea how hard I seethed when I used sleep on the Night Maidens/Nox Swordstress and it just makes them stumble for 1 second instead of putting them to sleep SMH (shaking my head)

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Me when someone uses this on me: zzZZZZzzzzZZZZzzz...

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Would be cool if the abductor virgins used sleep to trap you, and then catch you inside their (coffin?) chest. Would be a horrible way to watch yourself slowly die. But you'd have to adjust the cutscene. Like, once a player experiences the drawn-out death, is it necessary to have the full 15 seconds play?

Best example experienced on every NG. "Let my hand rest upon you, for but a moment..."


GOD, MELINA. TAKE FOREVER.

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the entire souls community: sorcerers are stupid and broken if u play a sorcerer then ur run isn't legitimate cause its so op

me: cant fight fast enemies, cant fight enemies with lots of dodges or jumps, cant fight tanky enemies, cant fight in narrow areas, 70 spells and only 3 of them are actually good with a max upgraded staff, and literally no sorceries in the game can cause: sleep, poison or scarlet rot

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Time to make a sleep build. Not because I want to combo into smth like a comet or whatever, I just want to make people sleep, wether they want it or not.

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Time to make a sleep build. Not because I want to combo into smth like a comet or whatever, I just want to make people sleep, wether they want it or not.

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I wish they put all the resources they put into the sleep animations into making madness work on enemies instead and have this be the pvp exclusive status.

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after u proc madness use sleep then death blight for ultimate status soup

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I don't understand why all the sleep hate comments are downvoted. In pvp ghost hits can build up and proc sleep. Once you're asleep your opponent can use two comets, or mohgs claw then golden rejection (I'm not googling the actual names), and 3/4 of your HP is gone at least, with no counterplay. You just have to pray you can out trade them before they land 3 ghost hits, which is a tad unrealistic for most builds. Can someone comment and explain why everyone is ratio-ing when someone points this out?

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Missing our foolish ambitions in the vulnerable to sleep list.

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who thought this was a good idea

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Some troll added Ogre and Prawn Miner as monster types -_-

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I can’t believe they added a status effect just for Godskin!

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crab ,,

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Cleanrot Knights seemingly do not actually sleep, they wake up just before completely sitting down. Tried taking out the two in the Abandoned Cave and even though I hit the scythe one with two pots, it would only have the sleep effect for a second and then resume fighting. It took no damage during the second it was under sleep effect. Would have been a great strat for a low level player who wants to get the Gold Scarab very early. It was standing in Scarlet Rot at the time, so I wonder if there is a connection there.

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Salt mines are deep in here

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Also known as skill issue. I thought that madness is the worst status effect, but this is x10 times worse. Pump arcane to soft cap and you can sleep people with only 2-3 hits from arcane scaling weapon, even if opponent uses sleep mitigating talisman and items. After fighting some brain dead crescent halberd retards in 2v2 united combat three times in a row, madness feels like totally balanced status.
Now this is one of those things that I won't use in PvP on principle. Sleep abusers eat sh*t by definition.

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Can you sleep an enemy that has scarlet rot?

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Extremely unbalanced in PvP along with some other status effects since you can proc the effect without ever having to actually land a hit on your opponent.

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You cannot land Life steal fist on players after procing sleep unless they roll out of sleep to your side and lfs roll catches. I just spent tens of hours making a ridiculously stupid build that doesn’t work my life is ruined

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If you could sleep players for a full minute I'd create a dedicated build just to invade people, sleep them and the lay near and sleep too. Just for lolz.

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it would be kinda cool if nights cavalry could use sleeps pots to try to stun you. the only reason I say nights cavalry is because they have night in their name.

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the magma wyrms are very sleepy ? weird that this is not included. for theodorix in particular it's actually useful since the others are not that powerful

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Please please PLEASE let this stat be expanded on in the DLC. I’d love a boss that uses it.

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This list isn't entirely accurate. I sleep procced Margit last night, stagger only, but it still happened.

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Well... guess we'll see this section expand sometime in the future.

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Can't help by wonder why fromsoft refused to spend even a single second working on balance in this game. Intelligence has about 5x more weapons than any other stat. Arcane has few weapons but it scales bleed, a status effect so cheap and overpowered you may as well just run cheat engine, the advantage bleed provides is already on par with that. Faith has a few incantations, but most are utterly worthless and the highest faith requirement ones are literally unviable, perfect example elden stars 0 damage, 0 range, 0% chance to connect, 15 minutes cast time with no hyper armour. Lightning scales with dex + has no status effect + there is not a single worthwhile lightning weapon in the game. Sleep had potential to be a useful tool but the only 2 weapons that can inflict it are god awful.

Sure it's an open world game with a small amount of customisation, making everything different but equally viable would take a lot of work, but I dont understand why they refuse to even try. Anyone, literally anyone who has ever played a video game could sit in a meeting, note the unmissable disparity and monumental favoritism towards intelligence/bleed/katanas and the complete neglect of lightning/dex/sleep and weird castration of faith and point it out. Not everything has to be equal, I am just saying that if they put any effort whatsoever into variety, instead of tasking a team to spend every working hour buffing int/bleed/katanas and then leaving everything else to some unpaid weekened interns the game would be elevated to a whole new level with no extra work or development time needed.

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A build for people enemies that play at 3am

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Looking at the list of bosses immune to sleep renders this mechanic absolutely useless.

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I don't understand why this damage type is so rare in this game. In terms of enemies, only a grand total of a single enemy in the entire game deals this damage type, so it's not worth bothering with improving your resistance to this damage type or using stimulating boluses. There are no environmental hazards that deal it what so ever. For player options, only TWO weapons, ONE throwable, and ZERO spells deal sleep damage. There are no affinities available for adding the damage type to other weapons. There are arrows that deal sleep damage. However, St Trina's Arrow cannot be purchased anywhere, so the only source of them is to farm, and the one and only enemy that drops it has a measly 2.5% chance of doing so. Sleepbone Arrows require an extremely rare crafting ingredient that only has a 2.0% chance of being dropped. As a result, barely anyone uses this damage type, which I think is kind of unfortunate.

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

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Items that inflict this should be banned in colosseum, literally an instant win button, I DC whenever I see a Trina’s or ripple weapon

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does this scale with arcane

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Your wolf ashes can be put to sleep and it is the most adorable thing in the game I have found

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From soft once again showcasing their massive brain by implementing a status effect that only two weapons apply, and then making an animation for virtually every single enemy

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Was this and deathblight reduced with the rest of powerstance status effect buildups? I don't seem to proc sleep very fast - first time using them. Someone on the eclipse shotel page said that dual wielding them isn't worth it anymore because of said nerf.

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the anti-fun status effect

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so like balls are real?

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Very important poll

Upvote if you’re ‘honk shoo’, downvote if you’re ‘honk mimimi’

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Oh ok so sleep gets to be used on like every basic enemy but madness only works on players, yeah thats cool.

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Seriously, the dedication it had to have taken to try afflicting Sleep onto every single one of these enemies is just madness. Well done!

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crabs near the village of albinaurics can inflict sleep on you. I don't remember any other enemy doing that

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We need more perfumes and more sleep sources.. why not a sleep perfume?

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awesome status effect. but definitely needs more weapons and spells. if DLC focuses on miquella lore, then we would likely get st trina lore too, and as a result more sleep weapons.

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It should be specifically stated that the pale skinny guys with the ghostflame torches in Nokron, Eternal City site of grace, have 0 sleep immunity and, for some reason, instantly fall asleep, no matter the amount of sleep put onto them.

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aughhh.mp3

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The idea of sleep is a cool idea, but in practise garbage just like madness and I wish it never was in the game as it is right now. Here's why:

In PvE enemies can fall asleep, but once they do if you hit'em they will wake up again. This in itself makes sleep almost useless compared to other hyper aggressive status effects because if you attack at the time they go to sleep you will reset it and they will wake up again.
Basically losing the power of getting a free critical on the enemy which I find to be the whole point of sleep in PvE.

In PvP it's utterly broken. They reward people to miss, no I mean it, literally. If you dual wield the Sword of St Trina and attack another player, even if they dodge they will still get a high amount of sleep status. It can take about 2 missed dual wielded hits to make the other player fall asleep and then they've gotten themselves into a situation wher they can get hit two times in a row so they lose 50 - 75 % of their health.

So what's the good part?

Well in PvP you can kill anyone unless you're brain dead with Dual wielded Sword of St Trina.

In PvE it's actually useful against a couple foes. Godskin Duo of course one of few who actually is weak against sleep and is almost recommended to use sleep against. In Dragonbarrow Cave the early stages you can use Sword of St Trina as prisoner to sleep one Beastman to kill the other allowing you to get a rather big rune purse early on. Other than that I think there's much better options in PvE unfortuantly and I think throwing pots or sleep arrows are better than using a Sword.

In conclusion: Do I think sleep should be removed? No. But I do think it needs more counters and also that they fix so missed attacks wont make people fall asleep. Same idea goes for frost, madness, bleed, poison. Missed attacks should not be rewarded, that's just plain stupid.

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madness, the sequel

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I think this is probably a useless interaction but it seems that sleep in PvE causes enemies to unlock from the player. If you sleep a crystal miner that uses those glintstone pebble consumables, it'll finish its animation (activating the consumable) and when it starts going into the sleep state, the mini-glintstone pebbles will just shoot at its feet.

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I think i bumped into a giant crab in liurnia that hit me with an attack that inflicted sleep. I was completely shocked

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While Margit is on the list, Morgott is not

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Sleep pots work great on runebears, and just one usually sends it off to sleepy time. Consider using one if you need a breather in the middle of combat.

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Against Godskin duo there is a sound effect and a purple glow on them when using sword of st trina like if the sleep status effect was triggered but they don't fall asleep

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Anyone else realize that inescapable frenzy cannot grab players who are asleep? Is this a bug or an intended mechanic? Seems weird to me since the incarnation goes through shields, but even after the pain of making a target player go to sleep AND be close to you, you are not allowed to land inescapable frenzy.

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would kill for a mod that adds tiktok snore sound every time sleep procs on an enemy

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Cleanrot Knights are highly resistant/immune. Even if you proc the effect, it stuns them for like 2 seconds and then they shake it off.

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In Ds3, frost was a newly introduced mechanic but was yet very underutilized , so in response ashes of ariandel came out and we got more frost related content
So now knowing that miquella is st trina and that miquella is the only demigod we don’t fight (besides ranni) how likely is it that the/one of the dlc’s will be centered around sleep?

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I'll be disappointed if Miquella DLC doesn't provide more for this status effect

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Pretty sure this is bugged atm. Godskin noble, who's weak against sleep, seems to ignoring the fact that he's supposed to be sleeping. The animation goes off but he just keeps fighting. Wasted hours farming materials just for this to be bugged. Love it...

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Youd think since we only got 1 actual weapon From would have added a sleep incantation/sorcery.
Oh well

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Tips for sleep builds: don’t

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If a Sleep affinity was ever added, maybe it could be an opportunity to add a mixed faith/int affinity? Considering the sword scales with int, the torch with faith, and the pot with arcane its a toss up on which would be used for scaling.

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Ok,guys. Can you rot or poison a boss and then sleep them?

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I don't know much about PvP, but for PvE, this ailment is very good to use. Helps with crowd-control, I remember using it in the Godskin Duo fight on my 1st playthrough. Put one of them to sleep and attack the other; rinse and repeat until victory. Also can help for creating opportunities for backstabs, if you're someone that relies on that a lot. Generally can also just be used to avoid enemy encounters, or even facilitate raiding enemy camps.
Just wish there was a way to buy an infinite amount of St. Trina's arrows, right now the only infinite source is by farming. In a future DLC, perhaps?

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A mimir status effect.

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There's a giant crab in academy town that spews a sleeping mist. It's right next to the scarab that drops Charge Through ash.


are there really no other Sleep-inflicting enemies in the game? lol

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This status effect definitely needs a nerf in pvp it has the same issue as madness except without the damage part.

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Anybody yet know if Maliketh can be put to sleep?

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I love this mechanic,no damage but more controll

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I realise this is probably a stupid question but not entirely unprecedented in From games, if I remember right getting cursed in the first dark souls did permanent damage to your HP until you got whatever the remedy for it was, but again if I remember right the remedy for being cursed wasn't exactly common or easy to find, I think there was one merchant who had limited stock of the curse remedy but I cant remember if it dropped from any enemies as well. So when it says the sleep status effect drains the affected's FP is that a temporary debuff that last's as long as the status effect or is it a permanent hit to the players FP?

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If you plan on dual wielding, put the sleep sword(weapon) in the left hand. It tends to attack last with combos.

If sleep is in the main hand u risk sleeping the target, and instantly waking it.

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What sucks is that most of the enemies that can be put to sleep are weak enemies who you will probably be killing quite quickly anyways and won't need it. It's the strong enemies like the dual sword wielding Banished Knights that it would help on. Well, at least Godskin's can be put to sleep. That is incredibly helpful.

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no information on bell bearing hunter, who appears to be staggered only by sleep

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Sheep are vulnerable to sleep, which might be useful in the case you get swarmed by them.

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sleeping halls girls boys

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Seems to be extremely rare to have enemies using it. I'm on Crumbling Farum Azula and only fought maybe 1 or 2 enemies who inflict it. Heck, Fremz is more common than this effect.

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Goodnight gurl, I'll see yah tommorow.

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When Sleep Procs, bigger enemies will finish whatever animation they're doing before they crash. Hitting them before the animation finishes and they crash will instantly clear the effect. Be methodical with this one.

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Considering this is one of the least used status effects in the game (I think only one giant crab variant inflicts it?), I imagine it will be a center piece for a dlc if/when we do get one. Especially probable if we get a Miquella dlc like people believe and if they implement the "St. Trina is Miquella" cut content.

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When you meet Ranni the first time at the church of elleh the ground is covered in purple mist and kale is sleeping

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I feel sleepy

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z z z z z z z z

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ima tired

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torch uses faith, sword uses int, and the pot uses arcane
and as far as i can tell the stats dont even scale the buildup at all.

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Can you riposte someone after you sleep them in pvp?

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Will give you a free charged R2 on a player/npc if proc'd. Grab a really big weapon, and boost your charged attacks with Axe Talisman and Spiked Cracked Tear. It's gonna hurt real bad.

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After some build shenanigans I have found two uses for it in PvP. If you stuff a pulley crossbow with three sleep bolts and off-hand it, you can often sleep a player with a full combo BUT if they get slept in only 2 bolts, the third one will wake them up immediately. Alternatively, if you dual wield Trina's swords, you can capitalize on the sleep by hitting with a jump attack (raptor's feathers + claw talisman) for some hefty damage. With those methods it'll never be meta but it's at least viable. Kinda stupid how it stuns for less time than madness and you can't riposte a sleeping player like you can with enemies, though.

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Spirit caller snail is a god

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Drains mana in pvp

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