Spear Talisman |
|
---|---|
![]() |
|
Weight | 0.5 |
![]() ![]() |
Spear Talisman is a Talisman in Elden Ring. Spear Talisman increases thrusting weapon counterattack damage by 15%. Players can use talismans in Elden Ring to boost a variety of Stats.
A talisman depicting a spear and a soldier.
Enhances the counterattacks that are unique to thrusting weapons.
Spears are standard weapons for soldiers in the Lands Between. They made it possible to respond to a ferocious foe with an equally ferocious counterattack.
Spear Talisman Effect
Spear Talisman increases thrusting weapon counterattack damage by 15%.
Where to find Spear Talisman
- Found in a chest inside Lakeside Crystal Cave, near a demi-human campfire. [Map link]
Spear Talisman Notes & Tips
- Does not enhance Elemental counterattacks.
- Sell value:
500
- Damage is increased by thrusting weapons (spears, rapiers, etc.) when hitting an enemy that's performing an attack animation. Guard counters may work, but only if performed such that they strike the enemy while they are attacking, rather than recoiling from hitting the shield.
- Spears and Thrusting Swords make great candidates for this talisman because they deal Pierce damage.
- Bows and Crossbows also deal increased counter damage with this talisman.
- Many other "thrusting" attacks count; what matters is the specific attack, not the weapon in general.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I noticed while puttong this on my character that it was lowering the AR of my weapons by 1-2 points. I'm switching between equipping and unequipping it and it is indeed lowering the AR directly. 242 dropped to 241, 287 dropped to 285. Can anyone else confirm that their AR is getting lowered by this talisman, even if it's a negligible amount?
- Anonymous
It's unfortunate that the actual spear depicted on the talisman isn't available in the game.
- Anonymous
Is it worth using this with a standard clayman's harpoon? Especially when it will only boost the physical portion?
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
This is very good against Malenia if you use a heavier thrusting weapon (I used the Commander's Standard).
Beat her without summons on the first attempt after getting wrecked on every other playthrough.
- Anonymous
so exactly how are you supposed to use this talisman in PvE?
the only three ways i can come up with without trading blows and getting hit in the process is
1 using a shield and poke from behind the shield,
2 outrange their attack while yours hit,
3 using quickstep or bloodhound step around their attack and hit them during it.
the shield poke is kinda a crutch and you don't want to do that too much anyways because it lowers your damage.
outranging enemies is not always an option but it does work well for spears most of the time.
being forced to use an AoW just to get some negligible use out of the talisman seems a little much.
and since most thrust weapons don't deal that much poise damage it's not exactly like you can interrupt the enemy from hitting you.
is it something i'm missing here in regards to the PvE usability of this thing?
- Anonymous
Very tight timing in PvE. However, doing 1000 damage with a running R1 is pretty funny.
- Anonymous
Does this effect the counter attack damage of non-thrusting weapons? Like does it directly buff counter attacks, i.e. Pierce Damage weapons. I'm pretty sure things like the Rusted Anchor and Beast Jaw can get the Counterattack bonus, but I'm not sure if this talisman works on them because of how this page is worded.
- Anonymous
Damn you Dark Souls 2 B team for making me think this "ring" would work with elemental damage
- Anonymous
what is considered a counter attack, and why is it used in bow builds?
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Pierce damage in general seem to work well with this talisman. Running the Rusted anchor with wild strikes AoW, Jumping attacks, and good timing everything gets shredded
- Anonymous
Does this work with the Raptor Talons? been trying to test wether or not those claws deal piercing damage with the jumping heavy attacks but I can't figure it out for the life of me.
Does this boost the stab when you’re powerstancing dual straight swords?
I Dont understand why they dont nix this or slam it with a item changing nerf, and instead give this kind of all-the-time bonus from a talisman to Weapons that are all around lackin effectiveness. Instead they give the literal damage buff talisman to a weapon that is already having trouble staying within balanced parameters................. Give a talisman like this instead to Regular Axe's, say, or Regular Sized Hammers, Whips even. Weapons that actually need this talisman. It would open up so many more build options.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
normally crossbows are pretty crap but with this and arrow's sting you can get some ok damage out of them.
- Anonymous
Attack that does Pierce damage counts. Fallingstar beast jaw benefits?
- Anonymous
The Endure meta will ensure we see lots of people using this Talisman. Lances/Thrusting Swords are godly now.
- Anonymous
This is fantastic for a greatshield and spear turtle strategy in PVE. Just don't turtle in PVP. Players are smarter than regular NPC enemies, and there are plenty of ways to get around turtles.
Addressing the questions on this comments section:
1) Piercing damage is a type of physical damage; it can be dealt by any melee weapon's thrust attack (even the piercing damage type is not stated on the weapon's in-game description) or by arrows, great arrows, and bolts.
2) A counter attack is damage dealt to a target while it is either in the frames of an attack animation or in the recovery frames for said animation; during said window, the target's piercing damage resistances will naturally be reduced by 30%.
3) This talisman reduces a target's resistance to piercing damage during a counterattack window by an additional 15%, stacking multiplicatively with the natural 30%, yielding a total decrease of 49.5% of said target's piercing damage resistance during a counterattack window.
4) This talisman only boosts piercing damage (i.e. physical damage), and therefore any elemental damage dealt by the thrusting attack or projectile will not be affected by the talisman's modifier.
- Anonymous
"does not enhance elemental counterattacks" 1. Why? 2. Does that mean it wont work on a bow shooting fire or lightning arrows?
- Anonymous
If a weapon is magic infused,the magic part of its damage during counter doesnt count?
- Anonymous
might as well be all attacks with how generous thrust bonus is
- Anonymous
I tested it on a Troll with a Pickaxe 1H R1 and only attacking the legs.
Regular is 151 damage.
Counterattack (attack during the Trolls attack) is 196 damage, which is 29,8 % more damage.
With the Spear talisman it's 225 damage, which is a 49 % increase. So 19,2 % increase compared to the regular counterattack.
this talisman depicts the soldier of god, rick. perhaps this is foreshadowing towards his fifth phase, where he summons spectral spears that fly towards you?
- Anonymous
I'm assuming this works with "Piercing Fang" and "Impaling Thrust" ashes? If you are using them with a spear it would be more beneficial to use over "Shard of Alexander"?
- Anonymous
Use this with pickaxe and the jump attack equipment and you can deal 2k or more damage at lvl 80 with no other buffs start on or two shooting bosses up to morgott
- Anonymous
Mixed reports on the merits of this talisman in PvE. On testing I found the vast majority of my activations of this talisman are on trading with an enemy or boss. It's true that humanoid enemies wielding normal weapons are much more susceptible to counterattack damage, but that doesn't discount how useful this can be for the right builds. If you go high Vigor/Endurance and slap on some heavy armor and health/damage negation talismans, your trades even with bosses will be monstrous, especially with great spears and heavy thrusting swords. Except with Malenia, obviously.
- Anonymous
I wonder if this talisman work w/ Frozen Needle’s R2 feint projectile.
- Anonymous
We can't even get the Lordsworn's Spear(speculative name) and yet it features on this talisman along with the soldier who wields it.
With this and stuff like the Troll Knight's Sword not casting Carian Phalanx as a skill, among countless other examples, Fromsoft is really rubbing it in with enemy-only equipment.
- Anonymous
With 2 naginatas I catch poke people and it does very good damage. Just make sure they don't have buttloads of poise, vigor, and something that can one shot you. So what I'm saying is when I'm doing this I have plenty of poise and vigor myself. All it takes is catch em normally once sometimes twice.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
In PvE this is really good with royal knights resolve for crouch poke trading using a greatsword. Outside of trading it's nearly impossible to make use of this as PvE enemies are not vulnerable during recovery frames. Fantastic for little enemies that charge.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It has very picky timing from my tests it requires you to deal damage during the exact time an enemy's attack is 'hot' or meaning dealing damage. Some weapons such as daggers or whips have very small opportunity windows and thus are very chancy and rare to counterattack against meanwhile a colossal sword has a wide attack window.
- Anonymous
Anybody able to test if this actually works on the Square Off R2?
It is a poke after all and chances are you actually poke someone (at least in PvE) while they are doing stuff, considering it puts most enemies into a soft stagger.
- Anonymous
Does this work with the Giant Hunt ash of war on the Guts Greatsword?
- Anonymous
Does it stack with claw talisman for thrust jump attacks?
or which one takes precedence in that case?
- Anonymous
I’ve tested this with multiple weapons using the description provided and it doesn’t work at all. Same damage with an attack during an enemy attack animation.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It does seem to increase the damage when using the poking attack of the Greatsword despite not being showed as pierc ein the weapon information
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
The Counterattack bonus is applied when an enemy is hit during his attack frames.
Attack frames are created by:
- Light Attacks
- Heavy Attacks
- Jump Attacks
- Running Attacks
- Backstep Attacks
- Crouching Attacks
- Bow / Crossbow Attacks
- Casting Sorceries and Incantations
- Using Ashes of Wars
- Throwing Pots
- Throwing Knifes
- Throwing Stone
Counterattacks are only applied when using a Thrust type weapon (e.g. Rapier) or weapons capable of Thrust type attacks (e.g. Claymore poke, Greatsword crouching poking attack). Obviously having a lot of poise helps in trading damage or using a shield with a weapon that can attack while your guard is up.
- Anonymous
I haven't seen this being posted enough anywhere, this affects all piece weapons (spears, halberds, thrursting swords, straight swords, any weapon with a poke/stab) and this only affects PHYSICAL DAMAGE. Elemental dmg (magic, fire, lightning, holy) isn't affect by the talisman at all so only use on physical builds only.
- Anonymous
I wonder if it works with the zweihander or the claymore now...
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
i think it works with other weapons which are not spears. my night rider haldebard is definately doing more dmg on running r1's in pvp
- Anonymous
This works with the rusted anchor as it does pierce damage even though it’s a greataxe!
- Anonymous
This no longer affects guard counters.
Tested using pike on the first enemy you see in gatefront ruins, looking from the gatefront grace.
The damage is from guard counters using the pike.
Without spear talisman and curved sword talisman: 443
With spear talisman, but without curved sword talisman: 443
With curved sword talisman, but without the spear talisman: 531
Using both the spear talisman and curved sword talisman: 531
From these results it is clear that spear talisman has no effect on guard counters.
Optimal for pure Physical builds, since Elemental counter-attacks are not enhanced.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
fingerprint stone shield+greatshield talisman+any trusting weapon and you can stab away and really profit from that talisman
- Anonymous
Arbalest+9 with normal bolts against Godrick's footsoldiers between Warmaster's Shack and Saintsbridge
Normal hit = 166
Counter hit without Spear Talisman = 216 (~130% damage)
Counter hit with Spear Talisman = 248 (~150% damage)
Just to confirm:
1. It does work on bows/crossbows
2. It seems to do closer to an extra ~20%, not ~13%
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Does this work with "ancient lightning spear" for the bolt spear curious
- Anonymous
this talisman is useless like the hundreds of items in this game
- Anonymous
Doesnt work on wind ups or recovery animations outside of pvp. I have no idea how ppl are utilizing this in pve, the counter window seems ridiculously specific. Whereas in pvp you take counter damage throughout your entire animation
- Anonymous
This seems to work with thrusting attacks even if the weapon doesn't say it does "pierce" damage. I tested to see if it works with the zweihander roll poke (zweihander is only "standard" damage type, not "standard/pierce" like the claymore). I used a +17 zwei on the Godrick knights before Margit.
No counter attack: 454 dmg.
Counter attack without spear talisman: 590 dmg.
Counter attack WITH spear talisman: 679.
Doing the math, it seems that regular counter-attacks do +30% damage, and the ring adds exactly +15% on top of the 30%.
- Anonymous
This seems to work with thrusting attacks even if the weapon doesn't say it does "pierce" damage. I tested to see if it works with the zweihander roll poke (zweihander is only "standard" damage type, not "standard/pierce" like the claymore). I used a +17 zwei on the Godrick knights before Margit.
No counter attack: 454 dmg.
Counter attack without spear talisman: 590 dmg.
Counter attack WITH spear talisman: 679.
Doing the math, it seems that regular counter-attacks do +30% damage, and the ring adds exactly +15% on top of the 30%.
- Anonymous
This seems more like a pvp talisman. If you swing at check your stats, your pierce resistance is lowered throughout the animation. But for enemies/bosses the window is so small it seems useless
- Anonymous
I'm confused about this one. I tried it with Dragon King's Cragblade and Vyke's War Spear and it did nothing to the guard counters (blocking with shield and hitting heavy attack immediately after). In fact, the damage was lower with the talisman compared to without it. Curved Sword Talisman on the other hand did increase the damage for all weapons. So is the Spear Talisman bugged atm? Does anyone know?
- Anonymous
Bonus seems to be 20% instead of 13. Tested with Halberd R1 pokes, without the talisman you get a 30% bonus, bumps up to 50% with it.
- Anonymous
PSA: THIS WORKS ON ALL "PIERCE" WEAPONS
Look under the weapon class in the menu(i.e. greataxe) underneath it, if it says "pierce", this talisman works with it, great examples outside of spears is the pickaxe or rusty anchor
- Anonymous
Does anyone know if this works after parrying a boss when they are not able to be riposted?
- Anonymous
This, spear dualwield and Endure skill on right hand spear. The buff lasts for 2 twin pokes, allowing multiple counter hits to land.
Trading has never been this efficient with spears. Love this Talisman.
- Anonymous
If anyone's curious like I was, this DOES affect damage from an attack after successfully using the Raptor of the Mists weapon art!
- Anonymous
So many confused people here, If a weapon has a trust attack it will apply buff. It has nothing to do with the weapon type. If a weapon says damage type thrusting/ it will have certain attack that do thrusting damage. All those attacks will benefit. (sometimes it might be tricky to tell which attack count as thrust based on my knowledge of previous games but if it looks like a "trust" type attack, it usually is).
- Anonymous
Does this work only with physical damage types? Will split elemental infusion decrease the potential of this talisman?
- Anonymous
Does this talisman increase counter damage against bosses by any means? I’m using the rusted anchor on a strength build and want to know if it works against more than just minor enemies/pvp situations
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Counter attacking is when you strike an enemy when they are in an attack animation. This is usually hard to pull off without taking damage, but since you can poke your enemies behind a shield with spears and thrusting swords, you'll find a lot of opportunity to sneak some hits in.
- Anonymous
Ya'll wanna know something evil? Use this with the Anchor, the Anchor does piercing damage.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
From my testing it is 20% extra damage when initiating an attack while an enemy is in the middle of an attack animation. Tested using a Great Épée+6 on various enemies.
- Anonymous
Assuming this works the same way that Leo's ring did in DS3 it actually should lower enemy pierce resistance during counterattack, leading to varied results in PVE. It should be rather effective for spear users when trading hits with heavily armored players in PVP.
- Anonymous
Seems to be a 20% damage increase when attacking when a enemy is in attack animation. Did 130 damage when enemies werent attacking and 152 when they were.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I tried testing this, I did 264 damage on a guard counter attack useing Cold Infused Cross-Naginata (+12 or +6 cant remember which) against the knights at Gatefront waypoint without the Talisman... and 220 with the talisman. Are we sure this is working properly as it seems to reduce my damage...? Maybe it's because of the infusion?
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It's the equivalent of the Leo Ring.
It boosts damage dealt to enemies while they are in an attack animation.
It only works with attacks that do Pierce damage, arrows and bolt included.
- Anonymous
it also boosts damage, when you counter Attack after blocking with R2/RT
- Anonymous
ok so this affects spears (like the Torchpole) im playing a greatshield STR tank and using this with the Torchpole i am DECIMATING everything while safely hiding behind my shield. It adds damage during others attacks
Translation: When an opponent is in an attack animation thrust attacks do additional damage. This enhances that ability further.
- Anonymous
His lugged spear is said to have sliced a boulder in two
3
+11
-1