Varré's Bouquet

varres bouquet elden ring wiki guide 200px
attack power elden ring wiki guide 18Attack
Phy 46
Mag 0
Fire 0
Ligt 0
Holy 0
Crit 100
guarded damage negation elden ring wiki guide 18Guard
Phy 38
Mag 25
Fire 25
Ligt 25
Holy 25
Boost 25
attribute scaling elden ring wiki guide 18Scaling
Str E
Dex D
Arc C
attributes required elden ring wiki guide 18Requires
Str 8
Dex 16
Arc 24
Hammers Strike
Blood Tax FP 14
Wgt. 2 passive effects elden ring wiki guide 18Passive - Causes blood loss buildup (65)

Varré's Bouquet is a Hammer in Elden Ring. The Varré's Bouquet scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity and Arcane and is a good Weapon for blood loss buildup. 

 

A steel mace resembling a charming bouquet of roses. Each petal has a sharpened edge, leaving the roses perpetually colored with blood.

This weapon reflects White Mask Varré's manner of speech rather well, enticing in its splendor, but full of deadly consequence.

 

Where to Find Varré's Bouquet in Elden Ring

The Varré's Bouquet weapon can be found at the following location:

 

Elden Ring Varré's Bouquet Notes & Tips

  • Weapon Skill: Blood Tax
  • This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
  • Can be buffed by Magic and Consumables
  • Varré's Bouquet can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones
  • While this weapon can have Bloodflame Blade applied to it, it will not result in more arcane-scaled bleed as Bloodflame Blade does not scale with arcane. Bleed over time effects from Bloodflame sources should be thought of as separate from the standard arcane scaling bleed effects.
  • Extremely low damage compared to any other arcane-scaling or occult-affinity weapon.
  • With 80 Dexterity and 80 Arcane it deals 278 damage per light attack.
  • Sell Value:  er runes 13 200.
  • NOTE: As of Patch 1.08, the speed and distance of some attacks have been increased and the recovery time has been reduced.  While the poise damage of Hammers has been reduced, Poise damage when attacking with two-handed Hammers has been increased.
  • NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below.  Additionally, running attacks speed increase with reduced recovery time for hammers.
  • Other notes and player tips go here

 

Moveset & Videos in Elden Ring for Varré's Bouquet

 

 

 

Varré's Bouquet PvP Poise Damage Values in Elden Ring

Patch 1.10 adjusted PVP Poise Damage of all Weapons including some Spells and Incantations. Please take note that these adjustments are exclusive to PVP.

One-Handed Attacks

  • 1H R1 (1/2/3/4/5 Attacks): 156/78/65/78/156
  • 1H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 312/312
  • 1H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1092/1092
  • 1H R1 Jumping: 234
  • 1h R2 Jumping: 577.2

Two-Handed Attacks

  • 2H R1 (1/2/3/4/5 Attacks): 202.8/101.4/84.5/101.4/202.8
  • 2H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 343.2/343.2
  • 2H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1189.5/1189.5
  • 2H R1 Jumping: 234
  • 2h R2 Jumping: 624

 

Varre's Bouquet Upgrades in Elden Ring

Please see the Upgrades page to understand the weapon bolstering process.

Requires regular reinforcement with Somber Smithing Stones.

  Attack Power Stat Scaling Passive Effects Damage Reduction (%)
Varre's Bouquet Phy Mag Fir Lit Hol Sta Str Dex Int Fai Arc Any Phy Mag Fir Lit Hol Bst Rst
Standard 46 - - - - 50 E D - - C hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 25 12
Standard +1 52 - - - - 55 E D - - C hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 25.25 12
Standard +2 59 - - - - 60 E D - - C hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 25.5 12
Standard +3 66 - - - - 65 E D - - C hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 25.75 12
Standard +4 72 - - - - 70 E D - - C hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 26 12
Standard +5 79 - - - - 75 E D - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 26.25 12
Standard +6 86 - - - - 80 E D - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 26.5 12
Standard +7 92 - - - - 85 E C - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 26.75 12
Standard +8 99 - - - - 90 E C - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 27 12
Standard +9 106 - - - - 95 E C - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 27.25 12
Standard +10 112 - - - - 100 E C - - B hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25px(65) 38 25 25 25 25 27.5 12

 

 

Elden Ring Hammers
Club  ♦  Curved Club  ♦  Envoy's Horn  ♦  Flowerstone Gavel  ♦  Hammer  ♦  Mace  ♦  Marika's Hammer  ♦  Monk's Flamemace  ♦  Morning Star  ♦  Nox Flowing Hammer  ♦  Ringed Finger  ♦  Scepter of the All-Knowing  ♦  Spiked Club  ♦  Stone Club  ♦  Warpick

 




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    • Anonymous

      Does insane bleed buildup at max arcane. Plus’s it can be buffed so you can slap bloodflame blade on it to get a delicious amount of blood loss on it. Regularly it does terrible physical damage though.

      • Anonymous

        Varré’s final words make me think From made this weapon abysmal to match his sarcastic blessing. Love how delivers those lines.

        I made a lowborn build that slots greases, blood incants, and Reduvia. Covers all ranges. Mace charge attacks break stance easily, giving you the option to crit with Blade of Mercy + Assassin’s Daggers or heal + inflict status with Blood Tax. Lord of Blood rounds it out.

        You can add Smithscript Daggers for more range or a crit weapon to swap into. Lots of fun to take out Bloodfiend hordes, with love <3

        • Anonymous

          I enjoy using this in the off-hand paired with the bloody helice. gives me some nice quick swipes between helice pokes to really ramp up the bleed procs to trigger lord of blood/white mask's effect to follow up with a nice strong helice poke. Also a bit easier to swipe at chaff when on torrent.

          Being drippy is icing on the cake. And who doesn't like icing?

          • Anonymous

            Hmm, it's a hammer, so... you could dual-wield it along with a morning star... good. 65 of bleeding in the bouquet, 50 or 55 in the morning star. Hitting enemies with L1 would be interesting. The morning star physical damage and poise damage would fullfill the leak of damage in the bouquet. You can still infuse the morning star with blood fire and the bouquet with a blood grease. Just perfect to drawn yourself in the enemies blood.

            • Anonymous

              After the ripple blade and ripple Cresent halberd were nerfed, this has more status affect buildup. (Still has less AR than the reduvia.)

              • Anonymous

                After doing some math and testing, I think this weapon only has 1 real flaw in pvp, and it isn't the damage. The range is horrible, making it ridiculously tough to actually apply pressure. When this weapon works and you have Blood Grease applied with 80 Arcane, you will consistently be dealing 200 Bleed buildup per hit. That means every other hit is a Bleed proc. If you consider the consistent Bleeds, and you deal around 120 per hit after defenses, this means the Bouquet is actually dealing about 362 per hit after calculating Bleed procs. Many weapons with similar speeds wish they could deal that much damage, but this is truly bottlenecked by the range. Giving it more damage will not fix it, only a buff to it's hitbox will help. In pve, rising Bleed resistance is the hard wall this weapon faces, as range is less of a factor, additionally making it worthless against immune enemies.

                • Anonymous

                  Erm... what the sigma.... what was From thinking with this lmao. Very strange weapon, indeed! No high horse ahead!

                  • Anonymous

                    Feels like this one is meant to use more the Bleed Greases, Bloodflame incantation, and even some Sleep/Rot greases to try to play like a hammer type of Ripple Blade.

                    But if there are any other suggestions, I'd like to hear too, since I'm not really sure if I'm using this weapon efficiently.

                    • Anonymous

                      this wins the award for "worst ar at max level for a somber weapon" (according to tarnished.dev's weapon ar calculator) only losing to occult erdsteel dagger for worst weapon at max level period, congratulations, i guess

                      • Anonymous

                        No need for a buff. This is meant to be used alongside all of the status buffs at the same time. Begin an encounter with one bout of Blood Tax with Poison or Frost Armament, then Bloodflame Blade until the thing is dead. Trivializes npc encounters.

                        However, anything immune or 600-resist in a stat is almost impossible to kill, including Ancestor Spirits.

                        • Anonymous

                          This weapon needs a buff. They nerf bleed target at rivers, hammer targeted nerf for Marika's Hammer, as well as the dragon communion seal which combo ed with is was nerfed to oblivion. All this to say this weapon has been indirectly nerfed on 3 major occasions. It needs a major buff to be remotely playable.

                          • Anonymous

                            I don't really understand why that note about Bloodflame Blade is there. BB's page already shows it only adds bloodflame, not innate bleed buildup. It almost seems written to imply that you SHOULDN'T buff Varre's Bouquet with bloodflame...which is absolutely bonkers, because if you're using this in the first place, that's the ONLY buff you should use.

                            Seriously, the only better weapons to use Bloodflame Blade on are non-Fang claws, and that's strictly when they're paired.

                            • Anonymous

                              im curious if this will become the sleep shitters meta post ripple weapons status nerf after patch 1.12. with hammers being sped up too from that patch and this weapons innate bleed and arcane scaling and escaping the patch nerf hammer sounds like a recipe for disaster

                              • I like how using blood tax with this feels like you're making your opponent smell some flowers and then suddenly violently bleed everywhere. Other than that, though, this weapon isn't very good and I'd like it to be buffed.

                                • Anonymous

                                  Normally using boluses doesn't make me mad in pvp, but bleed is my only means of damage with this, please stop hurting me.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    I get that the only buffable weapon in the game with both arcane scaling and innate bleed build up had to have low AR. It would be broken if it didn't. It didn't need to be THIS low though.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      this weapon destroy bosses, use it as a guard break, put a spiked palisade bleed on left hand, never use blood tax, only use break, once the stance is broke swap to occult misericorde, your damage come from bleed + dagger, this weapon weight 2 and is enchantable with bloodflame, this is arcane paladin build, very fun to do, not a youtube 15000 damage build meme, but very honest way of playing the game.

                                      • Anonymous

                                        If they made it so the thorns of the rose spike out like a thrusting sword, maybe two or three threads of briars twining together, and then retracted on the Ash of War attack, and then they buffed the damage somewhat but kept the base range for the regular attacks, that's a halfway decent weapon

                                        • Anonymous

                                          Hello i was wondering if anyone knew if you can get his bouquet any earlier in the run I know that his quest can be done in like half an hour but still, I was just wondering if he would drop it at any earlier spots.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Since nobody else has mentioned it, I might as well say it; silver tear mask goes insanely well with this weapon, not only because of the extra arcane, but because it has such an abysmally low damage that the mask's physical damage reduction is negligible, basically giving you more bleed buildup with no dowsides.

                                            Fashion wise? for me it just works, makes you look like some wacky character out of a fighting game

                                            • Anonymous

                                              you can just infuse a greatsword/halberd with blood tax with bleed to get way more damage and range and similar bleed buildup. This might be buffable but the total damage is still so low that you're better off using an actual weapon instead

                                              that said, funni flower go bonk

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Just a reminder that this is actually a steel weapon, shaped like flowers. Now, how a steel mace deals 46 damage... that's the real mystery.

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Tarnished Review: Varre's Bouquet. A nice looking, but disappointing weapon, for a maidenless man. Out of all weapons found in the area, it truly is unique that it's usefulness is about as much as Varre's servitude to Mohg, which is very little due to the fact the other white masks are smart enough to attack you in areas with enemies, while Varre does a simple 1v1. Its damage is about what you expect when hitting someone with a full suit of armor with flowers. Granted it does good bleed, and can be buffed, its pitiful range matches the extent of how much Varre's fragile ego can take which with no surprise, is again very little. It's ash of war while again unique to the hammer class as it is the only one that can use it, is overshadowed, by literally any other weapon that has innate bleed and can be equipped with this ash of war. Compared to other weapons Mohg himself and, his 'cult members' use, it has is the most uninteresting ash of war, as all the others have some uniqueness to them. For example, Reduvia ash of war, while basically the same as Blood Blade, has unique difference of not costing hp and maybe even doing a little bit more damage. That makes it some what unique. However this weapon does not get that treatment, which in hindsight, is a missed opportunity, as there could have been many ways to make it more unique than regular blood tax. For Example, it could maybe have the roses thorns extend outward, maybe giving it the most range a hammer could have, or maybe it shoots out thorns to extend the range. Granted that could take a lot of work, but if not that, maybe increase the health taken from the player as well as the health gain from hitting it, could have been a interesting difference from regular blood tax, or maybe just having better status build up than regular blood tax. Alas, that is not the case for this. However in the end, I think we all can agree that this weapon is perfectly suited for Varre as it is as forgettable as him. 1 Blood Rose out of 30 Mohg's Dynasties. Would not recommend, will not get you maidens. In all seriousness though...this is just another meme weapon, that's look bloody cool for fashion, kind of wish it had the morning star moveset. It's not bad...but it's not good either :)

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    Tarnished Review: Varre's Bouquet. A nice looking, but disappointing weapon, for a maidenless man. Out of all weapons found in the area, it truly is unique that it's usefulness is about as much as Varre's servitude to Mohg, which is very little due to the fact the other white masks are smart enough to attack you in areas with enemies, while Varre does a simple 1v1. Its damage is about what you expect when hitting someone with a full suit of armor with flowers. Granted it does good bleed, and can be buffed, its pitiful range matches the extent of how much Varre's fragile ego can take which with no surprise, is again very little. It's ash of war while again unique to the hammer class as it is the only one that can use it, is overshadowed, by literally any other weapon that has innate bleed and can be equipped with this ash of war. Compared to other weapons Mohg himself and, his 'cult members' use, it has is the most uninteresting ash of war, as all the others have some uniqueness to them. For example, Reduvia ash of war, while basically the same as Blood Blade, has unique difference of not costing hp and maybe even doing a little bit more damage. That makes it some what unique. However this weapon does not get that treatment, which in hindsight, is a missed opportunity, as there could have been many ways to make it more unique than regular blood tax. For Example, it could maybe have the roses thorns extend outward, maybe giving it the most range a hammer could have, or maybe it shoots out thorns to extend the range. Granted that could take a lot of work, but if not that, maybe increase the health taken from the player as well as the health gain from hitting it, could have been a interesting difference from regular blood tax, or maybe just having better status build up than regular blood tax. Alas, that is not the case for this. However in the end, I think we all can agree that this weapon is perfectly suited for Varre as it is as forgettable as him. 1 Blood Rose out of 30 Mohg's Dynasties. Would not recommend, will not get you maidens. In all seriousness though...this is just another meme weapon, that's look bloody cool for fashion, kind of wish it had the morning star moveset, oh wait...it does. Huh...guess it didn't really help though. It's not bad...but it's not good either. :)

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Tarnished Review: Varre's Bouquet. A nice looking, but disappointing weapon, for a maidenless man. Out of all weapons found in the area, it truly is unique that it's usefulness is about as much as Varre's servitude to Mohg, which is very little due to the fact the other white masks are smart enough to attack you in areas with enemies, while Varre does a simple 1v1. Its damage is about what you expect when hitting someone with a full suit of armor with flowers. Granted it does good bleed, and can be buffed, its pitiful range matches the extent of how much Varre's fragile ego can take which with no surprise, is again very little. It's ash of war while again unique to the hammer class as it is the only one that can use it, is overshadowed, by literally any other weapon that has innate bleed and can be equipped with this ash of war. Compared to other weapons Mohg himself and, his 'cult members' use, it has is the most uninteresting ash of war, as all the others have some uniqueness to them. For example, Reduvia ash of war, while basically the same as Blood Blade, has unique difference of not costing hp and maybe even doing a little bit more damage. That makes it some what unique. However this weapon does not get that treatment, which in hindsight, is a missed opportunity, as there could have been many ways to make it more unique than regular blood tax. For Example, it could maybe have the roses thorns extend outward, maybe giving it the most range a hammer could have, or maybe it shoots out thorns to extend the range. Granted that could take a lot of work, but if not that, maybe increase the health taken from the player as well as the health gain from hitting it, could have been a interesting difference from regular blood tax, or maybe just having better status build up than regular blood tax. Alas, that is not the case for this. However in the end, I think we all can agree that this weapon is perfectly suited for Varre as it is as forgettable as him. 1 Blood Rose out of 30 Mohg's Dynasties. Would not recommend, will not get you maidens. In all seriousness though...this is just another meme weapon, that's look bloody cool for fashion, kind of wish it had the morning star moveset. It's not bad...but it's not good either :)

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Am I remembering things wrong, or were you able to get this right at the start by murdering Varre? I only got festering fingers now.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Most versatile hammer in the game. It's a sombre weapon, so upgrading is easy, can be accessed early thru Varres Quest as soon you beat two Demigods, has innate bleed that scales very well with Arcane (a trait unique to infused or unbuffable weapons), while also being buffable with greases or spells like Bloodflame Blade to devastating effect.

                                                          Not only that, but it has Blood Tax as its unique Skill (an ash of war normally unequippable on hammers), which not only compensates for the slowness of the hammer moveset, but gives you percent based healing-on-hit, and does enough poise damage to stun foes of human build with each hit.

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            Bleeds incredibly fast when buffed with blood grease on a high arcane build. The morning star moveset is pretty meh but at least it staggers well enough. The damage is worse than the torch. For a weapon this gorgeous it's a real shame its only a bleed tool.

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              How and why can a hammer do Bloodtax which is repeated thrust? Anyway I have to try to powerstance it with Ringed Finger or Envoys horn. it's gona be fun :D

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Hey, do you know if you are limited to only one Bouquet? Kinda like Serpent Hunter? I tried to obtain this weapon second time in NG+ and couldn’t get it.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  Nowadays actually makes for a pretty fun weapon into Malenia. As long as you have high Arcane and 30+ Mind, simply spamming her with AoW while buffed with Bloodflame Blade gets you through the fight very well. Staggers enough to not get hit by a dance mid-skill if you don't make mistakes, very easily punishes kicks, and healing from blood tax helps a lot to heal up accidental kick or blade flurry damage without wasting time on flasks. Haven't had as much fun with her since discovering whips, 10/10 can recommend.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    This weapon is intended to be used for pure bleed affliction. Its bleed scaling reaches like (120) and when using blood tax you can inflict bleed pretty quickly. Normal melee damage is definitely not much of an option but it actually can make for an interesting bleed build.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      Steps to enlightenment: Step 1: Get this weapon. Step 2: Equip it, and pray to the Formless Mother. Step 3: Try and kill a boss. Step 4: Attempt to PVP, and win. Congratulations! You are now enlightened about how awful this weapon is!

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        Steps to enlightenment: Step 1: Get this weapon. Step 2: Equip it, and pray to the Formless Mother. Step 3: Try and kill a boss. Step 4: Attempt to PVP, and win. Congratulations! You are now enlightened about how awful this weapon is!

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          This weapon with dagger speed would be really cool. They could've made it so you dual wield with the reduvia in your left hand like how the wakizashi powerstances with katanas.

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            why does this have to be so useless? I don't even care about the damage but it's so slow. The attack speed should be closer to daggers than other hammers

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              The AOW is thematic, I’ll give them that, but something more unique would have been great.

                                                                              With 99 Arc and upgraded +10, it has 135 blood loss buildup. If you’re powerstancing these, you can apply blood grease to both to boost that blood loss.

                                                                              I think increasing the attack speed tremendously would make this weapon competitive. It weighs 2 lbs and gets swung around like it weighs 10 lbs. The poise nerf in 1.08 didn’t help.

                                                                              Looks nice with rotten grave keeper cloak/helm and briar gloves/legs.

                                                                              Just my 2c.

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                I think this would be a fantastic weapon for going for a practically weightless hammer. Yes 2.0 isn't high but its not low enough that I would call this weapon unique. Its an ok choise for a bleed weapon but you have better options. If you want to use it because of how it looks it will serve you well and be useable but its never your best choise if you are looking for a practical tool.

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  Been using this for fun with a petal whip in my offhand. It's not that bad. I've won more than I've lost in the coliseum.

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    the fact this doesn't have a better moveset and is stuck with the standard slow hammer swings really kills this for any kind of pvp

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      blood tax was a pretty terrible ash choice for this, would have preferred something to make up for the piss poor range like something akin to piercing fang.

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        +0 Mantis Blade has 1 point more in physical damage than a +10 Varres Bouqet. 112 for +10 Bouqet, 113 for +0 Mantis Blade. well done FromSoft. it looks so cool and its so useless.

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          This is not necessarily a bad weapon if you buff it with frost. Basically you get some nice burst damage but also both frost and bleed can be proc'd during the weapon art, which will break your opponents stance multiple times. If you want to get really spicy, cast fire's deadly sins with it and you'll instantly reset your opponents frost status, allowing you to continuously proc it with bleed. Lastly, since frost and bleed procs always break your opponents stance, you don't actually have to two hand the hammer (which still has a horrible moveset), instead you can just keep it one handed, with a staff or incantation seal in your other hand... This setup is really good in 1v1 and invasions, but because you rely on two buffs, it's really hard to pull off in free for all matches, or team fights.

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            Getting bored on my arcane build. Un upgraded this thing currently has. 100 blood loss. I’m thinking of picking up another hammer to give it blood affinity. I’m interested to see powerstance bleed procs along with spamming bouquet’s AOW. Heck, even placing a better blood AOW on the other hammer and have boquet in the off hand. Though I do not expect dagger powerstance magic, I will have a little fun for a few days. And hey this hammer is pretty. Remember +9 is easy once you’ve progressed far enough.

                                                                                            • I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think people are underestimating this weapon because of its low damage. PVP aside, I think this is a pretty decent weapon in PVE. My current stats are 50 arcane and I got about 125 bleed buildup stat. I also add blood flame blade for extra bleed and damage (+Varre cosplay lmao). With all this combined, the cleanrot knight outside of the prayer room gets unlocked with its AOW. Enemies get a bit of hyper armor when they're stunned, but the bleed breaks through the hyper armor. Basically, just spam the AOW. Also, a single cast of AOW guarantees 2 procs of bleed, even though on the second proc the enemy would have increased resistance. If you want a guaranteed bleed, this weapon is a go-to. The damage is still terrible though, but it's not the worst weapon in the game (Those are for bows lmao).

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                I was planning on grabbing a pair of these and doing a Roserade build, but if it's this terrible i might not even bother...

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  Got invaded by a guy powerstancing this. He started attacking me & i felt bad for him so i just seppukued myself over & over. Even with his help it took a long time to die. I cant imagine the pain he must have suffered before that point.

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    The reason for the low damage is that the bleed effect it has is special. Almost double the normal bleed, but even with this it is a lousy weapon. With so little damage it is useless against enemies immune to bleeding.

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