Varre's Bouquet | Elden Ring Wiki

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.

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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.

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I wish they gave this the dagger moveset. Makes way more sense to swing a bouquet of flowers like that than like the hammers.

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The bleed build-up is pretty decent

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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

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Blood loss build-up is 89.

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Reduce the damage to 10, but make every hit cause a bleed proc.

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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.

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This weapon happens when you break up at valentines day

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A blue one would make for a good Roserade cosplay with the original bouquet.

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Funny to remember that this weapon has less damage than the Club

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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.

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Weapon for the maidenless

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They should have just given it a shortspear lenght handle, and keep the damage as it is.

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Easily the dopest looking weapon in the game. Deserves a phat buff for that reason alone.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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You know you're a **** weapon when you deal less damage than a regular dagger.

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can i get this offline, or is another pay to win BS?

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When fashion souls is all you really care about

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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

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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.

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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.

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bleed on this weapon is 90 not 65

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bleed on this weapon is 90 not 65

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I would love to get this for the memes, but I'm not losing my dragon eyes.

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Best used with the "You're Beautiful" carving.

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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.

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The only deadly consequence his voice had was calling me maidenless with it

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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

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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.

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+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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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I think getting hit with plain old regular roses would actually do more damage than this thing does

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I really wish this was a greathammer or colossal weapon

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Why Fromsoft, why do you make so many cool things that are garbage.

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Let's be generous here. This is complete garbage.

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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...

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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.

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only good thing is it so light so you can keep it as a back up if you need to farm health

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it's like getting hit with an actual bouquet of flowers

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good for meme, time to propose marriage to malenia... YOU DIED

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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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i got invaded by a dude with gigantic thighs named femboy war maiden and he walked up to me and kneeled and i drank my physic and ****ing exploded killing us both

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It is obtainable. Getting this weapon led me here.

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Unobtainable as of 1.06. Killed him at his summon by the Dynasty Mausoleum Midpoint. Not there after defeated.

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You stop and smell the roses until you realize there made of metal and it’s a freaking mace and that color of red is just blood

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Where is everyone getting the idea that this is just a regular bouquet of flowers? It quite literally says in it's description that it's a steel mace and the petals have sharpened edges.

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Hilariously bad. Even with Bloodflame or a Blood Grease the base damage is still so low that the bleed procs don’t make up for it. It’s also the second shortest hammer in the game, next to the Nox Hammer which actually is useful.

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I was somehow convinced this is an actual weapon in the shape of a bouquet of flowers, like perhaps a steel mace with flower ornamentation. But no, it's just Varre's flowers. Ok...

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this is the only weapon i'd be ok with having S arc scaling and innate bleed

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50 dex and 60 arc = 260 ar.....Damn this needs a buff

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Gonna make a character called "Day Improver" or something similar, and then go to the Raya lucaria arena, use the "Your Beautiful" Item, then leave them this weapon at plus ten. Then I'll just redownload my data and repeat.

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Now that patch 1.06 is out, EVERYONE can complain about the bafflingly low AR on this thing.

Thanks, Elden Ring!

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mr Miyazaki pls reduce ARC requirement to 23 so I can use this at lvl1 ty

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Roses are red,
Elden Beast gold
I slapped Marika with this hammer bouquet
And over my """ She rolled.

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YAY I CAN GET THE WORST WEAPON IN THE GAME WITHOUT MULTIPLAYER NOW!!! (I'm being serious this bugged me so bad)

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Was so disappointed with how this performed. Very cool looking

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Catch it!! Quick!!!! whoever does will be the next to get abducted by mohg and driven mad by cursed blood and rituals !

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Putting a thrusting ash of war on a hammer is kind of wierd.

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that's cute

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I think this weapon is trash as kind of a dunk on Varre, cuz he is so damn smug.

You get a better reward for following his quest line just by getting to access Moghwyn so early for all that furtive rune farming.

This weapon just looks cool, but is ultimately feeble, and that is okay.

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broken straight sword equivalent

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Let Me Date Her

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"On a level 400 character, upgraded and buffed with bloodflame it does a whooping 200dmg per r1."
Besides WHOOPING lol not sure why someone needed to copy that from a comment a few down, the upgrade chart is right there and you don't add anecdotes to a wiki

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Golly I love playing on Playstation where I need to pay at least 10 dollars to play online for one game and for one month despite already paying for my own internet anyways.

Like I know this weapon sucks but God damn can't I at least get it without going online From!?

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This weapon is undoubtedly terrible, but it is pretty funny beating up your enemies with a literal bouquet of roses

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It should be noted this weapon cannot be optained if you are offline always. You need online access to get it.

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I finally went and got this weapon for my pve character I'm working on, my plan is to +10/25 everything in the game.

I got this so I wanted to see if its as bad as people make it out to be.

On a level 400 character, upgraded and buffed with bloodflame it does a whooping 200dmg per r1.

My headcannon is that it was meant to be used as a key weapon to romance several npcs across the lands between. In short 10/10 one of the greatest weapons.

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Why is this guy fighting with a big broccli

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This would make for a fun challenge run weapon. Terrible damage so you rely on the bleed, which in turn forces you to play aggressively and get as many hits off as quickly as you can.

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Why in god's name does this have Blood Tax as the AOW? They could've easily gave it some petal storm that causes bleed build up or something akin. It's the Harp Bow all over again :/

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Terrible, thats it, no other way to describe it, its damage is abysmal, it has short range which makes the AOW utterly useless, and its a hammer which are pretty mediocre weapons, and the dual moveset is god awful.

Other than a flat buff to its dmg, it also needs a new AOW, cause Blood Tax is only usable on longer weapons, a Blood Mist would be fitting, like the ones from the Putrid Corpses, its a bunch of flowers, so the mist would be like pollen or something idk.

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Hello, i try today the blood greases with this and it behaves strangely. with the innate bleed the weapon has + greases i should proc bleed in One or 2 hit max just like a weapon with seppuku and that's not the case at all.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bleed grease overright the innate bleed for some reason. Need some testing.

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It feels like it should have additional fire damage just like the other blood arcane weapons: rob and eleonora's poleblade. Hope they add it because hammers overall suck and this one doesn't even have damage.

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Viable only if you're using greases - when a weapon with arcane scaling is applied a status grease that scales with Arcane (bleed, poison, sleep) the grease effect scales.

Yes, this can be buffed with Bloodflame but it's a poor candidate for it since Bloodflame's bleed tick is static. Use the grease.

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Ran it at 125 with blood grease. Bleed went off every three hits in pvp but the damage was 28 per swing! I managed a 50% win rate. Trash.

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good scaling but awful base damage
quite sad

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anyone else find it odd that the hammer is a dex weapon? also if it did fire damage, it could be the strength counterpart to Rivers and Eleonora's

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Steel mace that does as much damage as some grass with spikes.
Even powerstanced(what even is that moveset) this thing does no damage and absolutely sucks in PVP.

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althought it might not be the best, kinda drippy

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can you get Varré's Bouquet offline

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It's sad how this weapon is so underwhelming even varre cant use it well. He was supposed to be the elite mogh pupil but a sanguine noble is harder than him.

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Getting this item doesn't work exactly the way its described.

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I found a cool use for it. So you know how crossbow bolts inherit status effects from your main hand weapon? The optimal setup is Fire's Deadly Sin with a seppuku weapon (the heavier - the better, because you get higher bleed buildup from a bleed infusion), and burred bolts with the pulley crossbow. Now, if for whatever reason you want to do this combo before you reach the Mountaintops, or if you don't want to take any damage while doing the combo, or you think, as I do, that holding a flaming bouquet of roses while hipfiring a crossbow looks cool as hell, then you can use varre's bouquet with bloodflame blade, because the base bleed buildup on it is higher than any other buffable weapon (I think). Tested this on a troll and it roughly has the same performance as a seppuku blood claymore in the main hand, with only 35 arcane.

To summarize, this doesn't make the weapon good, but it's the best, most optimal setup you can possibly give it. Also much more fashionable than stabbing yourself in the stomach (also the buff animation is shorter and you can move while buffing).

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Can someone help explain to me how to get this, because i've gotten to where you can invade him, but the invasion sign just isn't there. I haven't actually done his quest, and went there through the snow-field. Is there a way to get it without doing the invasions? I killed all the nameless white masks already as well. Only one i haven't killed is mohg, for obvious reasons.

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Curious, since Ripple weapons are pretty good with greases, I wonder if Blood Grease would be pretty decent on these. Even with the B scaling since it already has innate bleed.

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like i have it on +9 with 70 arc and 40 dex and the ar is 236

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When two handed at +10, with 99 in every single stat, this weapon has a total AR of 318 with 135 Bleed build up.

So pretty good damage for a pair of roses.

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When two handed at +10, with 99 in every single stat, this weapon has a total AR of 318 with 135 Bleed build up.

So pretty good damage for a pair of roses.

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When two handed at +10, with 99 in every single stat, this weapon has a total AR of 318 with 135 Bleed build up.

So pretty good damage for a pair of roses.

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This weapon is incredible with an Arcane build. Most overlooked weapon in the game. You can use Blood grease on it or even add Hemorrhage to it, and it swings fast. Insane Hemorrhage proc speed to it. If you can get a 2nd to Power Stance with, its the fastest killing weapons in the game, hands down. It can kill Omens and bosses in well under 30 seconds or less.

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can you get this without invading people for varres quest?

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Even this meme hammer requires Dex investment to use -_-

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So this weapon is a very niche weapon that you will only see a benefit from high levels (over 150)

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Still no lover,
Try Bouqet!

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