Briar Set is an Armor Set in Elden Ring. Briar Set is a Medium Weight Armor that strikes a good balance between Physical and Magical defense. Sets of Armor in Elden Ring are composed of four armor pieces which are Helms, Chest Armor, Gauntlets, and Leg Armor.
Where to find Briar Set in Elden Ring
Purchased from the Enia in Roundtable Hold after defeating Elemer of the Briar in The Shaded Castle.
Briar Set Armor Pieces in Elden Ring
Briar Set Elden Ring Notes and Tips
- The Briar Armor can be altered to the Briar Armor (Altered) to remove the cape.
- Inflicts damage when dodge rolling into enemies. More damage per armor piece worn.
- 18 base damage before negations for all pieces except the body armor (unaltered and altered) which does 25.
- This makes any part of Briar Set useful while exploring locations with undead skeletons.
- A single piece of this set will trigger Malenia's Great Rune on hit. Multiple pieces does not stack the effect.
- The effect also applies with Quickstep and Bloodhound's Step.
- Poise updated to patch 1.07. See Patch Notes for details.
All Briar Set Pieces for Elden Ring
You can check out all the Briar Set Armor Pieces here. Click on a piece's name individually to learn more about it.
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Hope that they add a form of bleed build up to the armor pieces. Would hope to min max my bleed build
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If only the mask didn't look goofy, or was at least set straight. Rest of the armor is drip though
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I hope they add a clear/briar-less version of the armor in the DLC
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Was fighting the guy at sol wearing this set, level 90. Was on half health with on heal flask, until I panic rolled into him, killing him and saving me. Never letting go of this set.
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This set should damage enemies who grapple you. Like if an Iron Virgin grabs you, you'd hit her back directly to the weak spot
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Wear the gloves at all times, you'll never get stuck between mobs trying to roll out and die this way. Doesn't happen a .lot but when it does, oh boy is it infuriating,.
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Wear the gloves at all times, you'll never get stuck between mobs trying to roll out and die this way. Doesn't happen a .lot but when it does, oh boy is it infuriating,.
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I've been wearing the gauntlets on my usual set of armor and it's impressive how often that 1 point of damage staggers enemies when rolling. I've seen it interrupt black knives' attacks.
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If you wear this and use the lions claw aow, the flip counts as a rolling hit. Pretty useful in certain scenarios
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The left arm clips through the cape when jogging on medium load, theres no changes to the size of your arm that you can make to make it not clip while jogging, it is such a minor issue but it bother the **** out of me, its been like this since release and its been the only thing keeping me form doing a full run as a Elemer cosplay, help me
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Been entering duels with this set just for the lols and have at one point managed to get someone to half health lmao
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This armor gives me the vibe of what a late roman soldier would wear. Neat.
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Just a few notes from personal testing: Can be buffed with spells such as Flame, Grant Me Strength or Golden Vow. Anything that buffs the base damage of the character will buff this armour. This set DOES NOT activate any of the “repeated attack” talismans, like the Sword Insignias and Swaddling Cloth, although its damage will be buffed if the Sword Insignias are activated via other means. It also does not benefit from either the Windy Crystal Tear or the Crucible Feather Talisman.
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Am I the only one noticing that if you were this armor set you don't break things when jumping into them? I thought it was an update to the game, then I removed the armor and everything broke again. Rolling smashes thing still though.
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If I use the whole set, flames deadly sin and that rolypoly talisman can literally spin to win?
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You aren’t wearing the gauntlets with your optimized build for fashion. And you know it. Colossal goes away, DPS meta comes out and you get spanked. You get a point down and a well deserved sh*t pot.
You aren’t as slick as you think you are.
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I love the set, but i hate that it aimpunches in pvp. I would love to use it, but it's so annoying for the opponent.
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should be added you need to get the quest from Enia or otherwise after defeating Elemer you'll be locked out of getting the armor during the plsythrough.......... why fromsoft why....
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Note: While not great for bosses, this set is LOVELY for regular enemies. It's hits knock things out of attacks very easily, and knock them backwards normally. Meaning you can clear space by just rolling through hordes and getting them out of your way. Don't use it for damage, use it for utility.
This set is great in the open world, through dodging you sometimes interrupt the enemies attack which is a neat gimmick to this awesome looking Armor.
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I really like this set, probably my favorite in the game only a few others come close like the Eccentric set but I wish you could alter the armor as a 'restored' version. Not necessarily without the briars or pristine. Just being able to make the armor look worn but not tread through 7 kilometers of salty swamp water while pouring gravy on yourself.
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It’s a good thing they patched the fires deadly sin + blood flame blade glitch. It was deadly enough on its own but it sounds even worse when you pair it with this and lightning ram
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That looks more like barbed wire wrapped around it than briar bush needles.
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Why would you want to alter this armor?? Y'all are so petty lol.
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Elemer may be a merchant murdering madman but he does have impeccable fashion sense
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The aimpunch set, truly Elmer was the most evil man of his time to knowingly abuse such things.
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Why does this armor set not have good poise? Elemer poises through a heavy jump attack with a colossal weapon, and he wears the same armor.
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Idk why everyone hates the thorns, they tell a neat little story.
They are also the only reason that rolling with this would deal dmg
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Lower poise than the Knight Set which you can buy in the first 20 min of the game. I get the added bonus of the roll damage but still, 51 should be the bare minimum for sets of this tier.
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This is a really cool looking armor set…love the jacked up mask
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FromSoftware: proceeds to add a altered armors system.
Fromsoftware too: only adds cape alteration and skip adding restored version for rusty sets and additional variations.
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Be careful wearing this set if you're trying to avoid wildlife conflict with the beast repellent torch. That is why I was running around those basilisks naked, officer. I swear!
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Fun fact: with the giant cusher R2 or lion's claw this armor will slightly stagger enemies for tiny damage during the first part of the animation when next to them.
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Those of you on PC, if you don't like the barbed wire but like the rest of the set theres a super simple mod to remove it from the armour and the sword on nexus. Looks incredible without it imo.
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Neat little interaction: wearing a piece of this armour set will remove your ability to break objects by jumping in no-combat areas like Roundtree.
I discovered this when I tried jumping on the candlestand going to the twin husks shop, and ended up on TOP of the stand rather than breaking it. To my surprise, you can even leave a message there! Further testing around the area found I could not jump to break tables, armour stands, or chairs with the Briar armour on, but rolling into them still works. Wonder if that's intended, or it'll be fixed down the line.
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The helmet is inspired by "Monkey Christ" - a painting "renovated" by some random old lady in Spain
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Hitting enemies with the roll counts as a hit for the rune of Malenia, effectively giving you health back with each roll-hit
i like wearing one piece of this set so i can roll past most enemies and have them jerk their entire bodies for 1 damage.
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Y,know as much as i hate bell bearing hunters with a passion, they have very dripped up armor.
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Can you kill NPCs in safe zones like the Roundtable with this on?
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Bumping into enemies with this counts as a weak attack and enemies that deflect weak attacks like Crystallians will cause you to stagger. This can lead to you getting stunlocked if you get too close to an enemy like that until their combo finishes, because they keep moving in to you which keeps triggering your stagger animation.
This works with quickstep and bloodhound step for some ungodly reason.
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With morgotts great sword the initial rush that you do before the bloodflame slash will stagger enemies with this set effectively allowing you to get the slash off almost like adding some hyper armor to the attack pretty interesting
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If youre having trouble with the blood alburnac’s in mowhgs palace, putting one piece of this set on allows you to interrupt their summersault attack by just rolling into them!
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The altered chest piece has such a nice skirtline, shame the shoulders are so bulky it makes my character look like she could throw a bowling ball into orbit
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I just wish the barbed wire actually fit the outfit and didn't clip so badly with the pieces- I love the look(and I wish the altered version allowed you to remove the wire), but the wire has a cool theme to it- but its just so bad with clipping, even with its own pieces, that I cant wear it without being bothered by it.
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Does Raptor of the Mists gain free damage if you activate it while wearing this? I could imagine being able to avoid taking damage, damaging and staggering a foe, while falling into a jumping attack could be a bit obnoxious.
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Holy sh*t this set is really good especially combined with specific weapon skills like lions claw because you stagger enemies before they hit and interrupt you so you have more chance of landing a hit, very epic fromsoft!
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It's weird that people complain about the things that make the set so unique and cool looking. Definitely my favorite armor in the game.
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It's weird that people complain about the things that make the set so unique and cool looking. Definitely my favorite armor in the game.
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This set would look insanely cool if it didn't have the barbed wire.
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They ****ed up the stats on the set, it does not have 600 poise, like the boss.
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I'm gonna say it: This is one of my aesthetically favorite sets in the game.
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Does anyone know how much poise damage the set takes? As well as how much poise damage it deals with only one equipped? Or two etc?
Just curious because I know it staggers enemies with weak poise like zombies for PVE it for players if you're running super light armor for whatever reason, it could stagger you similar to a throwing knife. Just curious since I only wear one piece and didn't know if there was a way to determine the poise damage.
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Wearing any piece of this set prevents you from destroying destructible decor such as crates or chairs when you jump into them, however rolling will still cause them to break.
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Looks nice with the black hood or the Skeletal Mask. The confessor hood kinda works too but the color is just slightly off.
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this armor + Eitehr quick step or bloodhound step is pretty fun
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this armour can proc bleed on enemies provided you're using a weapon that builds the status up. found this out while fighting malenia with bloodhounds fang, and while rolling towards her trying to avoid attacks i procced a bleed effect on occasion. haven't tested this in pvp yet, and i don't think that you could build a full bleed up from fully rolling but if you're using a bleed weapon it is enough to push some people over the edge at times. don't need a full set, just one piece of armour will do.
also great for dealing with any undead enemies. just roll over the bodies before they revive and they die. just be careful around NPC's as I did accidentally kill an injured npc while trying to progress their questline.
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I figured out a handy tip. What its great for is killing the skeleton enemies when they're on the ground. You just kill them, then roll through their dead body to finish them without them getting back up. Easy peasy. All you need is one piece of the armor for it to work, so you can just have like the gloves or legs only etc.
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Be very careful near friendly NPC's in this set. The rolling attack is disabled in non-attack areas for obvious reasons, but it will one-shot any NPC that can't fight back if attacked otherwise. Example: Rolling into Alexander will just act as an attack and piss him off, but rolling into someone like Sage Gowry will instantly kill them. Backstepping doesn't count, though, as it doesn't deal any damage normally. Careful with that B / O button, friends.
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Do yourself a favor and don't roll into shield enemies with this, you will trigger their counter attack when rolling into them.
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I wish the hat was pointier but this is still the best choice for a Penitent One cosplay.
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Do NOT wear any of this armour, working as it does as the Thorns armour in DaS3 it deals damage upon rolling around your opponent, damage that can be used by them to trigger a guard counter by blocking...
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I got this for my lvl 20 twink invasions in stormveil.
4 pieces at lvl 20 do 21 damage per roll. Not much, but at low levels 10 rolls against 1host+2cooperators will make at least one of them step back and heal. Much needed respite when against the odds
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just by wearing a single piece in mi case gauntlets it staggers most of the mobs pretty usefull especially for fast annoying mobs or packs
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Has anyone tried this with the goat roll ash of war? Does it add to the damage?
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Makes bloodhound step deal damage if you bump into an enemy.
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briar helm stats is clearly off. Dmg Negation
Phy 4.6
VS Strike 4.0
VS Slash 4.8
Wgt. 5.1
VS Pierce 4.4
Magic 3.8
Fire 4.4
Ligt 3.1
Holy 3.8
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Immunity 15
Robustness 31
Focus 10
Vitality 10
Poise 5
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Best part about this set that noone is talking about is how it also makes rolling deal stance damage and can stance break enemies.
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If you roll into something capable of deflecting attacks (Miners, Crystalians, shields, etc), and you have a weapon you lack the stats to wield in one hand in your right hand, you'll deflect off them and cancel your roll. Even if you have the necessary strength while two-handing, you'll still deflect.
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Killed the entire gate front ruins camp just with rolling. Love this set. Someone needs to do a roll only run
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