Pest Threads |
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Spell Type | Servants of Rot Incantations |
FP Cost 19 | Slots Used 1 |
Effect
Launches countless sticky threads before caster
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Pest Threads is an Incantation in Elden Ring. Pest Threads spell conjures sticky threads that deal damage to enemies.
Incantation of the servants of rot.
Secretes countless sticky threads, launching them forwards.
A technique of the pale pests who crawl through the lands afflicted by scarlet rot; the abandoned children of the goddess.
"Do you have an interest in rot incantations?"
Where to find Pest Threads
Where to find Pest Threads:
- Sold by Sage Gowry for 7500 Runes after progressing Millicent's quest line and giving her the Valkyrie's Prosthesis.
Elden Ring Pest Threads Guide
- Servants of Rot Incantation
- Stamina Cost: 29
- Deals Standard Damage and 1 Stance damage per hit
- Can hit as few as 6 times on smaller enemies to as many as 30 times for larger enemies
- Very good tracking, therefore can be useful against smaller targets.
- This incantation can do extremely high damage to large boss enemies, even without a significant amount of optimization
- This is because the projectiles do damage to every piece of geometry they pass though, and the wings/arms/legs of larger bosses are counted separately
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"a man cannot kill a god"
"All-Knowing" my ass the idiot didn't even consider the possibility that gods are vulnerable to weaponized coom
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As much as I like the giant shredder spell. I wish this had a unique mechanic to it. It says sticky threads. So I originally thought it would stick into the enemy and cause a debuff like lower movement speed or a dot effect that's more or less permanent but kinda weak and can stack and deals physical instead of a status.
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This is a great side spell on a 80/80 INT/FTH holy caster build. The order seal gets the highest incant scaling in the game and you are already using incantation damage increasing talismans, so basically a min/maxed holy caster is without any changes minmaxed for this spell, which is very useful for killing bosses that are very resistant to holy.
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Azur's staff in the offhand is very strong on this one, the cast speed boost is very noticeable, there's no weapon that boosts this incants damage anyways, AND the increased FP cost does not even apply to incantations! That makes it the perfect offhand weapon for a Pest Threads build, can only recommend.
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Btw, if you didn’t go back to Gowry after giving Millicent the prosthesis and you finished her quest line, you can kill him and get it from his bell bearing.
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Beyond the fact it melts large bosses, it has less stamina cost than stone of gurranq and can also be chaincasted. But better do it from a decent distance because its stance damage isn’t as great as the stone
Let me just launch countless sticky threads over that dragon's face
So we have staves that boost whopping 2 (duo) spells but no seal with boost to Kindred of Rot spells, cmon Big M better give us one in dlc
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This is your go to incantation for standard damage in case something resists both fire and holy
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when you get to mohg on your incantation build and find out he has 80 fire res, pest threads will delete him before he can even transition when buffed with shabriri, vow, jelly shield and the right talismans
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I was NOT ready for how much this would trivialise Radahn. Even on NG+.
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busted against big enemies like dragons, giants, tree fatasses and the like.
it's not that good against anything else, but when it's good it's absolutely insane. an absolute must have
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Fans: we need an incantation thats not Fire Nor Holy!
Fromsoft: "Sure, i got you, fam."
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If you think this doesn’t do a lot of damage, try casting it locked onto a dragon’s head while you’re standing behind one of its rear legs.
If the point you’re lock onto is CLOSER than the maximum range of the spell, then you’re not getting it to pass through enough damage detection zones.
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I was pretty septic with pest threads, the few time i used it it was very underwhelming, after reading some comments here i tried again and now i understand. With the Clawmark seal +19 and 60str it blasted the Black Blade Kindred and the dragon on the bridge not far from the bestial sanctum, the trick was to get really close, i only used pest threads and did one riposte on each with my weapon, it's staying in my memorized spells from now on
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It works well against any red wolf.
Pest Threads and Night Maiden's Mist are my favorite magic in the game.
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"Do you have an interest in rot incantations?" sounding like a door to door salesman
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9 out of 10 big Elden Ring bosses HATE this one simple trick!!!
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however, at the moment of this spell's purchase, the player will have already found better alternatives
How could you possibly know that... Keep your opinions to yourself and just include the information relating to the specific subject.
almost every page has irrelevant info and opinion.
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The best cosmos shark slug killer, low-key yet op as hell on most big bosses.
9/10 incant, only downside is range.
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Pest Threads is a weird incantation. It's cheap. It's FP efficient and it does a ridiculous sum of damage, once you realize that you just need an S scaling Seal. You don't even need to lock-on an enemy, just shred the Dragon(s) with it. You'll get what I mean.
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Tested this today on my faith build for the first time today, first Fire Giant then Adula. Comments state that you have to get really close but it does annihilate super huge bosses from close. Giant was too mobile but staying right under Adula did 50% in two casts with 80 faith
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Underrated spell if you're looking to cheese big bosses
Normally when you hit anything in ER, it adds that specific attack to its list of things to not take damage from again ( so you don't hit the same target multiple times with one swing ), when it comes to big bosses, each of their separate internally labelled body parts counts as a unique entity to hit, since this spell has several projectiles that keep going until they reach the "center" of a target, one thread can hit up to several times for a crazy amount of damage. Astel, Fire Giant, and Elden Beast weep when they see you use this
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There is a hidden feature of this spell that increases its utility by quite a lot. While on your horse, Torrent, this spell once locked onto the enemy does not care for where your character is pointed. Meaning, an enemy can be directly behind you, once you cast this skill it will go directly for them, unlike most other skills which require your character to to some degree be pointed towards your locked-on target.
This in my opinion significantly boosts its usefulness is PVE, and makes it excellent for Mongol-Horse-Archering any enemy while running away from it. The only downside is the absurdly low range, which I wish would get buffed.
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This incantation will wreck any beastie larger than a house. You will need to be right up in its face for maximum devastation, but the sheer power of it is worth the risk.
— Courh the Explorer
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You know what's really in this seal in my hand?
MEGA THREAD BLAST!
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Fire giant, Elden Beast, Rykard,Astel, you name it, if is big it will destroy it.
If used for rykard equip the flamedrake talisman and the fire resistant incantation sold by corhyn and go stand next to him, i had erdtree seal (+10) and 70 faith + 10 from wondrous physick and opaline hard tear, i was taking negligible damage from fire, second phase is harder but as long as he doesn't use the fire skull attack (rykard rancor) its easy, just dodge the jump and gg, and dont forget to boost it with golden vow, flock canvas talisman and radagon icon to spam it faster.
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Just watched a video where a buffed up faith caster killed Elden Beast in under 10 seconds using this. Rofl
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When your Faith/arcane build needs to kill Elden Beast but you can't use Reduvia or Rotten Breath.
confirming the pest threads hype vs Elden beast. i think it took around 10 casts with a max upgrade erdtree seal with 78 faith @ level 150. golden vow may or may not have been active XD
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If you're having trouble with the elden beast then pest threads are for you.
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To use this properly, you have to be more or less right next or under your target. At that point it does absolutely insane damage, and use the Winged Sword Insignia + flock's and faithful canvas talismans to maximise damage. Winged Sword in particular means each successive hit's going to do more damage. Fortissax and Lansseaxx go down incredibly fast.
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I think I'm using it wrong because it doesn't seem that great on Elden Beast.
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The tracking on this is amazing, but the range is limited. Highly situational.
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This is a very strong incantation. Pest Threads does insane damage but with two very large caveats. It's extremely situational and requires two factors to get full value.
Firstly, Pest Threads is superior against large enemies like Dragonkin Soldier, Fire Giant, Elden Beast, or dragons.
Secondly, Pest Threads seems to have really intense damage falloff at range. To maximize damage with this spell, you need to be in melee range of the large target. If you're farther than melee range, the damage really suffers.
Pest Threads also seems to do a ton of poise damage. But, again, this incantation only really gets full value against massive enemies and in melee range. If the enemy is smaller, or you're not in melee range, it will only tickle. Tickle threads at range or against lil enemies.
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To the comment after the one below me. I just got the threads from Gowry today. You either too early in Millicent quest line or too late
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A spell so good I have to deliberately withhold it for "oh crap" situations so I don't feel like I'm cheesing the game with it. Not even God itself could have hoped to stand against the might of my S T I C K Y S E C R E T I O N S
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Tested on secluded cell giant and friends, this spell when used while wearing black knife set, is silent. I cast some flame spells on the giant and the friends always noticed, but I could cast dozens of pest threads and kill the giant without them being alerted. Might be useful for your stealth run :)
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Getting hit by this at point blank range actually hurts a lot. Running a glass cannon blue dancer build, i noticed it can take off more than half of someones healthbar in a single cast. In some cases even oneshotting them. Pair that with the impressive tracking & the ability to hit a target multiple times (but only when cast at a target within dagger range) & you have a powerful spell. Not broken, as you can still just use a shield or strafe it in most cases. But pretty good.
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A lot of comments and the page saying this does very good damage to large bosses but that hasn't been my experience with it I've never seen it hit for more than a couple of hundred. I used it on the dragons near fort faroth and I've tried using it on Lansseax but it wasn't worth the FP price of casting it.
Can anyone explain this and if there's something I'm doing wrong or if I'm missing something?
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Did this get nerfed, or am I just not understanding this incantation properly? This did nothing to dragons for me. Nothing. Even with 44 faith. Maybe because I'm a clawmark seal user? Does it need to be a different seal?
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Arguably the best offensive incantation in the game for two main reasons:
1) Unmatched damage against large enemies (ex: dragons, gargoyles, elden beast)
2) Great tracking against mobile enemies (ex: birds, runebears, mounted knights, NPC invaders)
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>walks into elden beast fight with nothing but a pumpkin helm and seal
>r1 for 3300 damage
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Aaand now I'm struggling against the Elden Beast and Gowry is all depressed and won't sell anything to me anymore smh
Otherwise known as the "What the ****? How could he hit me from there?" spell.
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I decided to try this spell on the first Farum Azula dragon and it absolutely wrecked it.
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The damage this spell deals against larger enemies is absolutely insane. Dragons and especially the Elden Beast get their health bar deleted in a matter of seconds. With the Erdtree Seal at 80 Faith, I'm dealing well over 3000 DPS against the Elden Beast. It's pretty much the Faith equivalent of Astel's Meteorites.
I believe the reason for its huge damage against large creatures (while being mediocre at best against humanoid enemies) is that it has a rather unique combination of being able to pass through enemy hitboxes while also having good tracking. So each of the projectiles can hit the enemy, pass through its hitbox, turn around, hit it again and again. And if it happens to hit one of the bosses limbs/wings while doing so, it will tick for additional damage too.
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This spell is how you kill Rykard without Serpent-Hunter. Absurd scaling with absurdly large enemies. Near-useless on your average enemy, but oh man is this satisfying to delete the healthbars of anything giant.
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This is decent for setting up combos, even very simple ones, like Pest Threads -> Lightning Spear. If they get stunned by the threads lightning spear will most likely connect (given enough cast speed)
But Tiple Rings of Light still is the best setup combo spell faith user have rn. Not much options compared to sorceries, especially after the removal of chain casting in 1.05 unfortunately
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Melts tree spirits, and it's easy to do that since you hug them all the time. Wait for it to spit fire and cast one, boom that's 1/5th of its health gone
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Does anyone know if this incant is boosted by the (Rotten) Winged Sword Insignia talisman and the Thorny Cracked Tear? Would be kinda crazy.
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Besides shredding elden beast, this is very useful for taking care of pesky birds.
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Whole meaning of this spell is to shred elden beast in pieces. Really, i cast it like 6 times and he died on ng+
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I just got these and I thought I'd wasted 7500 runes after seeing the disappointing damage it was doing to the marionette enemies near the gate of sellia. But after reading some of these comments I think I might have been a bit quick to write them off as worthless. I'm trying them on the next erdtree avatar or wormface I come across ( I hate both of those boss types)
I love having this one in PvP as a back up if the opponent is exceptionally passive. It makes them attack you.
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It does so much damage on larger enemies because every time the threads hit a new piece of geometry, it hits the boss again. That means anything with wings etc. is extremely vulnerable to this. You can maximize damage with this by going in melee range to maximize the number of folds in the boss’s mesh that they pass through.
The same is true for the discus of light incantation, but it only has “2” projectiles if you count the return.
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If you spam this ability in PVP a house centipede will be laying on your junk when you wake up the next morning singing fly like a bird by Mariah Carey
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Is there a sorcery equivalent of this that does multiple ticks of damage and demolishes huge enemies?
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