Almanauts
Elden Ring
SorceryVerified for build 25827938
Briars of Punishment

Briars of Punishment

Wounds caster to unleash trail of bloodthorns

Type
Sorcery
FP
9
Stamina
22
Memory slots
1
Requires
Fai 21

In-game description

An aberrant sorcery discovered by exiled criminals. Theirs are the sorceries most reviled by the academy.

Wounds the caster with thorns of punishment, sending a trail of bloodthorns running over the ground to impale enemies from below. This sorcery can be cast repeatedly.

The guilty, their eyes gouged by thorns, lived in eternal darkness. There, they discovered the blood star.

What it hits with

HitMagicStancePer castBlood loss
Briars of Punishment2127172

Base damage per hit from the game's attack table (AtkParam_Pc), before your staff's scaling and the target's defenses; stance is the poise damage of the hit. "Per cast" is how many of that projectile one cast fires; how many of them reach one target depends on its size and distance, so no total per cast is given. Status buildup is per hit, from the effect the projectile applies. Hit names are the community's labels for the param rows.

Damage at your staff's scaling

Hit100200300400500
Briars of Punishment2124246368481,060

The columns are the Sorcery Scaling number your staff shows in the status screen; each hit is its base damage × that number ÷ 100, before defenses and buffs. Find your staff's number at your stats with the build planner.

#29 of 70 sorceries by strongest hit

  1. Magma Shot250 16 FP
  2. Briars of Sin233 6 FP
  3. Stonesword Key233 9 FP
  4. Magic Glintblade230 12 FP
  5. Briars of Punishment212 9 FP
  6. Great Glintstone Shard211 12 FP
  7. Shatter Earth205 10 FP
  8. Glintstone Icecrag199 12 FP
  9. Adula's Moonblade189 22 FP
Base damage of each spell's strongest single hit (held casts included), for the 9 sorceries around this one. A full bar is Rellana's Twin Moons (400). Per FP this one deals 23.6 base damage with that hit.

Where to find Briars of Punishment

Placed in the world 1

  • Flame Peak · Giants' Mountaintop Catacombs

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