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Notice: this talisman can solely be present in a late-game space of Shadow of the Erdtree and as such, this information comprises heavy spoilers. It is advisable for gamers to find your complete map earlier than studying any additional, to stop spoilers.

The Abyssal Woods is a fairly scary place, even for seasoned Elden Ring veterans. No different space within the recreation straight tells you to cover and sneak round to outlive, and at first look, it looks like the sport means it. Roaming the map are 5 Untouchables, enemies smothered within the insanity that permeates the land, a lot in order that in the event that they catch sight of you as soon as, you are (probably) lifeless. The enemies have a really lengthy vary madness-inflicting gaze, can teleport on to your location (even for those who break line of sight), and will they land a seize on you, will inflict large injury and insanity buildup. This seize is so lethal, that even characters with 50 Vigor and sporting gear with excessive Focus will nonetheless probably be one-shot. Even do you have to handle to sneak up on them, you will discover that the insanity aura that surrounds them additionally protects them from all identified varieties of injury. No surprise the sport tells you to not interact them in fight.

Nonetheless, for the actually courageous, there may be one different approach to take care of them — similar to most terrifying issues in Souls video games, the true resolution is parrying. That is proper, for those who handle to parry the seize assault, you’ll not solely knock them off steadiness, permitting for a crucial hit, however you’ll take away their insanity aura, stopping the passive insanity buildup and permitting you to wreck them usually. To parry these monstrosities efficiently, you want a defend that has the Parry talent — we personally used the Gilded Iron Protect — and it’s essential to parry proper when the seize animation is about to attach along with your character.

Whereas 4 of the Untouchables drop Swollen Grapes, a crafting materials used alongside Spiritgrave Stones to craft Surging Frenzied Flame consumables, one Untouchable drops an exceedingly uncommon talisman: the Aged One’s Exultation. Particularly, this Untouchable is the primary one discovered to the south of the Woodland Path Website of Grace, discovered within the picture above. This talisman boosts your character’s assault energy by roughly 15% each time insanity is inflicted within the neighborhood of your character — together with when you have insanity inflicted on your self. This buff solely lasts for about one minute, however it may be refreshed as soon as it falls off.