Deflecting Hardtear

Type

Crystal Tear

FP cost

0

Maximum held

1

Maximum stored

1

Consumed when used

No

About this item

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.

The resulting concoction temporarily enhances spontaneous guard.

Damage negation and guard poise will be heightened in the moment immediately after assuming a guarding stance. Successfully executing a spontaneous guard will also strengthen guard counters.

Furnace Golem north of Scorched Ruins

Gravesite Plain

Starting Site of Grace: Scorched Ruins

Before you go

• Enter the Realm of Shadow after defeating Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena.

1. From Gravesite Plain, follow the road north through Scorched Ruins. The enormous burning golem patrols the field farther north, near the route to Three-Path Cross.
2. Attack its unarmored legs until repeated staggers bring it down. When its face reaches the ground, move to the front for a critical attack.
3. Jump or move clear of the ground flames from its stomps. Keep attacking after it gets up until it dies and awards the tear.

Notes

• For five minutes, precisely timed guards reduce incoming damage and stamina loss, then briefly strengthen your guard counter.
• Raise your guard just before an attack lands. Holding guard continuously does not give the same timed benefit.
• A weapon held in both hands can guard too, so this effect is not limited to shields. Elemental damage is not automatically erased by a successful timed block.
• Repeatedly tapping guard shrinks the timing window. Learn the attack's impact instead of treating rapid guard inputs as a safe substitute.
• Rest at a Site of Grace and choose Mix Wondrous Physick to use this tear. Drinking the flask uses its charge; resting refills it without consuming the tear.
• The normal timing window is about 0.2 seconds after raising guard. A successful deflection prevents the physical portion of a blockable hit, reduces its elemental damage and reduces the stamina lost by 65%.
• Successful deflections build a guard-counter bonus through 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% damage in PvE. Against players the tiers are 15%, 28%, 36% and 45%. Further deflections refresh the five-second counter window; some attacks build more than one tier.
• The counter bonus also raises guard-stamina and stance pressure. It applies to an actual guard counter, not to every skill you happen to use after blocking.