Drawstring Golden Grease

Type

Grease

FP cost

0

Maximum held

30

Maximum stored

600

Consumed when used

Yes

0 required

• type: buffable-weapon

About this item

Solidified knotgrease made from a mixture of holy resonant materials. Craftable item.

A short string is attached to this lump.

Quickly coats armament, adding heavy holy damage to attacks, but with a brief effect, owing to its small size.

Enchanted with an ancient Erdtree incantation.

Such ministrations are all but a lost art in the realm of shadow.

Crafting after obtaining Battlefield Priest's Cookbook [1]

Shadow Keep

Starting Site of Grace: Sunken Chapel

Before you go

• Crafting Kit
• Battlefield Priest's Cookbook [1]
• Ingredients per batch: 1 Knot Resin, 1 Shadow Sunflower and 1 String

1. From Highroad Cross in Scadu Altus, follow the road east to Moorth Ruins and activate the grace beside the cross.
2. Pass through the large stone arch east-southeast of the grace. At the house ahead, turn left toward the leaning tower. Avoid the large open shaft behind the house, which is too deep for a direct drop.
3. Find the smaller gap between the broken building and the rock wall in front of the leaning tower. Drop onto the balcony-like ledge, turn right past the dogs and follow the cave inward.
4. In the open chamber at the end, take the back-left ledges down onto the lower roof. Look for the small shrine guarded by three Inquisitors and collect Golden Arcs from the chest inside.
5. To continue east, drop from the lower roof to the ground and take the cave beside the building on the left. Follow it to the long ladder and climb out of the well at Bonny Village grace.
6. Go east through Bonny Village, watching for the large cleaver-wielding villagers, and cross the two suspension bridges. The second brings you to Bridge Leading to the Village grace.
7. Follow the road north through the woods to Church District Highroad grace. Take the northwestern road through the entrance tunnel and activate Church District Entrance inside Shadow Keep. This eastern entrance leads to the flooded district, rather than the main-gate Hippopotamus arena.
8. Jump from the entrance ledge onto the first roof below. Follow its northwestern edge and jump from the raised roof section to the stone wall opposite, rather than taking the southwestern log platforms toward different loot.
9. Follow the wall around and climb its northeastern rise. Jump to the next roof northwest, where a Fire Knight patrols. Clear it or make enough room to continue safely.
10. Cross toward the next large church and jump onto the sloping stone support on your left. Walk southwest up that support to the high roof, then use the broken roof opening to drop onto the central beam below.
11. Follow the beam to the adjoining upper corridor and drop through the opening in its floor onto the raised church passage. Stay above the water and continue northwest; the Prayer Room door is a separate side destination.
12. Pass the small side room holding a Rune of an Unsung Hero and continue into the corridor patrolled by two Fire Knights. The first left exit leads toward the drainage wheel, while the later left exit leads to the Storehouse lift.
13. Take the first left exit and cross the small bridge outside. Clear the bats, go up the steps and jump the narrow gap in the walkway before the tall lamp.
14. Climb the ladder to the large wheel and operate it from the side to drain the district. This permanently opens the lower ground for the current journey.
15. Climb back down and use the nearby doorway and lower platforms to descend to the exposed ground. Enter the small chapel nearby and activate Sunken Chapel grace.
16. Go into the large church with the headless Marika statue. Wego, the Fire Knight elder, controls the burning corpses in the hall; defeat him to make the altar area safer.
17. From the altar and statue area, take the northeastern passage into the next large room. Climb the stairs there to the upper balcony and loot Battlefield Priest's Cookbook [1] from the corpse.
18. The lower doorway and lift in that room lead toward Tree-Worship Passage. You do not need to take that lift or defeat Scadutree Avatar for the cookbook.
19. With the Crafting Kit and one Knot Resin, one Shadow Sunflower and one String, open Item Crafting outside combat and prepare Drawstring Golden Grease. Equip a compatible weapon before applying it.

Notes

• Adds a fixed 135 Holy attack power to the coated weapon for 25 seconds. This does not scale with Faith or a seal's Incant Scaling, and enemy defenses still determine the HP damage each hit deals.
• Applies faster than ordinary Golden Grease. Its 135 Holy attack power is higher than the ordinary version's 120, but its 25-second duration is much shorter than 60 seconds, so apply it near the attack opening.
• Use a compatible weapon with an affinity that allows ordinary coatings. Standard, Heavy, Keen and Quality usually do; elemental and status affinities usually prevent them, with particular unique-weapon exceptions.
• Uses the weapon-buff slot. Another grease or weapon enchantment replaces the coating instead of adding a second one, while compatible aura and body buffs can work alongside it.
• Apply it to the weapon you intend to use after making equipment changes. Unequipping or changing the coated weapon can remove the effect, and Old Lord's Talisman does not extend this consumable.
• Each craft makes one with one Knot Resin, one Shadow Sunflower and one String, after learning Battlefield Priest's Cookbook [1]. Applying it consumes one prepared grease without an FP cost, and you can carry 30.
• This is a weapon coating, not Golden Vow or the Sacred affinity. It does not change the weapon's permanent scaling, teach an incantation or give every other weapon the same Holy damage.