Head
Development preview — content and features are still being refined.
HeadArmor · Head
Incantation Scarab
Head
Reduces the FP cost of incantations by 15% while worn. It does not reduce sorcery or weapon-skill costs.
Weight5.1Equip load
Poise6Helps resist staggering
Physical negation3.8%Physical damage reduction
Protection & resistance
Damage negation
Higher values reduce more damage of that type.
- Physical
- 3.8%
- Strike
- 4%
- Slash
- 3.8%
- Pierce
- 3.8%
- Magic
- 4.6%
- Fire
- 4.6%
- Lightning
- 4.6%
- Holy
- 4.5%
These values are for this piece. Your total also depends on your other armor and active effects.
Poise & status resistance
Higher resistance lets more buildup accumulate before a status triggers.
- PoiseHelps resist staggering
- 6
- ImmunityPoison and scarlet rot
- 42
- RobustnessBlood loss and frostbite
- 22
- FocusSleep and madness
- 27
- VitalityDeath blight
- 26
Compare head armor
The ten same-slot pieces closest in weight to Incantation Scarab. Lower weight is lighter; higher poise, negation and resistance provide more protection. Negation differences are percentage points.
| Armor | Weight | Poise | Physical | Strike | Slash | Pierce |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Incantation ScarabThis piece | 5.1 | 6 | 3.8% | 4% | 3.8% | 3.8% |
 Briar Helm | 5.1 | 9 | 4.6% | 4% | 4.8% | 4.4% |
 Night's Cavalry Helm (Altered) | 5.1 | 8 | 4.8% | 4.4% | 4.8% | 4.4% |
 Twinned Helm | 5.1 | 7 | 4.8% | 4.4% | 5.2% | 4.2% |
 Twinsage Glintstone Crown | 5.1 | 6 | 4.4% | 3.1% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
 Olivinus Glintstone Crown | 5.1 | 6 | 4.4% | 3.1% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
 Lazuli Glintstone Crown | 5.1 | 6 | 4.4% | 3.1% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
 Karolos Glintstone Crown | 5.1 | 6 | 4.4% | 3.1% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
 Witch's Glintstone Crown | 5.1 | 6 | 4.4% | 3.1% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
 Greathood | 5.1 | 5 | 3.8% | 3.6% | 3.8% | 3.6% |
 Gelmir Knight Helm | 5.1 | 8 | 4.8% | 4% | 5% | 4.8% |
About this armor
Reduces the FP cost of incantations by 15% while worn. It does not reduce sorcery or weapon-skill costs.
Its passive effect increases incoming physical and elemental hit damage by 10%. The helmet's own armor and your other defenses are separate, so the benefit comes with a real defensive penalty.
Its discount multiplies with Primal Glintstone Blade's 25% spell-cost reduction, giving a 36.25% reduction before whole-number rounding. The talisman's HP penalty and this helmet's defensive penalty both remain active.
Technical details
Armor effects
- Entry 1:
- attribute: Absorption
- model: multiplicative
- type: negative
- value: 0.9
- Entry 2:
- attribute: Incantation Focus Consumption
- model: multiplicative
- type: positive
- value: 0.85
In-game description
Golden scarab worn directly on the head.
These scarabs roll clumps of incantations during their labors.
Slightly reduces the FP costs of incantations, but increases damage taken.
As a scarab approaches death, it abandons its rolled treasure and stretches its wings wide for the long journey to its home nest.
Where to find
Homing Instinct painting reward
Limgrave
Starting Site of Grace: Seaside Ruins
Before you go
- Examine Homing Instinct Painting at the Limgrave Artist's Shack.
- From Agheel Lake North in Limgrave, follow the road southeast and cross the bridge. Avoid the mounted soldiers and troll-pulled convoy if you are not ready to fight them.
- Take the road north at the fork beyond the bridge. As it bends northeast, leave it for the rising trail to the northwest. Follow that trail to Artist's Shack and activate its grace.
- Enter the ruined wooden shack and examine the Homing Instinct painting. You must collect the painting before its reward spirit becomes available.
- Travel to Seaside Ruins on the southern Limgrave coast. Head northwest toward the gravestones and ruined stone arch southwest of Dragon-Burnt Ruins, keeping to the slope rather than jumping off the high cliff.
- Find the seated painter's spirit among the headstones beside the arch. Approach and wait for it to fade, then pick up Incantation Scarab from the item it leaves. The painter appears where the picture was painted, rather than at the distant landmark shown in it.
Notes
- Reduces the FP cost of incantations by 15% while worn. It does not reduce sorcery or weapon-skill costs.
- Its passive effect increases incoming physical and elemental hit damage by 10%. The helmet's own armor and your other defenses are separate, so the benefit comes with a real defensive penalty.
- Its discount multiplies with Primal Glintstone Blade's 25% spell-cost reduction, giving a 36.25% reduction before whole-number rounding. The talisman's HP penalty and this helmet's defensive penalty both remain active.
- It does not increase Faith, seal scaling, spell damage or healing per cast. It saves FP on each incantation, rather than making a single cast stronger.
- Weighs 5.1 and provides six poise. It cannot be altered, and its effect needs no matching armor pieces.
- This golden helmet is the Homing Instinct painting reward. It is different from the Gold Scarab talisman, which increases rune gains.
