Ranni's Dark Moon

Type

Sorcery

FP cost

57

Memory slots

2

Stamina cost

32

Damage types

magic

Requires

68Int

Spell school

Full Moon sorceriesCold sorceries · Secondary school

Legendary sorcery symbolic of the Carian queen.

Uses the caster as a vessel to incarnate a cold, dark moon, then sends it floating toward foes. The dark moon dispels all sorcery that touches it, and temporarily reduces magic damage negation for those it strikes.

This moon was encountered by a young Ranni, led by the hand of her mother, Rennala. What she beheld was cold, dark, and veiled in occult mystery.

Chelona's Rise, Moonlight Altar

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Altar South

Before you go

• Reach Moonlight Altar through Ranni's quest.

1. Start at Caria Manor in northwestern Liurnia. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta and enter Three Sisters behind the manor. Visit Ranni at the top of Ranni's Rise and agree to serve her. Speak to the spirits downstairs, then return to Ranni to finish the conversation.
2. Defeat Starscourge Radahn at Redmane Castle. Return to southern Mistwood and find the new crater near Fort Haight, marked by floating rocks. Descend using its ledges and enter Nokron, Eternal City.
3. Work across Nokron's rooftops to the streets and continue to Mimic Tear. Defeat it and cross the long bridge beyond its arena. Leave the bridge on the left into the woods, then follow the cliff to Ancestral Woods grace.
4. Jump from the cliff beside that grace onto the roof below. Follow the rooftops and narrow building ledges into Night's Sacred Ground. Continue across the broken stone arch into the church, descend inside, and leave onto the lower street. Follow that street to the enormous seated figure and open the chest underneath it for Fingerslayer Blade.
5. Return the blade to Ranni at her tower. Before doing this, finish any remaining Seluvis rewards you want. Rest after speaking to Ranni, then visit Renna's Rise, the northern tower in Three Sisters. Climb it and use the sending gate to Ainsel River Main.
6. Collect Miniature Ranni from the coffin near where you arrive. Rest at Ainsel River Main and select Talk to miniature Ranni repeatedly until she answers. Finish her dialogue.
7. Follow the river through Uhl Palace Ruins, using cover against the hanging creature's projectiles. Continue through the ant tunnel to Nokstella. Follow the river at ground level through the city and take the lift in the small building at the far end to Nokstella Waterfall Basin.
8. Go through the cave beyond Waterfall Basin and defeat the Baleful Shadow in the open red-lit area. Ranni gives you Discarded Palace Key. Return to Raya Lucaria Grand Library, where you defeated Rennala, and unlock the chest beside her for Dark Moon Ring.
9. Return to the Baleful Shadow area and take the lift beyond it to Lake of Rot. Bring a way to remove Scarlet Rot. Cross toward the southwestern entrance to Grand Cloister, stepping on the raised platforms' switches to create places to stop.
10. At Grand Cloister, descend the stone ledges to the lower floor. Watch for the Pests below. Follow the water left to the coffin beside the waterfall and choose to rest in it.
11. Defeat Astel, Naturalborn of the Void, then pass through the sealed exit with Dark Moon Ring in your inventory. Take the lift up to Moonlight Altar.
12. From the Moonlight Altar lift exit, ride southwest across the plateau to Chelona’s Rise and activate Altar South outside it.
13. Read the imp statue beside the sealed entrance to start the three great wise beasts puzzle. Look over the western cliff behind the tower for the first enormous spectral turtle and hit it with a ranged attack.
14. Travel to the far southeastern edge of the plateau. Look below the cliff for the turtle on a lower ledge and hit it without jumping down after it.
15. Go north toward Ringleader's Evergaol. Southeast of the Evergaol, find the spiritspring and look up for the airborne turtle. Hit it from range or jump through it using the spiritspring.
16. Return to Chelona's Rise, climb the stairs and take the lift to the top. Open the chest for Ranni's Dark Moon. If turtles disappear after resting, dying or fast travel, return to the statue and read the hint again.

Notes

• Requires 68 Intelligence, two memory slots and a glintstone staff. It costs 57 FP and is one of the legendary sorceries needed for the legendary sorceries and incantations achievement.
• Launches a tracking moon that deals Magic damage and applies 270 fixed Frostbite buildup. Staff Sorcery Scaling improves the Magic hit; Intelligence and Arcane do not increase that fixed frost amount.
• It adds the moon's Magic-vulnerability effect even if the target resists Frostbite. Frost needs enough buildup to trigger, so a single moon does not guarantee a frost burst against every enemy.
• The projectile can dispel eligible sorceries that touch it. This is a moving interception effect, not protection from every spell, physical hit or area attack while you cast.
• Its Magic-vulnerability effect lasts 60 seconds. The two moon spells share that effect, so casting both refreshes or replaces it rather than giving two independent moon debuffs.
• That debuff also competes with effects such as Greyoll's Roar, Shriek of Milos and Soul Stifler. Frostbite is separate and can remain alongside it.
• Carian Regal Scepter boosts moon-sorcery damage by 10% while held, even when another staff casts the spell. Two active copies multiply to a 21% bonus.
• It cannot be charged, so Godfrey Icon does not help. Graven talismans and Magic damage bonuses improve the hit; weapon-skill bonuses do not.
• The long startup and slow flight make it easier to use before an enemy closes in or while another target holds its attention. Being lifted into the air is not full invulnerability.
• Snow Witch Hat adds 10% damage because this is also a cold sorcery. It does not improve frost buildup or strengthen either debuff.
• Its frost effect is separate from its 60-second moon effect. Clearing active Frostbite with Fire damage does not by itself erase the moon's Magic-vulnerability timer.
• Chelona's Rise is reached through Ranni's Moonlight Altar route. The turtle puzzle is spread across the plateau; defeating the dragon beside her earlier tower does not open this rise.