Rotbone Bolt

Type

Bolt

Physical damage

28

Stamina damage

5

Scarlet rot buildup

55

About this item

Bolt carved from animal bone. The tip is daubed with rot. Afflicts targets with scarlet rot.

Craftable item.

Crafting after obtaining Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook [15]

Caelid

Starting Site of Grace: Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank

Before you go

• Crafting Kit
• Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook [15]
• 4,000 runes

1. Follow the road along the southern edge of the Swamp of Aeonia.
2. Search southwest of Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank near the road fork and map monument for the merchant's camp.
3. Choose Purchase and buy the cookbook for 4,000 runes.
4. Buy the Crafting Kit from Kalé at Church of Elleh for 300 runes if Item Crafting is still locked. The cookbook alone does not unlock the crafting menu.
5. With the book and materials in your inventory, open Item Crafting outside combat and select Rotbone Bolt. One craft makes 10.

Notes

• One craft makes 10, using 2 Thin Beast Bones and 1 Aeonian Butterfly. You keep the cookbook and Crafting Kit; only the ingredients are spent.
• Crossbow ammunition. Equip it in a bolt slot; bows, greatbows and ballista weapons use different ammunition.
• Adds 28 Physical attack power to the shot. This is the ammunition contribution, before the ranged weapon, skill, distance and enemy defenses determine the actual damage.
• Has 55 base Scarlet Rot buildup per ordinary hit. The target's resistance must be overcome before the status triggers; damage and buildup are different parts of the shot.
• Ranged skills and burst weapons can apply their own buildup modifiers. Several projectiles connecting does not always apply the full ordinary-hit value for each one.
• Scarlet Rot drains health after enough buildup. Applying more of the same rot while it is active does not create several overlapping copies; switch to other damage once it is working.
• Rot buildup does not increase with Arcane, including when these arrows are fired from Serpent Bow. That bow can add its own Poison buildup, which is separate from the arrow's rot.
• The recipe spends Aeonian Butterflies. Use plain ammunition on rot-immune enemies rather than spending this ingredient for no status benefit.
• Carry up to 99 of this type. Crossbow bursts spend several bolts, so keep enough ammunition for the whole burst.