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Silver Tear Mask
Head
Raises Arcane by 8 and reduces physical attack power by 5%. This can be useful for reaching an Arcane requirement or improving an Arcane-scaling setup, but the physical damage penalty can work against a melee build.
Weight4.6Equip load
Poise6Helps resist staggering
Physical negation4.2%Physical damage reduction
Protection & resistance
Damage negation
Higher values reduce more damage of that type.
- Physical
- 4.2%
- Strike
- 3.6%
- Slash
- 3.8%
- Pierce
- 3.1%
- Magic
- 5.5%
- Fire
- 5.2%
- Lightning
- 5%
- Holy
- 5.3%
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
- 26
- RobustnessBlood loss and frostbite
- 20
- FocusSleep and madness
- 44
- VitalityDeath blight
- 44
Compare head armor
The ten same-slot pieces closest in weight to Silver Tear Mask. Lower weight is lighter; higher poise, negation and resistance provide more protection. Negation differences are percentage points.
| Armor | Weight | Poise | Physical | Strike | Slash | Pierce |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Silver Tear MaskThis piece | 4.6 | 6 | 4.2% | 3.6% | 3.8% | 3.1% |
 All-Knowing Helm | 4.6 | 7 | 4.6% | 4.2% | 4.8% | 4.2% |
 Diallos's Mask | 4.6 | 7 | 4.8% | 3.8% | 4.6% | 4.4% |
 Royal Remains Helm | 4.6 | 7 | 4.2% | 4% | 4.6% | 4.2% |
 Bloodhound Knight Helm | 4.6 | 6 | 4.4% | 4% | 5% | 4.8% |
 Fingerprint Helm | 4.6 | 8 | 4.8% | 4.2% | 4.2% | 4.2% |
 Carian Knight Helm | 4.6 | 6 | 4.2% | 3.8% | 4.4% | 4.2% |
 Knight Helm | 4.6 | 8 | 4.4% | 4.2% | 4.8% | 4.8% |
 Winged Serpent Helm | 4.6 | 7 | 4.8% | 4% | 4.4% | 4% |
 Death Knight Helm | 4.6 | 7 | 4.4% | 3.8% | 4.4% | 4.4% |
 Horned Warrior Helm | 4.6 | 7 | 4.8% | 4.4% | 4.6% | 4% |
About this armor
Raises Arcane by 8 and reduces physical attack power by 5%. This can be useful for reaching an Arcane requirement or improving an Arcane-scaling setup, but the physical damage penalty can work against a melee build.
Extra Arcane improves blood loss buildup only when the weapon or catalyst has the appropriate Arcane scaling. The mask does not make ordinary non-Arcane weapons scale their bleed with Arcane.
The penalty is to physical attack power, rather than a blanket reduction to every damage type. It is especially important when a large share of your weapon's damage is physical.
Technical details
Armor effects
- Entry 1:
- attribute: Arcane
- model: additive
- type: positive
- value: 8
- Entry 2:
- attribute: Physical Attack Power
- model: multiplicative
- type: negative
- value: 0.95
In-game description
Mask fashioned from the corpse of a formless Silver Tear, supported by its hardened, shed husk.
Greatly increases arcane to the detriment of physical attack power.
To imitate the imitator is a cunning play indeed.
Where to find
Mimic Tear boss arena
Nokron, Eternal City
Starting Site of Grace: Nokron, Eternal City
- Defeat Starscourge Radahn at Redmane Castle. Return to the new crater near Fort Haight in southern Mistwood, marked by floating rocks, and descend its ledges into Nokron.
- Follow the rooftops into the ruined building. Drop carefully to the lower floor by its left wall and go through the doorway to Nokron, Eternal City grace.
- Leave the grace, cross the courtyard with the gazebo and take the descending path past the Nox Swordstress and Silver Tears. Continue toward the distant mist gate, passing the lower gazebo where Silver Tears drop from the ceiling.
- Enter the mist and defeat Mimic Tear. The boss copies your equipment when it transforms. If you remove your weapons before it copies you, you can equip them again afterward while it keeps the original unarmed setup.
- Defeat this Mimic Tear for Silver Tear Mask and two Larval Tears. The mask is a direct boss reward; Mimic Tear spirit ashes are a separate chest pickup farther into Night's Sacred Ground.
Notes
- Raises Arcane by 8 and reduces physical attack power by 5%. This can be useful for reaching an Arcane requirement or improving an Arcane-scaling setup, but the physical damage penalty can work against a melee build.
- Extra Arcane improves blood loss buildup only when the weapon or catalyst has the appropriate Arcane scaling. The mask does not make ordinary non-Arcane weapons scale their bleed with Arcane.
- The penalty is to physical attack power, rather than a blanket reduction to every damage type. It is especially important when a large share of your weapon's damage is physical.
- It weighs 4.6 and provides 6 poise.
- The extra Arcane also helps Discovery and can meet an equipment or spell requirement. It does not add innate bleeding, improve Scarlet Rot buildup or give every spell Arcane scaling.
- The physical attack-power penalty applies while the mask is worn. Extra Arcane may help an Arcane-scaling weapon, but it does not automatically outweigh the penalty for every build and stat range.
- A guaranteed reward from Nokron's Mimic Tear boss. Ordinary Silver Tears do not randomly drop it, and the Stray Mimic Tear on the hidden Haligtree route has a different reward.
- Cannot be altered. It takes the helmet slot, so another headpiece's effect is not available at the same time.
