Swarm of Flies

Type

Incantation

FP cost

14

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

24

Damage types

physical

Requires

11Fai16Arc

Spell school

Blood Oath incantations

A Blood Oath incantation, shared from the Lord of Blood's power.

Releases a swarm of bloodflies before the caster to assault foes. The vile swarm deals damage and builds up onset of blood loss.

This incantation can be cast while in motion.

The new palace of the Lord of Blood lies in a swamp of festering blood, and these flies are said to spawn from excrement in that land.

Cave on the eastern blood marsh bank

Mohgwyn Palace

Starting Site of Grace: Palace Approach Ledge-Road

1. Obtain the right Haligtree Secret Medallion half from Albus in Village of the Albinaurics, beneath southwestern Liurnia's plateau. Follow the village path uphill past the perfumer, reveal the large pot before the bridge and speak to Albus. Stop attacking once he appears.
2. Obtain the left half from the rooftop beyond Commander Niall in Castle Sol. After defeating Niall, go through the exit behind his arena, ride the tower lift and collect the half beside the seated spirit. It is a separate pickup from his direct weapon reward.
3. Return to the Grand Lift of Rold and switch the action to Hoist secret medallion. Follow Hidden Path to the Haligtree through to the snowy exit. The ordinary Rold Medallion goes to the other part of the Mountaintops.
4. Activate Consecrated Snowfield grace near the exit. For Inner Consecrated Snowfield, continue north through the blizzard until the open ground becomes clearer; keep the grace as a safe return point.
5. From Inner Consecrated Snowfield, ride west toward the cliff northwest of Yelough Anix Ruins. Among the pale tree stumps, defeat the invading Sanguine Noble. This activates the nearby sending gate.
6. Continue west to the fallen tree near the cliff. Just south of it, find the blood-covered sending gate beside an Albinauric. Use the gate, leave the dark cave and follow the left-hand downhill trail to Palace Approach Ledge-Road grace.
7. Follow Palace Approach Ledge-Road north down to the blood lake. Turn along the eastern cliff and continue past the first shallow cave, which holds the Blood Tax scarab.
8. Keep following the same eastern bank north to the next cave. A Ghost Glovewort is near its entrance; go inside and loot Swarm of Flies from the corpse at the back.
9. Neither Mohg nor Varre's quest is required when using the Snowfield route above. Pureblood Knight's Medal provides an earlier alternative entrance for characters who finished Varre's quest.

Notes

• Requires 11 Faith and 16 Arcane, uses one memory slot and costs 14 FP. Cast it with a sacred seal; the transferable Blood Blade skill is a different attack.
• Sends a slow tracking swarm that deals physical Standard damage. On contact it expands into a stationary cloud that can hit repeatedly, so a moving enemy may leave before the full cloud connects.
• Its Blood Loss has two components. Cloud hits apply 70 base direct buildup, plus a bloodflame effect adding 4 buildup every tenth of a second for two seconds. The fixed bloodflame component is separate from the direct amount.
• Dragon Communion Seal allows Arcane to improve the direct buildup through its Arcane scaling. It does not increase the fixed bloodflame buildup. Raising Arcane while using a seal without Arcane scaling does not provide that status-scaling benefit.
• Direct physical damage uses the seal's Incantation Scaling. Faith improves it with a conventional Faith-scaling seal, while Dragon Communion Seal uses Faith and Arcane. Its separate Dragon Communion school bonus does not apply to this Blood Oath spell.
• You can cast while moving slowly or crouching. Release a swarm before an enemy settles into a longer opening rather than assuming the slow projectile will catch every retreat or dodge.
• An enemy immune to Blood Loss can still suffer the modest direct physical damage. Against susceptible enemies, the bleed burst comes only after enough buildup, and later procs can require more buildup.
• Physical-damage and incantation-damage bonuses improve qualifying direct damage, rather than the fixed bloodflame amount or the percentage of HP removed by a bleed proc.
• Ansbach's clothing does not boost this incantation. Shard of Alexander and Godfrey Icon do not provide an ordinary damage bonus here: it is neither a weapon skill nor a charged cast.
• The spell is a corpse pickup in the eastern lake cave farther north than Blood Tax. Mohg does not need to be defeated, and looting the other cave first does not award the spell.