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Elden Ring DLC Best Perfume Bottle Weapon & Build Guide (1.12)

6/24/2024 4:00:50 PM

Let's set up the most powerful Perfume bottle builds in the latest Elden Ring DLC - Shadow of the Erdtree. This guide will cover everything you need to know about the top 3 best Perfumer builds, including weapon choices, armor, talismans, attributes, and gameplay tips.

Elden Ring DLC Best Perfumer Builds

In the Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, there are several perfume bottle weapons that players can find and use. These weapons offer unique elemental effects and damage. In this guide, we focus on the top 3 OP builds that utilize the new perfume bottle weapons.

1. Firespark Perfume Bottle Build Guide

Firespark Perfume Bottle is highly underrated and can be obtained early in the game. You can find it right in front of Castle Ensis, guarded by perfumers. It's in a chest there, so you can grab it immediately and start building your character around it.

How To Make This Firespark Perfume Bottle Build Work?

The Fire Spark Perfume Bottle scales with dexterity and does 100% fire damage. This makes it very straightforward to boost its damage using fire-enhancing items. Here’s how to set up this build effectively:

Ash of War: The default Ash of War is a simple kick, but it’s recommended to swap it out for something with a wider area of effect like Ground Slam, Beast Roar, or Storm Stomp.

Buffs: Use Flame Grant Me Strength and Golden Vow to significantly boost your fire damage and overall effectiveness.

Dual-Wielding: This weapon works best when dual-wielded, as it allows for powerful cross-pattern attacks with both hands.

How To Setup the Firespark Perfume Bottle Build?

Weapon Compos & Ash of War

When it comes to Ash of War options, you might consider:

Quick Step or Bloodhound Step: These are great for defensive play, creating space for your charged heavy attacks.
Rolling Sparks: This unique DLC Ash of War shoots out a fire explosion in a trail, similar to a spell. It’s very effective for setting up charged heavy attacks and staggering enemies.

How to Obtain Firespark Perfume Bottle:

The Firespark Perfume Bottle can be obtained early in the Elden Ring DLC by traveling south from the Grave Site Plains starting area to the Scorched Ruins, crossing the main bridge, and entering the camp on the right where a chest containing the Firespark Perfume Bottle is found. This Dexterity-scaling perfume bottle weapon has wide area of effect fiery attacks and is powerful even when dual wielded with just one in your possession.

How to Obtain Rolling Sparks Ash of War:

You can find the Rolling Sparks Ash of War southeast of Shadowkeep, in a camp with a furnace golem rolling around. Look for a flying scarab above some perfumers and knock it down to acquire this Ash of War.

Armor:

For armor, wear three pieces of the perfumer set to keep your equip load light and maintain the perfumer appearance. If you need more protection, consider using medium armor to achieve 51 Poise, which helps avoid interruptions during charged heavy attacks.

Talismans:

Fire Scorpion Charm: Increases fire damage but also increases damage taken.
Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman: Reduces physical damage taken, which is crucial when wearing light armor.
Perfumer’s Talisman: Boosts damage with perfume bottle weapons.
Shard of Alexander: If you prefer using Rolling Sparks frequently, this talisman increases its damage.
Axe Talisman: Increases damage of charged heavy attacks.

Attributes:

Here’s a recommended stat spread for the Pyromancer Perfumer build:

Vigor: 60
Mind: 20
Endurance: 25
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 75
Intelligence: 16
Faith: 25
Arcane: 9

You don’t need Intelligence or Arcane for this build. High Vigor is essential due to light armor usage. Dexterity should be prioritized for maximum damage output.

Flask of Wondrous Physick:

Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear: Boosts fire damage.
Dexterity-Knot Crystal Tear: Increases dexterity for additional damage.

Great Runes:

Godrick’s Great Rune: Boosts all stats, which is versatile.
Radahn’s Great Rune: Increases health, stamina, and FP.
Morgott’s Great Rune: Provides extra HP, which is useful for survivability.

2. Lightning Perfume Bottle Build Guide

The Lightning Perfume Bottle build is incredibly powerful due to its ability to dish out over 30,000 damage in a single use of its Ash of War, Rolling Sparks. It's essentially a mini ancient dragon's lightning strike but way more consistent. This build can melt bosses in the new DLC, making even the toughest fights look like a joke.

The key factor to this build is the Rolling Sparks Ash of War, which creates multiple exploding hitboxes that can be clustered for maximum damage. When combined with the right stats, equipment, and buffs, this build offers one of the highest DPS outputs in the game.

How To Make the Lightning Perfume Bottle Build Work?

The Lightning Perfume Bottle deals insane damage because it has multiple exploding hitboxes whenever you use it. The damage or effects of your perfume bottle can change depending on which one you choose, but lightning is the preferred choice here. This weapon category is new in the DLC and has unique move sets that spread out the perfume hitboxes in wide-ranging arcs.

To maximize DPS in PvE, use attacks that can cluster up the hitboxes and group all the damage into a concentrated area.

How the Unique Perfume Ash of War Works?

The Rolling Sparks Ash of War is a new and unique Ash of War that can only be applied to certain perfume weapons. It creates a series of explosions in a row, sending out your perfume immediately and exploding them after a small delay.

For maximum damage, cast Rolling Sparks Ash of War directly downwards onto the floor. This causes the hitboxes to explode instantly and on top of each other, allowing you to condense their damage into a specific area.

How To Setup the Firespark Perfume Bottle Build?

Stats:

These stats provide over 500 base AR with the Lightning Perfume Bottle, which scales well with Dexterity and Faith.

50 Dexterity
50 Faith

Equipment:

The Black Dumpling Hat and Rasa Armor come with a hidden passive that increases the damage you deal to enemies but also increases the damage you take.

Weapon: Lightning Perfume Bottle +25
Armor: Black Dumpling Hat, Rasa Armor
Talismans: Aged One's Exaltation, Shard of Alexander, Perfumer's Talisman, Lightning Scorpion Talisman

Buffs:

The Halashabiri incantation is crucial as it increases your damage and builds up Madness in you, which stacks with both the Black Dumpling Hat and Aged One's Exaltation for insane damage scaling.

Black Dumpling Hat
Rasa Armor
Halashabiri Incantation
Golden Vow

Flask of Wondrous Physick:

The Blood-Sucking Cracked Tear grants an additional 20% damage buff but slowly drains your HP, so be careful.

Lightning-Shredding Cracked Tear
Blood-Sucking Cracked Tear

3. Chilling Perfume Bottle Build Guide

This build is particularly good at min-maxing, offering massive damage potential during boss fights. By utilizing the Rolling Sparks Ash of War in combination with the Chilling Perfume Bottle, you can achieve absurdly high damage output. This setup leverages Frost buildup for additional damage and integrates magic buffs to further amplify your power.

How To Make the Chilling Perfume Bottle Build Work?

Still use the Rolling Sparks Ash of War is unique to perfume bottles and causes a line of explosions in front of you. By angling the camera down, you can make all explosions happen at once at your feet, maximizing damage. Then The Chilling Perfume Bottle applies Frost buildup, which deals an initial chunk of damage and then increases damage taken by the enemy while frosted. Magic damage buffs from the Chilling Perfume Bottle can be enhanced using Terra Magicka and other magic buffs, making this build even more devastating.

How To Setup the Firespark Perfume Bottle Build?

Stats:

For a level 150 build, aim for:

Vigor: 60 (for survivability)
Endurance: Enough to maintain a medium load with your chosen armor set
Dexterity: 13 (minimum to wield the bottle)
Faith: 25 (for Golden Vow)
Intelligence: 80 (primary stat for damage)
Mind: Extra points to reduce FP flask consumption

Equipment:

Weapon: Chilling Perfume Bottle with Rolling Sparks Ash of War
Staff: Any Glintstone Staff (to cast Terra Magicka)
Seal: Any zero-weight seal (to cast Golden Vow)
Armor: Any good armor set that keeps you within a medium load
Talismans: Alexander's Talisman (boosts Ash of War damage), Perfumist's Talisman (boosts perfume bottle effectiveness), Magic Scorpion Charm (increases magic damage), Carian Filigreed Crest (reduces FP consumption)

Flask of Wondrous Physick: