Blood Loss

“

The mother of truth craves wounds. — Bloodboon

”

The mother of truth craves wounds.

- Bloodboon

Blood Loss (出血, Shukketsu), also known as Hemorrhage, is a status ailment in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾ and ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN that inflicts a burst of damage.

Overview

Blood Loss is usually caused by serrated, thorned, exremely sharp, or bloodstained weapons. Spells and items affiliated with the Lord of Blood also cause this status effect.

Mechanics

Deals a combination of flat and percentual damage when inflicted. Humanoid enemies, smaller enemies, and Tarnished are also staggered. The flat damage is usually 100, but increases to 200 when done by Somber Smithing Stone-upgraded weapon with innate Blood Loss and Arcane-scaling or by a regular Smithing Stone-upgraded with innate Blood Loss and with the Blood-affinity. The percentual damage depends on the enemy: normal enemies and Tarnished take 15% damage, bosses and enemies that directly accompany them take 10.5% damage, and the Lord of Blood takes 7.5% damage.

Additionally, the blood loss inflicted by Mohg's Nihil attack is unique and only inflicts percentual damage, roughly 33% damage on each of the first two pulses and about 66% on the final pulse. Using the Purifying Crystal Tear greatly reduces this damage to about 5% on the first two pulses and 10% on the final one.

Blood loss can also be inflicted on someone in the middle of invincibility frames, such as a roll, though this only causes the stun and not the damage.

Curing and Mitigation

Resistance to this status ailment is governed by Robustness.

CuringMitigation

Image	Name	Type	Requirements
	Stanching Boluses	Consumable	Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook 7 x1 Herba x1 Cave Moss x1 Land Octopus Ovary
	Speckled Hardtear	Physic Flask Tear
	Lord's Aid	Incantation	9 FP 12 Faith
	Bestial Constitution	Incantation	10 FP 9 Faith

Image	Name	Type	Amount	Duration
	Invigorating Cured Meat	Body Buff	+100 Robustness	60 Seconds
	Invigorating White Cured Meat	Body Buff	+75 Robustness	120 Seconds
	Dappled Cured Meat	Body Buff	+100 Immunity +100 Robustness +100 Focus	60 Seconds
	Dappled White Cured Meat	Body Buff	+75 Immunity +75 Robustness +75 Focus	120 Seconds
	Speckled Hardtear	Wondrous Physic Buff	+90 Immunity +90 Robustness +90 Focus +90 Vitality	180 Seconds
	Immutable Shield	Shield Buff	Reduces Buildup when blocking	30 Seconds Or if shield gets un-equiped
	Dragonbolt Blessing	Body Buff	+30 Immunity +30 Robustness +30 Focus	70 Seconds
	Ice Crest Shield	Passive	+40 Robustness	Until un-equiped
	Spiralhorn Shield	Passive	+50 Immunity +50 Robustness +50 Focus	Until un-equiped
	Smoldering Shield	Passive	+30 Robustness	Until un-equiped
	Eclipse Crest Greatshield	Passive	+50 Immunity +50 Robustness +50 Focus	Until un-equiped
	Stalwart Horn Charm	Passive (Cannot stack with +1 variant)	+90 Robustness	Until un-equiped
	Stalwart Horn Charm +1	Passive (Cannot stack with +0 variant)	+140 Robustness	Until un-equiped
	Mottled Necklace	Passive (Cannot stack with +1 variant)	+40 Immunity +40 Robustness +40 Focus	Until un-equiped
	Mottled Necklace +1	Passive (Cannot stack with +0 variant)	+60 Immunity +60 Robustness +60 Focus	Until un-equiped

Utilization

ToolsSpirit AshesSpellsSkillsWeaponsAmmunitionBuffs related to Blood Loss

Image	Name	Type	Amount	Duration/Scaling
	Blood Grease	Weapon Buff	+30 Blood Loss	60 Seconds
	Drawstring Blood Grease	Weapon Buff	+38 Blood Loss	15 Seconds
	Kukri	Projectile	+70 Blood Loss	(C Arcane-scaling)
	Roped Fly Pot	Projectile AOE	+(70-100)x3 Blood Loss	(C Arcane-scaling)
	Swarm Pot	Projectile AOE	+(70-100)x3 Blood Loss	(C Arcane-scaling)

Image	Name	Amount
	Bloodhound Knight Floh	+ Blood Loss
	Dung Eater Puppet	+ Blood Loss
	Fanged Imp Ashes	+ Blood Loss
	Mad Pumpkin Head Ashes	+ Blood Loss
	Mimic Tear Ashes (If the player is wielding blood loss inducing equipment as the Mimic Tear forms)	+ Blood Loss
	Omenkiller Rollo	+ Blood Loss
	Vulgar Militia Ashes	+ Blood Loss

Image	Name	Type	Amount	Duration/Scaling
	Bloodflame Blade	Weapon Buff	+20 Blood Loss per second	2 seconds/does not scale
	Bloodflame Talons	Melee Attack	+50 Blood Loss per second	2 seconds/does not scale
	Bloodboon	Projectile attack	+30 Blood Loss per second	2 seconds/does not scale
	Briars of Punishment	Projectile attack	+95 Blood Loss	Scales with Albinauric Staff
	Briars of Sin	AOE attack	+72 Blood Loss	Scales with Albinauric Staff
	Swarm of Flies	Projectile attack	+70 Blood Loss 40 Blood Loss per second	2 seconds/does not scale

Image	Name	Type	Amount	Duration
	Ash of War: Blood Blade	Melee Attack, Projectile Attack	+60 Base Blood Loss +55 on Weapon Hits	Animation
	Ash of War: Bloody Slash	Melee Attack	+60 Base Blood Loss	Animation
	Ash of War: Seppuku	Melee Attack, Weapon Buff	+30 Base Blood Loss	60 Seconds
	Unique Skill: Bloodblade Dance	Melee Attack	+55 Blood Loss	Animation
	Unique Skill: Bloodboon Ritual	AOE Attack	+ Blood Loss	2 seconds
	Unique Skill: Bloodhound's Finesse	Melee Attack, Unique Dodge	+ Blood Loss
	Unique Skill: Corpse Piler	Melee Attack	+45 Blood Loss +50 on Last Hit	Animation
	Unique Skill: Cursed-Blood Slice	Melee Attack, Delayed AOE	+ Blood Loss
	Unique Skill: Dynast's Finesse	Unique Dodge, Melee Attack	+ Blood Loss
	Unique Skill: Reduvia Blood Blade	Melee Attack, Projectile Attack	+90 Base Blood Loss +55 on Weapon Hits	Animation

Image	Name	Amount
	Bloodhound Claws	+60 Blood loss
	Bloodhound's Fang	+55 Blood loss
	Bloodstained Dagger	+38 Blood loss
	Bloody Helice	+55 Blood loss
	Briar Greatshield	+70 Blood loss
	Chainlink Flail	+50 Blood loss
	Cross-Naginata	+50 Blood loss
	Eleonora's Poleblade	+55 Blood loss
	Flail	+50 Blood loss
	Flamberge	+55 Blood loss
	Forked Greatsword	+55 Blood loss
	Forked Hatchet	+50 Blood loss
	Ghiza's Wheel	+70 Blood loss
	Grave Scythe	+55 Blood loss
	Great Knife	+38 Blood loss
	Great Omenkiller Cleaver	+55 Blood loss
	Great Stars	+55 Blood loss
	Halo Scythe	+55 Blood loss
	Hand of Malenia	+50 Blood loss
	Hookclaws	+60 Blood loss
	Hoslow's Petal Whip	+55 Blood loss
	Inquisitor's Girandole	+50 Blood loss
	Marred Leather Shield	+50 Blood loss
	Marred Wooden Shield	+50 Blood loss
	Meteoric Ore Blade	+50 Blood loss
	Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear	+55 Blood loss
	Moonveil	+50 Blood loss
	Morgott's Cursed Sword	+60 Blood loss
	Morning Star	+50 Blood loss
	Nagakiba	+45 Blood loss
	Nightrider Flail	+50 Blood loss
	Raptor Talons	+60 Blood loss
	Reduvia	+30 Blood loss
	Rivers of Blood	+50 Blood loss
	Scavenger's Curved Sword	+45 Blood loss
	Scythe	+55 Blood loss
	Shield of the Guilty	+50 Blood loss
	Spiked Caestus	+45 Blood loss
	Spiked Club	+50 Blood loss
	Spiked Palisade Shield	+70 Blood loss
	Spiked Spear	+50 Blood loss
	Spiralhorn Shield	+45 Blood loss
	Staff of the Guilty	+45 Blood loss
	Star Fist	+45 Blood loss
	Sword of Milos	+55 Blood loss
	Thorned Whip	+50 Blood loss
	Uchigatana	+45 Blood loss
	Varré's Bouquet	+65 Blood loss
	Vulgar Militia Saw	+55 Blood loss
	Wakizashi	+38 Blood loss
	Winged Scythe	+55 Blood loss

Image	Name	Amount
	Bloodbone Arrow	+ 55 Blood Loss
	Bloodbone Arrow (Fletched)	+ 55 Blood Loss
	Bloodbone Bolt	+ 50 Blood Loss
	Burred Bolt	+ 65 Blood Loss

There are certain equipment that gives the player buffs when blood loss has been inflicted in the general vicinity, they do not discriminate between what has been bled in order to activate, it can be friend, foe and even oneself and generally lasts for around 20 seconds since the last blood loss infliction.

Image	Name	Type	Damage increase
	White Mask	Head	PvE +10% PvP +6%
	Lord of Blood's Exultation	Talisman	PvE +20% PvP +12%

Environment

Traps

• Blood geysers in Mohgwyn Palace.

Enemies

EnemiesNPCsBosses

Abductor Virgin (Wheel variant and Mixed variant only)
Avionette Soldier (Scythe variant only)
Bloodhound Knight
Cleanrot Knight (Scythe variant only)
Demi-Human (Chief variant only)
Fire Prelate (Whip variant only)
Godrick Knight (Blood-Obsessed variant only)
Guilty
Imp
Mad Pumpkin Head (Flail variant only)
Omenkiller Sanguine Noble
Stray (Bloodbane variant only)
Vulgar Militia

Bloody Finger Hunter Yura
Bloody Finger Nerijus
Bloody Finger Ravenmount Assassin
Castellan Jerren
Dung Eater Eleonora, Violet Bloody Finger
Great-Jar Warrior (if copied player held equipment capable of inflicting Blood Loss)
Inaba, Disciple of Okina
Inquisitor Ghiza
Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood
Knight Diallos
Mad Tongue Alberich
Magnus the Beast Claw
Mary, Eldest Sister
Nameless White Mask
Sanguine Noble
Shabriri
White Mask Varré

Abductor Virgins (Wheel variant only)
Bloodhound Knight (including the Darriwil variant)
Cemetery Shade
Cleanrot Knight (Duo only, Scythe variant only)
Demi-Human Chiefs
Esgar, Priest of Blood
Fia's Champions (if copied player held equipment capable of inflicting Blood Loss)
Mad Pumpkin Head (Flail variant only)
Mimic Tear (if copied player held equipment capable of inflicting Blood Loss)
Mohg, Lord of Blood
Mohg, the Omen
Morgott, the Omen King
Night's Cavalry (Flail variant only)
Omenkiller
Stray Mimic Tear (if copied player held equipment capable of inflicting Blood Loss)

See also

• Frostbite, another status ailment governed by Robustness.
• Madness
• Poison
• Scarlet Rot
• Sleep