Dark Clutch Ring |
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| Increases dark attack, but reduces physical defence. |
Dark Clutch Ring is a Ring in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). The Dark Clutch Ring, adorned with an image of a hand clutching a stone, enhances dark attack potential at the cost of lowered physical defense. Despite the mysterious origin of this ring, its design implies an affiliation with dark deities, demanding skill from the wearer for proficient utilization. Players can equip up to 4 Rings, but equipping two of the same item is not possible. Some rings have upgraded versions, having a maximum of +3. Some can only be found in NG+. Rings can be repaired at a blacksmith, but not upgraded. Upgraded versions must be acquired throughout the game from corpses, chests, bosses, etc.
Ring depicting a hand grasping a stone. Increases dark attack, but reduces physical defence. The origin of this ring is unknown, but its design suggests one of the dark deities. Effective use of this ring requires skill on the part of its wearer."
Dark Souls 2 Dark Clutch Ring Effects
Durability: 30
Weight:
- 2.0
Effect:
- Increases Dark AR by 30 before infusion modification, reduces Physical Defenses by 80
- This also causes Hexes to deal more Dark Damage.
Dark Clutch Ring Locations in Dark Souls 2
- Outer Wall bonfire, right from the start and passing a room with enemies and boxes, then dropping down.
- From first bonfire in Frozen Eleum Loyce, take a right at the first door you enter into the winter storm. Continue along path. You will be passing 3 dogs at the bottom of a stair way, then a fountain in the middle of a larger area. After you dispatch the enemies, you will walk up a stair way into a room with many boxes. Behind the boxes are 3 ice guys and 1 dog. Behind them is a door, you do not want to enter that door. Enter the door opposite of that one closest to the stair well. After the enemy is dispatched on the stairwell, you will rise to the top with 3 frozen chests. There is a drop off onto snow with a dead guy on a ledge, and a dead guy leaning on a tree. The one against the tree has the dark clutch ring.
DS2 Dark Clutch Ring Tips and Notes
- Weapons must have Dark elemental damage. The buff is static regardless of reinforcement or player build.
AnonymousYou have to kill Aava first, then talk to alsanna, before the ring is retreivable.
The "notes" section is incorrect. The attack bonus increases depending on the weapon, but this isn't related to how it's upgraded. For example, the Sanctum crossbows, any catalyst, Silverblack spear, and others get +30 even though they're upgraded with normal Titanite. A Dark-infused Greatsword gets +15.
In general, infusing a weapon with Dark seems to increase the bonus by +10 (e.g. a Dark Sanctum Crossbow gets +40 instead of +30), if it had any dark damage to begin with.
It is also not related to the weapon's Dark scaling, or whether it's infused with anything else. For example, my Mundane sanctum repeating crossbow gets +30 like my uninfused sanctum crossbow, even though it has E dark scaling.
Sanctum crossbow OP
28
+10
-1