Fragrant Branch of Yore |
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Restore the life of things turned to stone. |
Fragrant Branch of Yore is a type of Consumable in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). Fragrant Branch, a tree branch emitting a faint sweet aroma. Use it to restore life to petrified entities, but prolonged inhalation may lead to coughing and nausea. Consumable Items grant various effects such as restorative properties for recovering HP, removing certain negative status effects, applying temporary buffs and debuffs, as well as activating various actions and effects.
A Fragrant tree branch with a faint sweet smell. Restore the life of things turned to stone. Extended inhalation of the branch's scent can lead to coughing and nausea.
Dark Souls 2 Fragrant Branch of Yore Usage
- Unpetrify the player or NPCs.
Scholar of the First Sin
- Things Betwixt: Dissolve a statue in front of the final door - now guards an Estus Flask Shard.
- Majula: Dissolve Rosabeth of Melfia at the entrance to the Shaded Woods for access to Pyromancies and the ability to upgrade the Pyromancy Flames. This is required to progress into the Shaded Woods.
- Heide's Tower of Flame: Dissolve a statue in the flooded corridors after the Dragonrider fight and before the No Man's Wharf bonfire to gain access to an Estus Flask Shard.
- Lost Bastille: Entrance to the Ruin Sentinels boss fight - leads to the Servants' Quarters bonfire and Belfry Luna (past a Pharros' Contraption)
- Lost Bastille: Dissolve the petrified Straid of Olaphis to have access to his spells, armors, and boss soul items, as well as the Straid's Cell bonfire.
- Black Gulch: Dissolve a statue blocking the last bonfire (second) as well as a summon sign for Lucatiel of Mirrah.
- Shaded Ruins: Near Manscorpion Tark, behind a tunnel leading from the sand pit - dissolving spawns the body of Vengarl. Killing it unlocks the Head of Vengarl as a summonable NPC.
- Shaded Ruins: Straight after Vengarl, there is another one. Dissolve it to create a shortcut back to the bridge and find a chest containing Sublime Bone Dust. (this only opens the shortcut, the chest can be reached from the bridge)
- Shaded Ruins: Dissolve a statue of a lion in front of a metal chest, containing the RepairSorcery, 3 Bleeding Serums, and 3 Human Effigies.
- Shaded Ruins: Dissolve a lion statue above Darkdiver Grandahl, you'll get the Lion Mage Set and another branch.
- Shaded Ruins: Dissolve the statue near the tree bridge at the Shaded Ruins Bonfire and you'll get the Fang Key.
- Shaded Ruins: Dissolve the statue at the back of the Shaded Ruins area where the golden lion roams, and when you kill the enemy he drops the Warlock Mask
- Shrine of Amana: Dissolve the statues blocking the entrance to the Milfanito shrine (where you can pray to regain humanity)
Post King's Ring
- Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the Cyclops for the Dragon Acolyte Mask.
- Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the left-hand statue in front of the large caged basilisk for 2 x bonfire ascetics
- Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the right-hand statue in front of the large caged basilisk for a 2 x Wilted Dusk Herb and 2 x Elizabeth Mushroom.
- Dragon Aerie: Dissolve the statue on the rope bridge blocking the entrance to the Dragon Aerie.
Regular Version
- Needed to unpetrify Straid of Olaphis
- Needed to unpetrify Rosabeth of Melfia
- Unpetrify the Ogre in Aldia's keep under the dragon skeleton to get a "Dragon Acolyte Mask"
- Unpetrify 3 enemies in the 3rd area of the Shaded Woods
- Past Manscorpion Tark to get the Black Knight Halberd (Not needed, can jump to this area from near the bonfire.)
- In a broken building towards the boss, for a "Lion Mage" armor set and an extra branch (not needed but VERY hard to get without the branch)
- Near the bonfire, drops the Fang Key
Fragrant Branch of Yore Location in DKS2
Scholar of the First Sin
- Merchant Hag Melentia: Only one (12,000)
- No-man's Wharf: In a chest in the house with poisoned jars
- Lost Bastille: Near the tower where Lucatiel of Mirrah is, in a chest with a Covetous Silver Serpent Ring and a Human Effigy
- Sinners' Rise: In a chest after defeating The Lost Sinner
- The Gutter: on a corpse hanging from a plank
- Black Gulch: At the start, jumping down from The Gutter
- Harvest Valley: Found in a cave in the first poison pit
- Iron Keep: Magerold of Lanafir - Only one (7,500)
- Shaded Woods: Another in the room as loot on a corpse when you rescue Weaponsmith Ornifex
- Shaded Ruins: In the chest containing the Lion Mage Set
- Shaded Woods: Talk to Manscorpion Tark with the Ring of Whispers equipped (bought from Sweet Shalquoir in Majula) after you've defeated the area boss.
- Brightstone Cove Tseldora: A branch is still dropped by the Duke Tseldora in the Lord's Private Chamber after the fight with The Duke's Dear Freja
- Undead Crypt: After lighting the statue brazier, two Insolent Spirits will appear in the room with the Leydia Witches after the lone Imperious Knight. One of them drops a branch.
- Undead Crypt: One in an iron chest, just before Velstadt, on the left of the stairs
Post King's Ring
- Forest of the Fallen Giants: Near the Memory of Jeigh behind the King's Gate, the body hanging off the ledge now contains 2 x Twinkling Titanite and a branch
- Aldia's Keep: The last cage (closest to the Guardian Dragon boss) hanging from the ceiling has a Mimic that drops a branch
- Dragon Shrine: after dropping down to the ledge after obtaining the Petrified Egg and defeating Dragonfang Villard, it is in a chest along with the Crystal Magic Weapon Sorcery
Regular Version
- Harvest Valley: One in the first poison fog area after The Poison Pool bonfire, inside the cave guarded by the Banedigger. Once inside you'll see the item on a body hanging over a ledge, watch out for skeletons.
- Harvest Valley: After progressing past The Mines bonfire you'll see a room full of poison fog-filled pits and an item on a ledge. Enter the tunnel nearest to this ledge, and be ready to fight or run as you make an immediate right. In the quarry area with 4 sickle-wielding enemies, you'll see several boarded-up tunnels, the one you want is second from the right on the top level. Make a right turn inside the tunnel and you'll find yourself back out on the original ledge with the branch.
- The Gutter (Before the Bonfire at Black Gulch)
- Shaded Woods: Talk to Manscorpion Tark with the Ring of Whispers equipped (bought from Sweet Shalquoir in Majula) after you've defeated the area boss.
- Shaded Woods: One in the chest containing the Lion Mage Set (Using a branch on the lion warrior outside will allow access,)
- Brightstone Cove Tseldora (Dropped by the Hollow Duke of Tseldora in the Lord's Private Chamber after defeating Duke's Dear Freja.)
- Sinners' Rise: Right next to the Primal Bonfire (in a chest after defeating Lost Sinner)
- Iron Keep: Magerold of Lanafir's Shop (Cost 7500)
Dark Souls 2 Fragrant Branch of Yore Notes and Tips
- Upon entering a new NG cycle, even if branches are present in your inventory, they cannot be used to unpetrify NPCs and enemies until the respective branches are picked up again in the current playthrough.
- In Scholar of the First Sin, there are 17 branches and 17 statues to be dissolved per NG cycle.
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Yui Tanimura’s mod (Scholar of the First Sin) makes the entire game different because now there is 17 (seventeen) yore branches blocking you off from locations you could had gone normally in the original release! That will be $60.
Worst part of Scholar version by far
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Obnoxiously rare item thats necessary for progress with plenty of bait to waste them unless you use a guide. Tedious and petty
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I don't understand why but I don't have it in the places the wiki indicates, I went to the merchant and he didn't have it, then I went to open the chest with the poison barrels and it wasn't there either
Dark souls players when they need to use only 0,00001% of a single braincell instead of killing everything in their path:
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I used cheat engine to get 99 of those. **** trying to find this shitty item.
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To hell with trying to find this awful item. I got so sick of it that i had to use cheat engine to get 99 of it.
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I'm...ok with these as a game mechanic but it really stands out as a video game contrivance when it's obvious you could easily scooch around them. The one in Dragon Aerie is especially bad, someone could easily squeeze by it on either side.
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Alyways there when you dont need it , never here if you need it
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Fragrant Branch of your mother, she so ugly she turned the hollows into statues by looking at them like medusa
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in SotFS, in order to get one of the branches in the Undead Crypt, you need to light the statue after the drop, not one the one that is on the path. It needs to be the one that gives a message after lighting it, and lights up the whole room. Then, you backtrack to the room full of the oil barrels. I thought I would provide more details, in case it wasn't clear what to do to get this branch!
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Gotta love how Scholar of the First Sin puts so many statues in the way of important areas that are meant to make your life less painful like the path leading to the before boss bonfire in Black Gulch and the Rise of the Dead at the end of Shrine of Amana just to make things tedious for the sake of being tedious and make already-awful areas even more of a pain in the ass and forcing you to go searching if you aren't lucky enough to already have a Fragrant Branch, what an annoying and pointless change
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Adding more of these in obnoxious spot in SoTFS was so incredibly small brained by the devs.
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Hi I'm Lanci, I can't change the wiki's entry for some reason but I found a way to farm these bad boys, you just need to use the Bonefire Ashetic item on the "Lower Brightstone Cove" bonefire, thus making the boss "THE DUKE'S DEAR FREJA" respawn, she will now drop both her soul and seath's. (You can trivialise the fact by attacking her from a distance + 2 phantoms and a torch to keep the spiders away). After her death the way to the primal bonefire will be open once again but with the guy that gives the branch and the ring still alive, therefore just go towards the primordial bonefire, kill the little guy and enjoy the branch. (idk if it's mandatory but every time I kill her I go through the dragon's memories).
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The one in Aldia's keep killed me then it died from poison. Is it lost for good?
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The Dragon Mask dropped from the giant Basilisk. Wondering if hungry hungry hippo still drops the same?!
- Anonymous
The Duke of Tseldora respawns with an ascetic so an infinite number can be obtained
- Anonymous
Suddenly I'm glad the only way I can play this is on a ps3! This combined with the weird ass enemy placement makes the updated version look annoying as hell
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