Mad Warrior
An NPC phantom that can appear in Belfry Sol if you have joined the Bell Keepers covenant (rare spawn). Has a rare chance to drop the Mad Warrior Set and Berserker Blade. A group of mad warrior invaders can be found in the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC before the entrance to Sir Alonne's memory and also have a chance to drop the set items, however fighting a large group in a small area may prove to be very difficult. (Invaders do not require Bell Keepers membership, currently unknown if the invaders drop rate differs)- Drops the entire set and blade once per NG, However using a bonfire ascetic will count as going into NG+ for that area thus resets the loot table, allowing the player to get the armor set and blade again. He only drops one item at a time.
- In order to force a respawn. You need to rest to clear the memory and reload the level.
- Using a Homeward Bone or the Aged Feather will count as resting at the Bonfire for spawning purposes.
- The NPC will also spawn in Offline mode, negating any potential invasions from Bell keepers. (It spawns in online mode too)
- Using Item discovery gear allows his drop chance to be higher, but does not increase his spawn rate.
- Drops the Berserker Blade fairly early on, then followed by the set one piece at a time - note, this is not necessarily true. I farmed the entire set twice and each time the Berserker Blade was the LAST item to drop. Once the set is obtained, he won't drop anything else no matter how many times he's killed. Using a bonfire ascetic after he's dropped everything once will make killing him 100 times for the covenant much more enjoyable.
- Killing the Mad Warrior counts towards The Bell Keeper's Kill total.
- The best procedure for
seems to be running offline in windowed mode and opening the Windows Task Manager to the side just so you can see the games process memory value, then:
- Enter Belfry Sol,
- Go check to see if he's there, if so fight him, then travel from the bonfire back to Belfry Sol and repeat, OR
- If he's not there, walk back to the bonfire to let your memory numbers settle. Look at the number in Task Manager (Dark Souls 2.exe memory) which appears as you rest and make a mental note of it. Then travel from the bonfire back to Belfry Sol,
- After returning from travel wait for a few seconds to allow the memory to settle. When you see the resting number increase by 10,000 K (depending on graphics quality setting can go up to 20,000 K or as low as 300 K) from what you noted go up and fight him.
- After fighting him, return to the bonfire any way you like, then travel to Belfry Sol again. If the resting number is around the same value as when he was there (based on the increase noted), go and fight him. If not, travel again and repeat the process. This increase in memory is due to his textures (mostly, some extent his model but mostly textures) being loaded into memory as they do not appear anywhere else in the game.
SPAWN RATE:
- Approximately 16.87% (Based on my own findings (He spawned 14 times out of 83 attempts) when I was grinding for the Bell Keepers Covenant in Offline Mode. , May 15th)
- Possibly influenced by the amount of Bell Keepers within the area, if all Bell Keepers are cleared out, he will spawn more regularly.
- Wearing items which boosts item discovery, especially Symbol of Avarice, seemly helps on spawning him.
- For me he spawned approximately 10% without the Delicate String, ~25% of the time with the Delicate String, ~30% of the time using Delicate String and constant memory checking. (He spawned 16.67% without Delicate String for me [50 out of 300 attempts] and 23.81% of the time with Delicate String. [50 out of 210 attempts])
- Approximately 10%, using Covetous Gold Serpent Ring+1 and Jester's Hat (Confirmed 7.25% for me, or 69 kills [383 attempts] for the full set)
- Highly recommended to wear Symbol of Avarice, Prisoner's Tatters and Covetous Gold serpent Ring +2 to maximize the drop rate.
- This means you have a chance of approximately 0.13% chance of him spawning AND dropping an item, or with the Delicate String a 0.34% chance.
SotfS Update:
- The Task Manager method still works, but the change is smaller (around 5MB), and just for a split second. Change Task Manager's update speed to High for better results.
Speculation
- Delicate String does affect this spawn rate.
- If you are playing on a PS3 (DOESN'T work on xbox.), when you rest at the bonfire, you can hear the laser in the PS3 move twice. The trick is to keep resting until you hear two slower movements after the first two. These two extra laser movements are indicating that Mad Warrior has spawned. (confirmed) [this strategy is excellent; max times I had to rest was 7-8; average was 2-3; took about 45 minutes to kill him 30 times] (Some suggestions for this method: start by playing in offline mode with the sound muted. It also helps to be in a quiet place. Then rest at the bonfire a couple times in rapid succession before you start listening for the sound. This gives the PlayStation time to finish loading everything. You'll notice that after the first couple times you rest, every subsequent rest will cause the PlayStation to produce two "loading" sounds [a short, low grind or whir] over the course of a little less than a second. If the Mad Warrior has spawned, it will produce one [it's one for me, anyway; perhaps it's two for others] additional "loading" sound a second or two later. If you have just used Homeward, a Homeward Bone, or the Aged Feather to fast travel back to the bonfire, repeat the first step of the process, where you rest a few times in a row before you begin listening again. This really is incredibly convenient.)
- (FOR PS3 ALSO) For those who want to grind with headphones on, watch for the flash of the yellow light on your PS3 to indicate that the Mad Warrior has spawned. Usually it is a single, bright flash just as you stand from the bonfire during your sitting-cycle that foretells the Warrior's appearance. Be sure that the time of the yellow flash is approximately the earliest time you are able to stand after resting.
- Sometimes he wont appear for more than 20 times (NG+ tested) then suddenly appear several times in a row, or every other time for several times, remember that it is a CHANCE to spawn and so sometimes you are more lucky than others (he once spawned 5 times in a row then nothing for thrice that amout).
- I found that he actually spawned more frequently when i used the Homeward miracle, then rested at the bonfire to replenish the miracle, than he did when I used Homeward miracle once (which itself allows him to respawn), ran up to check, then dropped back down to the bonfire the second time, then rested, alternating manual and miracle returns. this contradicts information stating he will despawn unless checked every single time.
- If you Clear the room Where the bonfire is located and all the enemies in belfry sol you can use unveil at the bonfire to see if he has spawned.
Encounters
| Locations |
Events |
|---|---|
| Belfry Sol, in the corner in front of the tower with the ladder for rooftop access. |
Join the Bell Keepers, will randomly spawn (rarely). |
Drops
| Items |
Souls |
|---|---|
| Mad Warrior Set (Very Rare) |
|
| Berserker Blade (Very Rare) |
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- Anonymous
If anyone is wondering, madman spawns on ds2 base game without any dlc. The task manager trick works as well, everytime he spawns my memory of ds2 jumps up about 13 MB. He can also drop all his stuff eventually.
My brother do the Mad Warrior challenge on Xbox 360 in the version 1.00.
He killed 40 Mad Warriors and only 5 dropped the Mad Warrior Set and Berserker Blade and him was using Jester's Cap, Prisioner's Tatters, Watchdragon Parma, Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +1, Delicate String and Rusted Coin and it lasted 4 hours of farming, he do 348 rests at bonfire and only 40 Mad Warriors invaded meaning 308 Mad Warrior invasion failures.
While doing that we tested somethings and the first 100 times Mad Warrior invaded 17 times and droped 2 items. The other 248 he removed the Delicate String and we tested sit on bonfire 5 times before check if Mad Warrior invaded, and seems bad, he cannot use Unveil cause enemies around wasn't defeated till limit, the second 100 times Mad Warrior invaded 14 times, a big decrease after doing the tests.
And the third 100 times was the worst, because of the test of resting on bonfire 5 times and without Delicate String equipped. After him get all the items i made him test if Mad Warrior despawn after resting on bonfire when MW invades. And we discovered that rest on bonfire after Mad Warrior invades, despawn MW. That's details of our challenge.
- Anonymous
Just farmed to covenant level 3 for 100% achievements using the task manager MB memory trick.
I tracked each mad warrior spawn as yes or no or death to him.
Stats/item discovery armor:
Jester cap, prisoner's tatters, covetous gold serpent ring +1, and popped a rusted coin when he did spawn to get increase chance for armor and berserker's blade (got all armor and berserker blade).
Found somewhere else delicate string didn't affect spawn rate, so used it just a few times.
35 spawns out of 139 attempts ~25.20% spawn rate overall in about 2 hours, albeit I didn't clear the little blue bellbros that eventually despawn all at the same time.
First guy, then the next two near mad warrior, then the last two by the stairs if that does affect spawn rate.
35 spawned out of 139 runs.
- Anonymous
Task Manager trick still works. For me it was a jump of 5-10MB in memory, easily spotted. He spawns every time this happens. Cheers.
- Anonymous
resting at a bonfire and casting unveil and waiting for it to go somewhere takes up about 15 seconds for me
you need to do it an average of 6 times for him to spawn (so 90 seconds per spawn on average)
then I need about a minute and a half to go up kill him and feather out (so an average of 3 minutes per roll)
he has a drop rate of about 1% (since all I need is the hat, if he drops anything else - that might as well be literally nothing for me)
so the expectation is about 5 hours of grinding (tho I calculate a 50% chance of getting it after just 3 and a half hours)
is this a soulslike or a gacha game?
- Anonymous
climb the ladder
through the gazebo
use the feather
climb the ladder
- Anonymous
I did the unveil method and had to despawn all of belfry sol, and the iron keep area around it. It works and saved me climbing up the ladder everytime. I killed him 30 times for magic weapon and didn’t ONCE get a drop with gold snake and jester hat. FML
- Anonymous
I burned 15 ascetics trying to farm the domino mask and only saw him spawn once.
- Anonymous
I just got the spell and the trophy, using the PS3 noise technique. With Symbol of Avarice, Prisoner's Tatters, Covetous Gold serpent Ring +2 and Delicate Ring. Using unravel after going up the stairs when I didn't have sure with the sound. Approved on PS3
I used to Unveil technique to see if he has spawned. (tried on ps5, worked every time.)
First, despawn any mob near the area of the Belfry Sol Approach bonfire (you can check if you're done by using unveil to see if they're within reach) Then, go to the corner of the bonfire furthest from the ladder. If the eye of the Unveil follows a straight path, then he has not spawned. Rest and travel back. If the eye goes back and up to where the mad warrior is, then he has spawned. Go kill him, come back to the bonfire, rest, and travel back to Belfry Sol. Rinse and repeat until done.
- Anonymous
Can confirm that the memory trick works very well!
Just sit at the bonfire, quickly press "rest" and "cancel" so your character sits down, refreshes and then stands up automatically, and right after you make that combo, switch to your task manager.
If there's a rapid (from tick to tick) increase of 6-20K, the Mad Warrior likely spawned.
- Anonymous
He can spawn more than 12 times in one playthrough in Belfry Sol.
- Anonymous
Dude that’s wild, the PS3 physically responds to this guy spawning
- Anonymous
killed 27 and got the whole armor set and weapon, Rngesus is looking out for me
- Anonymous
I highly doubt any item or stat or weird method listed here will change the spawn rate, that is merely confirmation bias. Unless you have made THOUSANDS of test runs, not a couple hundred.
- Anonymous
The notes contradict themselves.
In the top bullet points:
"Using Item discovery gear allows his drop chance to be higher, but does not increase his spawn rate."
Under SPAWN RATE bullet points:
"Wearing items which boosts item discovery, especially Symbol of Avarice, seemly helps on spawning him."
- Anonymous
RIP if you're like me and ran up there 58 times in a row with no spawns then realized I didn't have the covenant equipped
- Anonymous
This mf really dropped his whole armor set and stopped spawning when im tryin to get the fkin sword
- Anonymous
Don't see a comment that has mentioned this below, but this is an EASY PEASY method for PS3. I don't think it works for PS4, and I'm not sure about Xbox.
Make sure you have the covenant equipped, of course. And kill the enemies in the front of Belfry Sol until they stop spawning. No delicate string or any fancy stuff necessary.
Turn the volume down on your TV. When you rest at the bonfire, listen carefully. My PS3 was making two "chunk" sounds when loading, and a faint third "chunk" sound when the Mad Warrior spawned. Your PS3 may sound different than mine, but if you have a good ear, you can tell when the Mad Warrior spawns just from that sound. I was only heading up when he spawned with about a 90% success rate. Got all 30 kills and the full set in about an hour. Good luck, feeble cursed ones.
- Anonymous
maybe delicate string works on increasing the chance of him spawning because he is an special invader? idk.... just guessing.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Idk why but he is just not spawning for me. Using ps4 sotfs addition v1.02 offline.
- Anonymous
Today I realized that he spawns much more frequently when I use the aged feather/ homeward than by jumping down the ladder and sitting by the bonfire manually
- Anonymous
I don't know the rates of this, but I did it in about 5 hours yesterday.
For the first 20 or so Mad Warriors, I was literally spawning them every 2 or 3 runs. Sometimes back to back. I had no luck items equipped either. This is on PC, I've done it before on XONE so this has possibly been nerfed to be easier? Perhaps since DS2 isn't making much money anymore and maybe they want people to fini***** as soon as possible lol.
In the last 5 mad warriors, they started spawning very infrequently (once every 10 runs or so). I wonder if this is a feature, it seems like it's harder to spawn them as you get along.
- Anonymous
If you summon the npc phantom, do you still rank up when killing him?
- Anonymous
Just a small time comparison of unveil vs checking manually, with 5attunment (ring for slot), and 10 faith; it takes roughly 5-6sec to check and rest vs 15-18sec to check with aged feather. When you pair this with say 10 checks of nothing, you are looking at a possible 60secs vs 180secs, saving you 2 minutes of time. It may not be worth it the first 10 kills, but after that the time spent killing the nearby enemies to exhaustion will be returned and then some while farming the 2nd and 3rd ranks.
- Anonymous
This is the most useless fandom wiki I’ve ever been on. Every single page has conflicting information, what’s even the point of looking on here sometimes?
- Anonymous
People complaining about this grind haven't suffered the silver knights of anor londo. P.s. unveil method works ps4 when u cast when u walk in belfry sol
- Anonymous
I did not rank up after defeating The Mad warrior while in the covenant, why not?
- Anonymous
The unveil method does not work on XBOX 360 1.00 version. Not sure if its the version or the platform that is the issue since I cant find confirmation that it works on other versions on xbox 360. I even stood as close as possible without agroing him and used unveil and it just went straight up. So I have a feeling he's not flagged as the same type of enemy in 1.00.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
What's with all of this speculation and confirmation bias on this page? If you don't have proof that something arbitrary like killing all the Bell Keepers or increasing your item discovery increases the spawnrate then don't list it here, especially not as if it's a fact. And no, tests that have a very small sample sizes and weren't even recorded don't count. The only thing I can actually see boosting the spawnrate is the Delicate String, everything else seems like nonsense.
- Anonymous
The first time I defeated him the rank went up, but then I defeated him like 5-6 times and the rank doesn't seem to go up. Is it a bug?
- Anonymous
RIP in pasta, Mad Warrior. You died for our invisible weapons.
- Anonymous
Bought this game in 2016, at that point the vanilla ps3 player community was on its way out. First DS game. Love the series now, even own demon's. Finally got my platinum this week and all I have to say is screw this guy. Only-invading-when-he-feels-like-it ass loser in a walmart predator costume
- Anonymous
Dear god, this guy If i didnt encounter him the first time i got to belfry sol, i wouldnt have know about him, ***** is wrong with you, B Team?
- Anonymous
I think he won't spawn if you're wearing the Bellkeeper Ring. Not sure.
- Anonymous
went up there 25 times, didnt spawn a single time. Even reset the area with a bonfire ascetic. Still nothing
- Anonymous
Has no one pointed out that the chance of getting an item would be 1.3%, not 0.13%? 0.13*0.1 = 0.013 = 1.3%
Honestly, its easier to just kill the prowlers in Brume Tower (DLC) for the set. Theres no fuss to get them to spawn (Foyer Bonfire ascetic) and there are 5 guys for the drop.
- Anonymous
I managed to get the set and the blade in 20 mins with homeward bones. Did 50 attempts maximum. Wow! Am I that lucky, or is he changed now?
- Anonymous
In Xbox 360 when you are climbing the ladder and the lava go Black for a fraction of Second and the flame of save game appears he spawn. It work like this for me but maybe be different for others
- Anonymous
"If you Clear the room Where the bonfire is located and all the enemies in belfry sol you can use unveil at the bonfire to see if he has spawned."
Thanks for the advice, this worked. Now I won't have to climb the ladder every time like an idiot.
- Anonymous
yeah nice, The Predator. Exactly that sort of trash destroys DS2. B Team didn't understand the Dark Souls universe is a damn zoo.
- Anonymous
For me he spawns almost every other attempt. I still haven't gotten any gear though...
If you die to an invader while keeping the bell, does it resets the count or loses one for the count, or it doesn't effect the amount you need to kill to get to the next rank?
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