Desert Sorceress |
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| HP | NG: 320 NG+: 600 NG+7: 1,167 |
| Weakness | - |
| Resistance | - |
| Respawns | YES |
Desert Sorceress is an enemy in Dark Souls 2.
Desert Sorceress Information
Pyromancers (or fire sorceresses, when using a mirror as catalyst instead of Pyromancy Flame) in red dresses in Earthen Peak. They can be very dangerous if not dealt with fast enough, so it is best to kill them before they can cast too many spells; they use a few different pyromancy spells. They are vulnerable to physical damage but heavily resist elemental damage. Under the hex Profound Still, they'll try to bash you with their mirror instead.
The Desert Sorceresses came from the land of Jugo (Benhart's homeland) and have an enchanting appearance to catch people off guard. They were servants of Mytha before she ingested poison to seek beauty; even at present, they still follow the code of beauty, hiding their heads with hoods and wearing enchanting chestplates. They never hesitate to attack intruders who dare to stop Mytha from seeking beauty.
"The Desert Sorceress of Jugo project a very seductive image, and they use their looks to deceive others. In reality, even many who realized that this a trap fell prey to the Sorceresses' wiles. Perhaps they are part of Mythra's scheme to lure more victims into her web?"
- Dark Souls 2 Collector's Edition Guide
"Desert Sorceresses have enchanting looks, and they use them to catch people off guard... Oddly enough, even those who are perceptive enough to realize the ploy fall prey to their seductions with alarming regularity."
- Desert Sorceress Set description.
Location
Drops
- Magic Stone
- Dragon Charm
- Wilted Dusk Herb
- Desert Sorceress Set (hood is a rare drop)
- Lingering Dragoncrest Ring +1 (rare)
- NG: 300 Souls,NG+ 600 Souls, NG+7: 1,200 Souls.
Strategy Tips
- For a Dex. build, a good time to strike is right after she uses Lingering Flame, as they don't use any spells while the spell is still active, leaving you a chance to strike.
Move Set
- Lingering Flame - blows a fireball towards player which will hover until time elapses or player approaches and will then explode for massive damage.
Great Combustion - emits flame at the front as a replacement of a melee attack
Fire Hail (unique) - pyromancy version of Dark Hail, emits multiple fireballs which fly in a flat arc until dropping to the ground. In fact it acts more like Dark Bead from Dark Souls.
Melee attack - bashing with mirror if under Profound Still's effect or standing to close to them.
Grapple attack - embraces the player by the head for a kiss, which drains a portion of the players health, it often results in instant kill if the player has low vigor.
Notes
- If you seek for the the armor drop, a good way to get a high drop chance is to equip Jester's hat, Prisoner's Armor and Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +2. Bear in mind the top piece is extremely rare drop among the whole set.
- they seems to have a rather poor vision, unless you stand right in front of them or getting too close to them, you can hardly aggro them if you stand next to or behind them.
- They can't climb ladders (tested by pushing her down to Central Earthen Peak with Force miracle)
- They do not drop their mirror catalysts.
- If you want to respawn them with Bonfire Ascetic, you need to burn the Ascetic at Central Earthen Peak.
- in concept art book, they had an unused alternate hood which looks similar to Painting Guardian's Mask from Dark Souls
- it's possible to kite Desert Sorceresses to lower Earthen Peak with the help of Force and Profound Still
- But she'll disappear if you attempt to guide her to Lower Earthen Peak Bonfire due to enemies are unable to pass through other areas.
- if you re-enter the area where she disappeared, she'll reappear and her Profound Still aura will be gone, her aggro status will also be reset until you approach her again.
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AnonymousOh still haven't got over that one comment complaining about these enemies, have we? You people need to grow up, spamming downvotes on comments that aren't even whining just because they don't mindlessly praise every aspect of the game without ever complaining about flaw in it's enemy design really says a lot about you people.
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Sorry there, m'ladies, but Chivalry towards fair maidens like yourselves is dead when you cast GODDAMN FIREBALLS AT ME IN AN ATTEMPT TO COOK ME ALIVE! ):<
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These ladies suck to fight in pure melee, especially if you're using a big heavy weapon like an Ultra Greatsword, the damage and speed of their pyromancies up close is nuts, they just flick their hands slightly and suddenly you get one-shotted or if you're lucky barely survive with 90% of your health gone if you don't have high fire damage resistances, highly recommend picking them off with a bow or some sort of ranged attack from a distance just to be safe, mercifully they have low health and seemingly zero poise, but if you fight them up-close unless you're lucky/tanky or resistant to fire damage, screw up once and you're dead
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Don't bother blocking them unless you have a high fire damage negation on your shield, the chip damage is still insanely high to the point it's arguably not worth blocking them most of the time
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What is even going on here? Didn't realize this wiki was supposed to be the new Twitter, can you kindly comment something relevant instead of starting a huge flame war over one bad comment?
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How to ruin a community. Step 1 make a dumb comment so people would criticize/defend the game. Step 2 use the victim card, and call these people who critized the dumb comment you made bullies/ elitist for doing so.
Step 3 cry and say/ over exaggerate that your comment is massafly hated, (despite it not even being the case) then say things like this is the what this entire games community is all about, and shouldn't exist becease this is toxic behaviour. Step 4 profit for ruining a community As a whole and enjoy you where able to ruin it for no other reason than your own entertainment.
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Gotta love when people try to vent over finding an enemy annoying they get downvoted to hell and bullied by a bunch of random douches in the replies, What a real welcoming, understanding and friendly community you lot are, No wonder most people say fromsoft fans are toxic bullying elitist jackasses, because It's very clearly 100% true.
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Not too difficult in melee if you get in their face and kill them quickly, but jesus do they hurt if you don't have high fire resistances, I tried to run at one to kill her before she could attack and she just flicked her hand and instantly exploded my face and almost one-shot me, Thank god they have low health, they'd be easily one of the worst enemies in the game if they weren't squishy.
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Love having my face blasted off in a milisecond oneshotting me the moment I get close to them to hit them, hate these hoes, like the abyss-corrupted Oolacile Sorcerers from Ds1's dlc but even worse, at least you could safely block 1 or 2 spells from them, against these bihs tho? Unless you have very high fire damage negation, forget it.
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"Then something just snapped. Something inside of me. I didn't care anymore"
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does anyone know who voiced these ladies? really wished these ladies would talk with their deep voices
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So, if they're from Jugo, does that mean they have Scottish accents? Because I'm all in on that
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So does anyone know why fromsoft updated their name from desert sorceress to "desert pyromancers" in ds3? Besides the obvious "they are pyromancers and not sorceress" becease i am quite curious why they decided to change that miner thing of them. If anyone know please replie back to this comment.
(Also despite their name being changed in ds3 to pyromancers, i still call them desert sorceress, don't know why though)
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Whose idea was it to put Succubi in Dark Souls?
I'm not complaining though
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How unfortunate that almost always you're too tanky for fireballs to deal actual damage, or you're too agile for fireballs to hit you.
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Exhausted every sorceress spawn location. 11 wilted dusk herbs, 17 dragon charms, 4 magic stones, 3 tops, 1 set of gloves, zero skirts or hoods. **** this game.
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So it has come to this.
I have played ds1 desert sorceress cosplay.
I have played ds2 desert sorceress cosplay.
I have played ds3 desert sorceress cosplay.
Now that elden ring is qbout to come out i'll try to make desert sorceress cosplay for that game too.
(Bloodborne, and demon souls where not done yet in doing a desert sorceress cosplay.)
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shoutout to the chosen undead who took a fireball to the face for the screenshot
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They always t-pose when they die. Anyone else experienced this?
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Omg. The cut content grab attack from this enemy. I-i... DON'T TRY TO SEARCH FOR IT WHAT IT WAS! IT WAS REMOVED THAT ATTACK FOR A GOOD REASON
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dumbest enemy design and "concept" from has ever created. overdone as ****
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Sexy, Independent, strong pyromancy ladys. Who gives you kisses as an attack to kill you. And are loyal to there master even if they have to die to try to protect there master
Even though dying is impossible in dark souls. As the chosen bearer of the curse.
Yea... i am definitely gonna try making one of them my Wife. And try to bypass there master instead of fighter her.
So that my desert sorceress wil not be angry with me for killing her master.
Let's see how that goes.
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Observation: The desert sorceress ALWAYS dies face down. I wonder why...
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Shoutout to the FROM employee that gave this single enemy jiggle physics.
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i would only like to mention, by testing, i've proven, the top (bra) has 40 times lower drop rate than Wiled Dusk Herb, and 2 times lower than the hood, also 2 times lower than the skirt. same drop rate as the globes though.
for more specific numbers, it is exactly 1 top (bra) out of 500 desert sorceresses.
used Merchants hat + prisoners tatters
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They are in Earthern Peak & Drangleic Castle too. Someone edit the page
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Their Great Combustion attack is super annoying, I nearly always get one shot by it when I'm unlucky enough to get hit mid-swing of my greathammer. I'd say sniping them with a bow is the safest way to get rid of em'
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I've been trying to get the set for an hour now...
I think the gloves are the most rare and i have 4 of those supposedly rare rings now
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Best way to beat them .... put your thumb up their butthole
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One of those dumb enemies f***ed up my no death no bonfire run. I got one shot with 50 VGR
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DS3 was my first DS game. But honestly I like this set better in this game. Because in DS2 you can literally see them wearing a thong sometimes. Better than the DS3 panties. UwU
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Most people are commenting they got a lot of tops or that other pieces must be rare, NO PART OF THE SET IS RARE. It’s just rng.
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Very easy to kill by shooting in the head with a crossbow, and extremely dangerous to approach. Rosabeth looks terrible in that top, by the way. Her shoulders are too wide and the disgusting skin color is better hidden by robes anyway.
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I'm wearing the prisoner tatters, jester hat & gold serpent ring. The only thing I'm missing is the glove. P.S I already use Bonfire ascetic
Funnily enough the only piece of their armour that dropped for me was the top.
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Am I the only one who hates that their called "Sorceress," I mean why does It have to be gender specific, pyromancers and clerics aren't gender specific and we all can tell what gender they are when first viewing them..just sort of stupid.
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*reads that the top is a rare drop* *immedietly gets one* *proceeds to not get any other piece BUT the top...* RNG is a biiiiitch
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Why in the world would the developers make their lingering flame pyromancy explode even though Im not anywhere close to it? It's explosion is HUGE
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The boobs aren’t the main thing. Look at the opening in the skirt. If you were a grave warden you’d see so many wardrobe malfunctions below the waist
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Great opponents. Really stun me with their attack of the glorious chest.
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Perfect set to give to Rosabeth, since she is a pyromancer. This way it fits the lore, and doesn't break immersion.
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How do those grave wardens get any work done with a hot piece of finger lickin' chicken like that.
Me, I'd be a 24 hour tripod.
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I got two lingering dragoncrest rings and only gloves so far. Is the set really rarer than the ring?
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Killed all desert sorceress of earthen peak till they couldn't respawn, equipped with jester's hat, prisoner's tatters and covetous gold serpent ring+1, and I got 2 desert sorceress hoods, 2 desert sorceress gloves, 1 desert sorceress skirt and 5 desert sorceress top, and generally, the armor piece I'm missing is never the top, so is it really this rare ?
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Hmm wonder why the top is the rare drop. -applies gold coin-
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