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Dark Wood Grain Ring is a Ring in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. Players can equip up to 2 Rings, but equipping two of the same item is not possible.
Effect
- Changes your dodge/roll to a faster cartwheel-esque flip that covers more ground, but only when you're at 25% or less of your total equip load.(patch 1.06). Increases invulnerability frames from 12 frames to 14 frames; character recovers from roll faster from 12 frames to 8 frames. While flipping across lava you take (roughly) half as much damage from lava as you would when you would run.
Acquired from
- Drops from the ninja bodyguard that follows the merchant Shiva of the East in Darkroot Garden and Blighttown.
Notes
- You need to join the Forest Hunter covenant for the ninja bodyguard to appear.
- Attacking the bodyguard breaks the Forest Hunter covenant. This includes kicking him off of the ledge that he stands near.
- If the bodyguard dies and for some reason you don't get to pick up his soul, quit and reload game and his soul should appear directly behind the building Alvina waits in. Of course, if you kill him in Blighttown and are unable to pickup, you will find his soul where he was standing in that area, behind the little wall in the poison swamp.
- After killing the bodyguard only, you can absolve your sins, rejoin the clan and still buy weapons from Shiva.
- Rolling the right way over the corpses of lighter enemies while wearing this ring allows you to launch your enemies’ corpses into the air and down cliffs, which is a good way to relieve yourself from the boredom of farming.
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I nearly missed the body guard entirely by the windmill. Be sure to walk around thoroughly if you see the merchant but not the ninja garb wearing and partially see-through body guard.
This ring also modifies your backstep into a funni flip, fyi
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Got ring of Havel's and elite knight set, playing as a wanderer. OSCAR FLIP
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I'm working on getting this to work with Havel's set. I've got to be a level 89 Bandit with every level in endurance. I went past the hydra way to save souls for getting the Cat Covenant. I should have pushed the ninja off the cliff. Instead I went to BT and died trying attack him. Beat a couple of bosses and was able to get absolved and get the forest key (pro tip: in dsRM, after being absolved I could have rejoined at any bonfire). Talk to the cat, enter the Covenant, notice Shiva isn't by the cat, rest at Parish, run all the way down to the bottom of Blighttown. I kill the ninja and immediately quit out in case I want to buy stuff from Shiva later. When I open the game I'm at the Depths's Blighttown entrance and human. I bone back to Parish and the fire is unlit and unkindled (haven't checked other bonfires). But I ran back down and the ring was there. And that's my Dark Wood Grain Ring story.
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Walk towards a wall while kicking a corpse towards it, when the corpse is as clamped as possible between you and the wall do a backflip!
OSCARINE MASULUKE MODE UNLOCKED!
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The iframes thing isn't precise enough, since your frames depend on the equip load you have, being different for 0%-8.3%, 8.3%-16.6%, and 16.6% to 24.9%, each one of these equip loads decreasing the recovery frames by 1, and no, you can't ninjaflip with 25%
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One niche upside to this ring is that it makes your backstep look the same as a backwards roll, allowing you to potentially catch a PvP opponent off guard with a backstep attack.
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Looks like it has to be below 25% in my case. I'm at 21/84 (25%) and it's not working yet.
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Probably the best and coolest ring in dark souls (i wish it was in ds3) :)
I hate it when you have to join a specific covenant just to get that one single thing.
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I have never gotten this ring before because i never knew how to find the bodyguard
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I fought the Ninja at an early point in the game, got killed and he wont spawn back. Is there anyway I could still get the ring?
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I don’t understand, I’ve used the cragspider method in the past with no issues but this time it just get hitting shiva with the flame more often than the bodyguard even though I kept the exact same positioning where I stand right in front of the ninja and block the flame breath so it chip damages me but fully damages him. I had to reload twice and even with those 3 attempts it still kept damaging shiva even though it didn’t at all in past successful attempts and eventually he died before the ninja did. I’m not trying that again on future runs
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It's so obscure, how could anyone who has not looked at the wiki decide, "oh i'm just going to kill that transparent ninja dude behind the merchant that belongs to the covenant i just joined"
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For whatever reason, the ring stops functioningwhen the player is in water making it useless in certain cases, most notably the sanctuary guardian fight.
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If you kill Shiva but fail to kill his bodyguard. You can find the ring in the Darkroot Garden where you first met them.
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Funny how at some point game breaking item with 1 patch was turned into novelty item. I still remember ninja flipping havel monsters with BK weapons.
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I killed shiva but died to the bodyguard did the bodyguard return to dark root garden?
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still super possible to kick the ninja off the edge of the cliff in darkwood instead of Blightown on remastered if anyones wondering
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I killed shiva in darkroot garden but he didnt drop the ring. Only his sword and shield. He is supposed to drop it right?
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i tried to kill shiva i get rekt but where is Shiva after that.
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But I like my high poise and defense but if I get to ninja flip none of that matters.
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FYI I just tried the Cragspider trick (get the Cragspider to kill the ninja) and it still aggro'd Shiva, but only after the ninja died. Could be because I attacked the Cragspider back? In any case, proceed with caution.
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If you max out Endurance, wear this ring and Havel's, you can use the entire Havel set and still ninja flip. you can only use a few weapons with the space left (shortsword brings it up to 24.9%)
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If you kick him off the cliff will you still break the covenant?
Backstep gains Invicibility frame with this ring(100% confirmed)! Maybe backsteps always have i-frames but they are so small that it rarely works. I have tested backsteps without the ring and i-frames consistently work against the magic npc' projectiles in firelink.
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