ELDEN RING – Pre-DLC Complete Missables Checklist and Guide

All Missables and Important Items Guide

This guide has one goal: to help you get everything in the game in a single playthrough. It won’t tell you the location of every item or explain how to progress through the game. Instead, it will tell you when to pick up quests and important items.

If you defeat all the World Bosses before going to certain areas, you might miss out on some invasions. Many quests, especially in Liurnia, can be tricky if you don’t do them in the right order. Even I make mistakes with this sometimes, which is why I decided to create this guide.

Lastly, I’ll include some extra items and bosses that I think you should get as soon as possible in the “Misc” sections. However, you can’t miss out on these permanently.

Also:

• ADSS means Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
• SADSS means Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.

Limgrave / Stormhill / Weeping Peninsula

Invasions

• Nerijus
• Henricus

Events and Items

• Chat with Varre
  • Resist urge to murder
• Rest at Agheel Lake North or Gatefront grace
  • Answer Melina in the positive
  • Warp to Church of Elleh grace or travel there on horseback
  • Speak to Renna
• Boc
  • Find a weirdly lit small tree, roll into it
  • Chat
  • Go to Coastal Cave
  • Defeat Coastal Cave
  • Chat
• Chat with Sellen
• Chat with Yura
  • Be Invaded by Nerijus, kill him
  • After Nerijus invasion, chat again
• Find Patches in Murkwater Cave
  • Fight, resist urge to kill you bloodthirsty beast
  • Chat
  • Buy Margit’s Shackle for illusory walls and flame pillars
  • Rest at a grace or exit to menu and reload character
  • Open chest
  • Return, ragged, chat
  • Get mad, attack Patches, start a fight, don’t reduce his HP further. When your HP is 25%, use the new gesture to beg for his infinite mercy. You bloodthirsty beast, shame on you.
• Chat with Lord Kenneth Haight
  • Go to Fort Haight, collect the Golden Seed, kill the knight
  • Chat with Lord Kenneth Haight
  • Go to Fort Haight, chat with Lord Kenneth Haight
• Blaidd
  • Go to Mistwood Ruins, hear howling
  • Chat with Kale (Santa Merchant at Church of Elleh)
  • Go to Mistwood Ruins, snap when you hear howling
  • Chat
  • Go to Forlorn Hound Evergaol, mete out justice
  • Chat
• Irina
  • Chat, receive note
  • Go to Castle Morne
  • Chat with Edgar
  • Beat Castle Morne
  • Chat with Edgar
  • Chat with Irina
• Speak with Roderika
  • Optionally, acquire the Chrysalid Memento and return it to her, but if you don’t you keep the Memento and gain the reward as though you had returned it.
• Chat with Bernahl, select top option
• Alexander
  • Chat
  • Charged R2 dat ass a few times
  • Chat, knowing you’ve attacked the best boy. Bloodthirsty beast.
• Go to Summonwater, cleanse the undead
• Go to Deathtouched Catacombs, cleanse the undead even more

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Third Church of Marika, Sacred Tear and Wondrous Flask
• Callu Baptismal Church, Sacred Tear
• Church of Pilgrimage, Sacred Tear
• Fourth Church of Marika, Sacred Tear
• Golden Seed on the way to Roderika
• Another Golden Seed on the way to Morne Castle

Caelid

Invasions

• Anastasia – Required for a SADSS
• Millicent

Events and Items

• Gowry / Millicent
  • Chat with Gowry
  • Acquire Unalloyed Gold Needle from O’Neil boss fight
  • Give Needle to Gowry
  • Rest at a grace or exit to menu and reload character
  • Acquire the fixed Unalloyed Gold Needle from Gowry
  • Deliver the Unalloyed Gold Needle to Millicent
  • Rest at a grace or exit to menu and reload character
  • Chat with Millicent
  • Rest at a grace or exit to menu and reload character
  • Chat with Gowry
• Find and talk to Alexander in Gael Tunnel

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Church of the Plague, Sacred Tear
• Golden Seed in Sellia
• South of Bestial Sanctum is a Golden Seed

Roundtable Hold

• Jump off the railings, do not attack until you receive the gesture
• Chat with Corhyn
• Chat with D, acquire map
• Do… things? with Fia
  • Use Baldachin’s Blessing if you have no use for it
• Chat with Gideon
• Chat with Diallos

Stormveil Castle

• Defeat Margit
• Chat with Rogier
• Chat with Nepheli Loux. Warrior.
• Defeat the Crucible Knight
• Defeat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit
• Find Rogier’s Bloodstain
• SNAKE EATERRRRRRRRR
• Defeat Godrick
• Activate Godrick’s rune. If you did the dungeon in one go, it’s easier to do this before resting at a grace
• Return to where Varre was for a gesture
• Return to where Roderika was for a Golden Seed

Roundtable Hold (2)

• Chat with Enia and Two Fingers for gesture
• Chat with Gideon
• Chat with Nepheli Loux. Warrior.
• Chat with Rogier
• Chat with D
• Hug Fia
  • Use Baldachin’s blessing if you have no use for it
• Make Roderika a spirit tuner
  • Chat with Roderika
  • Chat with Hewg
  • Chat with Roderika
  • Rest at a grace
  • Chat with Hewg
  • Chat with Roderika

Liurnia

Invaders

• Edgar
• Vyke

Events and Items

• Speak with Boc at Lake-facing Cliffs. If he doesn’t show up, try changing the time to Morning.
• Speak with Irina Hyetta at Lake-facing Cliffs
  • Give Shabriri Grape
• Find Raya and speak with her, answer in the positive
  • Find Blackguard Boggart and buy Raya’s Necklace from him
  • Speak with Blackguard Boggart again and buy at least one (1) Boiled Prawn from him, receive gesture and FRIENDSHIP
• Talk to Patches
  • Optionally, allow the Abductor Virgin in Raya Lucaria to abduct you when you get there, then return to Patches
• Speak to Varre, answer in the negative “They didn’t seem quite right”.
  • Use Festering Bloody Finger three (3) times, or wait until Altus Plateau to invade an NPC in Writheblood Ruins
  • Speak to Varre, receive Lord of Blood’s Favor
  • Go to either Church of Anticipation or Church of Inhibition and turn it red
  • Return to Varre, receive Pureblood Medal
• Speak with Hyetta near Purified Ruins
  • Give Shabriri Grape
• Speak with Hyetta north of Gate Town Bridge grace
  • Give Shabriri Grape
• Find and talk to Diallos west of Academy Gate Town grace
• Kill the Tibia Mariner
• Clear Black Knife Catacombs, acquire Black Knifeprint and Deathroot
  • Speak with Fia
    • Use Baldachin’s Blessing if you have no use for it
  • Speak with Rogier, give Knifeprint
  • Speak with D, give him the Weathered Dagger
  • Rest at Roundtable Hold grace
  • Go to the room past the blacksmith, it is now open
  • Loot the items, this is very important for later
• Arrive at The Four Belfries
  • Unlock the topmost Belfry, labeled “Precipice of Anticipation” by a developer message
  • Clear Precipice of Anticipation, acquire Stormhawk King
• Speak with Iji
• Clear Caria Manor
  • Speak with Ranni, answer in the positive
  • Speak with Blaidd, Iji, and Seluvis downstairs
  • Return upstairs and speak with Ranni
  • Ride to Seluvis’ Rise and speak with him
    • Obtain his Memory Stone at the top of his Rise
  • After obtaining his potion, decide to give it to Nepheli Loux or Dung Eater
    • If Nepheli Loux, give her the potion
    • Go into Seluvis’ Basement in the middle of the ruins
    • Read message, then break illusory wall
    • Talk to Seluvis, gain a free Spirit Ash
• Speak with Boc again at East Raya Lucaria Gate
  • If you have a demigod garb in your inventory, give Golden Sewing Needle
• Speak with Hyetta at Bellum Church
  • Give Fingerprint Grape
• From Main Academy Gate, go Northeast for an invasion sign
  • After winning the invasion, speak to Yura
• Go to the Village of Albinaurics, speak with Nepheli Loux. Warrior.
• Find and roll into a weirdly lit pot
  • Speak with Albus, receive Haligtree Secret Medallion
• Defeat the boss
• Warp to Roundtable Hold, talk to Nepheli Loux
  • Have a chat with Gideon Ofnir about it
  • IF NOT GIVING HER SELUVIS’ POTION Give Nepheli Loux the Stormhawk King
• Warp to Godrick the Grafted Grace
  • Speak with Nepheli Loux. Warrior.
  • Speak with Lord Kenneth Haight
  • Speak with Gostoc and purchase an ADSS from him
• Go to Lakeside Crystal Cave
  • Speak with Latenna, acquire her Spirit Ashes
• Return to Roundtable Hold
  • Win

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Church of Irith, Sacred Tear
• Bellum Church, Sacred Tear
• Church of Inhibition, Sacred Tear
• There are two golden seeds near Academy Gate Town grace and Ravine-Veiled Village grace
• Seed in Caria Manor
• And another Seed at Raya Lucaria Main gate and directly after Debate Parlor

Siofra River Well

• Speak with Blaidd
• Return to Waypoint Ruins
  • Speak with Seluvis, obtain Letter of Introduction
  • Speak with Sellen, give Letter of Introduction

Altus Plateau

Invaders

• Eleonora – Important for a Boss
• Dung Eater
• Maleigh Marais

Events and Items

• Speak with Rya either at Grand Lift of Dectus or Lux Ruins to teleport to Volcano Manor
• Speak to Boc
  • Give him the Golden Sewing Needle if you haven’t already.
    • At this point, you can buy Renalla’s items from Enia in the “Receive equipment from champions” option. It only costs runes, and is needed to advance Boc’s quest.
• Obtain Amber Starlight
  • Speak to Seluvis
  • DO NOT give Ranni the potion
• Speak to Corhyn
  • “Speak” to Goldmask
  • Speak to Corhyn, give him Goldmask’s location
  • Speak to Corhyn, who is now with Goldmask, then speak to Goldmask
• Head to Second Church of Marika
  • Speak with Yura
  • Fight Eleonora
• At Shaded Castle, acquire the Valkyrie’s Prosthetic
  • Speak to Millicent at Erdtree Gazing Hill, give her Valkyrie’s Prosthetic
  • Clear Windmill Village
  • Speak to Millicent at Windmill Heights grace
  • Return to Gowry and speak to him for new spells to purchase (do this even if you do not plan to purchase from him)
• Kill the Tibia Mariner at Wyndham Ruins

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Second Church of Marika, Sacred Tear
• Stormcaller Church, Sacred Tear
• One (1) Golden Seed north of Altus Highway Junction, on the way to the map
• Four (4?!) Golden Seeds along the stone highway leading to Leyndell
• Directly south of the Capital Outskirts grace is yet another Golden Seed
• From Windmill Village to the Capital is yet another Golden Seed

Mt. Gelmir

Invasions

• Anastasia the Tarnished Eater
• Ghiza – Strangely non-missable, even by killing all dungeon and world bosses

Events and Items

• Enter and clear Gelmir’s Hero Grave for a deathroot
• Join Volcano Manor
• Speak with Rya
• Speak with Bernahl
• Speak with Diallos
• Assassination time!
  • Istavan
  • Idle Rileigh
  • Speak to Patches for a new target: Targorath
  • Speak to Bernahl for a new target: Vargram
  • Kill Targorath
    • Speak with Patches
    • Speak with Patches again for your reward
• Speak with Bernahl for items
• Speak with Rya
• Speak with Diallos
• Speak with a ghost
• Clear the Volcano Manor dungeon, receive Seedbed Curse
• Give Rya the Serpent’s Amnion
• Talk to Rya inside the dungeon tower
  • Spare her
• DO NOT kill Rykard
• Go to Jarburg
• Speak with Jar Bairn
• Rest at Jarburg grace and speak to Jar Bairn again
• Repeat the above until he says nothing new
• Speak to Diallos
• Enter Roundtable Hold, speak with Dung Eater
• Acquire the “You’re Beautiful” Prattling Pate from the Hermit Village for Boc
• Speak with Sorcerer Azur
  • Return to Sorceress Sellen, receive the Sellian Sealbreaker

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Golden Seed directly outside of Volcano Manor

Caelid (2)

• Travel to Sellian Hideaway
  • Speak with Lusat
• Go to Redmane Castle
• Attend the Festival
• Speak with Therolina for a gesture
• Summon five phantoms in the boss fight for a gesture
• Speak with Jerren after the boss fight
• Speak to Sorceress Sellen
• Talk to Sorceress Sellen at Witchbane Ruins
  • After acquiring Primal Glintstone, exit to main menu and reload character
  • Speak with Jerren
• Return to Seluvis’ Basement in the central ruins
  • Enter the illusory wall room and give the Primal Glintstone to the Sellen puppet
• Return to Raya Lucaria Grand Library grace
• Side with either Sellen or Jerren
  • Sellen grants you a new spell, weapon, Jerren’s set, Lusat’s set, Azur’s Set, and Witch’s Glintstone Crown, one of which required for an achievement
    • Rest at the grace and speak with Sorceress Sellen
    • Rest at the grace and… speak with Sorceress Sellen?
  • Jerren grants you Witch’s Glintstone Crown and ADSS
    • Speak with Jerren

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Golden Seed on the way to Redmane Castle

Siofa River (2) / Nokron

• There is a Golden Seed in Ancestral Woods
• Find Fingerslayer Blade
  • DO NOT speak to Ranni unless you have already given Seluvis’ Potion to somebody and spoken to Seluvis
    • Once Seluvis’ Potion is given to somebody and Seluvis is spoken to, speak to Ranni
• Go to Siofra Aqueduct
  • Give armor set to the NPC
• Defeat the boss at Siofra Aqueduct
  • Rest in the coffin

Deeproot Depths

• Defeat the boss
  • Speak with Fia
  • Give Cursemark of Death
    • Do not use the Radiant Baldachin Blessing, it doesn’t reduce your HP
  • Rest and speak with Fia to enter a boss fight
  • Acquire Mending Rune
  • Rest and find Fia’s Set
  • Rest and find D
    • Kill him

Leyndell

• There is a missable perfume bottle inside the perfumer’s building and up the ladder
• Up the stairs from there is a Seedbed Curse
• Speak to Boc, do not give him a Larval Tear
  • Once done speaking to him, use the “You’re Beautiful” Prattling Pate in front of him
  • Speak to him again, answer in the positive
  • There is a missable perfume bottle nearby in the misbegotten area
  • There is a missable cracked pot nearby in the Ulcerated Tree Spirit area
• Find Dung Eater’s Gaol, release him
  • Find his message at Roundtable Hold
  • Ride down to the Leyndell moat, northwest of Capital Rampart grace
  • Speak with Blackguard Boggart
  • Exit to main menu and reload your character
  • Receive Seedbed Curse
  • Avenge Blackguard Boggart
  • Give Dung Eater Seluvis’ Potion or Seedbed Curses
    • If you give him Seluvis’ Potion, you receive the Dung Eater Puppet
    • If you give him Seedbed Curses, you are locked into receiving a Mending Rune
• Golden Seed on the way to the manor
• Find the Fortified Manor
  • Acquire By My Sword
  • Kill Vargram
  • Return to Volcano Manor for your prize
• Speak to Corhyn and Goldmask
  • After defeating the next boss, acquire Golden Order Principia from the second floor
  • Take the elevator down and cast Law of Regression in front of the developer message
  • Return and speak to Goldmask and inform him of the news
  • Speak with Corhyn
• Speak with Hyetta at Frenzied Flame Proscription
  • Remove armor, speak with burned doors for a Possible Ending
    • WARNING: If you do this, you are locked into this ending unless you do Millicent’s quest and assist her
    • You can remove the burn marks through the cosmetic menu found at Rennala or at Roundtable Hold’s mirror in Fia’s room
  • Speak with Hyetta

Ainsel River / Nokstella

• Speak to Ranni and give the Fingerslayer Blade if you haven’t yet
• Head to the top of Ranni’s Rise for items and a grace
• Head to Renna’s Rise, take the warp
• Obtain purple item on a coffin
• Rest at grace, select new option
  • Select again
  • Select again again
• There is a Golden Seed south of the Moon of Nokstella
• Defeat Baleful Shadow
• Speak to Ranni
• Go to Lake of Rot
  • Defeat boss
  • Go to Raya Lucaria Grand Library grace, open chest nearby

Moonlit Altar

• Speak with Ranni for a Possible Ending

Mountaintops of the Giants

Invaders

• Okina

Events and Items

• Speak with Yura(?)
  • Kill him if you wish
• Cleanse the Giants’ Mountaintop Catacombs for a deathroot
• Talk with Millicent at Ancient Snow Valley Ruins grace
• Assassinate Hoslow–make sure you wait for the gesture
• Return to Volcano Manor, accept the invite
  • Kill Rykard
• Find the gesture where the ghost was
• Speak with Tanith
• Speak with Bernahl
• Speak with Patches
• Speak with Rya
• Head to Shaded Castle, speak with Patches
• Warp to Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
  • Hand Tanith the Dancer’s Castanets
  • Kill her for a spell
• Go to Murkwater Cave
  • Do not attack the boss
• Go to Jarburg
• Speak to Jar Bairn and Diallos, Rest, Repeat, until they say nothing new
• Speak to Corhyn and Goldmask on the bridge near the Minor Erdtree
• Defeat the Tibia Mariner on the way to Castle Sol
• Clear Castle Sol, obtain Haligtree Secret Medallion

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Church of Repose, Sacred Tear
• First Church of Marika, Sacred Tear
• Progressing to the Grand Lift of Rold yields a Golden Seed
• On the way to Freezing Lake is a Golden Seed

Consecrated Snowfields

Invaders

• Anastasia, the Tarnished Eater
• Sanguine Noble

Events and Items

• Defeat the boss in Hidden Path to the Haligtree dungeon
• Return to Gurranq, give him your deathroots for an ADSS and several spells
• Go to Apostate Derelict
  • Finish Latenna’s quest, obtain ADSS

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Golden Seed Between Consecrated Snowfield and Inner Consecrated Snowfield graces
• Another Golden Seed southwest of Liturgical Town

Mohgwyn’s Dynasty

Invaders

• Nameless White Mask
• Nameless White Mask, again
• Nameless White Mask, again again

Events and Items

• Invade Varre through his red sign after being invaded by Nameless White Mask thrice
  • WARNING: You will automatically fail if you kill the boss
    • After killing him in the invasion, speak with him

Miscellaneous Non-Missables

• Golden Seed next to Dynasty Mausoleum Midpoint

Haligtree

• Speak with Millicent at the Prayer Room grace
• Either pick up the co-op sign or the invasion sign for Millicent
  • Co-op sign provides Rotten Wing Insignia, Miquella’s Needle (needed for curing Frenzied Flame), and SADSS
  • Invasion sign provides Millicent’s Prosthesis and feelings of self-loathing
• CAREFUL NOT TO FALL ON MILLICENT Speak to Millicent
  • Exit to main menu and reload character
  • Acquire items, including Unalloyed Gold Needle
• Return to Gowry and speak to him
  • Kill him for his bell-bearing and talisman
• Defeat Malenia, Blade of Miquella
  • Okay, but THIS time you’ll actually defeat her
• Rest at the Malenia, Goddess of Rot grace
• Use the Unalloyed Gold Needle on the Blossom, receive Miquella’s Needle

Crumbling Farum Azula

Invasions

• Bernahl

Events and Items

• Defeat Placidusax
  • ACQUIRE THE GRACE, I believe it is missable, but I’m not 100% sure if they patched it
• If you wish to end your Frenzied Flame status, use Miquella’s Needle in the Dragonlord Placidusax boss room

Leyndell (2)

• Speak to Corhyn
• Speak to Goldmask, acquire his Mending Rune

That concludes the guide, hope you found it helpful!