Blood Loss (or Hemorrhage) is a status effect in the Elden Ring that can quickly turn the tide of battle against you. This ailment relentlessly drains your health, leaving you vulnerable during crucial encounters. While highly effective against high-health enemies, Blood Loss poses a significant threat to unprepared players.
However, on the other hand, this is highly effective against bosses with large pools of health. This is why Blood Loss builds are pretty popular in Elden Ring.
This guide includes information on countering and resisting Blood Loss in the Elden Ring. We’ll explore methods to cure the status effect after it’s inflicted and build your resistance to prevent it altogether.
1. Stanching Boluses (Consumable)
Stanching Boluses are pretty helpful in countering Blood Loss and other negative status effects in Elden Ring. You can get this item as loot or purchase it from merchants.
| Nomadic Merchant | Below the Coastal Cave | He sells 3x Stanching Boluses for 600 Runes |
| Imprisoned Merchant | Mohgwyn Dynasty Mausoleum | He will see 3x Stanching Boluses for 1,200 Runes |
| Twin Maiden Husks | Roundtable Hold | Purchased after offering Medicine Peddler’s Bell Bearing to the Maiden |
You can also craft Stanching Boluses using the Nomadic Cookbook (7). Head north from Stormhill Shack toward the broken bridge near Stormveil Castle to get the cookbook.
Once you reach the bridge’s end, you will find a corpse with the cookbook. Jump off your horse and grab it. The next step involves crafting the recipe for blood loss. You need the following items:
| Items | Description | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Herbs | Found in thickets and elsewhere at locations like Limgrave and Stormhill | x1 |
| Cave Moss | Gives off pale light in dark caves | x1 |
| Land Octopus Ovary | Found by hunting land octopuses, which can be found near beaches or the Highroad cave | x1 |
2. Lord’s Aid (Incantation)
If you prefer to use a spell to cure blood loss, you’ll need to get the Prayer Book that contains the Lord’s Aid. This spell alleviates poison, blood loss, and sleeping buildup effects for yourself and your allies. You’ll need the Two Fingers Prayer book to get this spell, which you will get in the West Capital Rampart.
Once you have the Prayerbook, you must head to the Church of Vows and hand it to Miriel, Pastor of Vows, or Brother Corhyn in the Roundtable Hold and learn the spell from either of them for 2,500 Runes.
3. Bestial Constitution (Incantation)
Bestial Constitution is another incantation you can use to stop blood loss in the Elden Ring. There are multiple locations where you can find this incantation. You need to head to the Farum Greatbridge and take the first right where the bridge ends. Jump to the lower cliff and head to the right side.
You will find a scarab with low HP and two strikes from the sword, which will disappear, giving you the Bestial Constitution.
How to Resist Blood Loss?
Resisting Hemorrhage means levelling up Endurance by boosting your character’s Robustness. Endurance increases your overall equipment load, allowing you to use heavier armor effectively with tanky builds. Let’s go over ways to resist bleeding in the Elden Ring.
1. Invigorating Cured Meat (Consumable)
When it comes to countering blood loss in Elden Ring, a couple of items help boost your Robustness stat. This means you will have a higher chance of resisting blood loss buildup.
Invigorating Cured Meat is one such consumable that will increase your Robustness to +100 for a short while.
The best way to get Invigorating Cured Meat is to craft it using the following recipe.
| Items Required | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Items Required | Quantity |
| Golden Rowa | x3 |
| Silver of Meat | x1 |
| Crab Eggs | x1 |
| Land Octopus Ovary | x1 |
2. Invigorating White Cured Meat
This is another means of temporarily strengthening your character. Though this consumable lasts longer than Cured Meat, it has reduced effectiveness.
The invigorating white cured meat has +75 robustness and lasts 120 seconds. You can purchase or loot this item from the Nomadic Merchant at Liurnia of the Lakes for 2,000 Runes or get it off the corpse of two wormfaces in Woodfolk Ruins. Another way of getting the item is by searching the lower part of the tree at Mountaintops of the Giants.
If you have failed to find the item, you can also craft it by using the following recipe:
| Items Required | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Golden Rowa | x3 |
| Strip of White Flesh | x1 |
| Crab Eggs | x1 |
| Land Octopus Ovary | x1 |
3. Stalwart Horn Charm (Talisman)
You can also use the Stalwart Horn Charm talisman to raise your robustness by (90/140). The effects of this talisman are similar to the ones shown by the Invigorating Cured Meat, as it also helps increase the resistance to blood loss.
You can get the Stalwart Horn Charm in the southwestern area of Consecrated Snowfield.
4. Speckled Hardtear
Speckled Hardtear is a Crystal Tear used to boost resistance and heal status. To get this, you need to head north of Altus Highway Junction toward the Second Church of Marika, and from there, deal with the Mirage Rise to the east, where you will find Bower of Bounty Site of Grace. From there, you just need to head to the forest to get to the Minor Erdtree.
You will encounter Wormface sitting, and to get the Speckled Hardtear, you need to take him down. The fight will be a little tricky, so you should stock up on some healing consumables to regain health after being struck down by the boss.
