Demonic Prayer Beads

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

I'm not sure I fully understand how this item works..

Absorb the souls of nearby dead things. Each soul temporarily increases your damage by 2. Absorbing 5 souls at once will give you a permanent stat boost.

Ok, and iirc there is some visual cue showing that I'm getting the bonus. But what about when I activate the item and the large bubble appears around me? Is that how you're supposed to "absorb the souls of nearby dead things"? Do I have to kill them while that bubble is active, or do I kill them first, then use the bubble to absorb souls? What about bosses?

[Will]

Kill them first - any dead bodies within the white circle will be absorbed (slimes don't have corpses, so they won't work). You'll get a big bonus from boss corpses!

[Klokinator]

Huh, I tried it on bosses in the past, it never worked.

[Anxarcule]

Same - I've tried it on bosses and it didn't work.

[amifluffy]

Its mechanics is super vague. Sometimes you kill like 5 same orcs at the same place but get 3 souls. I have some questions on the item:
Does it matter where the corpse flies after you kill the mob?
Is it possible that some corpses are completely smashed and not get counted?
Is it actually tied to the corpse or to the place where mob died?
Does it only absorb souls of living things, or humanoids, or what?
Would be really great if outcome of the usage was more predictable.

[BNY]

The corpses have to be in the circle of the beads to count! But you can bomb them together to one place (like with the bomb bow) Some enemies don't leave corpses (like slimes and bats..)

[*Junon]

Bats leave corpses if you shoot them with arrows. If you use melee they just go splat.

[Anxarcule]

I think it's possible to get a critical hit that destroys the body too - I'm pretty sure that has happened to me where I end up seeing less souls than mobs I've killed (mobs that leave corpses)

[Anxarcule]

Wow, just tried it on fellfang - got +2 melee, + 2 range, and something else +3 :).

EDIT: tried on the hand/eye boss and it didn't work. I suggest adding something to notify what piece we need to use it on - I suspect that I was out of range of the piece I should have had in the circle

[UlyssesASL]

I think this item was changed compared with beta.

If memory serve me well, I remember it was absorb from [Livings] in the beta. Now it seems to absorb [corpse].

[Prof. Wells]

The prayer beads are a little buggy. Souls will often not be collected from corpses, maybe some sort of identifier for available souls could work?

It might be more reliable to cause the beads to collect souls over X seconds, similar to the scythe.

And there are "Boss Souls," which I think grant +2 to all stats, but collecting them can be unreliable as well, and I'm not entirely sure but I dont' think the Worm Boss has a soul to be collected with either the scythe or the daemonic prayer beads.

[Kotwica]

I just absorbed 7 souls at once (as indicated by the VII above my head) and didnt get a permanent boost at all. Do i have to collect exactly 5 souls (when i do that, it works)?

[Klokinator]

No. Any number of 5+ or multiples of 5+ will get you soul boosts. Are you sure you got seven souls? You may have missed the part where it said X souls collected and then below that it lists the actual buff you got.

[Cosmos94]

Those who got the permament boost how did you do it? I couldnt get this permament boost. Also how do you know if you got the permament boost?

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by Cosmos94:

Those who got the permament boost how did you do it? I couldnt get this permament boost. Also how do you know if you got the permament boost?

You need to have at least 5 corpses near you when you trigger the beads. If you're able to collect 5 souls at once you will get a random permanent stat boost. The number of souls you've captured is displayed above the player in roman numerals. The stat you get is also shown above the player. Slimes and bats dont count. Basically anything that leaves a corpse counts, I think.

One way to get this to work is to kill a small group of orcs, then bait a few more over to where their corpses are. Most bosses also give the stat boost - I think the recent patch fixed one of the bosses that didn't give it.

[Cosmos94]

Originally posted by Cake for Žižek:

Originally posted by Cosmos94:

Those who got the permament boost how did you do it? I couldnt get this permament boost. Also how do you know if you got the permament boost?

You need to have at least 5 corpses near you when you trigger the beads. If you're able to collect 5 souls at once you will get a random permanent stat boost. The number of souls you've captured is displayed above the player in roman numerals. The stat you get is also shown above the player. Slimes and bats dont count. Basically anything that leaves a corpse counts, I think.

One way to get this to work is to kill a small group of orcs, then bait a few more over to where their corpses are. Most bosses also give the stat boost - I think the recent patch fixed one of the bosses that didn't give it.

Oh ok thanks for the answer.