Fast Dark Moon Greatsword exploit (Obsolete)

Bye bye, Lake of Rot! In this guide you will learn how to get the DMGS on the Moonlight Altar plateau without progressing Ranni's quest.
*UPDATE* No longer works with update 1.06. R.I.P.

Where to go and what to bring.

We are starting from the converted tower in the southwest Liurnia of the Lakes region.

Craft fetid pots, or use a weapon with an Ash of War that does self harm. I craft fetid pots and proc toxic poison on myself. You will be suicidal in this guide in order to spawn on the plateau above you.

How to get there.

Start at the converted tower, and go as close as possible to the northwest corner of the Moonlight Altar plateau.

Ride torrent up the rocks to the highest point and dismount.


Strip your gear to lower your resistance to poison, and throw 2 fetid pots at the rock wall to proc the toxic poison. You may also do the seppuku thing if that's your build. I was high level at the time of making this guide, so I had to use 6 fetid pots.
MAKE SURE TO DISMOUNT! I tried the poison while mounted on Torrent and fell too low to trigger the stake of Marika.

That's it! You'll spawn at the Ringleaders Evergaol, where you have the option to fight Black Knife Tiche for her spirit ashes.

From there you will make your own way to the Cathedral of Manus Celes to find the hole where Ranni is sitting. The quest cutscene will play regardless of Ranni's questline progression. I attacked Ranni early in the game, and didn't even have the ring to give her. I killed Astel, but the barrier was still active.

Thanks, everyone!

It was nice while it lasted. Thanks for the points!

[Sudo Modding]

RIP, it was a nice discovery

[Chwiztid]

@Fideriks1910 my guide may be obsolete with 1.06.

[Fideriks1910]

did they fix this,cant get the stake of marika to trigger

[Sudo Modding]

I think Renna's tower is interesting for the Snow Witch Set. I see a lot of mages using them in coop, it boosts cold sorcery and has a chill vibe

[cF]

by the way this skip cuts off the entire questline so be careful

[IchigoMait]

Yeah Ainsel River you can access via other means, instead of using Ranni, or well Renna's Tower, so doesn't matter if you can access Renna's Tower or not.

[Sudo Modding]

You can still reach most of the ainsel river through "teleporting" graves, example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmun-X4mv4g . You can't probably do anything for the tower though

[Chwiztid]

@FearFrank Yeah, that's definitely an issue with the tower. I did this trick during my first playthrough which was frenzied flame ending. On journey 2, I went to the plateau early on for the sites of grace, and then played through the quest normally to get Ranni's ending.

[ahsido1]

It's interesting that the last part of her quest is completely separate from the rest of it, but it still breaks the whole thing.

[FearFrank]

Yep it works, be careful thought cause it can lock certain areas due to the fact that you skip part of the quest, I've ended up once to not beeing able anymore to access the Renna's Tower and most of the Ainsel River