All about Crystal Tears in Elden Ring

A guide to the exact location of all Crystal Tears and their properties in Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtee DLC

General information

Crystal Tear is a special addition to the Flask of Wondrous Physick, which gives the flask a variety of properties when used.


The location of the flask itself:

• In a bowl in the Third Church of Marika

To add a Tear to the Flask, sit in grace and make a selection from the appropriate menu.

There, the player can add one or two Tears.

According to their properties, they can be divided into the following categories:

Affect health	Crimson Crystal Tear Crimsonspill Crystal Tear Crimsonburst Crystal Tear Crimson Bubbletear Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear
Affect focus	Cerulean Crystal Tear Cerulean Hidden Tear
Affect stamina	Greenspill Crystal Tear Greenburst Crystal Tear
Boosts character stats	Strength-knot Crystal Tear Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear Faith-knot Crystal Tear
Boosts related parameters	Opaline Bubbletear Opaline Hardtear Speckled Hardtear Winged Crystal Tear
Boosts elemental damage	Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear
Boosts related damage	Stonebarb Cracked Tear Spiked Cracked Tear Thorny Cracked Tear
Special	Ruptured Crystal Tear Leaden Hardtear Windy Crystal Tear Twiggy Cracked Tear Purifying Crystal Tear
DLC	Bloodsucking Cracked Tear Cerulean-Sapping Cracked Tear Crimsonburst Dried Tear Crimson-Sapping Cracked Tear Deflecting Hardtear Glovewort Crystal Tear Oil-Soaked Tear Viridian Hidden Tear

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🔴 Affect Health

The following crystal tears can be classified in this category:

• Crimson Crystal Tear
  
• Crimsonspill Crystal Tear
  
• Crimsonburst Crystal Tear
  
• Crimson Bubbletear
  
• Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear

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Crimson Crystal Tear

• Instantly restores 50% of Max HP
  
• The effect stacks with a second same Tear

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction restores half of one's maximum HP.

The location is as follows:

• Together with the Flask of Wondrous Physick - in the ruins of the Third Church of Marika

• In a bowl near the Minor Erdtree in the Capital Outskirts

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Crimsonspill Crystal Tear

• Increases Max HP by 10%
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction restores half of one's maximum HP.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped by the Wormface boss, located at the Minor Etdtree on the Altus Plateu

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Crimsonburst Crystal Tear

• Regenerate 7 HP per second
  
• Lasts 3 minutes
  
• Heals 1260 health in total
  
  
• Does not work with spells that also regenerate health

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction gradually restores one's HP over time.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped by the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree on the Weeping Peninsula

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Crimson Bubbletear

• Restore 30% Max HP when it has dropped to 20% or lower
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• Triggered only ONCE

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction automatically heals one's HP in the moment before death.

However, this effect only occurs once, and will expire after a certain duration.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped by the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in Mountaintops of the Giants

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Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear

• Neutralizes all non-physical damage and converts it to health (5% of damage)
  
• The effect lasts 15 seconds

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction converts incoming damage into recovered HP instead. However, physical damage cannot be converted.

This effect is only brief and will quickly expire.

The location is as follows:

• On a cliff in the Mountaintops of the Giants

🔵 Affect Focus

The following crystal tears fall into this category:

• Cerulean Crystal Tear
  
• Cerulean Hidden Tear

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Cerulean Crystal Tear

• Restore 50% Max FP
  
• Works instantly
  
• The effect stacks with a second same Tear

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction restores half of one's maximum FP.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped by the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the west of Liurnia of the Lakes

• Dropped by the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the Mountaintops of the Giants

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Cerulean Hidden Tear

• Gives infinite FP
  
• The effect lasts 15 seconds
  
• Player can use magic and skills that EXCEED his Max FP

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction eliminates all FP consumption.

However, this effect is only brief and will quickly expire.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Ulcerated Tree Spirit boss, located at the Minor Erdtree at Mt. Gelmir

🟢 Affect Stamina

The following crystal tears fall into this category:

• Greenspill Crystal Tear
  
• Greenburst Crystal Tear

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Greenspill Crystal Tear

• Increases the maximum amount of stamina by 15%
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily raises one's maximum stamina.

The location is as follows:

• On the bowl next to the Minor Erdtree in the Mistwood Forest

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Greenburst Crystal Tear

• Increases the amount of regenerated stamina by 15 units per second
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts stamina recovery speed.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in northwest Caelid

💪 Boosts character stats

The following crystal tears fall into this category:

• Strength-knot Crystal Tear
  
• Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear
  
• Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear
  
• Faith-knot Crystal Tear

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Strength-knot Crystal Tear

• Increases Strength by 10 units
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts one's strength.

The location is as follows:

• In a bowl in Stormhill, guarded by a troll with a sword

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Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear

• Increases Dexterity by 10 units
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts one's dexterity.

The location is as follows:

• In a bowl on an islet in Liurnia of the Lakes, guarded by albinaurics

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Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear

• Increases Intelligence by 10 units
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts one's intelligence.

The location is as follows:

• In the bowl north of the Kingsrealm Ruin, guarded by two small crawling hands and one large one

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Faith-knot Crystal Tear

• Increases Faith by 10 units
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts one's faith.

The location is as follows:

• In the bowl north of the Demi-Human Forest Ruins, surrounded by three poisonous plants

🛡 Boosts related parameters

By "related parameters" we mean all character parameters other than the main ones: Health, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, etc.

This category includes the following Crystal Tears:

• Opaline Bubbletear
  
• Opaline Hardtear
  
• Speckled Hardtear
  
• Winged Crystal Tear

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Opaline Bubbletear

• Increases the character's defense against all types of damage by 90%.
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• Effect protects ONLY FROM ONE HIT

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
Provides significant damage negation.

However, this effect only occurs once, and will expire after a certain duration.

The location is as follows:

• Drops from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree on the Weeping Peninsula

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Opaline Hardtear

• Increases the character's defense against all damage by 15% (only 10% in PvP)
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts all forms of damage negation.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in northeast Caelid

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Speckled Hardtear

• Increases resistance to all statuses by 90 units
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• Instantly clears all statuses

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily raises all resistances and heals all status ailments.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Wormface boss, located at the Minor Erdtree on the Altus Plateu

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Winged Crystal Tear

• Increases the maximum load by 4,5 times
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
Temporarily reduces equipment load.

The location is as follows:

• In a bowl near the Minor Erdtree in the Capital Outskirts, guarded by several skeleton snakes

🔥 Boosts elemental damage

The following crystall tears fall into this category:

• Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear
  
• Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear
  
• Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear
  
• Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

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Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Increases magic damage by 20% (only 15% in PVP )
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts the power of one's magic attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the northeast of Liurnia of the Lakes

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Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Increases fire damage by 20% (only 15% in PVP )
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts the power of one's fire attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in northwest Caelid

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Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Increases lightning damage by 20% (only 15% in PVP )
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts the power of one's lightning attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the northeast of Liurnia of the Lakes

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Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Increases holy damage by 20% (only 15% in PVP )
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts the power of one's holy attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the northeast of Liurnia of the Lakes

🔨 Boosts related damage

This category includes crystal tears, which increase damage in a special way.

The list is as follows:

• Spiked Cracked Tear
  
• Stonebarb Cracked Tear
  
• Thorny Cracked Tear

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Spiked Cracked Tear

• Increases power of charged attacks by 15%
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• Does not increase the power of charged enchantments and spells

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction increases the power of charged attacks for a certain duration.

The location is as follows:

• In the bowl next to the Minor Erdtree in the Mistwood Forest

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Stonebarb Cracked Tear

• Increases Poise damage by 30%
  
• Increases stamina damage when the enemy block by 30%
  
• The effect lasts 30 seconds

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction makes one's attacks more likely to break enemy stances. However, the effect lasts only for a short time.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in northeast Caelid

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Thorny Cracked Tear

• Increases damage from 2-3-4-5-th attacks by 9-13-20-20%, respectively
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• Stacks with the talismans Winged Sword Insignia and Millicent's Prosthesis

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction makes consecutive attacks grow stronger the longer they continue. However, the effect lasts only for a short time.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the Consecrated Snowfield

👀 Special

This section includes Crystal Tears that did not fall into any of the previous categories, namely:

• Leaden Hardtear
  
• Purifying Crystal Tear
  
• Ruptured Crystal Tear
  
• Twiggy Cracked Tear
  
• Windy Crystal Tear

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Leaden Hardtear

• Gives the character the effect of Hyper Armor
  
• Hyper Armor gives invulnerability to stun
  
• The effect lasts 10 seconds

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily boosts one's poise.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Ulcerated Tree Spirit boss, located at the Minor Erdtree at Mt. Gelmir

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Purifying Crystal Tear

• Almost completely negates Mohg's special «Nihil» attack
  
• During this attack, the boss will still regain some of its health

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction purifies the curse from Mohg, Lord of Blood's terrifying rite of blood.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from Eleanor's Bloody Finger, which invades in the Second Church of Marika. In order for her to invade, you must complete part of Yuri's quest.

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Ruptured Crystal Tear

• After 3 seconds of drinking, the character will explode, causing holy damage to everyone nearby (and himself)
  
• Effect doubles with the second such tear in the flask
  
• Self-damage cannot be reduced by increasing holy resistance

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
Causes the resulting concoction to explode.

A defective crystal tear which possesses absolutely no medicinal qualities. A lesson said to be learned the hard way for some; faith can be a volatile matter, after all.

The location is as follows:

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the west of Liurnia of the Lakes

• Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar boss, located at the Minor Erdtree in the Consecrated Snowfield

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Twiggy Cracked Tear

• The chacarater does not lose runes during the effect
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• The runes will NOT disappear due to death during the duration of this effect
  
  
• The tear effect does NOT work after the «Death Blight» status

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction prevents one's runes from being lost upon death. However, the effect lasts only for a short time.

The location is as follows:

• In the bowl near the Minor Erdtree in the Capital Outskirts

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Windy Crystal Tear

• Gives an additional 5 i-frames at light or medium load
  
• Gives an additional 6 i-frames at heavy load
  
• Increases damage taken by 15%
  
• Effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages where the Erdtree's bounty falls to the ground.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction increases the effectiveness of dodge rolls for a certain duration. However, damage taken is also increased during the concoction's effect.

The location is as follows:

• In a bowl near the Caelid crossroads, guarded by two beast-birds

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🐍 DLC Tears

Bloodsucking Cracked Tear

• Increases the damage you deal by 20%
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes
  
• The effect subtracts (0,2% Max HP + 20) per second [36% + 3600 HP in total]

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily increases attack power but drains HP over time.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem in Ruins of Unte, which must be awakened in advance by throwing a huge fire pot at its top

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Cerulean-Sapping Cracked Tear

• Successful physical hits on the enemy restore your FP
  
• The effect lasts 45 seconds
  
• There is a delay between effects, so extremely fast attacks may not have 100% effect

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily restores FP upon landing attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem, on the road south of Rabbath's Rise

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Crimsonburst Dried Tear

• Restores 7 HP per second to allies ONLY (1260 total)
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction gradually restores the HP of one's allies over time.

Has no effect on the imbiber.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem, located in the center of the camp north of Highroad Cross site of grace

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Crimson-Sapping Cracked Tear

• Successful physical hits on the enemy restore 0,75% your Max HP
  
• The effect lasts 45 seconds
  
• There is a delay between effects, so extremely fast attacks may not have 100% effect

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily restores HP upon landing attacks.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from the recumbent Furnace Golem that will stand up when the player approaches, located north of Rauh Ancient Ruins, West site of grace

🐍 DLC Tears 2

Deflecting Hardtear

• Successfully deflecting blows within 0.2 seconds give:
  
  • 100% negation physical damage,
    
  • 75% negation elemental damage,
    
  • 75% negation status effects,
    
  • 65% negation to your stamina damage.
• Several successful deflections in a row increase your status up to 4 tier, which provides up to 80% increase in health and stamina damage (or 45% in PvP), and increases balance damage by up to 39%.
  
• The effect only lasts for 5 seconds, does not reset when you take damage, and resumes automatically the next time you successfully hit within the time limit.
  
  
• The effect of the Tearlasts 5 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily enhances spontaneous guard.

Damage negation and guard poise will be heightened in the moment immediately after assuming a guarding stance. Successfully executing a spontaneous guard will also strengthen guard counters.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem, located north of Scorched Ruins

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Glovewort Crystal Tear

• Your Spirit summons deal 7,5% more damage
  
• The effect lasts 3 minutes

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily increases the attack power of spirits.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem, which is located southwest of Lamenters Gaol

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Oil-Soaked Tear

• An enemy within a very short radius gains the status of oiled, which causes it to take 20% more damage from fire
  
• The effect lasts 1 minute
  
• There is a delay between the effect after triggering, which does not guarantee a constant 20% increase in damage

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction temporarily causes the imbiber to break out in an oily sweat, soaking nearby enemies in oil.

Oil-soaked enemies are highly susceptible to fire damage.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from a recumbent Furnace Golem that will stand up when the player approaches, nearby Ruins of Unte

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Viridian Hidden Tear

• Infinite stamina during the duration of the effect
  
• The effect lasts 15 seconds

A crystal tear formed slowly over the ages, where the scattered sap of the Scadutree pools deep within the furnace golems.

Can be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
The resulting concoction eliminates all stamina consumption.

However, this effect is only brief and will quickly expire.

The location is as follows:

• Drop from Furnace Golem, which is located north of the Cerulean Coast site of grace

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