The Halo Scythe is a powerful weapon in Elden Ring that scales from strength, dexterity, and faith. Here is how to get it.
Elden Ring gives players incredible freedom to build their character however they want. While some weapons are easy to come by, others may require a bit of grinding and luck to obtain. These drops tend to have very low percentages if the weapon is strong enough, but these can also be some of the best weapons in the game.
The Halo Scythe is one of those weapons. While it can be difficult to get, it is one of the best bleed weapons in the game and comes with its own unique skill. This weapon scales off strength, dexterity, and faith and can be a viable option for almost all builds.
How To Get The Halo Scythe
The Halo Scythe can only be obtained by farming the few enemies that wield this weapon. It has an incredibly low drop rate and may take a few minutes of farming a specific enemy before you finally get it. With it being an item drop, bringing a few Silver Pickled Fowl Feet is best to boost your discovery temporarily.
To get these Silver Pickled Fowl Feet, you need to farm birds to obtain a Four-Toed Fowl Foot. You will also need 3 Rowa fruit and one Silver Firefly to create the Silver Pickled Fowl Foot. Using these while farming can reduce the time it takes to get the Scythe to drop.
Once you have the Fowl Feet, head to the Commander O’Neil site of grace near the Heart of Aeonia. From this site of grace, you’ll be able to efficiently farm three enemies who can drop the scythe and respawn them quickly to get the most use out of an active Fowl Foot. From this site of grace will be three exits when facing west. Each exit to the front and sides will have a soldier patrolling the area and wielding the Halo Scythe. Other soldiers will rise out of the Scarlet Rot to fight you but won’t be wielding the Scythe and, therefore, can’t drop it.
Only the enemies you see wielding the Scythe will drop it, so avoid the others, as they will only take up your time to fight. Stay on Torrent while you farm to speed up how quickly you get from one enemy to the next and protect you from the Scarlet Rot buildup. From here, quickly run from one enemy to the next that wields the Scythe, killing them quickly and returning to the site of grace to respawn them. With this strategy, it still may take a while to obtain the Scythe but stick to it, and you’ll have one of the better weapons in the game.
How To Use The Halo Scythe
This weapon scales off strength, dexterity, and faith, dealing physical and holy damage with a staggering amount of bleed buildup. While it will fit nicely in just about any build, this weapon excels and is one of the best options for a melee-based faith build. While its faith scaling on its basic attacks is only just okay, its scaling on its special skill is only based on faith and can deal a surprising amount of damage.
This weapon has the unique skill of Miquella’s Ring Of Light. You may see this ability early as the enemies you farm will use it should they engage you from a distance. This skill fires a ring of holy damage at an enemy in an arching path. While this Scythe already has a decent range, this skill now gives it a faith-based distance attack spell. This skill can be cast in quick successions should you have the stamina and FP. With the high bleed build-up stat, this weapon can quickly put out massive amounts of damage very quickly.
