Glintstone Nail is a sorcery spell in Shadow of the Erdtree. It is one of the Finger sorceries.
Description[]
Glintstone sorcery of Count Ymir, High Priest. One of the finger sorceries said to have been discovered in a hallowed ruin.
Flings a magic nail that crumbles during flight. Charging increases potency.
Count Ymir boasts that this is mere child's play, an echo of a greater truth.
Acquisition[]
Purchased: Cathedral of Manus Metyr
- Glintstone Nail may be purchased from Count Ymir for 12,000 Runes after ringing the bell in the Finger Ruins of Rhia.
Effects[]
The caster releases a nail of white glintstone, dealing Magic damage with an Attack Power equal to 216% of Sorcery Scaling and 3 Stance damage.
Charging the spell increases its potency to 269% Sorcery Scaling and 5 Stance damage.
Notes[]
- Costs FP per cast. 10
- Costs Stamina per cast (27 when charged). 21
- Requires 1 Memory Slot to be equipped.
- The projectile fired by this spell travels slowly but has excellent tracking.
Boosting[]
- Finger Robe boosts attack power by 8%.
- Maternal Staff boosts attack power by 15%.
- Godfrey Icon boosts the attack power of charged attacks by 15%.
Strategies[]
- Glintstone Nail is effective against distant or agile targets due to its strong tracking ability.
- The slow speed of this spell makes it easier to combo with other spells, timing it to catch targets after they dodge roll.
- Glinting Nail is a cheaper, tool version of this spell.
- Glintstone Nails is more expensive to cast but produces 6 projectiles.
Trivia[]
- This spell is used by Count Ymir, Mother of Fingers.
- The Catacombs Sorcerers cast an unobtainable variant of this spell as a Death Sorcery. It fires a projectile in a straight line that periodically splits into glintstone nails. The main projectile can also ricochet.
- Update 1.13 increased the damage and improved the tracking of this spell.