Consumables

Stock up on the items below.

• Brightbug. Boosts your damage output by 20% and reduces the damage taken by 20%. The best item to consume before a boss fight. Consuming a Green Blossom or an Elizabeth Mushroom would cancel the effects of Brightbug. If you consume a Brightbug and then cast Sacred Oath, the spell would cancel the buff from the Brightbug. Melentia initially sells three at the start of an NG cycle. Her stock replenishes after the defeat of any of these bosses:

  • Lost Sinner
  • Old Iron King
  • The Rotten
  • The Duke's Dear Freja
  • Looking Glass Knight

  When her stock replenishes, the price increases and any previously unpurchased Brightbugs would no longer be available until the next NG cycle. Purchase all Melentia's stock of Brightbugs at the start of an NG cycle and do so as well immediately after the defeat of each of the above bosses. Several Brightbugs are scattered throughout the game, but they are in general not worth your time or effort to collect. The one exception is the Brightbug at Aldia's Keep. Collect it while you run through Aldia's Keep to reach the area boss.

  Brightbug at Aldia's Keep, Dark Souls 2: SotFS
  

  Consider using the Brightbug glitch to extend the duration of the item's effects. The effects of a Brightbug normally lasts for 120 seconds. The Brightbug glitch allows the effects to last as long as your character is alive or you do not warp to a different bonfire. To perform the glitch, equip the Pharros Mask, consume a Brightbug, quit to menu, and load your character again. The effects of the item now last until your character dies or you warp to a different area.

• Repair Powder. Restores the durability of your equipment. Not really useful provided that you rest at various bonfires en route to a boss arena. Have some Repair Powder ready in case of an emergency situation. Wellager sells an infinite number of Repair Powder.

• Amber Herb. Restores a small number of spell uses. Vital if you constantly use spells. Purchase Amber Herb x 3 from Melentia. Ornifex and Carhillion each sells 10 Amber Herbs.
• Twilight Herb. Restores some number of spells, more than that restored by Amber Herb. Handy if you constantly use spells. Carhillion sells Twilight Herb x 5. Twilight Herb x 2 are found at Aldia's Keep: one near the Foregarden bonfire and the other near the boss arena. Collect the items on your way to the area boss.

• Wilted Dusk Herb. Restores a large number of spell uses, more than that restored by Twilight Herb. Indispensable if you use spells to defeat enemies on your way to a boss arena. Wellager sells Wilted Dusk Herb x 10. The herb can be farmed at Aldia's Keep; see the video below for details.

  Farming Bonfire Ascetic and Elizabeth Mushroom, Dark Souls 2: SotFS
  

• Rouge Water. Restores many spell uses and gradually heals you for 850 HP. One is found near the gate that unlocks the passage to Huntsman's Copse. Straid sells Rouge Water x 3.

• Crimson Water. Restores a large number of spell uses and gradually heals you for 1,500 HP. Navlaan sells Crimson Water x 5.
• Divine Blessing. Fully restores HP and removes all status ailments. This is the best healing item in the game. One is found on a corpse at Majula, on your way to the Far Fire bonfire when you sprint from Things Betwixt. One is on a corpse after you have opened the Shrine of Winter, on your way to Drangleic Castle. Wellager sells a Divine Blessing for 6,000 souls. One is found within the arena of the Giant Lord, and one at Undead Crypt.
• Lifegem, Radiant Lifegem, and Old Radiant Lifegem. Useful in some situations. After relocating to Majula, Melentia would sell an unlimited number of Lifegems. Once you have defeated the Lost Sinner, Melentia would sell Radiant Lifegem x 10. Wellager sells Old Radiant Lifegem x 10. The fully upgraded Estus Flask should be your healing consumable for most cases. Have a stock of various Lifegems ready in case you are low on Estus.
• Elizabeth Mushroom. Heals you for 2,000 HP over the course of 44 seconds. Agdayne sells Elizabeth Mushroom x 13. One Elizabeth Mushroom is found in an iron chest after defeating the Lost Sinner.
• Poison Moss. Cures the poison and toxic status ailments, and removes the buildup of these effects. Useful during your run through The Gutter, Black Gulch, Harvest Valley, and Earthen Peak. At the end of his quest line, Gavlan sells an unlimited number of Poison Moss.
• Monastery Charm. Cures the poison status ailment and restores 850 HP. Useful if you happen to run out of Poison Moss. Targray sells Monastery Charm x 3. Three can be found near the Tower of Flame bonfire, at the bottom of a spiral staircase.
• Dragon Charm. Cures the poison status ailment and restores 1,500 HP. Useful whenever you have depleted your stock of Poison Moss and Monastery Charm. Navlaan sells Dragon Charm x 5, but only after you have freed him from his enchanted prison.

• Torch. Increases your torch time by five minutes. One is found at Things Betwixt, near the Fire Keeper's Dwelling bonfire. Another is found at lower Brightstone Cove Tseldora, behind a door and on your way to the arena of Freja. A lit torch is useful in the following cases:

  • Running through and descending The Gutter. The visibility in this area is rather poor.
  • Lighting the giant lamp x 2 to increase your visibility during the Lost Sinner fight.
  • Running through and descending Brightstone Cove Tseldora to reach the arena of Freja. The Parasite Spiders along the way would stay away from, and not attack, your character if you have a lit torch.
  • While fighting Freja. A lit torch in the left hand would ward off the Parasite Spiders scattered throughout the boss arena.

• Flame Butterfly. Lights your torch in case you are far away from a bonfire. Ornifex sells an unlimited number of this item for 600 souls each.

• Small Blue Burr. Boosts your magic defense by 150 points for 90 seconds. The effect stacks with the Spell Quartz Ring+3. The only use for this consumable is while you navigate through Shrine of Amana. Rosabeth sells an unlimited number of this item.

• Human Effigy. Consume to reverse hollowing. Your character would die a lot during the course of the challenge run. A Human Effigy is found on a corpse hanging off a ledge, on your way to Drangleic Castle. Magerold sells a Human Effigy for 3,000 souls. Grandahl sells three copies of the item for 3,000 souls apiece. Agdayne sells 13 for 3,000 souls each. Melentia sells five for 1,500 souls each. After collecting the King's Ring at Undead Crypt, talk to Strowen at Things Betwixt to receive Human Effigy x 6. Refer to the following videos for how to farm Human Effigies.

  Farming Human Effigies at Forest of Fallen Giants, Dark Souls 2: SotFS
  

  Farming Human Effigies at Majula, Dark Souls 2: SotFS
  

• Firebomb. Throw to explode upon impact. Melentia sells an unlimited number of Firebomb for 200 souls each. The only use for this item is to unlock a shortcut near the Cardinal Tower bonfire. See the video below for details.

  Cale's Helm and Estus Flask Shard x 2 at Majula, Dark Souls 2: SotFS
  

• Alluring Skull. Throw to shatter to attract various nearby enemies. Use to distract many enemies while you dash to a boss arena. Does not last as long as Yearn. Sweet Shalquoir sells an infinite number of this item after you have unlocked the Shrine of Winter.

• Aged Feather. Like a Homeward Bone, but can be used infinitely many times. Saves you time and souls on buying Homeward Bones. Gifted by the Emerald Herald after exhausting her dialogue near the start of Dragon Aerie.
• Fragrant Branch of Yore. Unpetrify various enemies. You require two during each NG cycle. One to unpetrify the enemy blocking the passage to the Ruin Sentinels. The other to unpetrify Rosabeth, who blocks the passage to Shaded Woods. Another two can be used to farm for the following items at Aldia's Keeps: Wilted Dusk Herb, Elizabeth Mushroom, Bonfire Ascetic.