Rings

The two most useful rings for the challenge run are Chloranthy Ring+2 and Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+2. These are the rings you want to equip at most, if not all, time. You might find the following rings useful during the challenge run.

  • Chloranthy Ring+2. The best ring to have equipped at all time. The ring boosts your Stamina regeneration speed by 25%. The effect of the ring stacks with Green Blossom. With careful Stamina management, you do not need to consume Green Blossom at all.
  • Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+2. Another ring to have equipped at most, if not all, time. The ring boosts your souls gain by 30%. Before fighting a boss, you might want to replace the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+2 with another ring you find more useful. After defeating the boss, immediately swap to the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+2 for the soul bonus.
  • Ring of Steel Protection+2. The ring boosts your physical defense by 100 points. Not as useful as it sounds because the item takes up a ring slot that should be dedicated to a ring that helps with your damage output. Use Havel's Greatshield instead to block 100% physical damage.

  • Silvercat Ring. Reduces the damage taken after falling from a non-fatal height. The ring is useful in a small number of areas, most notably the following:

    • Descend The Pit at Majula.
    • Navigate your way through The Gutter to reach the Black Gulch.
    • Traversing Brightstone Cove Tseldora to reach the arena of Freja.

    Equip the Flying Feline Boots if you cannot spare a ring slot.

  • Royal Soldier's Ring+2. Increases your maximum equip load by 20%. Useful when you need to equip Havel's Greatshield and remain below 70% equip load. Prioritize the levelling up of Vitality to help you equip heavy items while maintaining your equip load below 70%. A high or max Vitality stat would do away with the need to equip any of the Royal Soldier's Rings.

  • Third Dragon Ring. Raises your maximum equip load by 12.5%, which is less than that provided by the Royal Soldier's Ring+2. However, the Third Dragon Ring raises your maximum HP by 7.5% and your maximum Stamina by 12.5%. The HP and Stamina boosts are not as good as they sound from NG+7 onward. To raise your maximum equip load, the Royal Soldier's Ring+2 is the better option or level up your Vitality.
  • Clear Bluestone Ring+2. Shortens the spell casting time by 55%. The ring is indispensable throughout the challenge run because many enemies and bosses are easily defeated by Crystal Soul Spear. Level up Attunement to increase your spell-casting speed.
  • Northern Ritual Band+2. Increases your spell uses by 30%, but at the cost of 50% reduction in HP. Not as useful as it sounds because you can consume various items such as Amber Herb or Wilted Dusk Herb to restore your spell uses.
  • Southern Ritual Band+2. Increases your attunement slots by three. Useful for attuning another copy of Crystal Soul Spear or any other offensive spell. Level up Attunement to increase your number of attunement slots.
  • Sorcery Clutch Ring. Boosts your magic attack. Particularly useful if you use Crystal Soul Spear to fight various enemies or bosses.
  • Fire Clutch Ring. Boosts your fire attack. Particularly useful if you use pyromancy to fight some bosses.
  • Dark Clutch Ring. Boosts your dark attack. Especially useful if you cast hex or buff your weapon with Dark Weapon.
  • Poisonbite Ring+1. Adds 300 points to your poison resistance. This ring is only useful in one area: the Black Gulch. The journey from the Black Gulch Mouth bonfire to the arena of The Rotten is filled with numerous poison-spitting statues. Equip the Poisonbite Ring+1 to boost your poison resistance. You might also find Havel's Greatshield useful for blocking the poison spits and reducing the poison buildup.
  • Spell Quartz Ring+3. Adds 150 points to your magic defense. Only useful in one area: Shrine of Amana. Also consume a Small Blue Burr to add an extra 150 points to your magic defense for 90 seconds.
  • Ring of Life Protection. Nullifies death, preventing your character from going hollow and losing souls, but does not prevent petrification. The best use of the ring is to prevent the loss of a bloodstain. Suppose your character dies without the ring equipped. Equip the ring so that if your character dies en route to the bloodstain, the ring would prevent the loss of the bloodstain, effectively giving you another chance to retrieve the bloodstain. While equipped, the ring breaks upon death and costs 14,000 souls to repair. Felkin sells one copy of the ring for 6,000 souls per NG cycle. Do not repair the ring. It is more cost effective to buy the ring in each (or some) NG cycle to stock up on a few copies of the ring.
  • Ring of Soul Protection. Same effect as the Ring of Life Protection in addition to nullifying petrification.

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