This becomes a little more dangerous once she's in Phase 2, however, due to the running windmill she does immediately after shooting the swords. One of the best times to get damage on her is abusing her eight-sword spray attack, particularly if the ring she forms has no trajectory on you.If you don't see her arch her back and look upward, she's going to sword charge.If you see her arch her back and look upward, she's going to melee combo.

The problem is that her melee combo and sword charge attacks have a very similar signal (She'll cock her arms back and swords slide out of her sleeves) with one slight difference: This fight is all about memorizing her 'tells' for her melee attacks, so you know how to best react.She cannot be parried however the player must stick strictly to blocking her. I kill all of them and then go back to the sanctuary to respawn them. There should be some monsters that throw flaming things at you, and a wizard. The big knights with shield give a decent amount of salt, but what I usually do is go right from the sanctuary, then up. Shields work quite well against her, as all her attacks are blockable (they are all physical) and don't drain much stamina. Castle of Storms is a good farming place.Her name is Lenaia, as revealed in the Mildewed Set: Tarnished Coronet, Mildewed Polonaise, Mildewed Caraco and Mildewed Chemise.Generally moves quicker and further with her attacks.Gains a spinning attack that covers a lot of ground, which is immediately performed after the eight-sword spray attack.The swords will fire out in broken intervals from the random circle she forms with a circle of her arm. So, you generally want to keep them as uniform as possible, problem is, most creeds synergize with certain play styles, so you want to save up all your things that spawn creed-dependant NPCs, so if you keep switching and keep spawning. Eight Sword Spray - A spray of eight swords from the spinning sword ring behind her back. There's generally one sanctuary per area, and it'll either be in the middle of it or at the beginning/end.Dash - A scampering run with both swords out, where she proceeds to double-thrust at you once close enough or goes a far enough distance.Sometimes, she will follow the upward slash with a downward stab with the arm she swung up with. Sword Combo - A sword combo which proceeds with a stab with both swords downward in front of her, followed by a wide upward slash with one arm.Boss Flags: Talk to Masterless Knight before doing this boss (Bandit's Pass) / Merchant progress.Village of Smiles - Climb up from The Three sanctuary and go left.In life, she wielded the fabled Sword of Reign, and in undeath, she wields a thousand more.' Location Iron Ones should be fine, unless you want to go even more of a glass cannon or poison 'hunter' build, in which case Woodswraiths would be better.The Queen of Smiles is a Boss in Salt and SanctuaryĬruel wraith queen of Liven, she loved to adorn her city walls with the grotesquely smiling corpses of her victims. Completing a bounty raises your covenant devotion, meaning that you get an extra item at sanctuaries (another healing charge, mana item, and two misc consumables) AND NPCS sell more stuff.īe careful, ditching your covenant resets your devotion. They give bounies for gathering a certain amount of enemy drops, (ears, tails, etc). Drop one at a sanctuary, and the leader will behave differently depending on your creed. Leaders work like all the other stone NPCs. I am still not clear where to go or what to do in terms of npc leaders? Can they be summoned by a stone like blacksmith etc? Do they give quests? I would like quests :) The iron ones are an exception, though, as their third prey is in the Red Hall just beyond the castle of storms. The castle of storms is a good place for most of those such setups because a lot of creeds need something from the place. It also gives you a choice of item to add to your default spawn loadout, so choose carefully. In case you hadn't sussed that out already, turning in creed-specific enemy bits to the Leader is how you progress your creed rank and upgrade your creed merchant stock. Just make sure you have two or so calling horns on hand. Originally posted by Old King Klendt:Honestly, stone guides are common enough and calling horns that they sell are cheap enough that the location of the 'base' is only important if you want to use it for farming specific enemies and turning their goods in to a leader npc without having to warp too much.

Salt and sanctuary map sanctuaries