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How to Make it Through Lake of Rot in Elden Ring

How to Make it Through Lake of Rot – Elden Ring Walkthrough

We explain how you can make it through Lake of Rot in Elden Ring.

While exploring the Ainsel River Main area in Elden Ring, when players make their way southwest of the Nokstella Waterfall Basin Site of Grace, they come across a rather unpleasing area called Lake of Rot. The entire area is filled with Rot that applies the same status effect on players, which can kill them in no time. Seeing that, players want to know how to make it through the Lake of Rot in Elden Ring. 

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How to Make it Through Lake of Rot in Elden Ring

To make it through the Lake of Rot in Elden Ring, you must make your way from the Lake of Rot Shoreside Site of Grace to the Grand Cloister. 

You can do that by running straight to the Grand Cloister while using heals and items like Preserving Boluses or Incantations like Flame, Cleanse Me to remove the Rot status. 

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But if you want to defeat the Dragon Kin soldier boss and obtain the Dragonscale Blade Katana, you must activate the pillars found around Lake of Rot to create platforms on which you can stand and avoid Rot. 

You can quickly identify the said pillars as they have overgrown mushrooms. 

Once you reach Grand Cloister and activate the Site of Grace, you can descend to the lower levels using broken platforms, as shown in the above screenshot. 

You can make your way to the above-marked room while dealing with the Pest-type enemies to obtain the Scarlet Rot dagger, Scorpion’s Stinger. Once you grab it, you can take the left path and interact with the Coffin to reach Astel, Naturalborn of the Void boss arena. 

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Also, you can make your way to the Scarlet Rot waterfall in the Grand Cloister to summon Ulcerated Tree Spirit that drops a Golden Seed. 

The only thing that makes exploring the Lake of Rot daunting in Elden Ring is the Scarlet Rot status effect. As mentioned earlier, you can use the following to counter it:

  • Preserving Boluses
  • Incantations like Flame, Cleanse Me 
  • Mushroom armor set

That is it. That concludes our guide on how to make it through the Lake of Rot in Elden Ring. 

For more on Elden Ring, check out our dedicated guides section. 

Elden Ring is a roleplaying game currently available on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One, and PC platforms.

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Hritwik is a guides writer who has been writing about video games for almost a decade. He is a Computer Science graduate who has always been into gaming. Most of the time, you will find him covering News and Guides for various publications. And when he is not working, you will find him fighting with his friends about how good of a gamer he is. His favorite games include Fallout 76, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Souls series, Genshin Impact, and The Last of Us.