Empty Phantasm Shell is a Hunter Tool.
Empty Phantasm Shell Description
"Empty invertebrate shell that is said to be a familiar of a Great One. The Healing Church has discovered a great variety of invertebrates, or phantasms, as they are called.
Shells with slime still harbour arcane power, and can be rubbed on weapons to imbue them with their strength."
Location
- In a chest on the upper level of the mansion in Byrgenwerth (beware of an ambush from a hidden Garden of Eyes above).
Notes
- This Hunter Tool adds a flat amount of Arcane damage (80) to a right-handed weapon that can be buffed with Hunter Tools/Consumables.
- The enchantment lasts 60 seconds before disappearing.
- Note: This Hunter Tool has no scaling benefits with Arcane.
- Costs 3 Quicksilver Bullets to utilize:
- Strategic usage of Blood Bullets can eliminate your reliance on Quicksilver Bullets to achieve sustained use of the Hunter Tool.
- As with Bolt Paper and Fire Paper, the Empty Phantasm Shell cannot be used on any weapon that naturally has non-physical damage in any form:
- Pre-DLC weapons this applies to include the Blade of Mercy, Burial Blade, Rifle Spear, Logarius' Wheel, Tonitrus, and Chikage.
- DLC weapons that this applies to include the Bloodletter, Boom Hammer, Holy Moonlight Sword, Kos Parasite, and Simon's Bowblade.
- Due to its low Arcane requirement, it can be a useful addition for builds that use only 15 points in Arcane for access to low Arcane Hunter Tools like the Old Hunter Bone, Messenger's Gift and Beast Roar.
Trivia
- Empty shells are often times the result of a creature who died and thus left the shell abandoned. Due to the Healing Church's experimentation with phantasms (and by extention, the Choir), it's possible these shells are all that's left of "failed experiments," other than the ones that were possibly discovered in the Chalice Dungeons.
AnonymousKind of a bummer that this doesn’t have any scaling benefits but still nice for early-mid game use
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Doesn't add much to my high level strength build but I use it because it makes my weapon glow :)
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Use this on the transformed Church Pick to make it look like Friede's Great Scythe :)
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Why can't I use this after defeating Rom? It's in my inventory but grey'd out.
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I don't quite have a full understanding on which DLC weapons can actually be buffed, but when I do find out, this page will be completed.
IMO, this is an underrated arcane tool for the "poor man's arcane build." When you plan on running only 15 arcane for the Old Hunter Bone and Beast Roar (and the Messenger's Gift technically speaking), you get this tool as a free bonus. It can certainly be useful for buffing your weapon against enemies who are vulnerable to arcane when you're not running a 50 point arcane build.
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Not upstairs at byrgenwerth, not in my inventory or bottomless chest in hunters dream
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It only adds 80 arcane damage, I attacked the doll and I was only doing 15 more damage. I know it does more damage against enemies with arcane weakness but I just feel like it should be stronger.
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I believe it can't be used on Simon's Bowblade either or at least in my experience
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Cant use even meeting the Arcane Requirement what could I be doing wrong?
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Used Ludwig's. Stand to his side as much as possible. Dodge attacks as they come, stab with R2 in regular sword mode. Try to save hitting the tumor still the end. Try to get him in a mode where the only move he uses is the spinning chains... dodge as soon as they come at you. Rinse and repeat until 25% health. At 25% health, you can try the same, but the timing changes for the chians. I backed up, used oil urn --> molotovs then poison knives until he died. Used 0 blood vials and I was around lvl 75 with 20 str, 35 skill, +7 ludwig's.
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God ***** this buff is loud! So annoying sound that i rarely use it. Really hope they tone down the sound in future patches
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Damage does not skill, but duration might? Like the bone..
Can i get this again if i sold it???
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