Why cant I use my greases Elden Ring?

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The Blood Grease is one of the many Consumables found throughout Elden Ring.

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Why can't I use Dragonwound grease?

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"Solidified grease made from a mixture of blood-red materials. Coats armament, inflicting blood loss. The effect only lasts a short time"

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The Blood Grease is a type of consumable that can be used to imbue your weapons with the power of lacerations. Whether crafted or found, it can be applied to your mainhand weapon in a few short moments that will allow you to deal blood loss buildup, ending in a brutal hemorrhage of massive blood loss.

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Can be crafted from Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook 6, which can be looted from a corpse in Fort Haight in Limgrave. Requires 1 Root Resin and 1 Bloodrose.

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24 Mar @ 3:40pm

Greases near useless?

So in Dark Souls 3, applying correct resin was making quite a severe change in damage you do to an enemy, but in Elden ring - the effect seems to be completely negligible even with you apply grease corresponding to boss weakness.

I've tested (on some minor boss, looked up on wiki for weaknesses - tested that grease, few other greases vs no grease at all - and seriously differences were negligible to a point I actually stopped bothering with them completely and basically have beat absolute majority of boss encounters without ever using them.

Is it just some placebo effect, or indeed greases suck in comparison to resins in DS3?

Date Posted: 24 Mar @ 3:40pm

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How do I use the greases?

Forest_Temple 8 months ago#1

I cant apply it to my weapon

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awsomemanspiff 8 months ago#2

Equip it to your “square” items!

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Forest_Temple (Topic Creator)8 months ago#3

awsomemanspiff posted...

Equip it to your “square” items!

I did but its grayed out

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awsomemanspiff 8 months ago#4

H,mmmm what weapon are you using?

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vladoonet 8 months ago#5

I believe Greases are like buffs, i don’t think you can apply it to special weapons that upgrade with somber smithstone.

Forest_Temple (Topic Creator)8 months ago#6

Oh wait I guess I couldn't apply it since I'm using a magic falchion. It had to be a normal weapon it seems.

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V_Methos 8 months ago#7

I believe greases can only be applied to weapons that are purely Physical damage.

For instance I could apply grease on my Broadsword when it was set to Standard or Quality, but if I use an Ash of War and set it to Sacred, where it's damage is split between both Physical and Holy, greases can no longer be used on it.

It may be possible to grease up special weapons that upgrade with somber stones IF the weapon is all physical damage type, but I'm not sure on that one.

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Why can't I use Dragonwound grease?

The only kinds of weapons that you can buff with Dragonwound Grease are those with a physical affinity. As such, you can only use Dragonwound Grease on standard, heavy, keen, and quality armaments. If you possess a weapon with a different affinity, you won't be able to apply Dragonwoud Grease to it.

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