Blade Bearer |
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| Location | Crypt Spire |
| Health | 40,240 (Crypt Spire) |
| Reward/s | Iceblood Burning Disaster 76.272 Haze |
| Elemental Resistance | Fire -10% Ice 40% Lightning 0% Blood 0% |
| Physical Resistance | Phase 1 Crush 10% Slash 10% Pierce 0% |
| Weakness | Venom, Inhibit, Slow, Stun |
| Immune | None |
Blade Bearer is a Boss in Code Vein. Bosses are special Enemies that feature their own arena, a large and prominent health bar, and a variety of unique moves and abilities. You will need to choose the appropriate Blood Code, Gifts, Weapons, Blood Veil, and Companion in order to defeat these formidable foes.
Blade Bearer Location
- Crypt Spire
- Depths: Void District
- This boss is not optional.
Blade Bearer Rewards
- Iceblood (Crypt Spire Boss)
- Burning Disaster (Crypt Spire Boss)
- 76.272 Haze
Blade Bearer Notes & Tips
- Weak to Fire
- Is susceptible to venom, inhibit, slow, and stun
Blade Bearer Strategies
Strategy Writeup
The Blade Bearer is a challenging boss that will test your knowledge of game mechanics, your party setup, and your build. Pay special attention to equipping the right Blood Code and Gifts as well as Blood Veil and Weapons so that you have a balance with your partner.
Co-Op Strategy
Yakumo is a good partner for this fight as his heavy attacks will contribute to staggering effect. Your allied coop revenant should also have a heavy weapon, and ideally bring about Ice and Fire shields to mitigate her damage. Do not forget to upgrade your weapon so your damage is optimized, and to consume the permanent health capacity and efficiency upgrades.
During her first phase, her attention will be mostly on the host. Therefore the host should focus on learning to dodge and block as needed in order to avoid taking damage. NPC and summon should go in for stagger effects after the 3 hit combo or as she's casting ice pillar. This strategy can also be done without the summon, but will require a better understanding of attacks and mechanics from the host player. Make sure to keep shields up when possible - try not to waste any healing items that are more likely to save you in phase 2
Phase two is more challenging and players should focus on keeping their shields up and wait for the 3 hit combo to counter attack with heavy blows. Use your damage up gifts to boost your damage dealt and do staggering / stun affects.
Keeping your party alive should be the host's priority as you have more healing items than your summon. Your ally will always revive you or the other player if you fall, so wait until they are on cooldown before using your own health to revive someone.
If you defeat the boss you will see the writing "Greater Lost Dispersed" upon the screen.
Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Counter |
| Phase 1 | |
| Charged Frost Spear | Wait until she's almost ready to release it then dodge left or run behind her to avoid damage |
| 3-hit-combo | Dodge her combo backwards or left (not right), and go in to deal damage after the third hit , Dodge backwards then parry the second swing |
| Ice Pillars | Deal max 2 hit damage during the casting. If you don't stagger her, roll out of the area |
| Frontal Ice Wall | Dodge into her to avoid taking damage, then use the opportunity to attack once or twice |
| Phase 2 | |
| Charged Frost Spear | Wait until she's almost ready to release it then dodge left or run behind her to avoid damage |
| 3-hit-combo | Dodge her combo backwards or left (not right), and be particularly careful of the flame burst on the third hit. You can go in to deal damage after the third hit |
| Fire Column | This is a homing fire attack that will chase the target character: you have to outrun / dodge it more than once |
| Fire Spear | Wait until she's almost ready to release it then dodge left |
Blade Bearer Lore
Lore notes, information on folklore, etc go here
Lore theories should be clearly marked as such.
Blade Bearer Notes & Trivia
- The Blade Bearer shows up during Asclepius Vestige I and Asclepius Vestige II. In the Memory Echo, a nameless female Cerberus soldier accompanies Jack and Valerio in their search for the Horrors, and this soldier carries the Iceblood, the Blade Bearer's weapon.
AnonymousTheir fight is so terrible. Screw Canoneer. If the fight was just blade bearer, it would've been a perfect fight. But then you have the fat **** spamming fireballs nonstop, completely ruining any semblance of proper boss design. It's easy to nullify one's element but it's too aggravating to solo this fight because you get knocked around constantly by the canoneer even if you make it so it barely damages you. Imagine if Smough in dark souls just never stopped spamming projectiles. Nobody would care about dark souls if they made decisions like that, which this game seems to like making all the time.
- Anonymous
My way of dealing with them:
Transform your veil to ice, use zweihander with fire transformation, use any anti ice buffs you have and any fire attack buffs you have.
Focus on Boobstein first as you'll want her out of the equation as quickly as possible. Your ice buffs will negate most, if not all, of her main ice damage so you can focus on using the zweihander's high defense to block the incoming physical damage while taking chunks out of her health between attacks. Guard reversal helps but imo doesn't last long enough for it to be useful. Try to keep knock-off Smough in you peripheral so you can dodge any incoming attacks, and keep an eye on the ground around you. If it starts to glow, get the hell out of dodge. With your fire buffs, she should go down before long. Once she's delt with, turn your attention the the big guy and try to stay behind him. A good ice weapon here is useful but not all that necessary - as long as you switch from your fire weapon you'll be fine. If he surrounds himself with fire, back away as quick as you can to avoid some heavy damage from the resulting explosion. Keep at it and he'll fall too.
- Anonymous
lol so easy. killed both on 2nd attempt as a dark mage
yakumo aggros on blade bearer while you spam guard of honor ice spell to nuke down cannoneer
after, spam ember reversal on blade bearer which absolutely destroys her. super easy fight.
- Anonymous
Man this fight solo is... Something else. Running out of stamina is a real issue - they never stop attacking. You need to be super SUPER patient and wait for openings to get one or two (if you're lucky) hits in on the blade bearer before returning to spamming the dodge roll because these ****ers NEVER STOP ATTACKING. Seriously they saw duo fights in Dark Souls III, Friede and Father Ariendal, the demons from below, and implemented it poorly because they don't understand what makes a duo fight good. Attacks from offscreen need to be telegraphed (Friede's floor ice in phase 2, the demon's explody breath) and there needs to be a cadence to the fight with breaks where you can do your damage. This fight fails on these fronts, the two opponents have AI that just says "attack constantly", the canoneer has attacks that blast you with no telegraph, the blade bearer gives you no room and closes distance shooting up your ass faster than a crucible knight. **** this fight. It could have been good too, imo, if they just toned down the aggression a little bit and had something like a laser sight from the canoneer for his fireball attack so it can't just blast you from offscreen with no warning.
- Anonymous
honestly, all the guides out there (even here) try to say to attack cannoneer first. this is horse-crap imo. he is the slowest, and easiest to predict out of your peripheral. he also is a meaty boi, so time spent trying to whittle him down is time for blade bearer to do the real hurting. best to go in with fire lily/blazing roar/flame spike/etc set on a high mind/will build, any spell that can hit her despite her speed and with a quick cast animation. she will melt long before you die to cannoneer. also, in my experience at least, she REALLY loves to chase you over any partner you have, so its like the game is tryin to tell ya to deal with her first anyways. oh, and this should go without saying but despite it making you more frail, i would suggest a build with quick dodge, you DONT want to be caught off-guard by fat rolling lol
- Anonymous
I didn't even like these two back when they were Ornstein and Smough.
- Anonymous
The whole battle is just Devs be like "we know the game may be on the easy side, lets change it up". Pretty easy if you can imbue your weapon with fire.
- Anonymous
I play frost spellblade build (Artemis Blood code, willpower and dex focused) with Yakumo as companion. I struggled with her untill I swapped ice gifts for fire ones. It was a bit easier, but still struggled.
Point is - in your first NG, you won't outrun her as much as you would might think (at least with my build I didnt). Yakumo is a good choice, because he's a meatshield, and he won't die as easily as Mia or Louis.
I've tried Louis as my partner (since he attacks mainly with fire Gifts, and I was ice spellblade) but even with his communal gift, it was Yakumo that really made the difference for me.
On my second character I've tried poisonong her. It was a good move.
Updated Status Weaknesses as of 11/5/2020:
Both Cannoneer and Blade Bearer are susceptible to venom, inhibit, slow, and stun.
- Anonymous
I'm proud of you Ornstein, finally having the operation. Now you can finally be the beautiful woman you always were.
Short Answer: Bring an AI partner and use BLOCK. If you have "guard reversal", a high-block weapon, and a functioning block button, she will take minutes to kill you. With a high block build you can stare her in the face and take manageable damage, and doing this with guard reversal will stager her out of her combos. This is MUCH more reliable than trying to dodge her fast, darting combos.
After farming the twin bosses depths, it seems that killing Cannoneer first is the best as long as you can block and heal.
- Anonymous
Was stuck on this for quite a bit until I realized that Flame Weapon from the Prometheus code literally just shreds the ice *****. Didn't really need anything else apart from that, she died super quick and the flame fatty is just free afterwards.
- Anonymous
Most of her attacks can be avoided fairly easily by rolling toward her as most of her attacks overreach and leave her open. Some of her special moves leave her wide open for easy damage. She's also surprisingly vulnerable to staggering.
- Anonymous
Ready to be downvoted into oblivion! But: Partner with Io, Equip Winterproof Mantle (Ice transform), Use Fireproof & Iceproof tonic and this fight is actually so easy.
- Anonymous
For all y’all that need it get Yakumo, maintain ice armor and fire protection throughout the entire fight, and focus on boob girl. This is how I beat it
- Anonymous
This is a horribly designed boss, period. You have not one but TWO enemies with extremely high health, insanely high damage, and both are unbelievably aggressive. Where is the balance in this? When I finally beat them solo, there was no sense of satisfaction- I just felt as though I somehow survived for long enough. The reason FromSoftware is so successful and people love their work is because that team KNOWS how to create incredibly challenging yet FAIR boss battles. When you die to O&S, Nameless, the Orphan of Kos, or Isshin, it's almost always due to mistakes on YOUR part- when you beat them, you know it's because of your own skill and growth as a player. There was no sense of growth against these O&S wannabes, just a nagging feeling that I happened to get good RNG this time around. As one comment stated, I hope the development team learns and grows through criticisms such as this because they've obviously got the talent to create some great content.
- Anonymous
for anyone who want to solo these bosses, stack element resist is your best friend, atleast you won't have to care about the fat guy, finish boobstein fast then the fight is cakewalk.
- Anonymous
F**king useless "choose appropriate equipment ". Bugger off you wank.
- Anonymous
On new game + 6, Blade bearer one shots me from full hp with a single quick swing. =/
- Anonymous
if you use the sit down emote you can avoid her attacks...only way she can get you then is with the forming ice pillars she can summon...put on some clown music when you do this XD
- Anonymous
Theres some implications that she might be a Cerberus elite before she turned into a puppet for Mido with the description from the sword she drops.
- Anonymous
i actually use final journey and cleansing (and dancing blaze too), it might depending on your luck but 3rd times is charm. she'll eventually retreat back as you chase her so when she stops and start attacking at least u r already behind her and ready for da booty if u pretty have a bad day you'll probably die before the canoneer dies LOL
- Anonymous
I think some of the strategy information is for the demo and network trial versions of the boss. Thought she didn't use fore spells in the main game. Also, it doesn't incorporate the fact that you're fighting the Cannoneer as well as the Blade Bearer. At least for the story.
- Anonymous
I have a *****ing problem with the camera and the evade movement depending on it, it seems. When I lock the ebemy and try to evade towards it to move behind it, it moves backwards even though I hold the joystick towards the opponent. And when I try to evade on the sides it just goes forward. The camera system is very*****ty as well as if it try to fight close to a wall it makes the camera spins multiple time before stabilising upward. It's just insane, at the beginning i could hold my ground and deal with this utter***** but with two bosses at the same time it is it becomes quasi impossible, i was close multiple time but every time the evade bug tricked me. Does someone else have these kind of problems here?
I beat the game once and was like "oh, I can have the option to keep the weak enemies and increase the difficulty? Nah!" then I realized how weak I really was after the butterfly of delirium. I then thought about these bosses and realized something, "Oh dear. Well, I'm sorry character, you had a good life." At least Mido wasn't as frustrating as them though, so I was glad for that.
- Anonymous
Ahh yes. The Ornstein and Smough fight weeabo edition. Except much more annoying and not as satisfying.
- Anonymous
I just let yakumo tank the ice one and kill the caster. Caster is easier to kill due to its slow mobility.
- Anonymous
Got pretty lucky killing them on the fourth or something try. Gotta remember this is a fight of patience where you can’t hit her more than 1-2 times (depending on your equipment). Kill her first and don’t be greedy.
- Anonymous
My favorite trick was to stay on her and always parry her second attack when she did her three swings. It often left her open for awhile. I'd try and keep a pillar between us and the Cannoneer so he couldn't blindside me.
- Anonymous
Sometimes I did 0 damage to her, does she has any shield buff?
- Anonymous
About 80% of mp SOS is this fight. It actually freaks me out while grinding achievement, host always die in less than 10 sec.
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