Progressing through the Elden Ring, players can collect many helpful herbs and plants, and Golden Sunflower is one of them. With a bright yellow color and a faint glow, contrary to its name, this flower owes its brightness not to the sun but to the holy power that fills each of its petals. Thanks to this, players can use Golden Sunflower to create many holy items or materials to increase or resist this type of damage.
However, the high value of this flower is also due to its rarity. Of course, you can always buy some from Hermit Merchant, but it is much more effective to find a narrow habitat of this flower and collect it yourself.
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Where To Find Golden Sunflower
You can get Golden Sunflower in Elden Ring in three ways:
- Buy from Hermit Merchant.
- Collect in the Minor Erdtree area.
- Get it as a drop from monsters.
If you need only a little Golden Sunflower and don't want to look for them, you can easily buy some by visiting Hermit Merchant. This NPC will be waiting for adventurers in Leyndell, Royal Capital, in the wooden and dilapidated Hermit Merchant's Shack. Talking to this NPC, you can buy up to 10 Golden Sunflowers per day for 300 Runes per flower. However, note that this NPC will only be available during the daytime. If you visit the hut at night, instead of the merchant, you will find a Bell Bearing Hunter, a relatively strong enemy with a good drop.
However, buying flowers at such a high price will seem wasteful if you have explored The Lands Between well enough. After visiting the Minor Erdtree area, players can find some Golden Sunflower by walking through the Altus Plateau and Capital Outskirts areas. In addition, you can find some of these flowers on the territory of Ashen Capital, but this place is much poorer in rare vegetation. Regardless of the chosen location, Golden Sunflowers are found in single copies at a decent distance from each other. However, their bright color is visible from afar, which will help you during your search.
Finally, players can get some Golden Sunflower after killing Soldier Wandering Noble. You can find groups of Wandering Nobles in many locations, but this method is more of a nice bonus than a working strategy. Often, there is only one Soldier in a Wandering Noble group, and the chance of dropping a Golden Sunflower is only eight percent.
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How To Use Golden Sunflower
As was mentioned earlier, Golden Sunflowers are excellent conduits of Holy Power. Therefore, by using the bright flower in different recipes, you can use it both to enhance your weapon with Holy damage and to increase your defense against this type of attack. Here are the recipes to use Golden Sunflower:
- Sacred Order Pot: x1 Golden Sunflower, x2 Mushroom, x1 Golden Centipede, and x1 Empty Ritual Pot.
- Holy Grease: x1 Golden Sunflower and x1 Root Resin.
- Haligbone Bolt: x2 Golden Sunflower and x2 Thin Beast Bones.
- Drawstring Holy Grease: x1 Golden Sunflower, x1 Root Resin, and x1 String.
- Haligbone Arrow: x2 Golden Sunflower and x3 Thin Beast Bones.
- Haligbone Arrow (Fletched): x2 Golden Sunflower, x3 Thin Beast Bones, and x1 Flight Pinion.
- Holyproof Dried Liver: x3 Golden Sunflower, x5 Golden Rowa, and x1 Beast Liver.
Elden Ring
- Released
- February 25, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- From Software
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
