Players who don’t have enough faith to use incantations will be happy to see a new consumable in Shadow of the Erdtree. This consumable casts a low-level version of a powerful buff, with a low faith requirement, or even just a Golden Vow-ashed dagger, allowing players to cast one of the best incantations in Elden Ring.

This guide will tell you exactly where to find some of Golden Vows that are everywhere, and when you’re done, you’ll have a new manual to make some Golden Vow consumables of your own.

What Is Golden Vow?

Confusingly, Golden Vow can refer to three different things. One is Golden Vow Incantation, which requires 25 faith to learn; another is Ash of War: Golden Vow, which provides a version of Golden Vow spell as a weapon skill; and then there is Golden Vow (Consumable) added in Shadow Of The Erdtree, which is also discussed in this guide.

Incantation version of Golden Vow provides players with a 15% damage buff and a 10% damage negation buff in PVE combat.

And Golden Vow Ash of War provides players with a 10% damage buff and a 7.5% damage negation buff.

Former lasts for 80 seconds, while latter lasts for 45 seconds.

Consumable Golden Vow strikes a balance between the two, providing a 12.75% damage buff and an 8.75% damage negation buff for 45 seconds.

Advantages

Benefit of the consumable version of Golden Vow is that it doesn’t require you to carry around a dagger or sacred seal, or even invest any faith, making it workable on almost any build.

Where Can We Find?

There are two places to find Golden Vows in Land of Shadow, and both are in Shadow Keep.

First location is in a lovely courtyard in Shadow Keep’s barracks, right next to Main Gate Plaza site of grace. Take the exit on the left, past the ghosts and go up the stairs from here. You’ll need to fight a couple of soldiers of Messmer, one of whom will try to stomp you down the stairs.

At the door where the Soldiers of Messmer try to ambush you, you’ll see another soldier holding a spear. Sneak up to him and take him out easily, then jump out the window. You’ll be in a courtyard with a large golden tree and several ghosts kneeling in prayer. You can choose to ignore or kill them.

Under the tree, you’ll find Talisman of Lord’s Bestowal, and around the corner is a corpse of a Black Knight. Corpse has three Golden Vows on it, ready to be picked.

Second location is actually above the first. Instead of jumping out of the window into the courtyard, continue up the main building-sized wooden stairs, fighting Soldiers of Messmer along the way.

At the very top, you’ll see a Banquet Hall with two Black Knights. Eliminate the Knights, then as you enter, look towards the corpse poking out of the hole in the far right wall. This corpse will have another Golden Vow on it for you to loot.

How To Make Your Own Golden Vows?

If you plan on using Golden Vow consumables, four probably won’t be enough to get you through the Land of Shadow. You’ll want to make more, and luckily, there’s a crafting recipe to do just that.

You’ll need three Elden Ring Items to start crafting your own Golden Vow:

• Battlefield Priest’s Cookbook
• Blessed Bone Shard
• Shadow Sunflower

Crafting recipe (once you unlock it) is:

• 1 Golden Vow = 1 Blessed Bone Shard + 2 Shadow Sunflowers

Where To Find Battlefield Priest’s Cookbook?

The easiest way to find Battlefield Priest’s Cookbook is to start at Shadow Keep Main Gate site of grace and take the elevator back to Keep’s entrance. Follow the road southwest until you come to the first row of tents guarded by soldiers. Recipe can be found on a corpse in the open tent on the right.

Alternatively, you can start at Highroad Cross site of grace and head north. Make sure to move quickly to avoid fighting all soldiers and knights that get in your way.

There’s also a Furnace Golem guarding the area. You can defeat this enemy to make finding the recipe slightly easier, or you can just do your best to sneak past it.

Blessed Bone Shards can be found in Shadow Keep and Fort of Reprimand. In both locations, you can look for corpses holding these items.

In addition, Blessed Bone Shards occasionally appear on recently killed slain Soldiers of Shadow tree.

In and around Scadutree Base, Scadutree Chalice, and Hinterland locations, you can usually find sunflowers.

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Sunflowers respawn after one day in-game time.

The best place to get a few Shadow Sunflowers is just the north of Hinterland site of grace. Go north and climb the rocks until you reach the top of a hill. There are seven Shadow Sunflowers at the top of the hill.

Be careful of bears patrolling this area, as they will attack you on sight.

That’s all about Golden Vow consumables. This is not difficult, but we need to look carefully according to the guide.