Lore
Not all of those who are sentenced to do penance can endure what follows, while others withstand their cleansing gladly, their zeal maintaining them throughout their suffering.
The game reveals this in play at high Radiance.
Quoted from the item as the game writes it. Datamined
Damage absorption
| Damage type | Absorbs | Defence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | 13% | 90 | Weakest |
| Fire | 24.9% | 200 | |
| Holy | 33.6% | 305 | Toughest |
| Wither | 29.3% | 250 | |
| Magic | 20.7% | 158 |
Magic is spell damage. No weapon deals it — every spell does, whichever school it belongs to — so that row is how well casting works against this enemy, and the other four are what your weapon does.
Lowest absorption is where your damage goes furthest — physical here. The Defence column is the game's own stored value, on the same scale as an armour piece's absorption. The percentage is derived from it as K/(K+defence) with K = 604, a constant solved from three mitigations measured in game rather than read out of a table — so treat it as accurate to a few tenths, not exact.
How to hurt it
- If you swing
- Slash · Physical 13% absorbed
- If you cast
- Magic 20.7% absorbed
- Resists
- Blunt · Holy 33.6% absorbed
Both lines matter whichever way you play. The game gives you two hands for melee and a third slot for casting or a throwable, so most fights use both — and a cast has a wind-up that a crowd at close range will not wait through. Take the number for whatever is in your hand at the time.
Two different things in the swing lane, read together. Slash, blunt and pierce are tags — every weapon deals one of them, and they are not in the table above. The named school is from that table, and it is the lowest of the four a weapon can actually deal: magic is left out of it because no weapon deals magic.
What does not work
No mechanic is ruled out — it can be staggered, backstabbed and Soulflayed.
Least effective: holy 33.6% absorbed · blunt
Not a wall — it can be killed with any of these. At 33.6% absorbed you are giving up 21 percentage points against physical, which is the difference between a fight and a long fight.
Drops
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
| Pertiax | Guaranteed |
| Ardent Penitent Head Cage | 10.0% |
| Ardent Penitent Arm Chains | 10.0% |
| Ardent Penitent Torso Chains | 10.0% |
| Ardent Penitent Loincloth | 10.0% |
| Bleed Salts | 4.0% |
| Minor Holy Salts | 4.0% |
| Briostone | 4.0% |
| Bleed Cure | 4.0% |
| Small Deralium Fragment | 4.0% |
| Agony's Light | 2.0% |
Entries without a link are consumables, upgrade materials or vigor — things the site does not have pages for yet.
Where you find Ardent Penitent
Placed across 3 regions, most heavily in Pilgrim's Perch:
- Pilgrim's Perch
- Abbey of the Hallowed Sisters
- Tower of Penance
In order of how much of each region they cover. Datamined
Status resistance
| Status | Resistance | |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 260 | |
| Poison | 230 | |
| Frostbite | 230 | |
| Smite | 325 | |
| Burn | 200 | Procs soonest |
| Ignite | 250 | |
| Wither | 200 | Applies on hit |
These are buildup thresholds, not percentages, so they read the opposite way to absorption — a lower number procs sooner. They are comparable between enemies but not against any other figure on the site. The proc itself is a damage event that scales off your own attributes, which is why two players see different numbers from the same status.
Wither sits outside that comparison. It applies on the hit rather than building toward a threshold, so its figure is not measuring the same thing as the other six and is left out of "procs soonest" — otherwise it would win on most enemies in the game and the tag would stop telling you anything.
Similar enemies
In the same regions
Other Attestant enemies
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