Elden Ring Waypoint Ruins guide – Location, boss guide, items

Delve into the ruins and defeat Mad Pumpkin Head with our Elden Ring guide!

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We’ve put together a handy Elden Ring Waypoint Ruins guide. Everything you need to know about it’s location, bosses, and items – all in one place!

Elden Ring’s open world is packed with secret challenges and hidden locations. There are so many bosses in this game that some are tucked away in hidden nooks, only visible to a keen explorer. The Waypoint Ruins are one such boss-hiding location. We’ll walk you through how to make the most of this optional area.

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What is Waypoint Ruins?

Waypoint Ruins is a lovely little tourist spot in Elden Ring’s Limgrave area with some great items to collect and a suitably comical boss to defeat. Let’s have a look first at how to get there and then we will deal with him later.

How to find Waypoint Ruins in Elden Ring (Waypoint Ruins location)

Shortly after crossing the bridge in the center of Limgrave, you may stumble upon the waypoint ruins. This rundown structure is swarming with toxic Spore Bloom plants.

In the center of the ruins, there is a huge Spore Bloom, surrounded by a cluster of smaller ones. The largest bloom has two main techniques. The first is throwing out poisonous spores like the smaller flowers, but for a much longer duration. You can stay within the cloud and get some free hits, but you’ll be affected by the poisoned condition very quickly in return. The Second ability rains down droplets – or rays – of light that deal a large amount of damage in an area. Thankfully you can easily tell when the Bloom is charging up this attack; it extends high into the air first and takes a long time to do so.

If you have Spirit Summons available. The Lone Wolves summon will work wonders here. They can run in and quickly make short work of the smaller flowers, freeing you up to take out the big one.

Once the blooms are dead, you can claim Immunising Meat from a nearby body, and Miranda Powder from the large Bloom itself.

In some of the outer walls of the Ruins, there are some smaller flowers dotted around, clustering over dead bodies. One of the bodies contains a Golden Rune item.

Once this area of the ruins is clear – or if you simply dash past the blooms – you can head down a stairwell into a stone cellar. At the entrance there is a fog wall, and past it is a boss battle: Mad Pumpkin Head.

Elden Ring Waypoint Ruins Site of Grace

If you are looking for a handily located Site of Grace in the Elden Ruins you will find it tucked away in the cellar, which you will find in East Limgrave opposite the Church of Elleh. It is here you will also find the forthcoming boss fight.

Elden Ring Waypoint Ruins boss locations

The big boss guy you will be coming across here in Waypoint Ruins is Mad Pumpkin Head – you have three guesses to guess what he looks like – yes, it is unlikely you will mistake this boss for somebody else when you eventually stumble across him. Let’s have a look at the best tactics now to defeat him and be on your way with the spoils.

How to beat Mad Pumpkin Head in Elden Ring – boss guide

Mad Pumpkin Head is a large lumbering humanoid with a spiked flail and a metal pot resembling a pumpkin atop its head. Thankfully, it is much easy than most bosses in Elden Ring, more similar to the Soldier of Godrick than someone like Margit the Fell Omen.

Mad Pumpkin Head has two main attacks that it uses to try and send you back to the nearest Site of Grace. The first Is slamming its heavy metal head into the ground, damaging and staggering you. The second is running towards you and swinging upwards with its flail. Both of these techniques are easy enough to avoid, made only slightly more difficult by the cramped quarters you fight Mad Pumpkin Head in.

Mad Pumpkin Head can easily be staggered and followed up with a critical attack that takes out a huge percentage of its health.

Once Mad Pumpkin Head is defeated, you can access a Site of grace and return to the Waypoint Ruins whenever you choose!

But there is one final thing that can be accomplished in Waystone Ruins. Beyond Mad Pumpkin Head’s chamber is a room containing an NPC: Sorceress Sellen. If you interact with Sellen and agree to become her student, you will be able to purchase Glinstone Sorceries from her. This is integral for anyone looking to run an Intelligence build.

Waypoint Ruins items – A full list

If you’ve managed to make your way into Waypoint Ruins and had a crack at the Mad Pumpkin Head without looking around or talking to Sorceress Sellen, you may have missed a few items. Below, you’ll see a full list of items you can find in Waypoint Ruins, some may even be critical for your build. You’ll also be able to almost tick them off, ensuring that, for you completionists out there, you get a full 100% clear of this Elden Ring area.

• Pumpkin Helm (from defeating Mad Pumpkin Head)
• Glintstone Pebble (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Glintstone Stars (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Glintstone Arc (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Crystal Barrage (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Scholar’s Armament (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Scholar’s Shield (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Glintblade Phalanx (Sorceress Sellen Shop)
• Carian Slicer (Sorceress Sellen Shop)

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