Jori, Elder Inquisitor Location and How to Beat

Jori, Elder Inquisitor is the boss found at the end of the Blacklight Catacombs in the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. See Jori, Elder Inquisitor's location, stats and drops, and how to beat Jori, Elder Inquisitor here.

Jori, Elder Inquisitor Location

Found at end of Darklight Catacombs

World View	Map Location

Jori, Elder Inquisitor is found at the bottom of the Darklight Catacombs in Scadu Altus, guarding the boundary to the Abyssal Woods. Navigate the Catacombs to search for lifts to keep descending until you reach the fog wall.

Reach Darklight Catacombs From Castle Watering Hole

To get to Darklight Catacombs, you will need find the coffin in Shadow Keep in order to reach Recluses' River, which leads to the Catacombs. The coffin can be found behind an illusory wall after taking the lift down from Specimen Storehouse, First Floor Site of Grace.

Jori, Elder Inquisitor Weakness

Weak to Slash Damage

Jori, Elder Inquisitor is weak to Slash damage, so try to equip Curved Swords, Katanas, Great Katanas, or other types of weapons that deal Slash-type damage.

Backhand Blade, Rakshasa's Great Katana and Claws of Night are great DLC options, while Rivers of Blood and Bloodhound's Fang from the base game are also effective against Jori.

List of All Slash Weapons

Weak to Fire and Lightning Damage

Fire damage is the most effective element against Jori, but Lightning is almost equal in performance with Fire. Both of these elements are affected by the water in the boss arena.

Infuse weapons with Fire or Lightning affinities using the Red-Hot Whetblade or Sanctified Whetblade to deal extra damage. Or, take armaments with innate Fire or Lightning damage like the Fire Knight's Greatsword and the Death Knight's Twin Axes.

For spellcasters, memorize incantations like Knight's Lightning Spear and Fire Serpent to poke Jori from range in a magic firefight.

Susceptible to Sleep

Jori can be temporarily stunned with Sleep, as he succumbs to the status after just 4 Sleepbone Arrows. You can also craft and toss Sleep Pots and Eternal Sleep Pots if you have any prepared.

Melee builds can instead use the Sword of St. Trina or Velvet Sword of St. Trina to build up sleep with melee hits. Or, you can craft Eternal Sleep Grease to infuse your preferred weapon with Sleep buildup.

List of All Sleep Weapons

Jori, Elder Inquisitor General Tips

Tips for Beating Jori, Elder Inquisitor
Keep Track of Jori's Summons Rush Jori After Dodging Spells For High INT Builds, Moons Eat Spells

Keep Track of Jori's Summons

Jori, Elder Inquisitor is heavily reliant on casting spells from a distance, and will frequently summon different types of mobs to harass you in different ways. Memorize the different mobs and their behaviors to know how to avoid or deal with them so you can keep your focus trained on Jori.

Tank Summon

Jori's tank summon will slowly pursue and try to body slam you. Keep it in view, but it is normally too slow to be a threat. It will dissipate once it does its candle fire breath attack.

Caster Summons

Jori will sometimes spawn a pair of casters that will charge then fire a full-auto barrage of arc spells similar to Jori's own spell attack. Run directly sideways to avoid their tracking. They will dissipate after doing their spells.

Candlebearer Summons

Jori can spawn a pair of candlebearing mobs that will either pursue and melee you with their candlesticks, or blow the candles to breathe fire similar to the tank summon. They will dissipate after either of these attacks.

Simultaneous Summon

Jori will sometimes spawn all three types of mobs at once to swarm you. The casters will fire their spells at you, the candlebearers will either breathe fire or try to melee you, and the tank summon will do a new move where it continuously spins while tracking you.

All the mobs will despawn once they finish their attacks, so run away from the spinning tank and the spells of the casters until the summons expire.

Rush Jori After Dodging Spells

Unless there are summons barring your way, you will typically want to poke and attack Jori, be it melee or ranged, right after dodging spells, as there is a pretty comfortable delay between spells being cast.

For melee builds specifically, be advised that Jori can teleport to reposition when in danger, so maximize your damage window before you have to chase them again.

For High INT Builds, Moons Eat Spells

Magic users are likely to find themselves dodging and trading spells against Jori in pitched ranged battles. There's a particularly interesting interaction with moon spells and Jori's full-auto spell attack wherein the moon can absorb Jori's projectiles while still traveling and hitting Jori.

If you have 68-70 INT, consider using Rennala's Full Moon or Ranni's Dark Moon to negate one of Jori's more annoying attacks that you would normally have to run or dodge from.

Jori, Elder Inquisitor Rewards

Jori, Elder Inquisitor Details
Runes	260000
Drops	・Barbed Staff-Spear
Spirit Summons?	Spirit Ashes Allowed
Gold Summons?	None

Elden Ring Related Guides

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