Jailer |
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| Enemy Type | ??? |
| Weakness | Thrust, Lightning, Frost |
| Resistant | Magic |
| Immune | Rapport |
Jailers are an Enemy in Dark Souls 3
Jailer Information
- Holds a lantern, when lantern emits red light the player's max health slowly decreases while within line of sight. Max health remains lowered for a short time, lasting roughly 20 seconds. Health will not be restored when max health returns to normal.
- Wields a Soldering Iron as a melee weapon.
Jailer Location
- You can find Jailers in Irithyll Dungeon
Jailer Drops
- Souls: NG (700), NG+ (2,100), NG++ (??), NG+3 (??), NG+6 (??), NG+9 (??)
- Weapons: Soldering Iron
- Armor: Jailer Set
- Other: Simple Gem
Jailer Combat Information
- Health - 720 (NG)
- Their irons inflict an additional curse that prevents you from drinking estus and increases your equip load.
- Their stabs are quickly followed by a kind of grab that will knock you on the ground and do a lot of damage to you.
- Weak to Lightning Damage, Thrust and Frost.
- Affected by Bleed.
- Jailers are very easy to knock down. You can either use big weapons, charged attacks or strong spells to easily stun them and kill them.
- Resistant to Magic damage.
- Rolling towards Jailers when they are close baits their thrust attack and positions yourself behind them, giving you the perfect opportunity for a counter attack.
- The lantern's life drain effect slows down once a certain health threshold is reached, and slows down even further as your HP drops closer to 1.
- Rolling with the Carthus Milkring stops the health drain for a duration of invisiblity.
- Black Firebombs and Great Chaos Fire Orb will knock them down, allowing you to quickly close distance on them, or get away.
- Immune to Rapport.
- Can be lured.
- When not in aggro, the Jailer can be distracted by throwing an object (throwing knife etc.) A good strategy for easy backstabs.
- Jailers in the last part of Dungeon can be ignored and run through at first encounter and then safely killed one by one using bow after resting at Profaned Capital bonfire.
Jailer Gallery
Jailer Trivia
- The Jailer design is based off of the Mind Flayer from Demon's Souls who ring a bell rather than hold a lantern, the Dungeon is also heavily based on The Tower of Latria.
Anonymous23 Oct 2019 04:53
So many commenting "you can lure them one by one with a bow or magic" like 'no***** sherlock'. The problem is that this thing limits the gameplay SO much and in a very boring way. Makes it so you only have two options: either slow down your gameplay so you have to kill one after the other, waiting and waiting or realize you are gonna need to be flawless dodging any attacks while your HP is turned to 1, with potentially***** dodge because of course they also debuff. And considering the ranged choice is locked behind attributes (sure you can get a bow with little dex investment, have fun shooting a gazillion arrows) it only *****s certain builds and people further.
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- Anonymous
03 Oct 2019 02:44
You can shoot their lantern with a bow, unsure if this cancels their lifesteal curse.
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27 Aug 2019 01:07
Easy or not easy I found this enemy to be downright ridiculously unfair. I want an enemy with actual combat prowess and high damage per attack. This bull crap just isn’t fair. It’s one thing to be beaten by a tough SOB opponent but this is just cheap. Less than two seconds and your health is gone.
- Anonymous
17 Aug 2019 00:04
I still don't understand how can so many people hate this ennemy. Like seriously just run at them one by one and beat them asap until they are uninstalled from life, then take your time to recover from the curse and repeat. This is probably one of the weakest non-early game ennemy.
- Anonymous
08 Aug 2019 07:19
Probably tied with winter lanterns from bloodborne for most rage inducing enemy for me
- Anonymous
01 Jun 2019 18:09
Very cool and balanced enemy .Remove my health bar just by seeing me. Very fun , I love dark souls now :))
- Anonymous
16 May 2019 10:27
Is that jailer aggroing? Is your health bar shrinking because you didn't see them in time? Roll behind cover and wait for them to go blue again and the curse to wear off. After that just run towards them and nuke them before they can even finish their aggro animation. Are there a zillion of them in the center of a huge room? Alluring skull, or just range them with whatever's at hand. It honestly boggles my mind that anyone would have any sort of problem with them. What the hell did you guys do with the Ghru clerics in the Demon Ruins, sit on a corner and cry until they went away?
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02 May 2019 19:19
Hey, That's a nice health bar you got there! It would be a shame if someone got rid of it...
02 May 2019 06:03
They will only begin draining your health when the lantern turns red. It is best to strike them from the back, because you will lose health as you're hitting them otherwise.
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15 Feb 2019 09:53
An interesting way to proceed in the dungeon without taking much damage is to just not heal the damage they cause. Since they reduce MAX health only, it'll start droping from whatever your MAX health is, regardless if you have 5 current hp, it'll decrease all the way from max to 1, meaning any healing you do can be ignored if you know there's another jailer nearby. Just wait for the max health to return and treat it as your current.
- Anonymous
22 Dec 2018 23:26
So much salt in the comments lol. I think they work well based on the situation. The dungeon was made to give off a creepy, unsettling Latria vibe and the Jailers compliment the level design perfectly.
- Anonymous
17 Dec 2018 03:34
oh wonderful! an enemy that deals damage by just LOOKING at me! thats so fair and balanced!
- Anonymous
17 Oct 2018 00:10
Stupid *****ing enemy with broken hitboxes and stupid mechanic... especcialy when they are in group.. Just drain ur health AND *****ING DEBUFING U just by looking at u and can attack when do it... Actually one of the worst enemy in all RPGs i ever played..
- Anonymous
11 Oct 2018 16:54
you can use gestures likes "curl up" and "prostration" to avoid their branding iron pokes
- Anonymous
22 Sep 2018 06:58
I read an interesting theory on reddit that there may have been an uprising in the jail and some may have stolen jailer garb in an attempt at a prison break. They pointed out that the “jailers” by the giants carry crossbows/different swords and lack any sort of special attack like both the ones in profaned capital and the health drain ones. I doubt we will ever know but I found it interesting and had never thought about it all the times I had been down there
- Anonymous
14 Sep 2018 18:36
when they attack with the branding iron they pretty much can interrupt any action you do.... this is BS
- Anonymous
31 Oct 2019 01:58
hmhmhmhmhmhm *loud walking*
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