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Treespear

Treespear is a physical-and-holy great spear found in a carriage chest along Liurnia Highway. It favors Dexterity and Faith, carries Sacred Order, and has the unusual ability to accept compatible weapon buffs despite its fixed holy profile.

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Key Takeaways

Treespear is a Faith-oriented great spear that combines long-reach thrusting attacks with innate holy damage and a fixed Golden Order skill.

Holy great spear

Its reach and thrusting moveset support shield-based spacing, while its split physical-and-holy damage gives it a clear Faith-oriented identity.

Sacred Order is its defining skill

The Treespear carries Sacred Order, a temporary holy-focused weapon buff associated with the Golden Order; its effect and use are covered with the weapon’s mechanics.

Faith is part of the entry requirement

The weapon requires investment in Faith as well as physical attributes, making it less suitable for a purely Strength- or Dexterity-focused character.

Found in Liurnia

Treespear is obtained from a chest in Liurnia rather than through a boss reward or a vendor purchase.

Strong reach, conditional damage profile

Its range and innate holy damage are useful strengths, but split damage and enemy holy resistance can reduce its effectiveness in some encounters.

A flexible regular-upgrade alternative

Compared with more specialized unique great spears, Treespear uses the standard reinforcement path while retaining its fixed skill, creating a different progression and customization trade-off.

Overview

Treespear is a named Great Spear in Elden Ring that combines physical thrusting attacks with innate holy damage and a Faith-leaning weapon profile. Its fixed Sacred Order skill gives it a distinct religious and Erdtree-associated identity, while its spear reach supports a measured, shield-compatible style rather than a fast sidearm role.

Treespear occupies the hybrid end of Elden Ring’s Great Spear class. It is suited to characters who want the spacing and committed thrusts of a long melee weapon while also investing in Faith, rather than choosing a purely physical spear for a Strength or Dexterity-focused setup. Its damage profile and skill make it more than a generic reach weapon, but they also give it a narrower identity than an interchangeable infusible armament.

The weapon’s defining feature is Sacred Order, its built-in skill. That fixed skill reinforces Treespear’s holy, Erdtree-associated presentation and gives the weapon a clear role within a Faith-oriented loadout. Because the skill is part of the weapon’s identity, Treespear is best understood as a packaged named weapon rather than a blank Great Spear chosen mainly for Ash of War experimentation. Its thrusting moveset remains central: spacing, timing and commitment matter more than rapid attack chaining.

In practical play, Treespear fits a deliberate frontline approach. A character can pair a Great Spear’s reach with defensive equipment and use controlled thrusts to pressure enemies from outside shorter weapons’ preferred distance, while the Faith requirement creates room for a broader sacred or support-oriented build. This does not make it universally superior to other Great Spears: alternatives may offer different scaling, skills, damage profiles or customization, and those distinctions matter more than the weapon’s thematic presentation.

Treespear is obtainable in the base game and is not a Shadow of the Erdtree-exclusive weapon. It can therefore serve as an early-to-mid progression option for a player who has already committed to its attribute demands, and it remains relevant later when the build can support its hybrid role. Its place in progression is best described as a specialized named choice: valuable when holy damage, Faith investment and long thrusting attacks align with the character, but less immediately attractive for a build that wants maximum affinity flexibility or a different melee class.

Statistics

Elden Ring publishes no 0–100 stat bars, so this page lists the verified requirements, scaling and handling figures instead. Taken from the project's verified weapons database, not from generated text.

Category
Great Spears
Damage Type
Pierce
Primary Scaling
Str D / Dex D
Weight
9.5
Skill
Charge Forth
Str Req
18
Dex Req
13
How to Obtain
Dropped by Tree Sentinel-adjacent enemies

Figures verified against Consolidated Game Weapons Database.

Compared to similar great spears

Weapon	Str Req	Dex Req	Weight	Primary Scaling
Treespear	18	13	9.5	Str D / Dex D
Siluria's Tree	16	13	9.5	Arc D
Poleblade of the Bud	16	13	9.5	Arc D
Inquisitor's Girandole	16	14	9.5	Str D / Fai D
Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear	18	15	10	Arc C

Requirements, scaling grades and weight are the game’s own published figures. From Consolidated Game Weapons Database.

How to Obtain

Before you start

Reach Liurnia of the Lakes; no specific quest, boss, vendor, key item, DLC, or NG+ cycle is required.
The chest provides one Treespear per playthrough. It is not quest-missable; an additional copy requires another playthrough or NG+.

01Travel to Liurnia of the Lakes and follow the road southeast of the Church of Irith. Look for the abandoned carriage in the lower area; open the chest in its rear to collect the Treespear.
02The Treespear is a guaranteed chest pickup, not an enemy drop, vendor purchase, quest reward, or boss reward. It remains available in the open world until collected.

Availability

Elden Ring base game — standard playAvailable; no DLC, vendor-stock, difficulty, or NG+ availability gate identified.

Requires To wield the Treespear, the character must meet its 15 Strength, 22 Dexterity, and 18 Faith requirements.

The weapon is available in both PvE and PvP contexts. No purchase price applies.

Mechanics and Handling

Thrusting Great Spear Moveset

Treespear uses the forward-thrusting attack pattern associated with Great Spears. Its normal attacks keep the weapon pointed ahead, making the weapon’s effective spacing and the player’s facing especially important: the tip must connect, and attacks can be awkward when an opponent is directly beside or behind the wielder. The spear’s reach lets it pressure targets from outside many shorter melee weapons’ preferred distance, while its attack commitment makes missed thrusts costly against quick enemies. Its running and jumping attacks continue to serve as approach tools rather than changing Treespear into a sweeping crowd-control weapon.

Shield-Compatible Pressure

Like other spear-type weapons in Elden Ring, Treespear can attack while the player keeps a shield raised. This supports a measured defensive style: the shield absorbs or reduces pressure while the spear tests an opening without requiring the player to drop guard for every attack. The trade-off is that Treespear remains a directional thrusting weapon, so lateral spacing, stamina management and enemy positioning still matter. A shield does not remove the need to avoid attacks that bypass blocking, deplete stamina or punish repeated predictable pokes.

Sacred Order and Holy Damage

Treespear has the fixed weapon skill Sacred Order rather than a freely interchangeable Ash of War. Activating it performs a brief blessing animation and imbues the weapon with a holy effect for a limited period. The skill is particularly relevant against Those Who Live in Death, but its temporary nature means it should be applied before an engagement rather than treated as a permanent property of every strike. Because the skill is fixed, choosing Treespear also means giving up the stance, buff or utility of another Ash of War on the weapon itself.

Buffing and Combat Role

Treespear has no weapon-specific bleed, frost, poison or similar innate buildup to manage. Its identity instead comes from reach, thrust damage, shield-compatible pressure and the Sacred Order buff. It is also an unusual case among Elden Ring’s distinctive weapons because external weapon buffs can be applied to it, allowing the player to layer a temporary spell or grease effect over its normal attacks when the relevant requirements and resource costs are acceptable. Those temporary effects should be treated separately from Sacred Order: they do not change the weapon’s fixed skill or moveset.

Upgrades and Variants

Strengths, Weaknesses and Best Uses

Strengths

Great Spear reach lets Treespear users threaten targets while maintaining more spacing than standard shorter-range melee classes.
Its innate Holy damage and Faith requirement give Faith-oriented hybrid builds a physical-and-Holy damage profile rather than a purely physical one.
Treespear’s unique Sacred Order skill is especially useful against undead, while also giving the weapon a temporary offensive enhancement.
Unlike many unique weapons, Treespear can receive temporary weapon buffs, allowing its damage profile to be adapted with applicable incantations or consumables.
Its spear moveset supports attacks from behind a shield, making it suitable for a cautious guard-and-thrust approach.

Weaknesses

The split physical-and-Holy profile can lose effectiveness against enemies with strong Holy damage negation.
Its Strength, Dexterity, and Faith requirements narrow the viable early-game build choices compared with less demanding spears.
As a Great Spear, it is heavier and more committed during attacks than ordinary spears, making missed thrusts more costly.
Its fixed skill and inability to accept Ashes of War limit moveset and affinity customization, even though temporary buffs remain available.

Best uses

Faith-based melee hybrids that want long-reaching thrusts while retaining access to weapon buffs.
Shield-oriented play where attacking without fully abandoning defensive positioning is valuable.
Areas or encounters dominated by undead, where Sacred Order’s specialized effect has greater practical value.
Players who want a fixed, Holy-leaning Great Spear with buff flexibility rather than a fully customizable spear.

Compared With Similar Weapons

Compared With Similar Weapons
Weapon	Class and role	Skill or special property	Build flexibility	When it may suit instead
Treespear	Sacred Order; can receive weapon buffs despite its unique status	Fixed skill, but its buff compatibility gives Faith-oriented setups additional options	A good fit when a great spear user wants holy damage, Sacred Order, and external weapon buffs	—
Lance	Uses a changeable Ash of War	Infusable and compatible with a broad range of affinities and skills	Prefer it when changing the skill or tailoring damage to a specific attribute spread matters more than Treespear’s fixed identity	—
Siluria’s Tree	Siluria’s Woe provides a distinctive charged ranged attack	Fixed skill and less general-purpose than an infusable great spear	Choose it when its unique skill and heavier Strength/Faith focus are more valuable than Treespear’s buff flexibility	—
Vyke’s War Spear	Frenzyflame Thrust and innate madness buildup define its combat role	Fixed skill and specialized status profile	Prefer it for madness-focused play, especially where its status mechanic is more useful than Treespear’s holy damage	—

Used In

Liurnia of the LakesTreespear is obtained from a chest on a carriage in Liurnia of the Lakes.
Sacred OrderTreespear has Sacred Order as its fixed weapon skill.
Smithing StoneTreespear uses Smithing Stones for reinforcement rather than the Somber Smithing Stone path.

Lore and Design

Erdtree Guardianship

The Treespear’s item description presents it as a greatspear shaped after a tree and associates it with the guardians of the Erdtree. Its design therefore has an explicit in-game connection to Erdtree imagery and those guardians, rather than relying only on visual resemblance. The description does not establish a named individual wielder, a broader faction history, or a documented real-world inspiration. No reliable developer commentary or development history is established here, so those aspects should not be treated as part of the weapon’s canon.

Trivia

Treespear has the unique weapon skill Sacred Order, yet it can still receive external weapon buffs such as spells and greases. This combination distinguishes it from the usual pattern in which a weapon with a fixed unique skill cannot be buffed.
Its name and description connect the weapon to the guardians of the Erdtree, framing it as a ceremonial or symbolic armament rather than an ordinary battlefield spear.