Way of the Bucket in Lords of the Fallen is a new mysterious questline that provides players with rewards of uncertain value. This questline is included in the latest patch 1.1.348. Players who take part in the new quest line activities will receive generous rewards after figuring out the clues.

In this update, you’ll find new quests from Bucketlord NPC. After completing the mission, you will also receive Bucketlord’s special weapon, Gilded Bucket.

In this quest, you need to find 12 Pride of the Bucketlords Quest Items and give them to Bucketlord NPC. Below, you’ll find a walkthrough guide on how to start your quest to find the 12 items and the secret weapon.

How To Get Started?

To start Bucketlord quest, you need to first get Bucketlord’s Salute gesture. You can find this gesture at Vestige of Chabui. Exit from there and go left. There, you will find a lot of wooden crates that need to be broken. After breaking them, you’ll find Bucketlord’s Salute gesture.

Then head back from Vestige of Chabui to find the stairs and continue forward until you find Bucketlord NPC. If you try to interact with an NPC, you won’t actually receive any responses. You need to equip three emotes and a bucket weapon and perform them in front of NPCs.

You need to remove all armor and weapons except Broken Bucket, and equip three gestures: Greeting, Pointing Downward, and Bucketlord’s Salute. Then make three emotes in front of NPC and interact to start the mission.

Pride Of The Bucketlords Quest Items Locations

To complete the quest, you need to find 12 Pride of the Bucketlords Quest Items and give them to Bucketlords NPC. Just a note of caution: make sure you don’t collect more than 4 at a time. Once you have collected 4 Pride of the Bucketlords, return to Bucketlords NPC and give it to them.

You can earn Pride of the Bucketlords by defeating bosses in different areas. If you have defeated the boss, you can revisit the area and receive LotF Vigor reward. The locations of these bosses are:

• Scourged Sister Delyth: On the lower level at Pilgrim Perch.
• Gentle Gaverus Mistress Of Hounds: In Pilgrim Perch.
• Crimson Rector Percival: You will find him in Fitzroy’s Gorge. However, progressing too far in the game will lock you out of combat, and you won’t be able to earn Pride of the Bucketlords.
• Ruiner: Located in Fitzroy’s Gorge bridge area.
• Sacred Resonance of Tenacity: Teleport to Vestige of Blind Agatha and find the boss through the bell door.
• Kinrangr Guardian Folard: Teleport to Vestige of Marco the Axe and go through the bell door into the cave and find the water with the wolf. There you will find the boss you need to defeat.
• Griefbound Rowena: You’ll find this boss in Fief of the Chill Curse.
• Blessed Carrion Knight Sanisho: You can find him in Tower of Penance on the bridge before entering the tower.
• Abbess Ursula: You’ll find her in Abbey of the Hallowed Sisters. Starting from Vestige of Rosamund, you will find this boss.
• Skinstealer: Located in Cistern area in front of the elevator to Upper Calrath.
• Infernal Enchantress: You’ll find this boss near an enormous bonfire in Lower Carath, and can be found by teleporting to Vestige of Sebastian.
• Abiding Defenders: You can find him in Manse of the Hallowed Brothers. From the door that requires Abbot Vernoff’s key, look back to find the stairs on the left. Go through the stairs and instead of going inside the castle, head towards the open octagonal side area on the right to find the boss.

Gilded Bucket

After giving all Pride of the Bucketlords Quest Items to Bucketlords NPC, head to Vestige of Lydia the Numb Witch in Lower Carath.

Keep going until you reach an area with a big burning tree and Ruiner enemy. To the left of the burning tree, you’ll find a ramp that will lead you to a secret room filled with buckets. In that room, you’ll find Bucketlords’ weapon, called Gilded Bucket, which is an upgraded version of Broken Bucket you already have.

Obliterating your enemies with devastating Umbral magic is one of the most satisfying ways to enjoy your time in Lords of the Fallen. Combining this with the ability to maintain a steady flow of Life Leech ensures you are a highly resilient scourge of destruction.

In this guide, I will break down what is in my opinion one of the best melee caster builds that has a specialism in life leeching at both range and in close quarters combat to keep ourselves sustained.

I will go over the stats, weapons, armor, rings, pendants and rune choices that make this build an undying blood sucking Umbral menace that’s difficult to contend with.

Stats & Starting Class

In the early game, the main stats to focus on in this build are Inferno and Radiance for damage scaling and vitality for survivability.

As the build focuses on dual-wielding Bloodlust, we only require 13 points in Agility to ensure we can use them. The rest can then go into our main stats.

Initially, you’ll require around 20 points in Endurance to have ample Stamina to utilize in the early to mid game. My advice here would be to get Inferno to around 70 and Radiance to around 50 and then fill the rest in any order of your choosing. You’ll gain damage from statting into Radiance and Inferno and more HP from Vitality.

The Orian Preacher and the Orian Preacher Hammer are, as usual, your best choice of starting class and weapon due to the 18 points of radiant damage the class starts with and the fact it has an absolutely powerful weapon in the early to mid game.

Main Weapon & Runes

For the primary weapon, I am dual wielding Bloodlust short swords. This choice is underpinned by two reasons.

First of all, when delivering a final hit via a malee attack or spell, these swords have a life leeching effect. Wielding two also stack this effect.

Secondly, the rune slots allow us to use a total of 4 Tumul runes to further enhance our vampiric life leeching effect when we kill enemies. This weapon also comes with 60 Bleed and 60 Burn in the status effects department.

Combining this with Bleed Salts further emphasizes this effect and also allows us to further lean into the Undying Umbral Vampire kind of look. This can be acquired from the chest in the area where you fight Crimson Rector Percival and you’ll need to complete two playthroughs or find a willing friend to drop you a second one to complete this build.

For those of you with only one Bloodlust, this build still works, or be it with a slightly diminished return on the Life Leech. You could try another weapon to dual wield or go with a shield and some Tumul or Nartun runes for either Mana or HP Regeneration.

The three rune slots in this weapon are integral to the functionality of the build. 2 Tumul runes are non-negotiable to further improve our life leeching capabilities. When duel wielding two Bloodlust with two Tumul runes, we leech around 90 HP per kill.

The final rune slot is an Agility slot and you’ll have a number of choices here. You could go with:

• Vixys for increased bleed buildup
• Dimexus, which increases physical damage whilst dual wielding
• Ornx for increased Grievous Strikes damage
• Nhelaq for those choosing to Lords of the Fallen Vigor farm

I opt to go for Vixys to maximize how quickly bleed builds up to stay with the theme of blood and vampires, but all these options are completely viable catalyst folks.

Catalyst

In terms of catalyst, the best in slot choice here for this build is the Lost Berescu’s Catalyst at +10.

This provides us with exceptional spell power that is just shy of 800 and it also has A tier Radiance and Inferno scaling with 5 spell slots, a simply superb choice here. This is acquired in the Revelation Depths via an Umbral Belly.

In terms of rings and pendants, our pendant of choice is the Pendant of Atroph. This pendant allows us to continue to spam cast Umbral spells even when we’ve depleted our Mana. This makes it very easy to spam enemies down with a barrage of Umbral devastation.

The ring choices are also very straightforward. A Barrage Root and a Puissance Root provide us with increased damage to our sorceries, with the Barrage Root removing 1 spell slot as a penalty, which leaves us with 4 instead of 5. This is completely worthable and not a problem the off of this build.

You can also double down on either ring, with Barrage Root being the most desirable for those who want the highest DPS increase possible and at the cost of two spell slots being removed.

Spells

Speaking of spamming Umbral spells, our main source of range damage comes from Latimer’s Javelin.

This can be acquired from the Remembrance of the Hushed Saint. This thing hits like an absolute truck and offers both single target and AOE damage output.

I’ve seen this thing hit numbers of around 1.8k per throw and I’m not even maxed out on damage stats. But from what I’ve read and seen, apparently this can hit up to around 2.5k if you have both your Radiance and your Inferno stats maxed out.

This is in combination with the Pendant of Atrophy and it makes it absolutely insane for anyone favoring the caster approach. It also works well in combination with melee attacks as a way to chip the mob’s health and posture down before they even reach you.

The second spell is Diminishing Missile, which sends a homing projectile of Umbral magic that debuffs an enemy by reducing their attack damage and their defenses. This is another highly viable and useful choice here.

Our third choice of spell is Umbral Agony. This fires a slow-moving orb of Umbral energy that deals large chunks of damage to foes and takes huge chunks of stagger bars off. You can cast this at your enemy’s feet or at walls nearby to ensure that it explodes, dealing solid AOE damage to multiple enemies. It’s excellent for breaking stagger bars if you’re the sort of player that likes to look to run in and finish enemies off with Grievous Strikes for those extra style points.

Our fourth slot is flexible. I go with either Barrage of Echoes for extremely tasty first damage or Painful Echo, which sends a bolt of Umbral energy that bounces and chains between enemies. This is down to your personal preference, and I tend to swap between these two spells to keep things fresh.

Armour

I know a lot of you like to know how we complete the character looks, so in this case, I’m using:

• Grace of Adyr Mask
• Crimson Rector Armour
• Crimson Rector Leggings
• Lord Gauntlet

All of these are colored with the cell sword tint.

Mechanics

The mechanics of this build are very simple.

Buff up with Bleed Salts, favorably position yourself, cast your of Diminishing Missile and begin spamming whichever skills you see fit.

Latimer’s Javelin has excellent range and damage. The projectile also moves pretty quickly too, which makes this my most favorite choice. You can situationally use the other spells and I usually throw a cast or two of Barrage of Echoes at my feet as enemies approach, with what is left of the HP and stagger bar then being melted. I then either dispatch them with the well-timed attack or administer a vampiric life leeching Grievous Strike.

The build can be played as a full caster or a combination of melee and caster, in both styles allow us to gain 90 HP per kill, which makes us very difficult to kill in return.