If you're looking to completely improve your heal parry, and even increase the resolution rate, this is where you'll find these four key elements. Increasing your resolution gain is one of the most useful improvements in the game, and it's very easy to miss. You can even catch it before entering one of the three main dungeons!
How To Completely Upgrade The Tarnished Seal | Key component locations
The Tarnished Seal is your parry mechanic in Mortal Shell. With a resolving charge, you can stun enemies by raising your Tarnished Seal and stunning an enemy, allowing you to counterattack and gain health.
There are four Tarnished Seal upgrades - three increase the amount of healing you will get from a successful parry, while the last key element increases the amount of solve you will win by attacking enemies.
- Solemn offering: Enshrined Sanctum - Defeat the enslaved Grisha in the Abandoned Chamber to reach the second Sester checkpoint. There is a chest next to her with this upgrade for the Tarnished Seal.
- Solemn offering: Monument of Ash - Reach the room where you first meet the fire-throwing demons. Go right to unlock the shortcut door. There is a chest here with this upgrade item.
- Solemn offering: Eternal Narthex - In the main area of Eternal Narthex, go to the left side of the massive courtyard before the dark gate. Go through the portal and descend to the area near the raised platform with the required lever. There is a bandit camp hidden behind the weird geometric rocks - find the second bandit camp hidden in the area and gain access to an optional portal that leads to this offer.
- Forbidden offering: Fallgrim Outskirts - Just outside the entrance to Eternal Narthex, there is a hidden room to the left where there is a special merchant. Talk to them and you can buy the Forbidden Offering for 3 tars.