Valor Mortis: How to Get the Iron Grip Amber Early in the Battlefield
Grab the chest past the second Battlefield lantern to make Ferrofluid Flask healing faster and uninterruptible.
Grab the chest past the second Battlefield lantern to make Ferrofluid Flask healing faster and uninterruptible.
by AllThingsHow Staff
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The Iron Grip amber sits inside an ornate red chest in the Battlefield region of Valor Mortis, a short run past the second lantern checkpoint. Picking it up early changes how safely you heal, because it removes the main weakness of drinking in a fight. The route runs through trench-lined paths and several patrolling enemies, but none of it requires backtracking or a boss kill.
Quick answer: Rest at the second lantern in the Battlefield, head straight across the plank bridge, clear the watchtower and wagon ambush, then open the red chest by the handcart near the stream to collect the Iron Grip amber.
What the Iron Grip amber does
Iron Grip speeds up the animation of using a Ferrofluid Flask and makes that action impossible to interrupt. In practice, enemy hits that would normally knock you out of a heal no longer cancel it, so you can top up during an exchange instead of waiting for a clean opening. The in-game text states it plainly: “The act of using a Ferrofluid Flask is faster and cannot be interrupted.”
Ambers are passive upgrades that slot into your equipped loadout. Iron Grip has a single rank (Upgrade Level 1 / 1), so there is no higher level to work toward.
Route to the Iron Grip chest from the second Battlefield lantern
Use the second lantern in the Battlefield as your rest point. Your respawn location is set for the run, and you can look over the Journal map before heading out.
Move away from the lantern and take the wooden plank bridge straight ahead. Continue through the winding trench, keeping along its barricades, until you spot a tall wooden watchtower.
Climb the watchtower ladder and block the moment you reach the top. The rifleman up there lunges immediately, so holding block first lets you punish him safely before dropping back down.
Continue forward until a scripted wagon rolls through the open stretch and slams into an enemy. Get past it, circle behind the ridge, and eliminate the rifleman first to limit heavy ranged damage; then deal with the other enemies.
From the edge above the shallow stream, leap down and use a falling attack (jump + R2) on the enemy below. The strike immediately eliminates the foe in the streambed.
Follow the stream forward a little, then take the uphill path that winds along the rocks to the right. A lone rifleman guards a campsite near a handcart at the top.
With the camp clear, open the ornate red chest sitting beside the handcart to collect the Iron Grip amber.
How to equip the Iron Grip amber
Ambers cannot be assigned from the standard inventory screen. You have to equip them at a Lantern. Return to any lantern, choose to rest, and open the amber menu, then assign Iron Grip to a free item slot. The game confirms this in its own tip: “Ambers can significantly increase your abilities. You can equip them by interacting with the Lantern.”
You will know it worked when Iron Grip shows as Equipped in the amber list, and your next Ferrofluid Flask drink plays its faster, uninterruptible animation in combat.
With the amber slotted, healing becomes a reliable tool mid-fight rather than a gamble, which makes the early Battlefield encounters and the tougher fights that follow noticeably more forgiving.
