Enhanced Joan rematch: Courage trial and the final bell

Enter the Courage trial with the required spell

The Courage trial in Notre-Dame includes a rematch with an enhanced Joan of Arc. Equip Infernal Pyre from The Warrior before interacting with the unfinished trial entrance. Owning the Arcana and having the required spell currently equipped are different checks. If the entrance does not admit you, inspect your selected spell before searching for another doorway or repeating the first Joan encounter.

This encounter uses its own combat behavior, so the tower-summit guide should not be treated as a complete rematch solution. Begin with enough health and recovery to observe the follow-ups. The map reference identifies the Courage trial room, while the four-virtues guide explains how this trial fits the other entrances and the central route.

Read the follow-up after a melee preparation

The rematch has distinct spinning, middle-range and farther-reaching melee preparations. Their release actions include ordinary and strengthened alternatives. A familiar preparation therefore does not guarantee that the following attack will match an earlier attempt. Watch the release and its continuation before committing to a long attack animation, especially when you are trying to recover health or regain a safe position.

The strengthened alternatives are associated with Joan’s flame-empowered condition, rather than being arbitrary extra names for the same strike. The fireball-pillar action applies that empowerment to Joan. Use the change as a reason to watch later melee attacks more carefully. This does not establish a fixed order of every move or a universal number of hits before the next attack.

A jump can continue into a dive and ground fire

One linked attack begins with a jump and continues into a dive. The dive also creates a flaming ground area that spreads to both sides. Treat the landing and the resulting ground hazard as connected parts of the attack. Moving away from the initial descent is only one part of reading the sequence; check the nearby floor before immediately returning to attack.

As a conservative tactic, keep enough room to change position and avoid planning your recovery around the instant Joan touches down. Respond to the actual fire and the next animation, then take an opening you can recognize. The diagram below summarizes the confirmed relationship between preparation, dive and ground fire; it is an explanation of the attack, not a screenshot or a tested safe-standing position.

After winning, continue to the virtue bell

Defeating Joan is part of completing the Courage trial, but victory alone does not replace ringing the bell at its end. Continue through the trial and strike that bell to obtain the virtue. If the central route remains unavailable, check the virtues you actually received, including the final bell interaction, instead of assuming the rematch automatically awarded everything.

Use the encounter to pursue the trial objective rather than expecting a second copy of the first fight’s rewards. The first Joan guide covers that earlier encounter, while the four-virtues page covers the combined requirement. This page’s attack relationships come from game data. Use them to recognize continuations, then respond to the visible attack and fire before committing to a long action. Leave enough health to observe the later moves while learning.

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