Ash of War: Parry |
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| Affinity | Standard |
| Skill | Parry Skill |
| Effect | Grants affinities and skills to an armament. |
Ash of War: Parry is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Parry provides Standard affinity and the Parry Skill. Ashes of War can be equipped on Weapons and Shields to modify the Skill or an equipment, or to apply affinities that modify scaling values. When a Shield or Weapon in your left hand is equipped with Parry, it takes priority over the Ash of War on the armament in your right hand.
This Ash of War grants no affinity to an armament, but imparts the following skill:
"Parry: Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit."
Usable on daggers, curved swords, thrusting swords, fists, claws, and small and medium shields.
Ash of War: Parry Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Parry:
- Purchase from Knight Bernahl:
600. Elden Ring Map Link. - Can be purchased from Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold after giving them Bernahl's Bell Bearing.
Ash of War: Parry Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the Parry Skill.
- Provides the Standard affinity, which respects the weapon's original scaling and damage.
- Can be used with any affinity Upgrade.
- Can be applied to the following weapon categories, so long as the weapon allows skill replacement: Daggers, Curved Swords, Thrusting Swords, Fists, Claws, Small Shields, Medium Shields
- On Small Shields, Parry has 9 start-up frames, 11 active frames, and 31 recovery frames (at 60 FPS).
- On Daggers, Parry has 11 start-up frames, 9 active frames, and 31 recovery frames (at 60 FPS).
- On Medium Shields, Thrusting Swords, Curved Swords, Fists, and Claws, Parry has 11 start-up frames, 5 active frames, and 35 recovery frames (at 60 FPS).
- See Parrying for detailed information on the mechanic and a comparison of different parry skills.
AnonymousDamn, so can you not get the parry Ash of War after killing Rykard? I ignored Bernahl on this playthrough and later decided I wanted to put parry on a dagger. After Rykard I think he just repeats a line of dialogue and then disappears
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Lmao they let you put parry on a rapier just out of tradition, literally the same animation as a shield and fist parry. Could they not be bothered to just port the DS3 animation for it?
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Things you CAN'T parry: jump attacks, whips, flails, 2H colossal swords*, 2H colossal weapons*, 70% of pve
*Things you CAN parry: certain melee ashes of war, even on a 2H colossal. There's not much rhyme or reason to it. Giant Hunt yes. Lion's Claw no.
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Easily the worst parrying experience in fromsoft's catalogue. Hell even some knockoffs like Code Vein do it better. A lot of successful parries will see the attack snd the parry tool never even come CLOSE to making contact. So much of my time spent trying to learn parry timings has me exclaiming "why didn't that work?" and perhaps more often, "why DID that work?"
The timings are so awkward for most things, and generally early to the point that its far more often a predictive gambit than a punishing reaction. Whats worse is some things, like lordsworn knights, feel intuitive and more like Dark Souls parries, so once you get used to the awkward timings another enemy will have very different visual cues.
And lastly, bosses. Parrying a boss has always been high risk high reward. Shoot Gascoigne too early and he charges through it and mauls you, and you have a lot of work to do to get space and heal if you survived. Swing your parry too early against Pontiff and you likely die for it. But should you succeed, you are rewarded with a huge chunk of damage. Not so in Elden Ring. Parry Malenia three times (which is f'in A hard, by the way, even with golden parry) and you get to crit once and it will do less damage than if you had spent the same time and picked any given damaging Ash of War and spammed it, which would then also probably posture break her, letting you crit anyway.
And dont even talk about pvp. We now see content creators try the occasional hardswap golden parry but between the horrid netcode, the awkward timings, and the sheer number of un-parryable attacks it's hardly ever worth the effort
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I’ll give up everything, just let me put this on a katana!!
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I miss parrying with katanas. It wasn’t the easiest party to pull off in DS3 but it looked sick af when you did
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It baffles me that golden parry and carian retaliation are better in every way to both all these parries as well as buckler parry if anything it should be the opposite.
Buckler parry should have been the best and golden parry and carian retaliation should be the same as normal parry on a medium shield. At the very least it doesn't make sense that those two parrys have 1 less startup frame and 1 more active frames than buckler parry it should be the opposite.
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Not much of a consolation prize to count as a block if I **** up the timing when it's on a weapon, ends up draining the entire stamina pool and you still take most of the hit, would prefer it not have such a huge punish for missing the timing on something so difficult to time. Feels like the fact you missed to Parry and have to take damage is already enough punishment without losing my whole stamina bar on top
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i'd love if there was a visible indication of when parry frames are active. its so hard to tell with some of the more obscure parries like rapier or curved sword parry
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you cant parry 2 handed greatswords and above in pvp, do add to the wiki please i went out my pvp thinking i was ass half the time and pretty good other times
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Anyone feel like parrying is sort of useless against bosses now? I've been fighting malenia, and even with the better frames from carian retaliation, the riposte damage seems hilariously bad. I do a jumping attack woth two winged scythes and it does like twice the damage. Also you have to parry her like 3 times to get am actual riposte window. It is really effective for most knights though.
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Threw this ash on an offhand rapier and was thoroughly disappointed that the animation changed from Dark Souls 3 to a basic medium shield parry.
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Can we get a list for everything that can't be parried? Like Two-Handed Colossal attacks, jumping attacks, possibly fist weapons? I had a duel where I know I should have been parried where I was using Clinging Bone and it made a "ting" noise but did nothing for the guy
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If you Parry with your main hand weapon, can you not riposte? Or is there just weird timing that I'm not used to? I just threw this AOW on Roger's Rapier in my main hand, my Glintstone Staff in my off-hand, and went to test it out at Gatefront. I could land the Parries themselves olay, but I didn't get a Critical Hit on any of my attempts.
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Can you use put parry on a main hand weapon? If I put it on a dagger, curved or straight sword, then two-hand that sword (or keep it in my right hand with a « no skill » weapon in my off hand), will I be able to parry?
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Yeah carian retaliation is a better version but this skill can be used on curved swords and weapons so there is that.
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Parrying with greatswords and UGS in DS2 was great even if it was incredibly impractical so it's a shame that they didn't try it again. At least Ashes of War makes a lot more possibilities now than ever before.
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How is parrying even possible with such bad nectode? It's insanely hard to adjust for latency.
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I hit a parry right on the edge of a super high up ledge and when I riposted I fell off but the crit animation i frames saved my life it was the gnarliest **** ive ever done in pvp
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What attacks can and cant be parried? as in can you parry the jumping greatsword r2 or other attacks such as weird ashes of war like eruption?
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Even though they took after DS2 for some things this isn't available for all weapons... I miss my terrible UGS parrying guys c'mon.
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Why this ash don't be using on katanas, like a dark souls 3 with special animation
Has anyone noticed a considerable change since 1.03 in parry times?
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would've been such a fun meme if you could put this on some greatshields too and get like awful parry frames but on the rare occasion you do land one it'd be legendary
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does the dagger's parry work as well as the parrying dagger?
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Different weapons receive different parry windows. When put on a dagger, you get the better dagger parry, but on a rapier it gives the stock shield parry effect.
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has anyone tested parry frames between weapons and other magic parry ashes of war?
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If I put this on Wakizashi the parry frame time will be the same as parry dagger's?
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So you can't parry without the skill like in DS 1 and 2? Is that how it is in DS3 as well?
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I feel like the timing window of the fist parry is worst than the small shield parry, can someone confirm that?
Tested on some knights in pve, haven't try the buckler.
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While practicing parries on bosses I noticed that sometimes an enemies' attack/weapon goes right through my (seemingly well timed) parry without causing any damage to me (i.e. no partial parry) but also the boss is not staggered.
Has anyone of you experienced something similar?
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sorta spoiler: later in the game, these enemies called Bell Hunters start killing a bunch of merchants in the world, this guy included. I killed him and he dropped a bell, but the bell didnt include any of his Ashes of War. is there any way to get a hold of this item after this event happens?
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Does anyone know if the buckler parry from the buckler shield is any better than regular parry from small shields like the rift shield?
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If i killed the knoght that sells it were else can i buy it?
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I've tired parry on everything and have most success with shields, maybe it's from DS3 experience etc, but the dagger has a wind up for example, and the scimitar and fist weapons appear to have a small wind up compared to the shield.
I just tested this for awhile on the tower shield and spear enemies early on by hitting their shield and parrying after my attack knowing their follow up (ignoring their delayed follow up).
Could only partial parry with scimitar and fist weapons, couldn't with the dagger, but could get the full parry out with medium shields.
Not sure if this is accurate though and sometimes randomly it seems you get a slight stun from hitting a blocking shield?
With shield I could parry a counter attack from a blocking enemy and couldn't do that with any other parry types.
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Can this be used on any katana? I have yet to get my physical copy of the game in the mail or else I'd try on my own.
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I was SOOO CONFUSED 0_0 when I saw a player twirl their Beastman curved Sword and thought it was a special hidden ability for it LMAO.
Turns out it was just the parry animation for curved swords in general. Looks sick on a Prince of Persia Setup btw. :D
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