Ash of War: Storm Blade | Elden Ring Wiki

What I really like about this ash is that it takes all the stress of pvp away. I can win without thinking too hard or even panic rolling. I just relax, L2 with some jump r2s thrown in and even the sweatiest opponent goes down fast. It’s the easy mode FromSoft intended us to use

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Imagine if this AOW could interact with what buff you have at the moment of casting this, sending winds of flame? lighting? blood? and so on, it would be the most broken ashe x)

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zweihander needs this

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So apparently Flame Fall upon them can psuedo/true combo (depends on how the bullets hit sometimes it staggers shorter or longer) into this. Probably one of the most bizarre things to associate with each other but here you go.

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The Exile Soldiers will use this skill in front of you and lop off a chunk of your HP, yet gankers will stupidly use this 30 meters away from you with plenty of time to dodge it.

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I bring this while coop in stormveil and start shooting bird with it, the wizard guy looks annoyed bc i stole his job

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One of the most annoying things in pvp. At least mages' stupid shards do 200 dmg and dont stagger, this sh t does twice of it if not more, breaks poise, is totally safe to use, 0 risk and it costs just 6 FP on followups, so a random simpleton in bullgoats can spam it till the end of the duel without a single refill.

Inb4: PVE vs PVP outcry, i dont care what you use in PVE and I dont want to change it. I want PVP-only balance adjustments for it.

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I think this is my new favourite ranged ash of war over the ice spear. It's cheaper and I think a little faster while seeming to cover the same distance. If you run out of FP it also still works as a decent attack. Just keep in mind you step forwards when you use this so watch your spacing on ledges.

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Sometimes less is more, and it's true here. This skill isn't flashy or overpowered, it's just a very reliable, low-cost ability that you'll want to have at all times. If powerstancing, I recommend using this as your secondary skill on your offhand weapon, for quick access during fights that are spaced out and you have a window to throw out a few hits to keep the pressure up. 10/10

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Great PVE skill, not the most effective in terms of raw damage output, but it adds a ranged option to a lot of close range weapons. Low FP cost and comes out fast even after a roll, very fun.
I use it on my STR build with my Iron Greatsword, really enjoying the playstyle of close range and having a long range option as well.

The salt messages of invaders are the only con, i'm just strolling around a beautiful world with my leafblower man

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Does it scale on weapon level or stats?

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Step 1: Start new game
Step 2: Pick Lands Between Rune as your keepsake
Step 3: Use the Lands Between Rune to get 3000 runes
Step 4: Travel to Bernahl's shack
Step 5: Get this ash within the first 5 minutes of the game
Step 6: Play the rest of the entire game on easy mode
Step 7: Finish the game and then immediately throw your PC/console out of the fuc king window
Step 8: Live the rest of your miserable life in crippling depression know how much of a pathetic disappointment you are
Step 9: Profit

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Suggested adjustments:

Option 1) lower the attack power by ~20% and cut the casting speed of successive casts by ~30% (initial cast can remain as is)
Option 2) double the FP cost and increase the stamina cost such that it can only be spammed a handful or so times before running out
Option 3) decrease range slightly and incorporate a rapid damage fall-off the farther away you are from the target (end of range inflicting ~40% of max damage)

As it sits this skill is far too powerful for how cheap, fast, long rage and spammable it is. It clowns on everything and you can get it in the first 5 minutes of the game

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If put this on the Flamberge will it deal any blood loss?

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After over 800h I finally give this AoW a try and it's simply amazing...

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Storm Blade: for when your R1 spam starts to get just a little bit too boring - introducing the INFINITE L2 SPAM

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Did an experiment where I would use L2 instead of r1 with this and it was very effective in pvp. I only r1 after an L2 or after a jumping attack now. Not my fault wind can win trades against collosals or spells.

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Okay, this is hands down the best PVE ash of war in the game coming close to rain or arrows in second place, this is based on how quickly you can dispqtch multiple targets, how fast you can stance break, range, cost and damage . While other ashes offer more damage this offers range and low stam cost which means you don't even have to be close to your target further improving it's low stam cost status. It also destroys Elden beast but beats Radagon moderately effectively.. It's damage is moderate, but it's sheer speed and range makes it competitive, even RKR can't compete with this due to how long it takes to set up, by which time this has landed 3-4 times by the time RKR has done anything. On top of that, it can gain black flame, bloodflame properties as well as shield penetration with a shotel while still doing ridiculous DPS at mid range. After trying out about a hundred different PVE builds, this one has gotten me the furthest than any other by far with no competition. Probably overtunes, 10/10

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I used to think all the "storm" ashes sucked cus you got them early... I was a moron these ashes are amazing

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In a game about trees, beware the leaf blower. Many will be rustled by its powerful gust.

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Can't put it on a greataxe for the iron golem set, 0/10 **** skill

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Hint: The heavily down voted comments always speak the truth on this website.

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I’ve started abusing storm blade to prove it’s busted in PvP and boy was I right. I synergize it with icon shield and lords heal. I think it would actually be better on frost build with star shower, but regen gets way more salt.

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cant put this on the zwei, unfortunate

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Grey wizardry best wizardry

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Ah the I’m-losing-so-I-become-a-mage L2. Busted or “under rated” cheese L2 along with any other ash starting with storm. So uncivilized.

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Man I really hate the terminally online fromsoft gamerbros who rage post to fextra about losing to every single weapon in pvp. Stop crying and go touch grass.

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I can’t even play this games pvp anymore. Coming back from a break and this still wins trades against collosals AND true combos on headshots. Ranged L2s should do half their current dmg

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I feel like this is super underrated, no? i don't see many people using this or maybe i'm wrong?

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This AoW is totally busted for PvE play lol

Currently NG+4.

50 STR+50 DEX, Quality Banished Knight's GS with Storm Blade. Shard of Alexander+Carian Filigreed Crest+Ritual Sword+Ancestral Spirit's Horn. You become essentially the world's deadliest leaf blower. Just an absolute spam machine, and I only have 20 points in Mind.

One shot practically all non-special enemies with the wind projectile alone, anything like knights die in 2-3. All at range.

The fact that you basically deal double damage when you're up close using the AoW and the sword hits too just obliterates bosses and big enemies. If you're summoning spirits or cooperators to pull aggro it's even easier since you can practically just hug a boss' a** and annihilate them by spamming this.

If anyone is just looking for an Ash that lets you turn off your brain for most of the run in subsequent NG+ cycles, this is worth looking at.

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Best reason too use this.... Put on clean rot rapier and pretend it has a slash move set.

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I love my air cannon

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Ok so how many of those being mindlessly spammed by a single guy makes him deserving of a point down?

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Note that if you use this at point blank range you do 2 hits, one with the AoW and one with the weapon, and considering the speed is similar to a regular swing for a greatsword, it's like you power stance 2 of them but only need 1.

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Hard countered by shields.

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This is really good for Fire Giant, specifically on the Iron Greatsword.

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this carries my early game 9/10 times. Really decent damage and good stagger potential for just 8 fp.
And if you are at melee range, you can get the swing and the projectile at the same time for some nasty damage. With cold enchantment, it procs frostbite at 2-3 swings and really trivializes dogs and crows in Caelid

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Literally all of the storm type ashes of war are versatile as hell and I love it

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After I finished the game as a pure sorcerer, I wanted to give a power-stanced dual curved sword build with keen infusion a try, I have put this on my right hand weapon and now it feels like I'm playing as a storm sorcerer instead of a glintstone one.

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sword magic

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Really good against large and agile enemies with poor lock on locations, mainly ancient dragons, Elden Beast, gargoyles. Storm Blade allows the player to stay a bit away from them to actually see what they are doing, while also providing consistent damage when the attack openings of these enemies also have the annoying habit of placing them 20 feet away from the player, while also rewarding those instances when the player is close because the your weapon will also register damage if it physically hits an enemy.

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"It outtrades/poise breaks colossals, it deals too much damage, bla bla bla"

Duh, you re launching STORMS with it, not slight gusts. Be thankful it doesn't carry on elemental damage like godrick's storm blade does.

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anti wizard technology

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My beloved

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Tried out collosal hammers. Immediately put it back into storage when I realized stormblade really does beat them on trades. WHY?!

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So if im getting one tapped by this thing at 50+ vigor, medium/heavy armor, and the erdtree talisman+1, it's not op?

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What I've gotten from this comment section, is that this appears frequently in PVP, and people keep comparing it to crossbows, for whatever reason.
Personally? I just like it for summon builds. Not needing to invest heavily into a casting stat for great physical damage is a swell thing, makes this great for lower-mid level PvE.

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A comment below mentions this as most optimal on a caster due to synergy with star shower/frost… but it’s actually most optimal on a fth leaning caster that stacks regen/buffs, wins trades against collosals and suffocates every build that doesn’t have rot/quickstep. It’s not an anti mage tool if it’s optimal on the various types of mages and there’s a str scaling seal and a quality scaling seal. Yes. This is most optimal on a frenzy seal build with armor/mind, every buff/heal imaginable and the most annoying spells in pvp. Tell me you still don’t see a problem with ranged ashes of war… thank the lord people who go faith have no interest in spell spam and the people who go int for spell spam don’t bother with stormblade.

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Please remove from Daggers and thrusting swords, and add to axes and greataxes. Godrick literally casts this with an axe.

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So it does more damage than a spell, can be spammed and is also faster than any spell in the game even with max cast speed and it has hyper armor??? How someone can think this isn’t broken is beyond me.

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Storm wall should’ve 100% reflected this.

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When your newly buffed collosal still loses trades against a gust of wind. Invalidates single spears too. And bows. All ranged ashes of war need to do identical damage to crossbows.

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Hehehe It’s not an anti mage tool if a mage puts it on a high base damage weapon :) star shower to get people to roll at me and stormblade to win trades at melee or roll catch them. Glintblade phalanx will combo into stormblade or vice versa. The salt is great. It’s not my fault the best, most spammable spell in the game can’t be spell parried, reflected or blocked by BoG. I keep thunderbolt on a back up weapon too, since it will infinitely roll catch people at long range as they try to dodge star shower: shuts down healers or BoG application. And then I’m immune to BoG anyways with frost/stormblade/thunderbolt spam supported by star shower frame traps.

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1.09 patch has fixed the issue with storm blade doing no damage when buffed with AoW Golden Vow

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Based Ash of War. Shits on both mages and boofers that apply 30 boofs before every fight.

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Storm Blade does ZERO damage when buffed with Golden Vow (I Tested this with AoW version only).

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Why this can go on daggers but not axes is beyond me

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Tested this on the godrick soldier near the "gatefront" site of grace with 50/50 str/dex and a +24 longsword with each affinity as follows.
Standard: 812
Heavy: 805
Keen: 883
Quality: 864
Magic: 787
Fire/Lightning: 830
Sacred/Flame Art: 850
Poison/Blood: 859
Cold: 862
Occult: 816
The projectile scales exclusively with str/dex regardless of affinity chosen (stat boosting gear for int/faith/arc yielded no benefit for their respective affinities). though oddly heavy is the only affinity that doesn't benefit from dex the damage remains the same regardless of how high you pump dex.

50/50 is also seems to be the "hard cap" for the projectiles scaling as boosting str/dex beyond 50 with the starscourge/prosthesis heirlooms only nets a measly 5-9 points of damage each.

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my only gripe is that you can't use this ash on twinblades, why?

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I spam this in duels just for the sake of farming salt and hatemail lol plenty of salt here too.

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Yes because I want to dodge 50 times before we can fight. SkILl iSsuE. This embodies everything wrong with pvp and even pve. It’s just 3 dudes spamming the least commitment ranged option they have and it will win trades against melee. If it were fair, then why don’t crossbows do that kind of damage?

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This has 2 pages: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Storm+Blade and this one, https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Storm+Blade
They disagree on many things. can someone fix?

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spamblade

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Everyone knows this needs a nerf. Silly poise damage (+often does the headshot stun), silly damage, outtrades heavy weapons, casts super fast, spammable. Be a mage but nevermind investing in mind/int and being countered by Barrier of gold/ crimsonwhorl.

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My favorite salt generator for invaders

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Has way to much poise damage knocks people out of thier frekin dragon animations when equipped to a dagger and these people had at least 75 poise or more bit ridiculous.

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Does this work with Antspur rapier? Does it apply the rot status effect from long range?

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A lot of seething down here

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Can be spammed ad nauseam and does a shitload of damage... just like half the spells and ashes of war in this stupid game.

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I don’t even use this AoW that often, but I play against it all the time. It’s not that bad barring you have a decent connection, and even in the event of a bad connection, things like Transient Moonlight or Wave of Piss + desync are far worse to deal with. You can literally strafe this AoW by sprinting sideways. Roll through it if you are walking. If you’re having issues against people spamming this, it’s a skill issue. Stop whining and git gud.

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People who don’t see what’s wrong with this send me hate mail for hard countering it with erdtree heal/beast sling or, when mage, using only slicer and swift pebble. Face palm lol you’ve literally forced us to use the only counters we have to your cheese. My str colossal build has to immediately ditch the colossal and switch to dagger because colossal loses trades to stormblade spam. At melee, the rhythm of the L2 spam always roll catches if you dodged the first two at close range, meaning you have to run away or you will get hit by the third or lose a trade. This doesn’t counter mages/clerics, we have counters to storm blade, but this ash instead invalidates collosals, and medium weapons like swords/hammers on pure melee set ups. As someone stated below, all these ranged ashes should do identical damage to crossbows.

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This ash is so unfair in PvP the amount of damage it does is absurd for how much you can just spam it. Yes,you can dodge all you want but eventually one of them will catch you in battle and when it does it's going to hit like a truck. Idk how or why but it does. This move right here can take me out in 3 hits or less with 800 hp and I'm only lvl75. So many people slap this on and call themselves good in pvp.

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PvP really went from being fun to this, huh. This Ash is really easy to dodge (sprinting sideways means you will dodge ALL shots), but even still it needs a nerf. It's insane amount of pressure on a bullet art- people can't drink their flasks, cast spells, even use other weapon arts if your opponent has this one, because it's just free damage in those scenarios, if not a guaranteed kill. Both sides take for granted how easy it is to dodge, and how ****ing annoying it is to fight against

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If you're complaining about this ash, learn to dodge. It's fine. Not broken. If you took the time to look at all the skills in the game and you chose to complain about this one, you should see an eye doctor.

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wild that this is the only thing in the entire game that flashes the stormhawk symbol before going off, not a single other storm ash does it.

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Comment below this one, claiming that storm blade is balanced, is utter hogwash. Stormblade is unbalanced and the proof is that it is now used by everyone, especially griefers. The claim that it’s difficult to optimize at 125 is also silly. It gets used by mages, the base damage is so high, never mind scaling from quality. Then you get bonus damage for headshots, plus true combo into another stormblade on headshots. This ash aims for the head. Also, it’s damage is so high, that it’s not even really a vigor check: let me explain. It massively overcomes physical resistances to the point where vigor is moot without boosted physical resistance of str investment stacked on armor and then stacked on vigor. This allows my 60 vigor meta str build to survive 6 stormblades while my 55 vigor, naked cleric can only survive 2. Oh and never mind damage, the spam alone prevents my strength build from attacking and invalidates every spell in my clerics arsenal... it’s no wonder people only spam swift glintstone as a caster. This ash also one shots at lower levels for the same reasons but amplified, regarding physical resistances, armor and vigor.

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I got a rant, and then a loveletter so if you love this ASH please read because I AM WITH YOU!!!!!!!!

So many people complaining about this ash now despite how bad it has been? It's still easy to dodge, easy to read, the damage IS B+ Average. It's range isn't bad anymore but if you're at max range you can literally just step to the side when it's cast and it will miss. The stagger is deserved, the whole purpose of the Storm Casts are Quality + POISE DAMAGE. We've been with it since it was at BEST a C tier skill and now that they've fixed it and they can't spam the same moonveil/RoB for free it's too OP? You're not mad that this ash is poorly balanced / designed, you're mad that you're fighting your RL300 peers who have bloated stats; just like you. The toxic weapons you've spammed got nerfed because of you, so you're going to have to deal with it when your bread and butter no longer carries you for free against balanced options. it is a QUALITY ash, it will literally NEVER be OP.
All of you need to stop using somberstone weapons and humble your playstyle, see how good you really are.

now, for an ACTUAL review of this ash; It's a great, legitimate option now after the blade had it's hitbox fixed. You aren't fast enough to trade with Light attacks but it's a good callout for heavy attacks or a big ash of war. It's a good way to end a match on the roll catch but rest assured, if you want it you have to EARN it. It usually only works in neutral once, and then the opponent will always know to how to read it. If you want to git gud, this ash will get you there without forcing an unfair uphill battle. If you're running a faith build, it is a very good middleground for your ranged spells and beastial sling. if you're running int builds, it should pair really well with gravity for those who want a more complex playstyle than moonveil + spam flavor of the month. Like I said, it's a quality ash so it's probably going to be hard to optimize this at anything below RL 125, but I'll check this post again later on and follow up after I try it out at RL 60 and 90.

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Wins trades against collosal weapons. I’m not exaggerating.

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This Ash of War counts as a bolt for the purpose of the Arrow's Sting talisman

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Now, I've never used Moonveil nor Rivers to compare with what 11 Dec 2022 anon is talking about, but I can safely say this ash feels like cheating.

It lets me get away with poor distancing such that I can both punish when I'm well out of range AND get a chunky trade if I'm too close.

From my understanding, there is both a melee and a ranged component to this ash. If you're in melee range you get hit with both for hefty damage. I say just get rid of the melee portion and you'd solve a lot of problems.

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Storm blade has initiative against most weapons at melee range. Need I say more?

It’s not a ranged ash it’s an overpowered melee ash on parr with moonveil and rivers. That also happens to have longer range than dragon breaths. And because it aims for the head it can poise break through endure (personal experience)

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Damage too high, cast too silent, hitbox too wide, recovery too short, speed too high, cost is too cheap. Does pure physical to boot.

It’s so obvious these ranged ashes should have done crossbow damage. No reason for this to win a trade against an actual weapon.

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all yall who just swapped from bestial shout to this to cheese better in duels know who you are. The rest of you wind sword users have a blessed day

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I enjoy using this on my banished knights sword when dealing with dragons. Does a nice chunk of dmg when hitting them in the face. The ones in Faram are a little trickier so it’s better to stand underneath them and hit w/ the projectile and the blade

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Now that there's a hitbox on the swing from 1.07, you can actually just use this as a melee attack lol. It's about as fast a greatsword R1 but decently stronger if you connect both hits. Still applies statuses if you hit with the weapon too!

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I’m duels I use erdtree heal to shield from it. If they’re gonna invalidate my interesting spells I’ll invalidate their spam.

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Erdtree heal with fast cast is a hard counter to passive spam in duels. It’s very interesting that they see nothing wrong with beast roar/storm blade spam but seethe if I trade into storm blade with a heal. Barrier of Gold for mages, erdtree heal for storm blade enthusiasts. I also like holy ground for armor+ regen when theres time. I make it look like I’m attacking to make room for these buffs so they back up instead of L2. Even the best players will recoil if you jog towards them.

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Gankers wet dream. No audible chime, unlike true spells, so you can’t react if it’s off screen. It’s so stupid, even on the mobs who use it. They put away their crossbow that do no damage then immediately vigor check you with a spell that’s better than renalas. In pvp it is faster than most spells so if you punish a passive melee build with a spell they actually trade you and win from distance. All cool spells invalidated while the melee tank plays like a coward. But this isn’t an anti mage tool, it’s actually an anti-melee tool. Storm blade on anything will win the trade against great hammer while having absurd range. It has a melee portion with ranged portion to suffocate both melee and mage. Beats out storm stomp at doing the exact same thing but better. Also, by using this against a mage, you now force them to use only swift glintstone pebble and slicer... unreactable and still really powerful spells... would you rather see their interesting spell mixups that have openings for melee punishes? or simply get chipped down by a
6fp spell for 5 minutes every time you try to L2?

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Why let mages have all the fun, turn your sword into a gun! Another ace in the hole for straight swords especially, as their short range is now solved and you can just shoot sword beams at the enemy's head or if they're flailing around. Cheap, effective, and fills a vital niche in your moveset without trivializing the game the way Flame of the Redmanes does. About the only downside is having to drop Square Off for it.

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i can tell this is good because of all the people yelling about it

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There’s no point in sacrificing armor for mage stats. My mage is now a bull goat, 60 vigor, dex build who spams storm blade, thunder bolt and flame strike. It’s not my fault the best spells in the game scale purely of dex :) and I no longer have to worry about barrier of gold. Crimson burst/crimson whirl tear of course. Minimum faith for black flame blade so ghost hits do damage.

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What’s the point in crossbows again? Or kukris? Or even leveling fth/int? This ash wins trades against my great hammer. If we’re gonna follow that logic, then crossbows should reliably 5 shot most tank builds just like this ash does and great bow should reliably one shot all tank builds too. Sounds broken and unfun? Well duh, all spell like ashes need to be nerfed down to crossbow level damage.

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Cheese. It’s a fast melee attack with more range than most spells. I suspect it resets poise/hyper armor and channels the hyper armor of the weapon it’s used on. Basically L2 instead of melee to abuse poise against anything that’s not an epee/halberd thrust. Then you have a more powerful, cheaper, faster spell than any mage and your spam can’t be checked by erdtree great shield, poise or BoG etc. Collosal hammer loses the trade to it so it really is an L2 to win. All these spell-like L2s need to be hard nerfed and people need to use actual spells/crossbows/kukris etc for the health of the game and build diversity.

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Fun fact: This is the only thing in the game that causes the Storm Art emblem to appear on cast. Pretty neat.

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beast roar but balanced

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Having trouble with commander Niall? Here ya go, the knights are basically free kills

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One of the best spells in the game. Thunder bolt, flame strike beat it and beast roar beats them all for best spells in the game due to roar talisman and high land axe stacking. I’m amazed they gave bull goat strength builds better spells than actual mages lol just level mind once you have bull goat, 60 vigor and 54 str and two hand to milk that str.

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I dont know if anyone noticed this but it can basically adopt elemnts it goes through like campfires, and other things

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with 50 faith, 50 dex on a +25 Keen Claymore and +25 Godslayer's seal after buffing with BFB it does insane damage, 3k if you can hit the full combo which isn't hard with it's stagger damage

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I only wish that it was a little bit faster and that the weapon had a hitbox when you cast it.

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