Alabaster Lord's Sword | Elden Ring Wiki

Poor man Dark Moon Greatsword

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one of my favorite designed weapons in the game, wish it felt better in pve and pvp

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Great in PvE where you can actually benefit from charged R2s and long casting time of it's AoW is not a big issue. In PvP it's just bleh. Horrid range, low damage, AoW is very difficult to land consistently. It's still ok since it's a greatsword, but it's one of the worse ones for PvP

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the R2s do not have better stance damage. they actually deal worse stance damage than other greatswords (2 handed charged R2 does 33 vs 36.3)

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Then ppl say there's not many shitty weapons lol. This got gutted in so many ways. 93 magic HAHAHAHA

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Ugliest damn sword in the game

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This sword is very weird but actually good. It's the shortest greatsword and looks like a melted swordfish face and yet it has best r2's and consumes very little stamina. It's usable for your average low-level 18 Int meteorite staff mage and goes well with the theme, but is a pain to get and the color is off so it doesn't get gravity fashion points. Aow is actually not bad and is basically a better Gravitas with very slightly lower speed. I say try it out, this thing is better than raw stats and look would suggest

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accidentally found a neat niche with it's aow in pvp. was co-oping and used it's aow on an invader, tried to roll forward and accidentally input reverse backstep instead in to backstab. wondering how consistent it was, i took it to real pvp. and it is very consistent if you're able to reverse backstep. hope this helps someone interested in using this wep.

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it looks like an closed umbrella

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Here's what makes this weapon so great: you get access to the very powerful greatsword moveset (so perfect synergy with STR, Axe talisman and heavy R2) but it consumes way less stamina compared to other greatswords. And it's a somber weapon with very generous stat requirements, you don't even really need to fulfill the INT requirement to use this thing effectively. All wins in my book!

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probably one of the most sleeper op weapons in the game, juice up str, put on axe talisman, spam r2. you will wreck everything

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This really needs a follow up attack to combo like Radahn’s. Not as broken but at least something that doesn’t leave you defenseless or does some decent damage

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Can anyone explain to me why I've seen multiple streamers treat this thing like god himself, yet it's so unbelievably mediocre? I don't get it. Worst range, average damage, meh AoW... Am I missing something?

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These can be power stanced, the wiki doesn't mention it but a second sword will drop from one of the alabaster lords in the Yelough Annex Tunnel in the Consecrated Snowfield.

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the old man in underwear's umblella

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ash of war has amazing utility in pvp and greatsword moveset in general got a lot more versatile due to poise changes

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do you like my sword sword sword my diamond sword

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If the DMGS is my true mentor then this thing is my gym teacher (because of Str scaling)

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Reliable r1 masher in pvp with the poise updates. Low weight and range is balanced by good damage and ash of war which range.

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take this to mohgwyn palace farm spot and with just 2 cast you kill half the people there and with 2 more you full clear in less than a minute

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Low stamina cost, amazing for CR2 builds, don’t need the int requirement for damage. Amazing.

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this weapon is amazing on a str/int build, the magic damage is low, but since you use lots of casting you might not have much stamina, and this thing uses so little stamina that you can chain R2’s until you poise break any boss

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No one's talking about the AoW gor farming?? Gp.to Dragonbarrow Hrace where all the Guardian sentinels are (I think 32 of them) And with moderate Str you can farm souls without feeling too much like your cheating, AoW is the biggest radius attack I know of that is a full 360 degrees. Takes 2 AoW to kill the Guardians usually grouped in 3 - 4 per bunch giving you around 5k ruins with the Golden scarab. Plus you can run over and kill the dragon flight beside you to mix it up / test different weapons etc. I love this sword and it does more charged R2 damage at +7 or 8 then anything else I have Including a Heavy Claymore +18 with Braggarts roar Buff. hit these Guardians hard enough to 1 shot them and get the extra 30? % souls for overkill when using Any damage buff / Incantation

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I fell off the lift when it was raising. I thought I was gonna get more platforms on the rot river and I already had scarlet rot (forgot to put Flame cleanse me on when I was like halfway through.)
Is there a way to get the lift to come back down?

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it still messes people up, I'd pick this over DMGS.

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This sword is the soulmate of Roiling Magma.

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Needs more intelligence than strenght and dexterity, but it barely scales with intelligence. Why are so many weapons like this? I want to use this and the gravity spells, but i cant use both while maintaining good damage.

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This weapon is better than it looks on paper, but still a bit underwhelming. Would be cool and unique if it did Strike damage with the greatsword since this thing looks dull as hell.

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So close to being a decent str int weapon. Needs more magic damage and int scaling, then it could be great

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Unfortunately I can confirm that the R2 to R1 combo was accidentally patched out with the greatsword buffs of 1.09, which is damn shame because this thing would have been a beast with usable R2's.

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So tried my lightning build on this and ice lightning spear did nothing just like ADLS.
Dude went through the animation but the effect didnt appear anywhere.

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This weapon now becomes a monster after 1.09. Spamming heavy attack and you can stagger human size enemies infinitely.

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RIP R2-R1 true combo. At least standing and running R2's come out faster now, but it can't threaten two different ~1000 damage moves at the same time.

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This sword has a few niche things going for it. It's the lightest greatsword at only 8. The fact that you can get two of them in a single playthrough means you can dual wield both, kinda like mini Starscourge Greatswords in terms of them both having physical and magic damage plus a similar AoW though without the followup slam. They do have the advantage of being able to utilize dual wielded L1 attacks unlike the SSGS and both combined are still lighter at 16 vs 20. Pretty good.

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Sorry for wall of text y’all, but this is one of the most underrated weapons in the game. Absolutely incredible MV and poise damage on fully charged R2 and if you love the Greatsword move set you’ll love this one. And you get two per NG!


If trying to get as early as possible, rush to get Meteoric Ore blade to +4 via iji’s sombers, +6 at wolf+dead man in Mt Gelmir and +5 at Redmane. Kill sleepy mama dragon for runes, and then sprint through all of Radahn -> Ranni’s quest (meteoric ore blade makes Radahn notably easier and scales similarly to this one). Once you reach the lake of rot (where alabaster sword is) you’ll essentially have enough sombers to bring your new Alabaster Sword to +9 and slap everything with it.


Next grab axe talisman, charged attack and poise damage physik tears, and it’s smooth sailing from there. Reached Mohg the Omen in about 3hrs from character start (obv can be done faster but for me that’s not bad lmao).


This sword might be my new fav in all honesty.

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Powerstance 2 of them. You won't regret it.

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has higher than average MV on the charged heavy attacks, hits like an absolute truck

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Chadabaster lord's sword

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It says the only thing setting it apart is its ash of war when in reality its 2 handed heavy attacks hit for as much as a colossal does and does more poise damage than them the only thing that out classes this in poise damage is the great club colossal this weapon slaps bosses around

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Attacks cost less stamina do more poise damage than others and it has a true combo attack from is 2 handed r2 to its r1 plenty of things set this apart from the moonlight and the helphenes wiki needs changing

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Wiki should be updated it says that the only trait setting itself apart from helphenes steeple and the moonlight is its aow but infact it has a 2handed r2 that true combos into the r1 if if lands and on top of that this things 2 handed R2s do the second most poise damage in the game yes even more than colossal swords the only thing thats better is the greatclub colossal

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The ash of war is really fun for pulling people off ledges. And the R2 combos into the R1. Very underrated.

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Everybody's talking about this weapon as if it's an int tool. It's a strength weapon demanding an investment into int, or as is clearly the theme, it's a gravity weapon. You're meant to sprinkle some int in there, but then focus on the physical end of the tools.

And don't mention Astel's weapons. Those are outliers. Good weapons, mind, but outliers.

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The way the ladder's location is written there is just so confusing I have been looking for it for almost 30 minutes before deciding to just watch a video on it. It's not on the West side at all, it's just straight south on top of a small cliff.

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I just tested this and the weapon art scales very highly with Int, and hardly at all with Str.

Using Alexander's shard with 38 int I hit the albinaurics for 1118.
Boosting my Int by 10 increased the damage by 64.

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did they patch the drop from Yelough Anix Tunnel? was farming there for ages, went to lake of rot and got it immediately. could just be insane odds.

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One of the lighter greatswords, a solid choice for int/str

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Don't listen to the haters, this weapon is actually good

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for some reason the stamina cost on its (1h+2h) R2 is only 9 and charged 18, while other greatswords like claymores is 25(2h 30) and charged 35 (2h 40)

also it has some weird and insane motion values on its R2s - 1h its normal R2 is 120 while the charged has 175 (for comparison claymore 1h normal R2 is 125 and charged 160)
the 2h version non charged 138 and charged 215?? (claymore is 130 and charged 170)

tl;dr the 2h charged R2 has by far the highest motion value of 215 and costs only 18 stamina? while something like the claymore gets only 170 motion value and costs 40 stamina lol
mind all other greatswords are close in line and this one is an extreme outlier in this regard for some reason

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This it the only Greatsword where the 2-handed R2 true-combos into the R1

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"It's only trait setting itself apart from them is the AOE weapon art" and the fact its lighter than both darkmoon and helphens

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Lol at the notes comparing to 2 other weapons... It's in a dif tool kit together. Thanks though for the AR check

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I don't like this with the weapon art pulling enemies towards you. I much prefer the curved greatsword from the onyx lord in sealed tunnel boss room.

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Just got this as a drop from the Alabaster Lord at the bottom of the Yelough Anix Tunnel in the consecrated snowfield. Page doesn't list that as an item source.

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how is this so bad? i'd prefer if it just had gravitas then whatever it has now

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Unless you wanna create a personalized niche build this weapon is underwhelmingly mediocre.
Technically you get it earlier than the Darkmoon Greatsword so there might be a use for a little while but if you go Strength Intelligence it's the very Darkmoon Greatsword to go to

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TBH I like the design of weapon but why use it when there are literally several better options at the point where you can get, not to mention it's AoW is just the gravity pull spell. Would have been better if it was also a random drop from one of the lords you can find out and about.

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Would be a cool weapon if it didn't have an arbitrary 18 INT requirement while having terrible INT scaling

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The charged R2 on this weapon deals the seconds most poise damage of any such attack in the game, only bested my the Great Club. Yes, this sword's charged R2 deals more poise damage than colossal swords, great hammers and colossal weapons (except Great Club).

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Whoever added the map screenshot showing where the platform in the lake is, you're the real MVP

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Cannot find this guy anywhere the directions dont help, I feel like i've raised every platform

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I gave my low level friend one of these,and then the massacre started.

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That weapon has 2 weird thing going for it, first it has higher poise damage on its uncharged heavy attack compared to other greatsword (1H: 13.75 vs 11; 2H:13.75 vs 12.1), secondly it uncharged 2 handed heavy attack True Combo into 1 light attack unlike any other greatsword in PVP for some reason, you can use the gravity ashe of war and follow with that combo which is pretty cool, the ashe being cancellable with roll and backstrp allow you to do some cool mindgame, its a pretty cool weapon, more than people give it credit for.

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i think one in the tunnels drop a weapon with lords push ash of wear not pull

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If you die after this drops (due to scarlet rot in my case) the item disappears and does not appear to respawn or remain. I have essentially lost my ability to get this sword on this play through.

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Okay, the one in Yelough Anix tunnel respawns. None of these do but this one.

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There’s another dropped in the Yelough Anix Tunnel

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Most of the gravity based weapons have such low magic damage and scaling that it would be better for them to have no magic damage and just scale physical with int. As it is, there is very little reason to use these with anything more that base int requirement except the skills, but at that point it seems better to just put gravitas on a regular weapon

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Surprisingly low damage on an Str Int build. Cold Iron GS has more AR, a bit longer reach, with a customizable AOW. Unless Alabaster Lord's Pull deals more damage than Gravitas, I see no particular reason to pick this over Iron GS.

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can this be buffed with frozen armament/other spell buffs?

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It's like the perfect side arm for my STR/INT Gargoyle's Twinblade build, but it just looks dumb as hell.

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I compared this with a Lordsworn's Cold Greatsword with Gravitas, both +0. Alabaster Lord's Pull does about 5 times more damage but is slower, has no hyper armour and doesn't seem to stagger enemies as easily as Gravitas. Not sure if it rivals the Starscourge GS damage when it's upgraded but the lack of hyper armour is pretty disappointing.

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This weapon looks like a closed umbrella

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has the strongest r2s in the game

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has the strongest r2s in the game

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Can someone help me? i killed the alabaster, but couldn't heal in time to get the sword. Went back there and there was no lord or sword. It went somewhere else or o lost it for good?

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I tried comparing the three gravitas based weapon arts, and used Meteoric Ore Blade, Onyx Lord's Greatsword, and Alabaster, and after using the Onyx and the Alabaster for about a couple of minutes trying to trade with the ants and silver tears in Nokstella, they just have no poise in their ashes of war. I have 47 poise, went to use the normal gravitas on the ore blade and all the sudden I'm able to tank the ant bites and silver tear lance attacks. Am I missing something or is gravitas just better for trading compared to the slower yet more powerful gravitas attacks? You'd think that there would be poise on the ash of war that has a semi long wind up similar to its faster version, but there's seemingly nothing. :(

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Scaling isn't great but if you're using a str/int build this could be a great weapon, even better if you powerstance two.

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Ground based skills and items for sure dont work right on that platform where you fight the Alabaster Lord for the sword. I put a healing stone down fell right through the floor, Taker's Flames from Rykard's sword only go like 5 feet and even the Albaster Lords Gravity Pull skill wasnt even working past like 5ft against me lol.

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The 1.04 patch made the WA so much better. It’s speed was significantly increased and you get the ability to roll cancel it.

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This greatsword's 1hR1 seems to do 13.75 poise damage on PVE compared to the usual 11 poise damage of Greatswords.

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This pulls enemies in more tightly than Gravitas. Better for clearing really big mobs.

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on a strength/int build this thing is pretty cool. the gravitas weapon art has unusual timing and rather good reach, i've finished off many an invader with it.

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This, or Onyx Lord’s sword?

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somethings up with this weapons 2h R2s, they seem to do way more poise damage and also higher damage overall...

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holding this thing, really looks like it could've just been a longsword.
Not really sure if I'm liking From's reliance on making weapons just default be greatswords or colossals cause they have a weapon art. I know thats not always the CASE but idk. When I see a weapon that looks light or I KNOW is lighter than what it is, make a heavy thunk in the ground, feels bad as ****.

Or maybe they can just give greatswords less amateurish swings. Something. idk.

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So, this Ash of War is literally just slightly better Gravitas? I'm beginning to believe FromSoft got halfway through designing these special weapons and just said "**** it, make their ashes like normal ones".

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Despite the WA casting time being longer, costing more, and the name being different the only real difference is about it is seeming to have a radius bigger if you had +1 somber upgrade or a +3 smithing upgrade. As a base I used a +0 weapon and a +6 weapon to check radii. I compared this GS at +5 with a +6 Meteoric Ore Blade, a +15 Brick Hammer with Gravitas, and a +5 Starscourge GSs. Radius on the hammer and Ore Blade were identical as they should be since +15 and +6 are comparable in ratio 15/25 and 6/10. The radius on the GS was only slightly larger but the casting time was significantly longer. By comparison the casting time on the Starscourge GSs has a shorter casting time and a follow up attack. Maybe, just maybe, the radius scales as you upgrade and isn't just a flat boost, but the difference is so minor between the weapons it was barely noticeable. Honestly just use two Meteoric Ore Blades and you'll have some more success dragging people in for aggression and roll catching and the only reason I say that is because no other katana scales with Str and Int.

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"Okay team, we have another sword, which Ash of War should we give it?"
"How aboooouuuut, GRAVITAS, BUT WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. AGAIN."
"GENIUS"

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I guess the blunt tip is what happens when you stab the ground every few seconds.

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You can get more of these swords in frozen zone caves. Boss is same bug thing you fight from going in coffen.

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Somber Smithing Stone [9] on nearby corpse in same platform. This platform is closest to that nearby dragonkin soldier boss at rot lake, just west of it in the middle. You can raise other platform to rise on it using other pressure plate near gate just south from that one.

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If you dropped during your fight (and died) -- after you run back out and are facing the raised platform -- hug the right wall. You'll notice it slopes down. There's a ladder at the top of the hill to try the fight again.

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Meteoric ore blade's gravitas apparently increases in radius every time you upgrade it. Not sure if they have comparable radius if ore blade is maxed out.

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if you die before picking up the sword after killing the ennemy, you loose the sword because the ennemy don't respawn.

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how get to platform agian, i drop lake and cannot go up

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I got the sword from an enemy later in the game and the dude didn't spawn in the elevator above. Not sure if this is a bug or he just doesn't spawn if you already have the sword.

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Weapon skill is supposed to be a stronger variant of Gravitas. Indeed, it has a larger aoe effect and the damage is seemingly higher...but it was twice the startup and no hyper armor during any of it (regular gravitas has hyper armor). Which makes this sword inferior outside of looks to just a bastard sword with Gravitas.

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I just killed this guy, received the sword, looted the +9 stone and Elden Ring crashed. Now the sword is no where to be found in my inventory and he won't spawn. What gives?

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Based on the upgrade chart shown on this page, this weapon looks more to be a STR weapon with a touch of magic damage, and not an INT based weapon. Oh well... then again, INT builds can have the Darkmoon Greatsword, so I guess it's okay.

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