Ansbach's Longbow | Elden Ring Wiki

I’m an archer build but I didn’t know to specifically reload the area and talk to him properly enough for the invasion sign to appear and now I’ve missed out on this weapon. I really wish from would stop this kind of design.

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The AoW used to deal the damage of all 8 arrows even if only 1 hit. Apparently that changed? When? What patch? Do your job Wikiman

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I can afford to chew through arrows, and let me tell you, I was only trying to weaken a divine beast warrior, but killed him outright with bleed arrows. Don't sleep on this if you are a dex build

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Even chads can be dex builds.

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no bleed?

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I have no idea how to feel about this bow. I generally regard bows as a non-viable "just for fun" weapon, decent enough in the early game, but really just for luring or personal amusement in the late game.


This one's weird. It's one of the closest bows to be truly usable beyond just for proccing statuses. The barrages get chonky shots off on mid-sized enemies like Sewer Omens (my favorite test dummy), and the time it takes to reload isn't long, not to mention it has short-bow speeds for more rapid status proccing, just like Black Bow. Still, they devour ammo; if I didn't use mods to supply my own arrows, I'd be concerned about how Fan Shot spam can deplete a good 100 arrows on 3 Sewer Omens. It's a good bow for a bow build, it just doesn't make bow builds strong.

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Y'know, this was the first bow I added in my arsenal, since the word from mouth scared me too much to consider giving them a shot, but for my pure dex build, its a solid enough ranged option. Not the best, but not weak as people make it out to be.

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genuinely just bad game design that its so easy to miss this, all because you helped a guy? crazy

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I'm not familiar with this so If anyone has some information on this things AoW please help me. How exactly does the AoW respond to status arrows? For example, bleed. If I use Bleed Arrows will each hit of the Fan procc a separate ammount of status buildup? Or 10 but each arrow does less buildup because of balancing? Or is it some entirely different thing like, yes you shoot 10 arrows but the maximum allowed to hit one target is like 5 or so reducing the maximum ammount of buildup? Or is it just shoot 10 arrows, hit 10 arrows, bam bleed procced?

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urgh I hate fan shots, it doesn't even make sense. An arrow is a ranged weapon, why do you have to fire it it at point blank range to get the most damage from it.

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43 Dex with a D scaling in Dex? Yikes.

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43 DEX? In the trash you go

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From added a homing spammable bow and a nuke ash of war bow instead of fixing phantom hits in pvp. It goes to show where the greatests minds of gaming are.

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And yet bows still suck lol

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What is AoW?

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I want it, but it's Ansbach, how can you do this.

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I helped hornsent.. No rainbow fan for me :(

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Why don't you get this with Ansbach's scythe and armor at the end of his questline? Is there a reason for that I didn't notice or is this just a Fromsoft moment?

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At 55 dex a normal shot with storm arrow does about ~200-220 damage in pvp. Not bad at all. It's an excellent tool for invasions. You can put mages under significant pressure from range they cannot punish. You can nuke people off ladders with ash of war. If you're quick, you can put someone to sleep and headshot them with WA for a ton of damage, but it needs fantastic reaction and muscle memory to pull off. I did a level 90 DEX invader and was surprised how useful this thing is, after ignoring bows in these games since DS2.

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The proud FromSoftware tradition of making fabulous-looking weapons with sky-high stat requirements accompanied by dirt poor scaling gloriously marches on.

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not sure if this is bugged, broken beyond belief, or the moron using it was cheating. but someone invaded me and from the edge of lock-on range, where only one arrow possibly could have hit me, blasted me with the L2 for at least 1500 of my 1975 hp, and did 75% of my sleep resistance. healed up, second shot hit a wall but made me fall asleep anyway. he moved around a corner and did it again, dead. considering how difficult it is to get *rain of arrows* to do that much damage *with golem greatarrows*, im inclined to believe it was cheating

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Perched on a rock ansbach bow in hand! Your foreheads in sight all according to plan! Roll wrong homie & you might get caught. Everyone limgrave gonna hear what I got cause it's a BOOM HEADSHOT!

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I managed to get this after helping Hornsent. I finished Freyas quest, got her shield and killed her, then told Ansbach about her response and killed him (right away, before resting). I got his armor and his bow.

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The crutch for ppl who wanna look cool but too ass to try out black bow.

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"has the extraordinary dexterity demanded"
looks at the requirements
D scaling.

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Progressing Ansbach's questline to the point that he leaves Shadow Keep prior to progressing Leda's questline to initiate the invasion locks you out of the invasion and the opportunity to get this bow.

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im greedy af, i kind of wish there was another way to get this bow if you help hornsent first, but ah well i'll wait until ng+2

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Everyone talks about this weapon but I never see anyone using it. I might give it a shot but right now I don't like dexterity builds enough to bother.

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shoot a shattershard arrow at you feet using the weapon skill for a fun time

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Putting the ridiculously powerful AoW for a moment...

Literally a bow belonging to the former captain of Mohg's knights, who specialize in Blood magic that requires innate arcaneness...has no Arc scaling.

The Albinauric Bow, belonging to Albinaurics who have an innate affinity for the arcane, and who have weapons that scale mostly off Arcane...has no Arcane scaling.

But the goofy-ahh snake bow that doesn't go well visually with either of these two groups has Arcane scaling.

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Close enough! Welcome back, Black Bow of Pharis!

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D scaling is horrendous, love the bow but the scaling needs a buff

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Wish you could hold the arrows for a bit after drawing them before releasing, trying to use this in PVP is almost useless because everyone just rolls away and you have literally zero chances of hitting anyone if they are paying attention. The whole draw animation takes twice as much time as regular R1, but the worst part is that you can't roll out of it or hold the arrows for a bit before releasing to catch people of guard. Insanely good in PVE, but kinda meh in PVP unless you get lucky

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on ng+2, didnt know that helping hornsent was gonna lock me out of this, now i gotta do another ng, yay!!!

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King of status proc cheese, one sleep arrow on the volley hits and most (if not all) of the bar fills up. RIP anyone on the receiving end of this

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It’s petty, but I personally believe that this is From admitting that light bow moveset is just way more fun. Adding ONE new regular bow to the dlc and it’s just black bow on crack. Really hope they cut out light bows as a category in their next game and just make bows that have a fast moveset all the time.

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Damage is capped to 3 arrows max. Looks awesome and is actually useable in PvE and PvP, but it does not need any nerfs.

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HOW TO SPOON

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sad fact: shooting rainbow stone arrows with the skill will make them instantly disappear after touching the ground

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Just managed out to squeeze out 9.5k damage from single arrow hitting in AOW. Currently highest potential dps in the game. Needs nerf. Don’t listen to people against nerf in comments pretending to be range users. True range wants a good fight not 2 hit killing every boss.

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Why does it consume eight arrows at once? Does Soft hate bow users that much?

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The Ash of War is currently bugged to making it count all 8 arrows hitting if one hits. Kinda busted with status effects and the damage is insane. Expect a fix

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I was used to bows having super lenient stat requirements outside of greatbows, so seeing this was just a 43 dex jumpscare

Also 43 is a really weird number just make it 40 or 45 my brain can't tolerate anything beyond multiples of 5

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was hoping they'd add a yumi type bow in the dlc. definitely unorthodox but amazing nonetheless

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"has the extraordinary dexterity demanded"

43 dex required

D scaling

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I assisted hornsent, can I still get the bow later or something?

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What if I did the step related to Freyja, did pointed Leda to Hornsent, but did not get involved in any of the fights (Leda v Hornset and neither Leda v Ansbach)? Will I still get the bow after dealing with Leda?

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Def bugged expecting a nerf/bug fix soon tbh

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I love it, a bow that deals actual damage without status proc cheese. The aow is very good. Seems to be capped at 3 hits per target, dealing roughly 100% increased damage per arrow.

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Both Arrow Sting Talismans, Spear Talisman at all times

Shard of Alexander Bosses
Green Turtle Talisman (or the better version from DLC) for Open World

I've found Blue Dancer Charm not worth using for the restrictions it has.

Radahn Greatbow with Radahn Spear arrows for very large bosses
Ansbach Bow with Bleed Arrows + the status arrows theyre weak to for regular size bosses
Black Bow with Normal arrows + Bone arrows for the open world

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I didn't get the bow after the fight :(

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Huge bow fan and I've missed this completely...woe be unto me for playing it blind

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this the best bow for a pure bow build or nah?

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Why do people think this bow is bugged? Genuinely asking since it’s just a hard hitting AoW and the scatter crossbow works in a similar fashion not requiring all projectiles to hit. It’s a feature of the weapon, if it didn’t do this it would be a pretty **** AoW.

There are so many hard hitting abilities and spells that are a lot more spammable and don’t require ammo, and do even more damage

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Needing only 2 arrows to land is very very strong and in invasions, hitting 3 players, 2 arrows each. They are all getting the full damage applied. I've sniped players back to their world from respectable distances sending the hosts into a panic, without any bow charms and just regular arrows.

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This hits like a freaking truck

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absolutely decimates groups of enemies in pve, does only slightly less damage than greatbows while having a much easier to use moveset

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Currently bugged to allow all arrows to deal damage even if only 1 hits its target.

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Claws of Night are a better alternative scattershot ranged option.

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The skill on this bow is disappointing. Of the 8 projectiles fired only 2 can hit a single target. Guess this was done to avoid it being too powerful at point blank range, but it also makes the arrow economics absolutely horrible.
The only uses i can see for this bow are against groups of enemies or enemies that dodge sideways. Otherwise you are better off using the Black Bow.

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So it sounds like it takes 3 playthroughs to acquire everything? A bit annoying, wish you could assist both Hornsent and Ansbach

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Used this for a few hours in the arena and I kinda have a feeling that I've been getting blocked a lot lately

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Aow seems to half the arrows damage compared to a regular shot? Great dps tho

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for those having trouble with leda's invasions, horsent's ash of war, leda's second talisman and this bow are mutually exclusive and can only pick one, helping leda kill the target will give the armor early and a talisman, if you only want the bow, kill hornsent or messmer (preferably hornsent since its easier and also gives a talisman) since leda will always target him first, then she will go after ansbach and you can betray her there, getting the bow

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It scales (slightly) better off of DEX than STR, so Lightning Arrows are still the best kind of arrow to use (and, yes, for those who don't know, arrow elemental damage scales if your bow has the corresponding stat scaling), cause those can be further buffed by lightning buffs (scorpion, tear etc.). PLUS, the new Florissax spirit ash can debuff enemies' lightning damage reduction, so that can further help us archers in PvE.

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Can you get this bow if you assisted Hornsent?

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FYI you can also buy an infinite number of flame and serpentine arrows from two of the merchants in Caelid, not just golden arrow. Flame arrows are really really good

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Am I the only one who sees a resemblance to Simon's Bowblade with this thing?

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Still only procs bleed once or twice on bosses even if I use the art exclusively, am I doing something wrong?

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Excellent bow, but it burns through so many arrows that I would be loathe to use the WA with anything other than golden arrows which can be bought infinitely. Otherwise prepare to farm I guess.

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Best bow in the game, but sometimes I go in with 99 of 2 types of arrows, usually serpentine and bleeding, and finish them before the Boss dies. It is solved if you use any invocation, but if you are alone you will often run out of arrows.

Ng+7 level 380 80/80 and im using golden bow, a barrier, Alexander, the new bow talisman, dragoncrest, double neck turtle.

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almost a 100% upgrade over Black bow, and easily the best viable bow for a bow only playthrough.
the AoW hits for very good burst damage for big punishes, at the expense of rather inefficient use of arrows, so be mindful of spamming too much AoW when fighting bosses with big HP. for reference, using only AoW can easily burn trough 300+ arrows on NG1 fire giant, while just shooting normally can get the job done with 200 arrow or so.

An ideal setup for max damage would be: 2 bow damage talisman, Leo ring or shard of alexander, and divne beast talisman paired with storm hawk arrow (yes the arrow does count as "storm" and get the 10% boost)
this setup can usually hit for around 1.5-2k in base game, and easily over 3k in DLC, with even higher numbers if you do land a counter (but its rare due to how slow the AoW is)

or, just with bleed for what bow build are at its core : a bad long range bleed build lol

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Why the hell are people saying he will drop his bow and armor after being killed if you side with Leda?

Am I missing something, because he didnt drop it. This seems like a hard split between chosing his bow or the talisman.

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Just beat a poor invader to dead with the ash of war. Its pretty good and I'll probably be using it instead of Black bow from now on.

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Absolutely decimates, for Invasions.

(Shard of Alexander + Lord of Blood's Exultation)

Instant bleed procs hitting for 1500+ damage.

Kill anything anything in 2-shots, that isn't holding a shield.

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I believe currently all "fan" moves or possible the fan crossbow are procing status like crazy.

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Why does mine say it requires 18 dex?

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If you missed the Ledia vs. Ainsbach fight in the Storehouse, will Ainsbach drop this item at the end or is it just lost forever?

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Here are all the bow stats:
Requirements: Str 9, Dex 43.
LVL 0: Physical dmg 74, Str E, Dex D.
LVL 1: Physical dmg 84, Str E, Dex D.
LVL 2: Physical dmg 95, Str E, Dex D.
LVL 3: Physical dmg 106, Str E, Dex D.
LVL 4: Physical dmg 116, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 5: Physical dmg 127, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 6: Physical dmg 138, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 7: Physical dmg 149, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 8: Physical dmg 159, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 9: Physical dmg 170, Str D, Dex D.
LVL 10: Physical dmg 181, Str D, Dex D.

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Assisted Ansbach against Leda, but it didn't drop for me...

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A review of this weapon as someone who knows how to play with bows. YES! get this, insane burst, the weapon art uses 8 arrows each shot and deals tons of damage. you'd think for a fan of shots it'd be important to hit them all, nope. You can hit this weapon art max range and deal 2k+ damage with a good setup and a +10 weapon using the stormhawk arrows. it's really good.

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On quality build +10 it is stronger than black bow with the same beneficial shortbow moveset, and the skill is killer. It can insta-proc poison/ bleed if all arrows hit. I love this thing

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People that say bows are bad have never figured out how to make them work. This has potential in both PvE and PvP.

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Actually pretty decent ash of war if you're going for status buildup, Uses 8 ammo per ash of war tho.

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The skill on this bow hits for around ~1000 damage if you're in close enough range and with the proper dexterity stats. And that's without any boosting gear.

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It's actually 43 dex but whatever.

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42 dex. Forty. Two. Which gets you... a whole lot of nothing in a vaguely-longbow-shaped package. Very cool!

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The required dex for me 42 on this bow

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How do you even get this weapon?

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at +10, Str D, Dex D

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Why fromsoftware, why do you guys hate archery so much.

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