Ash of War: Determination |
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| Affinity | Quality |
| Skill | Determination |
| Effect | Grants affinities and skills to an armament. |
Ash of War: Determination is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Determination provides the Quality affinity and allows you to buff yourself to empower your next attack. Ashes of War can be used to modify the Skill of an equipment piece, or to apply affinities that modify scaling values.
This Ash of War grants an armament the Quality affinity and the following skill:
"Determination: A knightly skill. Hold the flat of the armament to your face and pledge your resolve, powering up your next attack."
Usable on all melee armaments.
Ash of War: Determination Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Determination:
- Dropped by a Teardrop Scarab on the path at the bridge north of Agheel Lake. Elden Ring Map Link.
Ash of War: Determination Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the skill Determination.
- Provides the Quality affinity, which balances Strength and Dexterity scaling, decreases Base 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, Straight Swords, Greatswords, Colossal Swords, Curved Swords, Curved Greatswords, Katanas, Twinblades, Thrusting Swords, Heavy Thrusting Swords, Hammers, Great Hammers, Axes, Greataxes, Flails, Spears, Great Spears, Halberds, Reapers, Fists, Claws, Whips, Colossal Weapons
Elden Ring Ash of War: Determination Notes & Tips
- Sell Value:
300 - Boosts Damage of next attack by about 60%
- Applies to Critical Attacks but at a reduced 20% damage boost
- the effect is lost after 10 seconds or after first attack
- Note: As of Patch 1.09, the effectiveness of the Determination Ashe of war has decreased in PVP only
History
- Patch 1.03 : No longer applies to weapons in the other hand.
Anonymous
I honestly believe this needs a duration buff to even be mediocre. I don’t know why anyone would run this over royal knights resolve, or really any of the other weapon buffs in game. It would be a major benefit if this version either lasted 30 seconds or never wore off. You could get something like cragblade where you do bonus physical damage and poise damage AND lasts for 30 seconds over the possibility of multiple attacks or you could run this lol. It definitely needs some love.
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endure is more tanky, rkr is more damaging, so have this be a mix of the two, like a war cry buff on off-hand
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Absolute killer if you use it with any high damage weapon like ultra greatswords and the like. BONK!
Yeah, royal knights resolve costs more fp so you think that would make the difference between these two balanced except, consider, have you ever seen anyone use determination when they have both ashes of war?
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only on "next attack"? what happen if the attack hit consecutively, does it still benefit on the other hits or just the first that landed?
- Anonymous
Damage scaling works very oddly with split damage and critical hits, it seems to apply much more than 20% if you're using magic damage at least.
SL1 Wretched (using radagons soreseal), +6 misericorde, tested on godrick knights outside at gatefront ruins:
Magic Misericorde - 935 w/ AoW, 619 w/o - 51% damage increase
Standard Misericorde - 630 w/ AoW, 525 w/o - 20% damage increase
Haven't tested other damage types, not sure if it applies to holy, fire, or knights resolve either. Will definitely be using this + magic infusion and sleep pots for my SL1 run. Enjoy!
Just found out that Determination still applies its damage boost to shield bashing skills & such. You can use it with something like Dragonclaw Shield to get some pretty respectable damage done, but still unsure if this intended because the Determination boost doesn't disappear after hitting someone with it... well, within the 10 seconds you're using it anyway.
Or maybe Fromsoft is giving greatshields a little bit of love.
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It no longer works for casters, if you're using a staff in your off hand and casting and use determination as a buff on a dagger in your main you won't get the added damage.
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THIS NO LONGER WORKS ON OTHER WEAPONS AFTER PATCH 1.03
"Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill."
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The scarab doesn't spawn for me?
Am i doing something wrong?
i certainly don't already have the ash yet either.
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Determination gives a ~60% buff at 10 FP for 10 seconds. Royal Knight's Resolve gives a ~80% buff at 15 FP for 10 seconds.
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Also increases riposte/backstab damage (seems to increase it by around 21%). Combine it with Misericorde + Dagger Talisman and you'll pretty much oneshot everything whilst you have the buff up. I'm gonna be very scared of any invader running this with Misercorde.
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Has anyone tried to use it and after swapping to another weapon? My question is: Can you activate Determination, then swap to another weapon and still have the damage buff? The buff applies to the weapon or the character?
Royal Knight's Resolve Ash of War does the same thing but a stronger buff and slightly more FP
- Anonymous
Activates quickly, doesn’t cost much, and lasts long enough for use during good openings- this is a very, very strong ash to use for posture breaking, and for the criticals that follow it
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This works for spells/incantations while you have a determination buffed weapon in main-hand and also it doesn't disappear on mutli spell casts
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i combo it with elixir than powers up charged attacks. Works miracle.
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Some quick testing shows that the next strike does ~60% more damage, and significantly more poise damage.
Just a very quick test to give people an idea of its effect
- Anonymous
Some quick testing shows that the next strike does ~60% more damage, and significantly more poise damage.
Just a very quick test to give people an idea of its effect
- Anonymous
Some quick testing shows that the next strike does ~60% more damage, and significantly more poise damage.
Just a very quick test to give people an idea of its effect
this is a early versoin of royal knigths resolve its way more accespable for early builds whould recomend for vagabond
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