Ash of War: Gravitas is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Gravitas provides the Magic affinity and the Gravitas Skill. 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 Magic affinity and the following skill:
"Gravitas: Skill originating from the Alabaster Lords, who had skin of stone. Thrust the armament into the ground to create a gravity well. In addition to dealing damage, this attack pulls enemies in."
Usable on melee armaments (small armaments and whips excepted).
Ash of War: Gravitas Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Gravitas:
- Looted from a Lesser Alabaster Lord that uses the skill as one of its attacks when it fights. You can find the enemy roaming by the beach side at the stone arch that has a bonfire near the Seaside Ruins Site of Grace in south of Limgrave. From the site of grace, simply jump all the way to the beachside using your mount and defeat the enemy. Elden Ring Map Link.
Ash of War: Gravitas Elden Ring Guide
- Grants Gravitas to all large melee weapons
- Provides the Magic affinity, which adds Magic Damage and Intelligence Scaling, but Reduces Base Damage and Strength / Dexterity Scaling
- Can be used with the following affinity Upgrades: Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Magic, Cold
- Can be applied to the following weapon categories, so long as the weapon allows skill replacement: 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, Colossal Weapons
- Applies weapon buff effects, like Black Flame Blade to enemies within its AOE
Elden Ring Ash of War: Gravitas Notes & Tips
- Notes and tips go here.
AnonymousUse this on Bandit CS: R1, "get over here!", R1, "get over here!"
Repeat ad nauseam and reap that sweet salt.
It's surprisingly useful to interrupt people even if your build has no INT investment
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Amazing early ash of war. I always grab it immediately. It goes on almost everything and gives a bit of magic damage. It has crowd control, you can spam it to get enemies off of horses, it goes through walls (Useful for pulling enemies off of flamethrowers when sneaking into Redmane castle), it will ground birds and bats, and it's probably the best option for taking out invisible beetles.
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Best ash of war for knocking skulls off the feet of Mausoleums
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Need flight pinions, archer builds? Look no further. Farming those twin towers at stormveil has never been easier.
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A little bit of testing I just did of Magic Vulgar Militia Shotel +16 vs Magic Cross Naginata +16 strongly suggests that this ash doesn't care about your weapon's int scaling, it just cares about your weapon's upgrade level, infusion (magic is best), and intelligence. Boosting strength or dex didn't affect damage but int definitely affects it. I don't have a third weapon (e.g. a random shitty straight sword) around to totally test my conclusions, so take this with a grain of salt, but the numbers were the same between these two weapons (despite different ARs and scalings) and responded to changes in Int but not changes in other stats.
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Fun fact: Of ALL the weapons this can be infused on (which is very many), the two weapons that are tied for highest INT scaling on Magic infusion are... Rogier's Rapier and Vulgar Militia Shotel. I happen to already have a +16 Vulgar Militia Shotel on a magic character (for Loretta's Slash) so I should maaaybe try upgrading Rogier's Rapier up to +16 too and seeing if they happen to do the same Gravitas damage.
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The Ashes that tend to get the most attention are the most broken ones, either for boss fights or PvP. Flame of the Redmanes pre-nerf, Giant Hunt, Black Flame Tornado, Lion's Claw, Storm Blade, etc. What this conversation leaves out are the situationally useful Ashes, the ones that see the most play in the open world and dungeon areas between story bosses. This makes sense -- after the first or second playthrough, you'll spend a lot of time running through dungeons and the wide landscape just ignoring the enemies and fighting only what absolutely needs to be fought to complete your build or beat the game. But that playstyle omits great ashes like Gravitas and I think that's a shame. It's not powerful in PvP, it's not helpful against the big story bosses, but it is fantastic for killing rats and bats and other crowds of nuisance enemies. I've taken to playing a little slower and actually killing the enemies in my way for the most part in my recent playthroughs and Gravitas has been an MVP for the whole trek.
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The best weapon art for colossal weapons due to giving them access to one of the quickest piercing attacks. The gravity pull is the icing on the cake.
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Have problems with BHS users?
This thing will interrupt them, damage them, and then pull them within caressing distance of your chosen piece of sharp metal.
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I never used this at all in my first playthrough but I've just seen it take on the DoT characteristics of blackflame blade at fort faroth with those harpies. Does anyone know if waves of darkness does this as well?
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This ash's utility is absolutely amazing. Great for interrupting crowds of rats, dogs and human sized enemies when you get surrounded. Knocks skeletons on their asses so they have to take a second to reassemble. Rips bats, harpy grandmas, flying misbegotten, murder eagles and flying ants out of the air so hard they start thrashing around helpless on the ground. Destroys objects, so you can use it to clear Vulgar Militia poison landmines. Hits through walls, ceilings and floors, so you can get enemies above you (sometimes pulling them down to your level), below you, and on ladders. Comes out fast, hits twice in quick succession, and does respectable damage with good INT investment. It even does bonus damage if you can hit an enemy with the weapon itself on the down-thrust. Do not sleep on this one.
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In addition to knocking flying enemies out of the air, this can yank ranged attackers like kindred of rot off of platforms. Might come in handy, at some point.
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Should be the default skill of the meteorite staff, you just slam the staff into the ground and pull people in
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God it feels like an aeon ago when I first stepped foot in the Lands Between as a lowly wannabe Gravity mage, found this on my first fight against that lanky psycho on the beach and thought 'wow I can't wait to see what they do with gravity spells'
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Level 150 and still a wannabe gravity mage waiting to see what they do with gravity in the DLC...
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A good synergy in PvP is to combine this with the claymore : if you land the ash of war, you can follow it up with a heavy attack when your opponent panic roll away. It's not a true combo like with Storm Stomp tho, so you need to get the timing to get it work.
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A good synergy in PvP is to combine this with the claymore : if you land the ash of war, you can follow it up with a heavy attack when your opponent panic roll away. It's not a true combo like with Storm Stomp tho, so you need to get the timing to get it work.
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I've noticed that when you kill an enemy with a backstab using a weapon that has gravitas, they will drop extra runes.
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Makes no sense this is not usable on fists and claws, weapons with the shortest reach that would benefit the most from this.
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This makes killing those invisible scarabs much easier. Just stand on their path and cast it when they are near.
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So...for me it pushes foes away from me. What's up with that?
Pretty good for prisoners or astrologers in the early game because it makes theirs swords scale with Int, but probably overshadows by scholars armament.
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It’s a bit weird that the ash’s icon shows the Onyx Lord Curved greatsword. The Onyx Lords did not create this ash, and even then, the curved greatsword cannot use gravitas.
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This works great against flying enemies. It knocks them to the ground and stuns them for a few seconds.
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The secondary hitbox they gave to Flaming Strike should've gone to this guy. It badly needs a second hitbox, so that if you land the first bit at the right distance, it'll pull them into the second hitbox and stun them for a follow-up R1, and so that if someone rolls into your giant earth-defying gravity well, they can't just roll-poke you. Forgive me if they may end up being too much, but man do I want more ways to punish PvP passivity.
Weird interaction, but it will inflict bleed if stacked with bloodflame buff. Great for Albinauric farming at the ledge.
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With the new much faster cast time in 1.04, this is an excellent anti-flyer AoW as it pulls all surrounding flying enemies to the ground and stuns them briefly. Great if you struggle against some especially annoying enemies like the hawks in Stormveil!
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still pretty terrible for pvp, despite the cast time buff. It's still pretty slow and if people panic roll as soon as they see a flash of purple starting to form, as everyone tends to do, that will line up perfectly with dodging the move. So it's just unfortunate timing really, that everyone will naturally dodge the move by simply panic rolling, making it pretty bad.
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Wonder if this can be used to pull AFK farmers off the roofs?
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Confirmed that this scales with INT.
Tested at 15/20 INT
Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality:
387/405 damage
Cold: 414/438 damage
Magic: 423/450 damage
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1.04 nearly halved the cast time, making it an amazing early pickup for mages.
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If I use this on a physical infusion with the iron whetblade does it inflict physical damage or does the weapon art still do magic damage?
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After patch 1.04 the downward stab into the ground to activate the ash of war is much faster and can be used to catch unsuspecting foes pretty well at a distance
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Anyone tested how strong this is after buff? Should cast faster now.
1.04 cut the cast time almost in half. Amazing pickup for mages early game.
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Does this scale with Intelligence even if you use a whetblade to change the scaling, or is it just tied to the weapon's damage?
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found it on my spellsword literally after finishing limgrave and checking one last dungeon with the chariot -_- did the zone 100% with all the bossses with standard affinity on a weapon
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The second attack of Ash of War: Gravitas INSTANTLY rips entire flocks of bats/harpies out of the air and flinches them out of their screams. Absolutely brilliant for people who prefer fighting their farms such as Fort Faroth, which is very easy to access immediately after character creation.
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For those who use armament incantations (bloodflame) it looks like once you apply this AoW you can no longer use those incantations.
As to the reason why, I assume it's because it changed to a Magic affinity?
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For those who use armament incantations (bloodflame) it looks like once you apply this AoW you can no longer use those incantations.
As to the reason why, I assume it's because it changed to a Magic affinity?
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I have a sword with physical damage 115 if I add the ash it becomes 88 physical and 88 magical, does that mean I have a total damage of 176 then a damage increase of 61? or am I wrong and two different types of damage are calculated differently? because it didn't seem that much stronger than before.
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It appears that even if you have the appropriate whetblades, you can't put fire or bleed on a weapon with this Ash of War. I can only choose Standard / Heavy / Keen / Quality (from Iron Whetblade), and then Magic or Cold (presumably built in to the ash).
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Always wondering if it makes sense to use this ash or any other with magic/lightning/etc. with a heavy scaling?
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This is good for crowd control, especialy if playing with friends.
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I'm curious as to what is meant by "not small" as I was able to put this on the starting Short Sword for my Astrologer
does this aow get any hyper armor????
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