Ash of War: Impaling Thrust | Elden Ring Wiki

Surprisingly one of the best general purpose skills in the game for PvE. Fast, low FP cost, great animation, does pierce damage, and still does high stance damage and 75% of the raw damage of harder hitting, slower skills. Literally the only thing it lacks is a poise boost or hyper armour and being merely good damage instead of crazy good

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This one has a good Stance Damage. Putrit Avatar goes staggered in 2-3 hits of this bad boi.

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L2 till it's staggered then pull out the misericorde and repeat

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Can't be used on Curved Swords, despite historically the Falchion, Scimitar, and Grossmesser being able to stab effectively (the tip isn't pointy for visuals).

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Is this better/worse than piercing fang?

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This ash of war is pretty good. I used it in a Dex / Int build with a big epee. You can stagger most of the enemies in 3 or 4 hits.

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Great Ash if you're having trouble with great shield enemies.

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Greatswords after using this ash of war can use their HA (1H and 2H) very early and faster than their LA

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I use this on my Knight's greatsword mainly because that weapon should absolutely have a thrusting attack.

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Largely prefer this Ash over Giant Hunt
Impaling thrust costs way less FP, you can spam it without worrying about drinking FP pots. It's faster, cooler, and goes through shields

It can also easily hit multiple ennemies in a straight line, whereas it's less likely with Giant Hunt since it goes upward rather than forward

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I don't understand why, but after using this ash while equipped to a claymore, you can do an uncharged R2 extremely fast out of the ending animation. And because the claymore R2 has low endlag, you can just do another impaling thrust, etc. Eats up stamina like crazy but if you supplement this with stamina-boosting gear and high endurance you can combo these two moves into one another over and over and stunlock most enemies. It even staggers bosses really fast.

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This is one of the most powerful skills when used without or with sparing use of lock-on. You may have noticed the thrust has a shallow turning radius, which can cause it to miss when an enemy moves to your side after initiating it. But this can be avoided by simply locking off and moving your character in the direction you want the attack to go. This means you can initiate a thrust in one direction and immediately do a 180 with the camera and shoot in the other direction. If used correctly, you will never miss a grounded enemy with this ash.

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For PVE, the best weapons to put this on is the Guardian Swordspear for dex and an infused Iron Greatsword for everything else unless you're trying to activate status effects as well.

Great boss killer thanks to the poise damage

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The description says "skill that lets piercing armaments overcome enemy shields" but it also says "pierces an enemy's guard" so is there any difference in overcoming an enemy shield and piercing an enemy's guard? would the hypothetical enemy in that scenario take full or part damage from it? I'm asking because the description for piercing fang says "powerful thrust that cannot be blocked" and I can't see the difference between 'cannot be blocked', 'overcomes enemy shields' and 'pierces an enemy's guard' Is that three ways of saying the exact same thing or is there some variation and that's why the wording is a little different?

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After patch is amazing ash against heavy knights

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Used this on my +4 keen guardian swordspear with 20 dex to beat Morgit. Hit him with this Ash of war thrust 3 to 4 times to get him on his knees where you can crit hit him. Much safer and more guaranteed crits than trying to parry the bastard.

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Is this good on greatswords?

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Silly that game dosnt allow this on katar unless you put no ash of war on it. It’s awesome for it but changing the affinity of weapons off of standard is always better from what I’ve seen

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EEEYAH!

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Impaling thrust is an amazing alternative to flame of the redmanes on an int build. It's also very cheap in the FP department so this can be spammed a ton in PvE.

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Suprisingly great for being such a basic skill. Especially amazing against semi-strong enemies, like knights and such. Gives you a great, safe gap closer that stuns long enough for you to wail them down with regular attacks

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I have loved using it. In duels many people use fingerprint shield with immutable shield or scholars shield incantations/sorceries and this pokes through for damage no problem. Its also a good attack just to throw the timing off as it is slower than 1 powerstanced spears attack but faster than 2 powerstanced attacks. Extremely underrated.

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After intense testing against Godskin Duo with all fully upgraded spears, great spears and halberds... Lance is the strongest weapon to stagger enemies with this skill... but it still falls short compared to Flame of the Redmanes. =(

Flame of the Redmanes + puny dagger = 2 consecutive long-range hits to bring him on its knees. Very safe.
Impaling Thrust + Lance = 3 consecutive close-range hits to do the same thing and it is way harder to pull off 3 Impaling Thrusts.

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Put this on Militia Shotel with Cold scaling just in case some dummy decides to come with the fingerprint greatshield.

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The knights uses a similar a thrust move but then follows up a spin slash. Anyone know which art of war it is?

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Can someone explain the difference between this and piercing fang, because from what I've read piercing is basically an upgrade unless I missed something.

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Best counter to the fingerprint shield

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surprising effective ash of war, it's fast, it has decent damage, range, it consumes barely any FP and it deals extremely high poise damage.
The two main downsides of the ash of war is that it's borderline useless against enemies in the air and that it is quite a boring ash of war.

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surprising effective ash of war, it's fast, it has decent damage, range, it consumes barely any FP and it deals extremely high poise damage.
The two main downsides of the ash of war is that it's borderline useless against enemies in the air and that it is quite a boring ash of war.

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The benefit of this is that when blocked it still does full damage.

Tested on the spear and shield guy in gatefront ruins with 20 dex and a non upgrade rapier... Regular strong attack did 13 damage and this Ash did 126.

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The benefit of this is that when blocked it still does full damage.

Tested on the spear and shield guy in gatefront ruins with 20 dex and a non upgrade rapier... Regular strong attack did 13 damage and this Ash did 126.

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I was able to stagger the troll near the Secluded Cell grace in Stormveil Castle with two back-to-back hits in the legs with this Ash of War. Not sure how much stats and weapon type affect it but I was using a Keen Cross Naginata +6 or 7 and have 40 Dex.

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Tried it against someone with a medium shield on a Lance, does grand total of 40 damage and doesnt even guard break...

I think ill just spam hoarfrost against turtles seems just better.

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how much fp does this take?

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For clarity's sake, does "capable of thrusting" include the Claymore?

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dont know if its true but it feels like this attack does insane guard dmg after using it on some boss fights

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I tryed it on Crucible Knight, but Kick works better.

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Master the range of this and you eat knights for breakfast, specially shielded ones.

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