Ash of War: Lightning Slash | Elden Ring Wiki

Ah yes, flails. Widely known for their slashing ability, and for being able to hold the damaging portion straight up into the air.

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pls give me hyper armor it would be so cooool

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my beloved. Underrated.

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I will call this bugged until the falling bolt tracks targets like Leyndel Knights's do.

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the fact we can't put this on guardian swordspear for extra lightning is gonna drive me hollow

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Now I can fight like Genichiro

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This AoW absolutely nukes Abductor Virgins, stunlocks certain bosses. Overall an underrated AoW, IMO.

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HOW MY BLOOD BOILS.

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It increases dexterity scaling but decreases base damage and strength scaling. Does anybody know how severe the penalty of base damage and strength scaling is?

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god tier on colossals and colossal swords. if the point blank stun lands the followup will pulp whatever you're looking at

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Honestly wish this worked on Halberds. Not 100% sure why it doesn't. If anyone can tell me why lmk

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Either use with Endure or other special situations - or just for the damage buff - otherwise useless as a skill. The "hyperarmor" on this skill feels lower than actual R1. Feels like you're getting hard minus-armor compared to that, would be funny if R1 daggers stopped this ash of war too. Definitely lacks balance.

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For those Kenpachi vs Nnoitora moments

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Put endure AOW on a weapon than immediately switch to the weapon with lightning slash and there's your hyper armor

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The correct use for this is to slap it on a two-handed twin-blade. Weapon buff motion values on a twin-blade means you gain 150% the benefits from the weapon buff you would on a single hit weapon.

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Literally the strongest weapon skill in ds3.

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If this worked like the version the Leyndell knights use, where the second lightning strike acts like honed bolt and tracks, it would be so good. Adding hyper armor to that would make this top tier.

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I wish this could be equipped on polearms... I know the naginata needs no buffs, but it just would look so cool on so many of them. also they omitted spears, which can slash, but not hammers and flails, which definitely cannot slash.

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If only this gets hyperarmor, this could be in the top tier ash of war like flaming strike

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PLEASE MAKE THIS WORK ON CROSS NAGINATA

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can someone please remove the part where it says it adds lightning damage and changes scaling, since that's talking about the infusion not the ash of war and doesnt need to be said here. I read it and got confused and throught it meant the buff it gives temeoraily changes your weapons scaling. I spent nearly 30 minutes looking through every resource I could find to find out what were the exact numbers the buff changed the scaling by.

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Think a cool tweak to this AoW would be if when you charged yourself/the sword with Lightning, you get a small Dragonbolt Blessing-like effect where enemy attacks bounce off you at reduced damage and leave them vulnerable to the downward swing. That'd be some pretty cool outplays.

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does anyone actually have the exact numbers/percentages that lightning strike increases dex scaling and decreases strength scaling?

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this is wrong you can not infuse it with sacred with this ash of war

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Follow up on my previous comment: Still using a +25 Lightning Zweihander at 80 Dex, I've been trying this AoW in duels, and I've noticed that if the opponent tries to block the 3 parts of the attack, their guard is broken quite easily. I've broken the guard of two Fingerprint Greatshield users who underestimated the stamina damage this does, without even using the Hammer Talisman, leading to an easy crit. The lightning damage also partially goes through their shield for free damage on top.

The same can be done with any shielding enemy in the game, though if their guard breaks on the weapon swing, the lightning strike followup will stagger them out of the guard break. If they try to guard counter on the stomp, the swing is fast enough to hit them first for massive damage.

This AoW is a pretty unusual shield counter, but if you do get close enough for the stomp, it works quite well.

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Ever since 1.10, it seems the little stomp at the start not only staggers, but also deals a bit of damage. A +25 Lightning Zweihander at 80 Dex did 127 damage and staggered an Haligtree Knight for the followup. The damage is affected by Shard of Alexander (got 149 when equipping), and seems to be based on weapon damage splits, as Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear increased the damage further, which means part of the damage was lightning.

...Hyperarmor seems untouched though, rip

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For those using the map link it's just a little bit off, it's not at the rock crevice, it's in the camp right next to it to the NE right by the fire, use the hermit merchants shack, and come out the castle gate from the backside, mine wouldn't spawn when I approached from the front being attacked.

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Too bad this is a bit restricted in terms of weapon categories, while Flaming strike and Sacred Blade can be used on pretty much any weapon.

I want to use Lightning Slash on a great spear

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Not spawning for me either

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Flaming strike and sacred blade seems better than this one on paper, but flaming strike doesn't work on colossal weapons and sacred blade's holy boost is situational. This lightning slash requires positioning and timing to compensate for lack of hyperarmor and range, but the resulting damage never disappoints.

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a tiny bit of hyperarmor on that down swing would make this ash perfect

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same cant get it no spawn :-( so next game play :D

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pretty goated on colossal weapons like the golem halberd for pvp. the large weapon hitbox means you can likely get the rollcatch on people after the initial hit, and the little bit of extra damage from the lightning coating can make the difference between 4 shotting someone and 3 shotting them

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Flaming strike and sacred blade are both better than this for their own reason. One lingers DMG and is quick, one fire at range. This needs poise to fill the trinity out .. as it is the 85 DMG barely compensates for the luck/brain dead target you need to land the actual ash

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For PvE, if you're using this AoW safely, deals substantial burst damage for being a weapon buff ability, which also is a very good buff at that. Throw this on anything with very high AR as the multipliers it gets are tremendous.

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Desperately needs some kind of hyper armor so that you won't be easily staggered out of the swing, especially with the new changes to poise making anything bigger than a Halberd unpoisable. Any one-handed attack from a Claymore will interrupt you, even if you are wearing Full Bullgoat's + Bullgoat's Talisman, meaning you can't even trade with this because of how slow it is. Hell, even a Two-Handed Heavy Running Attack from a Longsword is unpoisable.

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Good luck landing this with the new poise damage buffs. Anything you can trade with can hit you and roll away before you land the hit, and anything that is too slow to run away will poise break you anyways. Lightning slash needs hyper armor to be relevant. Flame Slash has its lingering hitbox, Lightning slash needs this.

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the bolt can hit people below you.

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needs hyperarmor

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It annoys me so much that the lightning affinity is dex. They should have done something like far where there's lightning weapons and lightning art weapons so that faith users have some lightning weapon options.

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For anyone using this in PvP, if you want to benefit from the bonus lightning damage at all then you need to use it with the lightning affinity otherwise the tiny fraction of damage gets completely negated against flat enemy defenses.

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just me or is it not spawning?

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I've played over 600 hours and just stumbled across this today, to think there was an ash of war i'd never seen before

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Excellent AoW, absolutely melts the entire game on a Claymore or Zweihander

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Could use a bit of hyperarmor

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So, I put this on a colossal sword, and decided to make it heavy so it still scales with strength. Am I stupid?

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Excellent AOW , use it to stomp the ground in front of you with some sparks that stay on your weapon for a bit to look stupid. The only problem is someone can interrupt you and prevent you from looking stupid, only needs more speed , range , usability and hyper armour. Throw in some damage and yeah it’s a 10/10 AOW.

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One shot someone today, 1414 dmg through gelmir knights armor.

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Provides about 15% buff for 20 seconds.

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I wish you could put it on spears

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would be significantly better with some added poise and/or the missing follow up thst costs 15 fp being added back.

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on a pure dex build this buff on a lightning infused weapon outperforms keen significantly

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put this on the Executioner’s Greataxe and you’ve got the Dragonslayer’s Greataxe

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They need to add stagger to the stomp it has like no stagger at all and people can still just interrupt this attack way to easily.

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If you observe the way the Leyndell Knights that use this, they do the same slash to the ground but then it generates a "honed bolt" like incantation that tracks the player. Where as the ash of war just strikes a bolt at the end of the sword that usually has no effect. A nice buff would be to give it tracking but shorter range than the incantation or other ash of war like "thunderbolt". Or another idea would be to spawn a couple random lightning strikes within a mid sized AOE like "Death lightning" but without the effect build up.

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Desperately needs hyperarmor. Please Fromsoft

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does the damage scale with dex?

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can ya put it on a short spear?

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"Yeah lets not give any hyper armour to a skill that has zero range and slow casting time" Fromsoft.

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I like how fire version gets a cool fire spray into a heavy which staggers and combos sometimes for a self buff Ash of War. But here we just shoot lightning bolt at our own toes with no hyper armour.

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Lightning version of Flaming Strike but rolled into one press & forgot to change the text. Or it's just broken, there's no way to do the second activation on a light or heavy followup and repeat use just spams it at 10fp

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Does leveling Dex shorten the casting time on this at all? Or does that only apply to sorc/incants and not ashes?

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All bosses dead and its not spawning for me

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Behold, the lightning of Tomoe

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Wondering what the posture damage on this is? Worth choosing over Flame of the Redmanes?

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Wondering what the posture damage on this is? Worth choosing over Flame of the Redmanes?

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Hard to hit in PvP but hits like a TRUCK once you do. Put it on a weapon with decent reach and if you can outspace/predict people you can do wonderful things with this.

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What does the lightning damage we get from the buff scales with? If I put this on my colossal sword and infused it with heavy, does the added lightning damage change or lower with faith/dex build?

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checked today with all bosses dead, spawned happily in the middle of the camp and gave me the AoW

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This is not spawning for me for some reason. Any idea?

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Has anyone figured out what the Second Fp cost is for? Shows 10 fp and then 15 in brackets. I have test it on several weapons and there is no second activation that costs 15, and trying to do a quick or charge attack during doesn't seem to do anything. Seems they forgot to add the secondary function. I assume it is supposed to function like flaming strike

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Confirmed it does not spawn after beating Maliketh despite being outside the capital OUTER walls

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Can you stack this with the lightning buff maricle?

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Doesn’t spawn after Malikeith :(

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Excalibur!

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this + executioner greataxe = discount dragonslayer greataxe

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Slash skill on a hammer seems weird, but I'll take it. Been looking for a way to deal with the things slash is weak against. Shock and Striking both work. Now I can have them both on one weapon.

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Slash skill on a hammer seems weird, but I'll take it. Been looking for a way to deal with the things slash is weak against. Shock and Striking both work. Now I can have them both on one weapon.

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No in GreatSwords, GreatAxes or WarHammers?

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for everyone commenting twinblades, i think the game categorises twinblades as swords. seems strange, but would explain why a lot of AoWs that don't specifically mention twinblades can still be used on them.

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Why it has two fp costs (10 and 15) if it only performs one attack and the second cost doesn't seem to have any effect?

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Looks like the buff lasts roughly 30 seconds from when you initiate the move. So about 25-27 seconds of usable time after animation finishes

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Can also be used on twinblades, making them pretty strong actually.

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Gives a flat 85 lightning buff to your weapon. The slash part of the skill scales with your weapon's AR (possibly with a further weapon level and dex scaling addition), the lightning bolt scales only with dex and weapon level.

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"Swords, Axes and Hammers"...

...and Twinblades.

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Anyone know how to do the follow up attack or whatever it is that costs 15 fp?

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POV you want a lightning spear then realise you can't use the slash on it

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why does lightning not scale with faith

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So bs I can't use this on the Scythe.

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