Ash of War: Poisonous Mist |
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| Affinity | Poison |
| Skill | Poisonous Mist |
| Effect | Grants affinities and skills to an armament. |
Ash of War: Poisonous Mist is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Poisonous Mist provides Poison affinity and the Poisonous Mist Skill. Ashes of War can be equipped on Weapons and Shields to modify the Skill or an equipment, or to apply affinities that modify scaling values.
This Ash of War grants an armament the Poison affinity and the following skill:
"Poisonous Mist: Bathe armament in poison, and then slash, spreading toxic mist forwards. The armament retains its poison for a while."
Usable on melee armaments (whips, fists, and claws excepted).
Ash of War: Poisonous Mist Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Poisonous Mist:
- Dropped by a teardrop scarab at the southwest section of the Aeonia Swamp in Caelid. [Map Link].
- This teardrop scarab can teleport a short distance if the player gets too close. If available, apply appropriate measures to kill it from range.
Ash of War: Poisonous Mist Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the skill Poisonous Mist.
- Deals 12 stance damage
- Can be used with the following affinity Upgrades: Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Poison, Blood, Occult
- 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, Colossal Weapons
Elden Ring Ash of War: Poisonous Mist Notes & Tips
- On input, coats the armament in poison while swinging out a green mist that slightly travels forward, and lingers for a short period of time.
- Consumes 14 FP on use. Not chargeable.
- Both parts of the skill (swing + mist) apply poison buildup on enemies. Both apply the same poison buildup.
- The swing also deals damage if it connects.
- The mist applies poison buildup per tick, and lasts for 5 seconds.
- The poison buildup of the mist changes depending on the weapon's affinity, as it scales with the Arcane stat.
- The poison coat adds poison buildup on hit to the armament (counts as a weapon buff), which lasts 20 seconds.
- The poison buildup from the buff changes depending on the weapon's affinity. as it scales with the Arcane stat.
- Poison affinity has good Arcane scaling (tied with Blood affinity), beaten only by the Occult affinity. At Arcane levels close to 80, an Occult weapon with Poison Mist active can deal even more poison buildup per hit, than that same weapon with a Poison affinity and Poison Mist active.
- An affinity that has no Arcane scaling at all will have considerably lower poison buildup per hit when Poison Mist is active. This remains true even if the player has a very low Arcane stat to benefit from the Poison/Bleed/Occult affinities.
- The poison buildup from the buff changes depending on the weapon's affinity. as it scales with the Arcane stat.
AnonymousReally good on pure physical builds, activates kindred of rot talisman very easily for big damage
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It's by no means the strongest ash, but it can definitely pull it's wait. It also gave me the ability to make a weapon that deals three status effects at once and for that reason I enjoy it. I don't use it for properly competitive pvp, just for the purpose of spooking the opponent when they see three bars appear at the bottom of the screen. I'm sure if I try enough I'll figure out how to put every status on my enemy's screen to truly scare them.
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In PvP this is pretty good on slower weapons that are easy to dodge due to phantom hits building up poison. Feels like free chip damage on someone roll spamming. Bonus points for activating Kindred of Rot and mushroom crown, and if they try to back off and eat a bolus it's a very very reliable play to hit them with a frost pot. Never surrender the pressure.
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On my first NG+, I'm doing dual scavenger's curved sword: Offhand seppuku, poison affinity, main hand Poisonous mist, blood affinity. Sounds counterproductive, but it seems to work very well.
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Unbelievably good for early game PvE and PvP. I'm shocked they just give it to you so early.
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Speaking from my stupid experience, if you're thinking of using this to cheese enemies from stealth, just use the spell version with faith talisman if you need it. The ash version doesn't seem to go as far, and you'll inevitably end up hitting and aggroing the opponent with the melee hit as a result.
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Dont know what it is, but this just feels so right on an occult great stars. At 80 arc, youll get 110 bleed and really good poison buildup. To be honest i dont think ive seen anyone/anything take more than one of these to the face without proc poison. If you swing a second time with the infused weapon and land it you will 99.999999% of the time proc it if somehow the initial hit and cloud didnt.and the cherry on top of all this is the hp regen from the GS passive.
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The poison mist does nothing anymore. I have tried it on like 5 different enemies, I hit them with over 20 mists each and it will not proc anything.
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RWeapon1: Poison Nagakiba [Poison Moth Flight] // RWeapon2: Serpent Bow // LWeapon1: Blood Uchigatana [Poisonous Mist] // LWeapon2: Poison Venomous Fang [Parry] -- Mushroom Crown, Kindred of Rot's Exultation
If you want Rotten Breath, it's a small Faith investment, although I haven't felt the need to do so. Most of this stuff can be accessed pretty early. Some of it's annoying to get, but you can put this build together before getting to a large majority of bosses if you take the right paths. Poisonous Mist is great because it allows you to make up for the loss of bleed on the Poison Nagakiba on the Blood Uchigatana while maintaining a great way to keep applying poison for MC/KoRE and PMF. Poison Venomous Fang is the best way to apply deadly poison, doing double the damage and not having the duration cut greatly. Poison Spraymist and Fetid Pots are a bit redundant at this point, but they just take up item slots, so why not. It's an absolute delight.
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The ghost hits do build up in pvp and that’s all I really need. My rancor spells keep them from curing poison while my own regen ticks away. The poison doesn’t last long but free damage is free damage, pve or pvp. It’s best on a thrusting sword but I use it on a heavy morning star since it has good run downs and poise breaks most meta builds. And if it’s anything like freezing mist it will have absurd hyper armor if put on a great hammer.
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This AoW is perfect for Melee builds having trouble with Radahn and can’t use or have trouble using Rot breath
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I put this on my weapon while waiting for my actual choice later in game but this is surprisingly good. Its not amazing and I'm still going to switch it out but it does decent damage, has ok hyper armor, leaves a constant damage field and builds up poison very quickly. I'm very impressed with this and will probably use it on all my other builds from here on.
this mist builds up poison literally 10 times faster than the spell, even though it lasts much shorter but it still builds up more status.
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If you run a STR-ARC build, this ash is a godsent. As there aren't many options early game that can use the blood slash ash (since most swords, daggers and the like don't have a good str scaling), this can be used as a replacement. I personally like farming for 2 bloodstained knives early on, and i apply this to one, and blood to the other. It can also be used on blunt weapons, such as the club, so you also have the option of dealing with enemies with tough skin.
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it creates a poison cloud that builds up very fast if the boss doesnt move. It also coats the weapon with poison to help proc it. And the poison type is the painful one. It wears off quicker, but it deals more damage, and its easy to keep activating it, multiple hits and many poison clouds.
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Apply it to antspur rapier with bleed infusion and use the WA to be able to procc poison, bleed and scarlet rot. Then watch your enemies melt :)
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I wanna point out that it is possible to enchant weapons that already have an affinity with this. Further testing on by me and friends concluded, that it stacks with the poisonous affinity, which can result in very fast poison buildup on hit, potentially only needing one hit.
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I was unable to apply this to the morning star as standard or poison, not blood :(
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I can't find this. I've gotten it before, but can't see the scarab's trails. I looked in my inventory multiple times and it wasn't there either. I got a flail, and did the weapon art to see if it was some visual glitch where the trail wouldn't show, but nope. It just isn't there for me.
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Interesting find is that if you use this ash on someone who is already poisoned they will immediately take the entire DOT worth of poison instantly. The basically trigger a green bleed.
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You say this is bad BUT you can put this and occult/bleed affinity on the same weapon. It is the only way to buff a non-buffable weapon with 100+ poison.
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I'm a noob.
If I apply Poisonous Mist Ash with Blood affinity, the weapon itself has Blood passive affinity, but when I use Poisonous Mist weapon art, does it apply poison to the weapon (during the effective time of the skill)?
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Something I found: the strike itself does deal more damage than a fully charged R2 (about 6% more) and has hyper armor. The strike seems to scale off AR. So you can go poison with this without committing to ARC or you can go Occult and still have an easy way to poison enemies.
The only thing to lookout for is that you can still be posture broken if you take a few strong hits.
So even if the enemy is already poisoned, you can use this for a slightly heavier strike that is difficult to interrupt.
Obviously there are a lot more powerful Ashes of War, but still, this is interesting.
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Pro tip everyone don't bother with pure poison builds unless you want to make the game unnecessarily hard. You have 2 ash of wars to choose from and both are hourendously terrible. And under the course of a fight you might be able to proc poison two times before you've killed the boss with your nerfed weapon damage because of the infusion. It's only passable if you use the damage boosting items but it's not optimized. I had to switch over to a bleed build because i felt so weak. Which was a massive jump cause now i feel overpowered instead. But that's just how it is being a gimmic player.
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This does increase the poison build up rate. Tested on volcano manor giant using godskin peeler +25:
Without applying buff it took two 2h r1s hitting on his feet to proc the poison, when I applied the buff it only took one. Whether this makes the art worth it or not is up for debate but I personally am running it simply to proc poison/rot talisman
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What happens if you put this Ash of War on a weapon and alter affinity to Blood?
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Starting from the moment the AoW is used, the poison effect on the armament seems to last approximately ~20 seconds before dissipating.
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After some testing I can confirm that this is one of the worst ash of wars in the game. Why? Well I was wondering why this felt so incredibly weak when I used it on one of the bosses. Turns out that it doesn't work like other sources of poison build up does. Specifically this one, and no other that I know of in the entire game, does half the total poison damage that it should do. So if poison mist incantation, poison tipped throwing daggers etc does say 800 this would only do 400 (tested and confirmed). However it is worth mentioning that it builds the poison bar REALLY quickly. Whiles it took almost two whole poison mist incantations to poison the large dogs in Caelid Wilds it only took this war like 1 second after the cloud spawned for the dog to get poisoned. And if you don't hit the enemy it wont notice you, making it able to cheese enemies.
I thought that it could stack with normal poison since this one does half the normal. I'd think that they would be two different kinds, making them stackable. So I tested this as well but nothing came up. You CAN'T stack poisonous mist with other sources. And the fact that it coats your weapon in poison doesn't do anything cause the enemy is already poisoned, making is useless.
If you want to poison enemies, just infuse your weapon with poison. Don't bother with this garbage. Just get the black whetblade and use a better ash of war. Idk why the fast proccing mist does half dmg, it has to be a bug but until it's fixed it's F tier, coming in second to last place in the ash of war tier list next to poison moth flight which comes in at bottom last place.
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does anyone know if it makes the weapon itself build up poison, or does it only build poison when you use the ability?
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An Ash of War that can be obtained in the early game, I use this on the Uchigatana to gain poison while retaining the innate bleeding effect. The poison is strong for taking down the high HP totals of bosses and stronger enemies. The weapon art is useful for infecting a crowd of foes with poison.
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Currently not working as intended, can't equip on whips or claws.
You can make some insanely toxic low level poison/bleed builds by rushing this. The bare minimum is simply sprinting to Dragon-Burnt ruins to come to Caelid, and grabbing this ash of war. But you can also cheese Night Cavalry for the other poison one, furthermore if you started as Samurai and grabbed the second Uchigatana in Death-touched Catacombs you now have two poison affinity powerstanced katanas that still deal a little bit of bleed buildup. There's also the Poison Armament incantation in Caelid. You can also grab Rotten Breath for Scarlet Rot. Now with poison/bleed it's very easy to beat Godrick without levelling too much, and then all you have to do is Varre's questline for the infinite invade item.
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It applies poison alot quicker than the spell does, but the drawback is that it does half the damage that normal poison applications do. in total it does on average about maybe 700 if you hit the initial swing too, + a % of the targets total hp. I know the math doesn't add up but i've tested on some enemies and that's what came up. Maybe it also depends on weapon upgrade level i don't know. Given the massive windup I've concluded that it's underpowered and needs a buff. Shorten the cast time or make it do normal tik damage. I thought this was really cool so i was sad when i discovered this. Bloody swing does the same damage in a quarter of a second at the cost of a miserly bit of hp. Such a waste.
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If i use this on a weapon that passivly causes bleed to my enemy will it get rid of the bleed...?
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You can't put this on whips even though it says you can in the description
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Location is East of Aeonia Swamp Shore site of grace, on a teleporting teardrop scarab.
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yeah yeah poison is a meme but don't discount how much time you spend either chasing after or running away from a boss in blender mode. if you can poison them, it's free damage, and you can just leave your weapon on heavy/keen and use this for your big poison hit.
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