Ash of War: Quickstep is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Quickstep provides Keen affinity and the Quickstep 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 Keen affinity and the following skill:
"Quickstep: Skill prized by the crafty and fleet of foot. Perform a quickstep maneuver that allows for circling around lock-on targets."
Usable on all melee armaments.
Ash of War: Quickstep Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Quickstep:
- Sold by Knight Bernahl at the Warmaster's Shack for 800
. Elden Ring Map Link. - Can be purchased from Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold after giving them Bernahl's Bell Bearing.
Ash of War: Quickstep Elden Ring Guide
- When R1 is pressed after using this skill sideways or backwards, it will perform a Backstep attack.
- As stated in the skills description, using this skill sideways while locked on will circle around the target you are locked on to. If you wish to circle around the target, then you must perform the sideways animation. This maneuver does not work when using the forward or backwards animation. (Try holding back-left or back-right when you're right next to your target.)
- Grants the skill Quickstep.
- Provides the Keen affinity, which increases Dexterity scaling, decreases Strength and 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
Builds with Ash of War: Quickstep
Elden Ring Ash of War: Quickstep Notes & Tips
- Quickstep has 15 iFrames and 9 recovery frames (30 FPS)
- Recovery frames differ when dodging sideways or backwards
AnonymousQuickstep is almost as bad as Bhs. There’s a reason it’s useless on small, rogue weapons but most used on trade hitting weapons with thrust or status. Quickstep ends the recovery of attacks early which means you can trade hit someone and take no damage due to mild latency.
Thus, small weapons with barely existent recoveries receive little benefit... but big weapons do. This allows you to miss/trade with big weapons that are specifically balanced by having those recoveries.
And never mind recoveries, you are still practically invincible as long as you have fp. Roll spam is punishable but quickstep spam is tough to punish, dangerous to punish if they are set up to trade with thrust/status and you can literally run out of stamina swinging while they quickstep around in full bull goat and guts great sword.
This should not have been an ash, but a roll option for Crucible feather talisman if you’re on light load. Still cheese but gets balanced out by damage penalties at least.
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This + Rapier poke = You can’t die and you will win every PvP encounter. No skill it needs a nerf same as BHS. Both are low-skill crutches.
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Actually really dang good on short ranged weapons like fists and claws (unsurprisingly, it's on most of the claws) and it doesn't repel maidens like Bloodhound Step does. Rather than spacing to get hits and avoid hits, you play a game of gluing yourself to them and exploiting windows between attacks. I recommend packing some fan knives and using them generously if you do this so you can soften up enemy poise.
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While both this and BHS are good defensive movement AoWs, in PvE I find I can be much more aggressive with Quickstep. It's far easier to stay in range for aggressive hit & run, especially if you pair it with a fast moveset that advances you forward a lot. If you struggle to effectively use backstep attacks like I do, this may be a great solution. Personally I love this on powerstanced Warhawk Talons. Straight sword R1s advance quite a lot on each swing, and the Talon has a unique fast lunging R2 double slash that covers a surprising distance (more if you charge it). If I Quickstep to the side and back, and I'm just in range, an L1 for the running double poke. If I'm out of range for an L1 I can almost always safely charge an R2 and connect with the second hit at least. If enemies like to constantly move closer, I've found I can often Quickstep straight back, charge an R2, and connect a hit when the R1 or L1 would not have.
Also worth noting, there are iframe analysis videos showing that you do in fact still get iframes without fp (10 iframes at 60fps for both Quickstep and BHS). Quickstep (and BHS) take a little longer to recover from than a light/medium roll, so that's worth keeping in mind as well! When dodging sideways, I believe that rolling only goes in a straight line, but Quickstep will curve around what you are locked on to. You can even steer it a bit while in the animation, but you have to be quick!
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Once BHS step gets nerfed then this should also get a nerf as the BHS users would just flock to this instead.
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Using this with powerstanced GSs gives you access to their super good Backstep Double Poke attack. Quickstep backwards when dodging a jump attack and you can poke them for super high dmg.
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"When R1 is pressed after using this skill sideways or backwards, it will perform a Backstep attack. Bloodhound's step does not have this feature."
This is false. BHS has the exact same feature.
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Don't go "oh, it's so overpowered on greatswords!" because don't forget that they've got to recover after attacking.
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Yea, I'm gonna be honest. While I haven't encountered it yet because the game is still young, when the meta ripens I have a feeling that laggy backstabs from Greathammers will dominate the Lands Between.
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This is the more fair version of bloodhound step but it's still really strong.
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This move goes further than DS3 by allowing you to have rolling moves on forward and backward Quicksteps, and sideways Quicksteps (while locked) grant you your backdash attack, further expanding your moveset. This is a feature Bloodhound Step DOES NOT have.
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Who the f decided that putting that weapon art on large variety of weapons while it was already op broken on daggers in ds3
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It uses fp, but i can still quickstep without fp. Using it with no fp, does it have less invincibility frames? Or maybe it uses a bunch of stamina instead?
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I thought this would put you behind the enemy, since that’s literally what the description says. But it’s basically just an extremely low cost Bloodborne dash-dodge. Probably useful if you either have a high stamina consumption weapon or fat rolls.
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Quickstepping with a large weapon is absolutely hilarious. Bless this game lol
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There was a reason DS3 had this on some very, very, very SPECIFIC weapons only. Now I can Quickstep with my shield, or a large weapon. Hilarious, but the game has enough bullshit PVE moments that I don't feel bad for doing this. PVP though, that's just cruel.
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