Ash of War: Royal Knight's Resolve | Elden Ring Wiki

Does the buff apply to crits?

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This ash of war turns the claymore into a god tier weapon. Thrust is deadly!

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works good for whips, you can buff out of range and almost all of your attacks should be able to make advantage of this

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Am I the only one who wishes this kind of skill came with the dashing sweep attack that the Leyndell Knights use?

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put on misericorde to simulate chaos dagger damage

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spell users making a oneshot build: "I need to go to ng+ for another staff of loss then i need to terra magica, equip godfrey icon, and...."
melee users making a oneshot build:

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I found this on accident

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rip bozo. earn your oneshots casuls.

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Hot take: this didn't need a nerf and they went way too hard on it. Good players can easily wait out this AoW and half the time you lose it to a phantom hit anyway. Only really shined against unsuspecting new players.

Fromsoft buff again pls.

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has anyone tested how much they nerfed this?

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Should have a heavy trade off for its heavy damage maybe higher FP cost?

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should only be equipable on weapons capable of doing strike damage (except whips those should be doing slash anyways)

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I wish the cast time was just a tad slower. Or at least bring back barricade shield being able to hard counter it.

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Jumping R2s from offscreen with this thing are basically comet spams for poise builds let's be real. Nothing should clear over 1500 HP in a single hit what in the ****

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It's the pvp button! Well at least on melee builds. With light load you can stall out med load builds that use this but the duels generally last over 10 minutes.

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They need to nerf it's auto shield break on tower shields to encourage the use of the kick ash of war

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1. Equip Giant Crusher
2. L2
3. R2
4. R2
5. R2
6. R2

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Wtf lol, Is anyone else trying to use this after 1.07 and having it use lions claw instead? Have rkr on both of my giant crushers so can't be using the wrong hand or something.

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how to win every fight in pvp with no effort

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Oh yeah pure strength is definitely fun! Just use Royal knight's resolve royal knight's resolve royal knight's resolve royal knight's resolve and royal knight's resolve, and press nothing other than A and r2/l1 over and over! strength builds are so fun and chad bro!

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Does the shard of Alexander affect this in any way?

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Does it only buff the physical dmg?

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big weapon go smash. me like

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This is extremely volatile in general, and it's just straight up broken on Piercing weapons. This + Spear Talisman + Piercing Counterhit = GG EZ in PvP against 99% of the player base. You practically can't lose trades with this, unless you are purposefully handicapping yourself. Just dump everything into Vigor, Endurance, and Faith (for buffs like FGMS or GV) to maximize your survivability, put on some heavy armor + other talismans that also boost your survivability, then trade attacks with your thrusting weapon of choice while this buff is active.

This thing makes the roars like Warcry look like a joke. What's a 7.5% increase in comparison to an 80% increase? Who cares if it only lasts 10 seconds, Warcry only lasts 20 (still really short) and give less than 1/10 the buff. Who cares if the buff fades after 1 attack, you'd need more than 10 attacks to get the same value on Warcry.

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ah yes, the free trade win

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This and determination should be nerfed significantly in PvP. Its crazy to me how From can nerf the scorpion charms to hell in PvP and keep this unaltered.

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this with thrusting weapons. just.... why?

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The only aow strength builds use thinking they are chads for it.

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Basic ***** ash of war

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Great for boss fights where you don't get a lot of time for flashy aow, which is about 90% of the game...

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Oh hey its that one boring-ass aow that people don't shut up about!

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how do people defend things like this

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Its such a lazy design - just press the button for twice the dmg. No fancy animations, no drawbacks, its not a new attack, alternative r2, or anything interesting in any way. Its something Blizzard would put on 20$ lootbox as a passive effect

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This with heavy giant crusher at 80 strenth one shots everyone in one jumping attack. People really need to get their vigor up. 60 vigor should be mandatory for pvp

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couldnt put fire affinity with this ash of war. Did they change it?

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80% increase to your damage, cost 15 fp, allows you to win every trade.

Yeah you obviously know how good this is.

20/10: If they nerf this thing in the future I Honestly wouldn’t be mad or surprised

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for some reason i can use this without fp after latest patch. anybody else have this happen?

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If you're frustrated with aspects of the game, especially regarding PVP, such as certain builds that are OP as all hell and require no skill to make work, this is the perfect counter ash for you to put them in their place and keep playing how you want to play. All it does is bring your damage up to their levels yet still requires you to show your skill in being able to land the hit.

I have it on a Zweihander and try to keep the spear talisman equipped if I can, rolling into these kinda players with 80 poise armor on and just stabbing them in the face quicker than they can react for 1200+ damage then watching them be the ones to turn and run is hilarious. Even if you swing the Zweihander it should do 900-1000+ damage against most players with just a light attack as long as RKR is up.

Also, make sure to not chase after them if they get away, just point down when they hightail it and let them come back to you and just do it again lol.

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Nice on fists and claws because it buffs both weapons

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If you're like me and you've got big wood on the idea of doing GIANT RIPOSTE, just rkr before you know an attack is coming in, then parry that. Receive one gorillion damage in a way that is actually skill based.

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Does the buff only work on the weapon you have the ash on or can you use the buff and deal the damage with something else?

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I sure hope they add an ash of war like Sword Dance except it does 7 loop-de-loops at only 3 fp more. Ooo, or how about Super Spinning Slash where it has about 20 meters more range. Maybe Wilder Strikes which is like Wild Strikes but wilder. I love ashes of war that are literally just direct upgrades to already existing ashes of war making the originals irrelevant which is why I only use bloodhound step, rivers of blood, and this thing.

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Does Shard of Alexander buff this?

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WTF are the people writing these directions on? Would it kill them to give simpler directions? Like why mention the lift of we’re not gonna ****ing use it?

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Pretty useless for PvP, everyone with a brain will wait it out.

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Quite busted, most likely will be nerfed in the second wave of nerfs after they patch out all the other, dumber bullshit. Enjoy your thrusting sword true combo oneshots while it lasts

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Whoever did the location portion of this should just not have, its very confusing and needs to be redone

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FYI, this and the halberd from the commander boss in aeonia swamp give the best pure AR weapon and body buffs in the game. Jellyfish shield can be stacked too but must be cast last as it will disappear if the shield is swapped out or placed on the back. If you're a crit build, that's 120% damage on your next attack without equipping any seals or talismans....

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Massive buff for critical attack. Riposte Malenia and deals 6k damage. It just window to do it is so small between swapping shield and activate it. But if successfull, it just absolutely satisfying.

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Can this be used alongside scholars armament buff?

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Can this be used alongside scholars armament buff?

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Does it still boost the explosion from ruptured crystal tears as long as you don't swap weapons?

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This counts as an enchantment/grease, and using it will remove any existing one.

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Just had I thought I wanted to share, it may be obvious to some, but I had to run the numbers to make sure I was right. If I’m wrong about any of this, please correct me.

Determination and Royal Knight’s Resolve are basically the same Ash of War, with RKR having 80% damage over Determination’s 60%. This is at the cost of 15 FP over Determination’s 10 FP. If you’re going for a mega one shot melee build then RKR is probably your best bet no matter what, but if you’re not, depending on how much FP you end up with you may find that Determination actually will give you more bang for your buck.

If your hit is doing exactly 100 damage, with Determination that will turn into 160 damage, and 180 damage for RKR. For my build I end up with 87 FP. That’s enough for either five charges of RKR or eight charges of Determination.

160 x 8 = 1,280
180 x 5 = 900

So, for me, knowing how I play and now knowing these numbers, I will be sticking with Determination over RKR for my Vagabond / Quality build toon. So, just think about your build, your skills, your play style, and how exactly your PVP matches have gone down since Elden Ring’s release then decide if Determination or RKR is better for you. Don’t assume that RKR is just better all around for everyone because of its higher damage. There are tradeoffs, I don’t think one is necessarily truly better than the other. For me personally, the three extra uses of Determination are a good thing that give me more chances to get off bigger hits and inevitably do more damage if all of them land.

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Found a bug where RKR will be used after parrying with the a dagger with parry (I tried it with the parrying dagger with and without the actual party ash of war.) and not after parrying with a shield. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post links here, but I did make a video for it.

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Why am I not getting the option to change the affinity of my giant crusher to heavy with the royal knight resolve ash of war?

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never was a spell user, this paired with a str weapon is so nice

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Thing works with critical damage. Might be too tight of a window to do after a parry, but doing it for backstabs and for staggered big enemies sure is fun.

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You can duplicate and put on both your big boy weapons, cast on left hand first or it won’t work.

Now do jump attacks for many thousands of damage hehe

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Not worth using this on both off hand and main hand for one-shot strength AR builds after patch. If you still want to try these builds it seems better to 2hand the Giant Crusher with this instead.

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RKR and Determination RIP 24 Feb 2022 to 16th March 2022

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still amazing for my unga bunga. all the bug abusers crying.

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it also cancels out elemental spell buffs, so it's basically completely useless now.

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RIP the combos with this

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As of 3/17/2022, Its unintended feature has been fixed.

"Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill."

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RIP the combos with this

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As of 3/17/2022, Its unintended feature has been fixed.

"Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill."

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RIP this meta, it was good while it lasted.

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1.03
Fixed dmg up for second weapon + sourcery, now doesn't up spells/inc at all.

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Best Ash of War in the game, don't change it from, let us have fun with the crazy damage

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Bug fixed, no longer works with spells

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If used on spells, Royal Knight's Resolve is Elden Ring's Power Within spell from Dark Souls!

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Appearantly it got fixed in the patch today. At least it states: "Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill"

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If you use buff on left hand weapon with this skill, then switch to your main hand, it will keep the buff active for 10 seconds! It doesn't go away after 1 hit.

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Not bugged. Working as intended. So many so quick to forget NG++++, etc. Working. As. Intended.

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Tested this with incantations - works in full and does not consume the buff either. Almost guaranteed to work with spells too. As another user already stated you can also multiplicatively stack this by activating it on multiple weapons and this too will work for the incantations. Tried with Boulder, went from 500 to ~1700 damage. Problem is the window is very small and the manacost somewhat expensive. It's a lot less effort to just use Moonveil and 1 shot everything that way.

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Stacks with itself multiplicatively, so using 2 of this on different weapons gives you 1.8 * 1.8 = 3.24 damage increase on your next attack (TRIPLE DAMAGE!)
Also works for spells, totaly imbalanced ash of war atm.

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I really hope they fix the fact that casting doesn't consume the buff while still letting one cast benefit from it, I've found this+adula's moonblade to be quite a fun combo, and not boring like lasering things from the other end of the arena

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This + Claw talisman (jump attack buff) + ritual sword talishman (max hp attack buff) + jump heavy = delete anything devs put in the game with an HP bar.

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I just discovered I had this skill today, so I've been using it. Then I found out it buffs your other equipment on the other hand, which is probably unintended. BUT I had the idea of duplicating it and putting it on another offhand dagger. Two hand the dagger, use it, and then go back to dual wielding and use the skill on your right hand weapon. The effects stack, so you can get a MASSIVE hit with your main weapon. More or less kinda just a fun way to use the bug, but I would imagine this will get patched soon.

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Not buffed by the jar shards for some reason

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80% increase on next melee attack. Last 10 seconds. Sorceries and Incantations currently benefit from the buff but do not consume it (probably not intended).
Comparable to Determination (60% buff, 10 FP).

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If i activate this and then switch my sword to my staff, does the buff still stay? Asking for a friend.. #cometazure #oneshot

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this, terra magicus, redfeather, luset staff, azur helm, graven mass talisman, flask that gives you unlimited mana for shor time: you cast comet azur and basically anything in front of you will melt. BUT i swear i'm squishy so this is totally fair :p

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This is currently glitched as it also apply the bonus to the off hand weapon without consuming the buff
So you can use it on the right hand weapon and keep attacking with the left to get 60% bonus for 10 seconds with you left hand weapon (also buff staffs and magic dmg)
You can you basically one shot anything with this on the right build, other players included in pvp

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Where to get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubndILG5Ctw&t=8s

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This is almost exclusively for one hit builds/pvp. Trash on something like a longsword vs a boss for example

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I heard this buff applies to all sorceries as the buff does not end on a spell impact. I've yet to test it

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Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve will both also buff your next spell. Unsure if intended or not.

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The buff only lasts for 10 seconds.

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It also buffs spells and throwables as long as the buff is active. Delete this Fext nubs.

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Just so you guys know. Abuse this weapon art with magic or faith spells and enjoy.

Do it pvp too. c:

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The successor to the Determination ash of war, very useful on strength builds vs bosses since the best strategy with slow weapons is to wait for an opening before dropping a strong attack then moving way.

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