Ash of War: Seppuku is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Seppuku provides Blood affinity and the Seppuku Skill for 60 seconds. 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 Blood and the following skill:
"Seppuku: A forbidden technique used by swordsmen from the Land of Reeds. Plunge the blade into your stomach to stain it with blood. Increases attack power and improves ability to inflict blood loss."
Usable on swords as well as polearms capable of thrusting (small and colossal weapons not included).
Ash of War: Seppuku Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Seppuku:
- On the frozen lake east of the Freezing Lake site of grace in the Mountaintops of The Giants, dropped by an invisible scarab. [Map Link]
Ash of War: Seppuku Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the skill Seppuku.
- 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: Straight Swords, Greatswords, Curved Swords, Curved Greatswords, Katanas, Twinblades, Thrusting Swords, Heavy Thrusting Swords, Spears, Great Spears, Halberds
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Elden Ring Ash of War: Seppuku Notes & Tips
- Conflicts with (both cannot affect a weapon simultaneously): Bloodflame
- The self-damage caused by this skill doesn't trigger the damage negation from Opaline Bubbletear, meaning both can be used together.
- Can effectively be used to counter blood loss caused by enemies or in PvP. When used, the weapon art will trigger blood loss, dispelling the blood loss gauge no matter how much it has been built up, sacrifcing 15% +100 of your HP for using the weapon art instead of losing a larger chunk because of blood loss being procced by enemies or another players.
- The blood loss inflicted upon yourself can activate the effects of the White Mask and Lord of Blood's Exultation, granting you a very powerful 30% damage increase immediately.
- Seppuku's buff scales with Arcane, providing a higher bleed buildup with weapons that have either innate scaling, or gain said scaling (via Occult infusion).
- A 80 Arcane Occult-infused weapon with innate bleed will gain more bleed buildup from Seppuku than a Blood-infused weapon with Seppuku.
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Alright, I got the best one. Put this on Beastman’s Cleaver, funniest thing ever.
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great skill, amazing on power stance curved swords OR twinblades
Been using this on the an occult flamberge and it slays. Looks sick, too. Only downside is the self damage makes it unusable in pvp. A buff to the animation speed would be a nice quality of life improvement.
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Want this to really hurt? Put this on the Forked Greatsword.
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Does this trigger law of causality? If it does there might be an interesting build there somewhere
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so funny watching great jar duelists kill themselves with this
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Question if anyone can answer: Does Seppuku give you blood loss if the weapon itself doesn't have it, and its not Blood affinity?
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How much does it increase attack power? Doesn’t say anywhere in here.
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My biggest criticism of this Ash of War is that if you kill yourself with it, it awkwardly cuts to a regular death animation. It would have been so cool if it was unique in a similar style to what Sir Alonne from Dark Souls 2 does if you beat him without taking any damage, falling to his knees and bending over while clutching the sword in his stomach.
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Putting this on a blood infused Twinblade will have you deleting everything that has a pulse
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40 Arcane with a Blood-infused Uchigatana proccs bleed in two hits on the albinaurics at Mohgwyn Palace, versus 3 hits from Rivers of Blood or an Uchi w/ Bloodflame Blade.
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Someone has probably though of this before but damn I wish this worked like the BB Bloodletter where you can hit enemies standing behind you with the thrust. Doesn't have to be a big hitbox but it should do big damage and/or a LOT of bloodloss buildup if you managed to hit it.
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Me when I shove the entire Nightrider Glaive in my stomach but can’t stab myself with a dagger
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This ash is arguably better than it was before after the “nerf”. You have to actually commit to arcane to get the bleed from scaling, instead of just mindlessly pressing a button and getting 90 bleed buildup.
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It might be a good buff but impaling yourself is the most stupid thing ever.
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The flat damage that gets added benefits from other things that boost physical attack, like blue dancer, bloodboil aromatic, etc
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Can be infused on the lance. Looks hilarious. Definitely recommend.
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Post-nerf, only reason I use this is to proc the damage bonuses of lord of bloods exultation and white mask on my ARC/FTH dragon caster build
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Step one: put this on an unlevelled cane sword and use it with white mask and LoBE
Step two: use the poise physick
Step three: swap to Mohg’s spear and spam the weapon art
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I like how you can casually shove a ****ing jousting lance that's thicker than your entire chest all the way through your body but at the same time you can't put this on a ****ing dagger like a wakizashi even though historically it was designed to do this
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whats with mountain tops of giants having so much blood and samurai related things in them? there's yura's possessed corpse, okina, inaba and now this
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Still don't get how stabbing yourself in the guts with your own blade gives you an attack buff and increases your ability to proc blood loss.
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Crazy how bleed builds pretty much completely disappeared after powerstance buildup and this got nerfed. It is funny since they still are nowhere near the sadness that is DS3 bleed, but people gotta be so fun and original and chase the meta.
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Works as a good "dies from cringe" gesture at the end of a sweaty duel
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now i can use it with freedom of conscience. you're doin gods work fromsoft.
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Don't mind me. I'm just here to gloat at the fact that there were people who serioulsy thought this did not need to be nerfed when it was stupidly overtuned for BOTH pve and pvp.
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who though it was a good idea to give huge flat status buildup to weapons that can multihit like crazy
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Bloodlust was my favourite build in DS3, moreso after bleed was nerfed. Guess I'm going to have to play an Occult Uchigatana with this aow.
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It's too funny not to immediate smack someone when they use this before a duel.
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Thematically, I think this skill should work with daggers. From a balance standpoint, the pure cancer of someone ripping into me with two Seppuku buffed daggers makes me vibrate with annoyance. XD
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I was dueling with someone the other day and when he was close to dying he pulled out a longsword with this ash and just killed himself lmao
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the salt in these comments when it gets inevitably nerfed is going to be glorious
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How does the Warrior Jar Shard affect this? Does it just increase our attack power even more?
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mfs complain about moonveil when this atrocity still exists
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I am a Mimic. I use normal weapons like hammers, greataxes, stuff like that, but I'm ready to quick swap to a tryhard outfit if I see someone rushing at me with a tryhard build. Two days ago I was relaxing with the Taunter's Tongue, a Omen Cleaver and a torch, and someone with St. Trina's swords invaded me. I was like "cool, I wanted to play them a bit" so I took the St. Trina swords too; when he saw he couldn’t kill me, he fled and took his Antspur rapier with Seppuku. Coincidence, I also have this rapier with Seppuku in my inventory! So I copied him, and when I killed him he rage quitted lol. I wasn’t even going to BM him..
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Game is starting to get into a good state but this, quick step, and scavengers curved sword need a massive nerf right now. As well as blood exaltation should no longer proc from seppuku. Remove ability to infuse scavengers, revert quick step start up speed and heavily reduce the iframes.
Remove the ARC scaling from this, increase the damage it does to you and increase the cost.
There's no reason why this should have ARC scaling when bloodflame blade doesn't, please please from you've done such a good job listening to the fanbase so far.
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me watching my coinvader nuke the level 15 host into oblivion with 50 bleed procs in the span of a second
make it last like 20 seconds and take 15% of your hp and it might be balanced.
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I love how if you use armor with poor low a weapon with Seppuku can bleed you with one hit even without powerstancing
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A lot of salty people in the comments who want to balance others single player game so their pvp is better, smh
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This should be usable on colossal weapons/swords and great hammers, not for balance or anything like that, no its just because it'd be funny.
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really wish you could put this on great hammers. it could turn the Great Stars into a discount Bloodletter.
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reapers should be able to use this on account of you can bloody hold it by the head to stab yourself. the only problem is they'd need a specific animation for it... but like, it'd be the same thing, just held vertically instead of horizontally.
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This needs to be usable on colossal swords, the game is not about pvp its about getting the highest dps numbers you can.
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Can someone explain why this can’t be put on Daggers….? Like the act of this skill is inherently for daggers. Samurai weren’t using Naga Blades to stab their stomachs.
Like wtf is this dumb ****.
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Really wish I could put this on my Giant Crusher tbh. Would be balanced as well, what are they waiting for?
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This is OP becauss with 0 arcane stat you can easily have 160+ bleed on a curved sword.
Running powerstanced L1 does 4 quick attacks.
Jumping L1 does 4 attacks and cannot be parried.
This instant bleeds an average heavy-armored player TWO times doing 1000 damage on a 60 vigor character BEFORE the actual weapon damage.
With proper talismans, gear and stat investment you can easily bypass 2000 damage with a single button press, which outdamages anything else in the game and one-shots anyone.
Also, bloodloss proc bypasses even infinite poise.
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Instead of costing 10% of the players HP, this should reduce max HP by 10% for the duration of the buff like the Black Knife does, or make healing remove the buff, being able to heal immediately after using this is the most unbalanced BS in the game.
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broken af, considering it can synergize so well with bleed proc items
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Should’ve stayed as a Katana-only skill. Being able to use this on polearms especially is just stupid.
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Much more interesting to apply it to poison weapons or occult weapons without innate bleed. Huge overkill on blood infusions and innate bleed occult infusions. Don't be that guy fellas, at least in duels.
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I got this ash of war just to kill myself if I get styled on too hard
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If there's an ash of war that needs a fat nerf, it's this. Being able to further buff your innate bleed is stupid. Why is that allowed, but not Scholar's Armament on some crummy magic weapon? It's the same principle. Bleed does such monstrous amounts of damage and a weak 140 robustness talisman will NOT save you. Get out your Golden Parry and Misericorde, makes short work of bleed crutchers.
But who cares, I'm gonna be done with the game soon and the patches (if there are any) are far too late. It was genuinely a great game, despite the doodoo PvP balance.
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Whenever I see someone use this on duels I immediately attack them, I can stand faith builds putting gazillion buffs of themselves but this is where I draw the line.
No Mercy to arcane builds until bleed gets nerfed
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Whoever balanced this ash of war probably doesn't work at FROMSOFT anymore.
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I have noticed an odd interaction (bug?) when Seppuku is used while wearing the Deathbed Dress, where I would continuously take small tick damage along with a light stagger effect, for the full duration of the buff. Switching to a different chestpiece fixed it, but this is a bit of a pain since the Deathbed Dress is by far the most fashionable match for the White Mask. Anyone else have further insight?
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Why does it state, it can be put on Colossal Swords if that isn’t the case?
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saw some asshat apply this to the finger print shield and at 50 vigor did INSTANT bleed and over 90% of my hp with a jump attack. fromsoft what the hell man
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Why does it say it lasts 60 seconds when it lasts 20 seconds? As of Patch 1.04.1
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A shamfur dispray. Commit sudoku an rehdeeem yer famireee honoah!
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if the weapon has buildup stuff on it, does it also inflict the buildup?
im tryna do a poison build and i learned that its better to poison yourself than enemies, and i think it would be cool to use this to poison myself?
help!
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So this, on Godskin Stitcher allows me to clear groups in Mogwyn's with no upgrades. Blood infusion, seppuku, two pokes bleed from behind my shield. Not sure if it's possible to 1 hit bleed proc, if one went full arcane along with this, but maybe it's worth a look.
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You cant use it with Colossal Swords, it says - small and colossal weapons excepted. I tried to put it on my "Greatsword" it just is not there
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My suggestion for seppuku is to use it on weapons with multiple hits per attack such as twinblades. In past Fromsoft games innate bleed would have a hidden multiplier if its a dual weapon or a weapon with multiple hits per attack. This only applied to innate bleed and not buffs. For example a bleed warden's L1 L2 R2 combo would struggle to proc bleed whereas frost weapon buffed sellswords would freeze anything with a pulse (assuming everyone's lower than 85 as status resistance significantly ramps up afterwards). There's no reason to think the innate status effect system isn't in place and seppuku is technically a buff so it gains the benefit of not having a negative multiplier per hit. I tested it on Malenia and sure enough I procced bleed every two or so R1s (usually halfway into the second R1 animation). Fully charger R2s with knight's twinblade would always proc bleed.
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What bosses do you need to beat before you get it (only bosses on the way to get it)
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If you wield a shield and a sword, and use Seppuku on your sword, your Shield will do blood status build up too
(Tested with Haligtree Crest Greatshield and Shield Crash)
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which is better this or crageblade with bleed affinity?
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