Ash of War: Spinning Slash | Elden Ring Wiki

everybody is complaining but I don't find this OP at all. just dodge it. It's not flame strike or storm stomp with a lingering hitbox. Flamestrike is even worse than storm stomp. BUT they're not too hard to evade.

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they only way to counter this skill is to run away (put a huge amount of space between you and them) and throw ranged attacks at them, stay in wide open areas, but even still all it takes is one mistake. very strong skill. guaranteed stun and massive damage every time. Makes fights boring.

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Bernahl is the greatest of all time by selling braindead and overpowered ashes of war right at the start of the game

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Should be only available on 1h straight swords. Thats what the ash of war picture is. Most ashes of war are way too wide spread on weapon availability. Sword dance on spears and halberds, spinning slash on polearms, whats next? Unsheathe on colossal weapons?

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How to play Elden Ring PvP:
1. Equip this brain dead ash of war,
2. L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2,
3. Win every encounter

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Look I get that this is a skill bridge for brain dead players but it’s simply not fun to fight against. Oops! He mashed L2 out of hitstun! There goes half my health!

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can 1st or 2nd part be parried?

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My win button. PvP or PvE. It’s brain dead but so am I.

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please make this so it doesn't true combo anymore

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As someone who usually rocks low-medium poise due to fashion choices and uses small to medium-ish weapon sizes, this is my mortal enemy. Stunlocks, tons of status buildup, nearly impossible to approach. Jumping attacks MIGHT get over it sometimes, but usually only on the slow variations like with halberds. Nagakiba is just death, I'll be lucky to even trade with one. Such is life.

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in the new update does it true combo in pvp on stuff like greatswords and halberds? I know the dragon halberd does but It's too strong and I'm not sure about the others

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Why did Nagakiba get the fast versions of Double Slash/Sword Dance/Spinning Slash considering its length

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damn they really love putting this on literally every weapon by default

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Am I wrong in saying that Twinblades also do the faster version of Spinning slash, even though they are not mentioned here for the fast version?
At least that's what it feels like when I use spinning slash on a Twinblade

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Why can’t I put this on my Greatsword?

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I have noticed that if you're wearing low poise armor and you roll away from the first part of this attack, you get punished by the full second part if they are using something with a long reach like the Nagakiba. Had someone invade a world I was summoned to and they spammed this and I got caught by the second part pretty much every time :/

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Axes also get the fast spin

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So strong on cold Nagakiba

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The anti-bloodhound step abuser.

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Despite it not being specified in the description, it cannot be applied to Thristung Swords

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This works fantastically on normal axes. It's not noted on the wiki but just like sword dance axes get the quick version of the attack. considering the high flat damage of axes it's a very good option for them.

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this needs the same kinda damage as sword dance, for both pvp and pve this is one of the best feeling AoW to use imo but the damage output and poise damage really just doesnt make the cut past like stormveil

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The fast version doesnt need to have a faster speed and better poise damage. It might be best to tone down the poise damage so you can escape it or a damage down, since this is easely spammable on weapons like the nagakiba (weapons with long reach and are still on the quick side).

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the fast version needs a little bit of a tone down but other then that this is a pretty balanced ash of war

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Pretty underrated AoW, it's incredibly good on Nagakiba, maybe even better than Sword Dance AoW.

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This AoW on Halberds is an excellent rollcatcher. Roll into your opponent, make them think you are going to throw roll attack. Instead use this after roll, and 90% of time you will get em.

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underrated, one of my favorites

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Extremely good on halberds, since they often have reach, can can struggle to cover wide area around user. This thing can help with that. If it catches someone with first sweep and staggers them, they will get locked into entire combo, which nets pretty good 1k damage or so.

Of course Flaming Strike is both faster and higher dmg, but people dislike fighting it. So you can use this one as viable alternative.

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fellas, should we have moveset videos for ashes of war on different weapon types?

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this is extremely good on the Nagakiba. Long range + fast animation will let you land all 3 hits pretty consistently which combos into the katana powerstance chain really well. With bleed procs and poise breaks, you can do massive damage in pvp

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Despite it being keen on Dex putting this Ash of War on the Warped Axe makes it pretty godly in both pve and pvp.

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Full weapon art connects is someone has low poise or just below medium.

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Best thing about this is the first hit does quick posture damage while the second hit doesn't but only adds more dmg. Posture damage is much needed for dex builds so the first hit can come in handy.

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I don't know if its always been like this, but at least as for now on patch 1.04, the Spinning Slash skill on Curved Swords seems to stance break even highest poise (80) enemies within 2 casts.

That is really interesting because,
1. This brings up the opportunity to stance break bosses and super elite mobs in 2 - 3 casts on a light and fast weapon like Bandit's Curved Sword. Being able to stance break enemies reliable and fast, while still being able to put any affinity you could dream of on said weapon is a huge plus in my book.
2. It seems that bigger weapons like Halberds, Reapers etc are NOT able to break stance with 2 - 3 casts performing Spinning Slash. I don't know why, but definetly seems like it. (Tested this on the Blackflame Monk in Divine Tower of Cealid, since this giga chad has 80 poise which is the highest non boss poise value a mob can have)

So for some reason, Spnning Slash is "better" when used on Curved Swords than on any other weapon. I mean Curved Swords do have a different animation to the Spinning Slash than other weapon classes. I think this is really interesting when trying to find out which weapon someone might wanna use etc.
I gotta say tho, I haven't tested Curved Greatswords, maybe these bad boys share the same animation and stance break when using this WA.

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Extremely overlooked ash of war. Everybody takes sword dance not knowing that this thing can often be better.

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Speedy, spinny, and knocks normal sized enemies away, good for status effect buildup on colossal swords since it hits two times.

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After some basic testing: if you put this on a lucerne, halberd or a spear (and I assume any weapon that shares the same sweep animation), all three hits will truecombo into each other as long as the enemy has 35 or less poise. At 41 poise, I would be hit by first two, but recover and roll away after third hit.

I don't know the exact breakpoints, but the efficacy of this ash is heavily dependent on the gear enemy wears when you hit them.

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This ash has different animations and speed depending on the weapon you put it on. On a lucerne or partizan, it will spin quite slowly and won't combo. On a smaller weapon like an axe or a scimitar, it will spin pretty fast and seemingly combo.

So if you were a fan of it with longer weapons in DS3, give it a try on something like a warped axe and you might have yourself a new setup.

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I start to love this since lvl70.
1) hyper armor included
2) simple answer when cornered
3) decent poise damage (3~4 use broke stance of Tree Sentinels in Lyndell)
4) Second slash usually slip through shield given the timing of how AI counterattack.

When I was near lvl90 (with just 22 dex and +20 Nagakiba) and started exploring Lyndell, got cornered by ~2 soldiers and ~2 knights, I just blindly hit l2 for 5 times and cleaned the area with taking only 1~2 hit.

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I start to love this since lvl70.
1) hyper armor included
2) simple answer when cornered
3) decent poise damage (3~4 use broke stance of Tree Sentinels in Lyndell)
4) Second slash usually slip through shield given the timing of how AI counterattack.

When I was near lvl90 (with just 22 dex and +20 Nagakiba) and started exploring Lyndell, got cornered by ~2 soldiers and ~2 knights, I just blindly hit l2 for 5 times and cleaned the area with taking only 1~2 hit.

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Seems to have decent hyperarmor

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Seems to have decent hyperarmor

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So can I get this one only from Bernahl?

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Slightly overpowered ash of war when powerstancing two bleed weapons.

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I found this ability very useful for quickly clearing out the swarm of small imps during the boss fight with Erdtree Burial Watchdog, in Impaler's Catacombs.

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