Ash of War: Sword Dance |
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| Affinity | Keen |
| Skill | Sword Dance |
| Effect | Grants affinities and skills to an armament. |
Ash of War: Sword Dance is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Sword Dance provides Keen affinity and the Sword Dance 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:
"Sword Dance: Quickly close in to perform a series of spinning upward slashes. Follow up with an additional input to finish with a downward slash."
Usable on swords, axes, and polearms capable of slashing (colossal weapons and great spears excepted).
Ash of War: Sword Dance Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Sword Dance:
- Dropped by a Teardrop Scarab found near the Minor Erdtree in southwest Liurnia, below the cliffs leading to a path where several jellyfish are located. Elden Ring Map Link.
Ash of War: Sword Dance Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the skill Sword Dance.
- 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, Curved Swords, Curved Greatswords, Katanas, Twinblades, Axes, Greataxes, Spears, Halberds, Reapers
Builds with Ash of War: Sword Dance
Elden Ring Ash of War: Sword Dance Notes & Tips
- The initial skill input will make the user spin forward a moderate distance and hit twice. An aditional input will slam the armament to the ground, hitting again.
- Distance covered is the same, regardless of weapon class.
- The speed of both inputs in relation to the attacks can vary. This is based on the weapon class of the armament in question that has the skill.
- "Small" armaments such as Daggers, Straight Swords, Curved Swords, Katanas and Axes have overall fast speed on both inputs. There's almost no delay between the input and the attacks.
- "Large" armaments such as Greatswords, Twinblades, Greataxes, Spears, Halberds and Scythes (Reapers) have a slight attack delay on the first input, and a longer, considerable delay, on the second input.
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Why does it have so much hyperarmor? Its just stupid a rand sword dance spammer can poise through greathammers
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Does anyone know if the scarab that has this can glitch and vanish from the game? I noticed today that I don't have Sword Dance, but when went to get it the scarab would just never show up. I also saw some people complaining about the exact same thing in the comments of a video I watched while trying to figure out where it is.
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wild that katanas get the fast version of a lot of ashes like this on top of innate bleed and good poise damage. why cant daggers have any use other than crit stick I feel like ashes should be faster on a dagger than a katana
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It says here the speed of this AoW depends on the weapon it's been put on and I can't say that information is wrong but I had this on a lordsworn's greatsword all through my early game and a good way into mid game and it never felt slow or a hindrance to what I was trying to do.
I put the double slash AoW on flamberge and the difference in attack speed between that greatsword and a katana was immediately obvious and jarring but for sword dance the difference isn't as obvious. I have it on a blood grave scythe now and it might well be faster on a short sword but on that scythe it isn't exactly slow and it hits like a f**king train. Also, as the scythe is spinning it is covering a significantly larger area in front of you than on a sword, obviously that has implications for PVP.
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when I use it: hits nobody
when someone else uses it: infinite phantom range
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phantom range on this is nutty, I can never seem to quite outspace it
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So my first real boss using this with was the ringleader black knife. It showed me how great this is. Started using this while she charged at me, and the follow up saved me from her dash into attack, even the grab attack! 9/10, probably the most versatile melee aow you can get.
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It's weird that it's able to put with some heavy weapon and swing them like their weight were nonexistent.
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I don't know why this AoW is so popular. It surely has a long reach, but its wind up animation is easy to notice, and its recovery speed is bad. Once you see people use it like two or three times, you'll be able to predict its range and setup a counter attack already.
If you want to get better at PVP, stop spamming this and learn other AoW.
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"Yeah this weapon is good just put sword dance on it bro." -guy who does nothing but spam L2 with sword dance on everything.
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This shouldn't be so widely available as it is. Small weapons have so little going for them. Why put this on a straight or curved sword when you can put it on a greataxe and get doubled range and damage? And that's not even considering the rusted anchor's pure thrust damage with the spear talisman, or scythes with their sweet spot mechanic. This is a very potent ash, and making it more limited would have made some less-viable weapons more appealing.
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Very high dps skill. It's very good for the Seamless Co-op mod where you can cheapshot bosses from the rear.
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Do the hits from this skill inflict bleed if you have blood on ur weapon?
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Yeah, the only thing this move lacks is Poise Dmg. PvP and PvE. I think the follow-up attack has a good bit of Poise Dmg but the first two hits has a lot less. I don’t know the exact poise break but had a guy tank the first hit and then roll before the second connected with my Iron Greatsword.
And PvE, you won’t be breaking a lot of Boss’s Stance with this but Regular mobs? This will rekt them.
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Does the damage of this ash of war get increased by incantations like Order's Blade?
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Good ash of war. Just a tuned down waterfowl dance, in terms of damage and in terms of stamina/FP
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Is it good? Yes, especially on a status build. Is it good for PvP? Yes, and can deal quick damage and stagger low poise opponents. Is it OP? No. For one it doesn't break large mobs or bosses stances well, and grants you minimal hyper armor. If you trade with anything, you'll get staggered. It's good if you want to do damage quick, stagger low poise enemies, or build a status. The Final attack in the combo is hard to land against NPC's or in PvP as most of the time they will dodge out of it, leaving you open.
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Use this on a katana, everyone expects bloodhounds step then use this mf to get the jump on them
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Can't find It in my inventory, and the scarab Who drops it isnt there, so it's dead. i'm sure I didn't drop it or sell it... Ng+ i Guess... :(
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As others have said, this is the weapon art from the Follower Sabre back in ds3. One caveat I will mention is the original move on the sabre had guard breaking properties on the upward swing; but this iteration in Elden Ring does not have that. This seems to have made up by the fact that this new version has absurd forward movement, making it a very effective gap closer.
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This is the weapon art of Follower Sabre from Ashes of Ariandel Dark Souls 3 DLC, except instead of being restricted to a one handed Sabre you can put it on two handed weapons. This thing is likely the strongest physical-based ash of war in the game, Double Slash might have higher DPS but this one not only dashes you to enemies, it also staggers enemies on every hit. Put it on a halberd or a scythe and you can kill almost anything just with using the weapon art and moving back to a safe distance.
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Mad Tongue Alberich knew what he was doing putting this **** on the scythe. Absolute nuke of a wa. I love it
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This skill was motivated by Follower's Sabre from Dark souls 3 DLC. The skill has very high posture attack. Even small curved swords can make most mobs including elite knights get staggered. Definitely recommend for any weapon
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You could probably beat a lot of bosses just by sticking this on a weapon, then using it, running out of range, using it, running out of range, repeat.
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Would this work on Noble's Estoc? It has a slashing move.in its basic moveset.
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The damage, speed, and fp cost of this art are all damn good.
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this is awesome on the naginata, especially with bloodflame blade on it
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range? stoopid gud
damage? stoopid gud
stagger? stoopid gud
posture break? well, you can't have bloody everything
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This is by far my favorite invasion ash of war on anything it works on. hits hard and you can use it on GSs and CGs... The gap closing wide nasty slash bleed infused on my arc dragon knight is a nasty additional mix up to all my attacks. Highly recommend
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Can't be used in ultras which is good cause it's already busted on great weapons... Best invasion WA
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Just one-shotted someone with my halberd using this weapon art. Good distance, wide hitbox with halberd and the cost is among the lowest. The most versatile weapon art I've used so far.
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based on the cost alone, i think this should be considered one of the best ashes in the game. amazing at closing distance and overcoming the slow attacking speed of the larger weapons capable of using it.
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Works great for roll catching on spears. it absulutely slays.
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Works on greataxes, happily. Feels kinda busted, with each hit dealing full damage for very little FP.
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Note: Does not raise your physical attack power by 2 levels.
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