Ash of War: The Poison Flower Blooms Twice | Elden Ring Wiki

Had moderate success versus the big bear bosses with this on Poison hookclaws, with Rotten Breath to help ser up the initial DoT, and a spirit summons to draw aggro.

Something I've not seen others note: each use of this AoW uses up the DoT effect, BUT it's then much easier to re-apply the effect - like, 2-3 hits. I wonder if there's some hidden "not-a-full-reset" mechanic going on?

Finally, actual burst damage seems to be unlinked to weapon type - was getting same results with a greathammer as the claws.

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I made a stupid gimmick build using dual poison infused Rotten Greataxes with this (the offhand just has poison mist for the infusion)

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Does this do the full remaining dot damage? or just a percentage? Does consuming poison do less damage than rot?

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It count as JUMP attack so the GRAVEBIRD'S BLACKQUILL ARMOR and CLAW TALISMAN can increase its AR.

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it does not say this literally anywhere but this will consume the rot DoT on whatever target it hits this with

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it works well with the dryleaf arts, i recommend

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get this and use it on the bloodfiend arm on occult or blood infusion ( S Arcane scaling occult , B Arcane for blood) . Enjoy

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The Shattered Stone Talisman will indeed work with this!

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Really cool ash, as if you put it in a build that can build-up both poison and rot you can slam bosses with a 22% MaxHP Dive kick. Problem being Theres about two weapons you can viably put both poison and rot on, being Antspur and, if you really try, Rotten Duelist hammer. The buildup of the kick itself is fine, but spamming kicks at bosses is gonna get old quick. Really cool art if you force it to work, but unless you were desperately dying to make Antspur a boss-killer this is mostly just a funny high damage dropkick. Good luck ever landing it in PvP.

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Does it counts as jump attack?

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A little confused how this AoW works, sorry if the following is a dumb question:

Will *any* attack after using this cause burst damage on a procced enemy? Or do I need to have procced the enemy and use this in successive fashion to get the burst damage?

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Thinking of running a build with this on beast claws w/ the poison and ice perfumes on offhand to inflict all the status effects as fast as possible on Bayle while also still being able to buff my weapon w/ dragon grease. I also thing this AOW might be helpful to get the hell away from bosses when they do massive AOEs.

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RIDER KICK

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Rider Kick

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So we got insect breathing now

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This thing is awesome you proc scarlet rot with the ash then poison with your weapon

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Why doesn’t it grant Scarlet Rot affinity? Missed opportunity.

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close enough, welcome back Sekiro

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Mushroom Crown and kindred of Rots exultation really rock on this ash of war. If the enemy is vulnerable or weak to poison, you can achieve permanent uptime, especially with a mimic. With venom claws occultist affinity, you can proc poison fast then hit with ash of war, it removes the poison so you can apply it again. Making good use of helm and exultation.

Deadly poison is better with this ash, as it will deal more damage short term than regular, and you'll remove it anyway.

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Use the poison perfume bottle AoW to poison then this to deal a bunch of damage

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Putting these on a hand to hand weapon for a kamen rider build. The rider kick is gonna go crazy

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RIDER KIIIICK!!!

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Did any test out if the rot or damage goes up with your arcane scaleing I am using a misrecode but will switch to dagger as it now has almost S scaleing

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They brought my man Rock Lee to Elden Ring, never forget that the lotus of the leaf village blooms twice

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Similar purpose to poison moth flight but for scarlet rot I guess, anyone knows the build up?

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how about we test before we refute? Shattered Stone Talisman definitely works.

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considering the last boss is rather weak to rot, this could be a good option. also will make you go through your target sometimes which helps avoid the insane tracking of the attacks more reliably than trying to dodge, in some instances.

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Works with Shattered stone talisman.

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I want to like it. I really do. But the feint red glow just doesn't leave me excited. It could've been like the aeonian butterfly pillar Malenia shows us so often. Missed opportunity.

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Actually kind of OP. This ash of war has tons of range and does tons of stagger damage. Just cheesed the death knight with this.

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Very fun assassin play combo. I put poison affinity on backhand blade, using blind spot to dodge and apply poison. Alexanders + rot exultation. Proc poison while dodging > swap to w.e weapon to use flowers bloom twice. My FBT was hitting for 8k on the big bear boss.

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Not affected by Shattered Stone Talisman

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Pair this with the venomous fang claws with a poison infusion, it'll be fun

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This thing looks so goofy it just doesn't look right

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My new favorite AoW, even without the scarlet rot application. Really quick to use, deals significant stagger damage, can hit twice, great range, okay damage. And just as a bonus it can deal massive damage when you do proc that scarlet rot.

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sekiro: flowers bloom twice

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Dang! That's a pretty good Rider Kick! This and the Hand-to-Hand weapons would make a great Kamen Rider theme.

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seems very fun and decent for PvE. Good scarlet rot build up on bosses if you spam it multiple times in a row, while also proving good burst damage on a poison weapon.

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Can confirm, this AoE will apply Scarlet Rot to enemies it hits, with both the Kick and groundslam, which allows it to combo into itself after 3-4 kicks. 2-3 for the Rot, and the 3rd/4th for the burst damage and resetting the proc.
It will not apply Poison from what I can tell, even if the weapon has innate poison, but will apply Rot.

It also combos perfectly with Kindred of Rots Exultation and the Mushroom Crown, because of the self Rot application and burst, allowing for repeated applications

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So I use this on a poison venomous fang. It does hit hard when they are poisoned? but it removes the poison from the enemy. I guess to balance it out so you don't spam it over and over.

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When an enemy is afflicted by both Poison and Scarlet Rot, this skill consumes both but only does the damage for one -- but you can use Poison Moth Flight to remove the Poison first, then switch to this skill to remove the Scarlet Rot, dealing massive burst damage. It doesn't seem like this scales with ARC in particular either.

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It has a very similar effect and is a small chunk more damage than Poison Moth Flight, with no restrictions on weapon type.

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Stick this on a katana and make a terrible Sekiro pun.

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"Conjures stingers of scarlet rot from below to stab the enemy" made me think this was going to give the weapon Scarlet Rot damage and I got SO excited. Aw. Damn it. Probably still cool though.

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Actually does a lot of damage with arcane build

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Sounds like something Might Guy would say

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