Ash of War: Unsheathe is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Ash of War: Unsheathe provides Keen affinity and the Unsheathe 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:
"Unsheathe: Skill of swordsmen from the Land of Reeds. Sheathe blade, holding it at the hip in a composed stance. Follow up with a normal or strong attack to perform a swift slash attack."
Usable on katana.
Ash of War: Unsheathe Location in Elden Ring
Where to find Ash of War: Unsheathe:
- Dropped by a Teardrop Scarab in the water in the South East portion of Agheel Lake, North West of the Agheel Lake South Site of Grace. Elden Ring Map Link.
Ash of War: Unsheathe Elden Ring Guide
- Grants the skill Unsheathe.
- Provides the Keen affinity, which provides increased 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: Katanas
Elden Ring Ash of War: Unsheathe Notes & Tips
- Notes and player tips go here.
Builds with Ash of War: Unsheathe
AnonymousIn PVP katanas come in only 3 flavours: Monveil, Rivers of Blood, and Unsheathe.
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Only 2 Katanas that can be infused with this aow but 3 Flails with no Spinning Chain aow.
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This ash of war carried me until leyndell, i wield uchi and nagakiba (with dual slash) and i just cant to not rely on this
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The l2 r2 should've had bb's chikage's 2nd r2 as a follow-up. Change my mind.
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They need to bring back the Hold weapon skill from ds3. Would be nice to have the parry combined with the multi hit slashes from the frayed blade together.
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such a fun pvp ash. R1 for tight croud control, R2 for the rollcatch
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Use this in a DEX Build with Lightning Nagakiba, better in dual stance, jump attack + Unsheathe is a combo, not a true combo because it depends on latency, but pretty solid combo, almost one shot
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honestly kind of busted to the point where you hardly ever need to use your normal moveset in pve. imo, it would be more interesting if it did less damage but had the unsheathe parry from ds3. it would be more versatile and give you a reason to use any other move.
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LET. US. PUT. IT. ON. THE. CANE. SWORD. (And maybe nobles slender)
In german it is called Iaido and not unsheath. Why not in english too?
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****ing hell stop asking to nerf this. You already took rivers of blood and rotten breath, what more do you want? Will you not be satisfied until everyone is as miserable as you?
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This will stagger bosses faster than your colossal weapons lmao
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should be usable on curved swords and curved greatswords (but slower)
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they nerfed katana running attacks just to give the weapons this ****ing thing
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Why would you ever play a trade hitting build with a collosal when you can switch to lightning katana with bull goat to do more damage, faster? For reference, my collosal hammer barely wins a a trade against square off, but unsheathe does double my own damage... while also being incredibly fast, longer and racking up heavy bleed at 0 arcane investment. Nerf unsheathe, and put washing pole in the curved great swords category where it belongs. Lord knows great swords don’t get straight sword move sets, we learned why that’s cheese in ds3. How are we gonna fix ds3 straight swords absurd length and nerf square off just to make katanas even worse in ER. No really, why can’t my great sword powerstance with a straight sword? And do bleed at the same time, and have square off? Also, are we gonna ignore how useless heavy armor is against bleed? Even moonveil will force me to cure bleed and risk damage.
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straight swords should be able to use this, it would make perfect sense and look dope as hell
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Most useless Ash of War. Only two katana's can have their ash of war replaced, and their default is Unsheathe already. LOL
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I like how this skill can only be used on two weapons in the entire game, and it's also the default skill for BOTH of them.
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People complaining about this doing tons of damage but when we bring up RoB, MV, and Colossal Weapons having the same, probably better damage, everyone starts looooosing their miiiinds....
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Still wish there was a Frayed Blade type attack without a magic effect
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You can use it in your ushigatana to make it keen and keep the same art.
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imagine a cooler version of this that takes more fp and a little less damage thats like jetstreme sam's bossfight attack where he boosts forward and unsheathes in your face
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The L2+R2 seems kind of redundant. Should've been L2+R1 as the unsheathe attack and the L2+R2 could've been the Frayed Blade multi-slash attack.
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What accessories would be good to further boost the damage/utility of unsheathe? Would the Carian Filigrede Crest lower the cost by more than a couple fp? The Alexander/Jar Shard talismans to enhance the damage? Ancestral Spirit's Horn to restore fp outside of pvp/boss fights?
I'm currently high arcane bleed build and looking to swap to katanas and was wondering if it'd be worth it to focus on unsheathe since I don't really enjoy RoB spam.
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I feel like it should also be to put this on straight swords and maybe curved swords. Not just the 2 katanas that can change their ash of war.
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I just wish you could still parry with it. But maybe later they'll add another version of unsheath that can do this.
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Came here to point out that this is actually more dangerous than moonveil. I don’t understand why they gave katanas an option to reaction trade even collosal weapons. Meanwhile they nerfed square off into the ground because it could do so too easily in past titles. 50 vigor and bull goat armor? The katana guy will take two thirds of that in one trade.
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Yeah, lets give one of fastest and furthest reaching moves a damage of Colossal charged R2. - probably some guy at FromSoft.
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Players having fun with a weapon????? Nerf it now fromsoft, shame on you for letting this go past the radar.
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This weapon art most definitely needs a damage nerf takes like half of some guys hp in a single weapon art.
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Katanas are already stronger than most other lightweight , fast weapons. What they lacked was good poise damage. With this even even most bosses get staggered in 2-4 uses. Don't be fooled by the simplistic ability.
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Does this exist only to change the affinity of the two basic katanas? Please confirm
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Does this exist only to change the affinity of the two basic katanas? Please confirm
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This and double slash are sleeper terrible. Disregarding their popular special counterparts, there's cheaper, faster, longer ranged, and harder hitting (all at the same time) normal weapon arts.
I'd rather have this nerfed in other ways and regain the parry ability, that was so much fun in DS3
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It would be cool to have the DS3 katanas weapon art, that katana parry was so cool and fun
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In case anybody is wondering what's the point of this Ash of Wat... Imagine a Nagakiba with R2 Unsheathe and extra blood loss/freeze and blood loss. You're welcome.
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Makes no sense why you can’t use it on other swords. Having it on curved sword at least would make sense. Hopefully they add more katanas in the next dlc. Maybe an odachi.
The heavy is just so powerful. I really wanna know exactly how the damage calculation for this Ash is done. Sometimes, I seem to be doing near-chip damage to a boss or enemy, then I use Unsheathe and watch a solid chunk of their healthbar disappear lol. It's honestly slept on.
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Can be used to parry if timed right, also does the slash damage. Great for big damage if you time it right.
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What a pointless art if it can't be applied to any other weapon type
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Can only be used on Katanas, yet there's only 2 Katanas that can use it. Disappointing, ngl.
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could anyone test to see if this ash works on the Wakizashi? its a dagger but is able to be powerstanced with katana's apparently
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So, yes, you can use this on your Uchigatana to get the Keen scaling buff.
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Stance attack info:
Light Attack: Horizontal slash comparable to a regular heavy with focus, and a slightly stronger light without.
Heavy Attack: Vertical slash comparable to fully charged heavy attack with focus, and a slightly less damaging heavy attack without.
Heavy w/ focus can instantly: kill smaller enemies (Like smaller flower enemies guarding larger flower), stance break most enemies (Like swamp pot creatures) and deal insane damage if combined with extra damage from unaware bonus.
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“Who will face me first!”
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