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if i use this on a greatsword, with bleed infusion, does the pushback from the charged r2 do bleed?

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The "HUOGH" sound was a lot cooler.

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With a Reaper,use that liké a pickaxe,it a weapon of mass destruction

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This works great on a halberd (and probably spears too) because the charged r2 attack doesn’t have as log of a windup (at least, it feels that way) due to it being the character jumping and stabbing the target.

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the "im about to do something really reckless" ash of war

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Does this work with spells?

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One of the strongest PVP AOW - basically a 1-stage Stamp that gives your heavy attacks hyper armor (but no absorption). Adds a lot of utility and threat to a melee focused build.

Pros and tips:
-Works ONE HANDED (if you are using 2H Braggart’s Roar is mostly superior)
-40s uptime means you can simultaneously use a shield AOW in offhand like parry.
-Significant hyper armor but not infinite (can tank a colossal R1 but not dual-wield jump L1).
-Covers significant ground on charged, but is typically easily dodged.
-Significant damage boost with roar medallion.
-Works best on halberds and lances (2 thrusts, each uncharged counterhits for 1400+ on ~750 AR, roar medallion + spear talisman).
- Also very successful on slower weapons to bait a trade (great curvedswords hit for around 1K uncharged on 800 AR, can roll catch from stagger)
-The first hit is slow, but the second hit comes out faster and can typically bait people into trading into it.
-Is a true combo on colossal great swords R2 -> R1. Keep in mind ppl are more reluctant to trade into colossals
-Consumes minimal FP throughout a fight

CONS:
- much of the utility comes from trading, typically you’ll eat ~ 500 dmg to deal ~1000, not for lighter builds due to lack of absorption.
- much less useful once you’re low enough HP to be one-shot since your dmg comes out second
- hitbox is sometimes janky (particularly on curved GS)
- counterplayed by good players with a ranged punish
- 2 uncharged R2’s will typically drain ~70%+ of your stamina and will often leave you unable to roll with bad stamina management.
- need a strong 1H weapon to make trades worth it (i.e. guardian swordspear), not ideal for light weapons
- initial startup does not seem to have hyper armor for a few frames (meaning you can’t just throw this out when an attack is about to hit you)
- the weapon buff only affects the physical damage of the weapon - less effective on dual damage types

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I put this on a Golem Halberd. It made it bounce off a Brass shield. So it must treat your weapon as a straight sword or something. I had 81 poise. The Lyndell soldier was the shielded guy on the stairs going up towards Fortified Manor.

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How much does this thing magnify stance damage and poise damage? It seems very significant. I used it on a spear and normal charged attacks don't stagger a zamor knight. But with war cry active, the charged R2 will stagger them now and hit them 3 times, it stance breaks them. Its like a mini square off.

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Idc what anybody wants to say, Im gonna put this on my caestus and charge some fools and slap them silly

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Seems dogshit against anything that can't be easily staggered with how painfully slow it is atleast on a colossal weapon, might be better on smaller weapons though.

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Way too slow to be worth using, atleast with colossal weapons.

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Your charged attacks can do an amazing amount of damage when they land with this weapon art, but good luck pulling it off against a boss that isn't easily staggered or a giant enemy without them just smacking you out of it and stopping you from even landing your attack.

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It feels good to charge into massive amounts of danger in PVP

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In der deutschen Beschreibung wurde es falsch übersetzt. Dort steht "aufgeladene" o.ä., statt "voranstürmende" (oder was auch immer).

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When combined with a status effect (cold, blood, poison, even rot!) The fully charged heavy applies what appears to be double the listed status. Tested with all status effects however weapon type and/or scaling has slight variation in results. Has very nice gameplay implications for characters with lower int/arc for procing status effects when you only need one to two charged hits. Extremely fun in practice would highly recommend on slower weapons as they often have high status values

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So reading all these damage buffs to "Roars" and getting together the Roar Medallion, Axe Talisman and Highland Axe and wow this might be the most underwhelming build I can imagine to play the game with.

I'm going for Barbaric Roar later, but currently my gimmick is to get about +10 damage on my hits and a heavy attack that has pretty much no use, and most of the Elite enemies in the game are so fast anyways that it's better to bait backstabs or chip with R1 anyways, meanwhile there would be so many other abilities to trivialize the content.

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Even though I didn't use Heavy Affinity, it increased Strength Scaling. This result was learned from a weapon with no strength scaling at all.

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pretty sure this was nerfed in the latest patch. I could have sworn it used to buff the attack power of both weapons when dual wielding but now it only buffs 1 weapon.

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I played through the entire game, all bosses, with a war cry build. As soon as I could I got the ash from Bernahl, the road medal, the axe medal, the barbed cracked tear, and the highland axe for my offhand. Most used weapon was the Greatsword. And with that much experience, I can say... This skill still sucks. With all those pieces of gear buffing my war cry R2s, sure, they hit decently hard, but especially factoring in misses and interrupts, the damage output was nowhere even close to just RKR jumping attacks or even Flame of the Redmanes spam and critical hits. Was it satisfying to kill Morgott in three hits? Hell yes. Were Malenia and Maliketh absolute nightmares? Also yes. In PvE, not even as much bull goat as my 47 endurance allowed plus the bull goat talisman was enough to poise through very much at all, and in PvP, forget it. You will be dead to magic or weapon skills before you even have a chance. When I dropped all the war cry gear and switched to Giant Hunt, PvP became much easier, imagine that.

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Ive been running a sort of Nepheli build on a new playthrough and I never knew this AoW was better than Barbaric Roar and it even stacks with my dedicated summon of Stormhawk Deenh also the fact that it also buffs powerstancing weapons.

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Use this on your right hand and a thrusting sword/dagger/whip on your left then 2 hand the left weapon. The charge itself from the fully charged R2.

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Using a bleed colossal weapon the charged R2 will instant proc bleed. Plus the hyper armor and poise damage this AoW is surprisingly powerful.

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The hyperarmor on the buffed r2's is absolutely insane. Definitely an improvement over the ds3 version

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if I'm running a charge attack focused build (like what certain other people have suggested here in the comments), do I need an armor set with a high amount of poise as well? or can the charge attacks hyperarmor through heavy hits?

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The charged attack poise with this roar is just ridiculous, I have tanked through ultras with only like 35 passive poise. I found the niche for this ash of war, love it.

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I've been using this ash on my strength build and it absolutely wrecks.

Main-Hand: Fire Affinity Colossal weapon with Ash of War: War Cry
Off-Hand: Highland Axe
Talismans: Axe Talisman, Roar Medaillion and Fire Scorpion Charm
Flask of Wondrous Physick: Spiked Cracked Tear and Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear
Other buffs: (in this order) Ash of War: Golden Vow + Flame, Grant me Strength

A heads-up though, I'm fairly sure that bosses have input-reading on charge attacks.

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Is it me or do (at least for some weapons) uncharged R2's also come out quicker when buffed? I tested the Gargoyles' Greataxes' uncharged R2's both buffed and unbuffed and the buffed uncharged attacks definitely felt quicker and with less time inbetween hit 1 and 2.

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In light of all of the ridiculous builds involving status procs and powerful spells, this ash of war feels overlooked. Take note of the insane damage your greatsword will do as you steadily level it and your strength to several increments throughout the game. If you don't poise through an enemy attack through sheer willpower, your characters hitbox will, somehow, graze under an opponents swing missing entirely.

For the non-magic user, this ash of war is simply incredible and it's weird how little it's discussed.

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The sound is so similar to DS3 male death sound I always cry with laughter when I hear it.

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I think something is fishy here; this page says this buffs your right hand weapon, but i am testing this now and that's false, i am dual wielding and it boosts the AP for both hands. On the other hand, barbaric roar doesn't, and only boosts your right hand. Please check this

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I tried this with the pike; there’s no special holding R2. Is that because of the weapon type?

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For anyone wondering where to get this after the Warmaster is dead or disappeared, you can get it at the volcano Manor from Bernahl.

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handed in the bell bearing to the twins to buy war cry and still isnt available. I have also finished the knights stroyline so am in a complicated place and dont know where to get it. Can anyone help with this?

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This + Roar Medallion + Axe Talisman + Spiked Cracked Tear + random heavy weapon = killing Liurnia Erdtree Avatar in 5 hits. 2 hits Radagon's Redwolf if you can land them. This can be achievable very early in the game. Everything you need is in Limgrave. You can go even further by eating Exalted Meat and summon Stormhawk Deenh.

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Does the charge animation stagger players?

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Does the charge animation stagger players?

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bernahl didnt sell that ash for me. i bought everything from him in the warmaster shack and later in vulcan and i dont have this ash...

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I know this is far from the best ash in the game, but man is it fun to run around pancaking things with the Greatsword.

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I wish you could still to go straight into the dragging charge by rolling and then holding r2. it feels so much better than the first charge.

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This isn't working how I'd expect when dual wielding. Could someone else test this? I'm using two of the same weapon (Nagakiba) with War Cry on the left hand and a spammable skill on the right hand. Using 2H mode on left weapon to activate war cry, only my right hand weapon damage gets buffed on the status page. If I switch to dual wield and then back to 2H left weapon it'll also cause the buff to disappear immediately, the same as putting away a weapon that has an active buff on it. Finally, applying any weapon buff to the right hand weapon immediately removes the War Cry buff.

Basically, even though it's a red aura surrounding the player, it seems like the buff is actually getting attached to the right hand weapon (even if activated from the left), and so follows the same rules as weapon enchants.

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This AoW can deal some insane damage with a great sword or colossal sword and is a high risk high reward skill. It has two attacks both with a short range shoulder charge followed up by a weapon attack that can deal considerable poise damage to the target. The shoulder charge provides a large increase to poise so you can ram through enemy attacks but you will take full damage if an attack lands on you while your charging. The shoulder charge can also momentarily stun targets, even stronger knights with shields if you hit them while their shield is down. The first attack is followed up with an over head slam. Most weaker enemies will be out right flattened with this first attack. The second attack is even more devastating. You charge forward again this time dragging your sword along the ground and follow up with an extremely powerful upswing. The second attack can send enemies flying into the air if your wielding a colossal weapon. When used properly you can devastate even really strong knights with shields if your timing is right. Oh and it also provides a damage buff to all of your other weapon attacks as well.

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One of the few methods of hitting enemies that gain poise after taking repeated hits in a short amount of time (armoured knights, omen seekers, cleaver misbegottens, etc). On dual fist weapons, you can occasionally stun-lock bigger enemies that don't instantly jab when their poise procs.

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So every one knows you can earn this buff by using it then switching armaments to you main weapons. The buff will remain active, since I think it buffs your toon instead of your weapon. (Unlike seppuku)

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I killed the knight and took his armor, is there any other way i can get war cry?

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Best with Greatsword (Colossal Sword). Hold down the heavy attack then it will do a charging forward (can cause stagger ie. Banished Knight enemies) then downward attack making enemies go flat to the ground.

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