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Grants choice of affinity upgrade to weapon
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Black Whetblade is a Whetblade in Elden Ring. Black Whetblade grants choice of affinity upgrade to a weapon. Key Items in Elden Ring include a wide variety of items found in specific locations or are given by a related NPCs which are used to unlock areas, quests, and to further progress the game's story.
Black whetblade with a cipher engraved. Can be used as a whetstone knife.
When applying an affinity using physical or occult-type ashes of war, an additional affinity of poison, blood, or occult can be chosen.
Where to find Black Whetblade in Elden Ring
- Found on a corpse slumped in front of an altar in Night's Sacred Ground. [Map Link] Video Location
Elden Ring Black Whetblade Use
Black Whetblade adds the Poison, Blood, and Occult Affinities to the menu when selecting compatible Ashes of War.
Elden Ring Black Whetblade Notes & Tips
- Notes & Tips go here
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Occult is a great choice for anyone already pumping Arcane for the Dragon Communion Seal. Very pleased with my +25 Occult Nightrider Flail.
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This does awesome arcane scaling, definitely the best for bleed builds
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Very disappointed with occult, at 50 Dex/60 Arc I consistently find my AR lower with occult, even with the bleed buff it gets when compared to Keen + Buff excluding Dragon Communion seal which is doing wonky things to buffs, perhaps I'm just stupid but until R.o.B. and/or Eleonora gets nerfed I'll stick to it before respec.
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you cant buff an occult weapon even though it does pure physical?? why?
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I feel like I’m missing out on how to effectively use this item. I’m a pure STR build, but when I add a phys ash (determination), I can add it as a blood affinity, but it still drops my STR scaling back to non-phys ash levels. So, no change there from pre-black whetblade.
Conversely, if I add bloody slash, I can now add it as a Heavy affinity, which maintains STR scaling and gives me the bloody slash L2 attack…but no bleed attacks with R2/R2.
Is this how it works?
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Occult weapons can't be buffed, even if they are pure physical. At first I thought this was an issue with arcane scaling weapons not being buffable, but varre's bouquet scales with arc, has bleed, AND is buffable. Why is it like this? I feel like Occult is just worse than keen + bloodflame unless you use Seppuku. This kills arcane build variety.
I was a bit disappointed that my arcane build wouldn't get Occult until Radahn and then remembered I could obliterate him with Rotten Breath. Dunno if it's too cheaty or not to do though
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none of these affinities are available for any ash of war for me, is this a bug?
So what does Occult do exactly? I think bloody is better than occult?
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I have this but in the normal ashes of war, it's not applying poison affinity, I also have red hot whet blade and so fire affinity is available but poison isn't for some reason. Is this a bug or just me ?
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There's also a Red Hot Whetblade in Redmane Castle. Gives Fire/Flame Art affinity.
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It's a shame that Occult weapons that only get physical arcane scaling and nothing else cannot be buffed with sorceries/incantations.
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This is a game changing item for anyone going for status builds. I stumbled upon it by chance after spending many hours searching for poison/blood whips and claws. With this whetstone you can apply a basic physical ashes of war that works for almost any weapon type (like war stomp, determination etc) including whips and claws and apply poison or bleed to them! Bleed/poison power stancing whips hoh baby.
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Map link seems to be wrong. Btw can you get this without beating any bosses?
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there's also a red-hot whetblade down in caelid, in redmane castle if you go past the iron maiden guy and up the ladder
I initially thought it was strange that occult weapons couldn't be buffed where in DS3 hollow-infused weapons could. But now that the game's been out a while, I gotta say that Arcane builds really DON'T need any more bleed/frostbite than they already have.
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