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When she burns herself, I like yo use this weapon.
I know it's terrible and there a way better daggers or holy weapons but from an lore/insert perspective, it's a way to remember Melina, so I like to use it in the endgame (yes, everyone destroys my ass because holy damage sucks)

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The knockdown on the skill has trivialized alot of larger enemies for me. Omen beware! I love this little knife. Running a Banished Knight build currently with dual BK Greatswords and this little number. Alexander Talisman with Carian Filigree lets me perform many shenanigans.

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Dudes whining and moaning about it being optimal. How about you optimize some h0es and use whatever weapon is fun for you.

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B lade O f Calling
B O C

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“The power of its former owner, the kindling maiden, is still apparent” Apparently not enough, it sucks

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It’s not worse then black knife in every way, it has better faith scaling…..that’s about it

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It can’t be argued anything superior about this dagger since black knife exists and sacred blade outperforms it. One of the coolest out there but it’s a shame it’s not great

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According to the description I would think Blade of Culling would be a more appropriate name. Anyone know what its called in Japanese?

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Marika's dagger she gave to Melina to help her fulfill her duty as kindling maiden. Marika was from a royal Eternal family, and her siblings, now the Black Knife Assassins, carries similar blades deformed by the rune of death.

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It falls short of the Black Knife in every case, yes. However, I found that just due to the similarities and only barely falling short this is a great dagger if you're looking for something to power stance WITH the Black Knife. After playing around with some red and gold armor I've come up with a sort of yin-yang build, because I think the similar weapon skills lend themselves to a character who has decided to wield two opposing forces in a unique and powerful way. Don't skip out on this just because the Black Knife beats it, work them in tandem with one another. The lore implications are to cool to pass up this weapon.

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Ok but why tf does the Melina summon in the morgott fight go so ****ing wild with this thing. Like she has black knife AI on hypersteroids.

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Only advantage this has over black knife is you can knock someone off a ledge with this in pvp which is great for a laugh.

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What is ***h supposed to mean?

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If I could, then I would, I'd go wherever you will goooooo.....

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Iv never seen anyone with this sword and iv never found it no matter how many times iv played through the game

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Unfortunately even on 80 faith and 13 dex it still falls slightly behind the black knife in ar despite the higher faith scaling. The ash of war on the black knife is more useful in boss fights although blade of gold can knockback some enemies which could sometimes be useful. Really think this should have higher ar on a pure faith build though.

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The black knife before it went goth.

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black knife is still superior due the sheer AR of its skill and higher scaling

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Melina's moves when using the dagger shows there was a missed opportunity, the ash of war could have been like a stance to do similar things, it would have been cool to have something like the aquamarine dagger from ds3.

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No matter what amount of Dex or Faith you have Black Knife is better. Even at abysmally low dex and high faith Black Knife still has more AR and the faith boosts its weapon ash. There is literally NO reason to use Blade of Calling. Some people say that the stagger potential of Calling's ash, Blade of Gold is worth it but not really when you consider that in PvP the long windup means that even if you time it right the enemy will still have time to roll out of it and the stagger won't usually last long enough at the distance you would use it at to normally anyway. Factor in that Black Knife's Blade of Death ash can proc through rolls and Blade of Calling and its ash are just horrible. I honestly feel like so many weapons have bugged or simply imbalanced scaling.

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Was'nt Blade of Gold reduce to 17 FP a few patches ago.
Yep 17 whit no gear to reduce it.

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The actual problem with this weapon is that it's outclassed by the counter part (Black Knife) in pretty much everything. Even if going pure faith, Black Knife's AR is higher, and the ash of war Blade of Death status goes over the i-frames, giving black knife another advantage in from of the Blade of Calling

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for pvp, the weapon skill has a lot of knockback, and can easily smack people off cliffs

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I wish you could do some cool flips and stuff with this like how melina does during the morgott fight

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Where is Pollyanna's gold sigil to summon her for commander O'Neil? I don't remember seeing one for that fight.

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I've just beaten Maliketh but his remembrance gives access to a sword which has a weapon art doing holy damage and I think the black blade incantation is holy damage as well. So does anyone have opinions on this? Everyone says holy damage is almost useless for late game areas and the enemies or bosses in them. So what is the point of using that remembrance for a weapon or incantation that does holy damage and wont do me much good anyway?

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The problem with this weapon is the very low base holy damage(for a dagger and all the cons of daggers as a whole) barely breaking triple digits at 105 at +10 which undermines it's high B scaling yet they gave it 173 physical with a quality-esque D/C in str/dex on top of being found in a late game area(where by that point in the game holy damage is almost useless).

The weapon art however is amazing on a pure faith build but outside said weapon art it leaves a lot to be desired as a 'weapon' weapon.

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First off, daggers/claws are my favourite class. But I still gotta say they need a buff (Daggers I mean), but lets first talk about Blade of Calling.

Best looking dagger, nice looking ability, nice damage at low levels, interesting lore behind it, knockback, costs less than black knife's ash of war and weighs less, lower requirement.

Worse than black knife because it purely deals holy damage and holy damage needs some sort of buff cause it's beyond useless in the end game.

Overall daggers need higher riposte damage. Usually an ash of war will hit for harder than actually parrying a boss and doing a riposte, same goes for backstabs. This should not apply to PvP because I do not want daggers to be able to one shot in every build.

Daggers could also need several ash of wars that allows them to open up enemies to critical hits such as Black Knife Assassins do when grabbing you, allowing you to use critical hits to your advantage. Which would further make people use critical talismans more than it's made now, allowing for a more stealthy approach/tactical approach to try to get as many critical hits in so you can use your abilities.
I know sidestep exists, but sidestep wont help me open up Maliketh for a critical attack.

Also daggers gotta stop doing several hits do none existant damage on first hits. If you're going to put in a dual wielded daggers do several hit animation, every hit should count as towards higher damage. If that doesn't work in the game it should be redesigned because I'm not gonna risk dying for doing 90 % less damage when I can just do a light attack and do pretty much the same damage.
As of right now Scimitars beats daggers in DPS which is not okay when daggers have less range and fewer customizability options in terms of ash of wars.

Daggers should be DPS king in the right hands and should be a hard weapon to use since you need to close the gap between you and the opponent but once you're in close range they should fear you.

Scimitars deals faster damage because they actually hit faster dual wielded than daggers do dual wielded (Because of the stupid dagger dual wielded animation) in terms of damage per hit, they have more range so they can get to targets faster AND their jump attack is ridiculously op with bleed.

Lastly two heavy attack animations is not always a good idea. This can be seen in an example below. While daggers actually is good at this, it shouldn't apply to the horse since it is practically useless in MOST scenarios.

Example of why having two attack heavies is not a good idea: On horse back if you're using a scimitar for example and charging a heavy attack you can't even hit a still standing scarab cause as soon as your 14 damage first hit comes in your next actual damage hit will miss cause the scarab will get stunned and will automatically be moved to the side. This renders heavy attacks useless on horseback and promotes light attack spam instead.

This can be tested near Agheel Lake North to the east on a scarab near a bridge as a Warrior.

Feel free to disagree or agree :)

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Guys you all are missing the point of this...this is for builds that want to use a dagger with high faith but no big dex investment. Of course the black knife is better with dex combo. Stop going to lvl 150 where you can get everything without sacrifice and stay at 125 where you actually have to make choices that make things more viable.

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Needs a big buff. Despite the high faith scaling, it damage after 50 faith drops hard.

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If Melina was/is the Gloam-eyed Queen then maybe the Blade of Calling was imbued with Destined Death before it was taken from her by Maliketh. After Destined Death was stolen from Maliketh, maybe the Black Knives were forged in the same fashion as the Blade of Calling because there is something particular about the shape of the blade that allows them to more stably be imbued with Destined Death and that is why they are similarly shaped even though the Black Knife description labels their shape as ‘odd’?

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I believe melina was a black knife assassin. The blade of calling is just a holy version of the black knife, and if I remember right (its been a while since i fought morgott) she moves like a black knife assassin. And she uses torrent Also ranni knows torrent because she talks about him a few times with you. ranni also led the black knives which means she probably knew torrents former master (melina). So Melina probably wanted to put her black knife assassin past behind her and became the nice, dagger wielding, maiden we know and love.

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So, the blade of calling is Melina's weapon, and it's found in the magisterial offices (as evidenced by the official's robe found outside the room.) The official's robe is also identical to the robes of House Marais, a family of executioners. Melina's body was burned, and that's why she lost her memory. Her body was burned by the House Marais, although it's unsure if they were acting on behalf of Melania, independently, or on behalf of the city of Lyndel. Any of those seem possible, since it was Melina's purpose to burn the Erdtree. I suspect she was burned to stop her, maybe thinking that burning her was the only way to fulfill her destiny of death by fire, without actually burning the tree.

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Do not be mistaken, this isn't a dagger. It's Miyazaki wanting to put a glock into the game but his team telling him it would break the immersion, so turned it into this instead. Absolutely unbelievable as a sidearm on full faith builds. I found myself using this more often than incantations just because it hits that hard. Very good stagger too.

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Awesome weapon art. I wish daggers weren't such a hassle. I hate missing a gigantic boss because it moved two centimeters away from me.

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I got 3720 damage with Blade of Calling and "only" 3212 with Black Knife, same buffs.................so I would say this one is better.
Buffs : Holy-shrouding tear + Howl of Shabriri + Commander's Standard

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Gonna try powerstancing Black Knife and this for a Ciaran cosplay.

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Okay so I started using this wepaon and when I use the skill my attack power for all other weapons gets a +10

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As far as poise breaking is Flames of The Redmanes still better?

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Black Knife has higher AR, identical WA with better effect, while only weights 0.5 more. Oh, and did I mention you can get Black Knife WAY earlier?

Buff this thing more, From.

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The connections between Melina and Ranni are too much to ignore, can't wait for the lore to be fully analysed once we have DLC

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Needs to be buffed, cause there isnt much reason to pick it over Black Knife.

The weapons are nearly identical in their moveset and Skill, but BK has a better effect overall, and more dmg.

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is there a possibility this is one of the blades that would become a black knife it fits the "oddly misshapen blade" description.

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So Can Anyone Explain When I Get To The Same Place Where The 'Blade Of Calling' Is Located At And Only For The Erdsteel Dagger There Instead?

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So Can Anyone Explain When I Get To The Same Place Where The 'Blade Of Calling' Is Located At And Only For The Erdsteel Dagger There Instead?

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So did anyone else find an erdsteel dagger instead of the blade of calling? Cause when i went there im thinking im getting the blade of calling but i get the erdsteel dagger instead

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It is close in appearence to the Black Knife dagger, just without all the jagged ends. Curious to think about if we assume Melina isn't teleporting.

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that weapons looks similar to gold tracer from ds1

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Damage is going to be comparable to Black Knife regardless of build, only re choice to make is weapon skill preference and aesthetic. Blade of Gold knocks down, Blade of Death reduces max HP and deals additional DoT. Both have their strengths.

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If you think this is usless you have no idea how stats work in this game. This is a caster version of the Black Knife since it has better FTH scaling.

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Anyone else think this bears a fairly striking resemblance to the Shamshir weapon? Similar coloration and curvature, and the hilt looks very similar too. I guess both Melina and Malenia are daughters of Marika, so it makes sense there'd be some connection.

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The Blade of Gold have more poise dame comparing to Blade of Death and it also cost less.
So this is not completly worse than the Black Knife like many people say.

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People are like 'haha lazy dev exact same as Black Knife' but I think that's entirely the point, seeing how the Black Knives look almost the same but are imbued with the power of Destined Death... Safe to say with Malena's whole thing about DD and Ranni's Ritual that they're probably involved in some way.

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Literally black knife but not as good! Both abilities scale as holy damage! But the black knife debuffs and dot! Like let’s be real devs got lazy

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Literally black knife but not as good! Both abilities scale as holy damage! But the black knife debuffs and dot! Like let’s be real devs got lazy

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Literally black knife but not as good! Both abilities scale as holy damage! But the black knife debuffs and dot! Like let’s be real devs got lazy

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Can anyone confirm what an old comment state? This WA does more stagger/posture break than the black knife?

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To those wondering if this is Melina’s dagger. I don’t see anything that says for absolutely sure, however if you listen to what she quotes at the giants forge and look at the dagger info they are the same quote.

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Weapon skill costs less than the Black Knife and has knockdown. Able to knock down Malenia.

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"The one who walks alongside flame, Shall one day meet the road of Destined Death." ~the item description foreshadows the three finger ending, true ending?

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Millicent doesn't use that weapon, she uses a Shamshir with Waterfowl Dance and katana moveset

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Same AoW animation as black knife
Same weapon form as black knife
Same extra stealth damage from back
Hm...

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I wonder why you find this weapon in that office-looking room. Isn't it supposed to be Melina's or something?

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this dagger helped me defeat black knife tiche when i was a faith dragon incantation build noob

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Using this and the black knife dagger on a dex/faith build for a lord's blade Ciaran vibe

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Both this and the black knife's weapon art are great for dodging ground based AOEs if timed correctly, and they also have some surprisingly good hyperarmor

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Not really sure what the deal is, but the Blade of Calling's weapon art seems to do less damage on every hit after the 1st.
Tested on several different enemies, every hit after the 1st seemed to do roughly ~15% less damage.

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Anyone else notices that Melina moves like a Black Knife assassin during Morgott's fight?

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Haven't seen this in the comments but if you duel-wield both this and the Black Knife I'm almost positive it does both of their ashes of war at the same time when you activate it. This is with the Black Knife in right hand. Needs further testing.

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This dagger appears to be what the Black Knife looked like before it was modified with the Rune of Death - since the Black Knife assassins were Numen, this is likely a Numen made dagger - to me its implied that Marika gave it to Melina, perhaps Marika had twin daggers and made one into the Black Knife for Ranni, the other to arm Melina, thus setting in motion both halves of her plot.

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The room where you get this is easily the funniest in the entire game. It looks like a normal office, there's even a guy sitting outside... but the only way to get to it is to jump off a lift. No alternate entrance. Absolute hilarity.

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Is the Nox Maiden Dagger not available?

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i kind of wanna main this for melina

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I was able to continuously knock down the Fell Twins (the ogre bosses on the bridge near this weapon's location) with every ability cast. It's not quick, but for single enemies, it might be good cheese tbh.

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Hmm I dunno guys since black knife is the obvious counter-part to this you'd think this one would be the more holy one and i believe it technically can do more holy stat wise eventually I currently have like 42 faith now which youd think would be enough to counter the balance but the base holy damage on the black knife still wins out by 100 more damage (both are leveled at 9 currently, blade of calling only does about 10 more base physical damage so its more like 90 realistically but still). But its not even that big of a deal right, only 20 damage, the main pain is that the black knife weapon art just plain does more damage both because of the maximum health debuff and the DOT damage, little miffed personally as black knife is a little too edge boy for me style wise and would prefer this ya know but its hard to find a reason to use it. Also iv seen people say that the weapon art on this will do more poise damage compared to the blade of death but honestly i havnt seen any difference so if it does its not particularly worth the worse damage nor noticeable enough to make ends meet ya know.
Also side tangent but i find it really annoying every dagger that isn't the "dagger" only deals 110 critical, a few dont even get a critical bonus which is kinda insulting that literal black blade of death which was used to kill godwyn the golden has the same critical bonus as the black and battered Lordsworn's great/straight sword which you can get at the start of the game from some low tier guards. I dont even know how you defend that like why in the world does Lordsworn's weapons do critical

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If you're pure faith (with my build at 80 Faith) Sacred Erdsteel Dagger does more damage as a melee weapon, mainly due to the scaling also applying to its physical component. The ability of this weapon makes for a good bread and butter Holy damage spell though if you want an alternative to the lightning and fire incantations that make up most of the Faith offensive spell repertoire and could free up a memory slot.

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Black Knife ash of war does more damage, but the Blade of Calling ash of war seems to score more knockdowns/poise damage.

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Very strong for a pure faith build.
The weaponskill is kind of better than offensive faith spells 99% of the time and carian filagree crest doesn't hurt your hp like primal glintstone blade.

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tried to roleplay as Melina by replicating Melina in character creation and use Melina Armor set (Traveler set) and this dagger, and some holy incantations (lets just say she is good with holy incantations since her dagger is holy)

either way i tried this build, upgraded blade of calling to +8 use Two Finger hairloom, Marika Soreseal, and Sacred Scorpion Charm, at Faith lv70 i got 1750 damage per skill against albinaurics at mohgywn, 2000 dmg with golden vow

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When putting together your edgelord dagger powerstance with black knife armor set, you may ask yourself "Which weapon do I pick? There's Black Knife and Blade of Calling.." If your build is more Dex-reliant, use Black Knife. If you're more Faith-reliant, use Blade of Calling. Note: The reason for this is because they have inverse scalings in both dex and fth.

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If this doesn't show that Ranni, or, Melina, stole the Rune of Death and sent the Assassins out on the Night of Black Knives, idk what will

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If this doesn't show that Ranni, or, Melina, stole the Rune of Death and sent the Assassins out on the Night of Black Knives, idk what will

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Melina's dagger

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I have been dual wielding this with black knife. Blade of calling does holy damage with it's art so it's better against some enemies but most of the time Black Knife art will hit slightly harder (plus max hp down on the enemy)

Another thing to note is Blade of Callings art does a knockback vs most enemies that can be knocked back. (tested on Omens). So very good at knocking foes off ledges

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"the kindling maiden" Dark Souls theories are back in business boys!

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Melena has a unique running animation as well as dodge animation, I just wish there was a talisman that changes your animations to match hers, they look so much cooler.

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Whoever is doing the links in this wiki needs to stop adding "The+" prefix to links - this is not an isolated occurance and needs to be fixed ASAP. Everyone working on the wiki needs to be on the same page. Either include "the+" on everything, or leave it off everything. All it does is break the URLs

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Dual wield with Black Knife for best FTH scaling and coolness factor

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so this is the alternate pair of daggers to the Black Knife? Their weapon art are direct opposite with the same animations

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This weapon *CANNOT* be infused by Ashes of War.

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Mini Gold Tracer

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This weapon CANNOT be infused with Ashes of War.

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It's on the elevator tower next to the Site of Grace Forbidden Lands, you have to jump off to an opening on the wall as you're going up or down near the bottom, through a door.

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is this Melena's weapon?

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