Blasphemous Claw | Elden Ring Wiki

I wonder if it can parry the Black Blade incant in PVP

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I wish this was a Sacred Seal with an art of war on it, but it makes sense that it's not.

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Does this work with black knife ringleader alecto

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It's a shame Rykard participated in the night of black knives. He could have bonded with Godwyn over their mutual love of reptiles...

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I never used it, that's why read the description of items is imporatant

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Early-game: Don't worry sweetie, it isn't like Dark Souls, play however you want
Mid-game: ...
End-game: Okay, now parry this 70% of your HP-dealing, tick damage-applying, debuffing move coming at you from the sky

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this should not be lock behind a questline

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Once you learn his moveset this is extremely busted and opens him for even the slowest spells and ashes of war in this. But beware as he moves his back his swing will damage and knock you down.

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Can you parry black knife weapon art with this item?

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This works even if he's not targeting you, as long as you keep close to the person he's targeting.

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I can appreciate why they gave this to us, but anytime I've tried to use it I've died. I have never once found it useful.

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Peep how it looks like Rennala's crown.

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does this work on the first phase

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Meh. Don't need this if you're a decent level. Didn't even know what it did for my first two playthroughs. He goes down easily enough at lev 120.

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i ****ing killed bernahl and i cant get this anymore

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Do I have my timing off with this thing? Askin cause usually when I parry maliketh with this the attack still lands and then he gets all staggered and stuff

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Can this be used for normal parrying too or no?

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ok so you have to use it like an item? that makes it tricky to use other items..

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this thing really makes his phase 2 easier a lot, use this item when U see his sword glowing gold and u should get a window for 4-5 hits if you reposition yourself quickly. Keep your attention when he floats in the air and shoot multiple waves to you in a row, since he always ends this combo with his blade glowing gold which is super easy to parry. Some jump attacks can also be parried.

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I somehow stunned Maliketh on my first try in my first play through and my mimic tear and I shredded him with our twin blades.
He went down then and there.
I didn’t even realize he was considered a very difficult boss.

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My Rl 1 run ended this fight with a parry, since it does a little bit of damage to him. Must be one of my most satisfiying souls moments of all time

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great, now i gotta learn how to parry ****

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this thing should have been an ash of war for shields, like the other 3 parry ashes

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the number of times ive pressed my skill button instead of use item button thinking of this as a parry is absurd

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The moment I parried the Black Blade might be one of the most satisfying moments in this game. Maliketh is an insanely hard, high-pressure boss that is constantly either moving acrobatically out of melee range or chasing you down, and the combination of his sheer damage per hit and Destined Death effects means that you're punished severely for every single hit, including trades. Doing this fight "fairly" if you're mostly a melee character is an agonizing exercise in scrapping for every safe hit. But you're not SUPPOSED to play it this way. I think that the Blasphemous Claw was added not just as a reward for explorative players, but as a key aspect of this fight as an experience, to where if you're playing without it, the game is either punishing your incuriosity with added difficulty or is aware that you're self-handicapping yourself. The Blasphemous Claw levels the playing field between you and Maliketh's extraordinarily punishing Destined Death attack; it's no coincidence that the one attack that you can parry is the single most visually spectacular in an already spectacular fight.

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This thing ****in sucks you should be able to parry more than just a couple attacks. Dude limits your max hp but it'd be unfair to make this more useful right?

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This is a power tool against maliketh with such a good punish for his attacks, however it becomes nigh useless online as it ONLY parries maliketh and it also has stupid net code lag no matter when you parry, so when you try to parry an attack, you parry it but also get hit by a CHAIN ENDING ATTACK from a HEALTH REDUCING BOSS, plus you get staggered from the attack as well, losing out on near half of your damage.

Get it for every solo/with ai summon fight but try to use dodges for online co-op

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Giant enemy crab

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When this works you feel like cheating the game. Hardest boss turns into joke.

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Do you equip it or what? I can't find it.

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So if I found this AFTER killing Malekith it's useless?

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When you get this after beating a boss, well not like he was that troublesome but still, I went different way..

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I accidentally killed Maliketh while trying this out lol

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It's possible to kill Maliketh with this. I got him down to a sliver of health and thought it would be cool to get the last hit after a parry. When I parried the slash after the triple black blade jump attack he took 108 damage and died.

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Looks like it’s fixed in co op thank god

No more dying when you try to parry as a summon

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I parried him and still took damage. wtf?

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Can you still get this if you killed Bernahl at the start of the game?

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The parry window is very generous and you even get altered by a flashing yellow indicator. The parry itself gives you a good amount of time to inflict some damage SAFELY - unlike just jumping into in after one of his combos which he can immediately follow up with another combo.
So I don't get the whining in the comments about it getting you killed.
This was a godsend when I did a RL1 run.

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I love items like this. Things that are just good for helping you with a specific boss, but is never mentioned anywhere that it exists. It makes it so that finding it on your own is this exciting little bonus. I haven't tried it yet, but seems pretty useful for Maliketh.

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Does it consume this item on use?

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Bernahl was really about to solo Maliketh with this trash ass item, lmao.

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I'm successfully parrying him but I still take full damage from the gold attack, what am I doing wrong? Or does this just suck?

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It only parries in malikeths second phase when he charges his sword with the yellow light. All other attacks will still go through

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I don't know if it's just me but I've had times where I've parried maliketh yet still got hit by the attack

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I would love to see a mod turn this item into a shield, rather than a tool. I would use it all the time just because of how sick it looks.

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this is got to be the most gimmicky game Fromsoft has ever made

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it's even easier than a parry, if you know the attack is coming you can do it slightly beforehand and the lingering parry hitbox will still get it.

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I kinda wish there would be an item which just let you parry attacks in general (without using a ash of war)

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Good Lord. Tried using this after being killed so many times in NG+. And the window it gives you is perfect to use charged heavies on his behind, and then visceral. All it took was one parry to kill him for me.

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Like Manus, but with Dark Souls 3 Parry Timing. So in short more likely to get you killed than not.

Really its not even his attacks that are bad. They are pretty easy to avoid when your prepared. The issue is the burn. Wish this item cleansed the HP burn rather than some overcomplicated gimmick. Least it would have more use that way againsy Black Knife Assassins or players using the weapons with the Death Burn weapon arts.

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Its a Gimmick. Its like the Silver Amulet with Manus from DS1, but with the parry time of DS3.

Aka its more likely to get you killed than not against attacks that are easier to dodge.

If anything they should have made it a cleanse for the HP Burns. Least then it could have some more use against Black Knife Assassins and players using the Death Burn weapons.

Oh well. least its not Shackle 3.0 lmao

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Killed Maliketh (on 1st try as mage with Sword of Night and Flame) and then go for invader Bernahl. Other mobs are there, but he is not spawning anymore. Don't think killing his phantom at the shack will have that effect.

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If you have fought Maliketh enough times to practice the timing of this well enough, you are doing 1 of 2 things:

Practicing as a summon, which is fair, but probably a waste of the hosts time.

Not killing Maliketh in your own game because you'd rather fail many, many times at using this awful tool.

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Doesn't work

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Who is bothering to check how many of these you can get maximum lol

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Yeah, this is useless.

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So how do i get this if i killed bernhal in the shack?

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Wow I really wish I had read this item description.

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Can this parry a player normal attack?

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The article doesn't really state it outright, but this item also stops the burning fire debuff if it's on you.

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Tried it for the first time during Journey 6. Makes you not have to deal with the boss's AOE attack combos (which feel unfair) in Phase 2.
Just keep your distance and bait him for slashes in the air.

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I love how some innocent comments on Fextralife are downvoted to hell for no reason, Wiki users are something else.

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Trying to use this as a cooperator and everytime i can parry but will always get hit

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Honestly all the bosses can be cheeses with op weapon arts, spirit summons, and bleed in this game

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Bullshit boss and I've beat him in NG3.

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Beat Maliketh on the first try, without ever realizing I had this, but I love exploring so I was like level 180.

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I honestly forgot I even picked this up and didn't know what it did when I beat bernahl. Figured it was a key item or something and would get back to it later. Did the entire maliketh fight and only after beating godwyn did I find out what that did. I'm not good at parrys so it wouldn't have been of much use to me anyway

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Died more times trying to use that than against malenia, just hit him you're better off

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equipping it seems to make the boss more aggressive in terrms of frequency of his attacks? as for example, i noticed Clergymen startred charging immediately at me when entered the boss room while this never happen without the item equipped. anyone else made this observation?

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man Rykard sounded like a real bro before the whole serpent thing

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This works when his sword is glowing bright gold and he brings it down on you.

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Tldr all the comments but I had the feeling having the item equipped in the quick tool bar makes the boss 1000x more aggressive and relentless

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Because the game doesn't do a good job of explaining it, and the wiki doesn't go into detail: y'know that anime-esque move where Maliketh does flips in midair between launching arcs of Death at you? The finisher of that combo is what you parry. I've personally seen him do 2 flips before stabbing downwards, and 3 flips before launching at you. It seems he only does 2 when you're closer to him, or 3 when you're farther away. Either way, when he's coming at you, his sword will glow golden -- that's when you press the button to use this. The resulting explosion will deal ~300 damage to him and blind him for a moment, making him cover his eyes and do a couple haphazard sword swings as his vision returns. Not a massive window considering you need to avoid those, but it's something, and it's fairly consistent.

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Interesting Item, but honestly not really needed. From Soft giving people some extras if they fail.

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Yeah I never got that because Bernahl decided to leave and not come back after I ran to the ladder when he decided to gank me with 3 beastmen. No wonder I was stuck against Maliketh for what must have been 30+ tries, when the devs included an item that makes him less BS that I didn't end up getting.

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Tested extensively for about a hour with a friend on PS4, it does NOT work in PvP against the Black Blade or the incantation.

Appears to only work boss-only, any further confirmations on this from others would be nice.

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visions of manus

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The item description mentions "the night of the dire plot"--is it safe to assume this is another term for the night of the black knives? Anyone know if this is referenced anywhere else?

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Fun fact, if you equip this near Gurranq, he loses it and attacks you. Pretty sure you can talk to him halfway through the fight but sadly I staggered him and the option disappeared to quick. (Pretty confident about this, he had no other reason to attack me out of nowhere so someone else check maybe?)

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how often does mimic tear use this item

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spam jumping attacks with maliketh he can't hit you

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I don't get why nobody is talking about the second phase with the ridiculously jacked up HP drain. Kills me every time no matter how much HP regen I stack up. Most hosts also die the first instance he uses it. It hits you just by being near his attacks.

Worse boss in the game ?

it looks like a reskinned boss from a previous game, jumps around like a giant frog on speed and is incredibly annoying to fight melee.
Also the second phase is like a completely different creature and makes no sense. This is DS2 level nonsense with 100% extra tryhard.

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Betas: ignore this item because using it is harder than fighting normally.

Sigmas: practice using this item for 2 hours and perfecting it just for it to be just barely a better option than fighting normally

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Almost trivializes the fight if you get somewhat decent at parrying the huge sweep attack he does. Just ignore all his attacks on second phase and parry that.

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i killed bernahl at warmasters shack can i still get this item or no ?

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If at least he stopped completely but it still he can hit you

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His three bloodyslash range attack followed by the huge sweep attack is the easier to parry, need very little timing practice. Who knew his most hated attack by me would be the attack I would try to bait the most.

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Why they let such a boss like that going to final product?

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Man if this could be used as a regular parry that would be amazing. Allowing for some crazy weapon combos while still having the option to parry on hand would be incredible for PvP.

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Also works on the Black Blade Kindred's special attacks outside Beastial Sanctum. Got to negate its Corpse Wax Cutter but I'm not sure if you can actually parry him, though.

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Why would you need to store 600 of these?

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Pretty fun to use during coop against Maliketh, as you can still parry attacks meant for the host. I found it especially helpful against the triple wave attack bc its easy to get a good spot to land the parry:)

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Wow. This is useless. :')

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learning to use this is actually harder than trying to beat without even bothering, just fight normally

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You can still get the item even if you kill the npc
He will still invade you in farum

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Timing is actually not strict. As long as the sword is glowing gold and you use the item, he gets stunned.

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Holy sh!t it looks like Rennala's hat! Does it represent a snake?

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A good method is to use the great shield ash they have the ability pull aggro then keep stunning with meteorite gl

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I think it's important to say that you must have done the quest given by Bernahl at the Volcano Manor prior to getting invaded the Crumbling Farum Azula, I think you need to do 1-2 quests in the Volcano Manor before being able to receive his but I'm not 100% on that.

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dont bother

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