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My RL80 butt using these and a flamberge to mess with twinks and RoB users who only whine about the RoB's nerf.

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If you want to inflict bleed, and still want respect from your opponents.

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Bloodboon
Huge sweep. Medium cast time. Throw this behind players to potentially make them roll into it. Other enemies can be forced to walk into it. Especially dragons and banished knights, as they don’t move around too much. Use it for covering your tracks too. (Pro tip: it can stick to walls)

Bloodflame Blade
Put it on a twinblade.
That’s it just put it on a twinblade.
Or something with spinning weapon.
I don’t know what else to tell you it’s just a buff.

Bloodflame Talons
Great. Good. Amazing. Super fast cast, bleed buildup, explodes… it’s just a great close range cast. Try using Bloodboon and this in tandem.

Swarm of Flies
Nobody uses briars of punishment but this goes good with it.
Stop using this on fast targets. The amount of people I see doing this makes me sad. It’s slow and lingers, so try using it first and then bloodboon after to control the battlefield. Big bleed buildup. Very good.

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FIRE BLOOD... blood is fire, fire is blood, bloody flames

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I tried so hard to make these spells work but in most cases, it's better to just swing your weapon. They REALLY need to be addressed in the next patch. Unsure why they haven't until this point. Mind boggling

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bloodflame talons and reduvia blood blade are honestly a seriously winning combo and really fun to shred enemies with at 50+ arc

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I want more of these so I can go full blood priest. Would just be an amazing esthetic!

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Easy way to make more of these and give their bleed scaling with arcane, would be to up the FTH requirement on these spells so that you need to be something like a full FTH+ARC build to use them all. (I hope the dlc gives us more of these with a Mohgwyn trident seal. Let me go full blood priest!)

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Something of note is that the stuff that takes the most faith in these spells is more so just relying on the blood mother to give you her flame while the two that require the most arcane is you stealing her power, which together with dragon communion hints at arcane just stealing another gods power

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I really like these spells, but they are very situational, with low bleed build-up. Heres hoping that if dlc happens they get buffed, we get more of them, and a seal for them that really lets them shine.

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It annoys me that you can only get 2 of these without varre

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD! SHED!

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Thought on making a "Bloodflame and Mohg Servant only elden ring" Like reduvia, Bloody helice and Elenoras, RoB and everything themed after bloodflame

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Goofy ahh exploding blood

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Needs a Lifesteal Fist equivalent. Heals you and builds up bleed on the opponent.

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free aim boon = win

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nihill

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Just use fires deadly sin with blood flame blade that unlocks its true potential

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

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Ngl. After making a build with this I would respect getting killed from bloodflame. Fun spells.

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Dragon communion seal status build up nerf killed these before they learned to walk.

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Zoning and utility for bleed builds. Considering their cost and casting requirements, you get what you pay for.
That being said, even though they aren't hardcarry hyper-dps nuke spells and never will be, they still seem to come up short in achieving their intended purpose, and it's obvious the community isn't happy with them. Bloodboon duration is too short, bloodflame blade proc should scale with arcane, and bloodflame talons should hit twice. I don't see From making these changes as they aren't easily adjusted values, but if the next dlc is miquella themed like people seem to think, then maybe there's still hope.

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Bloodflame blade is perfect for bloodhounds fang, since it has innate bleed and cant be infused with blood. At +9 and the buff on I get nearly 850 AR on a curved greatsword which is pretty damn good. Plus, you still get to use the fang's ash of war instead of a blood ash of war

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Does the bleed build up of blood incantations increase with arcane using the dragon seal or is it flat. Nowhere states this anywhere I look online.

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Wish we had the slowing blood pool incant, those Nobles are using

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Under boosting blood incantations the Sacred Seal hyperlink is missing an s in seals and thus leads to a 404

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Is it confirmed for those to be the only blood incantations?


well i was expecting that one where we make a circle above us that continually spills blood around you

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It's kinda funny how utterly overpowered the blood abilities and weapons are, yet how utterly underwhelming the magic is.
Flies is literally the only good useful spell here.
Bloodflame might have been nice but there's not much point to buff a weapon that isn't an innate bleed weapon besides simply infusing it with blood. That and apparently that split scaling spell buff just doesn't even apply any other attribute.

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Talons and boon are honestly both really dissapointing, feels like its always better to just swing you weapon since both of then basically require you to be in melee range.
Swarm is really good for both PvE and PvP imo, in PvP it creates a lot of pressure, in PvE it's insanely fast bleed buildup.
Can't comment on blade since it currently doesn't scale with arcane even while using DCS.
Hopefully we will get some better options in DLCs.

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How well these do just with arcane scaling? Looking to spice up my dex/arc build a bit and wondering if its worth to "waste" few levels into faith to be able to use these.

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I really liked Mohg as a boss so I decided to start a new build as a Blood Priest, using all the shortcuts and skips to rush my way all the way up to the real Mohg fight. Hard leveled Arcane, Dragon Communion Seal, all that good stuff.

After getting all the incantations and his weapon and then playing through the last couple areas and getting in a couple hours of duels at Main Academy Gate, it was frankly....not really worth it.

I'll talk a little a bit why for each of the spells. I'll skip his weapon because that's a separate topic, and I'll skip Bloodflame blade since it falls into the 'spellblade' type category and also has bugged arcane scaling with the DCS.

All the blood spells share the same distinction/weakness of being really slow with somewhat underwhelming effects. They're not *weak* per say, but considering how all of the main ones are locked behind the last 40-50% of the game's normal progression route, you'd expect them to be at least on par in terms of power with what Mohg himself uses. Yes, they're still slow even with Radagon Icon and Azur Staff on.

Swarm of Flies: this one is the earliest one you can get, and it's probably the best one for pve. Builds bleed really quickly, fp efficient, pairs well with Reduvia. Pvp its ok, but again, its slow, telegraphed, and the tracking is pretty easy to run circles around of.

Bloodflame Talons: Its blood flavored combustion. Noticeably benefits the most from increased spell casting speed, but ultimately its a point blank aoe spell meant for trading. I wish the claw swipe itself did damage like Mohg's, but it doesn't. You can free aim it, and its arc can be spun around pretty quickly to catch people in pvp rolling into you/past you. But if you're gonna using spells to point blank trade someone, Catch Flame is literally that, and cheaper. I've probably hit the most amount of people with this spell in duels, though I reckon part of it is also people are just not accustomed to seeing it.

Bloodboon: the hardest blood incantation to get is disappointingly the worst, both in pve and pvp. It's painfully slow. The tracking is not great when locked on, which implies its meant to be free aimed, akin to Great Chaos Fireball back in DS. In which case, when free-aimed, it becomes marginally better. You can use it for funky area denial shenanigans in pvp, and pair it with Bloodflame talons for the roll catch. But again, its so slow, and once you've gotten it off once/twice, a smart opponent is going to figure out really soon to run up and smack you out of your cast. In pve, there's just better, more efficient options for area aoe.

All this sounds like I'm shitting on the blood spells, but I'm not. I really wanted to love them because thematically thrusting your hand into the void to spray blood on your foes is so cool and screams Lovecraft. But all the spells need adjustments and love, most notably an increase in cast time.

I'll try these in invasions to see how they hold up in that aspect.

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Do these scale depending on the seal you use? Or do you have to use the Dragon seal for it to be effective?

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how exactly does Faith scaling factor into these. Is it sufficient to just get the bare minimum faith to be able to cast them and just scale the dmg via Dragon Communion Seal and Arcane or would you need to split arcane / faith 50/50?

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Does the bleed build up on these spells scale or is it fixed.
If it scales is it based on your arcane stat or is it purely off your sacred seal's spell scaling?

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so what seal do I use for these, none of them scale with arcane?

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I hope we get a flat damage one at some point. Everything just being bleed is lame, and the thorn sorceries require a whole armor set and Albinauric + Guilty staff dual wield to make the damage worthwhile on an Arc bleed build. I've wound up using Reduvia's spammable skill since an Arc build around these falls flat when the enemy can't be bled.

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Black blade is not a blood spell it is a God slayer spell bloodflame blade is a blood spell and adds bleed build up on hit over time. Side note use carian parry and the parry daggers that spawn will count as if the enemy is hit with bloodflane weapon and cause bleed build it. Found this out when I fought god skin apostle boss

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Black blade is not a blood spell it is a God slayer spell bloodflame blade is a blood spell and adds bleed build up on hit over time. Side note use carian parry and the parry daggers that spawn will count as if the enemy is hit with bloodflane weapon and cause bleed build it. Found this out when I fought god skin apostle boss

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I demand more Blood Incantations they are so cool

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Black Blade does not require arcane too cast, does not use the same image type as the reset of the blood spells, and does not cause bleed as far as I know. I do not think it is a blood incantation.

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too bad we can't get the one that mohg summons a circle that throws blood around us. (well at least i think we cant get it since nobody has found it)

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guys black blade is here because its RED and blood is RED!!!

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I do wish black blade was a blood incantation though...

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Black Blade in Blood Incantation list ??

Done :p

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Guys I think we need at least one more comment pointing out how Black Blade shouldn't be in the Blood Incantation list.

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Black Blade is actually an Erdtree Incantation

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Black Blade does not require arcane too cast, does not use the same image type as the reset of the blood spells, and does not cause bleed as far as I know. I do not think it is a blood incantation.

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Black Blade does not require arcane too cast, does not use the same image type as the reset of the blood spells, and does not cause bleed as far as I know. I do not think it is a blood incantation.

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Why the hell is Black Blade hear?

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pretty sure that Black Blade shouldnt be counted as a blood incantation given that it doesnt cause bleed

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