Bloodflame Blade | Elden Ring Wiki

The biggest advantage this spell has over just using a blood or occult infused weapon is the buildup over time. With other weapons you’ll procc bleed while other people are in iframes from a dodge or BHS/quickstep so it won’t do any damage but it is much harder to time your dodge to when the bloodflame bleed proccs.

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1. Plugged out your LAN cable and use wifi connection instead
2. Wear heavy armors
3. Use any fists that has bleed build up
4. Put Quickstep or Bloodhound Step on it
5. Use this spell
6. If you think it's still not salty enough, use healing spell whenever you are at low health
Congratulations! You are now the master of PVP! No one can counter you except they use a one-shot build!

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0.40 * Faith based Incantation scaling? Why is that so weak compared to other weapon buff incantations? Their buff is 0.75 * Faith based Incantation scaling.

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This plus flame grant me strength, flame shrouding cracked tear and strength knot, with radagons scarseal, starscourge heirloom and flame scorpion charm and a +25 heavy hreatsword does hige levels of damage even early game

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Can anyone confirm whether this plus frost actually still works? I tested it and had to hit 4 times to proc it, then hit with some fire, then had to hit 4 more times to proc frost again. Seems like it doesn't work anymore???

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The fact this thing doesn't scale with arcane is baffling to me. I mean you don't really use it for the damage but rather for the hemorrhage but come on man, at least the black flame one has the excuse of being a faith-based incantation

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Does the Bloodflame debuff remove Frostbite? Not the instance of the attack that applied Bloodflame, but the short debuff after it. Asking if I could combine this with a Frost mage build to quickly proc Frostbite multiple times. PVE only.

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Does this stack with Blood Blade AoW???

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Lmao, why can't the incant scaling just be the stat that spells work off of? Why does it have to be that my gods layer seal with 237 incant scaling makes this spell add more AR than my flame seal with 257 incant? Why can't fromsoft figure out how to accurately represent stats and numbers?

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We got a normal lightning enchant skill and a normal magic enchant skill but not a fire one. Compared to DS3 where we have all 3 of them, I think it’s just another way of how FS balances the game as there are just too many situations fire get advantages of than the other 2 elements.

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We got a normal lightning enchant skill and a normal magic enchant skill but not a fire one. Compared to DS3 where we have all 3 of them, I think it’s just another way of how FS balances the game as there are just too many situations fire get advantages of than the other 2 elements.

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Only good on a small handful of weapons really, need smaller/faster bleed weapons to keep reliably proccing the bloodflame effect since it only lasts a couple seconds. If you’re looking for good fire damage use Flaming Strike instead

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does this work well together with flame grant me strength

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Kinda sad fromsoft thought this ugly unnatural fire would be a suitable substitute for an achievable fire enchant incantation

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60 seconds my butt. This lasts less than 10 seconds whenever I use it.

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So, the fire damage only scales with faith incant scaling? I.e., it's all but useless for a Dragon Communion Seal user?

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glitchers in shambles

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Everything interesting about this spell got gutted in Patch 1.09, the Fire’s Deadly Sin glitch was thankfully nerfed but now BFB doesn’t affect any projectiles or lingering effects at all.

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I have full strength build with 12 Faith and 10 Arcane. I buff my Spiked Caestus with this spell, and holy moly, everything bleeds as if i was spamming RoB! Few hits and Omen bleds to death. Not to mention that having your fists covered by red fire looks HOT.

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can occult weapons be buffed with spells?

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Put this on a bleed dagger with quick step literally win

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does the bleed buildup stack with a weapons innate arcane scaling, for the few buffable weapons that have it?

if so it might make the albinauric halberd that solely scales of arc viable for more than sleep builds.

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Will the flame damage stack with magma wyrm scalesword?

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Sorry if this is explained above but I found the wording confusing.

Does the fire damage scale with arcane if using the dragon comm. Seal?

It says the "bloodflame blade debuff" doesnt but does that also mean the fire?

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Useless without innate bleed.

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Wonderful bleed till mid-late and you can swap to occult to net more than the 40 effective bleed. You loose the bloodflame AR, but should keep up well enough on the damage front. In exchange, you get great incant scaling

It's also just great for an early faith build

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Great against hands 5/5

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This plus Bloodhound's Fang is amazing.

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If you just want fire damage, this spell isn't that great. The scaling is about half of what you would get from electify armament or scholar's armament, and early game the 85 damage from fire grease will outstrip it. Late game ... maybe? But by then you'd be better off using an actual fire spell.

But in terms of bleed build up, this is incredible. 40 bleed might not sound like much, but blood grease and Seppuku only give you 30. Most bleed weapons have about 50 bleed, but this stacks on top of that. I haven't tested this, but I've heard that a normal weapon with innate bleed is often a better bleed weapon than a special weapon like Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear or something that can't be buffed.

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does the bleed buildup portion of the spell scale with arcane, if im using the dragon communion seal?

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makes the red wolf a joke

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can be applied to a weapon with goat roll ash to make the rolling inflict a small amount of bleed

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Says you can't use it on weapons with innate elemental infusions but trolls hammer takes the buff as does the treespear

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I'm running a dex build right now with no intention of levelling faith besides the minimum. Is there any reason to level up my seal to apply only this one incantation?

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On a dex/arc build, this buff is just illegally, strong, so much more than Seppuku or the Blood Grease (which I carry just in case I run out of FPs).
Bloodflame Blade will build bleed so freaking fast, especially if you powerstance an offhand weapon that has the Blood infusion.
The fact that it keeps building up bleed for a few instants after a successful hit is just the icing on the cake, making scoring Blood Losses much easier.

Seppuku is for full Arcane build with Occult/Blood infusions.

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Why does blackflame blade last a fraction of what bloodflame blade does?

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Consider using this on a Troll's Hammer. It's a colossal hammer with innate fire damage that's also buffable, but has an unchangeable AoW.

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This buff is looking better since the dual wield status nerf. If you don't want to go for blood or occult affinities on a weapon with natural bleed, one weapon buffed with this will do better buildup than dual-wielded weapons without it. Of course, you can still do both, but 1.07 did a good job making a single weapon in two hands compete with dual wielding. For example, two heavy great stars do 71.5 bleed with an L1 attack now, but one great stars with bloodflame blade does 95. If you use BFB on your right hand weapon, the L1 attack only beats an R1 or R2 by 16.5, while attacking more slowly (and both weapons hitting on the L1 isn't guaranteed). It's still a somewhat tight niche, as perhaps most who want to rapidly hemorrhage enemies will prefer blood/occult weapons, but BFB offers some extra tricks to make it worthwhile.

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absolute beast of an early game spell

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I have 50str 50dex 14faith 10 arc I tested with the finger and clawmark seal, finger had 138 inc scaling and claw had 203 inc scaling. Finger seal gave me 10-20 more ar. Btw both seals were at +25

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Can this be used on Envoys Long Horn and its ashes of war?

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Aside from the comical fires deadly sin combo (which you can just run from) & some obscure ash & weapon combinations, this is ALWAYS worse than just running a bleed or occult infusion. In pvp that is. In Pve its incredible. Put it on a bleed stick, stack hit talismans & use spinning weapon or whatever it's called. Very nice.

Despite this its still in need of a buff. It should scale with arcane when put on arcane scaling weapons (the ripple stuff & a certain mace) giving some relevance to an otherwise niche playstyle.

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If you put AoW Poison Mist or Frost Mist on Great Stars, the mist cloud gives you health for each enemy inside the cloud. Can you Set Poison / Frost mist AoW to Heavy affinity, and buff it up with Bloodflame Blade, will the poison / frost mist also inflict the Bloodflame Blade debuff along side the life steal / healing?

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Put this on Bloodhound's Fang (Greatsword) and it stacks bleeds so damn fast enemies are scared to fight you. They both stack passive bleeding, while this buff stacks fire damage. Spirits and plant based hate this weapon.

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people say using seppuku is better but using seppuku takes your entire weapon art utility away, with bloodflame blade you can buff your weapon and still have the ash of war of your choice.

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After some testing, it seems that weapon arts with lingering damage (such as the lava from eruption) can build stacks of bleed

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"guys its just tech, its not an exploit they would have patched it already if it was"

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I don't see the point of innate bleed on great-stars in the first place. It kills any enemy I use it on long before it can proc the status effect so I stopped casting this on it and switched to electrify armament.

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This incantation seems to build up the bleed bar over time, kind of like how the black flame incantations do damage over time (not indefinitely). When I used it against an NPC invader, I sometimes would get a bleed proc about one half second after the hit landed.

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The wiki page for Hoarah Loux's earthshaker that has the video clip of it being used says it "triggers bloodflame blade's bleed debuff effect" can anyone explain exactly what that means and how it works? I thought it would be similar to FDS but so far I haven't been able to trigger the effect on the dragons near fort faroth, with bloodflame blade cast on a vulgar militia saw I didn't see the damage burst I'd expect from an enemy that had been successfully bled out, HLE does actually kill the dragons when its cast repeatedly near them but it looks to me like the value of it is breaking the dragons stance in one cast and its follow up then doing the really big damage while its vulnerable. So I'm either doing something wrong or the AoW wasn't intended to do that and has been patched since the page was last updated.

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Combined this w/ Fire's Deadly Sin, Spiked Caestus and BHS for my 8th gate Might Guy cosplay.. \m/

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Shines the best when used with the lighter bleed weapons i.e. Nagakiba or lighter. Heavier bleed weapons (Flamberge and up) can still work fine sure but are a little slow to get the max benefit out of this spell since the bleed effect stacks w/ successive attacks. Twinblades are really the only non-bleed weapons you can *sort of* get by using this with for their fast multi-hit two-handed attack chains.

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You can just throw on Fire's Deadly Sin and then slap it on whatever tf you want 'cause then it won't even matter LOL

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Too bad it can't be used on a weapon with innate infusion, would use it on Eleo's Twins otherwise.

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Really good with claws, solo'd radahn with +8 raptor talons. Its more appealing than blood infusion for claws, since bleed is not that great for them. Also, the bleed buildup instead of straight up bleed is really good in practice as even with my relentless playstyle, there were always some downtime to regain stamina, and this mf makes sure i don't lose any buildup in that time. 9/10 only weakness is bleed immune enemies

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This on an Occult Uchigatana + Fire's Deadly Sin + the BHS or Blood Tax AoW + Lord of Blood's Exultation turns this game into literal easy mode for a high Arcane build. Especially now that RoB got its (much needed) nerf.

Let the blood, tears and salt flow.

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Is this still worth using at base requirements? Or is stat investment required for it to be worth it alongside Strengthen Me, O Flame and Golden Vow?

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if putting bleed on the ash of war is faster and stronger, why does anyone use buffs? not like they appreciate showmanship in pvp....

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Does arcane affect the bleed build up value or it has absolutely no effect whether you use this spell with 20 or 60 arcane?

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Excuse my lack of intelligence


Let's say I have a Buffable Weapon, specifically, the Great Stars (which I can now have two of, thx 1.06)
If I give it Bleed Infusion, I believe it makes it unbuffable, as would giving a Poison Infusion. But if I gave it an Occult infusion, does that make it unbuffable?

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Best incantation, sharing it's place Ekzykes's Decay, Erdtree Heal and Swarm of Flies.

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This absolutely shreds in pvp with golden land and incantations with good tracking spam like elden stars, pest threads, swarm and dragon breathes.

Have a good defense build and you will out trade even bleed burst

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For a neat combo trick, apply this to a weapon then cast Fire's Deadly Sin. So long as your equipped weapon has bloodflame active on it, the AOE fire bubble surrounding you will also apply bleed to enemies. For some good fun, get all the enemies at Gatefront to attack you while this is active while you hold up a great shield.
I have tested this on weapons with and without innate bleed, and have observed no difference in the fire aura's bleed buildup.

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When I did something like this I found it was worth it to use an uchigatana in the secondary as well but equip it with flame of the redmanes because the stagger is unmatched. Because your biggest defense is dodging it allows you more defensive options in a lot of fights.

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Prelates charge will still apply the bleed even in patch 1.05. I tested this on July 31st with all updates on PS4 using a Heavy Great Stars.

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I'm running pure STR build with Flamberge, which has innate bleed. Is this thing worth using over blood grease while only meeting minimal requirements?

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Irrelevant for bleed builds due to Occult Seppuku. Fire damage is negligible at best.

Cool spell, but outclassed by nearly everything.

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It's just a shame you also can't apply this on staff's. I had a very specific int/faith build in mind using the Staff of the guilty. Blood flame blade+plus spinning weapon is a pretty good option, I used it on the Nightriders Flail as my secondary weapon for my Pyromancer build and it would proc bleed just about every time you used the skill.

Maybe not as OP as everyone else's favorite options but it gets the job done. And would be nice for when something gets in your face when all you have equiped is a staff and a seal.

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Any other ashes/weapons that are op with this other than eruption?

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Yeah lets have it not have additional scaling with arcane or any other secondary incant scaling stat that TOTALLY makes sense. Seriously. Its a blood incantation, it should have arcane in the scaling formula when used with the Dragon Communion seal.

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If you equip Ruler's Mask and Commoner's Garb it's possible to cast this on a level 1 Wretch without having to use any talisman slots.

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does it work when you apply seppuku and this incantation on a keen uchigatana

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Have a heck of a time trying to get this to cast. It's greyed out for me and I've used a variety of staff's to case and swords/daggers for it to be applied. I'm mostly a glass cannon build but have the min Arcane 10 and Faith 12 to build. When I "memorize" the spell it shows like it could be actively cast but I exit the grace point it's still grayed out in my casting list. Any ideas?

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sad I can't cast it on the left hand weapon with a right hand catalyst

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Does bloodflame Blade work with any kind of incantations, e.g. elden Stars or just limited on flame incantations?

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Putting it on a whip looks cool as heck.

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Can confirm it still works on offhand shields, so the shield crash combo is still strong.

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Nagakiba+bloodflame blade+double slash= poor mans Rivers of Blood

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By the way, since it add fire damage, you can stack this on a bleed weapon with a powerstanced cold weapon to reset the frost status and proc it again, its quite strong.

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Does the buildup stack if used with fast weapons?

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I believe the purpose of this is to give faith builds with the tiniest of arcane dips a way to use bleed. The damage scales with faith, and arcane builds have access to infusions that allow for far superior inherent bleed that acts instantly rather than the 40 over time bleed build up from this. It also synergizes well with another faith incantation: flame, grant me strength.

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A deceptively strong, easy-to-use spell that can make quick work of every boss that isn't immune to Bleed. Put it on a weapon that already has innate bleed buildup, like an Uchigatana or Morning Star, and Godfrey's your uncle. — Courh the Explorer

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How is the buff calculated when applied to paired weapons like fists and claws? Since the DoT is stackable, does 2-handing paired weapons get a complete buff on each hand?

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Can anyone confirm if the most recent patch removed the Pulley Crossbow trick? 1.05 notes say it should no longer apply

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Apparently, people are reporting evidence that this weapon buff also applies to your offhand weapon while it is active in your right, notably even after you swap your offhand seal. This is especially noteworthy as the buff applies to the offhand weapon even if that weapon, or shield, cannot be buffed normally. This is confusing because there is nothing that would visually indicate any this is happening, but it can be confirmed via the offhand weapons damage output. Two-handing your offhand weapon removes the buff, so the buffed righthand weapon needs to be out and active, in order for this buff to apply to your offhand. This probably happens with other buffs too, and requires testing.

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So...
*This is a bleed buff that doesn't scale on arcane...
*It also adds fire damage which is only boosted from 40% magic adjust
*it scales off faith

How useful!

To make the most of it I'd need:
*High Dex for innate bleed weapon with Keen infusion (for buffing)
*That weapon which also has Seppuku Ash of War (also have arcane for more bleed?)
*Need to remember it gives next to useless flame damage bonus
*Have faith to optimise damage buff (really tho?)

What a mess.

Keen Uchi with Seppuku Ash of war.
80 Dex and whatever amount of Fai. Use Flame Grant me Strength.

Like, it could be good, but the complexity!

F.

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So it scales off both faith and arcane?

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What is the fuking point of having the only arcane based buff strictly avoid scaling with arcane? Fromsoft back at it again with this weird ****, smh

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Okay so this page says 40. The incantations page says 35. There's comments below saying 30. The question is how much bleed build up does this actually add?

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Will a ranged skill like flame of the redmanes carry the blood buildup while this is active?

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I swear neither flame grant me strength nor flame-shrouding cracked tear improves its damage.

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Should work with any ash of war that doesn't provide a weapon enchantment, ex sacred blade ash of war. I only tested glintblade phalanx, but I put that AoW on on a plain broadsword, which doesn't have any bleed buildup. Fighting the troll outside of godricks boss door, while buffed with blood flame blade, glintblade phalanx proc'ed bleed in two casts. As a control, I took the same weapon, and it took 7 light attacks to proc bleed, while using this incantation. It seems, if you put an ash of war that has many attacks or projectiles, you'll get much more milage out of this spell.

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For whatever reason, this doesn't work on the Staff of the Guilty, and that's a little sad.

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Why can’t I use this with the winged scythe?

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I like putting this on my Keen Rotten Greataxe with Prelates charge equipped as well! Does Rot & Bleed & fire damage (also keep lightning buff equipped incase that don’t work) finally a decent bleed weapon that scales with a faith dex build

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raises the coolness of your weapon by atleast 40%

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ah yes, the darth maul build

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Looks cool. Gonna use this

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This incant only does 30 Bleed per hit, so it isn’t that great of a buff. Still, 30 bleed can be a lot on the fast attacking weapons.

Overall for PvE Blackflame Blade is better due to percent health damage up front, but lower up time.

Electrify Armaments is still the best scaling buff spell in the game, so if you have high faith, use it instead.

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how much bleed does this incantation add?

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Does this overwrite seppuku? Say I have an uchi with seppuku on keen affinity, I use seppuku, then cast bloodflame blade? Is this even possible and does it give a stacking effect?

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