Bolt of Gransax | Elden Ring Wiki

would've been awesome if you could get this before godfrey shade - he's weak to both lightning and pierce damage

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If you want a dex based character, this will be your strongest ranged attack, so even if you don't really want it as your main weapon, it's still very handy to have equipped.

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I was not able to get this, I missed out on it..... if someone would be willing to drop it for me? I have exgfas of someone items, or would be willing to farm or get an item for someone. Please let me know. My psn name is : DexySoulS Please message me on there, and let me know what I can do for you im exchange!!!

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how and why this doesnt scale with faith ?

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its the evangelion spear no wa y

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Probably one of the best looking weapons in the game.

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good weapon for dex build

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A true “bolt” action sniper

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anyone who possibly has an extra to drop me? im locked out from it :c

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does anyone have an extra to drop me im locked out from it :c

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getting all the legendary weapons for the achievement, this is the last on I need and I've already killed maliketh so I can't get it.




****.

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This doesn't scale with Faith for lore reasons. From the Ancient Dragonbolt Pot item description: "Allows one to wield ancient drake lightning regardless of faith. The residual power of relics is a purely natural phenomenon."

I also need to get this off my chest and I guess this as good a place as any. FromSoft doesn't put gameplay first when considering balance. I know you're not allowed to say you enjoy the writing online, but to the devs these games are role-playing games and thus narrative-driven experiences. Rememeber when they added miniscule Faith scaling to the Great Club? Pretty ridiculous decision on their part. That is until you consider what I just said. It's a branch of the Erdtree that is "imbued with holy power," thus Faith should strengthen it. This was so important to them that they went out of their way to adjust it.

So in the future whenever you find a certain weapon or spell useless, or its scaling weird, remember that the devs have different priorities than what you might expect.

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Had no idea that activating Ancient Lightning Spear skill right next to the glowing statues actually cracks them open (!!!) - The ones usually containing smithing stones which require you to lure a bigger enemy to them who would then crack them in half.

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So stupid that these lightning weapons are scaling with dex and not faith. Huge fail, Fromsoft!!

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Some people seem to not understand what is the difference between STR and DEX. DEX is not agility, a DEX scaling just means that the weapon is more refined and needs actual dexterity to be used, whereas a STR weapon needs just raw brutal force. A quality weapon, like a greatsword, usually needs both and it fits perfectly.

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Elon Musk used this weapon’s hit box to bore the one tunnel he did, then like all bolt of gransax users, gloated after and quit

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The hit box on this hit my neighbor while he was eating dinner

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So the Skill for this thing it's bugged as of patch 1.09, because it will always consume 24FP on use (charged or not) but you can actually cast it with only 12FP or more

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There are 2 types of BoG users: A brainless skill spammer and a man of culture who use it to kill casters or another spammers and put it back when the job is done.

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Destroyed the Godskin Duo with this

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My sin, my soul, bolt of gransax, my beloved

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20STR and 40DEX seriously

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Since dragons and ancient dragons are resistant to lightning, this could imply that Gransax killed his own kind. It makes sense, since Godwyn allied with some of them. Maybe he was even killing and cannibalizing his kind before the war, which could explain how he already had the bolt.

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I swear this thing has some hidden 'aggro' mechanics. Fighting birds with my summons in Caelid? They didn't care I was spamming the AoW, only focused my summon. Summoned to Godfrey as a finger? I could not peel him with the AoW no matter how close I stood. I'm starting to wonder if the AoW itself doesn't register as the same 'source' as other things my character does -- i.e. mobs were treating it like environmental damage or something?

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I don't understand why it's a dex weapon, From doesn't understand why it's a dex weapon. Hell even god doesn't understand why it's a dex weapon

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Why does a weapon associated with literally godzilla scale with dex

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I feel like this and lightning incantations should have arcane scaling, idk why

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“Bolt” action sniper rifle

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Really dont like spears but the weapon art is so sexy you actually start to like it..

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Dual weilding these and being part of a 3 man gank squad is a true combo

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Possibly my favorite weapon in the game and the reason I went from Faith to Dex/Faith

The AoW benefits from Lightning Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, and Godfrey Icon because it's chargeable.

I have no input on PvP because I'm not interested in it, but if your power fantasy in this game is hurling lightning this, along with Keen affinity Thunderbolt, was way more fun IMO than pure Faith because you also have solid melee options as well.

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Why it doesn't have faith scaling?! I wanted to make a cool flashy lightning warrior build, but due to it being mainly DEX my lightning dmg feels lacking compared to previous build.

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With a summon and the right talismans once upgraded enough, this thing turns astel into an absolute joke. Lmao

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The sit at the end of colosseum and spam your -80% hp ash. It's even more silly because it's on spears. Let's just say nobody is using this un-powerstanced. Unfortunately, even if you're spatially aware enough to not die to this, your teammates won't be.

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Invader sniper rifle

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People with faith builds whining because only 99% of the flashy weapons in the game require faith and this one doesn't

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The ash of war on this is bit too costly for what you get from it, A +25 Keen Great Knife with Thunderbolt can outperform this on a FP/damage ratio and is much faster to perform and vastly cheaper stamina wise. For a Legendary Armament to be outperformed by a generic dagger in it's unique aspect is a bit of a let down. If this costed 20FP it would at least be competitive enough to be interchangeable but currently if your target doesn't suffer knockdown from the charged shots then just use a great knife and and find a high DPS offhand weapon to use with the now free 7 units of weight.

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everyone saying this thing is a dex weapon, when technically it has higher ar on a quality build, still definitely usable as a dex weapon but technically it is a quality weapon

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This weapon should scale with faith so stupid that it doesn’t

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I beat elden beast with this weapon!

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Bruh all the "what should I make sure to do before Maliketh?" advice I saw forgot about the Bolt of Gransax and now my dragonslayer summon build is incomplete.

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NG took me 3 hours rush to leyndell just to get this for the final trophy :)

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i like the funny spear it look cool :)

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The "I dont really wana chase a flying lizard for 6 min straight and die from a random breath of bs AoEs on my horse" spear.
Go go gadget dex sniper.

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Thy dexterity befits a crown!

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You use it in 2v2s or 3v3s - you're trash. No exceptions

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Highly recommended for average and below average players.
Probably the most OP weapon in PvE. Has a lot of potential in PvP as well. Late game, nothing can stand in your way.
I used it on the very first playthrough i ever did.
Chose it for the drip, kept it for the weapon art/skill.

That lightning bolt ability is what makes this spear the best weapon in my opinion. Very few enemies can dodge the bolt and it hits like a truck (can knockdown enemies off their feet).
You can keep your distance with the enemies and snipe them from range. Very helpful if you are not good at dodge roll timing. Most of the toughest mobs go down in 2 shots, once you are lvl 120+.

For talismans i used Radagon soreseal, carian filigreed crest, shard of Alexander. For the 4th use ancestral spirit horn (at lower levels) or Godfrey icon / lightning scorpion charm (late game when you have enough Flasks for FP)

Stats focus:
Primary - dex, vigor and mind.
Secondary - endurance and strength.

I used brass shield in off hand (with Ash of war : no skill) for guard counters when dealing with weak mobs if I don't want to waste FP on ability. Spear + shield = pokey pokey goodness.

P.S. For Majority of the players, Malenia is the toughest boss fight, but with this weapon, she is an absolute joke. She cannot dodge the bolt ability. Beat her on my very first try. Was like lvl 150 ish when I did.

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youre gonna see a lot of these in the arenas. its gonna be annoying

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Simply hilarious to watch people get absolutely vaporized by this thing Colosseums, including myself. It’s just the perfect weapon for such chaos among 6 or more people

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Hate that this needs 20 str. I'm running a pure dex/faith build (only invested a single point in str for the sole purpose of equipping Morgott's sword) and I'll need to use a physick just to be able to use this (or waste a talisman slot and 2-hand it). It requiring 20 str makes no sense

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Let's be honest, everyone uses this thing because of its AoW. If From added an upgraded version of lightning spear as it should no one would wield it.

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i guess it's a dex weapon because the lightning comes from the weapon rather than your magic?

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Is there a lore section for Gransax himself, seems like an interesting opportunity for great lore

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Oof missed this 1st time through any one have a spare? Or willing to lend for a few? On playstation

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Not a fan of spears but got-daym is that weapon art amazing! It's so good that I've been using this mainly as a sacred seal solely to cast Ancient Lightning Spear while using an actual seal in my off hand to cast Fortisaxx spear if any of the creeps get too close. As some other Anon said of Ancient Spear, "it's basically the delete button" lol.

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fockin hate thee high dexterity

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Put in enough levels, scorpion charm + godfrey icon, and there will be nothing left on your journey that cannot be solved with lightning bolt to the face.

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snoipin's a good job mate

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This is very nice on a faith/dex build when you're on your lightning spec.. I don't like pokey weps much so it's rdy to swap with a D pad input.. doesn't need faith scaling IMO because the DMG would be epicly busted. It still way our performs lightning spear for sniping (tested prior with capped faith) and that's good for me. Dex/faith and str/int (both oddball specs previously) got some love this game. I recommend giving them some play, very fun

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Biggest con to this weapon imo is that if you attack after your roll it swings upwards with a very small aoe

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The real big brains will use its weapon art randomly in the middle of other attacks to throw people off. Works 90% of 50% of the time!

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much harder to oneshot people now because of the tweaked pvp damage scaling.

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Impossible to hit anyone who's paying attention in pvp.

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Put Gransax in the game already!

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Bro, ain’t no way did he go kamikaze on a few houses just to start a war…

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i'd say its op but its telegraphed as hell and moonveil can still pump out more damage in a fraction of the time

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me like

y no faith scaling :(

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Legendary Armament Achievement Failed
I missed this one........ in the 1st Run

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Made a build an invasion build for this and changed my name to 50. CAL aimed at U this is probably the most fun I have had in invasions in a long time

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Ahem.
Shard of Alexander
Godfrey icon
Lightning scorpion charm
Probably Carian filigreed or something
Congrats, you have become Zeus

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Please god nerf this, why would you ever even buff it.

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Wow, every PVP build is now using this with concealing veil. Duelling has now become two invisible cowards throwing lightning bolts from 50 metres away.

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This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the dirty hand of a tryhard-class ganker accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-***** in the lands between. Now! Serviceman Bleed build! What is Newton's First Law?

Sir! An object in motion stays in motion, sir!

No credit for partial answers, gonker!

Sir! Unless acted upon by an outside force, sir!

Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that the lands between is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a host, or the phantom behind that host. It might go off into Farum Azula and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for your ganking boyfriend to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chug, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

the funi slug (without the 2 talismans to make it stronger) does around 1200-1600 depending on the target build and conditions, it is the perfect "vigor check"

if you rock the 2 talismans you can get it up above 2k

it's as shrimple as that

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golden retaliating this feels so cool. risky as hell though

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TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!

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*charges up* VIGOR! *throws* CHECK!

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oh, terrific...I beat the game already, and never got this....yay, another long, annoying perilous adventure JUST to get this weapon...grand.

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Weird that this doesn't have a faith/arcane requirement

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Neon Genisis Evangelion would like a word.

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my head is telling me its cheap bullshit, but my body.... my body is telling me its the funniest **** ever

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Mmm yes one shot time

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thats a nice 60 vigor you have there... would be a shame if i completely ignored it with my alexander shard 80 dex build

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Snoipin's a gud job m8

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Petition to rename this weapon to Adam's Bane

If you know you know.

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You actually get more runes with the charged weapon art ( 2044 vs 2453 for the albinaurics)

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High Level Strength:You can bonk harder Vs High Level Dex:Pull bolts of ancient dragon lightning out of your ass with the range of a 50.cal sniper, makes sense?

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Watching carefully, the WA isn't throwing a bolt of lightning out of the spear, it's imbuing the spear WITH lightning and hurling it. You'll notice the animation has you throw it, come back down, and then it returns to your hands in a cloud of red lightning. It's interesting that Placidusax manifests a massive lightning spear in the likeness of this, especially given that the WA is called "ancient lightning spear". Perhaps this is a more powerful form of lightning spear, unique to or only remembered by placidusax, and the bolt of gransax was made in the likeness of it.

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i was able to stunlock malenia to death first try by spamming this thing's WA

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Here’s a fun pure dex build. Keen or lightning infused cross-naginata with giant hunt AoW in the right hand, powerstanced with bolt of gransax in the left hand. Use giant hunt for big damage up close, or switch to two handing bolt of gransax to access ancient lightning spear for big damage at range.

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This was very useful and helpful I would recommend this weapon for dragon hunting or pvp as it has a long charge before you attack with its ash of war

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What if Gransax was trying to nuke Leyndell - similar to how when Placidusseax uses the shape of this spear to attack it causes an explosion - but his attack was frozen along in time with him, giving us his "bolt."

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Currently using as secondary main-hand weapon. This thing two-shots Crucible Knights FAST, before they can even reach you with their spear.

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It says +20% damage to dragons and +10% ancient dragons. Does that mean just +10% for ancient dragons or is it an additional 10% added to the %20 for normal dragons for a total of +30%?

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Let' s make the spear have a ragged tip, so the players can fall of at the last minute. SIKE!

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Is it just me or does anybody else feels like the weapon has mediocre range and damage? Its a unfun weapon, stabs feel weightless, speed is sluggish. Only notable thing is its aow

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yooooo maybe include this in the MISSABLE SECTION

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Happy to have a unique AOW that doesn't require faith. Weird that people are upset they can't use it when they can cast a dozen spells of their choice. Dex dudes like flashy **** too!

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i love how you need this weapon for an achievement and you can miss it... thanks a lot....

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I don't know if this was a bug/feature from the seamless co-op mod, but even after killing Malliketh and getting warped to Leyndell, Ashen Capital, even after beating the game... on PC I was able to hit F to view the list of sites of grace, and then go to the list for "Leyndell, Royal Capital" instead of Ashen Capital, and was able to warp to the "old" Erdtree Sanctuary site and still loot this item. Hope this helps others.

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You too can play Indiana Jones. Don't bring a sword to a gun fight.

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