Crucible Hornshield | Elden Ring Wiki

Missed chance for unique skill. fail, garbo.

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It's a somber weapon if the bash does pierce and affected spear talisman, like what is this???

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Should have pierce bonus dmg on shield bash/crash.

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0/10 doesn't give you the charge uppercut the knights have, into the chest with the rest of them

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This thing is somber... why?

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Should deal pierce damage. Come on, From!

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It's been said to death already but I'll say it again, this shield would be so much cooler if it wasn't stuck with such a garbage ash of war.

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it is weird albeit classic from that the description is almost completely irrelevant

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fraud

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if it has to have an unchangeable shield bash Ash then I wish the shield bash had a unique crucible holy energy effect that does more damage to at least make it more unique.

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Least misleading souls game item description

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OK, look. It's got good damage for its weight. The three greatshields that beat it for damage all weigh at least 9.0 more which is a lot. Its stability is also normal for its weight (for a greatshield). Brass Shield has mostly-better blocking stats but worse damage AND worse scaling, so this shield pretty decidedly fits a certain niche of weight budget and desire for shield bash damage. Very similar stats to the spiked palisade shield except for overall slight advantages in stats in exchange for no bleed, but having bleed on your shield seems like it'd only matter if your mainhand weapon also has bleed, so this shield is better if you're bashy but not bleedy. I heard shield bash is pretty strong, being good at staggering and letting you tank through attacks even if you run out of stamina.

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Has a giant horn to skewer foes

Doesn’t skewer foes

Mfw

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A lot of people have wanted to be able to change the skill, but honestly I think shield bash is pretty good. If this had higher damage and the damage type was changed to pierce this would have worked great as a more offensive shield

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not bad but certainly not good, it's functional as a greatshield but unless you're using it for the looks there really are better options in the greatshield category. If I had to suggest some balance changes for it to make it more practical I would:

1. Increase the guard boost (something like 4-10%)
2. Give it a better unique Ash of War or at least make the Ash changeable
3. Increase bash damage and change damage type from standard to pierce to reflect the description about the horn "goring" those it strikes

As it stands it's a visually sound shield but functionally falls behind in actual performance.

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Really wish at minimum could change the ash of war to no skill so from block you could use the weapons ash of war

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Definitely should of had that earth stomp the crucible knights love to spam. Would of completed the set( (of course the wings would be way to much even as a incantation)

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Its not amazing but I love using the crucible tree armor so it goes so well with it anyways

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Why does it say physical damage is 147? If the correct value is 123.

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I stood in the middle of a window then he flew at me out the window and died

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"Potential drop from the Lesser Crucible Knight found after the Rampart Tower bonfire. ", this is plain wrong, datamining confirms that the Crucible Knight in Siofra Aqueduct has this as a guaranteed unique drop on defeat and it cannot possibly drop from any other Crucible Knight in the game

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I like it's aesthetic but that is the only reason to use it, it has less boost than medium shields near half it's weight, not really much better elemental, nothing special about the bash you can't change. If they could just give it one thing. Make it lighter, give it the fancy shield bash the actual knights use, boost its stats, make it customizable etc it would be really nice.

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literally just change the damage type of the entire shield to piercing and this would be amazing

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The shield bash does not cause counter-attack extra damage despite the flavor text about skewering foes.

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It might not be the best shield in the game, but it definitely looks awesome

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Outclassed by any other greatshield really. Dumb how it requires somber stones even though there nothing really special about it.

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Nothing to see here, just another greatshield that’s outclassed by the brass shield.

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imagine if the shield's ash of war was just the crucible horn incantation

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Heavily implied this shield does thrust on the shield bash. Will synergize well with crucible aspect incantations if you use your seal in main hand. 26 str requirement is pretty low for a caster to have a great shield that knocks people down and let’s him cast fire breath on wake up. 25 endurance will allow you to wear the crucible armor, shield and sword with the appropriate end game talismans. The elemental defenses leave much to be desired but the purpose is to create space for casters and possible score counter hits during shield bash trades.

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Imagine how cool it would be if the "skewer" effect on shield bashing was a "grab" attack like Inescapable Frenzy. Like, you bash them with the shield, and then hoist your victim over your head before slamming them down or throwing them off.

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This thing is garbage just based on the fact that you can't change the ash alone, not even taking into consideration the paltry guard boost it has in ratio to weight.

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the knight this drops from gave me painful hemorrhoids in my butt trying to fight it

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"Use Fingershield" this, "This shield is underpowered" that. Bro stfu Lord Godfrey has returned and needs our help!

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Does not scale aspect of the crucible incants unlike the armour sadly.

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So the 'Ancient Holiness' dwells within is just flavor text, shield doesn't even do holy damage on a bash. The only difference is that it does Thrust damage instead of Strike when you shield bash, Fingerprint Shield does more base damage and has madness build up. Or use one of the bleed causing bash shields.

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Literally worse stability and damage negation than the brass shield but for double the investment because you want a pierce shield bash.

Basically, only use it if you're part of the crucible knight fan club.

Hopefully from sees that the brass shield is better than most greatshields and they buff all the lesser used greatshields :)

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No Ash of war applicable what a shame!

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Confirmed not 100% drop from Lesser Crucible Knight on bridge found after 4 belfries warp. Just killed him and only received runes :/

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Technically the "skewering" part does have an in-game effect, it causes a bleeding visual effect the same way a sword hit will when shield bashes on other shields don't. That's it as far as I can tell. Maybe decent for it's weight, but a heavier shield like the fingerprint shield still does more damage with shield bash. Another greatshield with a cool design but got shafted from a gameplay perspective.

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Bad shield: BAd dmg negation compared to Gilded greatshield, Haligtree etc. Apparently does higher shield bash dmg but at +9, level 200+ with a STR/FTH build only does like 688 to a Haligtree soldier.

Not to mention the fp cost and the time it takes to finish the animation. Its a bad shield stat-wise stuck with possibly the worst Shield Ash of war.

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Should have bleed damage as should the crucible knight shoulder charge incantation. Problem with that? Then they shouldn't put words like 'gore' and 'skewer' in the item descriptions.

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Anyone know if the "skewers foes when performing shield bashes" has any special properties/interactions? From playing around with it a bit, doesn't seem to do anything different than a normal shield

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Anyone know if the "skewers foes when performing shield bashes" has any special properties/interactions? From playing around with it a bit, doesn't seem to do anything different than a normal shield

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This shield can't be infused with ash of war.

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really wish it had the crucible knight shield bash

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really wish it had the crucible knight shield bash

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Wish this shield would get an ash of war swap update so I could use it with the coolest armor in the game(tree crucible)

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Wish this shield would get an ash of war swap update so I could use it with the coolest armor in the game(tree crucible)

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buffing your right armament (bloodflame, blackflame, etc) also affects the shield skill with the same buff

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It cannot be infused with ashes of war

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Shield cannot be infused with other Ashes of War, unless I’m missing something?

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Map link is wrong I think?

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