Darkness (Skill) | Elden Ring Wiki

Works pretty well against Ghostflame dragon, but other bosses and enemies can be tricky with long cast time. I also think sacred blade is better vs ghostflame dragon, but if you really want to use this skill like I did with my necromancer then this is its time to shine

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Another cool skill placed on a boring sword

Zzzzz VwV

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Shouldn't the combined boost of the two be 44% instead of 40%? Shouldn't it be multiplicative?

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alternate name: edge lord's sword

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Alone it adds a debuff that doesnt change the target resist, but makes targets take 20% more holy damage.

With sword of light buff it doesnt cause enemies to take 40% more holy damage. It should be 44%.

Its still near suicidal to land in pvp and hard to land on bosses that zip around and stagger you alot, possibly to the point where just attacking would deal more damage than trying to debuff.

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Since the wording and calc seems to be a bit inaccurate, I tested this out. My totally willing and consenting test subject is that one banished knight who's doing laps at the Caelid dragon communion cathedral for some reason. I tested using the Swords of Darkness & Light, and for the actual attack (to determine effectiveness) I used the Coded Sword since it does raw holy damage.

A normal R1 did 147. An R1 using either the buff on myself OR the debuff on the knight did 176. And lastly, an R1 using both the buff and debuff at the same time did 211.

To put plainly; the buff and debuff, separately, will result in a 20% increase in damage done to the enemy. The combined buff/debuff will increase the output to 43% instead. The discrepancy (why it's not a flat 40%) is easily accounted for by rounding in the calculations the game is doing. If you guys saw how many decimal places there are in the math this spaghetti code of a game actually uses you'd not only understand, you'd be genuinely astonished anything works at all....

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There is either a problem with the math here or the wording is ambigious.

100 holy damage :

vs radagon (80% resist) = 20 damage

Vs radagon with sword of light buff = 24 damage (20% increase)

Vs radagon with sword of darkness debuff (if 80% becomes 64% resist) = 36 damage (80% damage increase)

If its a flat 80% to 60% = 40 damage, (double damage)

If it's a "target takes 20% more holy damage thanks to darkness debuff" that is independent of resists, 24 damage

Where did 40% come from? The last case?

Asides from the fact that this weapon art is a pain to land on a holy build.

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math properly

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Will this work on gauis who already has negative holy resistance?

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All i know is : Using the weapon art of sword of dark an then the weapon art of sword of light , then the weapon art of sacred relics gs destroys ****!

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The saving grace of this skill is even if are interrupted, the debuff still applies

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If this skill reduces resistance by a flat 20%, then Darkness results in a larger damage increase to all enemies with positive holy resistance than Light (e.g. 80% -> 60%, which is double damage).
Light is better for enemies with negative resistance (both are the same at 0% resistance).

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The debuff should stack at least 3 times. Change my mind.

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As a faith player who refuses to let go of holy damage, this is a godsend. Start the fight with this, and go with whatever sacred infusion weapon you have. No downpayment, no BS. Faith users unite!

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Doesn’t darkness do -20% to enemy resistance so you deal 1/0.8 which is 1.25 times the damage, and stacked together it becomes 1.5 times the damage? That is 50% increase instead of 40% theoretically.

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always gotta be one guy that says it scales with arcane on everything

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Using the skills Light and Darkness together is a 44% boost, not 40%...
Damage boosts are almost always multiplicative in Elden Ring (1.2 * 1.2 = 1.44), not additive

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does insane damage to any boss you can get under, I combo this with the Black Steel Greathammer and Prayful Strike or Holy Ground and everything dies

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Puke of Satan

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It's the sword of darkness but what ever you do don't reference Dark Souls because we can't have any Dark Souls in Elden Ring just like how all references to a blood god have no call backs to Bloodborne.

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Would that stack with Gideon weapon as well?

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wonder what category this skill debuff is to see if this stack with greyoll roar (power shred) and black blade (destined death)

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What are the numbers? How much holy resist is removed? How long?

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Pair this with light sword for SAO cosplay

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this applies the damage negation debuff to enemies, right?

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cant pull it off because enemies in the DLC have 4000 hit TEKKEN combos and this skill has no hyper armor

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This is why the game needs a dark/unholy damage type. No reason why a sword of darkness does holy damage…

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did not know this existed ngl. I should def start a NG+ to get this and dual wield Light and Dark

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Mosquito spray

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DARKNESS WITHIN DARKNESS

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Using this with the Sword Of Light with the bonus holy damage will make you deal really good holy damage right?

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this ash of war has a lot of knockback, feels good to get enemies off you, the trick is to unlock and look to your right when using it so the dark wave hits right away instead of a delay for it to circle around you. the hitbox is very generous so all you need is it have it start on them

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How much does it negate? Can you stack the negation? Could this make Radagon and Elden Beast take decent holy damage?

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Reduces holy damage negation? As in you take more damage? Hmm

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Assassin in white cosplay here we go

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