Death Ritual Spear | Elden Ring Wiki

Fun to use on my INT build to call in airstrikes on gankers

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This is THE most inconsistent weapon skill in the game, it will either hit for 2000+ damage easily on even smaller targets(like regular soldiers) or deal like 400 to a God damn dragon. I can't even tell why, when it lands, it lands and deals good damage, but it can decide not to for... some reason.

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Disregard the nutty basement-dwelling chud who commented spazoid stuff over 20 different times on April 5.

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the only thing keeping this from being top tier op is no hyperarmor

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Someone real butthurt went through 05 Apr 2023 02:51 and commented on everything lol

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Why can’t this damn thing have frostbite on even just it’s aoe

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Anyone gonna mention how this thing looks like the Divine Dragons 7 Branch Sword from Sekiro?

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CLUSTER STRIKE INBOUND

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Its skill doesn't deal much damage, but it's very useful in group pvp as you can provide your friends a stun lock to enemies from a distance.

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Sorry mages, but even after the buff, dual nagis will always be the best choice for powerstanced spears.

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What if thunderbolt was even more cringe?

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people use it for the skill and forget it has the epic sweep r2

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Weapon n art in PvE seems super useful on a big boss that could be hit by allot of the aoe at once, seems like it would be useless in pvp due to the fact that the animation shows where it will land so unless they are stationary I don't see it hitting much

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the skill is surprisingly good in pvp, simply because it's difficult to dodge and unless you know what it is it just looks like a buff animation. It won't be oneshotting anyone even with the best build possible, but it is excellent for punishing buffs, or for opening a duel after the emotes are done, simply because most people just think it's a weapon buff.

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The skill seems to have broken, maybe in the most recent patch. Often when I use it on some enemies it just does nothing at all. I can spam it 3-5 times and they will get staggered, guard broken, etc, but take literally no (0) damage and not aggro me. I have to hit them first with some attack, then start using this ash of war and it starts doing damage. Unfortunately, it really breaks the whole weapon.

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This should have been an int fth scaling hybrid catalyst similar to the demons scar in ds3. It both mentions priests (fth) and being used in rites (int staff). It's still overall a fun weapon, but i think its potential was wasted a bit.

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Does anyone know if the weapon art scale with INT?

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To people trying to spam the weapon art: you have to let it land before recasting. Some spells and incants will reset when being recast, even though they are visually present—like swarm of flies. This is to prevent spamming and encourage players to be a little more patient and clever with their use; being able to queue up several barrages in quick succession would make this weapon cancerous. Not sure if they will adjust this in future patches, but the feathers need to land before being recasting for optimized damage.

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I noticed a game-breaking bug when using the Commander's standard to buff damage of the Death Spear's Ash of War. Casting the Spearcall Ritual while under it's effect causes the damage to do NO damage at all, only inflicting the poise break.

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Comments are crazy; ash is excellent but I used it at 80 int. 320ish damage per spear on common enemies and they're pretty densely packed. Also has B scaling in dex with an AR of about 634 at 50/80 DEX/INT, very common on sorcery builds. Covers the spear's weakness of no slashes with it sharing the slashy R2s of the partisan, and overall just a solid moveset. The ash really burns the hell out of anything Tree Sentinel size and above, which is most dangerous enemies in the game, honestly. Probably the only spear I'll consider using, since it's a better magic partisan, thanks to its weapon art. Also the style

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this, along with almost all the death weapons, scale really poorly with stats for regular hits, their weapon arts however scales very good with INT, and exclusively with INT. only use this and the death's Poker if you want a AOW spam build that focuses on frost

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Dark Utility Pole

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Go to sleep on this one.

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This weapon is a good backup for facing large bosses, farming Albs, or crowds of enemies. It absolutely melts dragons/dragonkins/avatars, like almost to unfair degree.

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Really disappointing damage. Needs a buff badly. Either make the raining spears have a mild homing effect on the target, or up the damage. As it stands, this weapon is useless on anything smaller than an Erdtree Avatar.

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For some reason the weapon art doesn't seem to any damages to bosses sometimes. I can cast it three or four times and do no damage to a boss. When drop the bosses health some with physical damage, then the weapon art works.

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Tried this out on my hard Dex soft Int (up to 40) build, got it up to +10 and took on Commander Niall.

It...wasn't very good. Despite scaling in three stats it only really benefits from Dex, the total AR doesn't add up to much and there's not much to say about it's moveset. It's a spear, it pokes slashes with the heavies.

That would be fine if the Skill wasn't so inconsistent. The total AoE is huge, but against a single target many will miss. Damage ranged between 300 and 700 against Niall. Against a larger target like the dragons or Elden Beast maybe it'll be more consistent but I consider Niall to be 'large'. I'm unsure what the Skill scaling is based on: I have 50 Dex and 34 Int w/o a great rune or stat boosts at the time of typing this.

Overall, just find it...meh. The fact it doesn't apply Cold is even more baffling, seeing how that's a theme with the Death Rite Birds. There's more effective and more interesting options. It does look neat, though!

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Ash of War breaks poise quickly, does decent damage and you look extremely cool while doing so.

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It's not a great melee weapon, and the weapon art is only okay compared to a lot of other uniques. But regardless of whether you kill or get killed, you'll always be more stylish than your enemy.



And that means you're the real winner.

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Oh, mistress of sweet release. Grant those cursed to life freedom of their mortal coil, that they may finally find peace in slumber they not yet know they seek.

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it really sucks that this and the death sorceries need very different builds so you can't really use them together

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I've had great results with the AoW when you would cast it from the high ground. I'm wondering if there's something about the tracking that gets affected in that situation.
Though it would make sense given the death rite birds do fly up when doing this move.

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Facing away from the opponent while not locked on and the locking on during the weapon art's cast will cause the spears to fall directly in front of you.

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time for divine dragon cosplay

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This weapon's AoW in invasions can be nasty. You can even use walls to cast it closer than max range without lock on and in tight rooms they cant get out.

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Nothing more satisfying than when you catch somebody with the weapon skill and he wobbles from every hit he gets. Very fun weapon to use, although quite low dmg for my build and I wish weapon art's free aim was better

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Seven-pronged sword inspired but this time it's NINE prongs! Upgrades, people, upgrades!

Signed, DS3FireKeeperBestWaifu.

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AoW on large targets is fun. Hate dragons? No problem, just rain spears on them.

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Love this weapon, the AoW is good in PvE and it could be decent in PvP for spacing but the cast animation locks you in place for way too much time. i would like to see a buff for L2 cast time, it would make this weapon slighty better for pvp, still sub-optimal, but at least the AoW would be usable. Will keep using this beauty regardless though

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We have Mohgwyns spear at home

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Sekiro `? xD

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Lots of whiners on here complaining about this being worse than META weapons. Why not try something..oh I don't know, new, and nonMETA. Takes practice to get good with a weapon.

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110 crit, nice.

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For people saying the int scaling is bad, not saying youre wrong but that is only applying to weapons main moveset. As for the ash of war, it is strictly int/magic damage and is where you would likely see the damage bonus for any points invested in int. Same principle applies to other weapons.

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(1.04) seems like there's a glitch with this weapons's skill. spearcall ritual does no damage with Rallying Standard buff.

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tastes crunchy when i put it in my mouth

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Why does this not have int+faith scaling like the prince of death's staff? This could have been such a cool weapon for postgame/NG+ int+faith builds but instead you only get the sword of night and flame for melee and nothing else. With only int scaling, this is just yet another almost good int-based melee that ends up getting completely overshadowed by the meta weapons (moonveil, dark moon greatsword, and wing of astel)

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These guys are why you should only travel by day in this game.

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Its SEKIRO'S SPEAR OF THE DRAGON!

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This should have had a tiny amount of Death buildup as a passive effect. Missed opportunity.

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I feel like this thing just need to have a D in faith addon on, Or they could make it like 4 Cs just across the board and say it just requires to have 14 in all thoes stats. so you could use this not just on death mage builds but also golden order aswell. even lore wise it would makes sense cause its talking about being used by priests. so all and all just adding a faith scale and or just giving it Cs all round makes this more lore friendly and a better but not overpowered weapon. cause from what iv understood that deathbird faith is and old practice long forgotten and more or less heretical. PS i just want this to be good cause the weapon art reminds me of how Rachet and Clank bosses shoot missiles and im a big Rachet and Clank fan.

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this weapon at +9 rapped Commander of Castle sole on NG6 destroyed his minnions and 2 cast and tore him down very quickly with my mimic keeping his attention and i am only lvl371 in ng6 so i was under leveled forn the fight to start

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How does this compare to the clean rot spear?
Both have a “volley of attacks” weapon art, this scales of int and the cleanrot spear scales off faith. Is one better than the other?

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Tested INT influence on WA: First build had 14-40-60 STR-DEX-INT for an AR of 615. Testing on Limgrave soldier on NG+ did 341 with the first falling spear, and 270 for each follow-up strike. The next build was with low INT but matching AR of 615, 16-55-18. Same target took 264 from the first falling spear, with 209 damage for each follow-up strike.

TLDR: The high INT build took three falling spears to reach 881 damage, while the low INT build took four falling spears to reach 891 damage. So a whopping 42 points of INT does only about 30% more damage.

Whatever though. I still love this weapon.

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Underrated. Weapon art has good tracking, partizan moveset, you can either pump dex and get decent weapon damage (it is split though) or pump int for pocket artillery (WA is all magic damage), or mix it up for a bit of both. Top it off with a sneaky 110 crit. Great in pvp and pve.

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Since no one has mentioned it this weapon has a very similar likeliness with the branch like style of the weapons blade to the divine dragon of sekiro’s “moonlight” blade

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Ah they keeps doing it, add int requirements make it look like an int weapon, and people start complaining why sorcerer got so many fun weapons, not fair.No we don't, its int scailing is ****. It's more of dex weapon.

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I don't like spears much in these games but I'm actually kind of a fan of this one, it does pretty decent damage at +9 compared to a +24 partisan, AOE WA with alright range and damage, and the same R2 sweep as the partisan. my only real issues are the low poise/stance damage (but i think most spears have that so it could just be me) and the lack of frost buildup but still pretty nice.

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How's this weapon after the patch? Probably the most obscure, least used weapon in the game currently.

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I’ve found raining down the weapon soil on an enemy and quickly following up with death rancor or a bloodhound step cold weapon puts the fear of god in most players. Pairing with Deaths Poker weapon skill is great for some wide aoe, high dps, and ranged support in boss battles

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I wanna love this weapon more than i do dangit!

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if i had a nickel for every time something is logically missing int or faith, i would be able to bribe fromsoft to apply the damn stat scaling.

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Fun weapon but like most faith/int spells/weapons it just lacks something. Plus all these death bird weapons/spells are very inconsistent. Some apply frostbite (from ghostflame) but most do not and thats going to hold most of them back.

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running a int/faith grim reaper build with this. combo it with ancient death rancor and it usually catches anyone that panic dodges. having a lot of fun with this!

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Can NOT be boosted with resins

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Shouldn't this weapon scale with int+fth? Death magic does and you'd think they would be in the same category.

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It's has such a weird scaling. The weapon scales with int like ass, only getting 80 additional magic damage at 80 int. It's primarily dex scaling, reaching up to 223 additional physical ar at 80 dex. On the other hand, its weapon skill doesn't seem to scale with dex, only int and weapon upgrade level and (at least partially) counts as magic damage. The int scaling on the skill seems fairly low, so a pure dex+some int build might be the best stat spread for it, but a weapon skill test with a max upgraded spear for the difference between 18 and 50 int would be good to know. At the very least, its weapon skill looks really cool.

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Why did they make this an int scaling weapon when the flavor text of the weapon art literally says you're praying.

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Requires 14 strength not 11.

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The Clayman's Harpoon completely outclasses this, don't waste your materials upgrading this weapon.

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Does anyone know if it does frostbite like when it's used against you?

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Man I thought this is going to be like Morion Blade, with the whole style and lore of deathbirds especially since the talisman that increases attack near death drops from death bird

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dont listen to the scaling, if you're a chad, you dont care about whats meta, just use what you want and be better than everyone

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This is just Aku as a spear, don't think I'll be fooled that easily. (Even though I am a foolish samurai warrior)

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why tf does it scale with int if it doesnt go any higher then D? makes it a bad weapon

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I really wanted this to work because I liked the weapon art, which shoots awesome looking spears from the sky on your target, but after investing +9 I sadly state that this weapon is not very good.
It has B scaling in DEX so i will call it a DEX weapon but even with a good amount of DEX It's weapon art will only do 1200-1600 damage per cast (which is a pretty long cast) even against very big bosses.
Adding to the lists of cons slow spear moveset and below average damage from normal attacks I suggest to stay away from this. Big sadge

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Does the weapon art scale with int?

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Seems to be shaped after a seven-branched sword, like the Sohayamaru in Nioh 2

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Seems to be shaped after a seven-branched sword, like the Sohayamaru in Nioh 2

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It drops from the Death Rite Bird boss on the way to Castle Sol in the Mountaintops of the Giants

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This drops from the Death Rite Bird in the Mountaintop of the Giants. Basically due west from the Snow Valley Ruins Overlook Grace

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The death bird boss in the mountaintops of the giants drops this

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says it drops from death rite bird. There's a death rite bird that spawns near Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank at nightfall. It's a little between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock from the grace.

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anyone have any ideas where this is?

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