Dragon Halberd | Elden Ring Wiki

The R1 attack is it a bit lame i think, attacks like a spear.. golden halberd has cooler moveset but the WA of this weapon is sick af

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Personal favorite powerstancing option, paired with a Fire BK Halberd is a good way to proc frostbites and both are available virtually from the start

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Best weapon. Bo

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don’t forget to use the second r2 AoW! awesome for pvp when surrounded. :)
rl 20 +2 on the weapon and it’s fun for invasions.

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Surprisingly good for RL1. Great damage + frostbite. I used it to beat Radahn. Not my favorite moveset, but decent. I think this may be the best somber weapon for RL1 I've tried so far.

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What's a good stat array for this Weapon?

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Damages are now 160 lightning and I confirm it lasts for 45 seconds

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I found this thing and passed over it cause I thought the AoW was just gonna be the generic one. Holy ****, how many other weapons have modified standard AoWs? I really hope I didn't pass over other weapons because having Lightning damage early on would have made those dang iron maiden enemies way easier.

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Peepa who call This a "Low Level Invasion God" Didnt got one shotted by it at Meta level yet.


This is possibly the best Halberd in the game by far

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Do upgrades and or leveling increase the ice lightning output in any way or is it permanently fixed.

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Dude this thing hits like a freight train now, it’s still a bit early game oriented, it just goes from hitting with the force of a thousand suns to a meteor strike as you progress. Absolutely love this weapon, viable throughout the entire game with its new buffs

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The info on the Ash of War buff is incorrect/outdated. As of patch 1.08, the buff from the Dragon Halberd's special Spnning Slash is +160 flat Lightning damage with a duration of 45 seconds.

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Sends stormveil hosts to the shadow realm.

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So the WA buffs the weapon for 20 or 45 seconds ?

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The best low level invasion weapon IMO. Easy to get with a little bit of determination, grants access to frostbite which helps cut through overleveled phantoms, and the flat damage makes it hit hard even on low stats.

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Incredibly underrated, even in late game.

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this thing absolutely destroys. im surprised more people dont go for it over bhf

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Looks like it was designed to go along with the beast champion set

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this thing makes a quality build worthwhile

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sometimes you get bored of decimating the game with bloodhound's fang, so you try this. not bad.

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lightning, o lightning
frost, o frost

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I wish this and commander's standard had similar range (make commander slightly shorter and make this slighly longer), since they have a similar enough scaling to where you would want to dual wield them, but the range difference becomes noticeable for regular attacks very quickly.

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the drake sword of the current age.

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Absolutely slaughters the early and mid game. Halberds are good in general and with the buffs to spinning slash and the special variant on this weapon you can stomp bosses by just spamming L2. The reach, damage bonus, and frostbite make it great for dragon hunting too.

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This thing is king of low level PvP. Between the massive lightning damage boost and the frostbite, you'll crush anything you fight. Only requires 15 strength to use when two handed. Can be gotten early on as well without having to travel to high level areas.

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How does this perform at higher levels? I'm level 85 and this thing hits like a god damn truck.

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In addition to the buff to the duration in 1.07, the lightning damage from the buff was increased from +130 to +160.

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You were at my side all along, my guiding frostlight...

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This weapon is really good now with 1.07. Straight up deletes people in duels and invasions. Not only was the length of the buff increased, but Spinning Slash in general was buffed doing more poise damage against enemies. So get ready to stun lock and poke poke poke!

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Dragonscale Blade and Dragon Halberd are insane now. I love these weapons, I couldn’t be happier with patch 1.07

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1.07 the effect lasts about 45 seconds, similar to dragonscale blade

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Like with the dragonscale blade, skill duration seems to be buffed to 45 seconds

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Hero class, Caelid for Poison Mist AoW, Siofra, set flasks to FP, waygate, sneak behind Dragonkin, mist cheese, 1 point into dex. Enjoy.

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ngl i wish they changed the "halberd" weapon class to polearms, cuz this ****'s a poleaxe. not to mention the lucerne being a polehammer. outside of that tho i LOVE this weapon and its super great and versatile

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Some tips after using this weapon for a few days: the lightning/frost status addition from the AoW is a flat damage gain with no scaling, so it’s more impactful for a lower level character (although frost is always good).

The light thrust makes the weapon viable for tunnel work, as does the light jumping attack, a vertical downward slash. The strong attack can absolutely bounce off walls and get you killed in any hallway or tunnel, but it can can also trivialize an entire mob in the open (like the AoW, the charged attack is also a double-spin, meaning that for 20 seconds after activating the AoW you can repeat it with your charged attack for free while the weapon is infused)

Be careful to use the light attacks for smaller enemies, such as vulgar militia, catacomb imps, etc, as the strong attacks do sometimes pass right over their heads.

All in all this weapon is basically a Swiss Army knife, it can handle well in a lot of different situations if you adapt to the moveset, and the variety of damages and status buildup make it great for almost everything.

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I prefer the dragonscale sword. The spinning slash with ice lightning is a good weapon art but the move-set this has seems a bit dull for such a nice looking halberd. As opposed to something like great-stars which looks sh**ty but performs very well.

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If only it was longer...

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Here is what I just did and you probably can too:
Stack poison darts + Medusa and poison his ass. After he is poisoned you can run away and wait untill the bosses hp stops draining, rinse and repeat.
With this method i got the helberd before morgot at like lvl 25.
I also smashed his knee caps a little to speed up the process but you don't have to if you don't feel like it

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This has to be my favorite weapon in the game, fight me about it

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Excellent early game PvE and PvP weapon.

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Looks poggers as all hell... Too bad its moveset is so boring.

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Has like 10 less AR on pure STR build compared to Quality

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Should I use this or the Dragonscale blade because I really like both

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Should I use this or cold infused spinning slash lance?

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I had fun dual-wielding this with a second cold-enchanted halberd, gives even more frost buildup after using the weapon art.

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A must-have before hunting dragon hearts. Greater magma wrym almost got a kill, were it not for the frostbite proc, near the end.

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Just a all around good weapon, don't let the spinning slash aow fool you, it also buffs the weapon by quite a bit with lightning, making it a decent quality build weapon

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we NEED more ice lightning spells and ashes of war

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For some weird reason, the weapon art's frozen lightning bolt conducts in water, while the incantation doesn't.

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I absolutely adore this weapon. Was my go-to through most of the game when a particular boss or enemy was giving me trouble. I may have killed all but one magma wyrm using it. Not to mention it wrecks NPC invaders. It's hard to find good STR weapons that have good passive burst passives too, but Dragon Halberd's frost buff procced pretty regularly because of the R1's speed.
In comparison, one of my other most-used weapons, Great Stars, barely ever gets the bleed proc off unless I'm buffed with Bloodflame and/or wailing on an enemy with a lot of HP who's also weak to bleed e.g. Sanguine Noble.

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why does the wiki say it is good for high dex when it scales better with strength

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Lots of ways this is great, but in particular it crushes the early and mid game if you take the Siofra River waygate and fight the Soldier however early you can manage.

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Picked this up for my rune level 1 run and it's absurdly strong. The damage buff you receive from the ash of war enables you to deal late game tier damage with no stat investment whatsoever.

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WA buff is the same buff as for the Dragonscale Blade, +130 flat Lightning damage and 80 frost build up. Lasts 20s.

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This item didn't drop from the boss for me, bummed out.

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Runescape

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Fits better at SL 150 vs 125 meta as it is a Quality weapon. Best stat distribution after doing the math below. If u go any further u gain less than 2 AR each point:
Vagabond (best class for this, but Hero and Samurai is very close): 60 Vig, 25 End, 54 Str, 55 dex = 753 AR at SL 150 unbuffed (WA buffs it). Best used 2H.

With this setup I have 103 poise aswell using the Poise talisman + Equip load talisman.

Your welcome / Maanestraale

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Some guy said the spear talisman doesn't work on this. Can't find anything about this fact, so plz prove me wrong guys.

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If someone can corroborate this, then it should be added to the wiki page. I saw a spreadsheet online detailing damage boosts against dragons with dragon themed weapons, and the dragon halberd apparently does 10%increased damage to regular dragons, and 5% increased damage to ancient dragons.

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I feel like this would be a really good, and fairly easily attainable early game pvp weapon. At +0 base stats the weapon art would nearly double its AR, since it's a flat 130 regardless of upgrade level. I'm tempted to make a new character and try that for myself

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Can confirm that the AoW adds frozen lighting to the weapon. seems to last 10-15 seconds. Damage increase noted in testing. My character=Str 41/Dex21. Testing performed near Church of elle (or as I call it "The Church of L's"). R1,standing attack used for both damages. Unbuffed/+0 weapon. Regular attack=132 damage Attack with FrozenLit buff=208. It doesn't last long enough to be truly great but it's not JUST spinning slash.

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Why do the descriptions for this, and other weapons, suggest raising a trait for this weapon that it doesn't scale as well with. The website description says this is for High Dex users while it scales better with strength? lots of stuff like that on the site.

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This full weapon art claps hard. Just wish it's size was just a little bit longer (thats what she said)

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the FP cost of this weapon art should be halved

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for early-ish game fashion, rock this with banished knight armor set it looks amazing. Killed a bunch of dragons and radahn with it and never felt cooler

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Seems like the ice lighting buff you get from this ash of war increases damage the more points you put into faith...Or something else is influencing it im not sure

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Using the spinning slash ash of war also infuses crossbow bolts with frostbite... nice

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Perfect for my dragon knight run!

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Perfect for my dragon knight run!

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Weapon seems to do 10% more damage to regular dragons, +9 attack rating of 685 does 556 damage light attack body, commanders standard +9 attack rating 696 light attack body is 515 damage. The dragon halberd should be doing around 11 less damage of around 500 then but it does 556 which is around a 10% buff it seems.

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Weapon seems to do 10% more damage to regular dragons, +9 attack rating of 685 does 556 damage light attack body, commanders standard +9 attack rating 696 light attack body is 515 damage. The dragon halberd should be doing around 11 less damage of around 500 then but it does 556 which is around a 10% buff it seems.

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I think this is the only halberd with thrusting attacks for the light combo. The dodge roll attack is a slash and not a thrust, which is the only thing I don’t like. The ability slaps. Hard. And the stagger and frostbite is amazing on it. I can’t put this thing down. Side not, you can cancel the full spin to just apply the frostbite and that’s hella useful

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Ah.. you were at my side all along

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This is the only good quality weapon for a non-over leveled build.

If you have 54 Str (For two handing or one handing) and 40-55 Dex, it does the best AR for a halberd, that I can find, while also having a better than normal spinning slash.

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Skill of this weapon is much better than the katana version WTF from

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Does anybody know if this gets the extra damage to dragons (10% for ancient, 20% for regular dragons) that the dragonscale katana gets?

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1.04 buffed physical block 52->58 and boost 39->51

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Does the lightning damage increase when you upgrade the weapon? If so, it would be useful to know when and by how much.

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Seems like a typo. Should be "Cannot be enchanted. . . ."

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this halberd slaps so hard. It deals Physical and lighning dmd when infused. Plus frostbite is very useful. Most players in pvp uderestimate this weapon, if you get caught in its fast weapon art you can proc frostbite very easy which will deadl insane dmg and debuff. Very good in pvp and pve. Top tier weapon for strengh or quality builds

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This was the first decent weapon I found on my first playthrough going Wretch and it has a special place in my heart for how many mother****ers we wrecked together :')

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this weapon art + poise and a lucky frostbite proc...kiss gankers goodbye

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Whats the ar of this on a 50/40 quality build?

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A halberd with a thrust attack is excellent when so many enemies are weak to pierce damage. It can buff itself and also looks good.

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Does it drop from that boss!? Never seen it. I've only gotten the ice lightning. What have I missed?

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This item is also dropped by the blue Golem in Caelid. If you want to duel wield it in the first playthrough, might be good to know:
https://i.imgur.com/dj00Jbp.png / https://i.imgur.com/GlE28iL.png

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I love my dragon halberd, forget about Malenia this is my maiden

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don't get fooled by the scaling, this halebard is hands down the best halebard for pvp and definetly one of the best weapons overall for pvp. The weapon art is really really strong and ofter catches unwary players after the second imput + it adds frostbite. For PVE and horseback the Golden Halebard is the best though. This is essentially a pvp weapon.

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After some testing with a friend it seems like the Frost applied to the weapon is roughly around 70-80 on a build with 32 arcane, It likely doesn't scale with arcane though.
The same amount built up with the Dragonscale Katana's Weapon art too. So the blue lightning buffs probably are identical.

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really cool weapon and it fits nice with the banished knight set though i wish it had the other halberd moveset

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the best SL1 weapon without upgrades for pvp

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Main hand this bad boy, offhand golden halberd for the golden vow buff. Jumping L1 and L1 combo hit like an absolute mack truck and this weapon art is ridiculously strong to boot. The halberd powerstance range and moveset is crazy good. Highly recommend.

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Okay.. This is the comment you're looking for. The buff is a flat 130 damage, no matter what level the weapon is or scaling. Buff last about 20 seconds. It is activated using the weapon art spinning attack. The blue lighting buff does magic damage and builds frostbite. Not a good weapon for higher level PvP or PvE. Lower level it's probably one of the best for PvP.

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I feel like this should be updated to note the lightning on the skill. Anyone I show this too at first skips it after reading the "spinning slash" part.

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This weapon has helped me kick a lot of boss asses. Good range for a poking weapon, great physical damage, and staggers enemies pretty easily. The WA is super helpful with the 20 second frost/lightning buff. PS I beat Malenia with it so there's that endorsement

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I invaded someone using this and the first hit of the spinning slash stunlocked me into getting hit by the subsequent hits so it was basically a true combo oneshot. Not sure why that's allowed.

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Buff lasts 20 seconds, starting from the first lightning strike on the weapon skill. The second lightning strike at the end of the skill does not refresh the buff. Gives the weapon bonus frost and lightning damage. Also I don't believe you can boost it with enchants or consumables like the wiki says. I've never got that to work. Hits hard when buff is up and even harder once u get frost stacked up. Huge fan of this weapon.

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nice weapon for pve too, can get you through the game even though there is better weapons for quality like bloodhound fang. it has a thrust/poke regular attack which is really neat and the weapon art buffs it with frostbite (which in my opinion is the 2nd best status effect in this game next to bleed). sadly its jump attack aint that good in my experience and theyre king in this game, but it looks nice and is fun as hell so +1

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I think i get it now. Quality builds are supposed to use these badass uninfusable weapons. Ill have to test a bit, but i wonder if capping str/dex would make up for not having int/faith on certain weapons

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I think i get it now. Quality builds are supposed to use these badass uninfusable weapons. Ill have to test a bit, but i wonder if capping str/dex would make up for not having int/faith on certain weapons

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