Golden Epitaph | Elden Ring Wiki

10/10 for farming bandit sword. Doesn’t even require upgrades unless you want to pop last rites and see some big critical numbers.

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When I fought my mimic, I was wielding this, mimic just kept spamming Last Rites, made me rethink my build

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i always have this on the off-hand when i have to beat skeletons, saves me the pain of having to hit their blue leftovers, especially when they are grouped.

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The ultimate anti-spook weapon ever created.

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rune sword but awesome

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I like to think that's an alien crucified at the top there. Little headcanon.

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This is one of the coolest designed weapons of all time. I ****ing love this thing. Whoever designed it give them a raise.

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Hey bow builds. give this a try instead of vow for fun. You’re welcome. I promise it won’t disappoint. Of course vow will win out when you want more defense but the AR increase on bows is really noticiable with Last Rites. Have fun!

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Looks a lot like Ostravas Sword from Demons Souls

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good for people who struggle with skeletons... i guess

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So I was doing a Sword of NF run with this as the pair. It made the undead portions of Farum so much fun! Last rites is a great buff. I’ve been using it more than Vow on this run even in normal situations because the 10% AR buff is usually more than enough and this skill is a lot more FP-efficient than Vow. Great aura buff. Yes I understand the scaling isn’t as cool if you were doing a dedicated infusion straight sword run, but sometimes utility can beat out AR and I definitely want to put this armament on that list.

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Kinda looks like a Keyblade if you're into a KH build

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This skill creates an aura which can buff your other weapons, even skills and spells.

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notes & tips could/should state that the weapon can be used as a holy dmg buff. I learned this from that Gino Machino guy, on his consumables only run. He used this as one of the buffs to stack before throwing holy pots. Meaning if you're doing holy dmg, this weapon is worth getting even if you don't actually use it, no need to upgrade it. Do buff, then switch to main weapon(s). Doesn't seem to stack with golden vow tho, but increase holy dmg a bit more.

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Okay if Godwyn appears as a DLC boss in some form, this weapon was absolutely made to murder his oyster lookin' ass.

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You know Death Birds? Send them to the afterlife, then kill them there too. Holy Damage already beat those things to a pulp, and this thing does so much bonus damage that it's actually kinda absurd.

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I feel like the item description gives us an idea of what's to come in the DLC, we have Miquella riding towards an Erdtree afflicted with death blight. While his soul is dead, Godwyn, Prince of Death, is alive and the leader of TwliD. We could be working with Miquella to bring him down.

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Behold the sweetfish river running through my beloved hometown.

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It’s basically the rune sword from Demon’s Souls

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something wired i found when using last rites buff on wing of Astel will make the ash of war (Nebula) do 0 dmg

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An unstated bonus about this weapon is just how devastating it is against Death Birds. If you are every struggling against them, especially those stupid Death Rite Birds near end-game, pull this out and use its buff. You will melt through those birds. Also gives the buff to allies as well, so everybody does great damage against the birds.

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Has to be a reference to the Rune Sword from demons souls.

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I wonder if the quote is from Miquella to Godwyn as it does call him brother…

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dawnbreaker

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This thing is CARRYING me through a big chunk of Farum Azula. If you're somewhere with lots of skellingtons it's worth the investment

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Golden straight sword that scales with faith? Perfect for a corrin cosplay build along with dragon incantations!

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This weapon might not be strong but its soooo pretty. Its a shame its not really.

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Still does holy damage. So...still bad.

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This thing slaps after patch 1.07, unless you have like 80 faith this is the better choice to the coded sword. Or, use this in off hand and coded sword in main.

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Just got a huge buff against undead. Pretty ridiculous if you have two of them.

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Go to sword for any graveyard problems.

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Here's a neat little thing I noticed while playing a Golden Order build, the Sacred Order and Shared Order ashes of war depict the symbol of the Golden Order itself.
Last Rites, despite being identical to Shared Order, was produced by Miquella, so when you use that skill, you will briefly see the Haligtree symbol, the mark of Miquella himself. :)

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Miquella saw himself as just a “brother” to Godwyn despite them not sharing the same father and the latter of the two having his father exiled from the lands between. Kinda touching.

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Reminds me of Rune Sword from DeS.

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“O brother, rise if you would.”

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The scaling on this sword isn't great. I prefer my regular Lordsworn's Heavy Straight Sword + Order's Blade. I can just put points into STR so my Clawmark Seal incant scaling gives me the same holy damage (+100% to undead) as Golden Epitaph and way more phys damage. At lower levels this sword makes sense, but at higher levels the scaling makes more of a difference (lvl 40 STR, B STR scaling). The Square Off ash of war that comes with Lordsworn's is too op. Did I mention I love the Lordsworn's Straight Sword?

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Now wait a damn second, a Straight Sword with 14 Faith Requirement that's good against undead? I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE! (Astora's Straight Sword, Dark Souls 1)

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Best sword to fight the undead. it naturally has 30% damage increase against the undead and gets 50% more with last rites. keeps them down for good and has relatively good scaling compared to putting sacred on an ordinary straight sword with sacred order. if you are not pure faith build this sword is the best.

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Impressively weird weapon description.

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This weapon is pretty good for it's sole purpose, to wreck undead.

It has fairly low stat requirements too, 14 Fth is easy enough to splash into (If only to get 15 Fth for Flame, Grant Me Strength but also Heal is nice to have access to in order to wreck Revenants)

Making it a decent weapon to hang onto in order to use when you encounter undead. Killing skeletons outright without needing to buff is very convenient and with the WA you can MELT Tibia Mariners and Deathbirbs due to the massive damage multiplier you get.

The only thing that's kind of WeirdChamp about it is the fact that it's a weapon dedicated to killing undead... Yet it's not a Strike weapon while Strike damage is strong against undead.

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So does this sword make me see 10 seconds in the future?

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I wish you could use this to kill Godwyn for good. Poor bastard needs rest.

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The buff from this is weaker than AoW: Shared Order. Wut?

Like I buff and switch to my main weapon and the bonus Holy damage is lower than Shared Order.

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this would look awesome as a greatsword

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this would look awesome as a greatsword

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Since this weapon is so similar to Rune Sword from Demon's Souls (in appearance primarily), it would have been cool if the weapon art was something more defense based. In Demon's Souls, just holding Rune Sword gave you a hefty boost to your magic defense, and if you also used the Rune Shield or Dark Silver Shield you would see another magic defense boost added on top. My ideal version of this weapon would be to make it so that it would have a small boost to your magic defense from holding it, but have the weapon art give you Barrier of Gold, but rather affecting you and your allies, it only affects yourself and has the length of magic fortification. Defensive weapons are cool as they give such a neat way to play.

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I heard this weapon by default deals an extra 1.3x damage to undead in addition to its other effects.

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Golden... epitaph? I know it is not, but it surely sounds a lot like an Umineko reference.

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its ok, coded sword is significantly better though

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This also perma-kills summoned skeletons like in black knife catacombs. Does "Those Who Live in Death" only mean skeletons or are there specific enemies that applies to?

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The ash of war is nearly useless because it doesn’t stack with Golden Vow

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otstrava?

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You can actually grab this on a fresh new Faith character, for an easy early Faith unique. It means grabbing the two medallions and a stonesword key, and the agonising journey all the way to the Auriza Hero's Grave, but in any case it has low stat requirements, and there are no bosses or farming standing in the way. The ability to dab on skeletons is also kinda value for low level characters.

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The bane of Undead and those blasted Death Rite Birds. Seriously, this thing does so much damage to those enemies types, it's totally worth holding onto just for when you encounter them.

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Ohohohooooooh Beaaatooooriiiceeeeeee

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This is the Rune Sword from Demon's Souls. There are actually a lot of references to DeS in Elden Ring. More than any of the other games. Very cool!

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Not worth it TBH. A +25 holy imbued longsword deals slightly better damage while having the benefit of having customizable ashes of war. Only thing this one has going for it is that it perma-kills skeletons

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Is this a JoJo reference?

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Combine with buffs and talismans and flasks that increase Holy damage?

Could be the new Astora's Straight-Sword?

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This thing absolutely annihilates Death Birds.

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Low AR at first glance but the thing with this weapon is that it's imbued with the power to slay skeletons. You can stack its weapon art on top of the passive and deal an obscene amount of damage on anything that is undead. As far as i can tell, this is mainly a PvE sword.

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Lore dump:

Like a previous commenter said, the "young boy" in the description is probably Miquella. The weapon skill is the only skill in the game that uses the Haligtree incantation icon, the same one that you get when you use Miquella's needle in the Placidusax arena. Miquella is also cursed with eternal youth, ergo "young boy" who could consider Godwyn a "brother."

The skeleton-kill effect seems to be a consequence of Miquella's "humble prayer." Those who Live in Death come from Deathroot, which in turn comes from the corpse of Godwyn at the roots of the Erdtree in the Deeproot Depths. The skeleton-kill seems to be the consequence of the prayer extending out to the derivatives of Godwyn, in his role as Prince of Death.

I'd be super curious to know if this weapon has any unique interaction with Fia or Lichdragon Fortissax.

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When you walk away, you don’t hear me say…

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When you walk away, you don’t hear me say…

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great sidearm for a pure faith build, sitting at 606 AR with minimum stats and 80 faith. The skeleton banish effect has also been super useful in certain areas

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Doesn't seem to kill skeletons permanently if you are powerstancing with it in your offhand

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It's a Keyblade!

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Weapon DOEs have a special effect to it. this is so far as i've been testing the only weapon that doesnt require a weapon art or spell on it to out right kill skeletons without them getting back up. Much like holy spells and pots. but basic holy damage does not seem to out right kill them, unless it's this sword.

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This paired with the gilded iron shield would be quite nice for an Ostrava cosplay.

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I think the "young boy" in the item description is miquella because of the haligtree motif that appears when you use the weapon skill

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sick umineko reference

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Does NOT scale with the Golden Vow incantation, they will replace each other

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Does NOT scale with the Golden Vow incantation, they will replace each other

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Last Rites buff will also stay active if changing / unequipping weapon

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This weapon cannot be buffed with magic or consumable, contrary to what the page says

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How does it scaled compared to Sac Noble longsword? Noble gets a B at 25, while this still sticks at C. I assume Sac noble out preforms this eventually based on scaling along.

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I think this weapon should at least be able to use the sacred and physical ashes of war, the fact that I cant change it is kind of a bummer seeing as the buff doesn't stack with golden vow

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Insanely good sword, quick sword, really high damage (despite it's numbers) and perma-kills skeletons. Also does greatly increased damage to undead style mobs with buff for you and friends, and looks cool to boot. A favorite of mine for sure!

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this weapon absolutely annihilates Skeletons. Without the skill active it'll perma-kill any skeletons, even those linked to a Necromancer, and with the skill I saw a nearly 60% increase in damage. When you want to get off mr. bones' wild ride, accept no substitutes.

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FYI, Skeletons will not resurrect when killed with this sword even without the Sacred Oath self-buff active.

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I feel like I'm missing something. At level 70, the same old Sacred Lordsworn's Straight Sword I've been using since Limgrave does better Holy and Physical damage, and with the Shared Order ash it can even duplicate the weapon art. So.... why would I use this?

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Any way to get to this early? I have a few str/fth weapons but all with higher stat requirements than this. It seems weird it's so far into the game and something like golden halberd is at the start.

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Ostrava sword

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it scales at S at lvl 10, this is an amazing sword for high faith builds

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Weapon ability consumes 25 FP, grants about 30% damage boost and passive health regen for 45 seconds.

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how works the guard boost its for the weapon or the shield

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Does anyone know the scaling at +10

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The page only states the weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War but says nothing about buffs. Does anybody who has found this weapon know if it can be buffed?

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I need to actually test it, but I'm pretty sure this sword kills skeletons / reviving enemies without the extra hit on the glowing thing, as if you had Sacred Blade or some similar ability on your weapon.

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Is it good for Str/Fth?

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dildo

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Located in Leyndell Capital inside Auriza Hero's Grave behind a stonesword key fog wall.

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This is found in Auriza Hero's grave in the Altus Plateau on the East side of the big circular wall

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Found it in Auriza's Hero's grave.

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The Golden Epitaph is found on the Auriza Hero's Grace, at the top limit of the map in a castle surrounded by water.
Players will need to activate the Grand Lift of Dectus to access the area or defeat the Wyrm Lava Dragon.
It is a good weapon for Paladins build specifically, scaling of Faith and STR. Ashes cannot be use on this weapon.

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rune sword elden ring

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Reminds me of the rune sword from demon's souls

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