Greatblade Phalanx | Elden Ring Wiki

It’s pretty sad that this does less stagger than the flint blade phalanx skill. Between the ash of war and carian phalanx I don’t really see any use case for this spell. If you want stagger, put glintblade phalanx on a dagger, especially since something like misericorde will deal great damage on the crit. If you want damage just go with carian phalanx for something that doesn’t cost that much and doesn’t take up a skill

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doesnt this do 100 stance dmg and not 30?

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Carian Phalanx does NOT deal more damage then this I just tested it

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I’m curious the guide math is before damage negotiation, would higher hit go through more armor than many lesser hits on same armor? I’m not close to get the phalanx to test it out.

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I don't get the hate for this spell. has anyone here ever tried it? It does stancedamage like crazy and sure, you can use the Weapon Art, but then you can't combine it with another stancebreaking weaponart like Giants Hunt. And switching weapons constantly is just way too slow as well.

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This deals 30 stance damage, which is equivalent to...
- a fully charged heavy attack from a Halberd or Reaper
- Unsheathe's heavy attack
- Lion's Claw on a straight sword, curved sword, katana, twinblade, or axe
- Dragonclaw incantation
and more!

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This deals 30 stance damage, which is equivalent to...
- a fully charged heavy attack from a Halberd or Reaper
- Unsheathe's heavy attack
- Lion's Claw on a straight sword, curved sword, katana, twinblade, or axe
- Dragonclaw incantation
and more!

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i dont understand the scaling on this with glintblade of carrion staff..... it seems like it counts as neither as just the staff with the highest scaling always performs better...

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Man the cast speed is rough on this even when max, you can't just pop it mid combo like you can with the other ones.

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Very underrated spell in pvp indeed, it reminds me of that tech in DS3 where mages turned away with soulmasses, then they would turn back to you, the soulmasses would stun you and they would one-shot you with crystal soul spear, we don't see it that much anymore in Elden Ring even though you literally can do the same thing with Phalanx+Comet

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Underrated in pvp

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The tracking is so poor... enemy has only to jump and all projectiles miss what a joke

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Insanely long cast time...

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Cast this and rush people down to watch them **** their pants in real time

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thats all good but who taught the dog?

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I like the lore implications of the last bit. We know Rennala was an astrologer, thus she lived alongside the fire giants and trolls on the mountaintops. She presumably made friends with some of the trolls, and following their betrayal of the giants, had them become royal knights. With Iji being the personal blacksmith to the Carian royal family, he was likely one of those trolls or a descendant of them. It's nice seeing the trolls getting some respect and achieving high ranks in a new society.

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"However, the Glintblade Phalanx Ash of War will do 100x4 poise damage, outperfoming this spell, but of course taking up the skill slot of a non-staff weapon", but according to this wiki, glintblade phalanx does only 40 poise damage per blade. So who's wrong?

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sadly mediocre. deals poor damage for its fp use and not enough poise damage to be worth it. want damage? carian phalanx. want stagger? use the aow.

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Killed him. Got the popup for the spell. Can not enter the evergoal.
But ... no Greatblade Phalanx on my spells section.

Am I being stupid? Or did I get screwed into getting all spells in my playthrough?

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For any INT players in the Triple Crystalian fight, this is a good spell to bring. The best poise breakers seem to be Gavel of Haima, then Cannon of Haima, then Greatsword Phalanx in that order. Gavel breaks the fastest but requires melee range very FP efficient though, Cannon takes a few hits but can be cast from a distance AND stuns/knocksdown Crystalians BEFORE POISE BREAK, GSP is OK but it can miss the jumping Spear Crystalian.

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Expected damage I’d hate to be hit by three carian great swords on top of any other bs

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Been getting oneshotted by this lately by invaders without them doing anything or the blades moving, i'd presume it's a bug or an exploit they're using to make this happen.

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It does do decent stance damage, and yeah, it does more HP damage as the tried-and-true glintblade skill version...

But by "better" damage, I mean that it still deals way less than 2 Glintstone pebble casts

With a longer cast animation

And a high FP cost

Pass. It's a shame that Fromsoft doesn't know how to balance their spells.

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And people have already found a exploit for this spell… Can’t wait to get one shot in every pvp match for the next few weeks. This + carian retaliation + spam ash of war = damage stack until opponent gets close for 10k+ damage.

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Been noticing invaders who use this and immedietly one shots you with an invisible attack, the blades never move.

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So if your wondering out of the entire Glintblade Phalanx/ Carrion Phalanx, and Greatblade Phalanx line, this skill and Glintblade Phalanx (Ash of war version) are the only 2 that have good stance damage. Regular Glintblade Phalanx, and Carrion Phalanx barely do anything to stances.

Either of these 2 will usually break stances in 1-2 casts. However Greatblade Phalanx costs 35 FP, while Glintblade Phalanx (Ash of war) costs 10 FP, even though both function almost identically. With that being said the only reason to use this over the Ash of War would be if you want to have a different Ash of War on your weapon, while still having access to this skill.

Or if you want to be efficient, it would probably be smarter to equip a secondary weapon that doesn't weight much, like Dagger or something and put Glintblade Phalanx ash of war on it, to get the best of both worlds.

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There's definitely a use for this against the invisible black knight assassins. You need to have a torch equipped in your right hand so you can't block, and this spell has consistently high stagger rates against them. Follow it up with carian piercer and you can knock them on their asses and cast phalanx again. Makes a really atrocious fight a lot easier.

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Annoying that this whole line of spells is such hot garbage. They seriously need some major poise damage improvements, and/or a reduced startup time combined with staggering the projectiles somewhat, so it's a better defensive measure.

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Do yourself a favor and not use this for pve. Does underwhelming damage for its cost

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43 FP? Holy sweet mother of jesus

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This function almost exactly as it's ashes of war counter part, it does high stagger and it stagger bosses in 1 or 2 cast. However, it cost substantially more than the weapon skill making it not worth it outside of very specific setups where you need the weapon skill slot for other skills.

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Carian phalanx is straight better.

Only reason to pick this is of your using the staff that boosts normal but not Carian sorceries and for some reason don’t want to bring standard phalanx

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Direct upgrade from the regular phalanx for pure-caster PvP, this does great damage for the same effect as the original, the cost is pretty worth it.

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Mediocre damage for the fp cost

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43 mana cost for 500 dealt damage dealt... not worth having this on.
Why and how is the basic starting spell, which costs 7 mana, deal 250 damage per shot.

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Pretty low damage and high faith cost. Might be okay for melee but otherwise worthless

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I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING

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