Igon's Greatbow | Elden Ring Wiki

I will riddle with holes your rotten hide
WITH A HAIL OF HARPOONS

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This makes every human AI enemy a joke. It turns using bows from quite possibly the worst vs the AI to being able to all of them blindfolded because of how the strong the poise break is on the scream. God bless you Igon you glorious bastard.

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this is monstrously powerful on a strength build. swapped out the erdtree greatbow for this and the difference in damage was astounding.

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Useful to kill Senessax (aka worst boss design) and get a free 1x Ancient smithing stone and 1x Ancient somber smithing stone

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did some testing on the troll near Godrick's room:
Using Igon's Drake Hunt to shoot a Rahdahn spear while the Lion Greatbow was equipped in my off hand did 1257 damage
Using Igon's Drake Hunt to shoot a harpoon did 1470 damage
Using Rahdahn's rain to shoot harpoons while Igon's greatbow was equipped in my off hand did 2830 damage
Using Rahdahn's rain to shoot Rahdahn spears did 2905 damage (though the damage of this weapon art varies a lot so I'm not sure about these values)
It seems like it's best to just use the ammo type that's matched to Igon's bow and Rahdahn's bow if you're going to use them.

On the other hand, there's the Golem bow:
Using through and through by itself to shoot a regular great arrow did 1290 damage
Using through and through to shoot a harpoon with Igon's bow in my offhand did 1511 damage
Using through and through to shoot a spear with the Lion Greatbow in my offhand did 1548 damage
So if you're going to use the off-hand bonus damage cheese, I think the Lion's greatbow is the better choice; the exception being if you're fighting a dragon.

Igon's greatbow still has a niche as being the best bow for pure for primarily STR builds, I think.

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I don't use Greatbows, but Igon's passion and obsession has rubbed off on me.

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This thing requires 16 Dex instead of 20 like the greatbow or 18 like the Golem greatbow, which allows you to spend less points on dex which could be useful for builds that require a lot of stats like STR/FTH or even just for low level invasions

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The WA has two animations with two separate stamina cost. The first is the 20 stamina yell, the second is the 50 stamina shot. So long as you have 1 stamina for the yell, the shot will also go through at full damage. The yell gives you a minor poise buff, helping you complete the shot, as well as knocks down less poised enemies in melee range.

Testing on the fire knight at the Storeroom Seventh Floor site of grace, once the yell goes through I could tank his melee swing or his fireball, as well as knock him down if he's close to me. Testing on the curseblade from the start of the DLC, the yell doesn't knock him down, and doesn't give enough poise to tank his spinnig lunge attack, but does give enough to tank his light one handed attack.

In comparison, through and through costs 50 stamina, but can be interrupted by even the slightest of hits.

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Pro tip: the Ash of war is powerful... but it's not its value.

It can be repeated without resetting the greatbow, meaning rapid(ish) fire is now available...

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Did we need another str-only greatbow..?

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the unique WA is cool and does more damage than through and through, I think
unfortunately his harpoons do less damage than regular arrows on anything that isn't a dragon, it seems

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Is this greatbow any g- Oh who am I kidding. I'll still use it for the Igon Coolness factor though.

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OH MY GOD A PROJECTILE WEAPON WITH SCALING HIGHER THAN D!

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Greatbow with Igon's > Golem's with Through and Through > Igon's with Igon's

However Greatbow is only slighty better than Golem's and the damage on non AoW arrows will be much higher on Golem's

The only use case for this bow I can see is Igon's Greatbow + Igon's Drake Hunt + Igon's Harpoon, and only against dragons. Pretty niche.

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Although the combination of Golem's + Radahn's on the back with Radahn's arrows gives a stronger hit, Igon's with Igon arrows gives comparable damage at 11.5 less weight and 4 less DEX. That's not a bad tradeoff if you're STR heavy and don't have much DEX past the minimum requirements to begin with. Not to mention the utility of not having to swap your off-hand mid fight back and forth if you like to refresh your self buffs with an incantation, that's two extra actions you could gain mid combat. In a game centered on action economy, this is not a negligible gain.

Of course, the above might not apply if multiple of those stats (STR, DEX, END) are all very high, or if you have access to two Igon's, but at lower levels the tradeoff versus the Golem/Radahn combo is nothing to sneer at.

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DS2 moment

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Golem's greatbow does more damage with through and through shots on a dragon's head, even with Igon's harpoons. Tested with Shard of Alexander and all 3 arrow damage talismans. Igon's ~4900 damage, Golem's ~5300 damage. 52 Strength 80 Dexterity

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Skill unaffected by roar Medallion

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Alright, I get it, it takes time to compile information about things on a wiki. Especially since this is DLC is not too far off from just being elden ring 2 as far as content density.

However, maybe we shouldn't be putting information that's just straight up wrong. You have placeholders for a reason, use them.

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This weapon can be infused with ashes of war - it comes with an ash of war that is a stronger version of through and through but doesn’t penetrate. It also has a passive that buffs Igon’s harpoons which should stack of you run two of the bows as it works in the offhand as well - there is a bug currently where radhans spears don’t get their damage buff if you use the ash with radhan bow on offhand (only when using the ash nor when normally firing) this would make radhans spears the better arrow for damage if you only had one igon Greatbow and one radhan bow in the offhand - max damage is achieved when using two igon greatbows with igon harpoons and the igon ash of war

Note: not tested but rellanas stance talisman might work with ‘stance’ allowing further damage increase

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I love bows/greatbows/crossbows. Why cant fromsoft make greatbows good in pvp you just try to attack and it takes ages to fire even on a jump attack. They gotta make the igons ash of war a true combo aswell the yell stuns people but then they can roll out of the arrow 1 second after its so stupid.

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It says this is a somber weapon but other people say it’s not ???

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Cool dragon themed bow, but seems completely inferior to golem great bow unfortunately

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Why fromsoftware, why do you guys hate archery so much.

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First! :D

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