Leda's Sword | Elden Ring Wiki

Well, if you're dual welding this with Cold Milady and don't have fire, use the needle. It removes frostbite.

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Boosting yourself for 8 times during PVP doesn't make you good. That's what those big ass bosses are for

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Law of Regretion is too old.

Now you use this weapon to unbuff those PvP goobers when they buff themselves after a full 1 minute!

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this weapon is imo the best mix between fantasy and realistic, the shape and proportion are on point if you ignore the ridges on the blade, and the the gold handle, crossguard and details are pretty tastefull without falling into the sword of night and flame "hollow blade" and pokey crossguard

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- Leda Leda
- Yes Miquella?
- Killing my followers again?
- No Miquella
- Show me your sword

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Can you kill Leda outside Castle Ensis and get her stuff?

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Fromsoft should've done more light greatswords

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For all 6 fire emblem cosplayers out there here is a literal actual lightbrand for your ranged hero/swordmaster needs

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I like it, like, really.

I can use this on my right hand to use the weapon skill, and can put Milady of any infusion to give it a bit more DPS.

Pairs well with a Straight Sword or Offhand Axe for a mix up move.

Good to have a Sacred Relic on any hands and this one too to keep a bit of a pressure on enemies who are far.

Can be used pretty good with a Estoc on the right hand, and this on the left, so you can make the enemies think twice before getting closer.

It is really a weapon made to keep enemies in a little bit of a defensive style

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use it to grief bleed spam brainlets in coop. its very funny

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So can the skill cure scarlet rot on an enemy like radahn? That would be the ultimate troll

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i mean it really is not that bad for yns who want to go hawk tuah mode on the bops

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It’s really good but for the wrong reasons. Just too spammy on the jumps and r2s. It’s also a weapon/ash you would want on, ya know, a pure caster rather than a dex build. Also the entire light great sword class, to me, is a slap in the face to anyone who thought straight swords deserved a better 2h move set. The ash is REALLY good at killing clerics in pvp but it shoulda been on a straight sword, thrust sword or even a hammer. In PvE the floatyness and lack of weighty hits makes the spammy attacks feel unsatisfactory. Multi hit suffers greatly from split damage vs resistance so it does have damage issues in PvE.

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I did a full playthrough using this and milady, and to be honest, for PVE Leda's sword was meh, for PVP it can do alright in 1v1s, and is good at debuffing opponents, but overall kinda mid compared to other options for dex players. The 19 faith requirement is also a waste considering the faith scaling is negligible. Milady overall is the better weapon, especially since you can put other infusions and ashes on it. However, I did have fun using this, and it looks really cool.

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Looks like mini sacred relic greatsword.

That's all i have to say

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amazing weapon ahead

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Perfect for when you get summoned by a white mask.

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Weaponized law of regression for clowns that want to stack a million buffs before a fight. What’s not to love? Don’t wanna lose your buffs and a chunk of health? Don’t buff in my line of sight.

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Hey faith builds, at least be happy that it deals good physical damage too! Because holy damage is worthless!

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How cool would it have been if the Miquellan Knight's Sword power stanced with this? Gah.

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I can't quite tell it Miquella was ever a good person, or just the most horrifically manipulative bastard of all these demigods. Because if his most faithful knight Leda in her blade blessed/created by Miquella had this ailment-curing skill... Why did he never cure Malenia?

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NEEDLE Knight's sword.

Mostly standard attack moveset with very few piercing attacks thrown in.

Thematically, a thrusting sword or heavy trusting sword would have made way more sense.

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Of course it's a dex weapon...

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If Leda hadn't slain her fellow knights in Miquella's name, then Miquella wouldn't have drawn in others to do his bidding in the Realm of Shadow, including our Tarnished. The time she's spent cleaning her sword to a mirror-sheen not only hints at her lingering guilt, but even alludes to Miquella's grander scheme: perfection at the sacrifice of everyone else. Their own cruelties became both their undoings, for love without compassion has no place under our Lordship

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It'd be rad if it removed Mohg's 1-2-3 buff

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This thing is beautiful…

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This weapon has a glitch with death blight. It applies that status quickly with its ash of war, idk the details. What u can do is go to recent player -> block & report. These guys should just go back to their genshin impact

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The total AR is lower than Sacred Milady a little bit. Leda Sword has more Dex scale and Sacred Milady has more Faith. Moveset is the same. Different is the skill and how good it look. The ash is ok, there is a hitbox on the sword as well but you are not likely using it when close to the enemies. It becomes good when you use with Last Rite from Golden Epitaph. Also good for headshot bosses. Not much else to say.

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I swear I love this thing, but it feels like regulars in arena have mostly figured out the LGS moveset, it's impossible to trade damage with any spear, colossal sword, halberd, or great katana. I like using this and the Milady more, but it's back to the Rakshasa, my favorite crutch weapon. o7

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Can you just murder her early and get it then?

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Should have been a heavy thrusting sword.

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I swear faith users have the most and still complain about literally everything. oh no this one random sword doesn't get faith scaling?? how terrible it must be for you when you have TWO INFUSIONS AND LIKE 100 WEAPONS AND HUNDREDS OF SPELLS

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Leda's armor "There used to be many Needle Knights, now there is only one."

Leda, did you kill every other Needle Knight because you thought they were unworthy?

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If you think about it, the description of this weapon is a little disturbing, since Leda used this sword to kill her own battle companions, perhaps she did so because she thought that her companions were not so loyal to Miquella.

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Ahhhh yes the gankers tool which removes the buffs of the wondrous physick tear buffs.
This takes away the last advantage that the invader has and this for only 11 str, 22 dex and 19 fth and only 19 fp cost. Thanks Fromsoft for making these kind of weapons for further holding the hands of the gankers which think that they're really good when they kill you in a 2v1 or 3v1 and teabag after xD (yes i get it i invaded "their" world and got what i deserved)
See ya all in the next game which i hope will be more balanced. Take care!!!!

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The flat +25 Holy damage from the Last Rites AoW from Golden Epitaph will apply the bonus to every individual needle from Leda's Sword AoW, Needle Piercer. That makes it deal substantially more damage on average than it does with Golden Vow, which is very useful for low Faith builds. Also, the added +100% damage to undead makes Needle Piercer comically good at dealing with Death Knights as well as nuking the heads of undead dragons.

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Wow, I’m in love

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for everryone who come here because deathblight Leda sword glitch , Law of Regression can fix it.

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Does this reset resistances as well? Example: If I proc bleed on an enemy, the enemies bleed resistance would increase. So if I were to use needle piercer, would the enemy's bleed resistances go back to default value?

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Did the recent patch fix the ash of war for this weapon when using Alexander's shard?

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Needle Piercer still not affected by Shard of Alexander tested after patch 1.13

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FYI, the sword has a hitbox during the WA. I don't know if you can parry it, but sanguine nobles definitely can.

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the patch turned this into a monster

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99 dex, 99 fai and 99 str, shard of alexander made bayle look like soldier of godrick

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The only people I've ever seen use this weapon are 3v1 taunter's tongue gankers
thank you fromsoft for adding yet another ash that's completely useless as an invader but the most annoying thing ever when fighting gankers

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i dont get the scaling of this weapon like the faith scaling is on D the whole time but on the max the str scaling is D too and i didnt really paid attention upgrading it if it actually upgraded its scaling on faith

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So happy to see these stats and stuff for my pure Dex build (:

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Had someone offhand Eclipse Shotel and it made the AOW death blight me in two hits. Awesome and balanced.

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Holy weapon that looks holy and deals holy damage with a holy ash of war... Dex scaling

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>"holy weapon"
>checks inside
>dex scaling with nearly useless faith scaling
>weapon art scales only with dex
>builds with 60/70/80 faith completely cucked

Sasuga

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I will never ever take this away from someone, ever. But you can't tell me that doesn't look like a straight sword. Happy it ain't.

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Before anyone gets downvote happy, I have checked the numbers.

Leda's Sword should be considered a pure Dex weapon with a base FTH requirement. +10 LS at 80 Dex has only a negligible difference in Physical damage than a +25 Keen Milady. We're talking around ~80 AR.
The FTH scaling is abysmal, barely above E grade. From 19 FTH to the softcap at 40, you gain literally less than 30 extra Holy damage. 21 whole levels for less than 30 bonus FTH scaling damage.

If you're going to 25 for Golden Vow, that's fine, but it's nothing but wasted points past that for the sword's damage.

Sacred Milady gets way more FTH scaling, and Fth is its highest value just at C.

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Fromsoftware seems to be allergic to giving DLC weapons good scaling

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>"holy weapon"
>checks inside
>faith damage

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GREEN NEEDLE? OR BRAINSTORM???

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EKUSU.. KALIBUUUURRR!!!!

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If the Bloodflame Blade + Fire's Deadly Sin glitch were still a thing, this thing would be a savior

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The needle piercer debuff seems to work through rolls and ripostes

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Perfect weapon to interrupt buffers with in pvp.

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Lady Leda Dayne fought with a blade called Dawn....

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This should be int faith scaling not dex. We do not need anymore dex faith weapons. Not to mention it's b scaling in dex is frankly terrible.

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Would a build dual wielding this and Milady work?

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While I know I wouldn't like Leda as a person (as she is a religious fanatic and unfairly distrustful, paranoid beyond reason), I do have to admire a fighter that respects a fair fight to extent that her blade literally removes ailments from her enemies in addition to their buffs. Man, I love FromSoft.

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Ash is mid on most enemies unless you bother with PvP, weapon itself has subpar scaling. Not awful, but honestly just use Milady instead.

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From was right to get rid of duelist charms so people can use more than just the most inconsequential buffs, but wrong to keep buff stripping abilities in the game at all. Both this sword's ash of war and law of regression should not exist.

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Doing holy damage wouldn't be as much of an issue for this thing as it would be if you got it in the basegame, until you realize that you get it immediately before the *one* main DLC boss that actually does have high holy absorption....

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kind reminder that you have to earn your buffs in pvp

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This weapon can cure status ailments of your enemies. Leda really doesn’t like when I frostbite or rot relanna

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Don't bother with Faith beyond the minimum requirements for this weapon unless you want buffs or healing. It's faith scaling for both the Ash of War and in general are terrible, it's also holy damage: the worst damage type in the game.

This is a pure Dex weapon.

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this is amazing because it also resets any destined death debuff

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this is amazing because it also resets any destined death debuff

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I think we now know why there aren't any other Needle Knights

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Any good pvp builds for this?

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Regarding Needle Piercer, it scales off of your AR rather than Faith and the needles themselves deal Piercing damage (Can be buffed by the Spear Talisman); even if you're not dual-wielding, you can easily proc your multi-hit effects (Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis, Thorny Cracked Tear) using the Light Greatsword's superb moveset and potentially bypass Needle Piercer's somewhat low damage thanks to it's quick casting speed

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Thou shall not have buffs.

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the damage is trash but it looks and feels good (unfortunately for pvp/coop people have too shitty internet to be able to utilise the sword efficiently)

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tfw no EXALIBUUUUR weapon arr

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I like how Leda is so unhinged that her sword stinks of blood from all her murdered comrades. She's the last Needle Knight most likely because she just killed all the others out of paranoia that they weren't as devoted to Miquella. Makes sense that someone this crazy would think being mind-controlled is a good thing.

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Underrated weapon. Scaling isn't great but fully maxed with the right talismans and I am sitting at 1080 AR with only +8 scadu frags. l2 also hits decently hard with shard of alexander.

Also, great in duels.

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can you buff it? with grease and stuff, the page doesn't specify that

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can you put grease on it

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Anyone know some good armor sets for maximum drip?

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Is this the same moveset as Milady?

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I don't have a build for it but I love the moveset, it is so elegant.

Needle 'nighty Leda, we miss you :*

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I don't have a build for it but I love the moveset, it is so elegant.

Needle 'nighty Leda, we miss you :*

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Can you buff it with Order's Blade?

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An absolute banger of a weapon. I would have Liles slightly higher faith scaling, but it still rocks. It's a shame you get it so late into the dlc, i would have used it from the start and it would not have come off.

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An absolute banger of a weapon. I would have Liles slightly higher faith scaling, but it still rocks. It's a shame you get it so late into the dlc, i would have used it from the start and it would not have come off.

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The "I only have one weapon and only do crutch of the patch" weapon.

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Sexy enough to make me, a perpetual Strength main, re-allocate my points for a Dexterity build. Strong enough to make it worth it. I can hardly even blame Nutso Knight Leda anymore; if I had an awesome weapon like this, I couldn't resist the urge to just use it on anything and anyone without provocation, either.

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You're upset it's not a faith only weapon. I'm upset because I cannot put Wing Stance on this absolute beauty.
We are not the same.

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this thing could be as useful as a torch and I’d still use it, it’s that pretty of a weapon

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Man why can’t we just have some good faith only weapons why do they always have to be dex/str faith

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this is a god tier weapon for gank squard by now.
the weapon skill CAN REMOVE ALL BUFF.
what do you think if Law of Regression can do damage and not remove your buff but all physick and buff from invader are all gone.

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Pretty slick weapon. Much more heavily weighted to dex scaling than faith, but holds its own quite well against DLC content at +10 even without an optimized build.
Weapon art has a hitbox on the sword swing as well and does pretty great damage for how fast and lenient it is. Haven't seen its mini-Law of Regression come into play yet, but I imagine it'll be quite potent in PVP.
Give it a whirl, light greatswords are pretty great and Leda's is no exception.

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Is it good or we better stick to Milady?

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Weapon's pretty fun to use (like all Light Greatswords) and definitely viable, even at the final boss of the DLC who has some holy negation. I actually just spammed the weapon art most of the time and it honestly kinda carried me ngl (without ashes or summons). It can whiff if you use it as the boss is moving as they aren't exactly homing (if at all.)
It's not a meta definer but I was reminded once again not to put much stock into early wiki comments who call something bad without trying it myself haha.

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Haven't tested this one yet since I'm taking my sweet time and not in that part of the game yet BUT Light greatswords are my new fav kind of weapon and I've been testing the Milady and Rellana twins swords heavily and *chef kiss* love those.

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Did I need to complete the questline? I'm stuck with freyja letter absence and ansbach already disappeared

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They made three Light Greatswords
Gave us this one at the very END of the game
And made it suck
Why does Fromsoft not get the flak it deserves?

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