Maliketh's Black Blade | Elden Ring Wiki

Holy mother of Marika this weapon is so op. Incredibly satisfying to use, melts bosses like butter, and that ash of war is absolutely insane for large ho bars. Would definitely recommend with a faith or strength build, this is definitely worth it.

It also got buffed in the recent patch so this just keeps getting better and better. Don’t know about PvP since I don’t play it much, but it still pretty good to merge with incants to surprise enemies

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Hits like a truck in PVP. 1200 damage with physick and golden vow. The ash of war is an added bonus to create some space for yourself or shred those who aren't aware of it.

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Why doesn't this have a unique moveset? You should be able to do a special swing or two with this like how Malikeths use it. Same with Hand of Malenia and Morgotts curved sword.

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Even split, base 511 damage is nuts. This thing hits hard. Holy may be bad for the boss run to the end of the game, but it's one of the best damage types for pvp, most armors don't resist it well and it doesn't get nerfed by puddles or rain like fire

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In pvp just run around if they start to spam it. Some dude ran out of fp and ran then returned to his own world. Like dude don't spam the weapon art then leave when it doesn't hit. Made me and my friend laugh.

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Reminds me of lorian's greatsword, since everyone is so fixated on the split damage and fire (in this case holy) is greatly resisted in the point where you get these weapons.

Completely overlooking the atrocius physical damage and the ash of war negating holy resistance with LITERAL DEATH. Seriously, do you even use this weapon in order to have any right to talk smack about it?

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i wish it wasnt holy damage

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to bad the skill does not stack with black knife skill (it is listed as the same effect in ) exept tiche uses it (for some reason).

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For me, Maliketh was the hardest boss in Elden ring, and it feels so satisfying to come back to him in ng+ and beat him with gown weapon

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The Blade looks broken and misshapen. Judging by its appearance, it could have been much larger when the Rune of Death was still whole.
But as it stands, the Black Blade is 'a sad shadow of its former glory' and yet its weapon art remains extremely powerful, only 'set[ting] free REMNANTS of Destined Death'.
'...and there was not one demigod who did not fear him'

Literally so cool

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Messed around with it on a pure strength build using two fingers talisman to get to the faith requirement and it actually works pretty well there too.

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I tested it on elden beast/radagon and its really good.

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THOU WHO APPROACHETH, DESSSTINED DEATH

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like one comment said, this weapon is good agaisnt malenia, and yes i actually use the sword and not spam destined death, i do charged r2s, and r1s

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Destined Death is straight up one of the most powerful attacks in the game this being a colossal weapon means even MORE damage and if you have this you can get a second remembrance and combine it with the Black Blade incantation for a ranged version of Destined Death meaning any health scaling on bosses means nothing because you deal so much damage you might as well be one shotting anything in the game and in pvp if you hit Destined Death that's gg.

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This thing straight up bullies Malenia

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Big fan of Maliketh here.From what I’ve seen on YouTube, malekith is a living legend so I expect his equipment to absolutely shred

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This weapon is broken. 800 a shot, 3k with a full r2. Lvl 150 60 at strength 32 at faith and smash all bosses with 150. Holy damage but don't worry the last bosses fall fast

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There's death from the beginning to the end of time
And I'm the cosmic champion and I hold a mystic sign
And the whole world's dying and the burdens mine
And the black sword keeps on killing 'til the end of time

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I'm impressed with how many people overlook this weapon just because it has holy damage. It has a nice moveset ans scales well enough with strength. Holy damage is resisted a lot? Well, in case it is, destined death says "lol no" by deleting a health bar with what essentially is a shorter, stronger waterfoul dance.

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Should I powerstance this with godslayers greatsword for str/fth for Elden beast?

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Tell me elden ring as an easy mode without telling me elden ring has an easy mode

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80 str 30 faith limit on the first game, further into faith

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Kinda wish you could become an acrobat and spin every where like what maliketh does

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The weapon would be cool id they switched animations form wolfs assault and gave it destined death effects.

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This weapon is the telltale sign of an overleveled phantom, because theres no way in hell you're gonna get any damage out of this thing below level 200

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Should be able to be “returned to its former glory” if imbued with Fia’s rune. Either improving the sword’s attack power or giving it the capability of ignoring Holy resistance.

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Ah yes another crappy holy damage weapon.

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Should’ve been Physical/Fire

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very easy to punish in pvp if you're fighting someone with an eighth of a brain cell

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So many people say this isn’t that good, but if you pair tiche with this, the dot effect will drain their health unbelievably quickly and it’s super good

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Same guy who posted about using this as a hardswap finisher. Happy to say, post 1.08, this thing and it’s moveset (along with the rest of the colossal) have been made viable in a competitive setting with the buff to the the crouch attack.

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Been using this thing’s AoW as a surprise hardswap finisher on my STR/FTH PvP character. Absolutely insane way to finish a fight. It’s a shame they chose to nerf crouch poke in the way that they did. Potential for mix ups and vortexes are essentially non-existent in a comparative setting now.

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This thing goes crazy against Radagon and Elden beast with its weapon art

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How much was it recently buffed?

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would this heal elden beast cus of the holy damage ?

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skill is pretty crap for pvp but still fun to land.

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good for PvE, doesn't have a ton of usage in PvP apart from crutch poke

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This thing absolutely DESTROYED Alecto, an evergaol boss I've found to usually be quite difficult. I think I got hit once or twice in the entire encounter. Destined Death is brutal and typically knocked her down in addition to taking a huge chunk of her health.

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This sword has style points, but I prefer the Godslayer's Greatsword. The two are often compared because they are both faith-scaling CGSs and have melee skills that apply short 'death' DoT effects. But MBB is heavier, slower, shorter, scales better to str than dex which means slower casting if you're going to incorporate incantations without spreading out your attributes (or using Radagon's Icon), and lastly splits damage between phys and holy which is well absorbed by many of the game's tougher bosses and doesn't benefit from one of the best buffs; Flame Grant Me Strength. Honestly, I don't think the higher AR of MBB is as significant as the other things GSG has going.

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If you're overlooking this in PvE because you think Holy damage can't kill anything, you're making a big mistake. This thing is nuts. I think at 50/50 STR/ Faith 2-handed, it has an AR of around 939 and with buffs it was over 1200 or more. Definitely use the Carian Filigreed Crest to cut the weapon art FP down to 30, but the damage it can do to strong enemies is very high. And if you get the Mimic Tear involved also using this weapon art, it's going to be a bloodbath. The Destined Death effect in whatever form is very powerful, including on this weapon.

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This +10 can outdamage the Giant crusher at +25

but

Giant crusher +25 w/ lions claw gets some high damages

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I've only ever seen white or red shadows carrying this but looking at the thumbnail it's another weapon design that just looks dogs**t when you see it for yourself the blade looks like a scorched bit of wood but at least I wont have to use up a mausoleum to duplicate it, great stars is a good enough weapon for me to think it was worthwhile using a dragon stone on it. but it looks all sh**ty and rusted, the hard won ruins great sword is part of a building made into a sword, grafted blade is pug ugly, and the weapon you get for killing varre is a f**king bunch of flowers.
I'm convinced whomever had the last say on whether or not these weapon designs made it into the final game was smashed off their face on Xanax when they gave some of these weapon and amour sets the green light.

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drake sword but edgy

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I’m from the future. Slap Rotten sword insignia + Millicent prosthesis with Alexander shard and you got yourself a one way ticket to send any late game boss to the shadow realm. You’re welcome

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FP consume is now 30.

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The holy resistance on bosses is little problem for this weapon. Hits pretty hard regardless and the special skill still makes up for it.
I beat all endgame bosses using this. It's a fine weapon.

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bro this weapons ash of war is so op, i used it for malenia with mimic tear and it was WAY more easier

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This Ash of War just helped me go from struggling with Mohg to making him a piece of cake, fantastic weapon

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I’ve seen someone say wielding this weapon boosts the damages of destined death attacks like The Black Blade incantation and Black Knife’s ash of war, can someone confirm this?

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When I beat Maliketh, he asked why I coveted Destined Death to kill what. I realized now it was to kill the Goddess of Rot Malenia. Tried to do that fight solo but I know I wasn't capable. Powerstanced this bad boy with GutsGS and summoned mimic. Wasn't proud but at least I gave Destined Death a purpose

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This weapon is basically trASSH just use the rivers of blood if you want to be taken serious in pvp

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The only weapon I've been able to get to 1300+ attack power. That's with two-handing and buffs of course.

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A very fun, very powerful weapon that fits perfectly on the same build as Marika's Hammer, the staff of the Avatar, the two Crucible Knight weapons, all of which benefit from mainly strength investment and meeting minimum faith requirements. It's a really fun build with a surprisingly diverse weapon pool.

Sure would love a boss weapon that wasn't "a sad shadow of its former glory" for once, though. Maybe then it'd have unique R2s.

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Only If this had those two handed R1s of Godslayers...

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This is like the red mortal blade and godslayer greatsword is the black mortal blade. Neat.

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this weapon ****s

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When I first heard about this weapon I thought Maliketh would be some tall, edgy guy who looked similar to the Night's Cavalry. I had this really clear image of him as some hidden boss you'd fight, because I thought HE had stolen the rune of death and that the Night's Cavalry/Black Knife assassins were his goons. To say the least, it was a surprise to find out what he really looked like

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Cool sword but it won't bring my friend back. rip gurranq

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A shame that you can't to crazy loop-de-loops as the weapon art like maliketh.

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What is the minimum strength to use this? 34 is a lot for me to farm for. So what is the minimum so I can just 2 hand it?

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This would be the coolest weapon in the game if only it didn't look so incredibly stupid.

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This weapon actually is 20 faith not 40 as of june 20th. The wiki is wrong

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Danm this weapon is awesome i cant wait to get to malik- *sees stat requirement* oh….well im only at rennala its not to late to start leveling up fairh

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Currently making a STR/FTH build. Gotta combine the strength of my body and the strength of the Lord.

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Does this weapon scale higher with strength or faith?

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The only viable str/fth weapon

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The sword effect is like the Mortal Blade from Sekiro, it is a very cool callback.

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The reach is what stops me from using it more than I do, but you got to love the poise damage.

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I killed this dude at the bridge for roughly 2 hours at maximum efficiency but only about 200 item discovery. After killing this dude like 400 times he drops two in a row.

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Kinda wish the weapon art was in two stages, like if the initial sweep you could roll out of or cancel with an option of extending it to full ash of war like some other weapons.

The AOW is a big commitment to pull out initial sweep then stab into ground with AOE slashes, still great weapon though and fun to land that ash of war. ( Really awesome to use the Black Blade faith spell while wielding this, as it makes you feel like its a second ash of war almost. )

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This weapon rules! Exact same moveset as the grafted great sword, which I have used as my primary up to the point in obtaining it, but the weapon art is super helpful for breaking up a crowd. Alternating between this, grafted great sword, sword of night & flame and of course mohgwyn’s sacred spear for getting down & dirty on suckas.

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this,godslayer or both?

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If only the sword imbued with the rune of death could actually kill the final boss instead of healing it

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certified boss slayer, could not recommend enough

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Black Balde of Maliketh The Black Blade

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this is the most enjoyable weapon in the game!

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Game plan with this weapon is to poise break then hit with the weapon art that's the goal for massive damage

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Need to lower the FP cost. It's way too costly, or the debuff needs to be a larger percentage HP removed considering this is the original vessel for the Rune of Death. If I just wanted the debuff, I can fire it from Black Knife, and that only contains a fragment of the Rune of Death. Or the Black Blade incantation, both of which are ranged and safer to use.

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Y’all rly arguing over whether black blade or blasphemous blade is better like y’all ain’t got 2 hands.

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Holy based.

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Can anyone confirm if the weapon art scales only with faith or if it scales with both faith and strength?

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why are there absolutely ZERO s scaling faith weapons

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Not every weapon needs to be the hardest hitting. My personal favorite colossal although you will be wanting maybe a bit more damage. If you can get the WA off in some way early on bosses to sap max HP this weapon is very strong but the main problem is colossal swords struggle with the faster end game bosses, where you are able to obtain it. Nevertheless, still my favorite.

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If anyone is going to use this in pvp try poke to weapon art it will hit with the first swing of the weapon art as they try to roll out of the poke

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Selling only for 500 runes? Pffft...

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Been considering using this over blasphemous blade, I got all the somber smithing stones I need to get it to plus ten. Yeah I know blasphemous is *technically* better and it heals after kills etc etc. I'm on new game plus and nearly level 200, should I use this weapon if I'm looking for a little bit of a challenge? Blasphemous is broken, and it gets sorta boring melting bosses ( literally ).

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my game crashes every time i try to equip it, no other weapon causes this to happen idk whats going on

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...Now that I think about it, does anyone else think it's kinda weird that there's no Dark elemental damage type in this game, and how this and similar things deal Holy damage instead?

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For people commenting that the damage output of this weapon is not satisfying, I guess it's probably because this weapon does a lot of holy damage. Most late game enemies and bosses have a ton of holy damage absorption (really, really, really resistant to holy!).

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What’s the ideal stat spread on this beast? I noticed at 50 faith the returns are terrible. So probably 80 STR and 50 Faith?

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they need to make it so colossal/great weapons hit twitch like in ds3, it feels so terrible for pvp to get only 1 hit off meanwhile some bleed builds can hit up to 4 times applying bleed.

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Has anyone tried this after the colossal buff this morning (4/19/22) Would love to hear how it performs, if there is a very noticeable difference.

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This sword wishes it was blasphemous blade. Slow, short range, less damage and heavier. Dissapointing

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O, Death. Become my blade once more

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I off hand this with ruins greatsword when I prefer its raw damage over the crowd control of Starcaller Cry. Destined Death shreds bosses, but doesn't feel worth it versus other costly AoW's in PvE.

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Has anyone else experienced this weapon HEALING enemies and bosses? When the multi-slash part of Destined Death happens it will heal enemies like crazy before sapping their HP. Makes the weapon pretty much unusable for me.

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Never felt rewarded like getting this weapon...

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For reference, Destined Death actually hit the enemy 5 times during it weapon art.
2 hits from the actual blade strikes, and 3 hits from the AOE strikes. Will sap total 10% max health if enemy took all those hits!

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Weapon art on this thing shreds certain bosses, usually big slow ones like Placidusax, while also staggering some smaller ones (usually mini bosses). Summon mimic and go ham with the skill while the mimic distracts and there’s not a boss you can’t beat.

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