Maliketh's Black Blade is a Colossal Sword in Elden Ring. The Maliketh's Black Blade scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity and Faith. A good Weapon for inflicting holy-based damage.
Maliketh's black blade which once harbored the power of the
Rune of Death. A sad shadow of its former glory.
After a fragment of Death was stolen on that fateful night,
Maliketh bound the blade within his own flesh, such that none
might ever rob Death again.
Where to Find Maliketh's Black Blade in Elden Ring
The Maliketh's Black Blade weapon can be found at the following location:
- Trade Remembrance of the Black Blade with Enia at Roundtable Hold.
Elden Ring Maliketh's Black Blade Notes & Tips
- Weapon Skill: Destined Death
- This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
- Cannot be enchanted with Magic nor boosted by Consumables
- Maliketh's Black Blade can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones
- Sell Value:
500.
- Note: As of Patch 1.08, the Speed of Crouching and Rolling Attack has been slightly increased.
- NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below. Additionally, the speed of guard counters for this weapon has increased
- Other notes and player tips go here
Moveset & Videos in Elden Ring for Maliketh's Black Blade
Maliketh's Black Blade PVP Poise Damage Values in Elden Ring
Patch 1.10 adjusted PVP Poise Damage of all Weapons including some Spells and Incantations. Please take note that these adjustments are exclusive to PVP.
One-Handed Attacks
- 1H R1 (1/2/3 Attacks): 460.8/322.56/322.56
- 1H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 489.6/489.6
- 1H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1267.2/1267.2
- 1H R1 Jumping: 460.8
- 1H R2 Jumping: 844.8
Two-Handed Attacks
- 2H R1 (1/2/3 Attacks): 599.04/419.328/419.328
- 2H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 636.48/636.48
- 2H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1393.92/1393.92
- 2H R1 Jumping: 599.04
- 2H R2 Jumping: 929.28
Maliketh's Black Blade Upgrades in Elden Ring
Please see the Upgrades page to understand the weapon bolstering process.
Requires regular reinforcement with Somber Smithing Stones.
Attack Power | Stat Scaling | Passive Effects | Damage Reduction (%) | ||||||||||||||||
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Maliketh's Black Blade | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Sta | Str | Dex | Int | Fai | Arc | Any | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Bst | Rst |
Standard | 127 | - | - | - | 82 | 78 | C | E | - | D | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 55 | 27 |
Standard +1 | 145 | - | - | - | 93 | 85 | C | E | - | D | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 55.55 | 27 |
Standard +2 | 163 | - | - | - | 105 | 93 | C | E | - | D | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 56.1 | 27 |
Standard +3 | 182 | - | - | - | 117 | 101 | C | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 56.65 | 27 |
Standard +4 | 200 | - | - | - | 129 | 109 | C | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 57.2 | 27 |
Standard +5 | 219 | - | - | - | 141 | 117 | C | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 57.75 | 27 |
Standard +6 | 237 | - | - | - | 153 | 124 | B | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 58.3 | 27 |
Standard +7 | 255 | - | - | - | 165 | 132 | B | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 58.85 | 27 |
Standard +8 | 274 | - | - | - | 177 | 140 | B | E | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 59.4 | 27 |
Standard +9 | 292 | - | - | - | 189 | 148 | B | D | - | C | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 59.95 | 27 |
Standard +10 | 311 | - | - | - | 200 | 156 | B | D | - | B | - | - | 68 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 49 | 60.5 | 27 |
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Not sure if it's a oversight or because of the lore, but Flame Grant Me Strength does boost the damage from the regular attacks and it's Ash of war
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What is the best stat spread STR, DEX, FAI for the highest AR? LV150 build
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Used this on Malenia.
I don't feel like I earned that win...
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Every single playthrough I start is an eternal challenge to not end up with this sword in my hands. Oh, I had an idea to use Marika's hammer? Maliketh's black blade ends up in my hands. Maybe I wanted to use the Dark Moon Greatsword? Maliketh's black blade. Maybe I'll go quality? You guessed it.
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“Death is indiscriminate”
The DLC bosses with a resistance to black flame and destined death:
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Does this work on Malenia, Radagon and Elden Beast? And the ash of war too?
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ooooooohhhh I'm gonna rock this mf so hard. As soon as i saw Maliketh take that stance and brandish the blade I began plotting
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Has anyone else noticed that if, when co-op’ing, one player uses Destined Death (DD) from the Black Blade while another player uses DD from Maliketh’s Blade simultaneously, it appears to stack?
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Makes little sense why this would deal holy damage. Makes it quite suboptimal to deal with the very gods/demigods that the sword is supposed to be strong against in lore, with it's special effect being it's only effective aspect against them.
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this and other weapons and incantations associated with the rune of death or black flame should do extra damage to demigods and gods.
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Considering how fast maliketh swings this thing around, might need a bit of dex scaling
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So scaling-wise this one is a weird one. The Str scaling is good and you are better off with 54 str, but the weapon art does not only scale with weapon ar: in fact, weapon art scales with ar only if blade itself hits, the death waterfowl at the end seems to scale only off faith. (maybe I am wrong but it seems like it) A nice str/fth weapon, only the wa scaling is a bit counterintuitive. Slaps in pvp very hard.
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I went a strength/faith build my first play through and this thing carried me through the Elden beast fight, despite the holy damage. Truly one of the weapons of all time.
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Really wish this things aow had a stance options for r1/r2
R1 could be the actual ranged incantation with the follow up option
R2 could be the aoe you get from the normal aow
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against swift slash spammers: use destined death and miss, then use it immediately again, they will swift slash into it 100% of the time
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it does like 950 damage at 66 str 20 dex 45 fth, its absolutely insane
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I feel like this was balanced by the fact that holy damage was just bad. now that holy is good in dlc this thing does insane damage
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The games says it does standard/pierce damage. Is the pierce damage literally just from the second hit in the skill?
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I've heard that the WA procs the Winged Sword talismans, but I can't seem to figure out if that's accurate or not, and it doesn't seem to activate the Swaddling Cloth, so can anyone confirm/deny?
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If you die to Maliketh you have to make a new character for it to be lore accurate.
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Imagine if killing a basic enemy with destined death stopped them from respawning...then you have unlocked ds2 mode.
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Does good damage but I rather use ancient meteoric greatsword.
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I barely used this thing for 2 years...then came the DLC.
This thing slaps, claps, smacks bosses. The Ash does Big ****us Damage, the AR with 50 Str 30 Faith is Nutty.
This thing slaps so hard in the dlc with its overinflated hp bars. Hyperarmor on wa is so good I facetank bosses and minibosses with like 40 poise. Black knights? Fire knights? D e a t h knights? Horny swordsmen? Oh death, become my blade once more!
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weapon art does a lot of damage but it is kind of hard to use
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Heavy charged attacks should've a fired destined attack when Maliketh himself likes to spam when he is midair(cost more stamina and the projectile shouldn't have a long range) and apply the burning effect and deal extra damage. The weapon art should've been the attack when he jumps, thursts his sword in the ground(and pulls it back) to make a destined death explosion(higher damage and stance damage and overall faster than the current version)but make it cost more stamina and FP. This weapon isn't as bad as most other holy weapons but I feal it should have a unique advantage over other destined sources because its stat hungry (obviously cuz its a collosal) and requires you to heavily build around it .
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How much damage does the weapon art deal compared to black knife WA and the spell version
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Doesn’t let me backflip off of walls and melt people HP bars in two seconds 0/10
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A holy damage weapon for the endgame? No thanks cuz no matter how cool it looks if you use it for the skill alone try the knife or the incant and use a better weapon like BB or magma wyrm sword instead. This thing needs some buffs to be usable in min/max pve builds.
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Ah you were by my side all along...my true burden...my destined death...
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can i put my strength in 10 when i use my Black Blade? is it based on Sword's damage or based in Sword damage and Strength damage too?
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Looks cool, crazy AR that makes holy damage split almost a non-burden, crazy ash of war with very unique debuff, goes with tons of fashion, and goes perfectly with beastial incantations. 9/10 since you get it so late without mods/ng+ though let alone during the holy resisting boss gauntlet.
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Notices how it looks so chipped, with the description abour "A sad shadow of its former self". I think Ranni stole the Rune of Death's fragment by carving the blade out?
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Love the sword but its little bit of a Kevin weapon. Only if you l2 spam though.
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Goddess of scarlet Rot...I will find you, however far you may travel....to deliver you what is yours....destined death.
All jokes aside, I love this weapon, not only does it have massive AR combined with percentile damage on an AOW with hyper armour, but it also looks great, the thought of using a broken, long sealed away manifestation of death itself makes it feel extremely epic!
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I think what would've been cool to make this colossal sword stand out is after performing the AoW, it'll buff the weapon and shoot out a wave of destined death like the Moonlight Greatsword. That and maybe replace the standard/boring horizontal swing and change that to a vertical/diagonal swing set like the Godslayer Greatsword. Otherwise, I still love it as is!
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For some reason I can still cast the Ash of War with 38 FP left. With full FP it costs 40.
This looks like an anthrax sore on a stick. Why would you ever use this?
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992 ar at level 150 exactly with 52 str + starscourge talisman and 49 faith, insane is all i'll say
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Oh death...become my blade once mo- *gets waterfowled on during the AoW
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does rotten sword insignia/millicent prothesis work with the ash of war of this sword? if it does it should mealt bosses
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when the ash of war deals damage in counts as succesive hits?
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You only need 23 strength to wield and use it properly when 2 handed
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An ethical str/faith weapon unlike the blasphemous blade (joking obviously). Good substitute for my flame art claymore for enemies weak to holy or resistant to fire
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Fia's rune is made my rejoining the two halves of the original Cursemark of Death. Sure be nice if you could hand that rune plus Maliketh's Black Blade to Hewg and end up with you getting the Claw of Destined Death (or whatever) and Hewg being satisfied that he's made the godslayingest weapon possible.
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I used it for fun and I can say for sure, if you have problems with NG+7 Placidusax or NG+7 Anything, this is one of the best choices.
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"A sad shadow of its former glory".. if everything we encounter throughout the entire soulsbourne series was summed up in a single sentence.
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This weapon is amazing! I reached Forbidden Lands with a +4 and I really suck at the game so that's something!
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crypt blacksword you can take off the gold coloring, i know it's you
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Maliketh's black blade which once harbored the power of the Rune of Death.... so meaning it's just a slab of rock when handed over to you?
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Since Ranni stole a part of Death, this blade is incomplete, which leads to my theory the perfected version of the Black Blade is just a giant black slab. Please give us the spiritual successor of FUGS in the DLC
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note the ash of war's damage is split holy and physical, meaning faith mains, steer clear as although it'll do damage, against late game bosses you'll struggle.
strength mains, rejoice and remember that 99 str isn't the cap, by 2 handing you'll get more damage out of the ash of war. and by investing in str over faith, it's heavily weighted towards physical damage to still hit those late game bosses hard
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The final combo should grant you some unique moveset with the R2s abd running attacks to make it more of a flexible weapon
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Love this. Bummer it basically requires you to beat God's cracked-out werewolf spider monkey twin brother in a zombie/dragon infested castle floating inside of a tornado
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One of the best weapons in the whole game. I see people complain about holy damage, but what does it matter when you’re sucking the life out of them with one of the game’s sickest looking weapons skills?
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I don't get why This Weapon Does Holy Dmg when The Ash of War is a Black and Red Flame. Either have it do Fire Dmg or Make Holy Dmg more Viable cause Endgame bosses are upto 80% Resistant to Holy dmg which Hinder The Normal Attacks of This Sword. If Fromsoft Does something about its Holy Dmg this Sword would Easily Rival The Blasphamous Blade and Darkmoon Greatsword to be The Best Weapon in The Game.
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Destroyed Plaucidasax with this weapon using just the Ash of War, and beat him before he had a chance to start phase 2.
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Got this sword in a randomizer as the first item I picked up.
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Seems weird that the edge-lord death sword does holy damage. If dark damage was a thing in elden ring, that would seem more apt. Seems like it should have required Arcane rather than faith and got Arcane-scaling physical damage, like occult weapons (this game's version of dark infusion).
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Does this stop skeletons from receiving? If it does not then it should.
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I don’t care if Blasphemous is “objectively better” for PVE, this one looks cooler and I’m gonna keep using it for my faith/strength build
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Love this weapon ! But kinda wish it had a special moveset with spins or Death beams, at least on the heavies. So many boss weapons are just the normal moveset of their class with a unique skill. Makes them feel a bit less unique than they should...
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I so wish this thing had special charged R2's that sent a wave of Destined Death like how the incantation does. Wtf From.
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A good weapon from a good boy who deserved better. Marika is scum.
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Why does this weapon out of all of them not have the ability to kill skeletons without them reviving?
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The grim reaper boss that uses a greatsword to cause death instead of a scythe.
(Still love the weapon)
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Okay what is so good about this? Why the hell would I use this over blasphemous blade as a faith build? Slow, sluggish, damage isn't that good.
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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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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
Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.
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