Maliketh's Black Blade | Elden Ring Wiki

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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Faith scaling should be at least a C

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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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Destined death melts pretty much everything lol

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The damage should be like black flame incantations

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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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How does the black blade fare in PvP?

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this is da best weapon in da game

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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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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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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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Probably the strongest holy weapon in the game

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Got this sword in a randomizer as the first item I picked up.

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Gael's greatsword but the skill belongs to vergil

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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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Shame this does Holy damage otherwise it would be great.

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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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stop deleting my comments!!!!

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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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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

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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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