Repeating Crossbow | Elden Ring Wiki

A lot of people really don't understand this weapon. It's actually very strong.

Not only does it have the ability to conserve ammo (unlike Spread Crossbow) and have good range, it's singular bolts deal average damage, comparable to other single shot crossbows.

Now, normally this wouldn't matter, but in PvE this absolutely does. It's safe chip damage, with a weapon art that will ALWAYS proc a status effect in it's full barrage. Yes, even with a 45% penalty, 12 shots from the burred bolts (65 status) is 351. Now yes, it is similar to what the Pulley does in 6 shots, but the higher overall damage tries to make up for this.

Pulley also is terrible in PvP, as it only has a niche of using explosive bolts in pvp or lightning bolts in waterbed areas. Otherwise, it's very weak compared to the Spread Crossbow. This crossbow is somewhere between the both of them. It's very easy to get 300-700 damage on other players from a safe distance with this crossbow using explosive bolts and it's weapon art. The spread crossbow takes 2-3 shots to get similar damage. That's 20-30 bolts.

Spread is better for status application in PvP, and decent for burst damage. Pulley is bad outside of chip damage. This deals high damage and chip damage efficiently. It's good at both things, and isn't the best at either. That's what makes this crossbow good.

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Anyone tried chaining multiple headshots with this? Might be something worth trying since the whole volley shoots with impressive accuracy

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Im really disappointed by this weapon. The pulley crossbow is far superior to this weapon for a number of reasons.

I was really excited when I saw this in the trailers and again once I saw a boss used it against me in battle.

But when I got a hold of it, this thing turned out to be a damn squirt gun in the automatic mode for how little damage and status build up it does for so much FP, stamina, bolt cost, and time to set up to even fire the thing in automatic mode. Pulley crossbow is superior in all those areas.

Repeating crossbow is the equivalent of a boss being OP when you fight them and then you unlock them and they are a wet noodle when you use them.

Weapon is complete trash. Dont even waste your materials upgrading this.

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The rapid-fire penalties to damage and status are kinda harsh IMO- since right now it’s the equivalent of firing 6 bolts in terms of damage and only 4 in terms of status, and the pulley crossbow could just fire regularly, twice, for much less stamina and no FP and accomplish the same thing in half as many bolts.

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Welcome back repeating crossbow from ds3

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Gael cosplay here I go

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A certain blonde guy, who rides a slug made of metal, likes to use this Heavy Machinegun

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With this, I got a lot of missions completed

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I find it ridiculous that an attack that costs 12 bolts requires 26 fp on top of that, especially since it isn't anything to be wowed about in damage. Fp requirement should be cut in half at the bare minimum.

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Really?! 67.65% damage penalty and 45% status penalty when machine gunning?! I know it makes sense to do that, but I'll still b***h about it

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I wonder what lore could this have, really sad

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The mechanism of some of these crossbows seems more complex than some modern day guns XD

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Repeating Crossbow + Burred Bolts = easy bleed on any large/non-evasive boss.

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TRASH!!! CANT RAPIDLY FIRE IN THE LEFT HAND!!!!

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No one seems to be talking about the fact that this has the highest single shot damage of any crossbow in the game. Just that alone makes it worth having, not even considering the ash. — The Fist of Fury

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What if instead of a Crossbow, it was a handheld Cannon

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this would be great on any strength build if any crossbows after ds2 were actually worth using

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This weapon need's a massive buff, it's looks cool and feel dope as f'ck to use but it need his stamina consumption to be halved, his damage massively increased (just remove the damage penalty on bolts and make it compatible with shard of alexander) because you can just use a normal longbow, and slap rain of arrows for a better resoult.
Honestly i dont know what the dev team on FS has with making a crossbow like this good, while completeling ignoring the massive damage you can get by spamming ashes of war or spells which dont require you to buy bolts or dupe them

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This needs a fix for sure. Honestly not terrible weapon. Pulley crossbow is much better in terms of efficiency but the raw burst damage is a great thing against bosses. The problem is the high fp and stamina cost of the skill. I would trade the damage buff over these two things for sure.

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This + Burred Bolts are a nasty combo.

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i keep that mf thang on me

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wyvernheart

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Finally, my Gael build is finished

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say hallo to my leetle friend

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*Weapon accured sound*

Heavy Machinegun!

Mission Complete!

*Winning Music*

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For anyone who can't get the skill to fire, you have to have bolts in both slots because for some dumb reason the skill pulls different ammo than the main attack. At least, this was the case for me. Hope this helps.

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Does not trigger the winged/rotten sword talisman or Millicent's prosthesis.

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0/10 doesn't let me shoot ten great arrows like a machine gun

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I thought this would suck for invasions. BUT. You can freeaim the entire volley. Combine it with lighting bolts and you can track and predict someone's movements. An entire volley deals good damage, up to 1.2k with no ash of war or arrow boosts. It basically turns the crossbow into a giga-version of exploding bolt crossbows from DS3.

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For gael cosplay this head piece of landscnaked old man you know that one announces at radahn festival and rest piece either exile set minus helm or chest and something you like

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good for ranged rot/poison procs imo

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Neat idea but in reality it’s hard to justify using it. The standard shots are still horribly weak even at +10. So you have to two hand it and use its ash of war for it to be of any use. At which point it’s very hard to justify using.

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I get why you can't, since it'd be an input conflict (l-trigger being both weapon art and secondary bolt type) but man would it be awesome to be able to use the weapon art while its in your offhand

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Still garbage after the patch. The main draw of this crossbow is the ash of war, but they increased the base scaling and lowered the damage of the ash of war to compensate so there's barely any difference.

Wow, I sure love a whopping... 1300 damage against one of those omens in the sewers, 1500 if you waste two talisman slots for bow buffing talismans (800 against a boss).. Someone moving slowly to the left or right can casually dodge it (kid named input reading: ) and it takes forever to use and reload. And to top it off, the ash of war costs 26 FP, 100 stamina, and 12 bolts... Maybe this is "good" for bow standards, but it is still a terrible weapon overall.

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new patch says scaling is increased for this weapon. but i dont see any scaling stats on a +10 when i tested it?

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WHY IS THIS NOT BOOSTED BY SHARD OF ALEXANDER?

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Not a good weapon, but certainly a fun one

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Slap it on a mimic

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Worse than the pulley crossbow on all fronts besides being cool. Very disappointing. Holding out hope that they drop a patch that fixes this, along with the myriad of other very, very underwhelming and unusable dlc weapons/spells.

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This weapon sits under garbage but fun to use. Otherwise the ash of war FP and stamina cost needs to be cut in half and damage needs to be increased by 30% or more if it's going to take 12 bolts each time. It's only functional use is to just proc bleed (forget about ice because it's too annoying to craft), but it requires my entire 100 FP bar in coop to do so...

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SUPPRESSING FIRE

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Can someone take a second look at that first paragraph?

This weapon does not scale with Strength. It doesn't scale with anything, just like every other crossbow in the game. The second sentence also is grammatically incorrect. It should be something like "and is capable of firing a barrage of shots". It's also just not a particularily good weapon, even for a crossbow.

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hand it over, that thing... your gael cosplay.

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This is pretty bad for elden ring standards, but i find it better than gael's crossbow. It gets the job done as a crossbow per-se, but the repeating fire skill, unlike gael's, has perfect accuracy and doesn't sacrifice nearly as much damage per bolt.

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a must have in any Guts Build

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What does FROM hate more than bows? Crossbows. Arrow Rain: 1 arrow used for 12 shots. Repeating Crossbow: 12 bolts used for 12 shots. Both are AoW. Like I can understand Pulley Crossbow and Spread Crossbow consuming copious amounts of bolts but this is tied to a AoW which consumes FP but doesn't even save on bolts. Bruh

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Using the ash of war recocks/reloads the crossbow. Even is the volley is not fired, faking the stance to use the as of war also reloads.

So you can volley, normal fire, volley and never have to reload the standard way

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Not a good weapon by any means

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CUUURSE YOU, GAEL

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it's kinda upsetting that holding L2 doesn't activate rellana's cameo

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slap this on with solitude set and solitude greatsword, U GOT A GUTS DRIP!!

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may i ask whats the attribute scaling? I dont see it even in the elden ring game...

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anyway, I started blasting

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ak47 and pully crossbow had a baby

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Easily procs bleed on most enemies with one use of the AoW + Burred bolts. Even worked on the windmill apostle for the first proc

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Managed to get this thing on my level 40 invader. A full volley deals up to 700 damage with lighting bolts without any arrow damage boosters. A neat way to bully Liurnia hosts standing in water.

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Well hello there gael's crossbow, didn't expect to see you here

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Some analysis vs. Pulley Crossbow after some testing:

Repeating - 35 seconds to fire 96 bolts (8 volleys) - (4.375 seconds per 12 bolt volley) [2.74 bolts per second]
Pulley - 17 seconds to fire 27 bolts (9 volleys) - (1.89 seconds per 3 bolt volley) [1.59 bolts per second]
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Pulley has a status Motion Value of 100 per bolt, so you get 300% of the status listed on the bolt per 3-shot volley.
Repeating seems to have a status Motion Value of 55 per bolt on the AoW, so you get 660% of the the status listed on the bolt per 12-shot volley.
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Repeating has a status MV/second of 150.7
Pulley has a status MV/second of 159
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Pulley still seems to win in total Status per second, is less punishing if you miss, doesn't cost FP to use, and doesn't lock you in place for long periods of time while actually firing. Also it's just far more efficient on a 'per-bolt' basis.
Repeating probably wins in the 'this weapon is cool' category though.

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Finally a repeating crossbow with excellent accuracy!

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The tarnished when they learn the land of shadow has oil:

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The AoW isn't affected by the shard of alexander talisman. womp womp.

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Absolutely terrible description of the location

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Literally wastes 4x the ammo on the AoW than the Pulley Crossbow, while dealing less damage and, somehow, less status buildup per bolt.

Incredibly stupid.

Status buildup should be a flat application per-bolt, not nonsensically applying more or less per-bolt depending on the crossbow. You could argue the raw damage, but not the status application.

Other than looking and feeling cool to fire the volley, this thing is objectively worse than the Pulley, so disappointing.

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the goat returns

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Surprisingly a pretty decent supplement for a bonk build. It can proc blood loss and scarlet rot against big enemies with 1 or 2 bursts.

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Good for low-level pipms with overflowing runes. Truly a billionaire's weapon, but nothing better than going on a safari slaughtering mooks for 100-200 runes at the cost of thousands worth in bolts. Requirements are fine, even a lvl1 soreseal wretch can one hand it. Slap blue dew on and you can go around chaingunning banished knights without restrictions. Also many bolts can be bought en masse, stock up - this thing eats ammo

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It cost 400 thousand runes to fire dis weapon.... for 12 seconds

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Everything about this thing, from the reload Animation where you spin the wheel to the way the repeating mechanism looks and feels sets off every neuron in my crossbow bow addicted brain, does it Utterly devour bolts?. yes. Does it take 50 shots to kill a standard blackflame monk?, Yes. Do I care? . No. This thing makes me so happy and I love it to death

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This would be good if the repeating mode was how if fired by default. Right now it's just plain bad even as a status hose.

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why are all the coolest weapons so outclassed by everything else :(

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You get to feel like the u.s military, knowing each volley of burred bolts is 2.4k runes

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All the comments about how this thing sucks/needs a buff had me a bit offput after I found it...and I get it. It certainly doesn't do as much damage per single shot as the pulley crossbow or any other less flashy variant of the archetype.

After using it extensively in some of the later areas/bosses I've been facing though? (namely the fissure and Shadowkeep) I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this thing has a niche and it fills it very well. I'm a devout str player, I unga bunga big stick so if the weapon doesn't have innate magic damage all I've got to rely on is grease/buffs to hit some of the more sturdy enemies where it hurts (Abductor Virgins....). While a greatbow has solved a lot of these issues for me the delivery speed and lack of elemental options outside of holy makes it a bit limited. Sometimes what I really need is to set some poor MF on fire or electrocute them asap, and while the pulley crossbow does handle smaller mobs well we all know the smaller stuff isn't what's going to be giving us issues.

I will always prefer beating someone to death with my hammer but sometimes an immediate gatling gun of bleed/fire/lightning/etc to the face is just what the doctor ordered to shut a beefier monstrosity (or more specifically a giant evil sunflower) up real quick. It's a highly inelegant and ammo inefficient answer to my problems....but with front loaded access to every element in a quick and satisfying delivery system I can't really complain. For those of you with spells at your disposal you'll probably never need this, but if your melee weapon of choice isn't getting the job done I urge you to give this a shot. So long as you can keep the hungry thing fed with bolts it'll handle things very well for you.

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I knew the moment i saw the trailer, this weapon would suck.

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I dont care if its worthless, but i like to put on my back to look cool

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Basically gut’s crossbow, only it sucks

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While it does have roughly 100 AR less then a regular heavy crossbow. Machine gunning out bleed bolts is going to do infinitely more dmg then any other crossbow in the game at range.

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Needs a massive buff (loke mkst bows and crossbow weapons) the latest patch wasn't nearly enough to make bows or crossbows viable on anything other then status appliers and sniping.

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I cheesed Senessax & Deathlight Dancing Lion with this baby. 100% recommended.

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Can be enchanted* sacred blade? Electrify armament? Etc

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The unique AoW isn't boosted by Shard of Alexander for some reason.

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So which is better?
This or pulley crossbow

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Are there any talismans that buff crossbows?

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"Let me show you its features!"

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any specific bolt recommendations for the dlc area? like would it be a waste to make a whole bunch of bloodborne bolts with this? I +9'd it before realizing how many bolts it eats through

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bro this was added only to do that ds3 glitch here you swap Giantbow while using volley i bet it works

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You would think that with such a high rate of fire it would apply some status effects per volley, but it doesn't. Even after 3 volleys, which is probably like 38 bolts, you still do less than 3,000 damage total. A real shame because it was one of the main weapons I looked forward to most out of everything in the dlc trailer.

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Rellanas Cameo should buff the AoW since you kind of hold a stance if you press the skill

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Using the ash of war will make it rapid fire a volley of 12 bolts. Which can be overkill if you only needed like 4 or 5 bolts to inflict rot or something. Combine this ash of war with lightning bolts and zap abductor virgins until they disintegrate, that's one of the ways to use this thing. You can also move while firing the ash of war.

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Does boosts by shard of alexander(AOW)?

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This thing can cheese Bayle and Radahn quite easily. It's also excellent for dealing hemorrhage.

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good enough, welcome back gaels repeating crossbow

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i was really hoping it wouldn't be a reskin gael's crossbow but whatever

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This thing kinda sucks, pulley better

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Is this the blood?

The blood of the dark soul?

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Does this do the insane status buildup of the Pulley Crossbow on the Ash? I see some comments here suggesting it doesn’t but unsure. Wondering if they drastically reduced the status buildup on the Ash.

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idk how i feel about this. it seems kinda terrible? low damage and the pulley is better at applying status. i guess it has good dps on the skill but it murders your stamina and bolt stocks.

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Groovy.

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lmao back at it again with the gael special

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the blood of the elden ring,..,..,

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slave night geal, is bad compared to this lol. you can get his whole set up

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