Ruins Greatsword | Elden Ring Wiki

Will you get good mileage with this even at min-max int?

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can anyone drop it +10 for me? What do you want for it?

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This thing has incredible range

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What does Sta mean on the table?

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god i wish i hadn't chosen not to use this on my first playthrough. it's literally 16 int!!! that's all it took for me to hem and haw my way out of having any fun. try new things folks, force yourself if you have to.

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This weapon was why I committed to a Str/Int playthrough for my first character.

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big brain bonk

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I Unga
Therefore
I Bunga

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booking it to redmane at lvl 12 was the best decision i ever made

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Heavy Watchdog's Greatsword+25 and Ruins Greatsword+10 have the same exact strength scaling value, but Ruins has 2 more base physical damage and the magic base+scaling tacked on for free. Ruins also has better guarding stats all the way down.

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the bonk stick to rival the Giant Crusher.

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A fine weapon. There are times that it feels like the most broken weapon. S scales with strength and the weapon art just obliterates pretty much everything in its path. And, the crazy thing is I'm using this at +9 and it is still just silly!

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I used this weapon on my first playthrough and this thing absolutely slaps. Does great damage and the WA does good damage and makes up for the short length of the weapon. Overall really fun weapon and although I didn’t use it much the charged heavy has that nice delayed gravity explosion for some bonus damage.

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weapon among chads

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I've been laying waste with this collosal sword. Beat the Sol castle boss and Lord of blood on the first try. It went thru them like hot butter. Definitely a great sword for bosses.

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Does this weapon deal bonus damage to gravity type enemies, like other gravity weapons?

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I never once thought vendricks ultra great sword needed a magic buff.

This thing packs a wallop! The L2 gravity attack is brutal and has incredibly long range, really cant go wrong with this weapon but if you missed it I feel sorry for you.

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the greatest sword of all time

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In your house, I long to be

Room by room, patiently

I'll wait for you there

Like a stone

I'll wait for you there

Alone

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As of 1.09, this weapon's pure physical damage now surpasses the Heavy GUGS's total damage at high Strength values, and this weapon ALSO deals some magic damage on top, so it's the supreme bonk colossal (but it has the second least reach while the GUGS has the most reach... but it has a really cool ranged Skill).

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This should have better fire and lightning absorptions. Its made of stone for chrissakes, how is that not less conducive of heat and electricity. How are these the same as the greatsword.

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ultimate hardswap weapon

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Why does this sword not have strike damage?!

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I really think the 16 int requirement paired with one of the highest Strength requirements was a terrible idea. 16 is a bit steep, 13 or 14 would be more appropriate for a weapon that already has one of the highest strength requirements in the game.

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the int requirement gives you access to scholars shield, if you want to make an ultra beefcake tank build.

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The charged r2 has a lower-than-average motion value, but coupled with the explosion it actually ends up being higher than other UGS.

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This cant be obtained before killing Radahn

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I've been a enjoyer of the dragon greasword in ds1, the king's ultra greatsword in ds2 and the fume ultra greatsword in ds3. I had not the chance to use the dragon bone smasher in Des, but i got to smash and slice my way through with the amygdalan arm.

I feel like i've come full circle with this one.

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This weapon is too amazing in PVE. Together with good spirit summon, you can beat bosses easily by spamming skill.

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Anon 27 Dec 2022 03: 55... TRUE, the weapon itself has horrible range and its ash of war is the weakest ash of war, with no buff "waves of destruction" deals less than 600 damage in pvp... it's s.a.d. and extremely disappointing that "FROM" only thinks about Faith & Dexterity, while not even looking at Intelligence & Arxane & Strength are at a huge disadvantage compared to Dex and Faith...

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1000+ hours in and had no idea this thing left a gravity explosion after a charged r2. (Never used it and invaders just spam L2.) Shout out to that summon who actually used a weapons full move set as I'm finna make a graviturgy warrior because of you.

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This is a good weapon for the Mohg Rune farm area if you don't have any of the other options, it has decent range and damage.

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king's ultra greatsword vs ruins greatsword WHO WINS?

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pls make abuild of it been waiting

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I initially didn’t want to use this weapon because I thought it looked dumb but after I gave it a try I can safely say: this weapon ****s

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How do I not see anyone using this weapon? The Ash of War on it is AWESOME! GETSUGA TENSHOOO

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tldr; elden ring easy mode "sword"

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66 str, butt-ass naked, flynn's ring (super valuable 5% ar), axe tali, charge attack physick, and shart of alexander. Time to turn every living creature in the lands between into a red streak on the floor

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FP cost now is 22 not 25

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htf r u supposed to figure out all this stuff!!! oh yeah just add a big boss fight and great sword in case i just wander back to redman caste for no reason!!?!?!

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Went from using the GUTs to this recently. Made life so much easier! Such a cool weapon and that wave of darkness rips!

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R2 rotation is now patched, heheh

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Always love surprising invaders with a couple waves of destruction to the face to make them second guess dropping in

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the weapon is awesome at everything and i love it so much

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fume ugs my beloved

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This sword does a bit more damage with most attacks than a heavy greatsword at high strength levels (all light attacks and jumping, rolling, back-step heavy attacks) thanks to its extremely high strength scaling and added magic damage. However, its basic R2 attacks seem to have low attack modifiers and do less damage uncharged. When the heavy attacks are charged, they will out-damage the greatsword's charged R2s only if the gravity burst hits, otherwise the sword alone does less. Though the gravity effect will hit most of the time when the sword does, the range is extremely short, so if the sword knocks the target back even a little it may miss. Just something to be mindful of.

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Ds1:Dragon ultra greatsword
Ds2 Fume ultra greatsword
Ds3Fume ultra greatsword
Elden ring: Ruins greatsword
Truly a legendary weapon

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this weapon is truly legendary. pretty much every other legendary weapon is unremarkable apart from its weapon art

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Even better than the extra damage of the charged heavy's gravity burst is the high poise damage of it. Anything stunned by the sword itself from the charged R2 will be stunned again, and that extra few seconds of vulnerability makes landing a second charged R2 much more realistic. It's one of the slowest attacks in the game that can actually stun-lock an enemy, even some of the toughest ones.

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using this on a build with tons of charged attack buffs and landing the heavy deletes pretty much anything off the face of the earth

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The charged heavy is so cool!

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I was unable to get this weapon on my first playthrough since I did the festival and missed the boss, then did sellen's quest before talking to Jerren, and killed him so now im unable to revert redmane castle

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Finished the game with ruins on left and and ultra greatsword on my right arm dual wield. I almost melt everything late game with mimic teat except ofc melania. She took 20 times to master.

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99 str with this SLAMS. Say hi 1000+ AR

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The elden ring space program

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Odd how it doesn't do strike damage, like just look at it, sure it'll definitely turn dudes into jam on contact, but it sure as hell won't be cutting anything.

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Fatty version of moonveil.

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Steelovsky's favorite.

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Steelovsky's favorite.

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wow moonveil has been putting on weight

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I am not your enemy,I AM THE ENEMY!

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Hello? Where's the AR at 60 str?
I want to know if this would be an upgrade and here I am with no useful information

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Makes the cracks that break your mamas back

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Very similar to the kings ultra great sword from Ds 2

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any armor sets this would look sexy with?

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Using this against any big monster makes you feel like you're playing Monster Hunter and I'm all for it

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Ruins Greatsword? With this weight it's more like Ruins Your Back Greatsword

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A the Albinuriac bow summon got me through this boss.

I killed the misbegotton then summoned her at one end of the arena then drew the knight across the arena and she peppered his back with arrows. Eventually the knight slowly walks over to her and some strong attacks to his back re draws his aggro and resets the tactic.

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If you’re trying to do it this fight at a relatively low enough level, I heavily recommended flame of the redmanes. Spam it for the poise break and you should be able to sneak in a jump attack into a repoiste.

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Wave of Destruction is one of the best rune-farming weapon skills in the game. It requires a little skill to line up your shot correctly. Using target lock can help with that.

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So ugly but so cool and good

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I don't like how this looks but how much does INT come into play with its scaling? It says here the weapon skill scales to whatever upgrade level the sword is at and a little from STR, I only have 17 INT so what about the base damage from the sword itself does that scale to INT?

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Kinda cool how most fromsoft games have atleast one ultra greatsword thats just a gigantic piece of rubble/rock/steel etc. fashioned into a weapon vaguely resembling a sword.

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Vertical r1s would've made more sense than the default r1's considering it doesn't even have a blade, its just a massive chunk of meteorite fashioned into something that hardly resembles a sword afterall.

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You need to level blue dex to use this (dont tell anyone you leveled that up tho)

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remember FUGS?

This is him now. Feel old yet?

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Haven't played since doing 2 playthroughs right after launch, with the patch that buffed speed and guard for colossal weapons, is this one more viable (as in you can actually get away with doing something other than jump R2 spam) and fun than it used to be?

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Fume knight and tsorig are pissing themself rn after seeing this

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If anyone has time I would love some help with this boss because they are wrecking me

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so what level should i be to try and get this weapon?

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What level should I be to try and get this item?

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Are you tired of armored enemies with shields blocking all of your attacks and being annoying? No worries! Hit them with the weapon art with their shield down and you can laugh as they are violently tossed in the air with no way of recovering!

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Another tip: if you're using this two-handed, offhand something like the Sacrificial Axe. Offhand passive bonuses apply even when two-handing the main weapon, so if you cast Wave of Destruction and kill 5 weak enemies then you'll regenerate 20 FP, which is actually more than the skill's cost if you have the carian talisman (19 FP). So it really helps you use the skill constantly.

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I had trouble getting this weapon at first, but finally succeeded (easily) by using the greatshield ashes +3. Basically this fight obviously should not be done before killing Radahn since the festival makes it so trivial to get to the site of grace, and also makes it much easier to do non-festival castle since you're already inside, working backwards.

Anyway, with Radahn dead, go into Nokron. You'll face very weak easy enemies and will come across the greatshield ashes very quickly (no boss fights). Get them, upgrade to +3, and it will do wonders to help with this fight. I was level 60 using a grafted dragon +4.

As for this weapon, it's awesome. Its range is much longer than you'd expect, and wide, and a single cast can wipe out a ton of ordinary enemies, and knocks down most that survive. For the latter reason, I found it very helpful against NPC invaders as well. I've also used it on bosses to great effect; it doesn't knock the large ones down of course but it does heavy damage from range and the cast time is very fast. And the effects just look awesome.

It's also surprisingly good for blocking when two-handed.

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so why does this take int but bolt of gransax and cragblade don’t take fth?

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So this takes 16 int but the bolt of gransax and cragblade take no faith???

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good luck swinging that tards, by the time you finish your R2 you won't even see what struck you with madness and owned you (gonna give you a tip, it starts with "Vyke" and ends with "Spear")

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This is the only page that mentions exactly how you get the weapon, which isn't very helpful, because that way you have to know it exists to look for how to get it.

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Wave of Destruction is hilarious and fun to spam. Absolutely dominates anything.

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Flame of the Redmanes makes the fight very trivial FYI so this weapon can be acquired quite early if desired. You need 34 natural strength (and 16 int) to two-hand it, but the +5 strength talisman, and +3 radagon talisman, can both be acquired early pretty easily too, so then you need just 26 natural strength to two-hand it which isn't a big deal.

For damage numbers, I tested it with 35 strength and 25 int against the stagecoach trolls in Limgrave, and I don't count the first hit due to its 25% bonus. I tested the weapon skill beyond melee range so these numbers are purely of the ranged attack.

At +0 it was 246 damage.
At +6 it was 668 damage.

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This is dumb. Like imagine if yhorms greatshield required luck to use or something. Or if isshin needed faith to use his glock 19 (also f*ck those two you need to fight in order to get this. Its a poorly designed duo boss that dosent work well together)

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please answer me a question: this or Grafted blade GW?

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I find it curious that this thing doesn't have the "Gravity" bonus.

Given, that it's clearly using Gravity magic for it's minor innate magic damage as well as for the special abilities (The WA and unique R2 effect)

It's not a big deal, given how infrequently "Gravity" enemies are fought (And then, how much it impacts given their typically high magic resistances), but it's still kind of odd.

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This should do strike damage since it bonks hard!

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1H R2 seems to be bugged.. once activated the attack direction can't be altered at all. Normally you can rotate to attack in any which direction during the final stages of the animation but with this weapon the 1H R2 is seemingly locked into whatever direction you were facing when pressing R2

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Anyone str build has stacked points in faith for erdtree greatshield should honestly respec for 16 int and go with this as a utility weapon for invasions. The AoW is immensely good for the unsuspecting and my invasions success rate has improved because of this.

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must have in toolkit for STR invaders. AoW is an absolute host stomper if used in the right situations.

I always used this during ambushes when host and phantoms are occupied with npcs. Close in with your normal str weapons like UGS after

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I can imagine some archaeologist studying some ruins, and his friend is like, “Hey, this is cool and all, but what if we made it into a sword?”

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Le smart bonk

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Despite the rolling R1 being a sweeping attack, it still uses the same attack data as normal Colossal Swords, meaning it does thrust damage.

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