Shard of Alexander | Elden Ring Wiki

This talisman boosts the damage output of AOW's that directly hit an enemy. Flame of Redmanes, Storm Caller, Bloody Slash, etc.. to name a few examples. To the best of my knowledge and after very minimal testing it does not increase the effectiveness of self-buffs or weapon buffs like Golden Vow or Royal Knight's Resolve.

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Fromsoft please nerf this. Needs to be 7.5% at most but preferably 5.0% for the sake of balance.

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How useful of Fextralife to provide extra information on something only through YouTube videos...

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It states that this talisman drops when you complete Alexander's questline, which I did, but I got the Warrior Jar Shard.

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Does this effect royal knight's resolve?

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Does it effect sepuku in terms of the AR scaling and the amount gained from the shards buff

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This can be a godsend for a lot of the crappier weapon arts that really lack damage like rosus axe, nox flowing sword, and earthshaker

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It is bugged for holy dmg ashes of war.

Unblockable Blade, Wave of Gold and many others are NOT buffed by this talisman in PvP.

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Love this gift from Big Al. Does it stack with roar medallion for roar skills though?

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Realized I could grab this JUST before Maliketh, unbelievably excellent talisman. Most others will give you +30 AR or +120 to certain spell/incants; this baby is a straight up +350 damage to my FAI/DEX(/str)AoWs.
S Tier, Must have for both PvE & PvP builds

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Wonder if this impacts skills that are weapon buffs (sacred Blade etc) or probably not the weapon buff - just the initial damage?

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FS fixed the interaction with watchdog staff. This, jar shard, and spellblade set can actually boost the skill damage now.

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So the dragoncrest talismans get completely shunted in pvp but this crap gets to keep its entire 15% boost?
Sounds balanced.

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Does this improve the kick?

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Does this improve the Roar ashes of war? (Aside from Trolls Roar)

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with the across the board damage nerf, this is actually a reasonable talisman swap to have

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Sadness

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Needs a nerf badly considering all the builds that use it makes it too meta

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So the page says it's a 15% increase to the physical damage of your weapon skill, does this mean it won't effect ancient lightning spear from Bolt of gransax which does 100% lightning damage?

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From need to turn down its numbers in pvp. Maybe do it like what they did with the shield talismans/ ring of iron protection. Like 15% increase in pve and 5% increase in pvp.

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Needs a negative attribute. Pvp oneshots should not be that easy to achieve withought ridiculous min/maxing.

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Can I kill Alexander at any time to get this?

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Its just a huge damage upgrade for no downside... sacred scorpion charms makes you take more damage, dancer charm makes you go light weight, and this is just free damage. Pls buff the other charms from

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Damage buffs historically come at such a premium in From games that they're very often not worth it. The Spear Talisman (Leo Ring) enhances only one physical damage type and only in extremely specific and not very well-explained contexts. The Scorpion charms (Clutch Rings) enhance a specific elemental type by a teeny tiny amount while also destroying your own defenses by a much, much more substantial amount. The Dusk Crown and Blindfold Mask also offered only tiny boosts to magic/dark damage at the cost of 30% absorption and being very poor armor defensively besides.

So this talisman being a no-strings-attached 15% boost to any and all damaging L2 buttons which are already absurdly powerful is, well, ridiculous. From a gameplay perspective, easily one of the best talismans, if not the absolute best. From a balance standpoint... it could stand to have a downside.

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For people who don't think their cheap oneshot builds are quite cheap enough

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At least Fromsoft have the compassion to give as a great talisman to make up for having to kill one of the best npcs in the game. (RIP Iron Fist Alexander, i will never forget you)

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I am glad this item is so late game. I shutter at the thought this being in the inventory of a lvl 75 invader...

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does it work on Ghiza Wheel?

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increase sacred blade buff/damage?

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What happened to the list of weapons that worked w this?

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I wanted alexander's shard, but instead he gave me his crutch

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I wonder if this works with ashes of war that hit for less than a typical attack like barrage...

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**** you and your nerf bullshit. Nerf yourself. Every ****ing cool thing in this game has been nerfed. How about you go take a nerf up the *******.

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should be nerfed to 8% in pvp, and 6% for the normal jar shard. it would still be broken, but stop things like gransax and glintstone pebble from oneshotting most of the time

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this thing should have a damage resistance penalty like the scorpions, its so busted.

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does it stack with godfrey icon?

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this thing is the biggest crutch ever.
it provides a FREE 15% boost across the board, in PVP and PVE, to skills that already very powerful, whereas the scorpion charms provide a measly 8% damage boost for ONE elemental damage type in pvp with a WHOPPING 15% damage penalty, and 12%/10% in PVE.
why are rings and talismans in these games always so unbalanced? when there is only a small handful of talismans that are featured in every single build no matter the build, that ignore the plethora of other ones, you know you did not balance the game properly. seriously what is the point of even having them in the game at all when most of them are far outclassed?
there should be a talisman tier system in the game, where you get 2, or maybe more, talisman slots reserved for specific tiers. idk how the best way to balance this would be, but its a good idea bc it would force players to make sacrifices and real builds.
say for example we have the traditional 4 talisman slots, but one of them is reserved for only high tier talismans, so you can only have 1, and in that tier you would have things like crimson+2, shard of alexander, erdtree+2, powerful talismans like that, and the other 3 slots reserved for whatever else.
also balance the scorpion charms to give +15% elemental damage for +15% physical damage taken, or maybe 10% or 12% seeing how Elden Ring has much higher damage numbers from previous titles.
this item i think perfectly encapsulates why this game ****ing sucks.

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does this work with square off r1 AND r2???

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Can I get Alexander to Farum without fighting the giant? Trying to not lose Lyndell on my lvl 75 invasion character.

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He lived without fear... and died without fear. Let us raise our swords and poles in memory of the true Warrior: Alexander, the Mighty Vase.

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I hope someone can help: For some reason, this quest is bugged for me. I beat Radahn, but the NPC doesn't appear. I tried backtracking and checking forward in the questline, and nothing. What can I do?

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This does not effect war cry and barbaric roar charged heavy attack.

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Doesn't seem to affect Royal Knight's Resolve, at least not that I could see. I tested a giant's crusher on the land squirts in agheel and thought I got more damage, but it was likely just the unaware or sneak bonus. Makes sense balance-wise.

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Will this boost the modified charged attacks from war cry/barbaric roar/braggart roar, the same way the roar talisman boosts the charged attacks while under the influence of those skills?

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Does this affect Moonlight GS Charge slash wave?

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Just as a headsup to anyone who is trying to run a rivers of blood build or any skill based build, this stacks with the godfrey icon, thought he godfrey is only a charged skill but yknow

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To get this talisman you must first smoke a pot. Much buzz, many regret.

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Does it work with Bloodboon ritual?

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Jarnished Warrior. 'Twas nobly fought.

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I can confirm that you get the talisman even when he is bugged at Radahns Warfield. I tried out everything: reload, rest at grace, finishing the questline in jarburg, attacking him and go to the popes church to reset his hostile status... I also was on every next area he should be (Gelmir, Farum Azula), nothing helped - I just killed him and he dropped the Shard for me.

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Is the boost still 15% in pvp?

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Drop from Alexander after you defeated Radahn.

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0/10. doesnt give me DBZ moves like alexander during our duel.

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well he was a terrible warrior, but bless alexander for gifting me this lovely talisman

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Easily top three talismans in the game, right alongside Bull-Goat's and rotted sword insignia

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Wtf Equipping this on a empty slot says it will lower my fp, but does not do that. This is a great talisman to have for anybody, but not sure if the lower fp cost on paper is intentional

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Does this work on incantations?

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So with Alexander being bugged in 1.04 does that make this practically unobtainable?

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Should be +10% boost, the 1 shot meta is BS.

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Does this and the other shard stack? The canvas talismans and the graven talismans stack so…

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Does this increas the damage of weapon arts? Like Moonveil and other with magick.

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ma boi ate radahn himself just to get clapped instantly by us

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Does this work on Darkmoon Greatsword special atk? because the Charge atk talisman doesnt do it for me

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I am in NG+6 currently. I am still playing in patch version 1.2 I don't know if that affects this tip. Shard of Alexander will increase rune multiplier. At mogwyn palace rune farm. With no accessories I get 5001k per kill at this site. With golden scarab it goes up to 6009k per kill. Then I add the shard of Alexander it goes up to 7212k per kill. Finally with pickled fowl feet it goes up to 9375k per enemy with wave of gold skill from the sacred relic sword. Is this known? I don't see anyone mentioning this in any videos or forums.

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So can you only obtain this after killing Fire Giant?

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Wow

I haven't got this yet. But when I do it will be a HUGE boost to Pulley bow Mighty Shot on this Turok playthrough I'm doing.

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So, something i noticed, as a bit of a lore type thing, you can only get this after the fire-giant, unless you glitch out to farum azur, otherwise Alexander drops the warrior jar shard. During the fight in farum azur he can now use fire based attacks, and the description says that there seems to be the remains of a red-haired champion inside him now, so it seems to imply that after your fight with the giant, Alexander took some of the giant inside him to gain more power. Nice bit of storytelling without actually stating it outright, i think.

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After testing on omens it seems to not affect weapon art ashes of war. At least not the passive holy/ fire/ or magic damage only the ash of war itself the actual (L2). Not worth it unless you spam your ash of war.

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Did they stealth nerf this to make it lower your FP?

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In my play through of 300+ hours and still haven’t gone through the end the first time because I’m trying to be thorough, the order of locations in which Alexander appears varies.
I never saw him in Limgrave, my first encounter with him was talking to him after Radahn when he was picking up new insidey parts for himself.
Then Mt Gelmir in the magma pit.
The last time I saw him was when he was a summon for the Fire Giant.

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Fix your janky a** site!!! It’s nearly impossible to post a comment on any browser I try on my iPhone and laptop. I type it out, go through the glitchy captcha and after submitting it shows “warning your comment could not be posted” after clearing all I typed.

99.999% of the time it does this. This is a wiki site where players come for info/help but you can’t comment to answer questions for the most part. I know I can’t be the only one either.

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put this on a stick and turn it into a spear pls FromSoft.

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this does not affect sorceries, right?

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this does not affect sorceries, right?

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Perfect for increasing the damage of my corpse piler. Bleed procs really fast anyway, so it's no big deal the status effect Isn't increased.

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honestly wouldn't complain if they replaced moon of nokstella with this in the legendary talismans list

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I guess my replys taking forever. Anyway, just wanted to rate this message the best message ever, thank you so much for the time and energy you put into this comment...I appreciate it so much you are the absolute best person ever🥲😘😘

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Not even sure how i got this talisman i barely did his quest
Free him from ground
Talked to him in 2-3 spots
And faught radahn with him

Thats pretty much it until his fight

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When you use seppuku and you stab yourself it is technically skill damage so does the damage increase? Notvtalking about the buff im talking about the damage to youself.

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Does this work with kick

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So Im curious. If a Jar stuffed down some flesh with Scarlet rot, would his inside start to rot? Will he get scarlet rot himself? Will he die if the insides gets consumed by rot?

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Replies on here take forever so i'm just gunna post this for anyone confused about this Talisman.

Shard of Alexander/Warrior Jar Shard ONLY increases damage being dealt directly from the skill itself (Skill=Ash of War; spells and incantations are NOT skills).

It DOES NOT improve the following effects coming from skills:
-Damage increasing buffs
-Status effect build up
-Any kind of debuff related effect
-Healing effects
-Enhanced R2 (heavy attacks) from Ashes of War like Warcry/Shriek of Milos

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Does this increase the infliction of status effects too?

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Does it work with unsheathe and skills that boost damage like lighting armament?

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It is a great talisman for sure. If he wasn't bugged for me...

Now I'll surely have to kill him to get at least the lesser version because FS did sh*t and I don't want to do a whole goddamn NG+ just for that.

I am really sorry Alex, blame FS, not me.

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Likely the red hair comes from Radahn as he is seen stuffing remains inside of himself after the fight so it is probable he got some of Radahn's remains too.

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I can confirm this does affect Bow’s Barrage skill

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Does this inly increase skills physical attacks damage or magic and faith skills counts? like sword of the night and flame? does that work?

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Haven't seen anyone ask this yet but does it buff damage of weapon arts that act as weapon buffs? (Example being Treespear and its Sacred Order weapon art that buffs the weapon with Holy)

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This talisman DOES NOT increase the damage of R2's that are changed by things like Shriek of Milos/Warcry/etc; seeing few comments spreading this wrong info. If you want to increase the R2 damage from those types of AoW's you need to use Roar Medallion or Axe Talisman (for this to work the R2 needs to be fully charged).

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MAKE SURE TO FULLY TALK WITH HIM AT THE FINAL LOCATION TO ACTIVATE THE FIGHT!
Rather than just attacking him early and not getting the Shard of Alexander, and wasting time doing the entire quest! Haha!!

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Can it stack with the regular jar shard?

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what does skills mean: ashes of war and things like that or does it include spells?

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Stack this with Roar medallion and equip Beast Roar to punish the pants off of casters

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Lol the waves of darkness skill while having Shard of Alexander, Godrey's icon, magic scorpion charm, with a scholar's armament weapon buff while standing in terra magica is the most hilarious thing i've come across so far in this game.

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Does this affect DMGS' charged R2 (with Weapon art active) ?

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aw man, should've continued his quest...

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Wait so the Description Implies that he Stuffed some of Radahns flesh into him. But that seems kinda stupid, since yknow his whole Deal is that he has been heavily infected with Scarlet Rot for a while. I feel like stuffing infected Remains into you is not the best Idea. Also how does it even work, did he only take his Head? Cause brother you aint fitting a 4 Story Tall Mountain of a Man inside you fam lmao

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Equipped in his honor. Also because This + Waterfowl Dance = lol

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Does this boost the power of roar related skills?

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