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Very fun ash of war for invasion, feels nice to use against aow spammers

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Has this ash of war been fixed? It used to be that due to the final wave knocking back/staggering the enemy in such a way that the follow-up attack would always miss.

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Onix Lord's repulsion if it was good

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Pretty good against Malenia, staggers her easily

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It scaling off int made my low equip load sorcerer sad it only fit on giant, heavy weapons…
until i found out the description was lying to me and it also fits on heavy spears.

If my guy can carry a death poker for when he wants the game to practically win itself (that flexible, ultra-powerful frost-inflicting Ignition skill, man!), he can scrounge an extra half pound for the Lance!

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Best aow for dungeons. Too many mosquitoes to bonk at once? Slam your big ass weapon into the ground and create 3 space bending shockwaves. 10/10

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It looks cool and it works great for both pvp and pve. 10/10

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The Ganker Spanker

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Default weapon skill for the Zweihander

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underrated l2 all around, 3 magic damage pulses with a delayed 3rd wave + follow up swing that makes space for you/catches greedy players off guard that staggers most pve enemies and bosses with just 2-3 uses on top of looking cool as **** and not just being stuck on some uninfusable boss weapon is no joke

btw this thing destroys doggy step babies so get to practicing if you need a hard counter

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By the way, using this AoW with Cold Great Stars did proc Frotsbite. I also shortly got a Bleed proc with a basic attack after doing so so it also should build up Bleed.

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Can anyone tell me if the waves carry procs from weapon buffs like Frozen Armament or Bloodflame Blade?

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cold zweihander + this is just *cheffs kiss* in pvp. this allows me to poise through basically everything that they throw at me as i slam down my zwei to instantly deal 1/2 of their health, not to mention the 3 waves (which extend into the air) and swing, that ALSO deal 153 frostbite per hit (ty zweihander).

tldr: i use this you die

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Can someone tell me what the time between pulses is? I want to make sure it is fast enough to keep the winged sword insignia and millicents Prosthesis boost.

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What's the poise damage on every part of it? (Initial spam, shockwaves, follow-up)

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Is Cold or Heavy better for a pure str build?

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Did some testing on the Waves of Darkness Ash of War on my Longhaft Axe, it offered me quite the insight on scaling.

My stats:
Strength 56
Int 29

Here is the damage for ONE wave of darkness:

Heavy affinity 384
Cold affinity 416
Magic affinity 432

So, first observation is that cold and magic affinities give it more damage. What about scaling? For this I put on the stargazer talisman for + 5 int. Results:

Heavy 396
Cold 429
Magic 448

For all three, +5 increases damage by .97%, across the board!
This is HUGE discovery, it means scaling damage on the ash does not change via affinity, merely base damage of it changes and scaling is the same.

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This is absolutely devastating against 1v1 bosses if you follow up with this after knocking them to the ground, the time it takes to use is basically the same it takes your opponent to get back up.

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Weird interaction with Pickaxe. Does an additional hit on the enemy you're hugging in front of you. Was able to replicate this with rotten hammer but not consistent. Also has a weird interaction with status effects. The waves alone seem to not inflict any status as just hitting the enemy with the wave several times never proc frostbite but hitting with the weapon part will cause build up. The weird part is I sometimes inflict frostbite in 1 cast(no follow up R2) against Omens. There's probably weapon detection during the wave pulse where if your weapon is intersecting with the enemy's body, it will inflict additional build up. The Pickaxe has the pointy end that extends farther than other weapons. Haven't tried other weapons with big "heads".

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Most likely scales with int

At 10 int, 56 Str, +18 two handed hitting with the weapon too on Omen:
Heavy: 1408
Cold: 1489
Magic: 1479

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Decent pvp move to tell someone get out of my face and if they persist and try to power through it you can hit them with the follow up heavy to punish them good

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This has quickly become my go to AoW, I have it on a +25 crescent moon axe. I have another + 25 CMA and they do nice damage. I used WoD earlier while powerstancing both. The heavy follow up sweeping attack looked like both axes held together that was doing the follow up. Is that correct AND does that mean the follow up heavy does damage from both axes?

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The waves off of this skill will proc the healing from Great Stars and Butchering Knife for each enemy hit. Great for bursting enemies while tanking damage.

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Do the waves take on elements? Rage Gaming did a bleed build with it and said the waves will do bleed if you use bloodflame blade on it. I know not all ashes of war can do that. Storm Blade sure doesn't so why would this one?

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What does the wave damage scale with? Weapon AR, Int, other?

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I see comments saying the follow up sweeping attack has been patched and sorted out but if it has been fixed I'm still not able to land the follow up and it seems like a fundamental problem in how the AoW works. I'm hoping for some feedback from anyone who has been using it for a while on the window I have to trigger that sweeping attack. I cast it and I'm in the centre of the circle of waves as they slam down and every time I try the follow up the axe swing is inside the radius of the waves as they hit and I have never seen the axe connect with any enemy up to now, and it isn't me not paying attention, its on a cold axe so if it made contact I'd see the after effects of it. .
So is this a timing thing on my part that I'm getting wrong? is it possible to trigger the follow up swing between the second and third delayed impact?

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Which infusion this works better? Just magic?

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I regret not picking this. Screw bastard’s stars

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want to shred bosses? cold rotten axe with this ash of war and buffed by shard of alexander, golden vow, flame GMS, and magic physick.

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as of patch 1.05 this is fixed now the follow up swing now registers. now go slap in rotten axe with cold affinity for scarlet rot and frost which so deadly. the waves itself can proc the statuses.

it slaps pvp. the last wave catches people of guard. in pve, use the weapon and set up above. also you must have atleast 70 poise advisable 100 poise so you dont get staggered easily.

one of the best ashes of war out there.

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Waves of Darkness is fixed boys.

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Got buffed, let's see how good it is in pvp!

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this or hoarah loux? i mainly play dex build on my invasions so i’m wondering if it’s time to switch to strength to try out the heavy STR weapons or can you guys suggest a dex weapon that’s good with this AoW

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Does this work with shard of alexander?

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The follow up swing is bugged I think, doesn’t hit anything. It’ doesn’t activate another wave so it’s pointless to use. Still a great ash of war, love it on my Prelate Crozier.

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Is it toxic to use this in pvp?

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Ignore the comments. I held off on this for a long time because of the comments, but it works fine and does a ton of damage. Its like earthshaker, but youre only committed to the first half.

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Has it been fixed now?

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This, Gravitas and Nebula on a staff would have added some dynamism to staff combat aside from the usual point-and-shoot.

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The follow up doesn't hit at all, ONLY THE WEAPON SWING tho, the third shockwave does hit, it's really god damage despite that issue, around 3k with high 60/60 str/int

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Anyone know if this can be put on something like a caestus or is it reserved strictly for larger weapons?

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A nice low FP PvP group punisher. The delay on the third Shockwave catches a lot of people off guard as they roll into try and trade.

I've had success clearing small ro medium size rooms.

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Does this scale with any attributes?

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After the update, it seems to still have no hitbox on the follow up, shame

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This would be uber badass if the follow up hit actually had a hit box. The initial stab into the ground plus the 3 waves of damage plus the follow up 360 hit could result in a 5 hit combo.

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testing this on the Zweihander, the "follow up strong attack" has no hitbox, shame because other than that its an ok weapon art that gives poise when casting

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This is one of the reward choices for turning in "Remembrance of the Naturalborn" which you get from Astel, Naturalborn of the Void. She is the final boss in the Outer Cloister area at the end of Ainsel River underground region.

The other choice for the remembrance is Bastard's Stars flail.

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