Blade of Death | Elden Ring Wiki

Blade of Death is a Skill in Elden Ring. Blade of Death is a Unique skill for the Black Knife. It shares an animation with Blade of Gold, the unique skill for the Blade of Calling. It allows the user to fire a projectile and apply a powerful DOT effect. This also has a unique feature that reduces enemy max HP for a limited time. Updated to Patch 1.13.2.

How to get Blade of Death

• Default Skill for the Black Knife.

Elden Ring Blade of Death Guide, Notes & Tips

• This is a Unique Skill
• FP Cost: 25
• This Skill is not Chargeable
• This Skill cannot be Parried (the Destined Death projectile can be Parried with Carian Retaliation)
• Reduces enemy max HP by 10% for 45 seconds, and applies a percentage-based DOT effect for 5 seconds.
• Deals 10 stance damage.
• Damage type is Holy Damage and scales purely with Faith. Damage can be increased by Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear and Sacred Scorpion Charm, as well as other generic attack buffs like Golden Vow and Howl of Shabriri.
• The debuff stacks with the Black Blade incantation but not the Destined Death weapon skill.
• The range of Blade of Death is longer than Reduvia Blood Blade and equivalent to Sorceries and Incantations.
• Stealth attacks with Blade of Death will do additional damage.
• The burning effect from the Blade of Death weapon art, like status effects, will go through i-frames.
• Both this and the Blade of Gold have substantial hyper-armor once the player is in the air.
• Comparison to Blade of Gold: Blade of Gold values are represented first and in yellow, Blade of Death values are represented second and in red: FP Cost: 17/25, Poise damage (PVE/PVP): 180/100, 180/100, CC type: Knock back/Stagger, Total AR 421/430 (50 FTH), 443/446 (80 FTH), Holy Damage Motion Values: 145/180, Actual damage at 80 faith and Upgrade level +10: 1323/1150.
  • In short, Blade of Gold deals more damage that blade of Death at a cheaper FP cost, but Blade of Death applies a DoT and a debuff.
• Note: This Skill was changed with Patch 1.07 as follows: Effect duration that reduces maximum HP has been increased.
• See Buffs & Debuffs for more information on stacking debuffs.

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Elden Ring Builds that use Blade of Death

One of our builds uses Blade of Death as its skill: Black Knife Assassin Build (level 150, FAI/DEX).

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