Death Knight Set | Elden Ring Wiki

If anyone is wondering, here is the full list of incantations it buffs (tested each one):

Lightning Spear, Knight's Lightning Spear, Lightning Strike, Honed Bolt, Ancient Dragons' Lightning Spear, Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike, Lansseax's Glaive, Fortissax's Lightning Spear, Frozen Lightning Spear, Death Lightning, Electrocharge (works on both the initial and DoT damage).

It does not have any affect on Electrify Armament or any of the Dragonbolt incants.

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If you want to do a pure Lightning caster build, this set pays less of a penalty for its damage bonus than Rakshasa's, and has much more defense than Dragon Priestess while being lower maintenance (don't have to maintain Priestess buff). You're still a little over 11% damage short of what Dragon Priestess can do, but without a lot of the risks associated with it.

The full set does not reach 51 poise though, so if you're planning on doing PvE, consider swapping a part.

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ts armor is so friggin tuff boi

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Use altered cleanrot armor and greaves, set head size as low as you can, and set the arms and chest as high as you can. Peak drip

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Dragon Cult enjoyers ate well with the DLC, huh?

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Welcome back DarkReaperLuigi

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Radahn's Greaves and Young Lion Greaves both get you past 51 poise and fit fairly well IMO. Radahn's gold matches the helmet better, Young Lion's matches the chest and gauntlets better. But you do have some red on the pants with Young Lion's.

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does this work with ICE lightning slash? From the katana

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The focus is low enough on this set to reliably proc Sleep from the Lulling Branch, unless you've jacked your mind stat incredibly high, with some additional buildup after the first proc. If you're trying to make a Sleep exultation build work I guess.

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This over Rakasha anyday. Lightning is based.

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It's stupid that this armor set doesn't boost death sorceries since they serve godwyn the prince of death.

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Swap legs for Malformed Dragon Greaves if you want to be over 51 poise w/o Bullgoat Talisman.

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Great set, visually pleasing. Only wish it actually hit 51 poise.

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wish this set can boost fai a bit, so it will not be completely replaced by 2%all damage set and will not be more powerful than heart either. DLC didn't give any fai boosting equipment that gives mores than +1fai(meanwhile str, dex...). It's still a cool set and the bonus is not useless, just wish it could be a little bit more unique in terms of special function.

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This set with the unaltered Banished Knight Helm gives 51 poise and looks pretty sweet to boot.

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Fashion!

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This should have been a bit stronger than rakshasa, ok that this has a bit more negations but still not worth it as rakshasa buffs ALL damage including regular hits. Dancer set at least is a bit stronger (10% full set).

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Thunderbolt go brrr

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Chest piece goes super hard with bandit mask for anyone doing a rogue type character

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this set is like Ensha if he wasn't a massive *****

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It's a shame we can't get a pre death of Godwyn version of this as in undamaged with the visor down and no skull

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Why tf doesn’t this boost the unique skill on the bolt of gransax

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"Each piece enhances skills and incantations of the ancient dragon cult by 2%, totaling at 8%"
>doesn't boost thundercloud form, THE ancient dragon skill...
Ok.

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The guy you pick it up from makes it look like a Bloodborne set. WHY DO YOU KEEP TEASING ME LIKE THIS FROM?

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The sound this armor set makes while running is really pleasant

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The sound this armor set makes while running is really pleasant

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Fromsoft, give me the ghost cape and my life is yours!

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radahn armor (not the cheese one) and the rest of this set = legendary drip + 6% lightning bonus + above 51 poise treshold. Shame that oathseeker knight helm dont match beacuse its mostly black, tree sentinel helmet match the gold color but its too big and the tree can't be removed.

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Only enhances skills but not incats? Useless crap

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I wish the cape looked like how it does when we fight the bosses :(

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Legendary drip

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It says it enhances the incantations too not just skills

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The cape part of the outfit has a very slight blue tint to it which makes it go very well with the wolf crest shield which is also gold with dark blue.

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If you want to reach the 51 poise threshold without disrupting the appearance too much, Lionel's set is a great option. Although the plated parts of the DK set are gold and Lionel's plate coloration is black, it still fits pretty will with the black chainmail.

Substituting the gauntlets alone gets you 51 poise exactly. Substituting the greaves alone gets you 58.

Radahn's set is another option that fits well. The greaves have a black leather and gold armor coloration that fits well, and substituting the greaves alone gets you 54 poise. The gauntlets alone are just short of the threshold though, reaching only 49.

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Does this boost Ice Lightning Sword ash of war?

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Magic users, 1) drink flask of cerulean hidden tear, magic shrouding cracked tear. 2) get in close as possible 3) start swinging adulas moonblade.

He'll get stunned and struggle to do anything. If he looks like he's going to do something, roll into the attack. For extra easiness summon black knife tiche or mimic with just adulas moonblade. You're welcome.

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This doesn’t boost lightning ram?

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I think Oathseeker Helm and Leda's Sword fits pretty well, but I'll let you (The visitor) determine if it's your thing or not

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Completely invalidates the priestess heart since you have poise and better damage resistance.

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They really love to make sure all the sick armour is just under 51, lmfao

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Doesnt work with dragon king's cragblade

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Would it kill Fromsoft to give medium sets like 5 more poise? I hate having to mix and match to hit 51. So many sets like this in the base game now DLC.

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Gave up 2% damage and swapped out the chest for radahns, good fashion, over 51 poise. Would recommend

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The helm looks good with radahns set

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godwyn's death lightning is on point with this. might also work well with the eclipse shotel, but a full deathblight build doesn't sit right with me

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The chest looks exactly like Galadriel’s armour in Rings of Power (chainmail adorned with eight-pointed stars). Considering that piece of crap was very well received in Japan there is an actual possibility Miyazaki watched and liked the show so much he decided to include this in the game. We are truly living in the worse possible timeline

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It reminds me a lot of the sunset armor from DS3 minus the helmet

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It enhances all lightning incants, but in the description specifies the "capital's ancient dragon cult" so I thought for sure that meant only the golden lighting spells and skills?

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Yet another unfortunate victim of Fromsoft gutting armorsets and giving players inferior versions. It would've been cool if it had the glowing spectral cape. But it doesnt.
Same way that Messmer set doesn't have the snakes. Look, I know it wouldn't make sense but it would be cool.

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Sadly was able to confirm that although the set boosts Frozen Lightning Spear, it does not boost the Ice Lightning weapon skills.

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I previously commented that Malformed Dragon Greaves match this reslly well and give 53 poise. I also realized that Lionel's Greaves also match really well (and look better imo) and they together with this set give 58 poise. I believe when reading the new poise changes in 1.12, someone said when using Great weapons (sword, curved sword etc.) that 58 was a recommended poise level regarding when hyperarmor is activated. Anyway, my personal favorite look at the moment with good defense and poise. That fashion looks wicked good covered in the blood of your enemies

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Fromsoft really said "No capes!" for this one, huh?

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just wear rakshasa chest for poise cap

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For true "if you can't handle me at my deadest, then you don't deserve me at my goldest" Godwyn enjoyers.

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anyone know if it boosts the regular thrown golden lightning bolt? im assuming so, but you can never be too sure

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Tree Sentinel Helm will get you to 52 poise and the hues of gold are close enough

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anyone know if it boosts the regular thrown golden lightning bolt? im assuming so, but you can never be too sure

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Tree Sentinel Helm will get you to 52 poise and the hues of gold are close enough

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Why can't anything be labeled and described specifically and correctly so we don't have ****ing guess. Is Lightning always Dragon Cult or isn't it? WHO knows=) Fromsoft either is too incompetent to just tell us, or they're trolling us and expect fans to do all the work for them AND then praise them for being vague and incompetent, hehe.

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Since the 3rd Dragonkin gives you a Dragoncult Incant: does this Armor also buff the Ice-Lightning Weapons?

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Welcome back Darkwraiths, now you can be Sunbros at the same time.

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In my testing this set boosted Lansseax's Glaive and Frozen Lightning Spear

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you use the death knight set for extra dragon cult incant damage, i use the death knight helmet for a better skull alternative to royal remains on my necromancer character, we are not the same

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For anyone wanting to hit PVE poise levels, Malformed Dragon Greaves match this set extremely well and give you 53 poise

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Easy fix, have it buff both death damage in general and dragon cult incants, heck this is a dlc item, let it be a bit busted

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Wonder how the Death Knight we loot this off of would've fought if he were a boss...

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Thankfully does NOT boost bolt of gransax

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Give us the damn cape. The alteration system has always been underused but it's criminal in SOTE (Rellana's ponytail, Death Knight Cape, etc)

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Lightning Strike - DMG Up
Lightning Spear - DMG Up
Honed Bolt - DMG Up
Electrify Armanent - No effect

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SKULL YEAH, BORTHER!

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The description of this set is exactly what miquella was doing with radhan lmao

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Easily the most metal looking armor set from the DLC

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Works the same way the Gravel Stone Seal does, it enhances all dragon cult incantations regardless of color.

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Did some digging in the params and found that these are the 5 Weapon Skills that get boosted by this set:
1. Lightning Slash
2. Thunderbolt
3. Blinkbolt
4. Blinkbolt: Twinaxe
5. Binkbolt: Long-hafted Axe

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This set was MADE for the mad pumpkin helm. At long last something that actually looks good with it. Matches it perfectly aesthetically as well as providing a solid defense.

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why does this boost dragon cult incants and not death magic

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Im reading that people have tested the bolt of gransax and the dragon kings cragblade, but has anyone tested the dragon halberd or dragonscale blade with the death knight armor?

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do the enhancements stack for each piece of armor equipped?

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drip

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For those who are confused: the set only augment dragon cult skills and incants from the capital, the golden lightning ones. So red lightning stuff like bolt of grannsax will not benefit from this set

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Neither Flowerstone Gavel or Bolt of Gransax get any boost from this set. Tested on the Pumpkin Head by Saintsbridge, and there was no difference whatsoever between with the armor and without.

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as of right now it does not boost Ancient Lightning Spear nor Thundercloud Form. tested with armor on and fully off and no change in damage occurred. tried with both fully charged and uncharged versions of the skills. it does boost all lightning incantations so far and specifically AoW that list the dragon cult.

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This does not boost dragon communion. It boosts the damage dealing incantations specifically labeled as "Dragon Cult Incantations" which are basically every lightning incantation, not just the red lightning ones. The weapon skills it boosts are also basically all the lightning ones like the ones on the Death Knight weapons, the Bolt of Gransax, Flowerstone Gavel, Dragon King's Craigblade and probably a few others. I doubt it works on all lightning skills like lightning ram though

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Can confirm that the flower dragonbolt aow from the flowerstone gavel does not get boosted

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ancient dragon cult = lightening incantations? Or DRAGON COMMUNION INCANTATIONS ?

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I feel like "Godwyn's personal guard" is the kind of thing you don't brag about given, you know, what happened to him.

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After some testing, it looks like the skills for both death knight weapons qualify as dragon cult skills for the purpose of this armor

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Great set, enhancements are nice bonuses too

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So what skills get boosted? For incantation i assume it's every red lightning incantation but skills I have no clue.

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God do I wish we got some more heavy armor sets in this dlc. All we got was Commander Gaius', but that doesn't even come with pants.

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wonder if it buffs dragon king cragblade

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I love this set, I just wish this wasn’t all we got for Godwyn lore. What do they mean by “cadaver surrogate”? What do they have to do with the Age of Duskborn? Do the knights not know where Godwyn’s real body to actually start the age is?

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Can confirm it does not boost bolt of gransax

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why cant i have their awesome flowing cape

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Ensha armor if it was cool and had actual interesting lore

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Description says this applies to skills as well, anyone know which ones get boosted?

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This set + oathkeeper helmet looks really good.

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Looks great AND gives great offensive bonuses? Yes please!

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Dammit why is all this cool knight armor so light!? It should be heavier tier but it’s lighter than Maliketh’s armor it’s no fair I want to use the knight armor but you lose so much defense

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Drip that improves Dragon Cult incantations? Love it to death.

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