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Destined Death is a Skill in Elden Ring. Destined Death allows the user to create a myriad of ethereal blade attacks to deal damage and inflicts a penalizing debuff onto enemies. Updated to Patch 1.07.

How to get Destined Death in Elden Ring

Elden Ring Destined Death Guide

  • This is a Unique Skill
  • FP Cost: 40
  • This Skill is not Chargeable
  • This Skill cannot be Parried
    • This Skill can be Parried if performed with no Focus
  • When triggered, the weapon art causes the user to do a right-to-left horizontal slash (hitbox 1), after which the blade is stabbed into the ground (hitbox 2), which then releases the blade vortex after a brief delay (hitbox 3).
  • Reduces enemy max HP by 10% for 45 seconds.
  • Deals 17 stance damage.
  • Saps enemy HP by 2% + 20 HP.
  • Damage scales with weapon AR and deals split physical and holy damage. The amount of physical and holy damage depends on stat investment, with Faith increasing Holy damage and Strength and Dexterity increasing physical damage.
  • The debuff stacks with the Black Blade incantation but not the Blade of Death weapon skill.
    See Buffs and Debuffs for more information on stacking debuffs.
  • Destined Death does trigger Winged Sword Insignia, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis and Thorny Cracked Tear.

Note: This Skill was changed with Patch 1.07 as follows:

  • Motion speed has been increased.
  • Duration of the effect that reduces maximum HP has been extended.

Elden Ring Destined Death Notes & Tips

  • Updated to patch 1.07. See Patch Notes for details.
  • Formerly called Destined Death Unbound in the 1.00 version.

Elden Ring Builds that use Destined Death

One of our builds uses Destined Death as its skill: Black Blade Build (level 150-200, FAI/STR).


Alabaster Lord's Pull Ancient Lightning Spear Angel's Wings Aspects of the Crucible: Wings Assassin's Gambit Barbaric Roar Barrage Barricade Shield Bear Witness! Beast's roar Black Flame Tornado Blade of Death Blade of Gold Blind Spot Blindfold of Happiness Blinkbolt Blinkbolt: Long-hafted Axe Blinkbolt: Twinaxe Blood Blade Blood Tax Bloodblade Dance Bloodboon Ritual Bloodfiends' Bloodboon Bloodhound's Finesse Bloodhound's Step Bloody Slash Braggart's Roar Bubble Shower Buckler Parry Carian Grandeur Carian Greatsword Skill Carian Retaliation (Skill) Carian Sovereignty Causality's Wrath Charge Forth Chilling Mist Claw Flick Contagious Fury Corpse Piler Corpse Wax Cutter Cragblade Cursed-Blood Slice Darkness (Skill) Deadly Dance Deadly Poison Spray Death Flare Destined Death Determination Devonia's Vortex Devourer of Worlds Discus Hurl Divine Beast Frost Stomp Double Slash Dragonform Flame Dragonwound Slash Dryleaf Whirlwind Dynast's Finesse Dynastic Sickleplay Earthshaker Enchanted Shot Endure Eochaid's Dancing Blade Erdtree Slam Eruption Establish Order Euporia Vortex Familial Rancor Fan Shot Feeble Lord's Frenzied Flame Firebreather Fires of Slumber Flame Dance Flame of the Redmanes Flame Skewer Flame Spear Flame Spit Flaming Strike Flare, O Serpent Flower Dragonbolt Flowing Form Flowing Form (Nox Flowing Hammer) Frenzyflame Thrust Ghostflame Call Giant Hunt Glintblade Phalanx (Skill) Glintstone Dart Glintstone Pebble Skill Gold Breaker Golden Crux Golden Land Golden Parry Golden Retaliation Golden Slam Golden Tempering Golden Vow Gravitas Gravity Bolt Great Oracular Bubble Skill Great-Serpent Hunt Ground Slam
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