@@Bennieboy918 Was it? IIRC in DS3 it was named Stomp and while they all had the exact same name, they only had a strong attack follow up that was different depending on the weapon, with the description denoting which variant you’d be using.
Fire ashes are good for Heavy infusing too since they also scale with Strength, I believe. Easily confused with "Flame Art" ashes, which I think are actually Faith scaling.
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Hmm, for me it seems one of the most useless :d It gives no poise, is not a gap closer. So you gotta start swinging away from enemy and just try to time it that the finisher hits. OK, in some rare occasions you might get a window to stack those swings on some slower boss, but it's just too rare imho.
@@mittag6326 Wild Strikes is definitely a "co-op ash of war". I use the talisman that pulls enemy aggro with my greatshield/bloodhound step, while my homie uses Wild Strikes with an Arcane Bleed/Rot build (works like a charm against any boss)
@@mittag6326 idk about bosses, it's great vs groups of enemys infront of you they just get staggered to death. Ive held off army's of soldiers and dogs just using it. Can also be a alternative to crit strikes vs bosses with enough time for a few swings and a follow up heavy. Just a though but definitly great for its hyper armor. I've even made Melania my bitch with it 😂 wrecks any humanoid enemy type
Thanks for clearing up some questions I had about Ash of War scaling. I wasn't sure how the damage scaled if I chose an Ash with Heavy Affinity, and switched it to Keen, for instance. It helps to know that any given ash skill will scale better with it's natural affinity applied.
The real shame is how most of the damn Colossal Swords have same movesets.. I'd love to have a DragonBone Smasher moveset from DemonSouls, especially the quick running attack it had. Give Colossal Swords the Stagger power and damage they deserve plz FromSoft.
@@TheMlack Idk i think the colossal swords are in a decent place, beetween Giant Hunt and the crouchpoke they are really good in PvP, the rest of the colossal weapons could use some love though, I agree. The only time I ever see them in PvP is someone trying a jump attack one-shot build with the giant hammers and it's the easiest thing to avoid ever. I can count on one hand the number of times i've seen anyone using any of the other colossals, they are just kinda bad...
@@StarfuryB5 While the poke is pretty alright, a weapon class should have more than 1 viable attack. Not only are R1s and R2s a death sentence in pvp, they're also very risky to do versus end game bosses. All colossals definitely need a buff to their moveset in terms of speed or/and recovery
@@oinkayaya The last time I remember From Soft touching up heavy weapons was when they removed the golf-swing in DkS 2. I'm not praying for improvements, the crouch-poke was the best it'll ever get.
Tip regarding kick: unarmed (not having an item in your equipment slot) has kick as the AoW. So if you just use ONE Item in your right hand, you can switch to unarmed, kick a shield and go back using your weapon.
There’s Giant Hunt also it takes 16fp but does a stamp then a short run forward followed by in upwards strike that can send enemies into the air, does huge damage
My go to skill for bleed weapons like uchigatana is the double slash: "First use in a sequence performs two attacks. Second use in a sequence performs 3 attacks. Use it with heavy weapons for big damage output in short amount of time." very fluid 2 or 2+3 attack in a row, little gap close, good dmg, 100% bleed, frost, poison buildup, for status effect weapons its perfect
It know this is for meelee weapon heavy ashes only, but I higly recommend trying out the Shield Bash and Shield Crash ashes on a shield + onne hand setup if you are playing pure STR. I've been playing around with the Nightrider Glaive (and a few other weapons) and the Eclipse Crest Greatshield (and the medium version too, way less telegraphing on the shield bash) and it's great both for PvE and PvP. I haven't seen to many players using them and it shows, most opponents have no idea how to handle them, and the 50 bonus robustness helps a lot against bleed and frostbite.
Lions claw is fantastic for damage but it's tracking is very hit or miss. I've had invasions where I auto track and destroy but also plenty of PvE encounters with fairy large enemies like giants and dragons where you can waste an entire FP bar whiffing.
agreed. the poise damage feels crazy enough to justify that bad side tracking, but some of those giant enemy movements where they move around a lot or rear back always make it tough
Warcry, Barbaric Roar, and Braggarts Roar stack with Highland Axe, Spiked Cracked tear, Axe and Roar talismans. I use it on fists because I am growing tired of bleed builds. Very underrated Ashes. You skipped this interaction for Highland Axe rating too.
flame of the redmanes really should be here considering how well it scales with strength and the poise damage it can do on a heavy weapon. I love how versatile ashes can be.
@@visceraeyes525 that's the reason why it does good damage on Heavy weapons. When you're STR/FTH and use it with Flame Art, the fire damage itself is underwhelming, and if you don't lock on a target then it has pitiful range. I don't think it is bugged in any way, I just look at it as the ER equivalent of a taser or pepper spray lmao, because that's basically how you and the Redmane Knights themselves use it
Stamp Sweep is pretty good in gank situations depending on your weapon of choice. Mostly the Greaysword though due to it's large range and damage. You can catch multiple players with both hits with the Ash and even ko low vigor players.
I remember on my second play through I thought that I want to try out flails. I tried night cavalry one and sadly when there is “vanilla” scailings sucks and you can’t preserve native weapon art so you look for something new to attach to it. And what I found out - wild strikes (I believe plenty of people told you that perservance of it consumes only 2 fp per hit and you can finish it with heavy/light attack for 10/15 fp) are pretty good for flails. Oh and 2 more things - it’s actually NO SENSE to make your weapon that already have status effects go deeper into that status. For example you have bleed (50) sword and a regular one. If you leave it as is or make any different ashes i remains 50. If you go blood you get 110. And if you go occult you get 85 for example. But with the regular sword you go bleed you will still get those 110 bleed build up status effects so it’s no point in doing that with a native bleed. Instead go for occult may be and get some better skailings if you’re deep in arcane or go heavy/keen and apply lube. And lastly - I tried night cavalry occult wild strikes on malenia with a potion to boost stagger damage on strikes and boost my poise/or get dmg buff with consecutive strikes, I don’t remember… and it’s literally raping. The only way for you to die is loon when she gets ready for that waterfowl attack and exit immediately and since you’re always so close you may want to keep some dagger with a blood hound dash to inv first strike and then easily dodge the others (just roll behind her back, it’s pretty safe here). Thanks for your reviews!
I've found endure to be really useful for spellcasters, because it can cover the cast time for a lot of spells. For example my sorcery character can use it to safely cast moonblade, carian piercer, gavel of haima, and more. It's unfortunately to short to cover the cast time of zamor ice storm though, so that spell is still shit tier, lol. It wouldn't even surprise me if PvP casters eventually found combos where endure was really useful.
Been poise casting for some time now, pretty clutch move for AoE or quick area heals/denial as needed. Soaks up one big hit typically, but doesn't get you out of more than a second or two of trouble and you will lose chunks of HP but you will get most quick spells away.
Best part of Horah Loux's Earthshaker has to be its ability ti low-profile attacks. Just being able to duck under stuff and stagger everything around you is amazing. This is hilarious in combination to its hyper armor. Pair that up with Ironjar, poise boost and crimsonwhirl physick, and you have a recipe for silly screamo kills in PvP.
@@Juggs009 you would be surprised how often people just default to attacking invaders, or vice versa. It's like PvP turns off something in people's heads, especially in gank squads lol It's really funny to just see people attack you with rivers of blood, only to get grabbed with inescapable frenzy or something lol
Thank you again and again for your great work! For once I have the same preference as you. Lion's claw definitely especially on great hammers. It's so funny to easily poise huge ennemies with it.
Small mistake with the wild strikes AOW, the follow-ups are also 2 FP each. But you can end it with a light attack (10 FP) or a heavy (15 FP). Great video ☺️
Good ranking. I wouldn't put Lion's Claw in first just because it's very hard to use against mobile enemies like assassins, Malenia, NPCs - it becomes a dice roll, whether you hit the enemy or not, and when you are on the losing side it's extremely punishing because of long recover animation.
@@ryanmccalmont5651 I think at least both Upward cut and Earthshaker are better. The first one can chain-launch humanoid enemies, including Malenia, and does huge poise dmg otherwise, the second one is just a very good, universal ability both for single target and CC.
I was using Lion's Claw but it started to annoy me that it misses so much, so I swap it for ground slam. Only problem with ground slam is that casting is bit slow but it hits very good.
In my opinion war cry is better than barbaric roar, cause barbaric roar attacks are more stationary and don't have hyper armour, so it can be interrupted. War cry attacks you can start charging from out of reach, and as soon it connects it staggers the enemy, so easier to fully land.
@@squishywashere__7070 that's a complex question for almost any weapon :d You need to answer the question what do you need. Do you want some extra damage buff, do you want some ranged attack, some long reach attack? Big weapons don't have good dps. This is not their point. Point is they stagger enemies. So once you hit, enemy is staggered, and you can keep enemy stunned until you run out of stamina. So what do you need? You need to get this first hit easily and not get staggered yourself. So I'd recommend something like stamp(uppercut), endure, storm(quick stun around you) stomp, lion claw (one of the best ashes)
learning so much on every video, did not know the affinity rule about this skills hitting harder when on Heavy.... no favorite build on the aow reviews?
troll's roar is underrated. it isn't the best in pve, but in pvp it's faster and less punishable than lion's claw and hoarah loux and has great damage output. the follow up is crap so it certainly doesn't replace or top them, but i think it deserves a higher spot
Put Lion's Claw on a Great Hammer. Those crystalline enemies don't stand a chance. I put it on Great Stars and suddenly fighting them was alot more enjoyable.
I tried Chargblade on Greatsword to defeat the Bell bearing hunter at capital outskirts and the stance damage is definetly noticeable, I staggered him 3 times
I also absolutely love my claymore and would like to know which ash of war u think is the best for the claymore build I personally live wild strike cause it consumes very little fp and it recently got a really good damage buff and during the animation u can't be staggered
All of your videos have been super informative! I wanted to know your opinion of something like Flame of the Redamanes on Misericorde, i also thought Flame of the Redmanes was a strength scaling Ash of war but I could be wrong
It scales with strength but poise damage doesn't scale, so that doesn't matter for anything other than the raw fire damage. If you're using it on Misericorde or another weapon to pair with the Misericorde, you could literally stick it on a whip and be fine. Also, Royal Knights Resolve on Misericorde adds an absurd amount of damage, so it's good to have. Redmanes on literally any weapon, RKR Misericorde offhand, swap quickly on the stagger or prebuff the misericorde.
definitely not a STR based ash of war, but waves of darkness is brilliant for colossal sword users. AOE, hits 3 times, massive stagger damage and the third hit itself is staggered, so you will be able to attack at the same time as the third hit. plus you can get it pretty mid game, after beating Astel
Wait ash of wars do more damage if they are paired with same infusions? So does something like lion claw deal more damage as a heavy infused than it does as a keen infused assuming your weapon's AR is the same?
If the ash of war hits with the weapon directly than it scales of weapon AR but if the ash of war doesn’t than it will scale of whether it’s infused with the nautical affinity, weapon level and stat of that natural affinity.
@@youwy Thanks man. So I guess this means that something like Thunderbolt will do more damage on a keen infusion or Flame of the Redmanes on a heavy infusion, assuming you use the same weapon and change only its infusions
agreed, I've been playing shield + nightrider glaive for a week now and noone has any idea how to play against it it seems. put it on the eclipse crest shield (or greatshield) for the 50 bleed and frostbite resist and go to town on the katana bros all day. it has stagger, defense and even good damage, what's not to like? Shield crash is good too but a bit risky, the wind up leaves you vulnerable and if you miss you still do the bash at the end wich is a free backstab basically. I wouldn't recommend in invasions but it's nice for duels.
Awesome video. Quick questions. do any of the L2 follow ups on Ashes of war actually counts as a Charged Attacks? does it stack with Axe Talisman? or the Talisman onlt applies to non Ash of war L2 charged attacks? Thanks a lot Youwy and peeps
Kinda, depends on the Ash. For example the Axe Talisman works on War Cry for both of the new R2 attacks you get while it's up (the running downward slash and the upward slash follow up). You can also stack the Axe Talisman, Roar Talisman, and the Charge increase from the Flask buff which lasts for 3 minutes. So the 2 Talismans and Flask buff together end up giving you crazy damage on your Warcry R2s and if you have a decent amount of poise even your trades will end up destroying enemies. As for Ashes that have follow up L2 attacks i assume it would work on similarly if they're chargeable attacks.
I just wish ashes of war didn't have goofy animations on powerstanced weapons. Trying to find one that fits my dual butchering knife build it always seems to default to two handing the right one for the ash of war animation. And small as that it it's visually off-putting to me.
This game is horrible at explaining things. I really want to love this game having beat sekiro 3 times with no guides or the dlc arts. Exploring is one thing but this game would benefit with how fighting games have stats you can view including with armor during training in real time. I know I'd give myself a day or two of training on a training dummy just to read data of what is going on with this game lol.
This guy did absolutely zero research for this video. All he had to do was read the ash of war descriptions and go to the fextralife wiki. Yeah it's just some gravel on the Cragblade and it does probably 5 to 10 percent more damage. That's so vague!
Really wish both versions of Stamp were just one ability. L2 to go into the stamp, R1 for the sweep and R2 for the upward strike.
That would be so wicked oh my god
@@stockingsstuffer6302 it was always like that elden ring changed it
@@Bennieboy918 no, stamp sweep was exclusive to executionner greatsword and the greatsword ugs
That would be amazing dude
@@Bennieboy918 Was it? IIRC in DS3 it was named Stomp and while they all had the exact same name, they only had a strong attack follow up that was different depending on the weapon, with the description denoting which variant you’d be using.
Fire ashes are good for Heavy infusing too since they also scale with Strength, I believe. Easily confused with "Flame Art" ashes, which I think are actually Faith scaling.
There is "Fire" and "Flaming" scaling , fire scales more with Streight , Flaming with Faith i belive
flame art is faith, you are correct.
Every time you post a video I learn something helpful and awesome. These take a lot of time I’m sure but I appreciate each minute of the videos. I watch each beginning to end. Thanks!
That was an awesome tip on Endure, I have never thought of using it to quickly drink your flask and replenish hp. Thanks for the tip!
endure is my favourite ash on a caster build for the same reason. nobody expects you to win trades with catch flame or carian slicer.
Wild Strikes is by far one of the best ashes of war. Especially on the Flamberge like you showed.
Hmm, for me it seems one of the most useless :d
It gives no poise, is not a gap closer. So you gotta start swinging away from enemy and just try to time it that the finisher hits.
OK, in some rare occasions you might get a window to stack those swings on some slower boss, but it's just too rare imho.
@@mittag6326 Wild Strikes is definitely a "co-op ash of war". I use the talisman that pulls enemy aggro with my greatshield/bloodhound step, while my homie uses Wild Strikes with an Arcane Bleed/Rot build (works like a charm against any boss)
@@mittag6326 idk about bosses, it's great vs groups of enemys infront of you they just get staggered to death. Ive held off army's of soldiers and dogs just using it. Can also be a alternative to crit strikes vs bosses with enough time for a few swings and a follow up heavy. Just a though but definitly great for its hyper armor. I've even made Melania my bitch with it 😂 wrecks any humanoid enemy type
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Thanks for clearing up some questions I had about Ash of War scaling. I wasn't sure how the damage scaled if I chose an Ash with Heavy Affinity, and switched it to Keen, for instance. It helps to know that any given ash skill will scale better with it's natural affinity applied.
Bro you’re an inspiration man! Great video, I’m doing a strength build and this will help a lot :)
The real shame is how most of the damn Colossal Swords have same movesets..
I'd love to have a DragonBone Smasher moveset from DemonSouls, especially the quick running attack it had. Give Colossal Swords the Stagger power and damage they deserve plz FromSoft.
Colossals all around need some sort of buff.
@@TheMlack Idk i think the colossal swords are in a decent place, beetween Giant Hunt and the crouchpoke they are really good in PvP, the rest of the colossal weapons could use some love though, I agree. The only time I ever see them in PvP is someone trying a jump attack one-shot build with the giant hammers and it's the easiest thing to avoid ever. I can count on one hand the number of times i've seen anyone using any of the other colossals, they are just kinda bad...
@@StarfuryB5 While the poke is pretty alright, a weapon class should have more than 1 viable attack. Not only are R1s and R2s a death sentence in pvp, they're also very risky to do versus end game bosses. All colossals definitely need a buff to their moveset in terms of speed or/and recovery
@@oinkayaya The last time I remember From Soft touching up heavy weapons was when they removed the golf-swing in DkS 2. I'm not praying for improvements, the crouch-poke was the best it'll ever get.
My dude, From has just buff all Colossal Weapons speed. Rejoice!
Tip regarding kick: unarmed (not having an item in your equipment slot) has kick as the AoW. So if you just use ONE Item in your right hand, you can switch to unarmed, kick a shield and go back using your weapon.
Ty, I will probably try that later.
I can't believe they literally imported the move guts used against Grunbeld (Lions claw)
There’s Giant Hunt also it takes 16fp but does a stamp then a short run forward followed by in upwards strike that can send enemies into the air, does huge damage
It’s a quality ash of war.
You are growing fast my friend keep grinding
My go to skill for bleed weapons like uchigatana is the double slash: "First use in a sequence performs two attacks. Second use in a sequence performs 3 attacks. Use it with heavy weapons for big damage output in short amount of time." very fluid 2 or 2+3 attack in a row, little gap close, good dmg, 100% bleed, frost, poison buildup, for status effect weapons its perfect
How original. It s strength ash of wars, not OMG OP ASHES OF WAR YOU SHOULD TRY.
Flame of the redmanes and prelate's charge are also good on heavy build, love the video btw!
It know this is for meelee weapon heavy ashes only, but I higly recommend trying out the Shield Bash and Shield Crash ashes on a shield + onne hand setup if you are playing pure STR. I've been playing around with the Nightrider Glaive (and a few other weapons) and the Eclipse Crest Greatshield (and the medium version too, way less telegraphing on the shield bash) and it's great both for PvE and PvP. I haven't seen to many players using them and it shows, most opponents have no idea how to handle them, and the 50 bonus robustness helps a lot against bleed and frostbite.
Interesting because I could have both weapon + shield skill, and shield skill will be one in use.
Barbaric Roar with a Colossal weapon and Roar Medallion is a jolly good time
Lions claw is fantastic for damage but it's tracking is very hit or miss. I've had invasions where I auto track and destroy but also plenty of PvE encounters with fairy large enemies like giants and dragons where you can waste an entire FP bar whiffing.
agreed. the poise damage feels crazy enough to justify that bad side tracking, but some of those giant enemy movements where they move around a lot or rear back always make it tough
It needs to have this slight drawback IMO as otherwise this move is just incredible
Warcry, Barbaric Roar, and Braggarts Roar stack with Highland Axe, Spiked Cracked tear, Axe and Roar talismans. I use it on fists because I am growing tired of bleed builds. Very underrated Ashes.
You skipped this interaction for Highland Axe rating too.
flame of the redmanes really should be here considering how well it scales with strength and the poise damage it can do on a heavy weapon. I love how versatile ashes can be.
It does the ridiculous poise damage on any weapon and any build. Redmanes is so strong it might actually be bugged.
@@FelisImpurrator yeah but fire scales with strength
@@visceraeyes525 that's the reason why it does good damage on Heavy weapons. When you're STR/FTH and use it with Flame Art, the fire damage itself is underwhelming, and if you don't lock on a target then it has pitiful range. I don't think it is bugged in any way, I just look at it as the ER equivalent of a taser or pepper spray lmao, because that's basically how you and the Redmane Knights themselves use it
I always shout "Senton Bomb/Drop!" when I do the Ground Slam lol
Stamp Sweep is pretty good in gank situations depending on your weapon of choice. Mostly the Greaysword though due to it's large range and damage. You can catch multiple players with both hits with the Ash and even ko low vigor players.
I remember on my second play through I thought that I want to try out flails. I tried night cavalry one and sadly when there is “vanilla” scailings sucks and you can’t preserve native weapon art so you look for something new to attach to it. And what I found out - wild strikes (I believe plenty of people told you that perservance of it consumes only 2 fp per hit and you can finish it with heavy/light attack for 10/15 fp) are pretty good for flails.
Oh and 2 more things - it’s actually NO SENSE to make your weapon that already have status effects go deeper into that status. For example you have bleed (50) sword and a regular one.
If you leave it as is or make any different ashes i remains 50. If you go blood you get 110. And if you go occult you get 85 for example.
But with the regular sword you go bleed you will still get those 110 bleed build up status effects so it’s no point in doing that with a native bleed. Instead go for occult may be and get some better skailings if you’re deep in arcane or go heavy/keen and apply lube.
And lastly - I tried night cavalry occult wild strikes on malenia with a potion to boost stagger damage on strikes and boost my poise/or get dmg buff with consecutive strikes, I don’t remember… and it’s literally raping. The only way for you to die is loon when she gets ready for that waterfowl attack and exit immediately and since you’re always so close you may want to keep some dagger with a blood hound dash to inv first strike and then easily dodge the others (just roll behind her back, it’s pretty safe here).
Thanks for your reviews!
I've found endure to be really useful for spellcasters, because it can cover the cast time for a lot of spells. For example my sorcery character can use it to safely cast moonblade, carian piercer, gavel of haima, and more. It's unfortunately to short to cover the cast time of zamor ice storm though, so that spell is still shit tier, lol.
It wouldn't even surprise me if PvP casters eventually found combos where endure was really useful.
Been poise casting for some time now, pretty clutch move for AoE or quick area heals/denial as needed.
Soaks up one big hit typically, but doesn't get you out of more than a second or two of trouble and you will lose chunks of HP but you will get most quick spells away.
I thought gavel of haima already had hyperarmor
@@Morbak546 It does now, but it didn't before patch 1.04.
10:01 i havent played any previous fromsoft games, but that attack is straight from guts in the berserker armor
Your guides are the best, appreceite it
Best part of Horah Loux's Earthshaker has to be its ability ti low-profile attacks. Just being able to duck under stuff and stagger everything around you is amazing. This is hilarious in combination to its hyper armor.
Pair that up with Ironjar, poise boost and crimsonwhirl physick, and you have a recipe for silly screamo kills in PvP.
Bro yes I’ve ducked over so many attacks especially boss ones
Wouldn't say ironjar. Can see that from a mile away and you can just casually walk away from someone using it. The rest is viable though.
@@Juggs009 you would be surprised how often people just default to attacking invaders, or vice versa. It's like PvP turns off something in people's heads, especially in gank squads lol
It's really funny to just see people attack you with rivers of blood, only to get grabbed with inescapable frenzy or something lol
Thank you again and again for your great work! For once I have the same preference as you. Lion's claw definitely especially on great hammers. It's so funny to easily poise huge ennemies with it.
This is mad how profound this game is; Pure madness
Love these in-depth videos! :D
Subscribed, great useful videos you've been putting out, massive thanks
Very useful video man, thanks a lot!👍👍
always interesting seeing how these old perspectives age. Cragblade being 9th on a list that only looks at strength aows? Brings a smile to my face :)
wild strikes + cold infusion + morning star = OP
a timely video, i was wondering last night what ash of war go pair with my great sword, thanks a lot.
Small mistake with the wild strikes AOW, the follow-ups are also 2 FP each. But you can end it with a light attack (10 FP) or a heavy (15 FP).
Great video ☺️
I am patiently waiting for your claws weapon review ^^
Good ranking. I wouldn't put Lion's Claw in first just because it's very hard to use against mobile enemies like assassins, Malenia, NPCs - it becomes a dice roll, whether you hit the enemy or not, and when you are on the losing side it's extremely punishing because of long recover animation.
What do you think is the best one?
@@ryanmccalmont5651 I think at least both Upward cut and Earthshaker are better. The first one can chain-launch humanoid enemies, including Malenia, and does huge poise dmg otherwise, the second one is just a very good, universal ability both for single target and CC.
I was using Lion's Claw but it started to annoy me that it misses so much, so I swap it for ground slam. Only problem with ground slam is that casting is bit slow but it hits very good.
thank you. awesome vid. subbed.
In my opinion war cry is better than barbaric roar, cause barbaric roar attacks are more stationary and don't have hyper armour, so it can be interrupted.
War cry attacks you can start charging from out of reach, and as soon it connects it staggers the enemy, so easier to fully land.
So i just started playing but I found the great axe what ash of war should I go look for
@@squishywashere__7070 that's a complex question for almost any weapon :d
You need to answer the question what do you need. Do you want some extra damage buff, do you want some ranged attack, some long reach attack?
Big weapons don't have good dps. This is not their point. Point is they stagger enemies. So once you hit, enemy is staggered, and you can keep enemy stunned until you run out of stamina.
So what do you need? You need to get this first hit easily and not get staggered yourself. So I'd recommend something like stamp(uppercut), endure, storm(quick stun around you) stomp, lion claw (one of the best ashes)
learning so much on every video, did not know the affinity rule about this skills hitting harder when on Heavy.... no favorite build on the aow reviews?
troll's roar is underrated. it isn't the best in pve, but in pvp it's faster and less punishable than lion's claw and hoarah loux and has great damage output. the follow up is crap so it certainly doesn't replace or top them, but i think it deserves a higher spot
Put Lion's Claw on a Great Hammer. Those crystalline enemies don't stand a chance. I put it on Great Stars and suddenly fighting them was alot more enjoyable.
Heavy attacks or jumping attacks will eventually do a lot of damage but heavy weapons just say fuck that and kick ass
Or use the golem halberd for insane range
Love your videos mate!
I tried Chargblade on Greatsword to defeat the Bell bearing hunter at capital outskirts and the stance damage is definetly noticeable, I staggered him 3 times
Great video as always. Just a correction, Wild Strikes cost is 2 FP per swing, and 10 FP if you use R1, 15 FP for R2.
If you find direct number ratings difficult for ashes you can use a tier list with multiple weapons in each category
Trolls Roar is better than the others. The roar has more range, does more damage, and the overhead swing when landed just puts them to bed.
I am using a strength dagger build. Loux's Earthshaker is the last thing people expect.
I also absolutely love my claymore and would like to know which ash of war u think is the best for the claymore build I personally live wild strike cause it consumes very little fp and it recently got a really good damage buff and during the animation u can't be staggered
All of your videos have been super informative! I wanted to know your opinion of something like Flame of the Redamanes on Misericorde, i also thought Flame of the Redmanes was a strength scaling Ash of war but I could be wrong
It’s fire affinity, it scales with strength but adds fire damage
It scales with strength but poise damage doesn't scale, so that doesn't matter for anything other than the raw fire damage. If you're using it on Misericorde or another weapon to pair with the Misericorde, you could literally stick it on a whip and be fine.
Also, Royal Knights Resolve on Misericorde adds an absurd amount of damage, so it's good to have. Redmanes on literally any weapon, RKR Misericorde offhand, swap quickly on the stagger or prebuff the misericorde.
After the buff lions claw is the definitive best strength ash of war. I use it with the Greatsword and it destroys
definitely not a STR based ash of war, but waves of darkness is brilliant for colossal sword users. AOE, hits 3 times, massive stagger damage and the third hit itself is staggered, so you will be able to attack at the same time as the third hit. plus you can get it pretty mid game, after beating Astel
Can u even put it on colossal swords? I don't think so
@@SpeakLouderAHHHH i believe it’s specifically for colossals
Wait ash of wars do more damage if they are paired with same infusions? So does something like lion claw deal more damage as a heavy infused than it does as a keen infused assuming your weapon's AR is the same?
If the ash of war hits with the weapon directly than it scales of weapon AR but if the ash of war doesn’t than it will scale of whether it’s infused with the nautical affinity, weapon level and stat of that natural affinity.
@@youwy Thanks man. So I guess this means that something like Thunderbolt will do more damage on a keen infusion or Flame of the Redmanes on a heavy infusion, assuming you use the same weapon and change only its infusions
@@Younghoon15 I hope you are correct, because this is the exact conclusion I also came to
holy shit this saved me sooooo much time
Rusty anchor works well with wild strikes 💪👍
Good stuff, thank you much
Greetings, Sorry to be one of those, Do you have any advice or rankings for shields or shield builds?
No shield bash. Crazy underrated ability really.
agreed, I've been playing shield + nightrider glaive for a week now and noone has any idea how to play against it it seems. put it on the eclipse crest shield (or greatshield) for the 50 bleed and frostbite resist and go to town on the katana bros all day. it has stagger, defense and even good damage, what's not to like? Shield crash is good too but a bit risky, the wind up leaves you vulnerable and if you miss you still do the bash at the end wich is a free backstab basically. I wouldn't recommend in invasions but it's nice for duels.
Thanks - answered a lot of questions. Leaves me with one, the CC says you're saying Hyperammo or Hyperamma - I have no idea what that is.
Awesome video. Quick questions. do any of the L2 follow ups on Ashes of war actually counts as a Charged Attacks? does it stack with Axe Talisman? or the Talisman onlt applies to non Ash of war L2 charged attacks?
Thanks a lot Youwy and peeps
Kinda, depends on the Ash. For example the Axe Talisman works on War Cry for both of the new R2 attacks you get while it's up (the running downward slash and the upward slash follow up). You can also stack the Axe Talisman, Roar Talisman, and the Charge increase from the Flask buff which lasts for 3 minutes. So the 2 Talismans and Flask buff together end up giving you crazy damage on your Warcry R2s and if you have a decent amount of poise even your trades will end up destroying enemies.
As for Ashes that have follow up L2 attacks i assume it would work on similarly if they're chargeable attacks.
@@darkaero Man thanks for the tips. i didnt think about the roar talisman with Warcry. Definitely gonna try that out. Thanks a bunch
I prefer how war cry looked in ds3, the stance especially.
Golden vow + Flame GMS + Cragblade + Hypothetical Roar abilities + Madness
Touch grace + maidenless + lay these foolish ambitions to rest
@@fishy4275 bruh😂
Would love to see colossals
We had Sunny D in Souls, can we call it Hi-C in Elden Ring?
Do you have a recommendation for a quality ash of war
New to souls games any tips for the greatsword
Wild strikes on the flail is how I beat Malenia
Thank you you very much
I was using giant crusher with lions claw and accidentally one shot radagon and elden beast with just my talismans.
It looks as though War cry’s follow up R2s have hyper/super armour in this video, is that correct?
What greatsword are you using?
Thanks!
is there any reason to do the light version of Stamp Uppercut?
Kick works against cruicable knights
You can be parried using flail during wild strikes.
3. Wild Strikes
I just wish ashes of war didn't have goofy animations on powerstanced weapons. Trying to find one that fits my dual butchering knife build it always seems to default to two handing the right one for the ash of war animation. And small as that it it's visually off-putting to me.
You forgot about "Sword Dance" Ash of war, and i think it might be really high on list
Can you please make quality ash of war next
Those crystallians stand no chance against Lion’s Claw in the great star hammer…or any weapon with large poise damage
great vids heres an interaction for yah
Can you make a video for shields ☺️
Giants hunt?
can no ashes of war be used on halberds?
Ty
Long story short in my opinion Lions Claw all the way for just damage in one hit
dex/arcane ashes of war bro pls I need it for a pvp tournament pls your videos are the best
Wait, you can't Parry flails?
What exactly does cragblade do
This game is horrible at explaining things. I really want to love this game having beat sekiro 3 times with no guides or the dlc arts. Exploring is one thing but this game would benefit with how fighting games have stats you can view including with armor during training in real time. I know I'd give myself a day or two of training on a training dummy just to read data of what is going on with this game lol.
Comment for the algorithm
did you reallt forget giant hunt?
I wish they combined light and heavy attacks into R1 so that R2 could be free for another Ash of War, one AoW really isn't enough imo
For the algorithm
Doesn't flame of the redmanes scale extremely well with strength?
Sure does. Really good for crits 👍
sacred next yes? :)
If you mean Faith Ash of Wars, he already made a video about them ruclips.net/video/i4A959MAx2I/видео.html
Most of the ones he listed are not good with powerstancing.
Hol' up giant hunt is not a str ash of war?
I thought so too
I think it's quality. It still scales with str at least but not as well as naturally heavy ashes of war.
it's quality I just checked. Thought it was strength too ngl
This guy did absolutely zero research for this video. All he had to do was read the ash of war descriptions and go to the fextralife wiki. Yeah it's just some gravel on the Cragblade and it does probably 5 to 10 percent more damage. That's so vague!