List of All Ashes of War and Weapon Skills

This is a list of all Ashes of War and Weapon Skills in Elden Ring. Read on to learn how to use Ashes of War, equip weapon skills, and all default and obtainable Ashes of War!

List of All Ashes of War

Obtainable Ashes of War

Ashes of War
Assassin's Gambit	Barbaric Roar	Barrage
Barricade Shield	Beast's Roar	Black Flame Tornado
Blood Blade	Blood Tax	Bloodhound's Step
Bloody Slash	Braggart's Roar	Carian Grandeur
Carian Greatsword	Carian Retaliation	Charge Forth
Chilling Mist	Cragblade	Determination
Double Slash	Earthshaker	Enchanted Shot
Endure	Eruption	Flame of the Redmanes
Flaming Strike	Giant Hunt	Glintblade Phalanx
Glintstone Pebble	Golden Land	Golden Parry
Golden Slam	Golden Vow	Gravitas
Ground Slam	Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker	Hoarfrost Stomp
Holy Ground	Ice Spear	Impaling Thrust
Kick	Lifesteal Fist	Lightning Ram
Lightning Slash	Lion's Claw	Loretta's Slash
Mighty Shot	No Skill	Parry
Phantom Slash	Piercing Fang	Poison Moth Flight
Poisonous Mist	Prayerful Strike	Prelate's Charge
Quickstep	Rain of Arrows	Raptor of the Mists
Repeating Thrust	Royal Knight's Resolve	Sacred Blade
Sacred Order	Sacred Ring of Light	Seppuku
Shared Order	Shield Bash	Shield Crash
Sky Shot	Spectral Lance	Spinning Slash
Spinning Strikes	Spinning Weapon	Square Off
Stamp (Sweep)	Stamp (Upward Cut)	Storm Assault
Storm Blade	Storm Stomp	Storm Wall
Stormcaller	Sword Dance	Thops's Barrier
Through and Through	Thunderbolt	Troll's Roar
Unsheathe	Vacuum Slice	Vow of the Indomitable
War Cry	Waves of Darkness	White Shadow's Lure
Wild Strikes

Default Ashes of War (Weapon Skills)

List of All DLC Ashes of War

Obtainable DLC Ashes of War

Ashes of War
Aspects of the Crucible: Wings	Blind Spot	Blinkbolt
Carian Sovereignty	Divine Beast Frost Stomp	Dryleaf Whirlwind
Flame Skewer	Flame Spear	Ghostflame Call
Igon's Drake Hunt	Overhead Stance	Palm Blast
Piercing Throw	Raging Beast	Rolling Sparks
Savage Claws	Savage Lion's Claw	Scattershot Throw
Shield Strike	Shriek of Sorrow	Spinning Gravity Thrust
Swift Slash	The Poison Flower Blooms Twice	Wall of Sparks
Wing Stance

Default DLC Ashes of War (Weapon Skills)

All DLC Ashes of War and Skills

How to Use Ashes of War

Use the L2 Button to Use Ashes of War and Skills

To use Ashes of War / weapon skills, you have to two-hand your weapon and press the L2 button to activate the skill. Depending on the skill, you can unleash additional attacks by pressing the R1/R2/L2 buttons after the initial attack.

If your left hand is empty, you may be able to activate the skill in your right hand without having to go to two-handed mode.

How to Two-Hand Weapons

Parrying is a weapon skill accomplished with an equipped shield

Equip a shield with the Parry skill attached to your left hand and press L2 to repel enemy melee attacks. If your parry is successful, you can stagger your enemies, giving you a chance to strike a fatal blow.

How to Parry and Perform Critical Strikes

What are Ashes of War?

Skills That Can Be Equipped to Armaments

Ashes of War are items that allow you to equip a Weapon Skill onto your armament like Weapons or Shields. These can be obtained via pick-up in the overworld, commonly through Scarab drops but it can also be bought from NPCs or sometimes looted from chests.

Every weapon in Elden Ring has a Skill, but different Ashes of War can be equipped to non-unique weapons via Whetblades.

Uncolored Ashes of War Allow the Most Affinities

Weapons using regular uncolored Ashes of War such as Vacuum Slice have the most available affinities you can choose from. This means you can choose from any of the neutral affinities like Heavy to special types like Blood.

Colored Ashes of War Have Limited Affinities

Choosing Ashes of War with already an inherent element or status such as Carain Greatsword are often limited to the specific affinities of their own (such as Fire or Flame Art if it physically applies fire) and default affinities such as Quality.

Weapon Skills Cost FP to Use

Using Weapons Skills will cost you FP and will decrease your FP gauge. Once the FP gauge reaches 0, you will not be able to use your weapon skills again.

If you want to increase the number of times you can use your skills, you need to commit a lot of points to your FP attribute or you can bring more than one Flask of Cerulean Tears to keep you filled with FP.

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