Great Knife Stats, Upgrades, and How to Get

The Great Knife is a Dagger available in Elden Ring. Read on for the Great Knife's stats, upgrade info, how to use Great Knife, and its location.

Great Knife Overview

Great Knife Basic Profile

Great Knife	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Daggers Attack Type: Slash/Pierce Skill: Quickstep Weight: 1.5
Description
Large knife with a broad, curved blade. This weapon is designed to slash and rend, inflicting blood loss upon the recipient.

Basic Stats

Passive Effects

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Great Knife Location

Dropped by a Demi-Human at Lakeside Crystal Cave

This weapon has a chance to drop from a Demi-Human inside Lakeside Crystal Cave in Liurnia of the Lakes.

Lakeside Crystal Cave Location and What to Do

How to Use Great Knife

Scales with Dexterity and Strength

The Great Knife dagger scales with Dexterity and Strength but has the highest scaling with Dexterity. Adding points to this particular attribute will improve the weapon's bonus physical damage value much more than leveling Strength.

Has a Passive Blood Loss Buildup

This weapon has a decent amount of blood loss buildup but since it has fast attack animations, the status effect can be applied easily. The damage of your physical attacks can be enhanced by 20% with the talisman Lord of Blood's Exultation when blood loss is applied near you.

Infusable with Ashes of War

This weapon is infusable with compatible Ashes of War and has Quickstep as its default weapon skill. This grants the user the ability to avoid attacks by dashing in any direction.

Other debuffs such as Poison and Frostbite can be added to this weapon along with its passive to deal more damage from status effects.

Great Knife Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Note: Passive Effect buildup numbers may change depending on your stats.

Elden Ring Related Guides

List of Weapons

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike
Slash	Pierce
Magic Weapons	Fire Weapons
Holy Weapons	Lightning Weapons

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost
Scarlet Rot	Sleep
Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types

Melee Weapons
Axes	Claws	Colossal Swords
Colossal Weapons	Curved Greatsword	Curved Swords
Daggers	Fists	Flails
Glintstone Staves	Greataxe	Greatswords
Great Hammers	Great Spears	Halberd
Hammers	Heavy Thrusting Swords	Katanas
Reaper	Sacred Seals	Spears
Straight Swords	Thrusting Sword	Torches
Twinblades	Whips	-
Ranged Weapons
Light Bows	Bows	Greatbows
Crossbows	Ballista	-
Shields
Small Shields	Medium Shields	Greatshields