- This listing has been updated on 6/21/24 to include Shadow of the Erdtree DLC content.
InElden Ring, the Tarnished can acquire items calledAshes of War. These items can be used on your gear, to unlock newSkillsandAffinities. Players will find that they must utilize Ashes of War to get ahead in the Lands Between. Click on a specific Ash of War below for further details.

Ash of War
Availability
Ash of War: Aspect of the Crucible: Wings
Usable on swords as well as polearms capable of thrusting (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Assassin’s Gambit
Useable on small and medium straight swords and thrusting swords
Ash of War: Barbaric Roar
Useable on all melee armaments (daggers, thrusting swords, and whips excepted)
Ash of War: Barrage
Useable on light bows only
Ash of War: Barricade Shield
Useable on shields only
Ash of War: Beast’s Roar
Useable on all melee armaments
Ash of War: Black Flame Tornado
Useable on polearms and twinblades
Ash of War: Blood Blade
Useable on small and medium swords only
Ash of War: Blood Tax
Useable on all armaments capable of thrusting (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Bloodhound’s Step
Ash of War: Bloody Slash
Useable on swords (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Braggart’s Roar
Ash of War: Carian Grandeur
Ash of War: Carian Greatsword
Ash of War: Carian Retaliation
Useable on small and medium shields only
Ash of War: Carian Sovereignty
Usable on swords (Colossal weapons excepted).
Ash of War: Charge Forth
Useable on polearms capable of thrusting, heavy thrusting swords, and twinblades
Ash of War: Chilling Mist
Useable on all melee armaments (whips, fists, and claws excepted)
Ash of War: Cragblade
Useable on all melee armaments (whips excluded)
Ash of War: Determination
Ash of War: Divine Beast Frost Stomp
Usable on all melee armaments.
Ash of War: Double Slash
Useable on swords and polearms capable of slashing (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Dryleaf Whirlwind
Usable on hand-to-hand weapons.
Ash of War: Earthshaker
Useable on greataxes, warhammers, and colossal weapons
Ash of War: Enchanted Shot
Useable on light bows and longbows
Ash of War: Endure
Ash of War: Eruption
Useable on greatswords, greataxes, great hammers, heavy thrusting swords, and colossal weapons
Ash of War: Flame of the Redmanes
Ash of War: Flame Skewer
Usable on large and colossal weapons capable of thrusting, spears, and twinblades
Ash of War: Flame Spear
Usable on armaments capable of thrusting (claws and backhand blades excepted)
Ash of War: Flaming Strike
Useable on all melee armaments (colossal weapons and whips excepted)
Ash of War: Ghostflame Call
Usable on swords and spears (small armaments, twinblades, and backhand blades excepted)
Ash of War: Giant Hunt
Useable on large and colossal weapons capable of thrusting, spears, and twinblades
Ash of War: Glintblade Phalanx
Useable on swords and polearms capable of thrusting (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Glintstone Pebble
Ash of War: Golden Land
Ash of War: Golden Parry
Ash of War: Golden Slam
Ash of War: Golden Vow
Ash of War: Gravitas
Useable on all melee armaments (small ones excepted)
Ash of War: Ground Slam
Ash of War: Hoarah Loux’s Earthshaker
Ash of War: Hoarfrost Stomp
Ash of War: Holy Ground
Ash of War: Ice Spear
Useable on polearms capable of thrusting, twinblades
Ash of War: Impaling Thrust
Ash of War: Kick
Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist
Useable on fists and claws
Ash of War: Lightning Ram
Ash of War: Lightning Slash
Useable on swords, axes, and hammers
Ash of War: Lion’s Claw
Useable on swords, axes, and hammers (small armaments and thrusting swords excepted)
Ash of War: Loretta’s Slash
Ash of War: Mighty Shot
Ash of War: No Skill
Useable on shields and torches
Ash of War: Parry
Useable on daggers, curved swords, thrusting swords, fists, claws, and small and medium shields
Ash of War: Phantom Slash
Useable on polearms and twinblades only (great spears excepted)
Ash of War: Piercing Fang
Useable on all medium and large armaments capable of thrusting
Ash of War: Piercing Throw
Usable on throwing blades
Ash of War: Poison Moth Flight
Useable on small and medium swords (twinblades excepted)
Ash of War: Poisonous Mist
Ash of War: Prayerful Strike
Useable on axes and hammers
Ash of War: Prelate’s Charge
Useable on large and colossal axes and hammers
Ash of War: Quickstep
Ash of War: Raging Beast
Usable on beast claws.
Ash of War: Rain of Arrows
Useable on all bows
Ash of War: Raptor of the Mists
Ash of War: Repeating Thrust
Ash of War: Royal Knight’s Resolve
Ash of War: Sacred Blade
Useable on usable on melee armaments (whips, fists, and claws excepted)
Ash of War: Sacred Order
Ash of War: Sacred Ring of Light
Useable on polearms only (great spears excepted)
Ash of War: Seppuku
Useable on swords and polearms capable of thrusting (small and colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Shared Order
Ash of War: Shield Bash
Ash of War: Shield Crash
Ash of War: Shriek of Sorrow
Ash of War: Sky Shot
Ash of War: Spectral Lance
Useable on polearms only (reapers excepted)
Ash of War: Spinning Slash
Useable on swords, axes, and polearms (colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Spinning Strikes
Useable on polearms (great spears excepted)
Ash of War: Spinning Weapon
Useable on small and medium swords, axes, hammers, polearms and staves (great spears excepted)
Ash of War: Square Off
Useable on straight swords only
Ash of War: Stamp (Sweep)
Useable on swords, axes, and hammers (small and medium swords excepted)
Ash of War: Stamp (Upward Cut)
Ash of War: Storm Assault
Ash of War: Storm Blade
Useable on all melee armaments capable of slashing
Ash of War: Storm Stomp
Ash of War: Storm Wall
Ash of War: Stormcaller
Useable on swords capable of slashing, axes, hammers, and polearms (small and colossal weapons excepted)
Ash of War: Sword Dance
Useable on swords, axes, and polearms capable of slashing (colossal weapons and great spears excepted)
Ash of War: The Poison Flower Blooms Twice
Usable on all melee armamements.
Ash of War: Thops’s Barrier
Ash of War: Through and Through
Useable on greatbows only

Ash of War: Thunderbolt
Ash of War: Troll’s Roar
Useable on large and colossal swords, axes, and hammers.
Ash of War: Unsheathe
Useable on katanas only
Ash of War: Vacuum Slice
Useable on swords and axes (small and colossal axes excepted)
Ash of War: Vow of the Indomitable
Ash of War: Wall of Sparks
Usable on perfume bottles.
Ash of War: War Cry
Ash of War: Waves of Darkness
Useable on greataxes, warhammers, colossal weapons and (despite the description) great spears
Ash of War: White Shadow’s Lure
Ash of War: Wild Strikes


