are ash of war single use ?

[buder28]

can't find clear anwser on google wiki
if you place them on weapon can you get the back ?
ik for the duplication

[half a green doctor pepper]

you can freely take ashes of war off weapons and add them back into your inventory without losing anything.

[Forblaze]

They're equipped onto a weapon but can be unequipped for free. So if you have one copy of an ash of war, you can only put it on one weapon at a time. At any time, you can unequip it and put it onto another weapon for no cost.

When you actually use the ash of war, it consumes FP (mana) but the ash of war itself is never consumed.

[buder28]

i wasted soo much time not using them X_X thanks yall

[buder28]

but those that has special ash like from boss weapon can you remove them ?
what happen if i put another one on top does that mean i lose that special ash ?
even if they can't be placed on other weapon but only their original

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by buder28:

but those that has special ash like from boss weapon can you remove them ?
what happen if i put another one on top does that mean i lose that special ash ?
even if they can't be placed on other weapon but only their original

All weapons have a default ash of war that's different than the ones you equip. Equipping an ash of war overwrites the weapon's default one, but removing the ash of war restores it. You can't "lose" a weapon's default ash of war.

Some weapons (like boss weapons) just won't let you equip a new ash of war to begin with and only lets you use the special one. I'm not sure off hand if any wepaons with a unique ash of war let you equip one.

[buder28]

i see thanks alot

[Basarab Laiota]

Originally posted by buder28:

i wasted soo much time not using them X_X thanks yall

I don't really get much use out of them. I doubt you wasted that many opportunities.

[SethFrost]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by buder28:

i wasted soo much time not using them X_X thanks yall

I don't really get much use out of them. I doubt you wasted that many opportunities.

You would be very wrong as some ashes of war are just rediculously strong.

[MundM]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by buder28:

i wasted soo much time not using them X_X thanks yall

I don't really get much use out of them. I doubt you wasted that many opportunities.

You'll take away a lot of combat variety and some powerful moves, if you ignore the ashes. I mean, you can even add some ranged options on a melee weapon with the ashes, not sure how you can't see how that can be fun.

[Yal]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

I'm not sure off hand if any wepaons with a unique ash of war let you equip one.

There's a couple of weird ones that feel like they're meant to be unchangeable but aren't, like the Godskin twinblade that has Black Flame Tornado or the claymore with Lion's Fang.

[Basarab Laiota]

Originally posted by MundM:

You'll take away a lot of combat variety and some powerful moves, if you ignore the ashes. I mean, you can even add some ranged options on a melee weapon with the ashes, not sure how you can't see how that can be fun.

Got any recommendations for ashes to play around with, then? Every one I've tried has done less damage then my regular attack.

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by MundM:

You'll take away a lot of combat variety and some powerful moves, if you ignore the ashes. I mean, you can even add some ranged options on a melee weapon with the ashes, not sure how you can't see how that can be fun.

Got any recommendations for ashes to play around with, then? Every one I've tried has done less damage then my regular attack.

Flaming Strike, Blade Dance, Sacred Blade, Lion's Claw, to name a few obvious choices.
Keep in mind, some Ashes of War have a R2 followup after activating them.
Flaming Strike for example creates a gush of flames and follows up with your weapon striking through it to buff it with fire for some time.

edit: also, make sure to acquire the proper whetblade to infuse your weapon on such a way that your stats profit from the infusion properly. For example keen /lightning infusion for a dex build, heavy/fire for str, sacred/flame art for fth and so on.

[LuckyCheshire]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by MundM:

You'll take away a lot of combat variety and some powerful moves, if you ignore the ashes. I mean, you can even add some ranged options on a melee weapon with the ashes, not sure how you can't see how that can be fun.

Got any recommendations for ashes to play around with, then? Every one I've tried has done less damage then my regular attack.

Besides the couple that have been mentioned, Piercing Fang and Giant Hunt are some of my favorites. If you want to try a buff out, Braggart's Roar is great.

[MundM]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

Originally posted by MundM:

You'll take away a lot of combat variety and some powerful moves, if you ignore the ashes. I mean, you can even add some ranged options on a melee weapon with the ashes, not sure how you can't see how that can be fun.

Got any recommendations for ashes to play around with, then? Every one I've tried has done less damage then my regular attack.

Really? Maybe you've been out of FP? Or the ashes deals a damage type the enemy is resistend towards?

Anyway, in my current run, right now I'm using power stance great swords. On one I have Wild Strikes, each hit dealing more than a normal attack and you can turn it into 2 different finishers, I use those to quickly cut down the poise of giants.
On the other sword I have Stormcaller, which does have 3 phases with AOE which is good for groups of enemies that have low poise, and enemies that tend to heav their weakpoint above you (dragons, death birds), because the hit box also goes vertical. Also, stormcaller is incredible difficult to deal with in pvp if you aren't one of the meta boys with 100 hours in pvp, and once you catch the other player, he's unlikely to escape. Also, NPC invaders are extremely easy dealt with.

Lion's Claw is also fun for the animation alone.

For curved swords and Twinblades I like spinning slash, because enemies where it breaks poise per hit will feel like meat put into a grinder.

Those are all early ashes you can get within a few hours playtime.

[opus132]

The best early game ash of war is Square Off.

Slap this thing on the broadsword and you'll just make mince meat out of enemies and bosses. It's outrageously powerful because of the massive posture damage it does. I had to consciously stop using it as it felt it was making the game into a joke.