Black Knife

	For the weapon in ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN, see Nightreign:Black Knife.

Black Knife is a melee armament found in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Dagger once belonging to one of the assassins who murdered Godwyn the Golden on the Night of the Black Knives.

A ritual performed on the oddly misshapen blade imbued it with the power of the stolen Rune of Death.

かつて、黒き刃の陰謀の夜に
黄金のゴッドウィンを殺した刺客たちの短刀

その奇妙に捻じれた刃には、儀式により
盗まれた死のルーンの力が宿っている

Acquisition

Received upon defeating the Black Knife Assassin in front of Sainted Hero's Grave located in Altus Plateau.

Notes

• Technically leans towards a pure (80) Dexterity build with its scaling, but practically speaking a hybrid (45/45) Dexterity/Faith build gains about as much Attack Power (AP) while also making the skill stronger since it only scales with weapon upgrade level and the user's Faith.
  • Effectively, the hybrid build loses about 2% AP compared to the pure build (494 AP vs 503 AP) in exchange for gaining about 13% more AP for the initial hit of the skill (969 AP vs 856 AP).
• Despite its often resisted Holy damage this weapon still pulls its weight well due to the percentage-based damage effect its skill also causes, even when dodged through.
  • This health drain effect triggers even when rolled through so to fully avoid it can't be allowed to touch your body when dodged.
• Has a unique double-hitting heavy attack shared with the Blade of Calling, Erdsteel Dagger, and Fire Knight's Shortsword.
  • This unique attack grants 20 points in total towards the scaling of the Winged Sword Insignias instead of the usual 10 due to hitting twice. This is enough to immediately gain the first bonus of the respective Talismans.

Upgrade Information

• Upgraded with Somber Smithing Stones.
• Cannot have its Affinity and Skill changed.
• The upper number in the Atk column denotes Physical base damage while the lower, colored number in the Atk column denotes elemental base damage: red for Fire damage, yellow for Lightning damage, orange for Holy damage, and cyan for Magic damage.
• See the Weapon Scaling page for what the scaling values mean.

Level	Atk	STR Scaling	DEX Scaling	INT Scaling	FAI Scaling	ARC Scaling	Grd Boost
+0	66	E 0.10	D 0.55	-	D 0.35	-	15
	65
↑/Lv	+14.5%	+8%	+8%	-	+8%	-	+1%
+10	161	E 0.18	B 0.99	-	C 0.63	-	16.5
	159

Trivia

• While the Black Knife is a legendary item, it does not count as one of the Legendary Armaments (Achievement/Trophy).