Blade of Calling

	For the weapon in ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN, see Nightreign:Blade of Calling.

Blade of Calling is a melee armament found in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Dagger given to one who set out on a journey to fulfill her duty long ago. The power of its former owner, the kindling maiden, is still apparent.

The one who walks alongside flame, Shall one day meet the road of Destined Death.

使命に旅立つ者に与えられた短剣
この一振りには、その古い持ち主たる
種火の少女の力が残っている

炎と共に歩む者
いつか、運命の死に見えん

Acquisition

Loot: Forbidden Lands ^{(Mountaintops of the Giants)}

• Hidden within a room that you can only reach during the elevator ride that leads down to the Forbidden Lands grace, alongside the Official's Attire. Jump from the southwestern part of the elevator to a doorway just above the bottom floor.

Notes

• While its Faith-scaling is technically the strongest its Dexterity-scaling is effectively almost equal to it because the dagger's Physical base Attack Power is higher than its Holy base Attack Power.
  • An equal split between Dexterity and Faith will give the most Attack Power (AP), though a pure Dexterity build or a pure Faith build will get only about 5% less AP.
  • Since the skill scales with weapon upgrade level and Faith but not Dexterity or Strength, it can be beneficial to lean into the pure Faith build, or even a 45/45 or 30/60 Dex/Fth split.
  • A pure Faith (80) build gives 1138 Holy Attack Power, 13% more Attack Power on the skill than hybrid Dexterity/Faith (45/45) build's 1010 Holy Attack Power and 5.5% more Attack Power than the skill of a Faith-leaning Dexterity/Faith (30/60) build's 1079 Holy Attack Power.
• Unfortunately generally outclassed by the Black Knife. While this weapon is 0.5 units lighter, has better scaling, and its skill deals more outright damage at a lower FP cost, the Black Knife will always have more AP due to higher base Attack Power, is attainable much earlier in the game, and the skill is often more damaging due to part of its damage being percentage-based.
• Has a unique double-hitting heavy attack shared with the Black Knife, 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 Attack Power while the lower, colored number in the Atk column denotes elemental base Attack Power: red for Fire Attack Power, yellow for Lightning Attack Power, orange for Holy Attack Power, and cyan for Magic Attack Power.
• 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	71	D 0.25	D 0.38	-	C 0.75	-	15
	43
↑/Lv	+14.5%	+8%	+8%	-	+8%	-	+1%
+10	173	D 0.45	C 0.68	-	B 1.35	-	16.5
	105

Trivia

• This dagger belonged to Melina. Curiously, another copy is wielded by Polyanna, one of Millicent's Sisters.
• The cost of the skill was reduced from 20 FP to 17 FP at an unknown point as an unlisted change.