Crystal Knife

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

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

Description

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇯🇵

A knife made by sharpening hard crystal. Signature weapon of glintstone miners.

Used as tool to extract glintstone from broken rock, and as such a faint magic enwreathes the blade.

硬質の結晶を粗く研いだナイフ
輝石掘りたちの得物

砕いた岩から、輝石を削り出すための道具であり
僅かだが魔力を帯びている

Acquisition

Found in a chest inside the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel located in Liurnia of the Lakes. After taking the first elevator after the Site of Grace down and walking across a wooden beam it is inside the second room on the right, guarded by two distracted Marionette Soldiers.

Notes

• Unusually for a weapon upgraded with Smithing Stones, this weapon cannot be buffed or have its affinity changed.
• The scaling favors an equal split between Strength and Intelligence, with the higher Physical base damage making the Strength-scaling more equivalent to the technically higher Intelligence-scaling.
  • Surprisingly only 20 points/5% of total Attack Power behind when focused purely on Strength or Intelligence, or hybridizing Strength/Intelligence, Strength/Dexterity, or Dexterity/Intelligence.
• Decent raw damage but the unusual, for a dagger anyway, lack of a critical multiplier means it ends up being outclassed by all of the other daggers, especially the Dagger and the Miséricorde, for the purpose of critical hits.
• Pairs well with a Magic or Cold affinity Bloodstained Dagger due to it also scaling well with Strength.

Upgrade Information

• Upgraded with regular Smithing Stones.
• Cannot have its Affinity or 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	82	D 0.40	D 0.25	D 0.50	-	-	15
	53
↑/Lv	+5.8%	+2%	+2%	+3.2%	-	-	+1%
+25	200	C 0.60	D 0.37	B 0.90	-	-	18
	129

Trivia

• Despite the description mentioning that this weapon is used to remove glintstones, it's never seen being used that way.