Royal Greatsword

	For the weapon in ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN, see Nightreign:Royal Greatsword.

The Royal Greatsword is a melee armament in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Greatsword decorated in royal Carian Style. Favored weapon of Blaidd the Half-Wolf.

In defiance of the fate he was born to, Blaidd swore to serve no master but Ranni. As proof. the sword was imbued with a cold magic at the moment oath was sworn.

カーリア王家の意匠が施されたグレートソード
半狼のブライヴの得物

生まれ落ちた運命に背き
ブライヴが、ラニだけに仕えると誓ったとき
この剣は誓いの証となり、冷たい魔力を帯びた

Acquisition

Guaranteed drop: Ranni's Rise ^{(Three Sisters)}

• Dropped by Blaidd, along with his armor set (except the Black Wolf Mask), when encountered at Ranni's Rise after Ranni the Witch's storyline has been completed. Killing him prior to this will award no items.

Notes

• The innate skill, Unique Skill: Wolf's Assault, is a leaping stab followed by an explosion. Combined with its Super Armor it's useful as an initiating attack, though it has very limited capability of attacking from above as that can cancel the skill.
• The Intelligence-scaling is actually slightly stronger than the Strength-scaling despite having the same letter grade. Additionally, it also strengthens the bonus Magic Attack Power of the skill.
  • This means that a pure Intelligence build is the strongest way to build this weapon. However, because scaling values become less effective after reaching 40-50 in a stat and because wielding this weapon already requires a fair investment in Strength, a hybrid Str/Int build has almost as much AR while requiring much fewer Attribute points to do.
    • With unmentioned stats at the minimum: 80 Strength grants 886 Attack Power (AP) (907 AP if two-handed), 45 Strength and Intelligence grants 905 AP (941 AP if two-handed), and 80 Intelligence grants 911 AP (943 AP).
• The weapon itself does not cause Frostbite but both parts of the skill, the stab-jump and the explosion, do cause some build-up (100 on the stab and 60 on the explosion).

Upgrading

• The Royal Greatsword is upgraded with Somber Smithing Stones.
• The Royal Greatsword cannot be buffed or have its affinities altered with Ashes of War or Whetblades.

Level	Attack Power						Attribute Scaling					Guarded Damage Negation
	Physical	Magic	Fire	Lightning	Holy	Critical	Str	Dex	Int	Fai	Arc	Physical	Magic	Fire	Lightning	Holy	Guard Boost
Standard	112	134	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	52
Standard +1	128	153	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	52
Standard +2	144	172	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	53
Standard +3	160	192	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	53
Standard +4	176	211	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	54
Standard +5	193	231	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	54
Standard +6	209	250	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	55
Standard +7	225	270	0	0	0	100	D	E	D	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	55
Standard +8	241	289	0	0	0	100	C	E	C	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	56
Standard +9	258	308	0	0	0	100	C	D	C	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	56
Standard +10	274	328	0	0	0	100	C	D	C	-	-	71.0	63.0	44.0	44.0	44.0	57

Patch Notes

Patch	Official notes	Community Notes
1.04 (Balance adjustment)	Increased physical block rate and guard boost of the Colossal Sword, Colossal Weapons, Great Sword, Great Hammer, Great Axe, Great Spear, and Halberd weapon classes.	This weapon's guard ratings were significantly increased, from 55/63/44/44/44/42 to 71/63/44/44/44/52.

Trivia

• As the description implies, this resembles a much more ornate version of the standard Greatsword.
• Shares its name with a weapon from Dark Souls 2 (external link), which was a Greatsword-type weapon and the Strength-based counterpart to that game's version of the Flamberge.