Starscourge Greatsword

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

Starscourge Greatsword is a paired melee armament found in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Curved greatswords of black steel wielded by General Radahn. A pair of weapons decorated with a lion mane motif.

Radahn earned considerable renown as the Starscourge in his youth, and it is said that it was during this time he engraved the gravity crest upon these blades.

将軍ラダーンが振るった黒鉄の大剣
獅子の鬣があしらわれた、二刀一対の得物

若きラダーンの星砕きの伝承で名高く
重力の紋章は、その時に刻んだものだという

Acquisition

Trade: Roundtable Hold

• Trade the Remembrance of the Starscourge, gained by defeating the Starscourge Radahn, with Finger Reader Enia.
  • Alternatively, use one of the belled Wandering Mausoleums to duplicate one (can only obtain one per playthrough using either method).

Notes

• The Unique Skill: Starcaller Cry is essentially a superpowered version of the Skill: Gravitas, able to pull enemies in and then use an empowered heavy attack as a follow-up to smash them into the ground.
• Has a 30% damage bonus against Gravity-affinity enemies.
• Scales best with Strength until it reaches 54, whereafter Dexterity-scaling becomes equally strong until it the former reaches 80 or the latter reaches 40. Intelligence-scaling is mostly irrelevant for weapon damage.
• Despite being paired weapon it still receives the 50% Strength-bonus from two-handing.
  • Note that it doesn't get the usual two-handed bonus to Stance damage. In fact, the Stance damage from the two-handed dual-wield attacks is weaker than the Stance damage of the one-handed light attacks (5.4+5.4 vs 14.4). However, the two-handed jumping dual-wield attacks deal an unusually large amount of Stance damage (10.8+10.8 vs 18.72).
• Average weight for a Colossal Sword, effectively allowing dual-wielding with half the weight and therefore with much less required Endurance.
• Two-handing replaces the light attack, including all its derivatives, with dual-wield attacks. Blocking also becomes available while heavy attacks remain the same.
  • This means two-handed dual-wield attacks will deal more damage than heavy attacks, though the latter will still deal more Stance damage per hit.
  • These two-handed dual wield light attacks deal on average more damage than if two Starscourge Greatswords' are dual wielded, having modifiers on par with the final attack in the regular dual wield attack chain.
• These are the shortest Colossal Sword in the game.

Upgrading

• Upgraded with Somber Smithing Stones.
• Cannot be buffed or infused with Ashes of War.

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	129	83	0	0	0	100	D	D	E	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	52
Standard +1	147	95	0	0	0	100	D	D	E	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	52
Standard +2	166	107	0	0	0	100	C	D	E	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	53
Standard +3	185	119	0	0	0	100	C	D	E	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	53
Standard +4	203	131	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	54
Standard +5	222	143	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	54
Standard +6	241	155	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	55
Standard +7	259	167	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	55
Standard +8	278	179	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	56
Standard +9	297	191	0	0	0	100	C	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	56
Standard +10	316	203	0	0	0	100	B	D	D	-	-	65.0	47.0	34.0	34.0	34.0	57

Patch Notes

Patch	Official notes	Community Notes
1.05 (Bug fix)	Fixed a bug where the “Claw Talisman” effect was not applied when jumping with the "Starscourge Greatsword" in both hands.	-
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 49/47/34/34/34/42 to 65/47/34/34/34/52.

See also

• Lion Greatbow, Starscourge Radahn's other weapon
• Greatsword of Radahn (Light) , a DLC-variant of this weapon
• Greatsword of Radahn (Lord) , another DLC-variant of this weapon