Sword of Light

Sword of Light is a melee armament in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Sword of light, pulled from its stone scabbard at an altar.

From the quick of the root, unswerving rays of light intersect and reflect to give the silver blade form.

祭壇に捧げ、石鞘を取り去った光の剣

有機の根元から生じた幾筋かの光が
歪むことなく交差し、反射しながら
銀の刀身を形作っている

Acquisition

• Take the Stone-Sheathed Sword or Sword of Darkness to an altar at either Fog Rift Catacombs or Ancient Ruins of Rauh.
  • WARNING: Once either the Sword of Darkness or Sword of Light has been acquired, though the two forms can be freely switched between by traveling to their assigned altars, the Stone-Sheathed Sword itself cannot be reacquired until you enter the next new game cycle.
  • See the page for the Stone-Sheathed Sword for all 3 altar locations.
  • If the Stone-Sheathed Sword was taken from Fog Rift Catacombs or Ruins of Unte the altar at Ancient Ruins of Rauh should be used. If it was taken from Ancient Ruins of Rauh the altar at Fog Rift Catacombs should be used.

Notes

• The unique skill, Light, creates spreading streams of Holy light in a cone in front of the user. This takes about 4 seconds to cast and increases the Holy damage dealt by the user by 20% for 60 seconds. Since this casts quite slowly, taking about 4 seconds to complete, it's best either used in an ambush to strengthen any Holy damage attacks used afterwards or cast before a fight to strengthen the opening strike.
  • As this is a Body Buff it won't stack with the vast majority of defensive buffs such as Barrier of Gold or a Boiled Crab.
  • Since the Sword of Darkness's skill, Darkness, works as a debuff that decreases enemy Holy damage negation these two skill work well together to greatly raise the damage of Holy attacks.
• Has identical statistics to the Sword of Darkness. Only their unique skills and appearances distinguishes one from the other.
• A single sword switched between Sword of Darkness, Sword of Light, and Stone-Sheathed Sword forms always has the same level.
  • This means that if the Stone-Sheathed Sword is upgraded to +3 before switching to Sword of Darkness you will gain a Sword of Darkness +3. If it's then upgraded to +7 it will become a Sword of Light +7 when switched.
• Incredibly bad damage negation when blocking, even for a Straight Sword.
• Note that all swords currently held in ones inventory switch forms when the respective altar is interacted with. Thus, keeping one sword in the item box allows for the dual-wielding of the Sword of Darkness and Sword of Light.
• Scales the best with a pure Strength build but due to scaling becoming less effective when stats are leveled above 54 a hybrid Strength/Faith build performs almost as well. The second, hybrid build will also deal more damage with the skill.
  • For comparison (unmentioned stats are at the minimum required level): 80 Strength grants 638 Attack Power (AP), and 45 Strength and 45 Faith grants 622 AP.
  • Note that the high levels of Faith required just to wield the sword, a hybrid Strength/Faith build effectively has 14 more levels to work with. These could either be put in other stats such as Endurance for more Equip Load or Stamina, or Mind for more FP, but they could also be put into Strength and Faith for more AP. Doing this would put both stats at 52 and grants 642 AP.

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	93	D 0.35	E 0.20	-	E 0.23	-	31
	93
↑/Lv	+14.4%	+8.0%	+8.0%	-	+7.8%	-	+1%
+10	227	C 0.63	D 0.36	-	D 0.41	-	34.1
	227

Trivia

• Was originally cut content from the base game.