Skills (also known as "Battle Arts") are special moves that are tied to weapons. They generally cost differing amounts of FP to perform; however, some of the more basic skills do not cost any FP at all. This is a returning mechanic from Dark Souls III.
History[]
While weapon-tied, magic-consuming special-moves are nothing new to FromSoftware's games, Elden Ring's form of this mechanic acts as a more enhanced and versatile variant of Dark Souls IIIs Weapon Arts, with many of Dark Souls IIIs skills returning to Elden Ring usually with a different name.
List of Weapon Arts[]
List of weapon arts from Dark Souls III alongside their equivalent skill in Elden Ring.
List of Skills[]
Skills[]
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| Keen Affinity |
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| Quality Affinity |
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| Magic Affinity |
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| Fire & Lightning Affinity |
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| Flame Art & Sacred Affinity |
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 Skill: Flame Spear   Skill: Flame Skewer  Skill: Aspects of the Crucible Wings |
| Poison, Blood & Cold Affinity |
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 Skill: The Poison Flower Blooms Twice  Skill: Ghostflame Call  Skill: Divine Beast Frost Stomp |
| Occult Affinity |
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 Skill: Shriek of Sorrow |
| Bow Skills |
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| Shield Skills |
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| Perfume Bottle Skills |
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 Skill: Rolling Sparks  Skill: Wall of Sparks |
| Hand-to-Hand Arts Skills |
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 Skill: Palm Blast  Skill: Dryleaf Whirlwind |
| Skills that do not have Ashes of War |
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Unique Skills[]
Default skills that are exclusive to very small selections of weapons. These are not available as Ashes of War.
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Non-Unique Skills that appear as Default on many Non-Somber Weapons[]
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