Among the many advantages of the game, it is worth noting a flexible customization system weapons. Almost any sword, katana, ax or spear can be customized to your taste, giving it one of several properties (poisonous, magical, fiery, etc.). To do this, you need to acquire two special items: Ashes of war и sharpening knife в Elden Ring.
This guide shows the location of all Sharpening Blades in the game, as well as brief information about the features of their use.
How to use the Whet Knife in Elden Ring
Once you find the base sharpening knife (more on that below), complete with which the game will also issue Ashes of War, get to the nearest place of grace and wait until the menu appears on the screen. It is necessary to select the item "Ashes of War", and then apply it on the weapon you want to upgrade. The same operation can be done at any blacksmith in the game.
There are six Sharpening Blades in Elden Ring: one starting and five additional. Depending on their number in the inventory, when upgrading weapons, new properties will be unlocked (frosty, bloody, sacred, and others).
Where to find Sharpening Knives in Elden Ring
Basic sharpening knife
From a place of grace The first step you need to go north until you get to the location Ruins at the gate.
Here there is a battle with wolves, soldiers and with the first knight of Godric. After the camp is cleared, go down to a small dungeon near one of the tents, as indicated in the screenshot. The entrance to it is located right behind the fragments of a stone wall.
Inside is a chest containing the starting sharpening knife и Ashes of War: Lightning Strike, which, when used, creates a storm around the Extinguished One, knocking back weak enemies.
Iron Sharpening Blade
Features:
- heavy - increases bonuses to strength and lowers all others;
- spicy - increases bonuses to dexterity and reduces others;
- quality - increases bonuses to strength and agility, but reduces the basic attack of weapons.
Now you need to get to Thunder Veil Castlewhere it lives Godric the Hundred Hands. This fortress is located near the Ruins at the gate. Move to a place of grace bastion tower.
From the fire you need to run to the nearest lift and go down. In the room with the painting, turn left. It is advisable not to approach the suspended bodies in order to avoid a fight with the arachnid monster.
In the next room with the statue, you need to turn left to get into the armory. This will require xiphoid key, without which the passage to the room will not open.
Inside there are a couple of opponents who guard the corpse by the fireplace. Search it to get iron sharpening blade.
Brilliant Sharpening Blade
Features:
- magic - Adds a bonus to Wisdom and increases magic damage, as well as reduces the base damage of weapons and bonuses to Strength and Agility;
- frosty - Increases Wisdom and Cold Damage, but reduces all other stats.
First you need to move to a place of grace Debate roomwhich is located on the territory Raya Lukaria Academies. This is the same room where the fight took place. scarlet wolf of radagon.
Next, you need to go through the door on the left side of the hall and reach the courtyard.
At the street, immediately turn left to climb the broken wall to a higher platform. Immediately after that, run to the passage under the stairs, near which a detachment of opponents sits on their knees.
They can be ignored. Try also to dodge the attacks of the two mages standing on the roof. Inside the cramped room of the Extinguished One, another magician awaits. Deal with him, and then inspect the windows on the right side of the room. One of them contains a corpse from which you can pick up shiny sharpening blade.
Molten Sharpening Blade
Property:
- fiery – increased fire damage and reduced other bonuses;
- blazing - increased faith bonus.
Travel to a place of grace Rooms outside the castle, which is located on the territory of Radana Castle. Follow the exit directly opposite the fire and turn left. On the street there is a small detachment of soldiers with whom you can quickly deal with.
After defeating a soldier with a flamethrower, go along the path he was guarding. This will get the attention of the Abductor Maiden, but it's best to ignore her. The room on the ground floor is guarded by only one enemy, there lies a lifeless body from which you can pick up red-hot sharpening blade.
Sanctified Sharpening Blade
Property
- sacred - additional sacred damage, increased faith bonus and reduced base damage;
- thunderous - Extra lightning damage and agility bonus, but reduced base damage and strength bonus.
Travel to a place of grace Western bastion of the capitaland then bypass Fortified manor on the leftuntil you get to the root of the tree.
Here you need to climb onto the wooden structure on the right, and then go through the door right behind the destroyed wall.
Inside is an exact copy. Fortresses of the Round Table. You need to get to the point where the blacksmith sits in the original Fortress. Immediately after the door, turn left and go down a small corridor. Once in the dim hall, look to the left, where you will find consecrated sharpening blade.
Black Sharpening Blade
Property:
- poisonous - increases poison damage and bonuses to strength, agility and spellcasting;
- bloody - Increases bleeding damage and bonus to spellcasting, but reduces all other bonuses;
- occult - (gives a bonus to spellcasting, lowering the rest.
This is perhaps the most difficult of all six blades to achieve. The fact is that it is located in an optional location - The Eternal City of Knockrone, which opens after defeating Radan. Need to move to a place of grace Fort Haight West and proceed even further west to reach the crater formed by the fall of the star.
Having descended to the very bottom of the crater, go along the roofs of houses straight to the arena, where the battle with false tear.
In the center of the arena, turn left and follow the narrow bridge all the way to the archway. Immediately after it, go down the destroyed part of the bridge.
Then move along the left side of the road, trying to stay near the cliff. At the second obelisk (on the screenshot), turn onto a narrow path between two stones.
At the next fork, turn left again to run to the next place of grace at the cliff. Next up is a run across the rooftops of the Sacred Land of Night. If possible, ignore all small enemies on your way until you get to the corpse with the cherished black sharpening blade.
Read on:Now that you've got your knives, it's time to take the time to complete Ashes of War guide in Elden Ring.