War Cry is a Skill in Elden Ring. War Cry is a temporary attack boost to give players an extra advantage during combat. Updated to Patch 1.07.
Give a war cry to rally the spirit and increase attack power. While active, strong attacks change to charging attacks.
Elden Ring War Cry Guide, Notes & Tips
- This is an Ash of War Skill, associated with the Ash of War: War Cry.
- FP Cost: 16
- The Skill's effect lasts 40 seconds.
- This Skill is not Chargeable
- This Skill cannot be Parried
- The charging attack provided by this Skill can be Parried
- Roar Medallion will increase heavy attack damage by 15% for the duration.
- Moveset Changes (note that in most cases, charging the attack will cause the character to run forward several steps, regardless of any other aspects of the attack as listed below)
- Sword, Greatsword, Colossal Sword, Curved Sword, Curved Greatsword, Katana, Axe, Greataxe, Flail, Hammer, Great Hammer, Colossal Weapon, and Reaper: Initial attack is an heavy overhead smash. Follow up attack is an upward diagonal slash
- Some weapons attack slightly faster than others, but the difference is minimal, making bigger weapons much more effective with this AoW than smaller ones.
- Twinblade: Jumping forward thrust. Follow up attack is an upward slash
- Note that this is a significant change from the default twinblade heavy attack, even when uncharged. This can make it a useful situational tool even without the added range from charging.
- Spear, Greatspear, and Halberd: Initial attack is a jumping forward thrust. Follow up attack is a forward thrust
- Fists and Claws: Initial attack is a double cross, left fist then right fist. Follow up attack causes your character to spin in a circle and hit with both fists outstretched
- Has status multiplier on charged heavy attacks ranging from 1.5x-3.0x, generally 2 handing the weapon has more multiplier and bigger weapons have higher multipliers