Ashes of War

## Changes to Ashes of War

#### Barricade Shield

* Reworked completely, no longer grants a buff, instead grants deflect frames when activated.
* Renamed to "Barricade". Allows deflecting with weapons that can't block, like left-hand Catalysts.
	+ *If you are changing to Reforged on a vanilla character. You may have "Barricade Shield" still in your inventory. It won't work, and will do nothing when activated.*

#### **Beast’s Roar**

* Increases target priority during the animation.
* Is now the 5th reward from Gurranq instead of the 4th.

#### **Braggart’s Roar**

* Increases target priority during the animation.

#### **Blood Tax**

* Slightly increased the amount of health restored on hit.
* Added self Blood Loss buildup.

#### **Carian Greatsword**

* Now found where Carian Grandeur used to be.

#### Carian Retaliation

* Now costs FP even when not reflecting a spell.
	+ *This creates a reason to use Thops' Barrier, instead of Retaliation almost always being strictly better.*

#### **Cragblade**

* Slightly increased buff duration.
	+ Duration: 30 seconds -> 33 seconds

#### **Eruption**

* The lingering fire pool can now stagger smaller enemies.

#### **Firebreather**

* Increased the duration of the lingering fire pools.

#### **Giant Hunt**

* Fixed an issue where Giant Hunt dealt the poise damage of a regular R1 attack.

#### **Gravitas**

* Now deals standard damage.
* Can now be used on Staves.

#### Golden Vow

* 40s duration
* deal 10% more dmg (pve and pvp)
* take 10% less dmg (pve and pvp)

#### **Hoarfrost Stomp**

* Fixed issues where this skill dealt 0 poise damage.

#### **Holy Ground**

* Greatly increased the duration of the consecrated area.
	+ Duration: 35 seconds -> 50 seconds
* Up to two consecrated areas can now be placed at once.
* Now applies a slight poise damage buff as well as healing.

#### **Poison Moth Flight**

* Increased the poison buildup on hit.
* No longer removes poison, allowing for repeated uses.

#### **Prayerful Strike**

* Increased ally healing but decreased self healing.
* Increased ally healing range.

#### **Quickstep**

* Decreased the amount of I-frames.
	+ I-frames: 15 -> 14

#### **Raptor of the Mists**

* Increased FP cost.
* Now refunds half the FP used and boosts attack power when an attack is successfully countered.
* Changed the initial animation used to make it so thrust attacks won’t constantly whiff.

#### **Spectral Lance**

* Removed damage falloff and lance now pierces targets.
* Decreased projectile range.

#### **Spinning Weapon**

* Now has blocking frames and will deflect projectiles. The Carian Regal Scepter's unique version of this skill has been renamed to Spinning Staff.

#### Stamp: Sweep and Stamp: Vertical Cut

* Merged into one Ash of War, dropped by the Sweep scarab.
* Use a light or heavy attack to choose your follow-up.

#### **Unsheathe**

* Replaced the R1 horizontal slash with the special Unsheathe Parry from DS3. It has extended parry frames compared to other parries in ERR.
* The R2 vertical slash is replaced with the horizontal slash (meaning the vertical slash is removed entirely). The damage is identical to the vertical slash.

#### **War Cry**

* Increases target priority during the animation.
* The buff now increases target priority as well as attack.