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The Bloodflame Blade incantation lasts for one minute after being cast, providing fire damage to enemies and setting some opponents on fire, while also applying a debuff effect. This buff can be used to significantly increase weapon abilities, making it a valuable tool in combat, especially for bleed-based faith/arcane builds.
Understanding Bloodflame Blade
What is Bloodflame Blade?
Bloodflame Blade is an incantation that provides fire damage and a debuff effect to enemies, making it a useful tool for players with faith and arcane builds.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the difference between Black Flame Blade and Bloodflame Blade? Black Flame Blade can be used as utility on any faith build and scales well into higher levels, whereas Bloodflame Blade’s usefulness is restricted mostly to bleed-based faith/arcane builds.
- How much bleed does Bloodflame Blade do? Bloodflame Blade afflicts the target with a bloodflame debuff effect that stacks a total of 40 bleed over the course of 2 seconds after striking an enemy.
- Can Bloodflame Blade be buffed? Only weapons that are upgraded with smithing stones or the ashes can be changed and buffed, with the exception of Bloodhounds Fang, which is upgraded with somber stones and can be buffed with Bloodflame Blade and Grease.
- Why does Bloodflame Blade not work? You need a seal to cast it, and you must have it equipped and meet its requirements, also having enough FP to cast it, and your weapon should not have an elemental infusion like fire/flame art/cold or be upgraded with somber stones.
- Does Bloodflame Blade scale with Arcane? The bloodflame debuff can stack by striking an enemy repeatedly or applying the same debuff from other sources, but it does not scale with Arcane even when wearing the Dragon Communion Seal.
- Can you stack Bloodflame Blade and Grease? Both Bloodflame Blade and Grease work regardless of your weapon and stack multiplicatively.
- Does Bloodflame Blade do fire damage? Yes, the Bloodflame Blade is an incantation that will dramatically increase weapon abilities by providing fire damage.
- Does upgrading Finger Seal make buffs stronger? Upgrading the Finger Seal does not provide any specialized buff improvements, but it scales well with Faith.
- Does leveling Finger Seal make incantations stronger? Increasing the upgrade level of Finger Seal also increases its Incantation scaling, making the damage of the weapon buff spells stronger.
- What does Bloodflame stack with? The bloodflame debuff can stack by striking an enemy repeatedly or applying the same debuff from other sources.
- What stats do you need for Bloodflame Blade? To use Bloodflame Blade, you need 12 Faith and 10 Arcane, with a cost of 20 FP and 10 Stamina, and it uses 1 Memory Slot.
- Can you use Black Flame Blade on scythe? Yes, you can use Black Flame Blade on a scythe, and it is a good choice for a Grave Scythe build.
- Is Green Flame Blade good? Green-Flame Blade is a good cantrip for gish-builds, especially for subclasses/classes that only get one attack from their Attack action.
- What seal has the highest scaling in Elden Ring? The Erdtree Seal has the highest scaling in Elden Ring, with S scaling with Faith starting at +5.
- What is the best catalyst in Elden Ring? The Carian Regal Scepter is the best all-around Sorcery catalyst in the game, with high sorcery and Intelligence scaling, reaching S rank at +9.