Dark Souls III – All Weapon Skills Details

Weapon Skill is a new feature in Dark Souls III, these skills are the special moves granted by weapons that consume FP to produce a special effect. In dark Souls III each weapon has its unique skill, including Catalysts, Ranged Weapons and Shields also.

Weapon Skills do add a lot of flavor, and in some cases, they fill some very useful, such as breaking shield guard. Many Weapon Skills are specific to unique weapons, be they Soul-transposed weapons created from boss Souls or Soulbound weapons.

All Weapon Skills:

Below we have the full list of all the weapons skills with its detail and also the name of weapon on which it will appear.

Blind Spot

• Weapon: Corvian Greatknife, Handmaid’s Daggerr

Use against shielded foes to break through their guard by attacking from the side.

Bloodlust

• Weapon: Blood Lust

Stain blade with one’s own blood to temporarily grant uncanny sharpness.

Chain Spin

• Weapon: Winged Knight Twinaxes, Winged Knight Halberd

Sweep foes in a large spinning motion and use strong attack to continue the motion until stamina is exhausted.

Chained Dance

Weapon: Painting Guardian’s Curved Sword

Execute relentless consecutive attacks while tracing a circle in a unique dance of deadly grace.

Champion’s Charge

• Weapon: Gundyr’s Halberd

Hold spear at waist and charge at foe, and use momentum to transition into sweeping strong attack.

Charge

• Weapon: Astora Greatsword, Spears, Pikes, Halberd

Hold sword at waist and charge at foe. Use strong attack while charging to extend the length of the charge.

Combustion

• Weapon: Pyromancy Flame, White Hair Talisman

Creates a powerful flame in the wielder’s hand. One of the most basic pyromancies, and for this very reason, the flame created is fierce.

Crescent Blade

• Weapon: Crescent Moon Sword

Assume a broad stance and fire off crescent moon blades.

Dancer’s Grace

• Weapon: Dancer’s Enchanted Swords

Unleash the fury of both blades in a dancing spin motion and use strong attack to continue the performance until stamina is exhausted.

Darkdrift

• Weapon: Darkdrift

Aim carefully and pierce with a large forward lunge.

Darkmoon Arrow

• Weapon: Darkmoon Longbow

Infuse a readied arrow with Darkmoon essence, granting it magic damage and the ability to pierce shields.

Demonic Flare

• Weapon: Demon’s Great Axe

Briefly cause flame within to flare, and smash it upon earth and foes.

Ember

• Weapon: Firelink Greatsword

The fading flame momentarily illuminates and launches itself forward.

Falling Bolt

• Weapon: Dragonslayer Great Axe, Dragonslayer Swordspear

Hold axe high in air to gather fierce lightning, and smash ground to whip the bolts to the ground.

Feast Bell

• Weapon: Eleonora

Hold up axe and wave to emit a solemn chime to temporarily make weapons lacerating, and to restore HP for each hit.

Flame of Lorian

• Weapon: Lorian’s Greatsword

Lunge forward to transform smolder into flame, and follow with strong attack to launch flame across ground.

Flame Whip

• Weapon: Witch’s Locks

Temporarily coat the whip in fire

Flame Whirlwind

• Weapon: Demon’s Fist

Spin through opponents with abandon, flaming fists outstretched. Using a strong attack while spinning utilizes your momentum to slam the ground with both fists

Frost

• Weapon: Pontiff Knight Great Scythe

Create a bone-chilling frost with each swing of the greatscythe that causes a temporary frost effect.

Frost Blade

• Weapon: Pontiff Knight Curved Sword

Execute large spinning motion to imbue blade with frost, and follow through with a strong attack that slashes with a giant blade made of frost.

Galvanize

• Weapon: Warpick, Pickaxe

Temporarily boost stamina recovery speed.

Gentle Prayer

• Weapon: Talismans

Recovers HP for a period of time, albeit extremely slowly

Guiding Light

• Weapon: Scholar’s Candlestick, Cleric’s Candlestick

A candle provides a temporary source of light which reveals additional guidance

Hold

• Weapon: Katanas

Assume a holding stance to rapidly execute a lunging slash with normal attack, or a deflecting parry with strong attack.

Impact

• Weapon: Whips

Strike from the left to evade shields and deal a stinging blow that temporarily slows stamina recovery.

Kindled Charge

• Weapon: Gargoyle Flame Spear

Hold spear at waist and charge at foe, and use momentum to transition to a fiery strong attack.

Kindled Flurry

• Weapon: Gargoyle Flame Hammer

Anchor weapon in earth and use strong attack to launch successive volleys of fire from the tip of the hammer.

Leaping Slash

• Weapon: Claw

Perform a forward leaping slash at the opponent’s head. When successful, functions as a head shot, inflicting heavy damage.

Lifedrain

• Weapon: Dark Hand

Embrace the victim and steal their HP. Can only be used against humans.

Lightning Charge

• Weapon: Dragonslayer Spear

Charge with spear at waist to enwreathe with lightning, then release bolts with final thrust

Moan

• Weapon: Moaning Shield

Offer a gentle prayer to the shield, causing the woman’s face to give out a low moan and attract enemies

Molten Perseverance

• Weapon: Old King’s Great Hammer

Anchor weapon in earth to temporarily boost poise, and use strong attack to repeatedly stab earth to trigger molten explosions.

Moonlight Vortex

• Weapon: Moonlight Greatsword

Draw sword back and thrust to unleash torrential moonlight.