The range can be buffed with the Arrow's Reach talisman but Arrow's Sting has no effect.

No wonder mages only spam glintstone pebble, slicer, or bestial sling/catch flame. Anything slower and a pure melee tank can run away and do more damage with beast roar and thunder bolt without any sacrifices to armor/vigor. If melee builds get the most damaging, spammiest spells then mages need to use the fastest, safest spells that can’t be punished.

If you like this ash but don’t like being obnoxious, use an off hand cross bow. You can also apply status easily thru triple crossbow. If mages specifically are your problem, 10 fth minimum for fortification buffs which apply easily in combat. If you dive into them, the mage will run and then you cast fortification while they panic roll. Throwing knives interrupt 0 poise mages and do solid damage to unarmored opponents. And kukri blood loss is so satisfying, especially in mages. Kukri will also punish melee range misses you don’t want to commit to.

If I could only find a guy with an *** like that.

I just got two-shot by it with ~1800hp. What happened here? ô_o

I can see in the comments its not a popular AoW in PVP. Does it have any use in PVE though? I'm also wondering if it was nerfed in the last patch? I tried it out on godrick soldiers and was doing less than 100 points of damage to them.

It is literally so oppressive that it shuts down all mage counterplay, I don’t care what anybody says, this isn’t fun or fair in the slightest, because it completely negates most of the spells in the game, the amount of investment a mage character has to put into building their character and getting their spells versus one random guy who just slaps this on and completely throws all that out of the window, not exactly fair is it? It’s like stars of ruin, but that **** takes a load of fp, isn’t chain castable, has a noticeable tell, and can be stopped by anti magic stuff, this dosent have any of that, it can be pulled out at random, is super quick, takes barely any fp and is easily spammible.

I love how everyone knows this is Op, unfair and unfun but refuse to have the conversation about nerfs because we enjoy griefing with it more.

I die a little every time a duel devolves into... whatever this is. It’s always when someone is losing they switch to this, thunderbolt, RKS or flame strike. And you know exactly what weapon they put it on, I don’t even have to say.

I think it should be noted that while it is ranged, this AoW deal a good bit less damage when at its max distance and increases as you get closer. I will do more testing but tested with a +25 giant crusher. At max distance i was doing 389 but when i got almost in the giant land squirts face i did 509. I did have the roar medallion on and other things but it might be that attacks like this deals less damage at greater distance.