How to get Bloodhound Step Elden Ring

One of the more difficult challenges players might find in the early game of Elden Ring is found in the Forlorn Hound Evergaol named Bloodhound Knight Darriwil. One of the most recognizable moves that this enemy has is his ability to briefly turn invisible as he dashes towards you, similar to how the Old Hunter’s Bone would allow you to vanish when dodging in Bloodborne. A very cool move that players will be happy to know they can also get this ability in the form of the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War. This item is a reward for beating a boss in the overworld, so players will need to know where and when to find this encounter to get their hands on this skill. This guide will tell you where to find the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War in Elden Ring.

How To Get The Bloodhound’s Step Ash Of War In Elden Ring

You will find the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War in the northeastern part of the Caelid region. Next to the Farum Bridge and north of Lenne’s Rise is a smaller bridge that you will need to travel to at night. During the nighttime, a Night Calvary boss will spawn on this bridge, wielding a giant halberd. You will need to defeat the Night Calvary, who will drop the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War upon their death.

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Once you have this Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War, you will be able to travel to the Roundtable Hold to have Master Blacksmith Hewg customize the Ashes of Wars on your weapons. If you have a Whetstone Knife, you can also customize your weapon’s Ashes of War at any Site of Grace.

Ashes of War are essentially the same as the weapon arts we saw in Dark Souls III, except this time around, they can be collected individually and affixed to any suitable regular weapon of your choice. This offers up a lot of build variety in Elden Ring, and allow players to create some truly unique builds. Here’s how to get the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War in Elden Ring.

Getting Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War in Elden Ring

1. Head to the Dragonbarrow region in Caelid.
2. Go northeast towards Lenne’s Rise, and you’ll see a bridge just in front of it.
   

3. Rest at a Site of Grace or wait until it’s nighttime to get the Night’s Cavalry boss to show up.
   

4. Defeat the Night’s Cavalry to obtain the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War.
   

The Night’s Cavalry isn’t too tough to beat, assuming you’re at an appropriate level for Caelid. Like all other Night’s Cavalry bosses, you’ll want to take your time with dodging his swipes and trying to kill his horse to get him to fall to the ground, which makes him a lot more vulnerable. This battle can also be easily handled on horseback.

The Bloodhound’s Step is one of the most useful Ashes of War you can get in Elden Ring. It can be affixed to any melee armament and it gives you an extremely fast sidestep when you hit L2/LT. It consumes very little FP as well, and can come in handy when you’re forced to slow walk in a swamp, or when you’re up against incredibly tough bosses like Malenia.

That’s all you need to know about how to get the Bloodhound’s Step Ash of War in Elden Ring. Be sure to check our guide wiki for more tips and information on the game.

It’s been a while since Elden Ring saw any love, but patch 1.06 is here. There’s not much in the way of new additions, though notably the update means you can now do co-op or invasions in multiple places at once, in addition to having a larger invasion area. There’s also a new mysterious NPC who is supposed to help you advance Varre’s questline without wading into multiplayer at all, though in typical FromSoftware fashion there’s no word on where to find this useful fellow. Still, the update is an enormous one, at least when it comes to gameplay tweaks.

The much-reviled Bloodhound Step, an Ash of War which allows you to dodge attacks at high speeds while becoming invisible, has been tuned down so that the more you use it, the less effective it is. Bloodhound Step does also go further when you’re light on equipment, but it seems that FromSoftware has touched nearly everything to do with low carry loads. You can now roll farther when you’re not carrying much, for example. Still, the Bloodhound Step nerf is pretty huge news for anyone who partakes in multiplayer. Recently, in a poll of 10,000 players, the oft-used skill was one of the most-cited reasons for believing that the multiplayer was broken and unbalanced.

And you can believe players are happy about this: nearly every reply under the Twitter announcement celebrates Bloodhound’s demise.

One of the other hugely-requested changes is a Corpse Piler downturn. Corpse Piler is the skill attached to the popular Rivers of Blood weapon, where the player swings the sword into an “X” shape that leaves behind a trail of blood. If the enemy gets hit by the trail or the actual weapon, it will cause damage, blood stabbing buildup, and fire damage to boot. Now though, the trail of blood left behind isn’t as effective as before, with less damage and bleed doled out on-hit. The actual blade also does less damage, but only slightly so, according to the patch notes. That seems fair, really.

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Unfortunately, the Astrologer fave Glintstone Pebble now does decreased damage, but it does go farther than before, at least if you’re using the Ash of War version. The spell didn’t do a ton of damage, but it could be doled out quickly at a low FP cost, and it made horseback witchcraft a hell of a lot easier, too. You can still benefit from these things fully if you’re using the spell proper, but everyone else is shit outta luck.

A welcome change comes for the Opaline Hardtear, an item which frustratingly had an outright wrong description in-game. The tear was supposed to negate physical damage, which sounds pretty damn useful, right? Well, up until now, the Opaline instead reduced elemental damage, leading to a ton of confusion for everyone who equipped it. This has been rectified.

“Bonk” players should be pretty happy as well, because the patch makes Greatswords and Great Hammers a hell of a lot better. If you wield bonk, you can now roll faster after attacking, charge attacks happen faster, and axes are speedier outright.

You can find the full PVP-centric patch notes below. All around, a solid patch, though now we’re all left wondering: when is the DLC?

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