Umbral Weapon | Lords of the Fallen Wiki

This shines with double pickaxes. They already proc poison in couple of hits, and tick damage means that wither is just normal damage. Oh, and they already have some wither on them. Like most umbral stuff, it's niche, but second to none if you use it right. Better than Radiant weapon, if weapon you buff has innate poison

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Umbral weapon feels like a worse enhancement to use. I rather use frostbite salt then use the enhancement. The enhancement needs a buff to apply 80 frostbite before umbral weapon becomes worth using. I hope this spell gets buffed in some future update.

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this does give a worse flat dmg increase on non wither dmg weapons than poison weapon, might be useful on wither only weapons, not very useful on normal ones, use poison instead.

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Does not add Frostbite (or if it does, it's not worth it).

Tested with Jeffrey's Dagger against Holy Bulwarks:

No buff: 11 Hits to Frostbite

With Buff: 11 Hits to Frostbite

Meanwhile, on another weapon without native frostbite buildup, I hit the Bulwark until it died (20+ hits). No frostbite.

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Activate the vestige then go inside until sunless skein location popup, return and Molhu sell this spell

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Does this add frost bite?

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From some personal testing, it seems to add WAY more damage per hit than radiant weapon, though I'm using a build with equal magic stats and an umbral catalyst (so if weapon buffs scale off pure stats rather than catalyst spell power, these numbers will be wrong).

Using the Ardent Penitent next to the Vestige of Blind Agatha as a testing dummy, and with the following setup to get as accurate as possible numbers: Buffed beforehand, destroyed the parasite that makes it invulnerable, soul flayed it, attacked its soul exactly once, then after its soul returned, kicked it to proc the wither effect without adding meaningful damage to the end result, record the resulting damage number.

Results:
With no buff, I dealt 240 damage.
With Radiant weapon, I dealt 280 damage, a 40 damage boost over no buff.
With Umbral weapon, I dealt 344 damage, a 104 damage boost over having no buff.

Unfortunately, I don't know the Penitents resistances, so if he has significant radiant resistance or very low wither resistance, those numbers are most likely off by a good margin.

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Ok to sum it up; this thing is just worse than the other buffs.

1) it gives your opponent (AI or player) the opportunity to regain their health
2) it requires a higher stat investment than radiant / infernal weapon
3) the scaling is nothing special

The best damage type in the game by far is holy damage and thus the best buff is the radiant weapon. Most of the game has a high resistance to fire (demons, duh), hence the infernal weapon is already inherently a less appealing option. Similarly most of the game's enemies are weak to holy, further favoring the radiant weapon. Now combine this with the other perks that holy damage has going for it: plenty of pendants and rings that work with holy damage. Namely the pendant that makes holy damage do posture damage as well, combine this with the holy damage boost ring and the envenomed ring (boost charged attack damage). With any weapon that deals holy damage, you'll be pretty much stunlocking bosses with 1 or 2 charged attack. For normal enemies, pretty much everything is opened to a grievous strike with just one charged heavy. Combine this with the umbral eye which makes you take only wither damage when charging attacks, and you'll essentially break the game as you can just pretty much hold R2 to win.

TLDR;
Use radiant weapon instead. The umbral weapon looks cool and all, but the functionality is just lacking.

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This spell might be strictly worse than Poison Weapon since Poison Weapon seems to buff damage more...

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What does umbral magic scale with? Anyone? I read it scales with both radiance and inferno but will always use the lowest stat so you have to upgrade them both equally. Is that true?

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What kind of damage is this? Umbral is not a damage type. Assuming its wither.

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so magic weapon of ds series?

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Anyone got an idea of if this is in any way better than radiant / infernal weapon? Just seems like a bad alternative to either one of those, unless it gets a better damage scaling off the catalyst.

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Sold by Molhu after reaching Upper Calrath, after defeating Skinstealer. Went back to Skyrest Visage right after activating the Vestige past the elevator.

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I’m using melted dark crusader sword with umbral magic buff. Hit enemies fill whit3 bar but don’t kill. How umbral damage works ?

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You get Umbral Weapon after clearing the beacon in Upper Calrath

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Had already the umbral tome and didn't worked. After the Skinstealer I can confirm Molhu sell Umbral Weapon, Blood Harvest and the Faceless Carving

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Looting umbral tome didn't work but after killing the "sklnstealer" it showed up in his shop maybe do both?

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I think the trigger is looting the umbral tome in sunless skein.

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is sold by molhu, not sure on the trigger though

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praying someone figures out the location of this

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