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Elden Ring Lightning Tier List 2023: Best Lightning Weapons After 1.10
Elden Ring has Elden Ring Items a limited number of lightning weapons. Only seven of them deal lightning damage, and three of them only do so when you activate the weapon skill. None of them scale with faith either. Maybe the DLC will add more lightning weapons with faith scaling, that would be nice. Now we rank all lightning weapons from the worst to the best by breaking down the cons and pros of each one.
No. 7 - Dragon Greatclaw & Dragonclaw Shield (D Tier)
Starting off at number 7, we have the Dragon Greatclaw, and imagine throwing the Dragonclaw Shield as well because it is equally as useless. Both of these obviously split lightning damage and they just don't get any unique weapon skill whatsoever, Dragon Greatclaw gets Endure and Dragonclaw Shield gets Shield Bash, don't know why they don't get anything unique when you actually literally acquired off the draconic trace sentinel and that boss actually does get a bunch of lighting attacks and we didn't care to add a single one of those things onto either of these weapons. You can do more damage against dragons which we guess is the only redeeming factor but the Dragon Greatclaw is a colossal weapon with a very poor moveset and it's very slow as well, so they're just going to have to get the bottom.
No. 6 - Stormhawk Axe (C Tier)
This weapon actually would like to put it a bit higher on the list, unfortunately, it's weapon skill Thunderstorm does just get directly outcast by Stormcaller which is an actual word that you can equip onto other weapons. And if you put onto things like Great Axes and Talbots and weapons like that you can just do way more damage than you ever would with this weapon, and it actually consumes less FP, and also Stormcaller does more stance damage. So there's not much of a point to the Stormhawk Axe, it does actually boost your weapon with 120 lighting damage which is the only way to actually get lightning onto this weapon, hence why it actually makes it onto the list still. But it only lasts 40 seconds and 120 lightning damage is still not that great, because if you look at weapons like the Dragon Halberd and the Dragonscale Blade which we'll get into they actually boosted by 160 lightning damage for 45 seconds and it adds Frost as well. There's a bunch of this like average mediocre stuff going around this weapon, so it definitely is deserving of a buff but we can't really get anything higher than this.
No. 5 - Veteran's Prosthesis (B Tier)
Veteran's Prosthesis is a fist-based weapon and fist base weapons actually tend to be great in terms of DPS and the movesets. This one in particular does actually have the most range out of all the fists and it gets that slash and piercing type damage, so therefore their running attacks are actually some good poking attacks. Unfortunately, though the weapon skill does actually leave a lot to be desired, it weapon skill does decent damage and only consumes 10 FP but the first part about it with that little AOE kick that you do get doesn't really do much damage, it only serves as an obstacle to actually get to the good part of the weapon skill itself, but overall it still is a decent weapon.
No. 4 - Dragonscale Blade (A Tier)
Dragonscale Blade is going to be a katana that unfortunately doesn't actually get lightning damage or a passive status effect until after you use its weapon skill - Ice Lightning Storm which is 25 FP you do this slam-down animation that is very similar to Lightning Slash Azure 4, and for 45 seconds afterward, you do get bonus. Lightning damage 160 and 80 Frost buildup as well which is decent and this level actually does also bonus damage to dragon-type enemies as well. It is a solid weapon overall, unfortunately, you can only get that passive status effect after elden ring items buy you use the buff which all the other katanas get passive status effects without a weapon skill and without the buff itself.
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