Blade of Peril | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Blade of Peril
A precarious technique unique to undead Gael. Leap in any direction, slamming the greatsword to the ground, then follow with normal attack for a large spinning slash, or strong attack to back-step and jump foward in an overhead slam.
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Blade of Peril is a Skill in Dark Souls 3.

Weapons That Have Blade of Peril

• Gael's Greatsword

Notes & Information

• The Weapon Art (WA) can lead into a true combo from a R1 attack.
  • As such, a common PvP combo is R1 > WA  > R1
• The initial leap can be angled at the start of the animation, in the direction the player wants.
• The overhead slam (WA > R2) has almost a full 180° degree angling, if performed correctly.
  • The movement input of the angle starts as soon as the small backwards leap ends its animation.
    • Said small backward leap can also change it's direction at the start of its animation. Since it's a backward leap, the player must press the opposite movement key of the direction they want to go (so if you want to move to the right, press the left movement key)
    • Performing both in tandem allows the player to cover longer distances in a single direction.
• Being above 100% equip load will prevent you from doing the Weapon Art.
• It has extremely long thrust counter frames starting about a second before the end of each of the 3 attack animations.