Darkmoon Blade is a Miracle in Dark Souls 3. This allows players to imbue their right-hand weapon with a mystical Darkmoonlight, adding 95% of the player's casting talisman's Spell Buff as magic damage for a duration of 60 seconds. This Miracle is particularly effective for faith-based builds, enhancing the player's offensive capabilities significantly. To obtain the Darkmoon Blade Miracle, players must rank up in the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant. To cast a Miracle you must use a Chime, Talisman, or Special Weapons that can cast Miracles.

Darkmoon Blade

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Spell Type

Miracle

icon fp costFocus Cost 50
icon attunementSlots Used 1
Requirements 30 Faith
Duration 60 seconds
Type Buff

 

Miracle of those who devoted themselves to the Darkmoon covenant.

Reinforces right weapon with Darkmoon light.

Miracles of the Darkmoon are tales of revenge, but Captain Yorshka recites only for the sake of remembering her brother, with out knowledge of its meaning.

Perhaps this is better, as revenge is better left to the Blades.

 

How to Get Darkmoon Blade in Dark Souls 3

  • Reward for reaching rank 2 in the covenant Blades of the Darkmoon. (You must offer 30 Proof of a Concord Kepts to reach rank 2)

 

Dark Souls 3 Darkmoon Blade Notes, Tips & Trivia

  • Adds magic damage equal to (spellbuff*0.95)
    • Damage is applied each time the enemy is hit with the weapon, regardless of the damage of the attack performed
    • Despite applying magic damage, this scales exclusively to Faith
    • This spell and Lightning Blade do the same damage in different elements, making them fully interchangeable
  • Buff lasts 60 seconds (affected by the Lingering Dragoncrest Ring)
  • This miracle is particularly powerful on weapons that already have magic damage, such as the Drakeblood Greatsword
  • Damage can be increased with the Magic Clutch Ring and the Crown of Dusk
  • A few weapons and weapon arts have hidden multipliers that slightly lower the buff's damage per hit.
    Namely, Daggers and Paired Weapons display this adjustment.
    Regardless, the buffs always remain efficient.
  • Since Faith builds have access to four elements in unique weapon buff spells (Blessed Weapon, Lightning Blade, Darkmoon Blade, and Dark Blade), they're the ideal choice for a more physical-focused build investing into magic.

 

Miracles
Atonement  ♦  Blessed Weapon  ♦  Bountiful Light  ♦  Bountiful Sunlight  ♦  Caressing Tears  ♦  Dark Blade  ♦  Dead Again  ♦  Deep Protection  ♦  Divine Pillars of Light  ♦  Dorhy's Gnawing  ♦  Emit Force  ♦  Force  ♦  Gnaw  ♦  Great Heal  ♦  Great Lightning Spear  ♦  Great Magic Barrier  ♦  Heal  ♦  Heal Aid  ♦  Homeward  ♦  Lifehunt Scythe  ♦  Lightning Arrow  ♦  Lightning Blade  ♦  Lightning Spear  ♦  Lightning Stake  ♦  Lightning Storm  ♦  Magic Barrier  ♦  Med Heal  ♦  Projected Heal  ♦  Replenishment  ♦  Sacred Oath  ♦  Seek Guidance  ♦  Soothing Sunlight  ♦  Sunlight Spear  ♦  Tears of Denial  ♦  Vow of Silence  ♦  Way of White Corona  ♦  Wrath of the Gods

 




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    • Anonymous

      Cheat Engine making me spend my time on something else, true a life savior in any dark souls game. Imagine spending hours of your life to grind a spell lmao.

      • Anonymous

        For all the people that somehow miss covenant rewards in Elden Ring, this is why they're gone.

        Locking items behind a broken afterthought PvP or spend hours mindlessly grinding PvE was just painful for everyone involved.

        And now that online is kinda dead, you're forced to mindlessly farm on consoles. Unfortunately, I'm not a teen anymore, so I can't expend the couple of hours I get to play doing mindless busywork to get a item.

        I'm so damn glad this things are gone in Elden Ring.

        • Anonymous

          I believe it should be "Proofs of a Concord Kept" or "Proofs of Concords Kept", not "Proof of a Concord Kepts"

          • Anonymous

            I casually kept blue sentinels/blade of the darkmoons active for an entire playthrough of the game (about 14 hours game time) and i got summoned once. ONCE and the host died while i was loading in. In 2024 you will only get this spell by grinding silver knights. Don’t delude yourself

            • Anonymous

              The very real issue of all miracles weapon buffs is that they did not calculated properly for critical hits! With min stats, hornet ring and dark mace+9 deals more critical hit damage than raw mace+9 and DMB/Dark Blade, 45 FTH. Yes, regular hits with raw mace deal more dmg than dark mace. WTF From?!!!

              • Anonymous

                im a bit confused. weapon X has 70 magic damage but no int scaling. when i use darkmoon blade on this weapon, would the magic damage start to scale with faith or is it just the bonus damage that scales with faith? sry, my english is cancer like... but i want to learn this game xD

                • Anonymous

                  It took me 1 1/2 hours to gain 10 woldblood sword grass's and YOU NEED 30 OF THESE???
                  Miyazaki I love you man but you went ape **** with the covenants in this game, I would get it through invasion but I cannot find anyone to invade for some reason, man if I would've gotten this when the game was still fresh and full of players...

                  • Anonymous

                    Lol wow I thought darkmoon blade dealt dark damage better than regular dark so I’ve been using it on Nameless King Ng++ fight for 70+ tries. I beat him and then realized it deals magic damage

                    • Anonymous

                      Every ones talking about how hard this spell is to get so ill give u some tips that are useful, namely what weapons are good with Dark moon blade, Almost all duel weapons are insanly good with dmb, mainly "Sellsword Twinblades" "Winged Knight Twinaxes" "Onikiri and Ubadachi" "Drang Twinspear" are god tier with dark moon blade... But other then Duel weapons, weapons such as "Spiked Mace" "Claymore" "Flameberge" "Splitleaf Greatsword" "Falchion" "Lothric Knight Straite Sword" "Great Axe" And mostly every weapon that combos are good. But out of all the weapons the best one is definitely hands down "Sellsword Twinblades" the fact its a combo weapon and extremely quick is just insane and with the right stats u can almost guarantee 1 combo some people, even on SL120 ive 1 comboed none mage builds... the best stats for this weapon is Vig.39 End.18 Dex.40 Fai.60 with Yorshikas Chime, i suggest u wear Light armor since Sellswords Twinblades dosent have Hyper armor any way... And for Pvp tips i suggest u mainly punish attacks instead of being aggressive, the 1 down side of buff builds is how low stamina u have, so instead of being aggressive like u might think u want to, especially cause theres a time limit to ur buff, u should always wait for them to attack first and out space and punish there attacks, and if 1 combo cant kill them wait till they try to panic heal and punish their healing with another combo which usually finishes them off... despite the fact buff builds are strong they do need a good amount of skill to use, so try to learn how to do some spacing and learn not to be overly aggressive . Also to those that dont know u can combo by pressing R1orL1>L2>L1. Good luck invading!

                      • Anonymous

                        At 415(65 luck) discovery I was able to get the 30 needed in about an hour and a half. Using crystal soul spear, power within, sages crystal staff+4 with steady chant. Both sorcery rings ans magic clutch ring. I was able to one shot 2 silver knights and reset within about 30 secs. Mimic head, gold cov ring and crystal rapier in in off hand while using the rusted coin. 60 luck, 48 int, 10 faith. Hope that help anyone trying to farm.

                        • Anonymous

                          im not even faith build why the f am i getting this, answer is why not this is my NG+1 (2nd time im playing) and i wanna get the flex... even tho i dont play online really... im using a pretty meh good enough luck build with 60 in luck and the thorn sword its fun bleed enjoyable 210 item discovery with the golden snake ring... dont have mimic head, but next new game gonna try to get it with the mimic at lothric early game

                          • Anonymous

                            You've grinded for hours got your DMB & 30 Faith, feeling slick, joined the arena to kick some butt....
                            Poff Duel Charm mother ****er.

                            • Anonymous

                              Extremely easy to get, if your're going for all steam achevements.
                              Just keep pushing towards all the rings while you're wearing the darkmoon convenant and you'll probably succeed before even getting all the rings.

                              • Everybody is saying that this was a terrible grind but to be honest if you just use the covenant and get on with something else the passive gain is much quicker than you think I have gained 15 in not to long while also focusing on the other trophies!

                                • Anonymous

                                  Got 25 on NG from summons. Played normal, kept SL reasonable (end game at SL90) and covenant on at all times except when actively going for other covenant items. Even though the summons were hours apart it still did the trick. Every one summon win saves you 10-20 min of farming, totally worth it for zero risk.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    The community is playing Demon Souls and it is extremely hard to farm offline. It will take many hours. Warmth and Darkmoon Blade are the worst to farm FFS 30 freaking 30. It is extremely frustrating for completionists. Demon Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro we can honestly 100 percent those games in the time it takes to get these rank items.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      found a ds2 fanboy saying that we dont need to work hard for something strong like 500 arena wins on ds2 for chaos fire ball, then i aske if he ever got this piece of **** here.

                                      • Anonymous

                                        For anyone wondering: no it does not deal dark damage it deals magic damage

                                        darkmoon is the name of the covenant so for the love of god stop saying this deal dark damage

                                        • Anonymous

                                          Ok so basically I did some not so complicated calculations. According to the wiki, with 350 item discovery and over, 30 knights reward 1 concord. That means for dmb, which requires 30 concords, you would need to kill (30×30)= 900 silver knights.
                                          After some testing, with a 40/40 int and faith build, dark infused dagger, hornet ring, dark clutch ring, blindfold mask and using quickstep as an advantage, I was able to oneshot all three silver knights at the anor londo bonfire and walk back in approximately 50-60 seconds consistantly. Since one run is 3 silver knights, you would need to make (900÷3)= 300 runs
                                          Considering one run alone is about a minute, that would take 300 minutes or about 5 hours to farm all concords.
                                          TLDR: With a high critical weapon that can oneshot a silver knight with one backstab, even with 350+ item discovery, if you manage to complete one run in 1 minute, it would take a PVE player 5 hours of grinding to acquire this buff.
                                          Do I think thats worth it?
                                          No. Not at all. If you really wanted magic dmg on a miracle build, just increase int by 4 points(if at base int), slap on scholar ring and just buff your weapon with great magic weapon using the ritual spear. Is it as effective? Well only weaker by about 20 ar. Is it less time consuming? YES. Does it look as good? No, but certainly more effective damage to effort wise. Or better yet USE PALE PINE RESIN. Look, I understand why people would want to use this, but imo its just not worth 5 hours of my life to obtain. Yes, you can also invade to get it, but I find relying of invasions is a little ineffectient. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

                                          • Anonymous

                                            For everyone complaining about the length of time it requires to get the needed amount of Concords, just join Blue Sentinels. Get summoned to fight invaders and get a concord if you succeed.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              many 100% hunters have come and go, one tired of covenants, another succumbed to real life preocupations, none of them stood here , as you do now. you conqueror of miracles achievement, give us your answer.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                personally, i like the dark blade best, because even though it doesn't do the same amount of damage it still destroys stamina since it does dark damage

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  This description pisses me off - not because I hate it, but because of how the Darkmoon Blade covenant was handled in DS3. It outright says that the Blades hunt for vengeance, and yet they have the covenant function as summoned cooperators - protectors, but not avengers. Darkmoons should've been an invading version of Blue Spirits, at the least - invaders of people who have successfully killed hosts as red or purple phantoms. Gives me conniptions.

                                                  • For PvP it's arguably better than Lightning Blade since natural lightning defense comes mostly from Endurance - a stat every character needs and levels up. Magic defense however is mainly determined by your amount of Intelligence, which is "only" leveled by pyros, sorcerers and - to an extent - dark builds. Also, nothing more satisfying than smashing a Blade of the Darkmoon to a pulp with a blue shining Dragon Tooth.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      If you leave the Blades of the Darkmoon can you still use this miracle? I doubt it but I wish this page told us about that.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        I bought this game when it first came out and have been on and off grinding ever since. As of today I'm up to 26 concords and hate my life...

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Having trouble with grinding for this spell? Try this: If you have the Crystal Sage's Rapier, your Luck increases by 50, wielding to obviously goes to 100. They can stack with a 99 Luck build along with a Gold Serpent Ring +3 and a Symbol of Avarice. Not to mention the rusted coins you can buy from Patches. This helped me greatly in my struggle to grind for Covenant items, hopefully this helps you guys too.

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            I love seeing how many people have struggled to farm for items in this game... here I am, sitting with every item in the game on NG of 80 hours played, and at least two copies of every base, non-transposed item.. It's not rocket science, just kill stuff to get items and souls, Homeward Bone or Coil Fragment respawn, and then kill, kill, kill again. EZ! <3

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              fromsoft loved this covenant so much they put it in the game 2 more times under the names of "blue sentinels" and "way of blue"

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Would anyone be willing to trade 27 Concords for my few dozen full silver knight armor sets? I think it's a great deal!

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  The site says this scales with spell buff and lightning blade scales only with the FTH portion of the spell buff? Am I to assume this scales with both INT/FTH or is the site too vague as usual?

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    i've done some small tests so i got a reinforced club which only requires 12 strenght to wield i have 16 strength the weapon has 139 AR + 0.After applying the darkmoon blade buff with me having 60 faith and using yorshka's chime +10 that has 247 spellbuff i get 374 AR that's a 235 AR increase after wearing a magic clutch ring i get 409 AR which is 35 more AR than without the ring.Neither the 2 boosting sorcery rings or 2 miracle boosting rings as well as Weapon art from Rose of Ariandel do not affect AR applied by this buff so all in all at 60 faith the most AR i got out of this buff was 270 Lightning blade got me 409 as well while dark blade got me 381 28 Ar less while blessed buff got me the least standing at 150 AR

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      To those who say this best buff and to those who say that this is good because dark resistance is uncommon, YOU’RE ALL RETARDED! Dark moon blade is magic damage. Would you like to know how many types of enemies are weak to magic? 1, knights and only knights. Lightning blade does 1% more damage and almost every enemy is either weak to or neutral to lightning so it is one of the best buffs because every lord of cinder is weak to lightning.

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        Hmm, I can waste away my life trying to get summoned or lose my sanity trying to farm these from the Silver knights. I now understand why people use Cheat Engine.

                                                                        • Anonymous

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                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            I got this by beating the game on a deprived class sl15 +2 weapons, (invest however you like) then just equip blue sentinals or botd while i farmed the silver nights. I was being summoned pretty frequently (3-7/hr.) plus having endgame equipment made me overpowered vs invaders. 25 were from summons and 5 from silver knights. Took no more then 6hrs. Would do again for a strength faith build.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              If you're going to buff your weapon, you either use this or CMW. However, I consider this the better option, since Faith has much more useful "utility" spells, like healing, while Intelligence doesn't.

                                                                              10/10, the best Weapon Buff in this game.

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                Yo, willing to trade any item for this, only thing i need for the miracle achevement, PS4 id is stewartmmann hit me up

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  i farmed for this shit fucking 5 hours STRAIGHT BECAUSE I COULDNT RESET MY STATS AND ONLY HAD 7 LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFGGGGGGGGGGGG NOW I CAN GO TO SLEEP FINALY!!!!!!! Jjdouiagdoiqgoirgq0rfg0gpß0gwsgsgsgwqghwh

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    What's the difference between this and great magic weapon? They're both weapon buffs which add magic damage - one's blue and one's purple. What other differences are there?

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      One of the few 2nd tier covenant rewards that really feels like a significant reward. There are very powerful builds centered entirely around this buff.

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        The only miracle that I need for the achievement and then for the rings, but I still need 27 more ears ...

                                                                                        • Hi everyone, Im new in DS.

                                                                                          Do someone knows if this kind of miracles (I mean miracles that buff swords) scale based on the Faith stat or Intelligence stat?

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            I love using this on a Dragon Tooth when I face Dragonslayer Armor. Wiki says he's weak to Frost, but I swear doing it the way I do does more damage.

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              If you only have the 30 faith, then it's better to go with the cleric's sacred chime instead of Yorshka's chime. That chime gets real good at 60 faith, but that's a big investment.

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