Use your favourite features in-game with our Desktop AppElden Ring: Tarnished Edition adds 7 new weapons, including weapon classes that were previously introduced with the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. These weapons are spread throughout the Lands Between, with some available almost immediately and others requiring you to progress much further into the game.
In this guide, we'll show you how to get every new weapon in Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, where each weapon is located, what makes it unique, and whether it's worth using for your build.
Two of the new weapons in Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition are immediately available when creating a new character. The Heavy Knight starts with the Hefty Scimitar, while the Idus Knight starts with the Idus Sword.
However, you don't need to create a new character to use either weapon. Both can also be obtained normally in the Lands Between, allowing existing characters and other starting classes to add them to their collection.
The Hefty Scimitar is the starting weapon of the new Heavy Knight class. If you're starting a new playthrough and select the Heavy Knight, you'll have the weapon immediately.
For every other class and existing character, you can purchase the Hefty Scimitar from the Nomadic Merchant north of Fort Haight West in Limgrave.
The Hefty Scimitar is a fun weapon, but it isn't one of the strongest additions in Tarnished Edition.
Its Curved Greatsword moveset gives it good reach and relatively wide attacks, making it enjoyable when fighting groups of enemies. However, its Heavy Attack is split into two separate hits, requiring more commitment before you get the full value from the attack. Against aggressive bosses, this can make its Heavy Attacks considerably less practical than weapons that deliver their damage in a single faster strike.
Curved Greatswords in general can be powerful, but they have to compete with weapon classes that provide better speed, stance damage, or safer punish options. The Hefty Scimitar doesn't do enough to fundamentally change that.
It's still a perfectly viable weapon and a fun choice if you enjoy Curved Greatswords, but there are stronger and more practical options available if you're primarily concerned with performance.
The Idus Sword is the starting weapon of the new Idus Knight. Selecting the Idus Knight during character creation gives you the weapon immediately.
Otherwise, travel to the Liurnia Lake Shore Site of Grace in southern Liurnia of the Lakes and head northwest. You can loot the Idus Sword from a corpse resting beside a tree near the ruins.
The Idus Sword is considerably more practical, primarily because it gives base-game players access to the Light Greatsword moveset before entering Shadow of the Erdtree.
Light Greatswords combine fast attacks with long and fluid attack chains, giving the Idus Sword an excellent balance between the speed of lighter weapons and the reach of a larger sword. This makes it comfortable to use throughout the base game.
Its biggest problem is that it has to compete with the Milady.
Once you enter Shadow of the Erdtree, Milady generally provides a stronger and more flexible version of the same fundamental playstyle. This leaves the Idus Sword in an awkward position once DLC weapons become available.
However, that also gives the weapon its clearest purpose. The Idus Sword is an excellent progression weapon for a character that eventually intends to use Milady. You can build around the Light Greatsword playstyle during the base game and transition directly into Milady once you reach the DLC.
If you don't intend to make that transition, the Idus Sword is ultimately a fairly average weapon. It's good enough to comfortably complete the base game with, but its biggest strength is giving you early access to a weapon class that previously wasn't available until Shadow of the Erdtree.
Three of the new weapons added with Tarnished Edition can be obtained relatively early in the game. These weapons introduce Backhand Blades, Great Katanas, and Thrusting Shields to the Lands Between, allowing you to build around weapon classes that were previously exclusive to Shadow of the Erdtree before ever entering the DLC.
The Reverse-Bladed Sword is by far the easiest of the three weapons to obtain.
After gaining access to Roundtable Hold, speak to the Twin Maiden Husks. The Reverse-Bladed Sword is available directly from their regular inventory for 1,000 Runes, with no Bell Bearing or additional quest progression required.
This means you can gain access to the Backhand Blade weapon class extremely early in a playthrough.
The Reverse-Bladed Sword suffers from a similar problem to the Idus Sword: Shadow of the Erdtree eventually gives you stronger options within the same weapon class.
However, that doesn't make the Reverse-Bladed Sword weak. Backhand Blades are an extremely powerful weapon class, combining fast attacks, excellent mobility, and aggressive multi-hit movesets.
It also comes with Blind Spot, giving you an exceptionally strong evasive attack from very early in the game.
If you're eventually planning to use one of the stronger Backhand Blades available in Shadow of the Erdtree, the Reverse-Bladed Sword is an excellent weapon to build around throughout the base game. Even without that transition, it's easily one of the strongest new early-game weapons added with Tarnished Edition.
The Reed Great Katana can be obtained extremely early despite being located in the dangerous Dragonbarrow region of Caelid.
Travel to the Fort Faroth Site of Grace and head north toward the enormous pale mound beside Elder Dragon Greyoll. Use Torrent to climb to the top of the formation, where you'll find a corpse holding the Reed Great Katana. No boss needs to be defeated to obtain it, meaning you can rush here almost immediately after gaining access to Torrent.
The weapon also has innate Blood Loss buildup and comes with Overhead Stance.
Much like the Reverse-Bladed Sword, the Reed Great Katana has to compete with stronger alternatives once you enter Shadow of the Erdtree.
That said, Great Katanas are already an extremely strong weapon class. Their combination of excellent reach, high damage, strong stance pressure, and innate Blood Loss makes the Reed Great Katana powerful despite not necessarily being the best Great Katana available across the entire game.
Its biggest advantage is simply how early you can obtain it. Before Tarnished Edition, you couldn't access Great Katanas until entering the Realm of Shadow. Now, you can build an entire base-game character around the weapon class and later transition into one of the stronger DLC alternatives.
The Reed Great Katana therefore isn't necessarily your final weapon, but it's still one of the strongest early-game additions in Tarnished Edition.
The Ritual Thrusting Shield is also technically obtainable early, although reaching it requires considerably more effort.
First, travel through Siofra River and use the lift leading to Deep Siofra Well in Caelid. From the Deep Siofra Well Site of Grace, travel through the ravine toward the enormous Caelid Colosseum behind the Great-Jar.
Enter the Colosseum through the doors behind the Great-Jar and loot the corpse inside to obtain the Ritual Thrusting Shield.
The Ritual Thrusting Shield is considerably harder to judge than a conventional weapon.
Thrusting Shields can be extremely powerful, but they require you to build and play around their unusual mechanics. Rather than simply functioning as a weapon with defensive capabilities, they allow you to combine attacking and guarding in ways conventional melee weapons can't replicate.
For a normal build that simply equips one without changing anything else, the Ritual Thrusting Shield can feel awkward and isn't necessarily worth replacing your existing weapon. With a dedicated setup, however, Thrusting Shields become significantly stronger.
They're particularly oppressive in PvP, where their ability to attack while maintaining defensive pressure can invalidate or heavily disadvantage certain conventional weapon matchups.
Like the other two weapons, stronger Thrusting Shield options become available in Shadow of the Erdtree. The Ritual Thrusting Shield is therefore best viewed as the base-game entry point for a specialized Thrusting Shield build, rather than the definitive endgame version of that playstyle.
The final two weapons added with Tarnished Edition are different from the previous additions. Rather than bringing an existing Shadow of the Erdtree weapon class into the base game, Leontiel's Greatsword and the Golden Order Flail are entirely unique weapons with their own Skills.
Both weapons are obtained from new NPC invasions and require considerably more progression than the weapons covered earlier in this guide.
To obtain Leontiel's Greatsword, you first need to defeat Starscourge Radahn in Caelid.
After defeating Radahn, return to the Starscourge Radahn Site of Grace in the Wailing Dunes and travel north toward the War-Dead Catacombs. Before reaching the Catacombs, you'll be invaded by the new NPC Knight Leontiel.
Defeat Knight Leontiel to receive Leontiel's Greatsword alongside the complete Leontiel armor set.
Leontiel's Greatsword is easily one of the strongest weapons added in Tarnished Edition, and arguably one of the best weapons in Elden Ring as a whole.
Its Unique Skill, Muleta, combines extremely high damage with evasive movement that provides invincibility frames, allowing you to avoid an incoming attack and immediately retaliate instead of waiting for the boss's attack to finish.
What makes Muleta particularly powerful is that its attacks deal Pierce damage. Pierce damage benefits from the counterattack mechanic when an enemy is caught during an attack animation, allowing Muleta to deal enormous chunks of damage when used aggressively against bosses.
This creates an exceptionally strong gameplay loop: rather than dodging away from an attack and then looking for an opportunity to punish, you can use Muleta's i-frames to evade through the attack while simultaneously setting up your counterattack.
The weapon is also excellent even when you aren't using its Skill. Leontiel's Greatsword uses the same distinctive Greatsword moveset as the Banished Knight's Greatsword, featuring the fluid, more natural-looking attack animations that make it one of the best Greatsword movesets in the game.
This combination of a strong base moveset, excellent damage, Pierce counterattacks, and defensive utility makes Leontiel's Greatsword much more than a novelty weapon. It is easily capable of carrying an entire build through the late game and Shadow of the Erdtree.
Leontiel's Greatsword initially looks extremely oppressive in PvP because Muleta allows its user to combine i-frames, movement, and extremely high damage in a single Skill.
However, Muleta has an important weakness: it can be parried.
The Heavy Attack follow-up has a relatively easy parry timing once you recognize the animation. The Light Attack follow-up is harder to parry, but can still be punished by an experienced player.
Charging Muleta doesn't completely solve this weakness either. If the user delays the follow-up after you've already attempted a parry, there is enough time to dodge the delayed attack or attempt another parry, making the follow-up surprisingly exploitable once you understand the matchup.
This creates an interesting PvP dynamic. Against someone unfamiliar with Muleta, Leontiel's Greatsword can be incredibly oppressive. Against an experienced player who knows the parry timings, repeatedly relying on the Skill becomes considerably more dangerous.
Despite that weakness, Leontiel's Greatsword is an exceptional weapon in both PvE and PvP. In PvE especially, Muleta's combination of i-frames, Pierce counter damage, and extremely high raw damage makes it one of the standout weapons introduced with Tarnished Edition.
The Golden Order Flail is the easiest new Tarnished Edition weapon to permanently miss, so make sure you obtain it before Leyndell becomes the Ashen Capital.
Progress through Leyndell, Royal Capital until you've defeated the golden shade of Godfrey and gained access to the Erdtree Sanctuary Site of Grace.
You'll then need the Law of Regression Incantation. The spell is learned from the Golden Order Principia and requires 37 Intelligence to cast.
Travel from Erdtree Sanctuary toward the large Radagon statue used during Goldmask and Brother Corhyn's questline. Stand in front of the statue and cast Law of Regression.
After revealing the statue's secret, move forward to trigger an invasion from the new NPC, The Noble Broken Mask. Defeat the invader to receive the Golden Order Flail alongside the Broken Mask armor set.
Make sure you do this before Leyndell becomes the Ashen Capital. The invasion is no longer available afterward, meaning the Golden Order Flail can be missed for that playthrough.
Unfortunately, the Golden Order Flail is one of the weakest weapons introduced in Tarnished Edition, and arguably one of the worst unique weapons in Elden Ring.
Its biggest problem is its Unique Skill, Causality's Wrath. The concept is interesting, but the mechanic works against one of the fundamental principles of Elden Ring's combat: you generally don't want to get hit.
To reach the full damage potential of the Skill's follow-up, you need to be hit three times after activating it. Deliberately taking multiple attacks just to empower your weapon Skill is an extremely situational strategy, especially against late-game bosses where those three hits can represent a significant portion of your health bar.
You can use the follow-up without taking those hits, but unfortunately, the uncharged version deals very poor damage. This leaves the Skill in an awkward position where its safe version isn't rewarding enough, while getting meaningful damage out of it requires intentionally putting yourself in danger.
Making matters worse, Causality's Wrath currently appears to be bugged with Shard of Alexander, preventing the Talisman from increasing its damage. This removes one of the most obvious ways of improving an already underwhelming weapon Skill.
The Golden Order Flail also suffers from its damage profile. A significant portion of its damage is Holy, which becomes increasingly problematic as you progress through the game. Many major late-game bosses have substantial Holy resistance, making the weapon noticeably worse during some of the encounters where you'd most want your build to perform.
And even when ignoring the Skill and Holy damage, you're still left with another problem: it's a Flail.
Flails have one of the weaker melee movesets in Elden Ring, and the Golden Order Flail doesn't provide a sufficiently powerful basic moveset to compensate for the shortcomings of its Unique Skill.
The result is a weapon with several problems working against each other:
The unfortunate part is that the Golden Order Flail looks great and has a genuinely interesting concept. A weapon built around the Law of Causality could have offered a unique risk-versus-reward playstyle, but the current implementation asks the player to take too much risk for too little reward.
Unless Causality's Wrath receives significant improvements or some of its current interactions are fixed, the Golden Order Flail is difficult to recommend outside of players who simply enjoy its appearance or want to experiment with its unusual mechanic.
For everyone else, significantly stronger Faith, Holy, and even Flail options are available.
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