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The Sword of Night and Flame is an extremely powerful Straight Sword in Elden Ring with a unique Skill, Night-And-Flame-Stance, which can devastate both single targets and groups of enemies. This is due to it having 2 ways to manifest the skill when you follow up with either a normal attack for the Night Comet Sorcery, or a heavy attack to cleave through the area in front of you with a blazing inferno.
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In this guide, we’re going to give you a suggested build to harness the incredible power of this sword and take advantage of the stat requirements it asks of you — which will see you needing investments in both your intelligence and your faith.
Updated by Chad Thesen on March 20, 2024: This article has been updated for the purpose of adding additional information. This includes a new Stinger Paragraph, new key bits of information, new images, an enhanced introduction, renaming certain parts, restructuring, increasing word count, and reenvisioning certain areas to be more beneficial to readers.
How To Get Sword Of Night And Flame
You Will Need To Know Where To Go
The Sword of Night and Flame is found in Caria Manor in a chest in a room on the Eastern side that is only accessible by jumping down from above. You can get to it easily from the ManorLower Level Site Of Grace by following the ramparts and keeping left until you see some lower buildings you can jump down to and then look for a hole in the roof with a ladder that leads down to it.
Stat Requirements & Scaling
To equip the Sword of Night and Flame, you will need 12 Strength, 12 Dexterity, 24 Intelligence, and 24 Faith.
The Sword of Night and Flame cannot be upgraded with regular Smithing Stones. It can only be upgraded with Somber Smithing Stones. When you first obtain this weapon, its Stat Scalings will be Strength E, Dexterity E, Intelligence D, and Faith D. At maximum +10 upgrade, these will be upgraded to Strength D, Dexterity D, Intelligence B, and Faith B.
| Level | Physical Power | Magic Power | Fire Power | Lightning Power | Holy Power | Strength Scaling | Dexterity Scaling | Intelligence Scaling | Faith Scaling | Arcane Scaling | Physical Negation | Magic Negation | Fire Negation | Lighting Negation | Holy Negation | Guard Boost |
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| Default | 87 | 56 | 56 | – | – | E | E | D | D | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 31 |
| +1 | 99 | 64 | 64 | – | – | E | E | D | D | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 31.31 |
| +2 | 112 | 72 | 72 | – | – | E | E | D | D | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 31.62 |
| +3 | 124 | 80 | 80 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 31.93 |
| +4 | 137 | 88 | 88 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 32.24 |
| +5 | 150 | 96 | 96 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 32.55 |
| +6 | 162 | 104 | 104 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 32.86 |
| +7 | 175 | 112 | 112 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 33.17 |
| +8 | 187 | 120 | 120 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 33.48 |
| +9 | 200 | 129 | 129 | – | – | E | E | C | C | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 33.79 |
| +10 | 213 | 137 | 137 | – | – | D | D | B | B | – | 36 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 26 | 34.1 |
Night-And-Flame-Stance
Your Follow-Up Will Change Which Skill You Get
To build effectively for this weapon, you have to understand exactly how the unique skill works. After you activate the skill with L2, which costs 0FP, you enter a stance that then gives you two options: You can either make an R1 Light Attack, which will cast a Magic damage Night Comet for 26FP that scales with Intelligence. Alternatively, you can make an R2 heavy Attack, which will unleash a shorter-range, but the much wider area, Fire damage attack for 32FP that scales with Faith.
Dual Caster Build
Make Use Of Both Intelligence & Faith
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Priorities |
Intelligence, Faith, Mind |
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Secondary Priorities |
Vigor, Dexterity |
As you have seen, the stat requirements of this weapon place some serious limitations on how your build looks. Not many builds want to put points into both Intelligence and Faith, as normally, one or the other would be your focus. Additionally, if you want to cast spells of any kind, you will want plenty of points in Mind, too, so that you have enough FP — and we certainly need a ton of FP to use Night-And-Flame-Stance repeatedly. So, to get the best out of this sword and this build, you are going to need to be at least in the 60+ level range, and the higher you are, the better it will get.
With this weapon’s lower Strength and Dexterity requirements, this weapon definitely fits casters better, so to complement the sword, this build focuses on some Sorceries that already have dual Intelligence and Faith requirements: Magma and Death. These two Sorcery schools have some very cool spells, and even better, many of these spells had FP requirements lessened or their mechanics buffed in recent patches.
For Death, Ancient Death Rancor is a powerful multi-hit Death spell that will deal very high stagger to enemies. When combined with the stagger from your sword’s Night Comet, this can stunlock and melt many bosses. Explosive Ghostflame is a later-game area nuke that requires 42 Int and 30 Fai but also causes Knockback and applies Frostbite. This spell can also be particularly devastating in PVP. Most of the other Death spells are not great, so you should avoid them.
Magma Shot is your bread-and-butter Magma spell — it can be extremely powerful when charged. Rykard’s Rancor is the most powerful and best of the Magma Sorceries, but you will need to pump your Int up to 40 before you can use it. This spell causes multiple hits along its travel path and can do devastating damage to large and fire-vulnerable enemies.
Equipment Synergy
Synergetic Weapon
If you want to pour on some spell damage against your enemies then wielding the Sword of Night and Flame along with a staff in the other will ramp up your damage output. 1-handing the Sword of Night and Flame will be the most effective way to use it, so on your other hand, you have a few options to boost this build. One of the best is Prince Of Death’s Staff. This weapon will boost the power of your Death Sorceries by 10%, and it also scales with both Intelligence and Faith to complement this build. A very similar option if you prefer to focus on the Magma Sorceries is Gelmir Glintstone Staff. This also scales with Int/Fai and boosts Magma spells by 15%.
Synergetic Armor
For your Armor, the Spellblade Set will increase the damage of the Sword’s Night Comet attack by 2% for each piece. This will not boost the flame attack or your other non-magic Sorceries, though. Armor that boosts your Mind or reduces FP costs is also a strong option for this build, such as Preceptor’s Big Hat. Otherwise, you will generally want to stick to lighter armor to keep a medium equipment load and keep the best dodge roll.
Synergetic Talismans
Your Talismans should certainly include Carian Filigreed Crest, which is the perfect partner for this sword, as it reduces the FP cost of Night-And-Flame-Stance by 25%. The Graven-School Talisman and Graven-Mass Talisman are good pairs to increase the damage of your Sorceries. If you are struggling with the stat requirements of this Sword, there are several Talismans you can use to increase Intelligence and Faith, like Stargazer Heirloom and Two Fingers Heirloom, or for the more powerful but risky option, Marika’s Scarseal and Soreseal.
If you enjoy trying out different kinds of playstyles, you may be interested in these Elden Ring build guides for the best Strength & Intelligence build, as well as the best Strength & Faith build.
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