How Elden Rings’ Carian Retaliation glitch is destroying the PvP meta
Elden Ring has some truly incredible ways to play in both PVE and PVP. When it comes to PVP at the moment, thanks to a glitch from the Ash of War variant of Carian Retaliation, players are getting absolutely destroyed by invisible daggers that are doing far more damage than they are supposed to.
This bizarre glitch is essentially one-shotting players in PVP, ruining the competitive mode of the game considering how often it’s being used right now. Unfortunately, there has been no word from FromSoftware on a fix so far.
Carian Retaliation is an Ash of War skill that gets applied to small or medium shields. This skill allows players to parry enemy spells, and when this triggers, they gain a trio of floating daggers. These will target the opponent after a few seconds, dealing damage to them.
While it sounds decent in theory, players have discovered they can strangely parry their own spells. This can be done by normally casting a spell, or using consumables (Glintstone Scraps, for example). Suddenly, the player doesn’t have to wait for an opponent to cast a spell at them. They have an attack that can be easily spammed, and it scales with the shield’s upgrade level as well.
Elden Ring PVP would already be pretty frustrating based on this, but the skill’s bugged in PVP too. Players can see the attack trigger and the dagger appears, but the actual attack is invisible, making evasion/blocking incredibly difficult.
According to the Elden Ring Reddit thread, it’s also doing far more damage than it’s supposed to, but this only really applies to the Ash of War version. If the player using this glitch parries their own spells, the projectiles don’t show up.
Similar to the Erdtree Greatshield + Fire’s Deadly Sin combo, this will probably
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