Champion's Greathammer - Custom Weapon and Moveset

This mod is the final part of my Champion-Paladin Gear collection. Check out the other mods:

   Beast Champion Set Tweaks

Gilded Commoner's Headband

   Champion's Greathammer (replaces Black Steel Greathammer) - if you just want a model + icons replacement

Proud to present my first custom weapon mod for Elden Ring! A blessed great hammer of a once renowned paladin who left Golden Order Fundamentalism, as they no longer believed in the righteousness of its ways, staying faithful only to the Erdtree itself. Years later they set sail away from The Lands Between, leaving just their favored weapon for another to find.

Champion's Greathammer has hefty stat requirements of 36 STR, 24 FTH and 10 DEX. This means that the weapon will be usable at exactly 24 STR and 24 FTH if 2-handed. It boasts a unique 2-handed moveset and certain two-handed attacks resonate with holy energy, dealing slightly more holy damage and costing less stamina. Also all 2-handed attacks were slighly tweaked, particularly the sound design is now that of colossal weapons. You can see more details in the showcase video. Bottom line is the weapon feels heavy, powerful and very satisfying to swing.

Being a somber weapon, at +10 it has B(slightly higher) scaling in STR and B(slightly lower) scaling in FTH. Oh and an E scaling in DEX, truly worth investing in. Despite almost equal STR and FTH scaling, its base physical damage is higher, so one might choose to invest more in Strength. However, to prevent that and make it a true hybrid weapon it has an ace - its unique skill.

  Unique Skill: Erdtree's Judgement

This is the biggest strength of the weapon, as the skill has 4 different parts to it, each having utility and all of that for a whopping 45 FP, making it the single most expensive weapon art compared to vanilla ones (Destined Death and Golden Vow are both tied in first place at 40 FP, not counting chanelling skills). For 45 FP and 60 Stamina you get:

  1. Raising the weapon aloft casts an Erdtree sigil, enchanting it with holy affinity. The buff works differently from skills like Sacred Blade and incantations like Order's Blade. Firstly, it adds 40 points in Faith scaling, which theoretically increases the scaling at +10 from B to low S for 36sec* (35 really, as it lines up perfectly with Holy Ground). This scaling change isn't shown in the menu, and it affects only the holy damage portion of the weapon, which has lower base damage than physical, so this temporarily brings it closer. The reasoning behind this is 1) it will scale naturally and won't feel weaker at higher RL, and 2) It insentivises leveling STR and FTH equally, so