Seraph Sacramentum

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PurgatumSacramentum

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Tankiness 8/10
Comfort Medium/Low
AoE Low/Medium
Seraph Sacramentum

Seraph Sacramentum

PvE Combo Guide

Seraph Sacramentum

Sacramentum Rotation

  1. W + LMB
    Sacra: Impelling Thrust
  2. F
    Fling Kick
  3. F
    Flow: Divine Opening
  4. Shift + Q
    Crossing Slash
  5. W + F
    Sacra: Impelling Surge
  6. Shift + E
    Sacra: Poena Divina
  7. Shift + Z
    Iudicium
  8. Shift + F
    Sacra: Horizon Slash
  9. Shift + LMB
    Sacra: Grave Sundering
  10. Space
    Armor Crush
  11. S + RMB
    Rising Slash
  12. LMB / RMB
    Flow: Impelling Slash/Flow: Shouldersmite
  13. LMB / RMB
    Combo: Crushing Descent
  14. Space
    Combo: Bone Breaker

Base Form Rotation

  1. F
    Fling Kick
  2. F
    Flow: Divine Opening
  3. Shift + Q
    Crossing Slash
  4. LMB / RMB
    Flow: Impelling Slash/Flow: Shouldersmite
  5. LMB / RMB
    Combo: Crushing Descent
  6. Space
    Combo: Bone Breaker
  7. Shift + F
    Horizon Slash
  8. Space
    Armor Crush
  9. S + RMB
    Rising Slash
  10. LMB / RMB
    Flow: Impelling Slash/Flow: Shouldersmite
  11. LMB / RMB
    Combo: Crushing Descent
  12. Space
    Combo: Bone Breaker
  13. Shift + LMB
    Grave Sundering

Movement

Class Mobility

Movement from pack-to-pack (Base Form)

  1. Shift + W
    Vanguard Chase+Dauntless Will
  2. W + LMB
    Impelling Thrust
  3. W + F
    Impelling Surge

Movement from pack-to-pack (Sacramentum)

  1. Shift + W
    Vanguard Chase+Dauntless Will
  2. W + LMB
    Impelling Thrust
  3. W + F
    Impelling Surge
  4. Shift + RMB
    Culling the Dead

Examples of Repositioning

  1. Directional Key + Shift
    Vanguard ChaseNo character collision while moving backwards or laterally
  2. A / D + RMB
    Feinting Cleave
  3. Shift + RMB
    Culling the DeadSacramentum only

Build Notes

Class Specifics

Skill Enhancements

  1. Horizon Cleave
    Lv. 56
  2. Iudicium
    Lv. 57
  3. Combo: Wrenching Impale/Focus: Crossing Slash
    Lv. 58

Skills to Lock

  1. Line BreakerOptional to lock: it provides an AP buff but often conflicts with skills in the chain combo

Skill Add-ons

Class Addons

These add-ons are designed to swap between Sacramentum and Purgatum with 100% uptime in both forms.

Rising Slash I

Launch a forceful upward slash with your greatsword.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Fling Kick I

With a cunning, unorthodox kick, you thwart your foe's rhythm.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Armor Crush I

Repel your foe with the flat of your greatsword.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 7 sec
  • All Damage Reduction -20 for 7 sec to target

Poena Divina I

Channel your Sacred Power into a smiting slash.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Crossing Slash I

Channel Sacred Power into a cross-shaped slash.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • All Damage Reduction -20 for 10 sec to target

Grave Sundering I

Unleash the art of the greatsword passed down from ages past.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • Movement Speed +10% for 12 sec

Change Log

October 8, 2026

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Matchlock: Fixed camera shake and controller vibration happening at regular intervals while holding the matchlock.Both specs

  • All

    Unified the level-based base stats (Max HP, HP Recovery, All AP, All Damage Reduction and All Evasion) for every class. Class-specific stat differences now come from a new passive skill learned automatically at Lv. 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.All classes

  • All

    Added the common skill Godslayer: Force Palm (Lv. 60+). Its Secret Book is obtained at A Freesword's Hearth in Voidekaia after finishing the Inner Edania main quests.All classes

September 23, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed some combat-stance idle animations not transitioning into skills.Both specs

September 3, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dauntless Will: Now activates whether or not Vanguard Chase is on cooldown.Both specs

August 27, 2026

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Feinting Cleave: New Abyssal skill: Feinting Cleave, for repositioning, setting up CC, or continuing linked skills from behind via Unshakable Will. Unlock via the Magnus questline, Abyssal Veins - Balenos knowledge and [The Magnus] Abyssal Revelation (or the Heidel Skill Instructor).Both specs

  • PvE

    Normal-state PvE damage lowered: Impelling Thrust, Combo: Wrenching Impale, Flow: Impelling Slash, Flow: Shouldersmite and Combo: Crushing Descent -5%; Crossing Slash, Horizon Slash, Grave Sundering and Culling the Dead -6%; Fling Kick and Flow: Divine Opening -3%; Iudicium -10%. PvP ratios raised so PvP damage stays the same.Both specs

  • PvE

    PvE damage +3%: Sacra: Crossing Slash, Sacra: Poena Divina, Sacra: Horizon Slash, Sacra: Grave Sundering, so total Sacramentum damage stays the same. PvP ratios lowered so PvP damage stays the same.

May 14, 2026

6 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dauntless Will, Vanguard Chase: Dauntless Will: added a 6 sec cooldown, slower camera turn during its Vanguard Chase, Stamina on cooldown 200 → 150. Vanguard Chase: Movement Speed +15% removed.Both specs

  • PvP

    Impelling Thrust, Impelling Surge: Impelling Thrust (and Sacra): about 22.6% less movement, motion about 1.7% longer. Impelling Surge (and Sacra): about 10.4% less movement, motion about 8.1% longer, PvP Knockdown removed.Both specs

  • All

    Rising Slash, Horizon Slash, Mark of Judgment: Rising Slash gains Super Armor. Horizon Slash Knockback only on attack 2 (was 1 and 2). Mark of Judgment loses Down Smash.Both specs

  • All

    Horizon Slash, Flow: Impelling Slash, Combo: Bone Breaker: Recover HP per hit: Horizon Slash 500 → 200 (3 hits), Flow: Impelling Slash 100 → 300 (2 hits), Combo: Bone Breaker added at 300 (3 hits).Both specs

  • PvP

    PvP damage raised: Absolute: Line Breaker and Absolute: Rising Slash 35% → 38%, Absolute: Oblique Rising Slash 40% → 44%, Absolute: Mark of Judgment 23% → 35%, Flow: Impelling Slash 36% → 44%, Flow: Shouldersmite 41.25% → 47%.Both specs

  • PvP

    Gallows Grip: Grapple range about 33% shorter.Both specs

April 30, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Rage Absorption: Fixed Quick Slot use without Black Spirit's Rage granting Super Armor.Both specs

February 12, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Vanguard Chase, Impelling Thrust, Impelling Surge, Horizon Slash: Stamina: Vanguard Chase chained via Dauntless Will 50 → 100; Impelling Thrust (and Sacra) 75 → 200; Impelling Surge (and Sacra) 150 → 200. Horizon Slash (and Sacra) no longer recovers Stamina.Both specs

  • All

    Removed "Extra Damage to Guard Gauge" (including Extra Fixed Damage to Guard Gauge) from all skills.All classes

February 5, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Combo: Wrenching Impale, Purga: Judgment of Justice: Wrenching Impale can combo into other skills with Unshakable Will II active; Purga: Judgment of Justice can combo into Purga: Unveiled Enmity.Both specs

January 15, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Combo: Wrenching Impale, Unshakable Will: Wrenching Impale takes priority after Impelling Thrust with Unshakable Will II active. Unshakable Will II: smoother combos after Sacra Mark of Purification / Judgment of Justice, and its Attack Speed no longer jumps to max stacks from Impelling Thrust or Surge. Combo: Crushing Descent triggers more reliably after Flow: Shouldersmite.Both specs

  • All

    Mark of Purification and Judgment of Justice (Sacra and Purga) now consume SP in one tick; SP costs of Horizon Whirl, Horizon Cleave, Impelling Crush and Iudicium adjusted. Fixed entering combat without an awakening weapon, and removing it now cancels Purgatum.Both specs

January 8, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Rabam skills added (one per level): Lv. 56 Horizon Cleave / Horizon Whirl / Mark of Purification; Lv. 57 Impelling Crush / Iudicium / Judgment of Justice; Lv. 58 Combo: Wrenching Impale / Focus: Crossing Slash. In Purgatum they become dash skills.Both specs

  • All

    Oblique Rising Slash, Vanguard Chase: Oblique Rising Slash gains All Damage Reduction +5/10/20 and no longer slows at higher levels. Vanguard Chase combos smoothly after side and forward use.Both specs

December 31, 2025

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Impelling Slash, Twin Rising Slash, Mark of Judgment: Flow: Impelling Slash recovers 25/50/70/100 HP per hit instead of SP. Twin Rising Slash and Mark of Judgment gain Critical Hit Rate +20%; fixed Mark of Judgment attack 2 not recovering HP.Both specs

  • All

    Goyen's Greatsword Arts: Can combo into the next skill from the first attack.Both specs

December 24, 2025

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Sacramentum, Purgatum: Both gain a passive: Black Spirit's Rage +1.5% every 10 sec. Smoother instant Sacramentum skills in Champion of the Holy Covenant. Leaving Avatar of Condemnation gives Invincible instead of Super Armor.Both specs

  • All

    Flow: Shouldersmite, Combo: Bone Breaker, Vanguard Chase, Armor Crush: Shouldersmite and Bone Breaker turn with the camera until the pre-attack move. Vanguard Chase vaults crossable terrain instead of triggering Armor Crush. Armor Crush area slightly larger.Both specs

  • All

    Sacra: Horizon Slash, Sacra: Culling the Dead: Horizon Slash moves as far as the normal version; Culling the Dead moves consistently when used right after other skills.

  • All

    Culling the Dead, Flow: Divine Opening: Culling the Dead combos more smoothly into Impelling Slash, Shouldersmite, Crushing Descent and Bone Breaker with Unshakable Will II (RMB fix included). Fixed Flow: Divine Opening not applying Evasion Decrease.Both specs

December 18, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Seraph released (Dec 18). Dec 22 update: main-weapon skills now use 100% of main weapon AP; Ascension skills use 70% awakening AP and 30% main weapon AP.Both specs

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