Troll's Golden Sword
Troll’s Golden Sword is an ordinary colossal sword found as a fixed pickup in the Altus Plateau region. It offers broad golden-blade sweeps, Troll’s Roar, Smithing Stone upgrades, and full affinity freedom for players who want the troll sword shape without a fixed magic setup.
Key Takeaways
Troll's Golden Sword is a unique Colossal Sword built around heavy physical attacks and the Troll's Roar weapon skill.
Unique colossal weapon
It occupies the Colossal Sword class and is designed for high-commitment melee attacks, with its weight and strength requirement shaping the builds that can use it effectively.
Fixed skill and upgrade path
Troll's Golden Sword comes with Troll's Roar and uses the Somber Smithing Stone reinforcement path. Its unique status limits the weapon-skill and affinity flexibility available to standard weapons.
Key requirements
The sword requires 29 Strength and 10 Dexterity to wield, making Strength-focused characters its most direct users.
Acquisition condition
It is obtained as a drop from a troll pulling a caravan in the Altus Plateau, rather than from a standard merchant inventory or a conventional boss reward.
Main trade-off
Its reach and heavy Colossal Sword attacks give it strong single-target pressure, but its substantial weight, high commitment and fixed skill reduce its convenience for lighter or highly customizable setups.
Comparison point
Compared with infusible Colossal Swords, it offers a defined skill and a Somber upgrade route instead of broad Ash of War and affinity customization; the better choice depends on whether fixed identity or flexibility matters more.
Overview
Troll's Golden Sword is a base-game Elden Ring colossal sword with a distinctive gold-forged appearance and a weapon skill associated with the trolls. It occupies a heavy, strength-oriented role rather than competing directly with lighter greatswords or faith-focused golden weapons.
Troll's Golden Sword is a colossal sword, placing it among Elden Ring's most commitment-heavy melee weapons. Its identity comes from the combination of substantial reach, slow attacks, and the ability to deliver high-impact strikes when the player has enough space to complete them. It is therefore suited to deliberate spacing and punish windows rather than constant rapid attacks.
The weapon's defining feature is Troll's Roar, a troll-themed skill that gives it a more distinctive combat role than a colossal sword with only a conventional armament skill. The skill adds a close-range option to a moveset otherwise centered on wide, weighty swings, although using it still requires the player to manage timing, positioning, and the opening created by a large weapon.
Despite its golden appearance, Troll's Golden Sword should not be treated as a variant of the Golden Order Greatsword or as a general-purpose faith weapon. Those weapons belong to different equipment roles and build expectations. Troll's Golden Sword instead belongs with heavy physical melee choices, making its most relevant alternatives other colossal swords that offer comparable reach, weight, or strength-oriented progression.
The sword is available in the base game rather than being a Shadow of the Erdtree addition, and it can be obtained during ordinary exploration without requiring a late-game expansion area. Its place in progression depends less on a special story role than on whether a character can support the demands of a colossal weapon. Players who value heavy stagger pressure and a memorable troll-themed skill may find it worth keeping, while those seeking faster recovery or more flexible close-range attacks may prefer a lighter class.
Statistics
Elden Ring publishes no 0–100 stat bars, so this page lists the verified requirements, scaling and handling figures instead. Taken from the project's verified weapons database, not from generated text.
- CategoryStraight Swords
- Damage TypeSlash
- Primary ScalingStr D / Fai D
- Weight9
- SkillGolden Slam
- Str Req22
- Dex Req10
- Fai Req10
- How to ObtainDropped by golden-armored Troll Knights, Leyndell
Figures verified against Consolidated Game Weapons Database.
Compared to similar straight swords
| Weapon | Str Req | Dex Req | Weight | Primary Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troll's Golden Sword | 22 | 10 | 9 | Str D / Fai D |
| Troll Knight's Sword | 22 | 10 | 8.5 | Str D |
| Claymore | 12 | 17 | 7 | Dex D / Str D |
| Iron Cleaver | 16 | 10 | 6 | Str D |
| Stone-Sheathed Sword | 12 | 10 | 6 | Str D |
Requirements, scaling grades and weight are the game’s own published figures. From Consolidated Game Weapons Database.
How to Obtain
- Access to the Altus Plateau.
- 01Reach the Altus Plateau and travel to the Erdtree-Gazing Hill Site of Grace. From the grace, follow the nearby road north to the carriage in the field; open the chest in the carriage's rear to collect Troll's Golden Sword. The weapon is a fixed chest pickup, not an enemy drop, vendor purchase, quest reward, or boss reward.
- 02The chest provides the weapon directly when looted, so no quest, boss defeat, key item, or additional prerequisite is required beyond reaching the Altus Plateau. The pickup is available in the base game and does not require Shadow of the Erdtree or New Game Plus.
Mechanics and Handling
Troll's Golden Sword uses the committed attack pattern expected of a Colossal Sword. Its swings cover a broad area in front of the wielder, but their long recovery makes spacing and attack selection important. The weapon is better suited to deliberate openings, stagger pressure and jump attacks than to rapidly chaining light attacks against mobile targets.
Colossal Sword reach and attack commitment
The regular attack sequence consists of heavy, sweeping greatsword strikes with substantial animation commitment. The horizontal coverage helps catch targets positioned beside the initial target, while the weapon's size makes tight spacing and camera control important in confined areas. Its charged heavy attack is primarily an opening or stagger tool: use it when an enemy is recovering, trapped in an animation, or already pressured rather than attempting to trade freely. Troll's Golden Sword can also be used two-handed, which changes how its attacks interact with the wielder's effective Strength and is generally the more direct way to handle a strength-focused setup.
Troll's Roar
Troll's Golden Sword has the fixed weapon skill Troll's Roar rather than a freely interchangeable Ash of War. Activating it produces a powerful roar and shockwave in front of the wielder, giving the weapon a way to apply pressure without immediately committing to a normal sword swing. The skill can be followed by a strong attack for a forceful follow-up strike. That sequence is most useful when the roar connects or creates enough space to safely complete the second input; using the follow-up automatically in a crowded fight can leave the wielder exposed.
Status, defence and resource behaviour
The weapon has no notable innate status buildup, so its combat identity comes from physical melee pressure, reach and the Troll's Roar skill rather than a bleed, frost or poison setup. It does not have a ranged ammunition or reload loop. As with other large melee weapons, the wielder can use normal guarding or evasive movement between attacks, but holding a defensive posture does not remove the recovery commitment of an already-started swing. The main handling trade-off is therefore reach and impact in exchange for slower, more punishable actions.
Upgrades and Variants
Strengths, Weaknesses and Best Uses
Strengths
- The colossal-sword moveset gives Troll's Golden Sword broad, forward-reaching swings, helping it catch enemies that are outside lighter weapons' immediate spacing.
- Troll's Roar adds a ranged shockwave to an otherwise close-range weapon, giving the wielder a way to pressure or interrupt targets before committing to melee range.
- Its follow-up attack after Troll's Roar provides a deliberate burst option when the shockwave creates an opening.
Weaknesses
- The colossal-sword class has slow, committed attacks; missed swings leave less time to evade or recover than lighter sword attacks.
- Its substantial weight and high Strength requirement restrict equipment load and make it a poor fit for low-Strength or highly mobile setups.
- The weapon's size can make cramped spaces and fast, evasive enemies awkward matchups, particularly when there is not enough room to complete its swings.
Best uses
- Strength-focused PvE builds that can manage the weapon's weight and want reach, stagger pressure, and committed trades.
- Open-area encounters where Troll's Roar's shockwave can start an engagement or punish an enemy approaching from outside normal melee range.
- Players seeking a colossal sword with a built-in ranged skill rather than a purely close-range moveset.
Compared With Similar Weapons
| Weapon | Class and role | Skill / customization | Build distinction | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troll Knight's Sword | Troll's Roar; fixed skill | More compact class option for a similar troll-themed playstyle | Players who want the family identity without using a Colossal Sword | — |
| Zweihander | Infusable and compatible with changeable Ashes of War | Offers more skill and affinity flexibility than Troll's Golden Sword | Strength builds that want to tune the weapon for different encounters | — |
| Greatsword | Infusable with changeable Ashes of War | A more customizable alternative to the Golden Sword's fixed setup | Players prioritizing flexible Ash of War and affinity choices | — |
| Ruins Greatsword | Fixed skill with a Strength/Intelligence-leaning identity | Trades the Golden Sword's simpler setup for gravity-based weapon skill utility | Hybrid builds that specifically support its unique skill | — |
Used In
- Altus PlateauTroll's Golden Sword is obtained from a chest in a carriage in this region.
- Erdtree-Gazing HillThe carriage containing Troll's Golden Sword is located south of this Site of Grace.
Lore and Design
The Troll's Golden Sword is framed through its item description as a weapon of the trolls, whose ancestry is connected to the giants. The description also places the trolls in an earlier opposition to the Erdtree, giving the weapon a small but clear link to Elden Ring's shifting history of allegiance. Its gold-forged construction is the defining design detail: the material is presented as part of the weapon's troll identity rather than as evidence of a documented real-world inspiration.
The weapon has no separately documented developer commentary or confirmed character association in the available evidence. Its lore is therefore best treated as contextual rather than as a major story artifact. The description supports a relationship between trolls, giants, and the Erdtree, but does not by itself establish a specific owner, historical event, or unique role for this sword.