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Ethereal Razor is the melee perk of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies. With it, an offhand melee swipe hits several enemies in an arc, and swipes and lunges deal bonus damage and give back a small amount of health. It was not in the game at launch: it came with Operation Grand Heist, on February 19, 2019.

Overview

First appearanceAll the maps of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 at once, with Operation Grand Heist, February 19, 2019

GamesBlack Ops 4

Cost4,000 points5,500 points in the Modifier slot

EffectOffhand melee swipes hit several enemies in an arc; swipes and lunges deal bonus damage and restore a small amount of health.

FamilyPerks of Black Ops 4 Zombies

UnlockFrom the start

Like every perk of Black Ops 4, Ethereal Razor has no machine of its own. Each player picks four perks before the game, in the Zombies Create-a-Class, and gives each one a slot: the Brew, Cola, Soda and Tonic machines on the Aether maps, the statues of Danu, Ra, Zeus and Odin on the Chaos maps. The perk placed on Tonic or Odin gains a second effect, its Modifier, once the player holds all four perks.

In the First Room

No First Room of Black Ops 4 has a fixed perk: an altar serves the perk the player placed on it in the loadout. The books of the eight maps of the site put a single altar in reach with the doors closed, so Ethereal Razor is in a First Room only when the player gave it that slot.

Map	Game	What the book of the map says
Voyage of Despair	Black Ops 4	Forecastle: the Danu altar, a green statue of the goddess by the railing, to the right of the spawn, is the only perk of the First Room. It serves the perk the player placed there in the loadout, at the price of that perk.
IX	Black Ops 4	Arena: no altar, the four stand at the top of the four towers. A First Room player has no perk at all, unless the seventh challenge of a banner gives one.

Five other books say that no altar or machine is in the First Room: Dead of the Night, Ancient Evil, Blood of the Dead, Classified and Tag der Toten. The book of Alpha Omega names no perk in its First Room. The records are on the ZFRR leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

Base effect

4,000 points. Offhand melee swipes affect several enemies in an arc. The swipe and the lunge both deal bonus damage, and both restore a small amount of health.

The totem of the perk held in a player's hand, a small red samurai armor glowing pink, Ethereal Razor, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Zombies

Modifier

5,500 points on Tonic or Odin. With all four perks in hand, an offhand lunge kills a basic zombie instantly and deals greater bonus damage to the other enemies.

Added after launch

Ethereal Razor came to every map with Operation Grand Heist, on February 19, 2019.

Where to find it

Black Ops 4: all eight maps, since the perk comes from the loadout. Ethereal Razor is a Perk Vapor on Voyage of Despair, IX, Dead of the Night and Ancient Evil, and a Perk-a-Cola on Blood of the Dead, Classified, Alpha Omega and Tag der Toten.

Ethereal Razor was the first of the four perks added to Black Ops 4 after launch; Zombshell, Blood Wolf Bite and Blaze Phase followed it. Electric Burst is the other perk of the game whose Modifier goes through the melee weapon.