Eclipse Shotel | Elden Ring Wiki

I read a lot of negative comments about this weapon, and I'm surprised. I'm on NG (I've played 500 hours since the release, so I have experience in PVE), I've played half the game and I've never had any problems with defeating enemies or bosses. Yes, it has holy, but it is very fast. I always had a DEX ARC, bleed or starys build, now I switched to DEX FAITH and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to destroy the enemy with three shots, but I was pleasantly surprised. I have dual standing with two Eclipse Shotel, DEX FTH build. Fantastic weapon. I also have Godslayer Greatsword as an emergency, but I haven't had to use it yet. I'm more worried that after reading your comments I will invest in another weapon that is supposedly better for bosses, and I will lose +10 stones :)
Btw: weapon scales better with FAITH than with DEX.

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0/10 weapon for pve absolutely trash and why is this a legendary weapon

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PVE Death Blight solutions:

1. Have the status build up on any living thing but really low. As the enemy loses health the build up increases.

2. Have some sort of execute mechanic where Death Blight triggers instantly on enemies below 5-10% max health.

3. Simply allow it to build up like normal but have their resistances high enough that it would take enough time without it feeling like a cheese.

Bleed is already nuts in the game for enemies susceptible to it. Same goes for Black Flame stuff. Allowing Death Blight in PVE would turn a useless status into one with actual utility. It also needs a PVP buff with all the one hit wonder builds that already exist.

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I love this weapon and it’s great for invasions. When you punish the host for healing while deathblight is active it puts them in a tough spot either heal the lost health but risk getting punished with more death blight or risk an attack while low on life. And if the choose to back off it gives you space to focus on the other summons. It’s pretty deep weapon. Do I think it needs a buff yeah I do especially since there many 1-2 shot builds but probably ad minor passive death light lower stat req.

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I see a lot of people complaining about how long it takes to proc death blight, and that's somewhat fair. Obviously it shouldn't be easy, because it's an insta-kill, but it's also very easy for an human opponent to eat a death bolus and negative the whole build up. Perhaps death boluses should only incrementally reduce blight buildup in PvP?

Anyway, I'm a PvE player, and this thing is awesome for my faith / dex build.
It does a ton of damage for a weapon of its size, and hits quite fast.

I'm powerstancing it, and most non-huge enemies go down in a brief flurry of L1s. I haven't even been using any buff talismans, because so far I don't need it.

Is this a legendary weapon? I guess that's a stretch, but it's certainly not dogshit.

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man i love deathblight

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coolest curved sword, don't care.

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So what's the deal with people rejecting this status effect aow being more effective with the justification of "that would be too op"? If anything, deathblight is the only one-shot in the game that takes a full minute to pull. Giant crusher charged r2 with rkr, fully charged bolt of gransax aow, giantsflame yeets thee, basscannon of haima, bloodboon ritual and many other "fck your vigor" moves only takes 1/4 of what deathblight is limited to do in pvp. Hell, i would rather have 1 honest deathblight proc before 6 filthy procs of madness.

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the death blast aow fills up half of the deathblight meter so try hitting it as much as possible

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Another infinite health hacker spotted today with even rage mail. Call me a "trash player for using death blight to kill him, and telling me that i have no skill in actual fights"

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bad wepon

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If this sword has higher charged attack damage than others, does it extend to guard counters as well?

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Death blight in pve should be in elden ring a posture bar from sekiro equivalent just parry enough times and instant death would be granted on anything. Don't think that would be to op.

What do you all think to make death blight work in pve?

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Ways to fix this weapon:
- Give it innate deathblight build-up(no innate status build-up and only getting an absolutely pathetic THIRTY deathblight build-up with the skill is stupid).
- GIVE DEATHBLIGHT A PVE EFFECT. FromSoft please. There are a few ways to give deathblight a pve effect that I can think of right off the bat, such as having it permanently reduce maximum hp by a small amount with each proc while also doing a little damage, or making it a stackable DoT effect, or giving it an "execute" mechanic where it insta-kills the target if they are below a certain hp threshold.
- Buff the unique skill. Give the follow-up some hyper-armor, and improve the weapon buff it gives(if it's not gonna get innate deathblight at least buff the build-up from 30 to like 80 or something), like increasing the holy damage provided by it to at least 90 or higher.
- Improve it's scaling. Increase either the dex or faith scaling(or both) to a b, that could provide it a decent AR boost.

I'm praying that the DLC also improves existing game content like the unique weapons instead of only adding new content, because this isn't even the only weapon that needs some love. This is supposed to be a "legendary armament" and yet it doesn't even remotely feel like one.

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why are people crying in these comments? it's a weapon that can cause instant death, you wanted it to be good? you'd be able to just completely invalidate the challenge of the game, imagine if bleed just one shot instead of doing a percentage of health. fromsoft gamers legit know nothing about game balance lol. also i know a lot of you are level 100 casuals and pretend the pvp is trash, but you're the one who spent money on the game and are refusing to engage with a part of it so that's on you. the devs still want to give the pvp people something, and this is a tool for them. not everything is about you

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Does the Death Blight build-up scale with faith?
Or is Death Flare the only way to increase it?

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"Legendary armament"... of course. Because being such a failure is nothing short of legendary. It's gonna need much more that deathblight build up to outperform the cristal knife.

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Shittiest weapon ever

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Cons:

- Deathblight is impossible to proc (only works in PvP)
- No damage (none)
- Weakest legendary armament
- Belongs in the trash


Pros:

- LOL

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How to properly use the Eclipse Shotel:

Step 1 - Throw it in the trash

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Get your own Hacker-be-gone© today!

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Should deal int scaling holy damage. You can't chance my mind.

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honestly this weapon is ok, dunno why people are so fixated on the deathblight as if status buildup is the only thing that matters lol, doesnt really matter whether they get killed by deathblight or the physical damage of the weapon, theyll die either way lol, theyre just more likely to die to blight if they heal, so like, just whip this out on anyone that uses healing spells in the arena, they cant heal damage and get rid of the deathblight quickly

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Every weapon that's good only in pvp is dogsh!t

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Whats a good build for this weapon to troll invaders

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How is there actually people confused that this doesn't scale with int? It's TRUE DEATH related, not undeath. Everything related to true death scales with faith, undeath/necromancy is intelligence. Plus there's already wing of astel? How many int scaling Curved swords with unique weapon arts do you even need? Learn to appreciate ashes of war people

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I love these, I think I have a good setup with them, I honestly have no clue why everyone says they're bad, I dual wield them and get really good damage, plus if my opponent in pvp is wearing heavy armor the death blight works very well.

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I love these, I think I have a good setup with them, I honestly have no clue why everyone says they're bad, I dual wield them and get really good damage, plus if my opponent in pvp is wearing heavy armor the death blight works very well.

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Can't believe i found an infinite health hacker again. En that These People never try to doge or cure mr eclipse shotel or cure the death blight away. Seriously this weapon is made to counter these people

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1) it should be physically weak and rely on the death blight buildup, which should be stronger.

2)that’s not entirely fair to ask because it’s the only status that causes instant death, and phantom procs with other statuses are bad enough already:

3)deathblight should therefore buildup faster and also decrease faster, both more than any other status. The status resistance to it provided by vigor should be adjusted so that 60-64 vigor would be required to get resistance comparable to what 40ish gives you now.

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Should've been a paired weapon like the OSS, would've been nice. Uniting both halves of the eclipse and swinging them down in a much larger burst, perhaps like a shorter range Scouring Blackflame. FromSoft really slept on their old ideas with this game, not even an int/fth affinity like DS3…

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i have seen one invader use this in my entire game time and they had one of the coolest set ups i've ever seen, it's a shame its so rare to see the creativity (they even got to deathblight one of my phantoms! which is esp surprising given its almost impossible to proc). Such a cool looking weapon, its a shame you'd either A. just use it for pvp or B. use it for pve with the knowledge its pretty bad

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Kinda lame that it doesn't scale with int

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Easy fix for balancing this status effect without crippling its buildup like they did: Treat it like Madness; it builds up on you too, so HAVE to raise your resistance or you proc it on yourself way before your opponent. Also make all the best blight resistance equipment weak armor and dedicated talismans. At least this way you're forced to play a riskier and less damaging build and it's very difficult to proc blight on an entire team.

But what do i know, I'm just some dumb rando on the internet.

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The eclipse showed hell

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You know it's kinda sad to know this is only for pvp use full. Becease remember if elden ring has it's dlc released and a new soulsborne game comes out the pvp community in elden ring will leave with it. And if this game online wise, dies (hope if doesn't) then what was the point of this weapon when pvp is next to non existence?

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Odd that the AoW follow up attack is L2 again, I was pretty confused when trying to get R2 to follow up like Flaming Strike.

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You’ve just got to commit to trolling with these. Grab 2 and keep them at +0. We are planting tree here people, not vigor checking.

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Seems like dual wielding 2 of these is the only way for death blight to hace decent buildup.

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Maybe not a great weapon, not even a good one, but it certainly strikes a certain type of fear in some players when they see the possibility of instant death. Although that fear is pointless if they opponent knows that the build up won’t happen.

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They should make it so that enemies that have taken any death blight buildup should have the death blight -death animation.
That way, even if it doesn't proc (which is essentially all the time in PvP And PvE) it still feels somewhat rewarding for using the weapon or incantations.

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Here is an idea. In PVE when death blight procs, enemy has greatly reduces poise health and recovery. As enemy gets pulled by roots and their life being drained. On poise break, riposte damage increased by ~1.3, then effect dispels. Would help this fast weapon class to feel more heavy and fits thematically as you making a mercy kill. Also synergizes well with Guts cosplayers in your team.

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It would be so cool to see bosses killed by death blight. If bosses had like 3000 death blight accumulation in order to proc the kill animation for death blight i think it would also be balanced enough. Let's say we give Eclipse Shotel like 50/75 death blight per hit. That would mean over 40 hits in order to proc and most bosses would already have low HP, so having a death blight animation on them would be so satisfying. For incantation, the number of DB per hit could be even lower, as well for pvp, so nobody gets one shot right away.

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Best used against greatshield users and estus-chuggers
Since it pierces shields and deathblight ignores health

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impossible to proc, would've been cool is it was a reliable status effect like hemorrhage

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This is a tricky thing to balance since right now the deathblight buildup is so bad that you’ll almost never proc it on someone before killing them unless you use them unupgraded. On the other hand if they buffed the buildup then it could become way too OP since deathblight is an instakill. It is also a shame that deathblight has no use in PvE since enemies don’t get affected by it. I love the look of this weapon and the visual look of the deathblight however it just feels really weak right now even in PvP where this thing is supposed to shine due to deathblight.

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Hope the dlc can give us a scythe that has death blight. I want my grimm reaper cosplay damn it!

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Feels like this thing should be an int weapon since most of the other death based tools scale better with int. I wanted to do a death based necromancer build at 125 but it’s very difficult to accommodate this on a build that uses death sorceries.

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Not the worst for dealing holy damage with how it's buff works, but it does suck that Death Blight is such a bad status. Especially as someone who very rarely plays PvP, this thing's power is limited at best, even moreso compared to the other Legendary weapons.

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With the Black Wolf Mask, some dark robe and dual Eclipse or regular Shotel, you can become death straight up XD

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Cool weapon, unfortunately any decently upgraded shotel will just kill the host before the deathblight actually procs. Its honestly not a bad weapon in that regard either if you think it looks cool, its just not gonna deathblight particularly often. Even if you dual wield.

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Legendary armament of B versus B legend Cursed Eshmernia

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hits hard, chips shield, triggers death on occasion, awesome pvp weapon

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amazing invasion/pvp (with healing) weapon
if they're heal spamming it dosent matter because you can eventually just instakill them after like 7 hits

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I just love the smell of fear.

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Pick it up

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Pick it up

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What's the matter, lives flashing before your eyes?

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im surprised nobody thought of a death build from new puss in boots movie

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The death blight is just scary but nothing else.

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This weapon is ****ing garbage in pve.

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I think people got the wrong idea. Death bed companions are faith healers and the death blight forces people to create space for your casting/healing. It’s supposed to be very difficult to have death blight sword, death blight sorcery, death blight incantation without massive sacrifices to armor/mind or even hp. But... Imagine the synergy between a few shotel hits into death lightning into erdtree heal or honed bolt... a team fight simply doubles or triples your healing out put and the power of your elemental buffs. I’ve recently tested this in both duels and team fights and it’s pretty solid as dex/fth/mind RL125 team support and anyone curing death blight was countered with an erdtree heal, jump attack or honed bolt with gravel stone seal. If lhutel wasn’t always invisible and distracted, maybe I’d have even gotten some trees in spirit summon duels. The problem with lhutel is she doesn’t really protect me while I’m getting targeted by my opponent and his summons. My player team mates were much better at protecting me in team fights and opponents were often dumb enough to eat death lightning one shots. In duels, my opponents would rather run even when they know i heal, and I don’t care about their silly rules about “no healing miracles” from a game 10 years in the past.

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can this weapon be infused to deal blood damage?

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would be p e r f e c t is it caused its status effect a million times faster... currently takes about 23 to 30 hits (with two of 'em) to deathblight, or much, much, much more if cured... sadly its curable... ouch

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even if your opponent has less than minimum deathblight resistance (probably like 200 total) you'd need to be really aggressive and hit them 10 times to blight. Ain't no way.

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Skeletor's been planting trees in some bvb.:)

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Death by Daily death blight

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It’s about 25 blight per r1 when 2 handing

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Deathblight will never be viable, why cant we have a legendary weapon that isnt complete garbage

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so short and curved its pretty much a sickle

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I wish that if it's already buffed, trying to use the weapon art just skips the buffing animation and goes straight to the explosion (With SOME windup, of course). Even if it doesn't extend the initial buff. With you already being more likely to kill them than death blight them, it could really use the ability to apply pure build up some way.

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I you want buildup purely, DO NOT DUAL WIELD! Not only will they die before the buildup procs, but due to the recent nerf powerstancing these inflicts a PITIFUL amount of buildup. i belive one running attack is around 3/4 of a typical running attack single handed in terms of buildup. youre better off with fias mist in your offhand. (you can use azur staff for faster casting, and you don't need to meet the requirements.)

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Does a lot of damage with the right setup but you will NEVER get the proc even when they heal

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Does the deathblight buildup work when you don’t have the stats to use this weapon?

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had somebody try to do the fire deadly sin bug with this on me. guess they haven't played for a few months lol

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Would be cool if it had more use in pve

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I've seen some disagreement on using this against fingerprint turtles, this is actually a great way to end the fight quickly as you will die much faster from trading with shield attacks due to thrust counters! Try it yourself next time you're being interrupted from severing!

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“Oh hey cool a weapon based around death blight, I can’t wait to use it against Gideon” Miyazaki: let’s make Gideon immune to blight

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Peguei essa arma coloquei ela no máximo e alguém poderia me responder por favor se ela está fazendo sua morte instantânea como antes. Obrigado.

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this weapon is cool, i just wish it wasn't so friggin short

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"Legendary"

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Use against players that hide behind the fingerprint stone shield

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Use against players that hide behind fingerprint stone shield

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does the followup explosion inflict curse too? if so how much?

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The people complaining about deathblight....its used for mental warfare like frenzy and the flame of deadly sin with blood blade. Panic and fear play an important role in pvp, and those that win against such tactics point down only because they hate their heart rate being so high lol

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To be honest i think this weapon was made for the chance you where unfortunate enough to encounter a infinite health hacker.

I was a victim of fighting sutch a hacker yesterday in elden ring. He was a blue summon, in a world of an afk farmer.

I attacked that basterd, he got staggered, but he couldn't be damaged.

So after eventually knowing i could inflict any damage i remembered this weapon was in the game that could 1 shot people with it's status effect.

Used it against the pathetic hacker, and he died by the status effect the poor fool.

He even rage mailed me and calling me a cheater LMAO.

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Has excellent base damage. So I tried a 99 vigor raw build stacking all life boost on mausoleum armor and using fias mist when I need to rebuff. The damage was good but I only procced death twice while dueling. I bet if I had two shotels I could’ve gotten tons of death blight. I got close on a ton of people and could tell by how passive/cowardly they became. Anyways the weapon is very good and the ash does good dmg if used properly. I can’t say that the death blight build up needs a buff... it’s instant death lol and I bet two would be disgusting... but I think hitting someone with the L2 should do way more death blight.

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deathblight needs a buff, i have never been deathblighted by a player and its effects can be negated with a bolus that takes a second to use, you might get hit while using it but the alternative is death. the duration on this is way too short and im able to kill people with it normally before the deathblight procs. meanwhile players with 60 arcane and double sepuku can instantly bleed me for 90% of my health, might as well be deathblight at that point.

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Seems kinda doodoo for pve considering that everything other than other tarnished and npc invaders can't be death blighted.

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i wish this wasnt a shotel i like curved swords and i like the concept of this but shotels just look so lame

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Does it inflict curse with the weapon art only, or with the regular hits too?

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for those of you complaining that this thing kill before it inflicts death blight

its a shotel thats supposed to chip through shields. this thing is meant to kill passive shield players

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Weapon skill is strong but has no hyper armor. Death blight is a pipe dream in PvP and literally useless offline. At least it's always stronger than a Sacred Shotel, but really I can't think of why you would use one besides chipping a Fingerprint Stone, and there are better tools for that job.

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The fact this is the only death blight weapon in the game sucks.

It's a good weapon to kill people with, but to try and fill up the meter you need to do 2 times the explosion weapon art in someones face. and that animation is slow as hell and doesn't give you hyper armor! And after that you might be able to death blight a person after 2-3 hits with it. So in pvp It's not worth it in trying to use it against someone for the status effect.

Hope the dlc makes us able to use a better weapon for the status effect.

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It looks like the cheat engine logo, and once, it really was like cheat engine, in a way.

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They finally patched out the combo with the Pulley Crossbow.

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You know what Iwish? I wish this weapon in PvE would do some sort of animation of leave some deathroot effects on enemies so that it FEELS like I'm Wielding a weapon that really inflicts deathblight. It would just look pleasing to the eye that deathblight has a real effect on enemies.

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Guys just to add my two cents, don't try to min/max everything. If a weapon looks interesting, use it, have fun with the game. No weapon is bad enough to make the game unplayable, as long as you know what you're doing.

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I hope they add a death blight scythe in a dlc at some point. I want to be the Grim Reaper!

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Does the death blight buildup scale with anything? Weapon level, faith, str/dex?

Because, if not, this is a twink weapon to harass early game players.

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