Cinquedea | Elden Ring Wiki

wtf how am I just finding out about this area and this weapon..? I legit have 1800 hours in this game lmfao

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Why the actual f*ck can't I infuse this?! Quickstep's not even a unique skill! I wanted to do a beastial build and I can't put Beast Roar on my dagger? That's some bull.

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Feels like this should have innate Faith scaling, even if it doesn't inflict holy damage, similar to the Erdtree Dagger. Probably C or D scaling.

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Gave a strength/faith build focusing on bestial incantations a try, and I used this throughout the entire playthrough. From my experience, it's quite good. The bestial incantations inflict heavy poise damage and being able to guardbreak enemies and quickstep in and riposte is extremely effective in PVE. The buff to bestial incantations is negligible at a paltry 10% but it adds up when you stack buffs. The only change I would suggest is increasing the critical modifier, 110 would be just fine. I don't understand why it doesn't already have this, it makes zero sense to balance this off-meta weapon that is already considered a weak option for strength builds.

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If anyone is actually wondering why a couple of weapons seem to be covered in golden-brown coating, it is the same liquid that is festering in Living Jars. Gargoyles we fight throughout the game eventually start to decay and lose their mobility as time goes on, as such the Golden Order resorted to coating them in the festered insides of corpses they stored in Living Jars that were whisked over and over as time went on. Same liquid can be seen on the blades they use, as to why Cinquedea was coated as well I am unsure.

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did Gurranq use this to scrach his booty hole or is there a lore reason is covered in dookie

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Guys I just noticed there's no toilets in this game. Where does everybody poop?

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1.10 is in fact a broken game. I’ve developed a strategy where I intentionally allow my opponent to hit me and then immediately start spamming my offhand cinquedea. I’ll win the trade and spam faster than their rolls can come out. My main hand is obviously a halberd so there’s no escape. I switched to arcane, reduvia, otherwise same set up and now this strategy can straight up blender lighter builds and I win trades against hyper armor,ESPECCIALLY collosals cause all weapons are too slow on their second r2. You understand this is a death sentence anytime someone hits me? Dagger has the range, damage, stagger and now bleed to steamroll even collosals. This is before L2 selection gets involved.

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How do I.. get back up?

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nice design, nice damage, **** range, garbage aow... aand boosts the weakest incantations.. 2/10 this is a weapon that exists only to increase number of daggers. if only I could change aow.. nope quiclstep is soo unique that you simply can have anything else.. hate it

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When you drop down to the bottom area where the cinquedea is, you can have an issue where aggro never drops even if all the enemies are dead. If this happens to and you can’t warp out because of it, quit out and reload and you’ll be able to warp. Hope this helps some skeleton out there.

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I wish this thing had some faith scaling, or at the very least a crit modifier like other daggers

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it is quite amusing using this weapon two-handed and just using its moveset and quickstep in duels; people don't expect you to quickstep to chase their rolls and be aggressive

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To get down all the way, after running the root path, platform back and forth between the tower closest to the roots and the building. The last bit involves a jump to the ledge of the building, and a running jump to the highest rock on the pile where the building meets the mountain.

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Would be fun if charging the quickstep would cast bestial sling before stepping

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Why dosen't this have any faith scaling?

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Would be kind of cool if this had Bestial Sling as the ash of war

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fun fact: Gurranq uses a move very similar to quick step, so this weapon actually uses a move from the boss that uses it

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a very cool weapon that comes at the expense of being called an Italian

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Higher ar than any heavy infused dagger. Pair with bloodstained dagger if you want an attack skill

Fire infused daggers with flaming strike buff do better damage when not not fighting wet/fire resistant enemies

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Tarnished will watch you get a dagger that does straight sword-tier damage and say "but it only has quickstep"

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I was taking a leak off the divine tower in Caelid and was looking around. I saw this area below the Beastial Sanctum and figured it was detailed enough that one should go and look. Was easy getting down. Used Torrent a lot because he will land on some of the ridges on the tower for a short cut once you get past the roots. While I had the better talisman and don't use daggers, I suppose a low level could get here on a straight run without having to clear a boss.

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I half expected this to have a special quickstep (like Dragon Halberd has a special spinning slash with no description difference). I kinda expected the step to make the ground shake and do poise damage (but no damage) since it's you know... Gurranq's weapon ? It's pretty solid with a bestial build mainly focusing on strength tho. I 100% recommend cause it has incredible AR and pairs well with beast spells.
Use the dagger at close range. If out of range of the dagger bestial sling will do and other bestial incantations covers as much distance as spells do normally (aside from really long range ones)!

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All that garbage-tier parkour to get it and it only has Quickstep? Really?

Maybe it'd be worth the trek (and the dozens of annoying deaths) if it had an AoW version of Bestial Sling or Stone of Gurranq (maybe not Beast Claw since that's already on the Beastclaw Greathammer), but as it is, it's just a low to mid-tier knife that doesn't do anything better than any other unless you level the absolute **** out of str, completely ignore dex, and only then decide you want a dagger after all.

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actually found this on my own, I feel so proud of myself

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I'm really disappointed that this doesn't have an Ash of War that could be used while this is in the offhand. In my dream scenario, it'd have an Ash of War that would let it cast Incantations, with superior scaling in comparison to the Clawmark Seal. Unfortunately, this is stuck with Quickstep, which is a strong Ash of War but rather boring for a Somber weapon in my opinion. It's still a strong dagger, I just think Daggers are good candidates to be weapons that are capable of casting spells, for example imagine if the Glintstone Kris could cast Sorceries.

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Sick ass weapon ngl

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The word DEA means fingers ! DITA becomes DEA in Venetian dialect (they have lost some letters) . So CINQUE DEA is 5 fingers.
The name describes the width of the blade next to the guard (in fact it is as wide as a hand).
In this Italian site there is a beautiful photo https://laspadaperfetta.com/cinquedea/

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Should have been a STR/FTH weapon in my opinion.

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This jumping puzzle is worse than the one to get to the Frenzied Flame thing

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ftr, you pronounce it "SIN-kuh-DAY-yah", with the capitalized parts emphasized!

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If I were to two hand the Clawmark Seal for the extra 50% strength that would provide while I have Cinquedea equipped to my offhand, would that provide the Cinquedea beast incantations buff or do I have to actually be holding Clawmark (in one hand) and the Cinqueda (in the other hand) for the buff to work?

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Haha funny bestial sling spam at low health

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Great choice for str builds as a off hand, since the ash is ass and can't be changed. Have big stick in right and fast stick in left

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Synecdoche

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Welp 500+ hours and I never knew you could jump down there haha

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Can someone post the max damage of this thing with max stats

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pairs excellently with something like the GUGS. put an AOW on the gugs that does good single-target damage and opens up well like lion's claw or giant hunt, use the r1s for crowd control, then have this in your left hand for small, fast enemies. 's great.

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man it would be so dope if this item could cast bestial incantations... some items should have inate casting ability, Glintstone cris for example should be able to cast a variety of glintstone sorceries... more items should be tied to spesific schools of casting, perhaps at a a bit reduced effect

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Honestly this should have had BHS as a unique ash of war instead of having BHS be applicable to any weapon. I mean it fits. Gurranq is fast and moves around, bloodHOUND step.

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The did this Weapon and half og the beast spells dirty ngl

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Should have a unique version of quickstep

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I caved and turned my bonk STR build turned into a 25-35 FTH Clawmark Seal build. Originally for this for the beastial incantation buff to get the most wizard out of a low FTH build. Now this dagger will be my first use of a +10 somber because the very high base damage (for a dagger) plus the B scaling in STR makes this a FANTASTIC offhand weapon when your foe is too nimble for the big bonk. This is the surprise weapon of this build for me. I would HIGHLY recommend this for any strength build even if you don’t want to use bestial incantations. Super fun.

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man this thing is pretty as f**k

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Is it just me or could the description be referencing Bloodborne?
"The design celebrates a beast's five fingers, symbolic of the intelligence once granted upon their kind."
Like, we have the Two Fingers and the Three Fingers but could Five Fingers have been what created the Scourge of Beasts in Bloodborne?

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I know this won't happen, but no cap this and Black Blade gives a unique moveset

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To get the 10% beast buff, do you have to have the weapon in your right hand or just in a random slot? I was thinking of just using this dagger as a talisman and getting a strength based weapon like the brick hammer. Thoughts?

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This weapon really need a unique badass skill

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Most underrated weapon in the game

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Figuring out the jump and run stuff is most of the fun for me. Just needed to get a start. I tried it before cause I felt like I saw something at the sacred tower you can teleport to nearby with my binoculars. Just couldn't figure out where to start

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It's pronounced "kincaid"

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I'm Italian, "Cinquedea" does not literally translate to "Five fingers" but to "Five godness" instead (yes, with that mismatch on the plural form, saying "godness" instead of "godnesses")

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What kind of psycho decide to place an item there WTFF

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Honestly the worst thing about this dagger is that it's probably the dagger that benefits most from two-handing, but doesn't have a long enough hilt to look good while two-handing

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Dude, I don't understand the people complaining about daggers in this game. This thing has insane dps, while being able to attack so fast that you can weave hits inbetween enemy combos. Additionally it buffs bestial incantations, which will more than cover you in situations where the dagger range is lacking. Daggers are great tools, you just need to supplement the areas it's weak in, like any good build should be doing anyway.

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This is the weapon for you if you put a lot of points into strength but you also want to wield a dagger that doesn't apply status effects, can't be buffed or infused, and won't do extra critical damage.

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Now it would have been great if this weapon was also referenced in either Caelid, Greyoll's Dragonbarrow or Bestial Sanctum pages and not just only in the Weapons page as it's extremely well hidden
A bit more attention given to consistency on this wiki would be welcomed

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One of the most underrated weapons in the game.
Very easy to find early on if you kill the Tibia Mariner and have D open the waygate to the Bestial Sanctum.
It's mostly STR scaling, so actually good for two-handing, and does tremendous DPS if you can hit reliably.
Good for aggressive play styles.

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I feel kinda sad it doesn't resemble a real life cinquedea more, but I like how they managed to twist the original to fit with the beastmen culture.

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225 dmg at +9 is insane for a dagger. Found my new second slot weapon!

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Starting from the Beast Sanctum Site of Grace head the front door and turn right. Jump the railing and head west past the two birds and look down over the cliff. You’ll see a series of roots above a stone dome roof, drop down to the large root. If you’re not fond of or confident in Torrents controls you can dismount to drop down to the next root (I found this reduced my odds of slipping off) and then drop down to the roof.

From this level face the pillars and jump to the top level. Look down the back of the sanctum and you’ll see more slight alcoves and ledges. You will be zigzagging between these outer pillars and the wall of the sanctum down two more levels. After the first level (the one beneath the level with the roots) be sure to move either to the right or left side of the pillars so that you can jump onto the ledge on the side as the under arch will block you from landing safely directly beneath.

Once you’ve descended three levels (roots, pillar climb, pillar climb where you need to make sure to use the side of the pillar) the bottom level will have the Cinquedea beneath a crumbled beastman corpse. The Dragoncrest shield talisman will be right around the corner. Fair warning you may have to reload if you don’t kill the bats on the way down as you can become trapped by aground and unable to open your map.

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This weapon, amongst all other daggers, is ass. There is no reason to use it.

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Wow correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen a STR based dagger without infusions since the ones those black assassins in DS2 had. Pretty cool.

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malekith's phase 1 weapon

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the name is literally five fingers. the clergymen and other beastmen probably served the 5 fingers, and then the frenzied flame split from the greater will, somehow taking 3 of placidbois heads and the greater boi sent the elderly beast down, which probably jacked a good chunk of the larger elden ring you see depicted in farum. hell, it could broken the rune of time in doing so, which might be why farum is ****ed up.

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There goes my build... Powerstancing with daggers doesn't out damage a 1handed dagger. Like WTF... Great for applying frostbite I guess but that's it. Daggers are at the bottom tier in the game.

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I'm unable to survive the final drop. would be nice if someone could write up more specific instructions on how to get there.

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Description says short sword and weapon type says dagger. Make up your mind From

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Wish you can slap beast's roar on this thing

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interesting unique downward stab heavy attack combo
Almost like im cutting out a sacrifice's heart on an alter

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A nice little bonus tool for those trying to do pure strength with some utility beast incantations. I like doing 15 faith, the requirement for the highest beast incantation, Gurranq's Beast Claw. You get 212 incant scaling at 80 strength 15 faith at +25, and with the 10% boost from this dagger the incant scaling for beast incantations is about 233. Not bad for low faith investment.

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The lack of a crit bonus is really annoying.

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the writer of this article should win an award for least helpful description possible. "a series of drops" haha

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Not even remotely worth the effort it takes to get it.

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Honestly the ash of war should be the attack where Maliketh/Gurranq rips and throws the ground upwards

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So would using this off hand, Roar Medallion and Highland Axe with Beast's Roar ash all combo? Oh, or can Clawmark Seal do same thing in off hand? I'm still learning here.

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5 fingers = 3 fingers + 2 fingers

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Cinquedea doesn't mean five fingers in italian. "cinque" is five yes but "Dea" means like godess. Instead "Dita" means fingers. so that could be what they were referencing to "CinqueDita".

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If you're having trouble getting down, you have to land on pretty much every single ledge to avoid the kill barrier. I dropped down a distance I didn't think would kill me, but it did, and I had the cat talisman to prevent fall damage. On the second try, I dropped from the column to a little ledge on the building itself, and then dropped down from that and made it without damage. Seems like it's kinda finicky with fall damage for whatever reason, but yeah if you're having trouble, land on every ledge possible.

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I am begging fextra users to develop basic information processing skills, it has quickstep because the BEAST CLERGYMEN LITERALLY ****ING QUICKSTEP WHEN YOU FIGHT THEM

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The R2 should have been Gurranq's lunging downward stab

Change my mind

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i used this weapon for a while because i found it with no guides and i think it was one of the coolest secret locations in the game. "Praise the Down! Down, O down!" if im being honest though... this weapon is just not practical to wield. the most glaring issue is the lack of critical damage, especially since you are locked in with quickstep, you would expect a backstab to do good damage. if you have to stats to utilize this weapon properly, you are better off with the heavy dagger or misercorde. also the passive is simply not worth factoring because as much as people spam bestial sling, it is not really worth investing 10% damage for a main hand weapon with low AR.

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People are giving this thing hate, but quickstep on daggers is nutty in PvP. You can attack out of quickstep sooner than you can attack out of a roll, this means that against a lot of heavier weapons, if you react to their attack with quickstep, you can get in an attack before they can roll, which doesn't quite work with a normal dodge. I find that this thing heavily counters colossal swords, and is difficult for many people to deal with. Bloodhound step doesn't work so well with daggers for this purpose, it goes to far and is difficult to use and stay within reach of hitting the enemy, plus quickstep costs less.

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Does the bestial incant buff apply just when equipped or do I actually need to have it out in my main or off hand?

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An R1 or even R2 can come out so fast after a bestial sling, it's insane. Great for bursting down the end of a health bar or catching someone who's going to delay their roll expecting another sling.

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My brothers in christ this thing has MADNESS buildup!!

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disappointing. quickstep and no bleed

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if youre just getting this as a bestial incant booster, dont bother, the jellyfish shield has a 20% boost to everything and this only does 10%

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Some stats for 80 STR:

crystal knife 464 AR
bloodstained dagger 434 AR + bleed
great knife 399 AR + bleed
misericorde 404 AR
parrying dagger 403 AR
cinquedea 475 AR

star first 508 AR + bleed

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Who in the hell found this weapon.

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this has the highest base physical damage and guarding ability for any dagger, but only beating the wakizashi by a slim margin

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I feel like this weapon might be tied to the unobtainable ending where you join the 2 fingers and 3 fingers into what looks like a hand, or maybe it was a beast who used this to cut the hand in twain beginning this mess of lords and demigods and fighting fingers. It doesn't help that the dagger shows off five literal fingers running down its blade.

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Looks fairly similar to how the gargoyle weapons look. Wonder if this is intentional, either way great weapon for a magic caveman build.

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Why is the bloody weapon art quickstep??? not even beast roar or anything? QUICKSTEP?

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What a disappointing weapon. It looks super cool but it has nothing going for it apart from making other things, the incantations, better. It should definitely have some kind of a unique Ash of War ( preferably throwing rocks) or a unique moveset, it feels lacking which is just weird when you consider the fact that it's used by a cool NPC/boss.

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I feel dumb, every time Ilooked down there I thought "wouldn't it be cool if you could go down there?" and you actually coud this entire time...

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The weapon art should be the thing maliketh does were he pulls out the floor and the rocks fly and then fall back down...

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Seems to be quite lengthy compared to other daggerd. It's wideness hides its longness

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Does great cleanup damage for a beastial incantation build.

At 80 strength this thing has some honest to goodness fantastic dps. Golden vow + FGMS you can get 2000+ out of a chain of light attacks.

Stone of Gurranq to chunk single targets or get in close with bestial sling/claw. I’d recommend playing with Radagon Seal as the cast increase is especially noticeable on beast incants

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Fighting slower bosses like Loretta with this and beast claw makes me feel like a god killer

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