Cinquedea is a Dagger in Elden Ring. The Cinquedea scales primarily with Strength and is a good Weapon for short range melee combat. This dagger is paired with the Quickstep skill to help gain an advantage in position and avoid damage, granting an opening to follow up with a combo of attacks. This dagger also has the unique ability to boost the damage of Bestial Incantations when held. The Cinquedea has extremely high base damage for a dagger while also having good Strength scaling. Overall, it's a surprisingly good Weapon choice for pure Strength builds and Strength / Faith hybrid builds.
Short sword given to high ranking clergymen of Farum Azula.
Raises potency of bestial incantations.
The design celebrates a beast's five fingers, symbolic of the intelligence once granted upon their kind.
Where to Find Cinquedea in Elden Ring
The Cinquedea weapon can be found at the following location:
- Location: Cinquedea can be found at the bottom of the exterior structure of the Bestial Sanctum, near a broken rat corpse statue. [Map Link]
- To reach this spot, go to the west cliff outside the sanctum and travel down a series of roots and platforms. Jump down to the outlying branch and continue downward using the ledges and pillars. You can use Rainbow Stones to figure out where to fall from next.
- Once you reach the lowest level, searching this area will grant you this dagger as well as the Dragoncrest Shield Talisman.
Elden Ring Cinquedea Notes & Tips
- Weapon Skill: Quickstep
- Cinquedea can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones.
- This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War.
- Can't be enchanted with Magic nor boosted with Consumables.
- Buffs damage of Bestial Incantations by 10%, stacking multiplicatively with Clawmark Seal.
- A Cinquedea is a short Italian sword whose name literally translates to "five fingers," originally referencing the width of the blade.
- Sell Value:
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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.
- A follow-up attack after using Quickstep is executed faster than for normal rolling, allowing you to attempt a counter with more time if your enemy attacks slower than you.
- NOTE: As of Patch 1.08, the speed and distance of some attacks has been increased and the recovery time has been reduced.
- NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below.
- Other notes and player tips go here
Moveset & Videos in Elden Ring for Cinquedea
Cinquedea PVP Poise Damage Values in Elden Ring
Patch 1.10 adjusted PVP Poise Damage of all Weapons including some Spells and Incantations. Please take note that these adjustments are exclusive to PVP.
One-Handed Attacks
- 1H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 40.5/63/63/63/63/126
- 1H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 144/144
- 1H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 540/540
- 1H R1 Jumping: 60.75
- 1H R2 Jumping: 360
Two-Handed Attacks
- 2H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 52.65/81.9/81.9/81.9/81.9/163.8
- 2H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 158.4/158.4
- 2H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 594/594
- 2H R1 Jumping: 78.975
- 2H R2 Jumping: 396
Cinquedea Upgrades in Elden Ring
Please see the Upgrades page to understand the weapon bolstering process.
Requires regular reinforcement with Somber Smithing Stones
This upgrade can be enchanted with Magic or boosted with Consumables.
Attack Power | Stat Scaling | Passive Effects | Damage Reduction (%) | ||||||||||||||||
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Cinquedea | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Sta | Str | Dex | Int | Fai | Arc | Any | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Bst | Rst |
Standard | 98 | - | - | - | - | 34 | D | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 12 |
Standard +1 | 112 | - | - | - | - | 37 | C | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18.18 | 12 |
Standard +2 | 126 | - | - | - | - | 40 | C | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18.36 | 12 |
Standard +3 | 140 | - | - | - | - | 44 | C | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18.54 | 12 |
Standard +4 | 154 | - | - | - | - | 47 | C | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18.72 | 12 |
Standard +5 | 169 | - | - | - | - | 51 | C | E | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18.9 | 12 |
Standard +6 | 183 | - | - | - | - | 54 | C | D | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 19.08 | 12 |
Standard +7 | 197 | - | - | - | - | 57 | C | D | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 19.26 | 12 |
Standard +8 | 211 | - | - | - | - | 61 | B | D | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 19.44 | 12 |
Standard +9 | 225 | - | - | - | - | 64 | B | D | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 19.62 | 12 |
Standard +10 | 240 | - | - | - | - | 68 | B | D | - | - | - | - | 43 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 19.8 | 12 |
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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"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 writer of this article should win an award for least helpful description possible. "a series of drops" haha
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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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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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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%
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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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.
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
The end boss in Farum Azula uses this same weapon to unlock the seal on his hand and break the binding. Perhaps this weapon can be used somewhere else to unlock something...
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The kill box I kept reading about seems fixed as of 4/4/2022. Just picked it up without using any cotton or taking falling damage at all. The inside wall has a lot of outcroppings Torrent can catch to chain jumps from just to be safe.
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Wow I had no idea that this thing had the same name in the English version. In Italian, "Cinque dea" means five goddess
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I solo beat Melania yesterday by powerstancing 2 of these at +9 with a beast inc build. Very good
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Best base damage out of all the daggers. Cool unorthodox weapon for Strength and Bestial Incantation builds. You can have this as a packup weapon to finish off low health opponents while you use a typical strength weapon as primary.
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Just want to put out here that the Cinquedea + Clawmark Seal combo IS hella viable and fun (imho). Like, C or B Tier stuff, but most importantly stylish and fun.
You can't count on stance-breaking things with just a dagger and (most) incantations, which is unintuitive for a STR build.
But, Bestial Sling flows well with dagger attacks, and most spells for that matter. Bestial Sling is a great bread and butter, with dagger combos ramping up the dps during punishes.
It's very engaging gameplay. Makes me feel brave, except when I'm throwing rocks repeatedly, because then I feel caveman (which is good too).
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Unsure how this is supposed to be obtained? Got to the point where it gave a soft cotton, jumped across onto the pillar’s platform, then jumped again to an edge on the main structure - bc the actual bottom floor seemed like death. This spot looked safe enough, so I used the cotton and died. There are no other spots on the way down to alleviate the fall damage.
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Do you still get the +10% damage bonus to Bestial Incantations if you equip this in your left hand and two-hand the Clawmark Seal?
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Quickstep? Damn. I wish this had a little more use than just a buff for beast incantations. Still going to use it of course, but it seems pretty lackluster to me.
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this would be a good side arm if it had parry instead or could be ashed, and its physical scaled with both strength and faith like the clawmark seal
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If you are going for Bestial Incants, this thing is 100% must have, it increases your damage significantly.
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Man, I hope they buff this thing. Give it a unique bestial version of quickstep, and let it be enchanted dammit!
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I just really really wish this came with a different AoW. Or at least be able to put one on ourselves. Seriously though, what is the harm here in allowing that? Do they think this thing will be too OP? Lol.
Would be fun if charging the quickstep would cast bestial sling before stepping
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