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I think I got lucky. Used the silver scarab, the arcane helmet and the discovery consumable. Got two within 10 minutes. NG.

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Took an hour approx 80 kills to get 1, then got another in 2 kills. Cheers

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If anyone got a pair of these they ain’t using on psn lemme have em iiOluron-

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Was surprised that this scales primarily with strength and so is very suitable for my high STR/low FTH build. Decided to farm two of these and got them in just eight runs from the site of grace at 173 discovery.

It's now one of my top 5 favorite weapons in the game. Looks super dope, the weapon art melts poise, and overall I love moveset of paired curved swords.

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with 200 discovery it will take an average of 100 kills to get a pair, which is doable in one hour or so. I farmed two pairs on two chars and they followed the stats quite well. some tips to help speeding up: kick the elevator back to the side of temple of eiglay so you don't have to pull the lever and wait next time; start moving immediately from the temple and go with the order of the serpent outside to the right -> in the corridor. as such they will both face to the opposite side, allowing you to do surprise attacks by muting the footstep (e.g. crepus vial) ; use one shot skills (spinning slash, storm caller, rkr, etc.) to kill the serpents.

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4 shields and nearing 20 volcanic rocks from 4 hours of farming. no sword!

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i have literally been farming for two days and haven’t got one

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Crazy I got the black dumpling helm while trying to farm this sword which I still am yet to get

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ignoring the drop-rate issues with this weapon, why the hell does it scale with strength despite requiring 17 dex? is this fextralifes issue or is it actually like this?

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I made a new character to farm for these. The first time I had ever farmed the blades it had taken me 4 days nonstop so I prepared my mental health for this time. 4 minutes into it and I got one. 3 minutes afterwards I got another. Decided it is time for the shield and guess what? 15 minutes trying to get 1 shield I got a 3rd blade. I hate RNG.

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huh had no idea this was a rare drop until I saw these comments. glad I got very lucky and got it instantly. nice weapon

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get two of these and you got yourself the blades of chaos

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Got it under an hour of farming with 115 Discovery, next day went back to farm for another one, it dropped within 20 minutes.

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easily drop on my dex build, refuse to drop on my faith build that actually need it, even with 290 discovery. desire sensor is real.

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anyone else have ungodly abysmal luck?

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6 shields, and the black dumpling but no sword. Going on 350+ kills.

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Yes, you can still farm them after defeating Rykard.

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can i still get this after killing rykard? like do the serpents still spawn

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Sorry to all the others having trouble with farming this, I got ridiculously lucky and it dropped on the very first kill lmao. Never had this luck in my life, better do a lottery ticket today.
Silver scarab + silver tear mask, 198 discovery.

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Took me about an hour at 274 discovery. It'll drop, and it's worth it.

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For those who are getting lucky: yeah no sh1t probabilities are real and it's totally possible to get it quickly now move on let my unlucky a$$ grind

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Got one after 25 runs! (50 Man-Serpent enemies killed).

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Took me about 3 hours with 111 discovery to get two swords

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i think im super lucky but i walked into elevator and in the room with all the dudes with poison on their heads, there was snake with the sword. i used weapon art and to my surprise i got it first try. i just stood there in shock cause i was just looking at the comments about drop rate before i went up there...but i want two cause i found out about this weapon in the middle of my faith-strength play through...this should be hell. good luck to you all. (also i clipped it because i felt lucky lol)

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I managed to get a pair of these in one 3 hour session. Respected into a 60 arcane build , 230 discover. For those getting frustrated , keep at it , they will drop

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Farmed this for several hours at 220 discovery and it yielded nothing but volcanic stones, but 270 discovery started giving me very reliable Man Serpent's Shield drops and I finally got two Magma Blades within the span of about 30 runs. So, for anyone else trying to farm this, I'd start at 270 and go from there

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324 discovery, 4 hours of farming and not a single sword

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I'm not sure anyone is going to believe me but I got two of them in the same farming session. I used the silver scarab, silver tear mask and pickled fowl foot consumables. Each pickled foot lasts long enough for two runs without fast travelling back to the grace at the temple of eiglay. But bear in mind I was using the sacred relic farming sword to quickly kill all three serpent-men then sprinting back to the grace checkpoint. I only used nine of the pickled fowl foot in total for two of the swords to drop for me.

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I got two of these on my first try now I should probably do a build in the future where I duel wield these

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took me around 2,5 hrs with 205 discovery

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Int-Dex? Wing of Astel
Strength-Faith? Magma Blade

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I used to farm for Flamberge in DS3 without any discovery boost. You cant stop me with this, Miyazaki

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There is no F***ing way i just just got two of these after 3 runs... i think i have used all my luck

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Useful tip for anyone farming this item: Swarm of Flies stuns these serpents very easily. Throw one out, run up to them, hit them with a charged heavy attack or ash of war. Easy farm

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Volcanic Stone x1

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Took me about 45 mins to an hour of farming from the Temple of Eigley grace using the silver scarab and 25 arcane. Someone below mentioned "rebooting" and you should try it. I have done that with previous "souls" game farming covenant items. It really works and others have said as much. If the snakes start dropping shields then a sword is sure to follow. Best faith melee sword by far, wish I got it months ago. Took down PLACIDUSAX with all his fatness on my second try using this which I have not done with any character including bleed builds.

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This is the new PKCS

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Volcanic Stone x1

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I've literally respec all my point into 99 arcane. got the silver scarab and fowl foot. most discovery possible in this game. second day of farming and no sword. Fist day farmed for like 2-3 hours. Today i farmed for about 2.5 hours.... Honestly **** drop rates like that.

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Same sad story as many of you, went to respec Arc to 80 and got it after 10 tries. Definitely worth it

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I have 2 of these and messed around with them in pve and pvp a fair bit. My 2 cents:
+ its a curved sword. good moveset, especially the running and jumping multi-hit attacks
+ the ash of war is pretty good. its spinning slash+, and the magma puddles do a fair bit of damage when enemies are staggered by the spinning slash part and they zone out/stagger enemies with low poise so its somewhat safe to spam
+ fits well as a lighter weapon/side arm alternative in a str/fth build which is mostly composed of only heavier weapon classes
- AR isn't anything too special, flame art bandit's curved sword faith in particular has comparable AR while having interchangeable AoW
- pain in the ****ing ass to farm, if you don't have the patience for it you are better off just getting one and infusing another curved sword with flame art as the only thing that you're really missing is the unique AoW
- 15 ****ing dex requirement despite being a str/fth weapon is annoying and misleading
Its been pointed out that the recommended stat allocation should be equal str/fth first (45/45 or 50/50) because the AoW scales with both the AR (spinning slash portion) and faith (magma puddles, fire damage for AR). Afterwards, Str has better scaling than fth.
All things considered, definitely a bit more trouble than what its worth when looking at it practically, but the glowing blades look cool, the AoW looks cool, and you get the show off the fact that you have one of the rarest weapons in the game.

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Isidro build? anyone?

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as a pyromancer, i now want to farm this item, not for the blade but for the stones
your pain strengstens me lol

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I feel kinda bad reading the comments cause I got this weapon on my first try with only 11 arcane and no boosts

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Aside from the comments on farming - this weapon shreds quite a lot in PvE. For the fun of it, I tried beating Radagon & Elden Beast on NG+2 with two of these bad boys, and got them on my second try. You can pretty much kill any boss easily with this. AoW staggers a surprising amount of enemies. Conclusion - the farm is worth it if you can endure the pain. Plus, they are pretty damn sexy lookin'

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man this sure is an effective volcanic stone farm

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All the comments about farming aside, is it worth picking this weapon up for a build or two or are there better alternatives?

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Lies. This weapon actually has a .0001% drop rate. I tried to farm this for two days straight. You’d have a better chance at acquiring the battle hammer from the duelist in Leyndell

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i unknowingly farmed the Black Dumpling head piece from that creepy guy after the elevator while i was farming this weapon. at least got that i guess!

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Got two of them within 20min with 110 discovery

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so, first sword i got it easily, second one i spent 2 hours no sword, then 3 hours again no sword, but many shi(t)eld then again 1and a half hour i finally got my 2nd one !!!
Then for the fun i did a last run and got a 3rd one, lol lmao

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holy molly, got the first blade easily, but thye second i'm still craving for :///

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In ng+7, 80 arc, dropped me 2 in 5 runs. Easy farm

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Took 33 tries (total of 66 snakes killed) for two to drop, used silver tear mask and silver foot with 37 arcane.

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Does this only drop when it is glowing?

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glad [REDACTED] reverted my edit that clarified which serpents could drop it.
genuinely glad someone adapted my edit into something more "palatable"

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The chance of this dropping is lower than my chance of finding a maiden

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thought, lemme try and get this could be interesting to use. i go equip the sliver scarab, silver tear mask, marikas soreseal and teleport to go start the long and arduous farming process for a 1% drop rate weapon and... first kill drops two of the damn things. i used up all the luck ill ever have and i put it into two funny orange swords. im never gonna get a drop ever again, not a rowa fruit from a noble.

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My first one took about 5 hours to farm, I was so upset because it wasn't all that great of a weapon; Unless I'm doing something wrong. I wanted one to try for my level 1 character and I started farming after 10 minutes I remembered how long it took to farm this weapon. So I decided to think outside the box I played offline, and still nothing. But when I killed myself I got the shield, hmmm I killed myself again and I got another shield. Went back killed myself again wait I should mention where I kill myself, just as soon as I kill the first lizard I jump out the window towards the bridge to my death. Everytime I would do that I would get the shield or the shield and 2 extras goodies, and finally after the third time I got the sword all within 10 minutes of finding out this method please let me know if it works. I went back to try it on another account I got the shiedl very quickly. 6 more suicides I got the sword. Beats 4 hours.

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farmed for two hours, nothing. rebooted, first drop. try rebooting.

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First kill of these fellers on NG+ and he dropped the sword AND shield for me for the first time. Heheh.

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I've been farming for this weapon for over an hour now and I don't even know if it is actually good or not. I just want to collect every possible item in one playthrough. XD

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1 hr to get one, came back a week later and first mob dropped my 2nd

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I have collected every weapon cept this one. Killed like hundreds and days later still no go. Its the hardest drop for me by far

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just scale on arcane for the farming and get silver tear helmet and silver scarab. Found 2 in under 2h.

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Finally got the second one. I became a well oiled machine farming this. I timed my last run it took 52 seconds from loading into the grace to teleporting back. 192 discovery and 30 mins for 2. Ride elevator, kill creepy dude, shoot something at snake kill snake to the right, second snake guy is on his way to find you. Rinse. Less than 1 minute for 2 kills.

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5hrs still no drop

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Do not give up. Its there. Jump attack talisman with dual wield ultra greatswords really helped. Silver tear helmet + Marika Scarseal/Soreseal + Silver Scarab Talisman. at 30 Arcane gives 223 discovery.

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I finally got one after trying on and off for 5 hours and my second one dropped about 10 minutes after. I think I dropped a tear, lol.

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One just dropped for me when I originally was just passing by to pick up my last cookbook, because I already grinded 2 using the usual scarab/foot/mask combo (took about 5 hours). Because RNjesus was so kind to me I thnk I will drop it to someone while cooping.

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I got sick of these unreasonable drop rates now i just drop them offline using cheat table then the game doesn't know the difference when I go back online.

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i think if you have 274 discovery its kind of easy
i was killing the serpents for like 10 minutes and i got 2 of them

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why tf does the "notes and tips" say best used on a pure strength build with minimum faith when the numbers show it's clearly most efficient on a 45/45 STR/FAI split? 80/16 split only gains 11 AR total over 45/45 while requiring 6 more levels invested and also sacrificing almost all scaling on the fire damage/weapon art

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"This weapon is most efficient on a pure Str build with just enough Faith to use it."

This couldn't be more wrong, lmao, the entire point of this weapon is the fire damage and weapon art, both of which scale purely off Faith, if you want a curved sword for your physical damage STR build literally every other weapon in the class is a better option

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Does the AoW scale better with faith?

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Blades of chaos

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After trying my best to farm this item, I am now a merchant, and my merchandise includes but not limited to; 1998 ******* volcanic stones.

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A helpful tip to anyone farming this is the colour of the item is purple rather than white as a quick identifier on whether it dropped.

Also based on the sample size of numbers here including my own experience, the blade more than likely is a 0.5% drop chance like the nobles slender sword.

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test

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if youre using the temple of eiglay route, try using the crepus vial or black knife assassin torso, you'll be able to run up to the snakes and stab them in the back. a real time saver for me

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I’m convinced this is a faux weapon at this point and you guys are trolling. 3 days of farming with 274 insight and nothing but man-serpent shields and volcanic rocks.

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what other curved sword can I use it with? In case I don't want to make 2 .....

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Four hours later and I now have a vast fortune in volcanic stones

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Str 9 Dex 15 Fai 16 required but scales the best off Strength.....word?

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If you're farming this, it's a good idea to farm the giant eggman snake in the next room for the Gelmir Glintstone Staff at the same time, I didn't realise that was a drop when I was farming for dual Magma Blades, now I gotta do the whole grind again, smh

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Been farming since March. Girlfriend left me. Lost my job. Haven't showered. Three different welfare checks to my home. But I'm close to getting one of these, I can feel it. Few more runs....

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looks like god of war blades

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Spent a couple hours on this too.

Max discoverability is 99 arcane (respec as needed), silver scarab talisman (brought me from 199.0 to 274.0), and finally pop a silver pickled fowl foot (brings it to max 324.0).

I got 2x magma blade from Temple of Eiglay route at 324.0 discoverability. Take the elevator, kill the albinauric, go to the side entrance facing the lava and kill magma blade serpent around the corner. Then go back to the main room and the other door facing a bunch of poison zombies. Ignore them all, sprint to magma blade serpent and kill while back is turned.

Rinse and repeat and voila.

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I have been farming witj scarab for two days and nothing. I wait so unpatiently.

I wonder does the man lizard whip exist?

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the moment this flashed on my screen was an out of body experience

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BIG tip for farming! Agro the second snake with a throwing knife kill the first one down the stairs. Come back up the statues and the second snake with be fighting the crawling dude. Travel back to the grace and repeat. Run takes about 1 1/2 minutes.

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It does exist. Took 2 hours with silver scarab. But it was a larger purplish drop.

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Hope the man-serpent blade(not the magna blade) where you can apply ashes of war to it is added in the DLC.

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Have farmed too many snake guys to count. No drop yet.

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Killed a serpent and got one, accidently fell down in lava and died. Ran back and killed the serpent again and got another- and Iam playing bleedspecc. Is this better?

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The drop rates in Elden Ring are bad comedy.

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Spent 3 days trying to get this blade and it finally dropped holy **** it’s worth it

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DEMON SCAR FROM DS3!!! CALLED IT!

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this seems to scale with strength better than faith at 45 str 45 faith this does 608 ar (376 phys 231 fire) at 80 str 16 faith this does 619 ar (432 phys 185 fire) and at 9 str 80 faith it does 536 ar ( 280 phys 254 fire) so it seems this is best on a pure str build with just enough faith to use it all of these tests have been done with the minimum dex for this weapon

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Anyone who is having trouble getting this, make sure to grab the silver scarab talisman

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