Marais Executioner's Sword | Elden Ring Wiki

In the Eochaid Executioner build he says use the strength crystal tear if you don't need stam recovery, but wouldn't be faith for using Golden Vow oder the +magic attack one better?

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If you have strength/mag build use magic shrouding cracked tear, thorn cracked tear, rotten wing insig, Godfrey icon, shard of Alexander & magic scorpion charm to melt boss health in new game +++ & higher

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This weapon kinda suffers from "YouTube Build" syndrome. You'd be hard pressed to find somebody using it who isn't spamming charged L2s hopelessly fishing for a oneshot.

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bluetooth sword

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Isn't used by the best boss in the game and dosen't restore 8FP per kill and isn't in a Cathedral and isn't guarded by hollows - 0/10 useless

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Demand for Gank Squads is about to skyrocket, like the good ol’ days after the Shattering!

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This weapon is just sick swinging a sword around through the air like a sith lord will never get old

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Drill

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“The story so far”
(Plan)
Use GS and shield
Wear Briar armour for cosplay

(Result)
No poise

(Turns to other arc scale weps)

Turns to dual wield regalias


Question own sanity for arc build when have high arc but no faith/ dex/str

“End result”
MR 125
70 arc
19dex
10 Fai

2x Regalis at 611 ar with 79 poise. Questions build for lack of flexibility

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When using MES and Regalia against bosses, it’s not a bad idea to use a sleep pot before you use the weapon skill. As an example, I used a sleep pot on the Godskin Apostle below Caelid Divine Tower to put him to sleep, then used the fully charged weapon skill and it did very well.

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Lore question: Why does it scale with arcane? Faith requires the caster to believe in the incantation to work. Intelligence requires the understanding of the usage of the spell (I’m certain). But, what exactly is arcane? Some spells like the bubble spells require it. Especially the dragon breath incants requires it. Why though? What is arcane?

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Lore question: why does it scale with arcane? why does it affect the magic scaling? What exactly is arcane?

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Could someone please tell me how does scaling in this game work?
Its said up there that the weapon scales primary with Str and Dex while its scaling in Arcane is rank D and E in Dex so why wouldnt it be strength and arcane that the weapon scales best with.
I am aware of hidden scaling values that determine whether some weapons scale better than others despite having the same stat X scaling but what's the point of the whole S A B C D E stuff when in the end E is better than D ?
Most likely I dont get something but explanation would be really appreciated.

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Wish you could use the levitation swings Elemer uses

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really wish this had a unique charged R2 that levitated the sword in front of you before swinging just like the BBH

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You can use Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear for AoE in the same build, they both use strength and arcane.

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dude this thing is crap against anything that has a brain and can move around

what the hell is the weapon art? you need Godfrey Icon + Shard of Alexander + Rotten Winged Sword Insignia + Millicent's Prosthesis to make weapon art viable and if the enemy moves away from the last 2 hits, well, you are so screwed

it is highly recommended that you use literally anything else if you wanna spam the weapon art, like I dunno Taker's Flames, Nebula, Regal Roar, The Queen's Black Flame, Corpse Piler, Wave of Destruction, anything else

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this weapon is meant for dual investment into str and arc yes, but don't let the miyazaki letters confuse you. even though the str coefficient is double the arc coefficient, it gets very nearly the same AR per level of either str or arc investment, because (as with mohg's spear) arc double dips and scales both the physical and elemental damage at the same time. let's be honest, you're just using for the cool L2 with more range than eochaid's, and arc builds are going to get 24 str for nihil spear anyway

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Requires mostly STR build with some ARC and there are not a whole lot (if any tbh) of other weapons that would have optimal damage with such build

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Eochaids Regalia is better for arcane builds, this is better for strength and arcane.

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just saw somebody essentially 1 shot last boss with this sword he did several buffs and used the weapon art it melted him seconds dead and im on ng+7 lol anyone know anything about this?

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They don’t know I am hidden op

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To be clear; this is not for ARC builds. This is for STR builds that dabble in ARC.

The ARC-build version is https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Regalia+of+Eochaid

I happen to like the straight-sword version with the Briar Shield and the Briar Armor set, for the full EoCHAD experience.

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Sword is meh compared to rivers of blood use that instead if you're gonna be any sort of serious player

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I find it a bit odd that the Marais, despite having less arcane scaling than the Regalia, requires more arcane than the Regalia to use.

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With proper build and buffs this does hilarious damage. Makes PvE easy.

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I think this weapon would be better if it has some bleed build up on it. Maybe start off at 55, and at 10+ cap it at 99.

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This absolutely ROCKS NPC enemies. They get fully stunlocked and receive the full amount of damage and are knocked down just before the final swing of the skill - you can optimise that by rolling just as they're knocked down to follow up more quickly.

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Does anyone know if this deals increased charge attack damage?

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This is a Strength weapon and the Regalia of Eochaid is a Dexterity weapon. Why must they effectively be mutually exclusive for Arcane builds? :(

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This is cool but I would have vastly preferred the telekinetic cleaving sweeps Elemer does in his fight. Feels like they could have made the skill a stance with the light attack input being ranged sweep attacks and the heavy input being the corkscrew. Feels even weirder because they just copy/pasted the same corkscrew attack on two separate swords instead of giving one the other moves. At least we get more cool executioner swords tho

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I REALLY wish that this power-stanced with Regalia of Eochaid the way the wakizashi does with katanas or the pickax

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Red magic is so cool compared to the glintstone blue we get. We get purple (gravity) blue (glintstone and stars) black (death) and the red magic from this weapon skill.

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Landing that L2 feels so damn satisfying

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Very good against melinia when properly used with good talismans and buffs. Play offensive until her health drops to 75% then play defensive as the waterfowl can appear while casting its skill and you won't have time to blood hounds step or dodge. Don't be afraid to use the non charged attack if you know you can't get a full charge in. That stagger is straight up horrendous against her and she can't even waterfowl or attack until the sword is done. Try not to miss and don't get too greedy and she will become your *****

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I love this weapon. It's one of the legendary armaments, but really it's just the heirloom sword of a family of executioners. Nothing terribly unique about it, it didn't fall from the sky and it isn't imbued with the power of some outer god, and yet it was a storied sword before Elemer was even condemned. Elemer's personal use of the weapon fated to kill him parallels other more prominent characters, like Ranni and Radahn, in their grapples with destiny: defying it and making it their own.

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bell bearing hunter kicked my ass so good with one of the first days after release at warmaster's shack that all i could think was "damn, i need me one of those"

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Man, I love this weapon so much. Friend wanted me to make an arc character but instead of going str/arc he wanted me to use RoB and dex/arc. He's obsessed with OP stuff which is pretty sad considering how many good weapons that aren't considered "OP" but still amazing exist.

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The Sith Lord sword is now in your hands.

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Theres no good reason this and the carian regal scepter don't have the extended weapon arts used by their respective bosses with more imputs for additional FP cost. The animations were literally right there ready to used its honestly just so mean.

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Only the most alpha chads with jawlines the size of a balcony roll arcane builds with no bleed. Powerstanced Marais Executioner Swords gang, where u at?

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is this the blood.... the blood of the dark soul?

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Really wanted to like this sword but outside of it's skill it's overall a very lackluster weapon.

It's the shortest greatsword, and it has almost nothing but vertical chops for the moveset when 2 handed, which gets boring and stale really quickly.

Building for it with stuff like Shard of Alexander, rotten sword insignia, Milicent prosthesis can result in the skill doing insane damage, buts that's about the only saving grace.

The skill itself, even with the buff to give it a roll window, is rather slow and telegraphed still, and rather fp heavy too. You can get knocked out of it in pve, and because it's so telegraphed it's rather hard to land in pvp.

Land it point blank, and you'll ofc likely one shot someone, but Glintstone pebble AoW can get you the same result with better range and better consistency.

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Does the AR boost from 2-handing it affect Eochaid's Dancing Blade?

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From what I have tested, if you want to get the most AR out of this weapon going split STR/ARC is the way to go. Even if it does scale better with STR... an 80 STR build does not beat a 55/50 STR/ARC build.

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LIKE I SAID, KIDS ARE CRUEL, JACK.

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Like the Regalia of Eochaid, would boosting Arcane give more magic damage & physical damage?

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Fun fact if you pull this weapon out in front of beast Clergyman he turns hostile.

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Lore speculation: the Regalia of Eochaid description says its orange color is not to be mistaken for rust, it is a conduit for the Eochaid Dancing Blade magic. No such engraving is on this sword, but it is wound with some of Elemer's briars, which his armor description states are "rusted". So perhaps he is able to whirl it through the air like a Sith lord because he wrapped some barbed wire from home around the grip.

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Missed opportunity not giving this a powerstance like sword of night and flame. Could have utilized it to perform a ranged slash attack like the bell bearing hunters.

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Screw Rivers of Blood and Moonveil, this is where it's at!

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this weapon is great after the patches. but you really need to watch when you use the weapon art because you can get punished hard during its long animation. my only qualm is that i feel incredibly silly stabbing someone with this weapon after a parry. it should probably have parry animations like colossal weapons where you bash them instead. thats just a small thing though

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I tried this weapon and had a lot of fun. It's awesome against bosses which don't move around much.

Against agile bosses though, it got me killed a lot. So had to be careful when I use the WA because it draws agro and you can get killed before the WA completes, or shortly after.

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Okay but does the skill work with godskin swaddling cloth? Since it works with Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and all?

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this thing is downright deadly, it shreds boss hp and it shreds players like they where tissue paper, and even if they do survive there is still that last swing when the ash of war ends meaning this can very easily one shot player. However it does struggle against spell casters who stay at range meaning you might want to find something to deal with that

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i wish this weapon had a stance with its L2 and then you can either use that ranged slashing that Elemer does or the corkscrew move i feel like that would be awesome

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Absolutely slaughters in pvp. Dance around till they let their guard down, then drill them to death--it's very satisfying.

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Only greatsword that doesn't feel stupid with that horrid smash moveset, seeing as it's a sword primarily used for decapitating. Coolest weapon art as well, telekinetic drill > horizontal laser slashes.
Only problem is those awful thorns, get yourself the mod that removes those things and you also get the sexiest greatsword.

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This weapon is awesome and so fun to use. I'm powerstancing this with Blasphemous Blade in left. I have Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, Millicents Prosthesis, and Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and absolutely wrecking ****, in pvp and pve. Land a powerstance jump attack and combo it into the WA followed by a right hand light attack. In pve only bosses and super-tough enemies aren't outright killed by this. In pvp most of the time the whole combo isn't needed. Plus it's really, really fun to use. Try it before it gets nerfed.

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"I'M ****IN' IVINCIBLE!"

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Hand it over. That thing, your Dark Soul.

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This **** is 100% luck based on Malenia. She just moves too much for it to be consistent and if you miss once or twice your buffs are done and it's **** again.

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Gaels gs was bodied to a above average drill :(

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tbh i wish they lowed the damage of the weapon art but gave it bleed to compensate. it has arcane for almost no reason.

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tbh i wish they lowed the damage of the weapon art but gave it bleed to compensate. it has arcane for almost no reason.

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Shame you can only split people in two in ng+

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Kinda reminds me of one of Sundowner's swords. I'm guessing that to be able to dual wield it I'll need to go to NG+...









BTW I'M ****ING INVINCIBLE

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Behold, tarnished! Taste Eochaid's dancing power drill!

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Miyazaki: hey, let's give this weapon unique R2s!

Dev: oh, great idea! Should we use the long range sweeps, or that close range triple slash, or maybe even that "get off me" stab that he does here and there? If we did the psychic sweeps, we could make the first R2 a double slash, and the second R2 the one where he tugs the sword back to him, or maybe-

Miyazaki: no

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the weapon art while standing in terra magicus pops off

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Time for some Red Sun over Paradise.

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im really glad they buffed it and made it so you can roll out of the last swing, but they should've just had the second swing tied to a second L2 press. it's kind of annoying to have to dodge since it can mess up alignment when you're trying to get as much damage in as possible, like when you shackle mohg and have a large window to attack. still a really fun weapon regardless.

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As of 1.04, this has gone from a low B tier to a solid A tier (as long as you are using the proper talismans of course). The AoW now has a similar range to moonveil's horizontal attack, and the charged version now has range similar to the infamous Corpse Piler. This coupled with the fact that you can now roll before you ever do the slash part of the AoW (roll when your hand tries to bring the sword back to you) makes it a lot safer to pull off than ever before which was its biggest downside pre-buff.

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Update 1.04: Eochaid's Dancing Blade - Increased travel distance, added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
Longer range and cancelable is a game changing buff to this weapon

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Eco Chad.

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they just buffed the skill, increasing the range and allowing you to roll before the second swing.

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This is basically a str weapon with an arc requirement if you care about optimising damage.

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Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this sword, the only problem is how much potential they missed for designing one of few Legendary weapons.
In the game there's literraly a random special sword, that produce unick strong atack (Astel wing or something simular), but what we get is standart pretty clunky greatsword moveset with screwdriver on one and a half button weapon art, that share same with Eocaid blade. And yes, Elemer technically stole it from Eocaid, but the problem is, that Elemer got 10 different just sword moves with also telekenezis grab and sheild aoe (btw sheild didn't get anything)
So that's why people keep asking just for two button type weaponart (some horizontal sweeps on light atack and corckscrew on the strong) which was a thing in ds3 where is no "legendaries"

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This + Millicent's Prosthesis + Rotted Sword Insignia + Shard of Alexander + Thorny Cracked Tear = Insta-kills in PvP. If you can ever land it...

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I'm powerstancing with this and blasphemous blade in the left hand. Destroying ****, bosses included. AOW is amazing. Hit them with powerstance jump attack and immediately use AOW followed with one handed light attack. Ends up with 6000+ dmg.

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10k+ with a single AOW. Doesn’t rely on bleed or any affinity, so works on everything.
Pair with flame of the redmanes. Stun and drill.

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Did you like the R1 slam? Well have another!

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I personally love this weapon for pvp. WA has great damage and for whatever reason most of the people I fight have chronic difficulty dodging it.

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arcane with 0 bleed instant trash tier but I guess it is lore base.

His entire family simp for Melania, which you can see picture of her in boss area, and since Melania is weak to bleed...His weapon is pure simp.

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Wish it did strike damage as opposed to standard, like the executioners sword from DS3.

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to everyone i would like to point out that it can indeed do the long range swings that the boss does (not nearly as long range, about as far as the drill) i am currently trying too find out how i did it, but so you all know. i was testing dmg on the large poison eggs and taking tick dmg from being in the poison they do, i partaly charged the r2 and did something eles (idk what) and instead of doing the drill i did the swings. hope we can find out how to use this other aspect as i love this sword, btw i can get it do do around 4500dmg.

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its either a cosmic coincidence, or this thing and Mohgwyn's Spear, both being str/arc builds and benefitting from milicents prosthesis and the other winged sword talismans, were purpose built around starting with the hero, picking up milicents prosthetists for the 5 dex giving enough to wield both weapons without investing any points to dex. plus the synergy it has with their attacks and weapon arts.
i see u fromsoft, i see u.

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The weapon art should have the horizontal swings on the L2+R1 and the Thrust on L2+R2. And then let it have a finish like the slam he does with another L2 follow-up. God that sword would be so cool that way

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Fun if underwhelming, but much like its smaller counterpart, it serves as a decent sidearm for an Arcane build that runs into bosses with exceptionally high status resistances.

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The boss(es) swing this thing around in like 15 different ways. The LEAST they could have done was given this thing two different attacks depending on if you did a light attack or strong attack input after the weapon art.

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Y u no bleed?

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If this had bleed maybe I would consider running it, but really...a weapon art that locks you in place, follow up swing doesnt usually connect, does way less damage than Rivers is not a good weapon. Blasphemous is another good example of a usable weapon art compared to this. A throw instead of the charged drill would have been much cooler.

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The Weapon Art triggers Godskin Swaddling Cloth.

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Pretty sure the scaling is better on this than the straight sword because the stat scaling is unintuitive for many builds. Magic damage and strength with no INT and low ARC. Not too many spells you can build around that unless you want slow casting on bigger spells.

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brings much memories from Drak Souls

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Incredibly disappointing weapon art. The range is horrible, and the mandatory follow up slash leaves you open to attacks. The bosses movesets are so much better.

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Bro this is a legendary armament why would you make it be just a greatsword/str version of a differnt weapon

I'd get it if it wasn't a legendary armament, but nah

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why does this do pierce damage

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I get that this thing is primarily a STR scaling weapon, but how does this thing scale with ARC? I'm considering it for my ARC build as a sub for Elenora's Poleblade if magic damage or a Greatsword in particular would be good. This thing still pump out decent damage at the minimum of 24 STR with day 40 or 50 ARC? Don't play PvP at all, don't care about getting optimised damage, mostly interested in the utility of it :)

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The skill name makes me think their initial intention was to use the sith saber throw move rather than drill but was scrapped due to not finishing in time/balance issues/etc.

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