Scorpion's Stinger | Elden Ring Wiki

God if I could just use black flame blade on this I’d never unequip it. Why does antspur get to be op?

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The description of this weapon suggests that the Pests not only worship the God sealed in the Lake of Rot, but are somehow able to get into physical contact with it. Worrying stuff.

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You don't need to upgrade this weapon, just keep it in your back pocket as a crutch for hard fights. The default ability (Repeating Thrust) synergises perfectly and only costs 7 FP, so it's really easy to inflict rot. The dagger itself has really low requirements and weight, so practically any build can use this back pocket rot-tech.

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It looks like the rot buildup is not applied if you don't meet the stats requirements for this weapon, i was playing a mage with the minimum dex to use the DMGS, i wanted to see if i could use this weapon to just proc rot at the start of a fight and being 1 dex short i never managed to apply rot to the tree sentinel that you can face at the start of the game, the weapon was +0 (not that it matters), i kept whacking him over and over with attacks and WA nothing happened
Kinda sad, i don't see how not meeting the stats requirements nullify the rot already present on the weapon, balancing i guess

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This thing does indeed have a nice poke r2 and being a dagger is insanely good at proccing rot (EXCEPT powerstancing since buildup is heavily reduced). It is also fairly long for a dagger. The Big Problem is not even the skill, but the fact it is found very lategame while Antspur rapier can be obtained without having to fight a single boss. The Stinger has a couple advantages over the rapier tho: it's even faster, 0.5 points lighter (sometimes it matters) and has basically no requirements. Which boils down to a weird conclusion one of the previous posters came out with too (and was bombarded with dislikes) - sidearm purposes aside, this is indeed a very good early game weapon. Only, not for natural progression, but for a low level coop character - a very reliable way to proc rot on bosses fast, and it does barely need stats to be useful. In pvp tho, it's not very good as a weapon, besides, rot at low levels is... loathsome

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Sometimes I think this should’ve been like reduvia but that would’ve left all scarlet rot sources pointless, even rotten breath and antspur rapier

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You need to use this on primary arm to get the rot to procc consistently. The Repeating Thrust AOW seems to "inject" the rot and get it working. Pairs great with another poison dagger.

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This thing is surprisingly good once you figure the trick out.

You need to use it on your primary arm, and use the repeating thrust. It for whatever reason, "injects" the rot in and it can reliably procc on beefier opponents. Pair it with a poison dagger to double the passive tic dmg. I used a poison Great Knife on off-hand. Passive DPS go brr.

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Very good early game weapon, melts bosses. Ash of war is perfect. As soon as you inflict rot just get away and focus on dodging, rot'll melt them by itself.

Also use Rotten Stray Ashes for a doggy that inflicts rot too, pretty easy to get if you know the teleporter trap to get to the cave near there

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Super effective against those without their tetanus shot.

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Rotten Battle Hammer gets an S scaling with str, an A scaling with blood and poison infusions. It even gets an A with occult scaling. Antspur Rapier is just good in general. Even the rotten crystal straight sword and spear have higher damage and generally have an easier time applying rot against bosses.
In comparison, I just don't know what they were going for with this dagger. The only benefit it really has over other rot weapons is its low stat requirement. But you still have to get through most of Ranni's quest, cross the Lake of Rot, and fight through an army of those spammy bugmen to even get this thing. You would think with all the effort it takes to obtain this thing, it would be a bit stronger.

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What world class fxxking intellectual decided to put quick pokes as an ash of war on a weapon that's already fast?

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Is it a rat or a wolf on the handle?

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>somber unlike other rot weapons
>no distinguishing qualities apart from rot

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Currently at ng + 17 or so my fav weapon i pair with Reduvia for insane burst dmg. Gettin into range with some bosses can be Tricky but it devastates them total.

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Mytha's Bent Blade - Rot Edition

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I noticed the Wolf head on the pommel of the dagger and I have been recently thinking about the lack of shadows for Miqulla and Melania... What if the dagger was made from a weapon used by Malenias' shadow? It would make sense that the shadow would have a connection to scarlet rot and perhaps came looking for information or something to cure the scarlet rot. Found the dead rot god scorpion and used its stinger as a blade. The timeline is weird and we don't know exactly when the rot god was sealed. Perhaps there is time travel involved as well. We know time travel is possible and Fromsoft is not shy about using that as a mechanic. Maybe Malenias' shadow went back in time to try to kill the rot god in the past to try to prevent Malenia from being affected by it. Knowing time travel tropes, this may have caused Malenia to be afflicted. Shadows are directly connected to their Empyrean after all. Perhaps the shadow also became a servant of rot. Being corrupted just like Melania but not as strong of will to resist it. It could be Miqullas shadow that is trying to stop Melanias shadow. It would fit as that would be a "shadow" of what Miqulla is trying to do.

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Why does the scorpion dagger have a wolf on the pommel? It's an interesting choice, I wonder what the association is.

Or is that supposed to be something else?

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The best way to use this is to off hand it with a good dex halberd like the Guardian Sword Spear on keen and use rot grease. You will proc rot consistently in PvP if the fight goes on, and the dagger move set compensates for weaknesses in the halberd. Running r1 of sword spear forward by 2 l1 of the scorpion stinger is a good basic attack string.

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Weapon is 6/10 BUT...

A) Should have been rewarded for killing a great scorpion boss at the Lake of Rot instead of just being found by an insect cult
B) It should have been a paired weapon so you don't have to go through the game twice just to get another one AND to make it more viable than Antspur Rapier at rot
C) slighty more rot than Antspur Rapier
D) Unique Weapon Art instead of the terrible repeating thrust which cannot even hit a shield and is almost useless against end game bosses
E) Alternatively allow us to change weapon art

Because Antspur Rapier is superior in terms of damage, range, damage per second, how to get and can change weapon art, I cannot justify this weapon. It feels like Fromsoftware found this weapon op in dual wielding (which it can be in the right hands), but in one handed or two handed mode it's worse than antspur rapier in every most aspects.

Side Note: Daggers and many other low ranged weapons can barely hit some enemies such as Dragonkin Soldier or Tree bosses at the front which makes them even worse than other weapons in PvE.

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Rot no proc, why? :(

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perhaps the best weapon for fire giant. just spam his heel

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shame theres no unique skill, not even a special version of repeating thrust

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I think it would be cool if this thing instantly proc’d scarlet rot on a backstab or critical hit, similarly to what the cleanrot knights have with their spear grab attack. Daggers as a whole are pretty underpowered, and this weapon even more so with its low crit modifier and unchangeable AoW, so I feel like that would help to give it a leg up compared to other daggers even if it’s only used as a riposte tool like the misericorde

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antspur: chad edition

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Wielding this in my offhand, powerstancing with Reduvia / Black Knife / Misericorde in mainhand.. and it seems the scarlet rot never procs (L1 attack). Can anyone confirm that? Do you need to have it in right hand equipped to proc or what is happening?

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A tribute to DS2, same design, different colour, simillar effect

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Just killed an army of centipede men for this dagger.

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It is called Scorpion's Stinger, it apply scarlet rot, have the shape of Redwolf of Radagon.
WTF?

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The wolf was on the pommel looks very out of place other than that I like that this blade is basically taken from a scorpion

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There's a Scorpion God of Rot…

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Great design, except for the pommel. A wolf head doesn't seem right. Almost feels like a placeholder that made it to release.

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The last line hints that the Scarlet Rot God/Goddess is actually a scorpion.

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It really needs ability to put Ash of War on this... otherwise Antspur Rapier is superior to it in every way possible.

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I have never seen anyone use this, interesting

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The hilt is really nice

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powerstancing these even at +0/+0 is a great way to kick off a fight with rot, for a much lower weight cost than other rot proc weaponry.

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Besides the scarlet rot, this dagger does more damage at 80 dex than a max keen Misericorde or Great Knife (which has S scaling at +25).

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They need to fix some of these weapons and make them able to be infused because this weapon being stuck in stand is total garbage. That’s probably fine but atleast let me buff it with bloodflame blade man

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Does this weapon instant scarlet rot on critical when upgraded all the way? Just wondering because considering it’s a dagger, it should provide most benefit from critical attack.

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Stop saying you can apply ashes of war or infusions into this. Seriously.
You either dont have the weapon and are providing bullcrap- or dont even have the game.
Or you're just flat out cheating
Or maybe you're exploiting a bug and you either dont know it or dont want to share it.

This weapon. CANNOT be infused, enchanted OR have ashes of war applied to it. End of fvcking story.
STOP providing misinformation. Christ some of you make me want to blow my brains out.

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Does arcane affect the scarlet rot build up at all?

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Saw a guy dual wielding these and had his character look like Kratos, awesome cosplay.

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This shouldve had some arcane scaling to increase rot buildup

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very sad this doesn't have a little arcane scalling to bump up the rot buildup bcs its very slow

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This is mean my for a pure Dexterity build. Out this weapon in the off hand on your first play through until you get another on ng+. In the off hand the first L1 attack will hit twice. Effectively applying scarlet rot twice. I have 2 of the. At the moment. It’s a fun way to play the game.

Pair it up with a duel wield of both the Scalebone and Dragonscale Blade to switch to and it’s an awesome build for a pure dexterity character.

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Did i just ran through scarlet ron and fought a copy pasted spam AOE boss for THIS?
Dung ahead!

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is the "scorpion" the same "sealed outer god" and could this be Astel?

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"relic of a sealed outer god" damn, FromSoft might be making some lovecraftian multiverse for us.

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This is a dex weapon

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Does anybody else find it funny that this location is 'underneath' Raya Lucaria Academy?

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Not ashable like other scarlet rot weapons, seems bugged, doesn’t improve the rot buildup. Godawful weapon in the current iteration.

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I genuinely wonder why this weapon cannot be infused with ashes of war when the Antspur Rapier can? They both have similar scaling and both apply scarlet rot. The only difference is moveset. Oh well, guess I'll have to settle for the rapier for no good reason.

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the big monster comming out of the waterfall on the oposite side of this item, drop a golden seed ! thats it :P

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Scarlet Rot buildup is unaffected by upgrading or investment into Arcane. It stays at 50.

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As of now this weapons scarlet rot seems to be bugged

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If you want to go a scarlet rot build. As a weapon Antspur Rapier is probably way better because it can also be infused with ashes of war and works well with a shield. Rotten Breath would still be a better source of rot than any weapon but since the rapier can also be infused with blood or poison it would still be an interesting dps build.
Frost would have probably been my favorite if it wasnt bugged to nullify scarlet rot buildup after a few upgrades.

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This dagger is bugged right now, it takes an OBSENE amount of hits to apply the rot to anything. i can go whole boss fights without filling the rot bar once.

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This dagger is bugged right now, it takes an OBSENE amount of hits to apply the rot to anything. i can go whole boss fights without filling the rot bar once.

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Use this one with the dagger that inflicts poison, dual hit bosses 3 or 4 times, double dot on them. Swap to reduvia and the dagger that applies frost, dual hit bosses with those while the dot works. The only problem is how hard this dagger is to acquire, but the combo is ****ing killer. And requires next to zero attribute investment overall.

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Farm all dragons using this as secondary damage.

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could stack this with the mushroom crown to get a damage boost after triggering rot.

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This weapon can NOT be infused with Ashes of War, and is upgraded with Somber Smithing Stones, not Smithing Stones. Please update

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Looted in the Grand Cloister area past the Lake of Rot. Can't remember the exact location, but that area.

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rather useless weapon the dot is too weak

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Holy bonkers, an actual "toxic" weapon

Praise the DoT

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This weapon cannot be infused with ashes of war

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Location: In a secret area called Lake of Rot reached by an elevator near the end of Nokstella Eternal City. Once in the Lake of Rot, enter the entrance with two large statues on either side, drop a couple ledges to the bottom, and look for a chest in the temple area. Dagger is in that chest.

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This is got to be in Caelid, but where?

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Where is this weapon?

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Baby's nail 2.0 from Demon souls. Especially potent when infused with a poison ash of war.

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Could soneone update this with it's location?

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Could soneone update this with it's location?

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Could soneone update this with it's location?

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Where is this item?

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the stat requirements weren't entered correctly

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