Serpentbone Blade | Elden Ring Wiki

doesnt have any arcane scaling, why

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Now that I’m doing an arcane run I can truly appreciate how disappointing this weapon is for having no poison scaling

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I think you're a cool guy if you use this

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the life snake

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> Upgraded with regular Smithing Stones
> B scaling in Dexterity
> Has generic version of Double Slash as a skill
> Can't replace the the skill with an Ash of War
> Why?

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Most confusing weapon for me, I just can’t understand why it’s done this way, why? And still I fell in love with it

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AoW should have been unique considering its locked. Serpent's bite and be a poison version of piercing fang or a unique double slash since the charged heavy is a double slash. Even a special version of poison moth flight would have been better

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I love this weapon. Great for proccing all those successive attack talismans and while it doesn´t seem to be a weapon for sword and board at first glance, you have to try guard counters with it, they are lightning fast. It´s incredible.

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Serpent bone blade + venomous fang w/poison moth flight aow.

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Casual 1500+ AR on a katana with buffs from a bunch of equipment active, and you get a cool mushroom man drip as a bonus

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In Elden Ring 2 I hope there's a new rule to ashes of war: If you lock the weapon's ash, It must not be a generic ash, IF it is, it MUST be a enhanced version.
More hits, more damage, more reach, anything, make it visually distinct too.

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why is this thing like. really good?

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Reminds me of DS2's manslayer

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Damn, Poison Moth Flight would've been perfect for this blade. Why would they lock the Ash?

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This thing is great when using it to not have the enemy lose any poison buildup. The double slash is not as bad as people say, because two imputs almost guarantee a proc.

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This sword could have been so much better with Poison Moth's flight as the ash of war. :/ The special R2 makes Double Slash so redundant...

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The fact that such a cool heavy attack went to such an ugly weapon makes me unreasonably angry. If anyone ever makes a mod that gives this weapon's R2 to something like the Dragonscale Blade, hit me up.

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I didn’t believe in this weapon, but after using it with rot exultation, consecutive attack buffs and mushroom hat… yeah, I’m a certified serpent boner now

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its a sword, it kills things

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This. With the hand talisman. The twin blade talisman and a charge attack.... gg no re, too ez

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Interesting Detail is that this sword seems to have been made for a left handed wielder. If you look at the weird coiled snake hand guard it would be more comfortable to wield in a left handed grip

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i like it, it makes pvp players more aggressive, since they are poisoned and often forget about their Neutralizing Boluses

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I simply like it, it's neither good, nor bad.

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Lol you can tell who’s bad at the game when they say they want a poison version of corpse piler on this like just say ur not good at the game

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i dont even care about the scaling on infusions just wish it had unsheathe or literally anything else

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I’m one of the people in the comments shitting on the weapon ( the one that says they’re forcing themselves to like it), but it’s honestly my favorite weapon in the game now. It’s ok that it doesn’t have arcane scaling, cause the AOW and unique R2 specialize in quick strikes that more than compensate for lack of arcane scaling.

The deadly poison effect does good DoT damage in a less amount of time, so I always want to stay in the fight so I can be able to proc the poison again.

Plus with the successive strike, and attack buff from poison talismans, I feel more involved in the fight overall with this weapon. It’s definitely not the best or flashiest weapon in the game, but it’s been the most fun for me as a pure Dex build character

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My 2nd favourite looking weapon shortly behind antspur rapier

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dont even want to change the ash of war or the affinity, just wish it had some arcane scaling lmao

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Pros
- Gorgeous visual design
- Solid status buildup
- Unique, powerful R2
- Double Slash is a good AoW
- Solid scaling
- On the lighter side of Katanas (by like half a Miyazaki)

Cons
- No bleed buildup (all but 2 Katanas have bleed)
- Poison is kinda underwhelming
- Can't change the AoW
- Mediocre length for a Katana
- Not buffable with magic or greases
- USES REGULAR SMITHING STONES???

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this weapon is extremely confusing in it's design. It's upgraded with regular stones yet can't be infused, change ashes or war, or buffed with magic of consumables. Everything says it should use Somber stones yet it doesn't have a unique ash of war like most somber weapons. This issue occurs more then I'd like for a lot of weapons. What's the point of ashes of war if I can't even use them on the coolest weapons.

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My only question is why this one dosnt have Poison Moth Flight as a unique weapon art?
This would be so much cooler than double slash.

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Highly under-rated.

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This weapon could've been so cool. Reminded me of Ds2 Manslayer, the only game that actually had viable poison damage.

Put double slash poison infusion on an uchigatana and you'll get higher poison dmg AND bleed then this disappointment. Only thing really cool about it is it's double slash R2s, but otherwise it fails it's own genre.

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If this was in ds2 you could infuse it and then buff the infused version

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Should’ve had a poison version of corpse piler

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it would be cool if this double slash had a rivers of blood type thing where it shoots out poison (or if this weapon had poision moth flight or som s***)

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Best R2 for such a gimmick weapon

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It needs arcane scaling asap !!!

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Stupid that you can't buff this with poison grease.

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I’m literally forcing myself to love this weapon just cause I love the way it’s R2 looks. FromSoft, please add Arcane scaling and changeable AOW

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Fine if you're just really wanting to run a poison build I guess... but poison is objectively worse than bleed in every way so I mean why even bother? And even then you'd get better results putting Poison Moth Flight on an Uchi because it's just a better weapon skill for proccing poison and then it can scale with arcane.

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The only acceptable weapon for a Griffith cosplay

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The only katana without bleed....has a serrated edge. Fromsoft logic, once again.
Youre telling me a blade made out of literal blunt meteor stone does more bleed than this???

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Soooo you can put ashes of war on the rot rapier, but this is stuck with a generic ash of war, is unbuffable, and a pain to upgrade on the first playthrough. The only thing this outperforms other katanas on, or even other weapons, is the style points. I loved this weapon when i first got it, but its only such a dissapointment on all fronts.

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From please give this a special version of poison moth flight that has a slice like bloody slash

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I wish this could’ve been the poison version of Rivers of Blood. Imagine this AOW was just Corpse Piler but with poison slashes.

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using this alongside a keen poison moth flight uchigatana. activate deadly poison, wait for it to tick down for a little bit, then cleanse it with PMF

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Classic Elden Ring. Oh does something other than physical, no changing the Weapon Art. But Clayman's Harpoon is okay, cause we don't follow our own rules. At least we can change Yura's unique Piercing Fang, and not basic Double Slash amiright. Stuff like this, Gargoyle Blackblade weapons, etc should be more viable & adaptable...

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One of the most fun weapons I have played with so far. The WA hits like a truck, it´s very convenient to buff with talismans and the deadly poison is very effective

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for the love of the elden lord why this isn't infusible ? at the very least should have a D scalling in arcane

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its a bit of a nitpick but i don't really like the boogers on the end of it

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They could have given it any ash, any ash at all, and they gave it the most redundant one

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- make it infusable
- give it a one-handed thrust attack (keep the R2 while two-handing)

Please. That's also I ask for.

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Hehe, snek tooth go brrrrrr. In short, use rotten sword insignia and kindred of rot's exultation.

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A low upgrade poison infused uchigatana gets more poison build up than this, +bleed buildup on top. Underwelming. Now imagine this boy with a bleed infusion and poison moth flight

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any reason to use the weapon art over the heavy attack? it literally just seems better

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Wish they gave it more than one stat to scale on and made it able to be buffed. Also double slash is an interesting choice for aow since it’s R2 is so similar to double slash. It’s still hella fun to use and pretty effective with the right build.

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this thing somehow carried me through my first playthrough

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You should at least be able to buff the weapon, FromSoft. Come on.

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SNAKE

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regular upgrade level yet can't be greased like other similar weapons. huuuuuuge missed opportunity

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The R2 does low damage and you can actually hit 2 regular R1s in the time taken to hit an R2. So this thing is entirely useless unless you are trying to hit an enemy player? Regardless pretty bad.

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Pls make this infuseable

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Looking at the comments its obvious youre all missing the point of this thing. Its a recusant reward to be used against other players. The unique R2 and the (unfortunately) locked AOW are there to give you more hits and more poison buildup. This thing's poison is almost as strong per tick as SR, it just doesnt last as long doing less total damage. I use it as a twink weapon because low level hosts tend not to have boluses. With solid damage and ghost hits causing poison this can be an absolutely brutal chasedown tool as well as a solid general weapon. In PvE I use this to apply its poison and switch back to whatever.

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It's actually a saber with a katana's moveset, but tbf saber pretty much is a European katana, although, it would be so much nicer if they gave it a traditional saber moveset

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Kindred of rot is a must for wielding this weapon. Don't bother otherwise.

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Despite it having one of the better ARs for a really high level katana build, the fact that it doesn't have Arc scaling, doesn't do bleed, is locked to an okay-ish AoW, and lacks the range of some other katanas really hurts this weapon. It sucks you can't at least infuse this weapon, because I don't see why it should be locked to the most basic AoW.

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Chad katana

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One of the coolest movesets among katanas but you can't do anything with it. Pretty lame, Fromsoft. I don't know why they are so happy with making so many weapons worthless. They do this in all their games since Armored Core. Weapons can look cool, or feel cool but often be trash. Other weapons will be clunky, and boring, but be broken in the meta. They've no real desire to just make a game full of interesting, valuable and useful tools. It's very bizarre.

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Just got it off a table in the manor with Tanith dead

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Actualy this katana is pretty good because you can boost yor R2 with the multi attack talisman and with the charge attack talisman and with the crystal tears contropart ( sorry for my english)

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Manslayer from DS2 but even cooler.

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This could have been the Claymore of katana - the R2s are really that good! - but no bleed and no interchangeable ashes hurts, a lot.

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Literally just make it infusable from pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaase

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It has innate poison (but no bleed) but doesn't scale on arc. Also its a smithing stone weapon yet YOU CANT put other ashes of war onto it, nor buff. Why fromsoft? Just why?

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This page says "Uchigatana maintains higher reach" but the katanas page, in the range comparison table shows Serpentbone with longer range than Uchigatana.

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12STR/33DEX dualhanded / Blue Dancer Charm (and two more talismans) / the same but one hand
Keen Uchigatana +16 — 339 / 384 (weight: 8.5) / 382
Keen Nagakiba +16 — 335 / 377 (weight: 10) / ---
This +16 — 343 / 387 (weight: 9) / 384
Sorry, previous info is incorrect about Uchigatana (was quality infusion?). Anyway this looks cool. :)

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12STR/32DEX dualhanded / with Blue Dancer Charm (and two more talismans) / the same but one hand
Keen Uchigatana +16 — 311 / 352 (weight: 8.5) / 331
Keen Nagakiba +16 — 332 / 365 (weight: 10) / -
This +16 — 340 / 384 (weight: 9) / 380
Seems to be a valuable mid-game option against relatively hard enemies (Omens, Fallingstar Beast).

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Double slash on this really is pretty pointless and it just hammers in how much worse poison is. You’ve got rivers of blood with the same skill but extra range as well as arc scaling and this which has the basic skill and no way to increase poison buildup. I’d rather just have the skill changed to poison moth flight to make it more unique and either give it a bit of arc scaling or increase the buildup slightly

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Insanely confused as to why a weapon with no special ash of war that requires regular smithing stones can't be infused or have the ash of war changed. Think about how cool this weapon would have been if you could put poison moth flight on it, or at the very least came default with it instead of double slash. It's much more fitting imo.

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WTF why she dont have arcane scalling....

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It has unique R2, unique poison, looks awesome and is totally avoided by meta slaves. Love it.

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ok but why the redundant L2? just give it unsheathe ffs

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Idk how people diss this weapon, it’s pretty decent. It’s obviously not the best katana but it’s certainly not a bad one. Some of y’all can pointlessly compare it to the best katanas in game or say it isn’t viably for a status effect build(like no **** dude it’s obviously a dex weapon lol, ofc there’s better alternatives for that kind of build) but that doesn’t mean it’s generally bad lol. It would be nice if we can put different affinities and ashes on it. But I think it’s pretty balanced for what it is. The moveset, ash, and deadly poison compliment each other very well. It get proccs off fairly quickly even when you’re not focusing on trying to apply the status effect. It’s a B tier weapon imo and some of y’all need to understand that not everything in the game has to be so versatile, instant proc, or op.

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This weapon is more of a long sabre than a katana...

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You can't just L2 and win with this weapon so I don't like it.

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looks better on your offhand… I wish the handle would be flipped to the outer side of main hand, as it does when offhanded :v

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i love this sword

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I'd like to believe this sword's effect is the game's official take on Toxic from the older games. Scarlet Rot is technically the successor, but in the message options, 'toxic' is still under the affinities section. While DS3 never had a weapon for Toxic affinity (there was a staff that had a Weapon Art that dealt unique poison damage, I think?) both DS1 (Gravelord Sword) and DS2 (Bent Blade) did. If I'm reading into it right, this is also a separate status that likely shares build-up (bar/icon) with Poison, which is what DS3 inevitably did.

Just my two cents.

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This not having arcane scaling is criminal.

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I don't understand some of the comments wanting a different AoW with this. Double slash is pretty good and kinda works great for the weapon's low build up with multi hits. You don't need Poison Moth Flight as the poison duration is actually short for the rot talisman. Because of the lunge it's also a good mixup with the R2. A single R2 triggers the multi hit attack boost talismans/physic which is too good with how quick the R2 is. High build up might be mandatory with bleed and frostbite but I think it's fine to be low on poison(and rot). You can't really reapply it quickly and the damage gain from infusing with keen/heavy vs poison would most likely equate to a higher DPS than waiting for the poison ticks unless you play super passively. My only complaint is why this isn't a somber weapon.

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Garbage since you can just use an infusable katana with poison instead and get better stats.

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this thing is deceptively good, amazing if for whatever reason you want to do a poison build but not build arcane. Its double slash DOES apply a hefty amount of poison, it feels as effective as Corpse Piler does. However, I'm pretty sure that RoB's weapon art Corpse Piler does have added range with the bloody arc coming off of it, which is something this sword lacks. I think if it at least had that (another commenter mentioned wanting green goo to fly out of it) it'd be perfect.
As it stands tho they are perfectly effective in my experience. I ended up dual wielding them which was also fun

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This is my favorite katana purely from an aesthetic standpoint, I've done multiple builds to increase its damage and while yes its possible it suffers from one simple shortcoming, there are far better options.

FromSoftware, please just let us infuse this weapon with an ash of war of our choosing, double slash is such a mediocre option.
Rivers of blood uses the same movement ability but Corpse Pilers unique attribute is the greater rang bloodflame effect, otherwise this is a much shorter range crumbier version of the same weapon with a different status effect.

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this thing would rock if it acted like a true standard weapon, ie can be buffed and swap the weapon art

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No infusion and no Arc scaling? Incredibly lame.

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would have preferred unsheathe over double slash. the heavy is already just double slash but better

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No reason why these aren't infusible

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Honestly… for PvP, this thing shreds. Doesn’t need a buff or tuning in the scaling department. It’s R2s are fantastic for mixing up with double slash and roll catching. It may actually need a slight nerf. But with the range being so short… maybe not.

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Does not use somber, can't infuse/change AoW, **** damage, no bleed, barely able to trigger poison that's why you are better of using any other katana with moth poison on keen. ffs

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