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Do you people realize how ridiculous you look swinging these things?

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Sometimes my combo just gets interrupted when using twinblades, even more often when powerstancing. Does anybody know why or is it just a bug?

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Huge missed opportunity for a dryleaf bo staff. Would've paired perfectly w/ the dryleaf arts

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People who dual wield these have an average of IQ of 83. Two-hand it.

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Looking at Euporia, a powerful and well designed non-infusable weapon, I hope that Fromsoft learned their mistake and will never make brain melting L2 tools like Blasphemous Blade, Mohgwyn spear or Rivers of Blood ever again. Sure, we still have weapons like AMOGS and DHGK but at least they are not AS strong and have more to them than just broken weapon art. Blasphemous Blade is literally nothing more than fire infused bastard sword without its WA.

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it's a secret but if you one hand a twinblade they're just straight swords with higher damage and a better moveset

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Whenever I get summoned by a loser wielding one of these I just leave

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I don't care how many nerfs they get, twinblades will always be my beloved

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Feel like this class should've had an AoW that worked like Wild Strikes but with DD2's Duospear 'Winding Cut' animation. Even if it was just an animation-swapped clone, would've been nice to have a skill that matched the weapon

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Still can't believe we never got a bo staff in this weapon category. If straight swords get a strike damage option twinblades should've gotten one too especially with how many fans requested it.. Would've been a great pair opportunity w/ the Dryleaf Arts for a monk-style build

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I wish they could make a twinblade like Rakuyo where you could detach it into 2 separate blades

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An otherwise ok weapon class carried by 1 slightly overtuned attack

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Another 40 trillion to faith builds

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No innate bleed twin blades with changeable ash of war :(

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I really wish they added a Strike Damage "Twinblade" in the form of a quarterstaff that would be so lit.

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So much missed potential with these, I wish there were more of them. One of the weapon types and they're slept on. Guess they were too busy designing the 40 different kinds of daggers and straight swords.

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RIP my dream of there being a strike damage "twinblade" as a bo staff or quarterstaff.

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What’s the best twin blade for an intelligence build? Leaning more towards str than dex at the moment but I can respec if needed

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**** you dorks for putting dlc weapons on here

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its an immense missed opportunity that we dont have a staff twinblade that does strike damage

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Weapon idea: Confessor's Twinblade
Trademarks: either rot buildup or 110 crit
Appearance: Confessor Sigil as the blades or smth, with a black handle

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"Weapon Range Data for Whips in Elden Ring" I'm fairly sure that these are twinblades, not whips, but okay

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It works wonders on malenia if you use an infuseable one put giants hunt and you get a free proc of your choice if you use two light attacks

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These have one of the best suites of Ash of War among all weapon types

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Why are the heavy attacks of these weapons so strong?!

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the dlc trailer features a knight boss with a comically large twinblade

only a spoonful!!

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we need some kind of lighting wepone

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Honestly, the hitstop especially on bigger enemies makes these weapons so much worse than they could be. They have so much potential, but for most boss fights, they kinda suck.

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My only issue is how when hitting some enemies (Golems or Trolls for example) it feels like your game is lagging. I think it's cause when you hit an enemy the game does like a screen shake or something like that for feedback but because this hits so fast it overdoes it and feels laggy. I remember there was a spell or AoW that had this problem and had to get patched or something.

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My dream weapon is a somber twinblade that has good dex scaling, buffable, have unique spinning slash that transform it into dual straight sword that also has unique sword dance to transform it back to twinblade

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‘Ate twinblades (not unbalanced just don’t like ‘em)

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Something I didn't expect from twinblades is that it might be the only weapon type that can reasonably stance break with r1 attacks. The 30% bonus from two-handing combined with the fast attack rate means you're getting about 13 stance damage from every 2-hit swing. That's the same as a 1 handed great hammer but twice as fast.

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A paired Twinblade (paired as in powerstancing when 2-handed) would go insanely hard, especially if it’s infusable.

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Why is it you find three of these twin blades all in the same area? They should’ve had the Peeler drop from the Caelid tower Godskin, and put the Twinned Knight in Liurnia.

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A Carian Twinblade would go hard

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Why is there no hit box on the back? I know it make a joke of enemies when they surround you but at least deal like 4 damage

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We need some curved twinblades,mace twinblades and quarterstaves.
And also a halberd(and/or scythe) twinblade

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I slept on these things for way too long. Multi-hit attacks on a single weapon make them amazing both for Bleed Builds and buffs like Lightning Slash.

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I slept on these things for way too long. Multi-hit attacks on a single weapon make them amazing both for Bleed Builds and buffs like Lightning Slash.

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give us an infusible twinblade with innate bleed you cowards

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I actually think these are better than dual wielding katanas. Not only are they lighter, but most of their two handed light attacks deal either 150% or 200% status buildup, which is more than the 130% of powerstance light attacks. They do less raw damage per hit than powerstanced katanas but are much faster, i think they are at least as fast as curved swords.

The best advantage is that they count as only one weapon so you need less stones to upgrade them compared to dual wielding, and weapon buffs affect both ends, which is huge if using flaming strike, lightning strike, sacred blade or bloodflame blade.

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Love the basic twinblade, very versatile two handed and imo more fun than katana for early game bleed build.

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easily the coolest weapon class

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Twinblade ignoring shields with madness buildup Miyazaki pls

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twinblade and greatshield for a sentinel prime cosplay.

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The cringiest weapon class in the game

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Parry

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It would be really cool if they added a twin blade that had kicks mixed in with the two-handed move set. Like the stone knights from DS2, those guys were awesome.

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these things with a status infusion are unfair, for their speed they inflict too much buildup. at 40 ARC rivers does 63 bleed per hit while blood twinned knight swords does 104. it does more bleed than bloody helice, bleed-infused curved swords, occult scavenger's, everything! 1H running R1 into spinning slash will just delete people

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Twinblades are the longest straight swords in the game

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The Charge Attack is like the flail charge attack comically unpractical. Ludicrous wind up, no hyper armor and only the last hit does decent damage. If there is one attack in the game that needs hyper armor, it's the charge attack of Twinblades or make the charge up time much faster, because as it stands right now, the charge attack is objectivly unusable pve and pvp wise.

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I'm counting on you, hopefully this update did you justice.

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I just love this weapon set. I play up close sword/shield so it pairs great. Bloody slash in right hand and swap between shield or Eleanora in left and I can dual, 2H or block as needed. So versatile. Props are so consistent or go occult for more damage or any scale you like and you will have fun. By end game you can restat and go mage or any other path you like but for PvE these are great. Only disappointment is variety. Completely understand why you can't dual these til mid game.

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best weapon class as long as you ignore the weaknesses also **** dual wielders

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powerstanced twinblades was a stupid ****ing moveset and I'm glad it got nerfed. 2H supremacy

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I really wish there’d be a few more twinblades available :( I was surprised to see the list is so short

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these things kick ass but you've gotta keep the range in mind. you may think it's long but your character's forward motion on each attack is very short so you end up not traveling as far as you would with other weapons and whiffing attacks when your enemy backs up a little. makes roll catching with r1s in pvp impossible if they roll backwards lol

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If you look at the Thumbnail in Fextra's twinblades vid, you'll notice the Twinblade of Abundance and Decay in the upper mid of the of the image, but it features neither in the video, nor on the main Twinblades page, as it's cut content. Hope we get to see it in the dlc

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The backstep attack is so sexy, love using it for mixups

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The REAL proof that Elden Ring is secretly Dark Souls II 2.

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Do both Gargoyle blades have the same range? I'm asking this because I don't see two gargoyles on the visual above.

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you can but giants hunt and lions claw on these. need i say more

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For PvP, they lack the ability to stun heavily armored players, so cragblade is really good for them

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these weapons are so weird when you think about it, they're better when two handed so strength is the obvious choice but they're more dex focused than anything else for obvious reasons, and the only pure physical damage one that's strength oriented has much lower range than it's dex counterparts. it's like you're punished for using them they way they're intended

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keep getting better and better with every update, they kick so much ass

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after using one-handed Twinblades (mostly Lightning Twinned Knights Sword and Keen or Blood Godskin Peeler) a lot in a sword and board context (with three heater shields to swap between for different skills), I gotta say the one-handed twinblade moveset really is the bees knees. R1 Spam is great on it, it feels like a bigger fancier version of longsword R1 spam. The first R1 comes out 2 frames slower than the longsword's but the following attacks' speed is extremely similar to Longsword's but with better damage and I think bigger hitboxes (especially with the Twinned Knight's which feels surprisingly reachy). And your running R1 becomes a quick stab.

The two-handed moveset is still better for sheer damage-dumping on big vulnerable targets, to be clear, but if you're just lashing out with quick hits and dodging then the one-hand moveset feels super nice. I'm getting a little sick of shields making me shield-brained (hiding behind my shield) so I'm trying to find something else to use in my off-hand (currently trying the pulley crossbow) but the centerpiece of my build remains one-handed twinblades because the balance of speed and damage and style feels so compelling to me right now. Also worth noting that the offhand chain is worse (slower) than the mainhand chain in spite of them looking very similar, which is unfortunate.

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Does 23 poise damage with the first hit in pvp with 2HR1, 2H Rolling R1 and 2H Runnung R1. Any weapon could poise though it.


However, probably the best weapon for applying status effects in PvE, preferably bleed, since you can easily apply frost with freeze pots, so no need to use it on a weapon.


Also the muti hit property it has is only useful to apply status effects since it does so little damage, that and fighting off crowds in PvE.

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If you're like me and you enjoy two-handing twinblades rather than powerstancing (either because you prefer it or because you also run spells in offhand,) you can use some interesting mixups by alternating one-handed and two-handed combat. The running attacks differ significantly when you're one-handing versus two-handing, and you get some unexpected reach out of it.

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Dear mike wazowski please give me a wood quarterstaff with twinblade moveset that does blunt damage.

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The multi hit attacks are good at catching laggy players

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so im doing a mage build so dont have much strength or dex but i want to do the quick runes method by killing the dragon with bleed early game, whats the weapon that requires the lowest stats but does bleed?
p.s early game weapon that wont take me ages to get

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This weapon class feels unfinished... theres so many weird quirks with it and not in the "this weapon class has unique specialties" way

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Twinblades are so cool any way! The jump attacks rapid and whenever Maxed out it's too powerful.

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in the showcase video there's a weapon (top-left of gargoyle twinblade) that's actually not in any guide and never found it. Is a secret weapon to find or is from another game? please answer that looks so cool

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Can we address the fact that this weapon class still does significantly reduced damage and poise damage on the first swing of regular hit, meanwhile even other multi hit dedicated weapons such as claws, fists, Ornamental Straight Sword, Starscourge Greatsword do full damage on it essentially doubling damage output per single attack ... Same for dual wielding...
Meanwhile the most twin sword can get is 60 damage on the first swing with practically no poise damage, especially while two handed...
This is getting ridiculous at this point, at least the speed was improved...

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RIP Red Iron Twinblade.

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The added speed buff with this update is nice, but twinblades would really benefit from some added poise breaking damage when two-handing. Give players an incentive to play a different style other than dual-wielding in this weapon class.

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Using these with the speed buff almost feels unfair. Almost.

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part of me feels bad invading dual twinblade users. they have 1 move, and that move works on 99.9% of pve, but is completely ineffective on players because of how easy it is to predict and space

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ah yes most high strength weapons scale better with dex and most dex weapons scale better with strength

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Hold on, I just realized that more twinblades scale better with strength than with dex.

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with the new 1.07 changes, these are actually quite good for players that enjoy sword and board builds

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Its weird how despite ds2 being rushed and unfinished, er has the same amouth of twinblades. Except thats not even true, er pretty much have 4, since gargoyle`s black blade is an abomination that should not exist and the only difference between twinblade and knights twinblade is its looks (yes, i know that they have slightly different AR, but thats not enough, especially then one is just weaker, making it obsolete). It seams that infamous B team is making Miyazaki look like he doesnt know that he is doing

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Use twinblade without power stance jumping L1 challenge (impossible)

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I feel like im the only person here who actually uses twinblades as a twohanded weapon, the godskin peeler two handed is such a great moveset and is so underrated.

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I've spent about 50 hours messing with these in PvE and I find this weapon class to be ridiculously versatile. Its fast enough to use against most bosses and its reach and moveset trivializes not only groups of trash mobs but also really hard-to-hit enemies like Black Knife Assassins. Think of these as the range and moveset of a colossal sword, but with the speed and damage of a straight sword. I find it to be the best of both worlds with few of the drawbacks of either.

Recommendations on use:
- Don't use a shield. Two hand or power stance. This is how you unlock full potential
- Generally don't target lock, except when 1v1ing a tough enemy
- Winged Insignia talisman! The talisman's buff applies on hit, not attack. So because of chain attacks, its pretty much a free 10% damage buff when using a twinblade
- Jumping R2 deals pierce damage on top of being a jumping attack. Pair with Spear Talisman to be even more broken.
- Charged R2 will do a spinning 4 hit attack which makes it beastly at applying status effects, poise breaking, and following up backstabs for absurd damage
- Crouch attack is crazy fast and has great range
- Impaling Thrust and Spinning Slash ashes pair fantastically. These are all the poise damage of charged R2 without the windup.

I get the sense people complaining about twiblades are either A) playing meta PVP or B) turned off immediately by its unusual moveset, and haven't spent the time to learn how to handle it. It will seem clunky at first. But play with it a 5 or 10 hours before you decide.

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Am I the only one that thinks it’s weird how none of them deal slash damage? I feel like slash/pierce would be more appropriate for twinblades, since their move sets consists of spinning, slashing, and/or stabbing

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This is weird but twinblades are easier to use one-handed in fact.

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As of patch 1.07 the dual twinblade jump attack spam setup for bleed is no longer optimal. I was using the Godskin Peeler at +23 alongside with the Twinned Knight Swords +20, both Blood infused, and the jumping L1 attack that hits 4 times no longer bleeds enemies instantly.

HOWEVER, this is a good thing, because at the same time they buffed other ways to proc bleed.
- Two-handing the GP procs bleed in two or three attacks now (not hits, two or three R1 attacks)
- The running GP R2 procs bleed (when two-handed)
- Blood Tax on usually bleeds enemies in one combo on any of these two twinblades, AND it heals you, AND it staggers most enemies.
- Bloody Slash got re-buffed and it deals more damage and bleed buildup now. Haven't tested it too much yet

I am very happy about this change, when I read in the patch notes that bleed buildup on dual weapons was nerfed I was sad since it was the first time I tried out a bleed build and it felt really powerful, but after playing around with it I realized it actually made the gameplay more fun, I no longer feel like using anything other than jumping L1s is me losing DPS.

Seppuku being nerfed is also a good thing for twinblades, now freeing up more AoW choices since you don't have to rebuff and heal every few minutes.

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Funny how except from the jumping L1 the moveset sucks ass

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A magical quarterstaff version of one of these with blue glowies and a mid range burst attack that scales with INT and you've just delivered sorcery combat people actually want instead of standing there being a turret

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"I bet he's gonna want to do a jumping attack"

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if you see somebody with two of these, you already know exactly what their build is

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infuse with bleed, spam powerstanced jump attacks. congrats you just won elden ring.

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I find it so funny how twinblades are just so much worse if you two-hand them compared to powerstancing it with another one. A weapon who’s main attribute being better twohanded is weaker than just using two separate ones…just, brilliant.

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You know that first hit of one multi hit attack deals massively lower damage compared to a second one to balance out twinblades? Meanwhile all dual wilded light weapons deal their full damage on the first hit essentially doubling their ar while losing none of their speed... wtf is this logic????

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I want a unique int scaling twinblade in dlc so badly...

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Use with Lion's claw to cut yourself in half

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WARGLAIVES OF AZZINOTH?

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Wish there was a quarterstaff for a Little John build. Or something like siegbräu for my other Little John build...

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