Blade of Mercy is a Trick Weapon in Bloodborne; it's one of two skill/arcane hybrid weapons.
Blade of Mercy Description
"A special trick weapon passed down among hunters of hunters. One of the oldest weapons of the workshop.
Splits into two when activated. The weapon's warped blades are forged with siderite, a rare mineral of the heavens. Most effective swift attacks,such as after a quick-stepping."
Blade of Mercy Information
- Transforms from a single-handed short-sword to dual-blades wielded in both hands.
- Deals bonus damage when performing quick-step, sprinting, backstep, and transformed L2 attacks.
Location
Normal
- Can be purchased from the Messengers for 40000 echoes after obtaining the Crow Hunter Badge from Eileen the Crow's questline.
- Eileen will drop the Crow Hunter Badge when killed.
- It's possible for Eileen to be killed by Henryk and drop the Crow Hunter Badge as a result.
Uncanny Blade of Mercy
- Lower Ailing Loran Root Chalice - Fetid/Rotted (unknown whether these Offerings are necessary)
- Sinister Lower Loran Root Chalice
- Sinister Lower Loran Root Chalice Glyph: v77hfp2e, layer 1 side area before boss.
- Fetid Cursed Lower Loran Chalice: Glyph 848dwxng, Layer 1 side area before boss.
Lost Blade of Mercy
- Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice
- Sinister Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice
- Glyphs: sz73v83s (Layer 2)
- Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (Cursed Fetid Rotted)
- Glyph: yuwuijne (Layer 2, side area before the boss) Also contains Lost Burial Blade and Ring of Betrothal
- Glyph: zziz2qbx Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (Cursed Fetid Rotted) Layer 1 Pre-Boss Side area
Player Notes
- The normal form of this weapon is a short sword with a straight-forward but versatile move set.
- Despite what its small size may imply, it deals decent damage per attack in addition to having fast swings.
- As such, it has a higher than average DPS but suffers extremely short range in the meantime.
- On the flip side, the transformed mode utilizes dual mini-curved swords that have a faster attack speed; this comes at the cost of disabling a normal left-handed weapon and less damage per individual strike.
- R1 attacks in the transformed form slowly speed up as you continue attacking, capping after the fifth strike.
- In PVP, if you believe you can win a battle of attrition, it can be used to bait an opponent into overextending a skirmish, especially if the opponent is unaware of the wind-up attack speed.
- Be careful not to spam this tactic; smart opponents will unleash visceral attacks if they realize what you're trying to accomplish.
- Appropriately enough, this is good for fighting most NPC hunters, though. If you can get in close and get their back to a wall, you can stab them until your stamina runs out since they'll flinch with about every hit and be unable to retaliate. Just remember to leave them no space to backstep away; they'll be able to do it that way. Practice it a bit, then get in there and get an early start on the sky burial the next time you're fighting an NPC hunter.
- The Blade of Mercy is best suited for fighting individual targets rather than a group due to its move set; this is due to the weapon's kit favoring sidestep thrusts and quicksteps that are difficult to retaliate against in a battle of speed when your opponent is alone.
- Rally is somewhat low due to the weapon's fast attack speed. Combos with this weapon can potentially alleviate this issue, but take care not to exhaust your stamina in the process. Disengage at low stamina with a backward dodge or an L2.
- This weapon lacks the ability to do a charged R2 attack in transformed mode but has a 2 R2 combo.
- Due to its fast attack speed, it can be useful for inflicting Rapid or Slow Poison.
- L2 attacks in the transformed mode causes the hunter to attack and hop backward simultaneously.
- This is useful as a defensive mechanism since it grants you breathing room from your opponent.
- It's also useful as a finisher to any combos you unleash on an opponent, dealing considerably high damage and distancing yourself so that you can recover stamina.
- Make sure you are directly in their face for this, as it has one of the lowest ranges in the game.
- Think like a rogue/assassin/thief from a traditional RPG when using this weapon. You will typically not win battles by brute force, but rather through speed, patience, positioning and dedication.
- The blade lacks decent heavy attacks to stun heavier foes but the transformation attacks can be used as heavy attacks.
- This weapon has many similarities to the Burial Blade.
- Both weapons have a direct scaling with arcane towards their damage outputs.
- They cannot be buffed by external sources.
- Furthermore, it's impossible to modify their damage type into Fire/Bolt/Arcane through blood gem fortification.
Stats/Scaling
R: Rally/Regain. The amount of HP regained on an R1 attack immediately after taking damage
Move sets & Videos
Moveset testing done by - 
Castielle.
Numbers were tested on a level 120 player with no armor using a +10 Blade of Mercy.
| Move | Damage Type & Modifier | Stamina | Effect |
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| R1 Combo |   1.00x, 1.02x, 1.04x |
15 | There are three moves in the combo consisting of horizontal slashes. The first is right to left followed by left to right with the third being right to left with a slight upward motion as well. The even attacks (2, 4, 6) are all the left to right slash. All right to left slashes (odd numbers) except the first use the motion that includes the slight upward trajectory. This has very little stamina cost and can create very long combos. In addition, since all of the attacks are basically the same, pacing and consistency make this an easy combo to utilize. |
| Quickstep R1 | 1.50x |
25 | There are three quickstep animations. Stepping right or back creates a quick forward hop and slash from right to left. The left step is reversed with the slash animation. Stepping forward leads the character to drag the blade from the ground to the side of the left foot and up on a diagonal, ending at about shoulder height. The front step is the only one that doesn't have a hop forward, instead taking only a short step. |
| Backstep R1 | 1.50x |
25 | The backstep R1 has a quick forward lunge which includes a horizontal slash from left to right. |
| Rolling R1 | 1.50x |
25 | The blade is quickly slashed from the ground near the left foot, up and to the right ending at just above shoulder height. |
| Dash R1 |  1.40x |
15? (+run) | The hunter ends the run with a step and forward stabbing motion. |
| R2 Attack | 1.25x |
30 | The hunter reverses his grip on the blade and brings it behind his body, then quickly slashes forward right to left and returning the grasp to the standard position. |
| Charged | 2.00x |
50 | The charge starts off with the same grip change as the R2, but drags the weapon a little further behind the body. Instead of slashing from right to left horizontally, the blade is brought up in an uppercut motion ending above the head. |
| Backstep R2 | 1.80x |
35 | Following the backstep, the right foot takes a quick step forward followed by a longer step with the left. The blade is then brought forward with a stabbing motion out and up (as if aiming for a human opponent's neck) and is twisted as it moves forward |
| Dash R2 | 1.80x |
30 (+run) | As the hunter runs, the blade is brought in front of the stomach while the body begins to rotate (right foot drifts behind the character). The hunter uses the momentum to lean forward while finishing the rotation of the body and slashing from left to right horizontally. Despite the short nature of the weapon, this move has a larger arc of attack and can be used to wade into a group of enemies and hit multiple foes. |
| Leap | 1.50x |
35 | The leap is fairly consistent with other weapons, with a jump forward and a downward diagonal slash from right to left. |
| Transform Attack | 1.20x |
15 (+15) | The first (backstep into transformation) has the hunter bring the weapon to the right hand side. As it's brought forward in what looks like a normal horizontal slash, the two daggers come apart. The blades appear to be magnetized and hold together at the tip, with the second blade whipping around the tip of the first in a circle. Meanwhile, the left hand has stored its weapon and catches the handle of the second weapon to go into the two hand stance. The second animation (following an attack) is similar to the first, except the blade starts at the left side of the body. The weapon is cast out and again the left hand dagger separates and whips out from the right hand dagger (connected by the tips) and comes back to the left hand. Fun fact: the standard transformation (not attacking) has the left hand stowing its weapon and simply grabbing the handle of the second dagger. Both hands raise up and separate the blades. A shower of sparks are created from the two tips unlocking which suggests this is where they're primarily joined. |
Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100th.
| Move | Damage Type & Modifier | Stamina | Effect |
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| R1 Combo | 0.90x, 0.90x, 0.90x, 1.25x, 1.10x, 1.12x, 1.18x, 1.18x |
12~ for first 3, then 15 each hit after | A basic combo involving a flurry of attacks with both hands wielding the transformed blades. They are: Right hand downward diagonal right to left, left hand left to right horizontal, right hand uppercut slash, both hands from overhead slashing down and then out, right hand forward stab, left hand (with reverse grip, blade held down) slashing to the right and up, right hand mirroring the last move (reverse grip slash to left and up), left hand forward stab. At this point moves start to repeat (right hand stab, then left hand reverse grip slash). At the fifth attack (right hand stab), the combo speeds up dramatically. All attacks are mostly in front of the player making this best used for one on one combat. |
| Quickstep R1 | 1.40x |
30 | All four quickstep animations are a rapid lunge forward with the hunter bringing both blades to the front in a thrusting motion. |
| Backstep R1 | 1.40x |
25 | The hunter hops forward with the right hand knife near the stomach. It is drawn forward in a left to right slash. |
| Rolling R1 | 1.40x |
25 | The hunter quickly stabs both blades directly in front at about abdominal level. |
| Dash R1 | 1.40x |
25 (+run) | The hunter lunges onto the right foot and stabs forward at about stomach height. |
| R2 Attack | 1.50x, 1.60x |
45 (follow up is 50) | The R2 attack is actually a short (two hit) combo. The first has the hunter bring both blades to the side at about shoulder height and slash them both front and across (right blade ends on left side and left on right). The follow up attack has a quick hop forward and both blades are brought back out again (out and up symmetrically). The second attack slashes at about leg height. |
| Charged | None | none | |
| Backstep R2 | 1.70x |
35 | Both blades are brought to the low and into the body (across the stomach). The blades are both slashed outward, with the right hand moving out and up and the left hand moving out and down. |
| Dash R2 | 1.70x |
30 (+run) | This is similar to the dash R2 of the other mode. The right hand is brought into the stomach as before while the hunter rotates in the same direction (right foot drifting behind). However, instead of simply leaning into the attack, the character does a short leap forward and slashes with both blades as the left catches up with the spin. |
| Leap | 1.50x |
45 | The hunter leaps forward, reverses the grip of both daggers and stabs them into the ground. |
| L2 | 1.50x |
45 | The hunter raises both blades overhead and brings them down and out to the sides creating an "x." The character also hops backward. This move is well suited as a final strike following an R1 combo as it will set you away from your enemy after slicing. |
| Transform Attack | 1.30x |
15 (+15) | There are two animations that are functionally identical for this move. In every instance, the grip is reversed on both blades. They are brought overhead and rejoined and brought downward and to the side in a stabbing motion that ends at the hunter's side. Attacking prior to the transformation leads to a slash toward the right side of the body. An evasive action (quickstep, backstep, roll) will result in the stab heading to the left. |
Trivia
- The Blade of Mercy was originally named as "Warped Twinblades" during the Alpha test, and it was the tool of choice for the "agile" hunter.
- Both the Burial Blade and Blade of Mercy make mentions of a mineral known as siderite in their descriptions.
- is the real-life alternate name for an iron meteorite, and it seems to be the reason why arcane power has direct scaling with both blade's damage output. Due to its extraterrestrial origins, that may explain why it cannot be buffed by an external source of any sort.
- It loosely resembles the Eleum Loyce from Dark Souls 2, a sword with two blades at the front.
Showcase
- Please note that the developers used the concept of magnetization (probably the siderite allusion) liberally, making some of the moves of this weapon hard to describe. Please see the moveset video if the following descriptions are confusion
Anonymouswell killed crownman to get this weapon early but the cost was 40k not 4k wonder when can i buy this later i guess? :(
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i have 70 skill and 70 strength, are two heavy bloodgems enough
also im not the best at english
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Ooooo wheee so you wanna be a quickstepping badass? Got some tips for these beautiful blades.
1) Beast Pellets. Yup 1 minute of high damage greatness, you already shouldn't be aggressive to the point where you're getting hit with these so Pop one and get to striking. Easily can hit 3k damage from half a beast bar, before your stam empties.
2) Anti-Clock Rune. Need that 15% extra stam, gives u more combo room and dodge chances.
3) transform l1s are to stagger slightly bulkier enemies but as every other risky strike, dash away as soon as u land em.
4) Bait Attacks and strike afterwards, you're an aggressie counter-attacker with these.
5) Madaras Whistle. Sure you can go Skill/Arc, just for these and B.Blade(alongside Old bone for Ninja-esque gameplay) but for you Skill/BT users out there Madaras Whistle is perfect for countering after you back off, you're enemy will be so focused on striking you, that they won't notice big snakey popping out to take a chomp outta their life.
6) orrr for the SKL/ARC, Augur of Ebrietas, this allows you to Parry in Dual-Wield Mode. And can be used with empty stam if u overextended.
7) if you were/are a Rakuyo user these things are shorter and reward more precise careful play with em, instead of L2ing when **** gets dicey(actually l2'ing is effective with BoM, since it backs u off, instead of Staggering, like the Rakuyo's does).
Enjoy!
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I find it interesting that the only 2 weapons made of siderite, and both used by people who only want the beasts to find rest, are both shaped like tools used for reaping. With the blades of the blade of mercy looking a lot like sickles
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The best dex weapon from has ever made. Strong as hell if used correctly but you really gotta use your brain and be constantly moving to make it effective. So much fun
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It can't be buffed because it has innate arcane damage. It's not complicated.
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anyone else eating a burrito rn. man i love a good burrito
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Found a Lost version in Ihyll FRC 794x3u9m, Layer 1 pre-lantern area.
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Found an Uncanny version in the Lower Loran FRC 3gmdn53c, Layer 2 pre-boss area.
There's a Beastclaw hunter in front of the fog gate, though. First time I've seen that happen.
This weapon is the literal “lets dance mtherfker” tool. Maybe the most fun weapon in the game. For me it’s also the most complex to gem and optimize. If you could buff it we are talking unfair awesomeness
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I have a blades of Mercy Spec'd for Rapid Poison and it wrecks NG++ Micolash, one combo with just 2 decent gems is enough to proc rapid poison, keep him staggered the whole combo, and leave stamina to dodge out of the way
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I swear sometimes that quickstep stab travels two inches and other times it's Noctis's warp strike. Not that I mind. It's endlessly entertaining.
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IMO this paired with the burial blade is the best 2 weapon setup you can get. The fastest single target murderer, alongside the best wide reaching crowd sweeper.
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Engage enemy. Wait. Dodge attack. R1. R1. R1. R1. R1. R1. R1. Profit.
i love this weapon...
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Light speed kitchen knives. Not a poise breaker in the slightest. These things are not the easiest to use but paired with a longer weapon such as the rakuyo or burial blade this thing is amazing. Full beast is best btw cus it makes these things hit like sanic after some orange juice.
9/10
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This thing is good for close range and quickstepping.
I am good at neither. Most people that first try this game are not good at close range.
7/10.
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Use gems that give bonuses to perfurant attack, then you, while dual wilding, fowars and r1 and r1r1r1r1r1.
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What a ****ing waste of a week I had spent trying to get to the dungeon that this website says contains the lost blade of mercy. It isn't even there! I'm never using this site again, so **** that and **** you too!
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Can pleas some one explain me how arcane works with this wepon? Does it do arcane damage from the start or do you need some specal gems for it to acualy benefits from arcane?
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Rotten Lower Loran [s49gj4bc] (F/R/-) L1: Fading Lake+10% L3: Uncanny Blade of Mercy L4: Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis+20% L2 main room has a strange shape. Two rooms are concatenated to one.
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The lost and uncanny variants can replace the original one for the Hunter's Essence Trophy it worked for me
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If you play the game like I do, and tend to hover just outside your opponent’s effective range and never missing an opportunity to strike, these will serve you well. If you play like most people and want raw damage per hit and braindead ease of use, look elsewhere.
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Lost Blade of Mercy Of Chalice Dungeon: Cursed Pthemeru Ihyll between 3rd boss and beginning of 4th layer. Chalice Glyph: hmncdkpa
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Does anyone know if levelling up the Arcane attribute increases the bonus arcane damage or just the physical damage?
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Because so many people are dumb and think that Blades of Mercy are bad and that arcane scaling is worthless on them etc etc. I’d like to point out exactly why you take Arcane with these. You’ll be in transformed mode 99% of the time; they’re extremely close range... so, you get value out of the “spells” to compensate for your lack of range. NG+ you get to add in the burial blade to your setup. You also get to remain highly mobile, which is incredible. You’ll weave through enemies like a mad dancer, and then cast spells randomly. The kits wildly unpredictable and has probably the highest skill gap of any weapon in the game. Which makes it the best weapon in the game.
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Seeing so many claims of simply R1 spamming is the best way to use these, despite that being the truly worse way anyone could use these. As the description suggests, it is best to use ones dash attacks to weave in and out from the enemy in a hit and run style. Kinda a similar but more effective version of the Beasthunter Saif. The dashing L2 is by far it's most powerful attack, and it can be used multiple times with little risk of being hit if one dashes with good timing.
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can get your enemy in a fatal stunlock takes so little stamina can spam for days all in all a great weapon my personal favorite and you can cheese elien by charging r2 in the back dont punish while shes recoveing r2 and punish run to the raft which the sun is highlighting stand there when elien tries to hit you she will fall to her death if she isnt jump down and finish the job dont worry you can survive the fall
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Get to the back of the enemy and R1 stunlock them. No escape no surrender!
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The Blades have it pretty tough in this game. It'll never have the sheer DPS and ease of the Saws, and the Rakuyo offers a lot of the same idea but with more range and versatility. That's not to say they're bad though, the extremely low stamina cost could offer an interesting way to play the game for some people and I'd imagine it must work well with a poison build.
The key to using these things too is the sidestep or backstep attacks, they're fast, marginally better range than just R1'ing it up, and surprisingly damaging. Thanks to those attacks and the low stamina consumption of the weapon overall I'd be tempted to say it's one of the few weapons in the game that has great synergy with the hunter's bone. I made a straight Skill build that took Arcane up to 15 for the Bone, and also was one of the only builds I've ever made where I bothered to take Endurance past 20, and it worked out quite well.
Won't lie about it's shortcomings and the shadows of other weapons its kind of stuck in, but it has some tech to itself and they're a fun way to play the game. Challenging.
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Anyone know a 100% way to get uncanny? I’ve already made two ailing lower loran chalices and neither had the blade.
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If you perform a Dash R1 attack, but keep holding down on the circle button throughout the attack animation, you can actually perform another Dash R1 as soon as your character's legs start moving again without having to regain your momentum. You can do this with any weapon, but it works much better with the BoM on account of the low stamina cost, higher speed, swift attack bonus, and interruption bonus. Not sure if it's wise to use in PVP, but it works pretty well against larger, faster enemies and bosses. You can also change direction if you need to without losing momentum, or even perform a Dash R2 instead, but this costs more stamina and has a longer cool down.
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I've just recently got this game and I have this blade and I dunno if I should keep using it? I'm currently in the prison at level 28 and don't know if I should swap or not? And if so what should if swap too??
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Literally wanted to kill myself while trying to get through Paarl with these. Theyre are so *****ing short its literally impossible to consistently hit the leg you want, on top of typical Paarl problems like him being another camera boss etc., AND the dmg output is so***** compared to ie. cleaver.
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but suffers extremely short range in the mean time? these articles need to quit being written in the group homes.
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It may not seem ideal for larger bosses like Cleric Beast or Vicar Amelia, but considering how quickly it can dish out successive attacks, I've found it's a great weapon for breaking their limbs in succession to keep them from fighting back, allowing you to deal surprisingly severe combos.
There's also a dash-L2 attack in transformed state that's not mentioned here. It's not that different from the usual L2, but I thought it deserved mentioning since it initiates with the hunter performing a power slide, lmao.
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i have a bug where my wrist while dual wielding this or the rekuyo bends out so the left blade is parallel to the characters body
Alright, who the ***** wrote the moveset descriptions for this page? Hm? Because in that section i'm pretty sure you're supposed to be briefly describing the general attack animation, what the move is most useful for, properties like armor, invuln, projectiles, ect, not giving a three paragraph lecture on goddamn magnetism. All of that should be cleaned up and moved to Trivia. It's not gameplay-relevant.
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I just beat gehrman with +10 BoM, just kept using enhanced quick step R1
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Do not bother putting anything into arcane for using this weapon or burial blade, it's not worth it at all. You get about +40 Arc damage at 99 Arcane. Just go for high skill and physical gems.
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At first glance, this weapon does seem to have a lot of glaring weaknesses... low per-hit damage, low stagger, low rally potential, low range. But when you transform it and get a good sidestep in against an enemy, damn does this thing do work. Sidestep + R1 is just fantastic, R1 combo utterly shreds anything that stays nearby, L2 is a great aggressive disengage, etc. I love it.
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Thought I'd say that the blade kind of resembles an Egyptian sickle sword called a khopesh.
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I recently bought this weapon before fighting amelia and I have to be honest, the damage is somewhat lackluster. I've got it to +3 as of now and I just wanted to know at which upgrade does the weapon become good. My skill is 25 and I'm BL 35 btw
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tfw you go to shiv some filthy ass manbeast but your magnetic blade flies out of your hand and gets itself stuck to the wrought iron fence beside him
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Even after 5 or so playthroughs I still have the most fun using this weapon. I cannot love it enough it just feels so perfect for a hunter.
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This page says they cant change their damage type to fire/bolt/arcane however on my blade of mercy i currently have a fire gem equipped and it does indeed produce fire damage when striking an enemy. the enemies will often say "it burns" or "fire" on death when i kill them
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the minimum stamina to use them effectively i think is 141, this allows for 2 R2 attacks followed by an L2 and a backstep, giving thus a very strong combo and also gaining a fair distance from the enemy, if you level up skill and arcane enough, they get pretty good and can one-combo kill almost anythin, the only problem is the low stagger potential.
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In the chalice dungeon sz73v83s the weapon is in the layer 2 before the boss. It also has the Ring of Betrothal in the same layer: Go down in the elevator and then to the right.
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Eileen didn´t appear in my game. At no stage. Any other way I can get the blades of mercy? Kinda want to have it before I start NG+ and I´m right before the true last boss.
Does raising your arcane skill level also increase the damage done by the blades?
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This weapon didn't become available to me until after I had beaten the Blood Starved Beast. Had the badge from Eileen from when she died; well before that. The crow set however was available from when I first got the badge.
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I have been thinking about making a arcane build with focus around burial blade and maybe holy blade(with fire gem maybe?) instead of burial blade. So i was wondering what would be the best stat set up. would it be with str/skl/arc being 25/25/25, 16/25/40-50, or ignore str and stack skill/arc to 40/40 my main goal is to stay at lvl 100 until the community decides to stick with this or raise it a little more. Kinda wish I knew how to work the build calculator to find out myself since i'm no real math expert and i'm not entirely how this new system works.
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What do you think the preferred version of the blade of mercy is?
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One interesting thing about this weapon is that the more you combo with the dual-wielded attacks, the faster they become. Throw in a decent amount of endurance and you'd be able to one-round stunlock most enemies in depth 4+ dungeons, even with a 30/20 build.
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please anyone who has found the diff versions please post an image of the different textures
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Soooo I finished Eileen's quest and realized this weapon is awesome, but it scales with skill AND arcane. Im level 64 with stats at 29/25/18/25/12/8 or something along those lines. I have heard there is no respec in this game, so I wanted to know if it was viable to keep this character and just dump what I can into arcane and skill from here on out, or if I would be better off just starting over again. What has the community decided the unofficial level should be, and are certain points expected to be at a certain level? I seem to recall 30/30 in health and stamina in DS2 was fairly standard.
In pvp this thing is ridiculous. The quickstep R1 is overpowered, takes no skill and simply needs a nerf. The rest of the moveset is bad in pvp, easy to viceral atk. I think quickstep R1 needs debuff and rest of the movesett a buff. What do you guys think?
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I've been working a build with these blades using 30 end, 50 skill and 25 arcane. It is an absolute power house of burst dmg. Because of its trait of speeding up as you swing and high stamina its A whirlwind of dmg. Idk if anyone has tested it but I've seen the blades have a dmg stack like the rosmarinus after so many swings that land.
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i found in the first hallway of the second layer.....the first boss are the beast possesed soul....very easy sinister loran with sin.bell.....bavxjjzt
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got invaded by some dude and my blade had fire ele equiped with rapid poison the fire damage during the fight was easy to spot but could never see his health drop from what should b poison procs (i unleashed alot of half combos with dual on him) anyone know for certain if fire n poison cancel each other out?
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Whoever keeps adding to this that the blades only do the arcane damage on certain hits is an idiot and doesn't understand how split damage weapons work.
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The little double stab you do with these things in dual wield mode has almost absurd range for little daggers, and they do crazy good damage per hit too and combo easily into R2 or L2 if you like. I'd even go as far as saying they're the biggest reasons this weapon's so good.
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So I'm about to start a new character and I want to build it just for this and burial blade but I'm terrible with this scaling thing (this is my first souls game) so I want to ask y'all: what is the best build for those two weapons? I'm thinking about staying anywhere between 120 &130.
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I noticed that somekind of magnet have to be in that blade. I wonder if that magnet is the sinderite or a real magnet
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"The weapon's attack speed also works against it, as you'll degrade the weapon very quickly in comparison to other weapons."
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I was thinking of using this for some PvPing, but would this be useful? And if it is, what is the best method of using it?
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I have skill and arcane at both 50, strenght at 16. Am I better off levelling up strenght to 50 or maximising the skill and arcane to 99 to get the most out off the weapon?
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Does the L2 attack have invincibility frames during the back step
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How many swings can you get with transformed r1 at max stamina (40 endurance)
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Can this weapon perform visceral attacks while transformed. (I mean just the visceral attack while opponent is staggered, not including the charged R2)
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I've noticed that it seems like I do more damage per hit after I land 4 consecutive attacks as well as the attack speed increase.
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