The Beast Cutter is a Trick Weapon in Bloodborne. It was introduced in The Old Hunters Expansion and appears to be the Strength equivalent of the Threaded Cane. There are 3 versions of this weapon: Normal, Uncanny and Lost. The only known differences being the Gem Imprints and the locations in which they are found.
Beast Cutter Description
"A trick weapon used by Old Hunters.
This thick iron cleaver slices through the toughest of beast hides, and when transformed the blade splits into sections, allowing one to lash it in the fashion of a heavy whip.
This crude weapon relies on brute force and is regrettably inelegant, suggesting that the hunts of the earliest hunters made for horrific affairs, painted in sanguine black and reds."
Beast Cutter Information
- Transforms from a cleaver to whip-like blade with long reach and fluid combos
- Requires 16 Blood Stone Shards, 16 Twin Blood Stone Shards, 16 Blood Stone Chunks, 1 Blood Rock and 4780 Blood Echoes to fully upgrade
- To perform a Leap Attack, tap forward on the Left Stick as you press R2
- To perform a Transformation Attack, press L1 while performing another attack.
Location
Normal
- When walking up the stairs to the nightmare version of the Grand Cathedral, turn left onto a small platform, then roll off and walk down some rough terrain to find the weapon on a corpse.
Uncanny Beast Cutter
- If you have the normal version: Create Glyph 8i29rqz3 (Pthumeru Labyrinth) and buy from Bath Messengers up a ladder from the main room for 20,000 Blood Echoes.
Lost Beast Cutter
- If you have the normal version: Create Glyph 8i29rqz3 (Pthumeru Labyrinth) and buy from Bath Messengers up a ladder from the main room for 20,000 Blood Echoes.
Player Notes
- A good weapon choice for dealing with large groups of enemies due to its long range, great stagger, and wide swing arc.
- Acts as a heavy weapon, granting easy staggers and consuming large portions of stamina per swing.
- This weapon's moveset in both forms consists entirely of Blunt attacks. Using gems that increase Blunt damage is recommended.
- The weapon's weakest trait is a very low rally potential.
- Is a serrated weapon, boosting damage against various beasts.
- The transformation attack from base form to whip form is an overhead slam with medium range. Changing back to cleaver form makes the player do a downward thrust directly in front of them.
- The whip swings low when using light attacks, good for clearing low lying enemies.
- The heavy combo attacks consist of far-reaching overhead slams. The second attack of the R2 combo has incredible range, and hits hard enough to flatten most human-sized enemies.
- When transformed, the dodging light attack (dodge + R1) will not be a whip move, like the rest of its attacks, but rather a quick diagonal slash from your right foot to left shoulder.
- In whip mode, has the highest amount of windup and recovery frames of any weapon, however, also has the most damage frames.
- Widely considered a Strength version of the Threaded Cane.
- Very similar to the Amygdalan Arm, but with faster attacks, serration, less rally, and worse strength scaling.
- Extremely clublike
Player Preferences
An excellent compliment to the Saw Cleaver or Saw Spear, because both weapons are faster but with shorter range compared to Beast Cutter. While they do have decent range on their tricked forms, they can't compare to Beast Cutter's. Both, Saw Cleaver/Saw Spear and Beast Cutter have low stat requirements as well as average-to-low scaling, making them ideal for low-level builds. Also, both of them allow you to use left hand weapon, even in their trick forms. The Saw weapons are best against smaller but faster foes (and single targets like Hunters), while the Beast Cutter is best against groups of foes, especially if they are slow.
This weapon is also an ideal compliment to the Beast Claw. While the Beast Claw (transformed) does have an attack for groups, it is best against single targets. The Beast Cutter is the opposite.
It's actually not a bad compliment to Logarius' Wheel, either. While both are slow, they both have great stagger and hyper armor in their attacks (transformed for Beast Cutter). The Wheel handles single targets, and Beast Cutter can handle groups (from a longer range as well).
The Beast Cutter would also go well with the Kirkhammer, because while the Kirkhammer does have the versatile moveset (shortsword for slash and thrust along with speed, and the great hammer form for blunt and stagger), they both lack the range to reliably deal with groups of enemies. Sure, the L2 for the tricked form (great hammer) has a wide swing arc, but not nearly as wide as an R1 attack from the Beast Cutter in tricked form, and it is slower and more unsafe to use... thus, the Beast Cutter comes in (and it has as much stagger). Besides, both weapons have different damage types (shortsword form is Righteous, and the Beast Cutter is Serrated), which helps the complimentary uses for them further.
Stats/Scaling
Movesets & Videos
| Move | Damage Type & Modifier | Stamina | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| R1 Combo | 1.00x, 1.02x, 1.04x, 1.06x, 1.06x | 25 | This weapon's moveset begins with a downward slash, followed by a backhand left to right sweep, then a slightly dragging uppercut, a backhand horizontal sweep, overhead downward slash, and finishes with a final backhand horizontal sweep. |
| Backstep R1 | .95x | 30 | Thrusting jab straight out. |
| Dodge R1 | .95x | 30 | After the roll, the weapon performs slightly diagonal uppercut from right to left. |
| Dash R1 | 1.10x | 35 (+run) | Performs a horizontal sweep from right to left. |
| R2 Attack | 1.20x | 40 | Features a more pronounced horizontal backhand sweep, moving from left to right. The attack starts from well behind the head. |
| Charged R2 | 1.90x | 70 | Performs a overhead swing. |
| Backstep R2 | 1.10x | 45 | Performs a diagonal backhand overhand slash, from left to right. |
| Dash R2 | 1.30x | 50 | The weapon performs an overhead downward smash. |
| Leap | 1.40x | 45 (+run) | Performs a leaping overhead downward smash. |
| Transform Attack | 1.40x | 45 (+x) | Swings the Beast Cutter around behind the hunter and then preforms a overhead downward smash. |
| Move | Damage Type & Modifier | Stamina | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| R1 Combo | .95x, .98x, 1.00x, 1.00x | 30 | The moveset of the combo alternates slower horizontal sweeps starting from right to left, then left to right, then right to left and so on. |
| Backstep R1 | .90x | 40 | Sweep from left to right. |
| Dodge R1 | 1.00x | 40 | After the roll, performs an uppercut. |
| Dash R1 | 1.10x | 35 (+run) | Performs a slightly diagonal horizontal sweep from right to left. |
| R2 Attack/Combo | 1.30x, 1.50x | 45 | Downward slash into the ground that disengages the chain mechanism and extends it outwards. Followed up by another downward slash. |
| Backstep R2 | 1.20x | 50 | After the backstep, performs a thrust action with the weapon's chain disengaging, after feinting a horizontal swipe motion. |
| Dash R2 | 1.35x | 55 (+run) | Performs an overhead downward slash attack. |
| Leap | 1.40x | 55 | Performs a leapong overhead downward slash attack. |
| Transform Attack | 1.50x | 50 (+x) | Slams the ground in front of the hunter with the tip of the weapon to transform back to the club |
Trivia
- Reminds many of the Zanpakutō , a fictional segmented sword that can function as a whip. It is an iconic weapon from the Bleach anime.
- The untransformed form of the weapon is a cleaver-like serrated club, and it really looks like the samoan war club "Nifo Oti".
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Anonymous16 Oct 2018 18:00
Its base form and attack animations resemble a Hammer Head style weapon, like Anotsu's from Blade of the Immortal. I think it's fictional but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it. Haven't watched Bleach so i couldn't know of anything else...
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23 Mar 2018 19:43
Looking for the uncanny and lost one what do you mean with "If you have the normal version"?
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05 Mar 2018 22:54
In player notes their is a typo. "Widley considered a Strength version of the Threaded Cane." Widley...
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16 Dec 2017 13:04
So with a STR build (50+) This weapon would benefit best with a Cursed Heavy Abyssal to boost the STR scaling to S, and then two Max Cursed Adept Blunt gems it would seem, as all of it's attacks are blunt.
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11 Dec 2017 03:54
Is the wiki outdated? My beast cutter only has a D scaling in strength at +6. This is my first time playing bloodborne so I apologize for my novicity.
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22 Nov 2017 16:19
Is this a good weapon for pure fire damage through fire gems? How is its scaling with Arcane on +8? Do they loose serrated damage when "infused" with fire?
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13 Nov 2017 00:42
Try it with fist of gratia. Really good combo ability and safety because both stagger
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28 Oct 2017 06:40
Does the stagger increase even more with blunt gems added? And would 3 blunt gems be more stagger than lets say 1 blunt gem if this is the case?
I also keep hearing that the backstep r2 poke is thrust? Anyone know?
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05 Oct 2017 03:27
The hunters axe has the highest rally in the game and the descripton states that it has a heavy blunt attack leading to high rally potential. Beast cutter is a heavy cleaver/club that deals 100% blunt damage, lowest rally potential in the game. Can anyone explain this? Surely it couldn't be an oversight
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20 Aug 2017 13:14
This weapon kinda enforces passive play cause it's slow, does a lot of damage and has low rally potential
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20 Aug 2017 03:39
The non-transformed state always surprises me with how fast it is. Moves faster than the non-transformed Kirkhammer or LHB, I'm pretty sure. It's scaling is kind of BS though.
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04 May 2017 16:12
first thing i thought when i SAW this weapon was really another SAW cleaver clone... how wrong i WAS
30 Apr 2017 02:38
Whoever saying this weapon sucks in pvp: GIT GUD. The baiting potential on this thing is huge, plus it staggers a lot specially with the R2. Its great for catching people who like to quickdash a lot since the R1s are a little bit delayed compared to other weapons, and people almost alwats misjudge the range on this thing. Granted, it has lower damage than other weapons, but i think it's just to balance out the advantages this weapon has
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10 Dec 2016 04:43
Ideal for dealing with hordes such as those found in chalice dungeons, but be mindful, this weapons attacks are wide reaching but leave you exposed for a long period of time, the best use i've found with this weapon is in tight corridors where my hapless prey couldn't begin to move without being assaulted mercilessly. Also as for the rally potential it does have a pretty poor rally potential but this is made up for with the fact it can hit as many targets as a fully charged R2 from the Burial Blade. In short, a fantastic crowd control and "poke poke poke" weapon, but be sure you have a faster weapon on standby as the speed of this weapon is its greatest downfall.
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23 Oct 2018 16:31
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