Carian Sorcery Sword

Notes

• Physical damage scales most strongly with Intelligence, with weaker Dexterity and Strength scaling.
• Magic damage scales most strongly with Intelligence.
• Its critical rating is 110. This improves critical attacks such as backstabs and ripostes; it does not give every ordinary attack the same bonus.
• Upgrade it with Smithing Stones. Its maximum upgrade is +25.
• Use its strong-attack input to cast your selected sorcery. Ordinary attacks still use the sword, so it can handle both jobs without swapping to a staff.
• Requires 10 Strength, 19 Dexterity and 16 Intelligence and weighs 2.5. Intelligence improves its current Physical and Magic damage as well as its sorcery casting; it is not limited to the blade's Magic portion.
• Heavy, charged-heavy, running-heavy and jumping-heavy inputs are replaced by sorcery casting. Memorize the spell at a grace, meet its requirements and keep enough FP, just as with a staff.
• When held in the left hand, the skill input casts the selected sorcery and takes priority over the right-hand weapon's skill. Plan the hand arrangement if you want quick access to a different weapon skill.
• A guard counter uses the light- and heavy-attack inputs together instead of only the usual heavy input. Pressing heavy alone attempts a cast.
• It can cast Physical-damage sorceries as well as Magic-damage sorceries. Intelligence supports the current version's spell damage, so the old limitation that treated Physical sorceries as a Strength and Dexterity setup does not apply.
• It cannot cast incantations. Its casting convenience also does not make it universally stronger than dedicated staffs at every Intelligence level.
• Impaling Thrust costs 9 FP and is fixed. Its affinity cannot be changed, and grease or weapon enchantments cannot be applied.
• The sword does not provide the separate Carian Glintstone Staff bonus to sword sorceries. A compatible staff held in the other hand can supply its own passive spell-family bonus.