Chainlink Flail

Notes

• Requires 18 Strength and 12 Dexterity, and weighs eight. Standard physical scaling strongly favors Strength, unlike the more Dexterity-focused Nightrider Flail.
• Deals Strike damage and has 50 innate blood loss buildup. Strength raises the physical hit, but does not increase that bleed by itself. Arcane improves bleed only when the chosen affinity gives the weapon Arcane scaling.
• Its default Spinning Chain channels the head in front of you. Spinning costs eight FP per set of hits; the light follow-up costs another eight and the strong follow-up another 10.
• Spinning Chain has no transferable Ash of War. You can keep it with Standard affinity and use an allowed grease or enchantment, or replace it with another compatible skill to choose a different affinity.
• Its ordinary flail swings cannot be parried. A replacement skill follows its own parry rules, so this is not blanket protection for every Ash attack.
• Heavy affinity uses the alternate upgrade progression with a slightly weaker Strength contribution for independently scaled skills. It still provides strong Strength scaling for direct flail hits.
• Only the Mad Pumpkin Heads carrying this flail drop it, with a 4% base chance at 100 Discovery. The bare-handed Pumpkin Head on Saintsbridge is a helmet target, not a flail farm.
• Upgrade it with ordinary Smithing Stones to +25. Its critical rating is the normal 100.
• Can use compatible Ashes of War. Grease or a weapon enchantment can be applied while using an affinity that allows weapon buffs; elemental and status affinities normally prevent those coatings.