Death's Poker

Notes

• Requires 15 Strength, 17 Dexterity and 11 Intelligence and weighs 8.5. Ordinary physical hits scale mainly with Dexterity, with weaker Strength scaling. Its smaller magic portion scales with Intelligence.
• The weapon has 65 innate Frostbite buildup. Intelligence and Arcane do not increase that fixed ordinary-hit buildup; the displayed Intelligence scaling is damage scaling.
• Ghostflame Ignition costs 15 FP to create the flame at the tip. Follow with a light attack for a ground trail or a heavy attack for an explosion; either follow-up costs another 10 FP, making the complete sequence 25 FP.
• The ghostflame orb, trail and explosion deal magic damage based on reinforcement and Intelligence. These effects are calculated separately from ordinary physical attack rating, so a Dexterity increase that improves sword hits does not directly increase the magical flames.
• The light follow-up leaves fire-like ground effects that can repeatedly damage an enemy standing in them. The heavy follow-up gives a more immediate area explosion. A fast-moving enemy can leave the trail, so choose the follow-up around the opening you actually have.
• The white flames build Frostbite rather than dealing fire damage. They do not automatically clear an existing Frostbite condition, and increasing magic damage does not increase Frostbite's separate burst.
• The flame at the tip can deal damage before a follow-up. Actual weapon contacts and the separate magical effects have different damage and status behavior; a ranged flame hit is not an ordinary full-strength sword hit.
• Shard of Alexander, Spellblade armor and magic-damage bonuses support the damaging ghostflame skill. Snow Witch Hat and Graven talismans boost specified sorceries rather than this weapon skill. Godfrey Icon does not apply because choosing a follow-up is not charging.
• Upgrade with Somber Smithing Stones to +10. The skill and affinity are fixed, and outside grease or a weapon enchantment cannot be applied.
• The Caelid Death Rite Bird appears at night. Defeating a bird in the lakes, the Mountaintops or the Snowfield gives a different reward; the weapon is not a random drop shared by every bird.