Eclipse Shotel

Notes

• Requires 10 Strength, 25 Dexterity and 30 Faith, and weighs 3. Its physical damage favors Dexterity with weaker Strength scaling; Faith improves its Holy damage. Intelligence and Arcane do not improve its attack power.
• Upgrade with Somber Smithing Stones to +10. Death Flare is fixed and cannot be replaced. Grease and outside weapon enchantments cannot be applied, but its own skill can still buff it.
• Death Flare costs 16 FP to coat the weapon. The buff lasts 45 seconds, adding 65 Holy attack power and 30 Death Blight buildup to qualifying weapon hits. The unbuffed sword has no innate Death Blight.
• An additional skill input costs another 16 FP and performs the downward attack with a Death Blight explosion. The damaging follow-up uses the weapon's attack power, including its physical and Holy components.
• Death Blight works against other players. Ordinary enemies, bosses and NPC invaders are immune, so the blade and explosion still need to kill those targets through normal damage.
• Faith and upgrades improve the relevant Holy damage, rather than increasing the fixed Death Blight buildup. More attack power does not make the status bar fill faster.
• Its heavy attacks bypass 20% of guarded damage negation, rising to 30% on a fully charged heavy. This creates chip damage through a shield; it does not make all attacks unblockable or guarantee a guard break.
• The shotel has the shorter, single-hit charged heavy used by this type of curved sword, rather than the ordinary two-hit charged swing. Its critical rating is 100.
• This is a legendary armament found at the church altar. The medallion half beyond Niall is a different pickup, so you can collect the sword before attempting him.