Nightrider Flail

Notes

• With Standard affinity, physical damage scales most strongly with Dexterity, with weaker Strength scaling.
• Upgrade it with Smithing Stones. Its maximum upgrade is +25.
• Can use compatible Ashes of War. Your choice of skill and the whetblades you've found determine which affinities you can apply.
• Grease or a weapon enchantment can be applied while using an affinity that allows weapon buffs.
• Its normal weapon hits build up blood loss. The effect only triggers against enemies that are vulnerable to it.
• Requires 10 Strength and 24 Dexterity and weighs 6. Its high Dexterity requirement remains necessary while two-handing, and Keen develops its Dexterity focus.
• Has 50 innate Blood Loss buildup and ordinary Strike attacks. It combines a blunt damage type with bleed without requiring a heavy Strength weapon.
• Ordinary flail attacks cannot be parried. That does not make the weapon unblockable or guarantee that a replacement skill is unparryable too.
• Starts with Spinning Chain: 8 FP for the spinning action, with 8 FP for the light finisher or 10 FP for the heavy finisher. It is a close-range skill, so the spinning heads need contact.
• Spinning Chain has no transferable Ash. Keeping that original skill means keeping Standard affinity; a replacement Ash lets you use another affinity but changes the skill.
• Keen uses a slightly weaker Dexterity modifier for some separate Keen, Quality, Lightning and Cold skill projectiles. This is separate from its strong Keen melee damage.
• Standard has no Arcane scaling. Blood, Poison and Occult can make Arcane improve its retained innate bleed, with different damage and buildup tradeoffs.
• It has no special hidden mounted damage bonus. Its Night's Cavalry owner and the weapon's name do not give it the mounted bonus associated with Nightrider Glaive.
• If you die during a night attempt, pass time until night again before looking for the rider. Killing only the horse is not enough; defeat the rider for the weapon and Barricade Shield reward.