Noble's Slender Sword

Notes

• With Standard affinity, physical damage scales most strongly with Dexterity, with weaker Strength scaling.
• 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.
• 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.
• Requires 8 Strength and 11 Dexterity and weighs 3.5. Its unusually long blade is useful for spacing, while the low base Physical attack makes reinforcement and appropriate scaling important.
• Keen strengthens its Dexterity-focused blade damage, but some projectile-based skills use a slightly lower Keen reinforcement modifier on this sword. Strong blade scaling does not automatically mean stronger Storm Blade, Beast's Roar or Thunderbolt projectiles.
• Starts with Square Off: 6 FP for its light follow-up and 8 FP for its heavy lunge. Its 110 critical rating is a separate benefit when you follow a stance break with a critical attack.
• The base chance is 0.5% from nobles carrying the straight sword at 100 Item Discovery. Nobles carrying the thin thrusting sword drop Noble's Estoc instead.
• Its 1,000-rune sale price is high for an ordinary sword, but it is far too rare to be a dependable rune farm. Higher Discovery improves the roll without guaranteeing a drop after a set number of kills.