Scavenger's Curved Sword

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 9 Strength and 14 Dexterity and weighs 3.5. Standard leans slightly toward Dexterity, but innate bleed also makes Occult useful for an Arcane-focused setup.
• Has 45 innate Blood Loss buildup. Occult preserves that buildup and adds Arcane scaling for both Physical damage and bleed; Standard has no Arcane scaling.
• Blood affinity gives the same base buildup progression as other Blood curved swords, rather than adding its full innate 45 on top. Its bleed proc does retain a usual flat damage component 100 points higher than Blood on a curved sword without innate bleed.
• Cold keeps bleed and adds Frostbite, giving two separate buildup meters. This does not give Frostbite Intelligence scaling or make both effects scale with Arcane.
• Paired curved-sword running and jumping attacks can make four contacts when both weapons connect. Partial contacts and individual status modifiers mean four visible swings are not four guaranteed full menu-value bleed applications.
• Only one fixed copy is available per journey. For a matching pair, use a second journey or player trade, or pair it with a different curved sword and give that other blade its own suitable affinity.
• Starts with Spinning Slash for 6 FP and a 12-FP follow-up. It is a replaceable skill, rather than a unique skill forced by the word Scavenger.
• The nearby Grafted Scion does not drop it. Collect the corpse beside the cliff ladder; repeatedly farming that enemy will not provide a second sword.