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Serpent Flail
StrikeSomber Smithing Stone—Unique skill
A flail with coiled snakes for bludgeoning heads. Fire roars within the snakes' bodies, inflicting horrible burns.
Attack rating—At your attributes
Weight6Equip load units
Requires10Str24Dex21Fai
Passive buildup—At your attributes
Attack & scalingUpdates as you edit
In-game description
A flail with coiled snakes for bludgeoning heads.
Fire roars within the snakes' bodies, inflicting horrible burns.
Some of Messmer's army used these flails to burn hornsent—to brand them with agony and fear.
Skill
Flare, O SerpentFP 8 · Unique skill
Ignites a flame inside the snakes, temporarily empowering flame attacks. Once ignited, strong attacks and other moves that strike the ground will cause an explosion.
Where to find
Map pending
LocationFog Rift Fort courtyardMap location pending
Gravesite Plain
Starting Site of Grace: Scadu Altus, West
Before you go
- To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.
- From Highroad Cross, follow the western road toward the Church of the Crusade and Scadu Altus, West. Activate Scadu Altus, West before attempting the cliff descent into Fog Rift Fort.
- From Scadu Altus, West, approach the cliff immediately northwest of the grace. Use the ledges below to drop carefully onto Fog Rift Fort's tower.
- Descend into the fort and follow the ramparts across the wooden bridge. Before crossing the high stone bridge toward Black Knight Garrew, take the ladder down into the soldier-filled courtyard below.
- Clear the soldiers and check the chest at the back of the courtyard for the flail. It is a chest pickup, so defeating Garrew is not required.
Notes
- Requires 10 Strength, 24 Dexterity and 21 Faith, and weighs 6. Dexterity improves Physical damage, Faith improves Fire damage, and Strength has only a small Physical contribution.
- Unlike several other flails, it has no innate Blood Loss buildup. Its main extra effect is the Fire coating and explosion from its unique skill.
- Flare, O Serpent costs 8 FP and adds 90 flat Fire attack power for up to 30 seconds. It does not explode immediately when you activate the skill.
- A move that strikes the flail into the ground triggers an explosion and spends the coating. This can happen even if no enemy is hit, so avoid wasting it on an empty heavy attack.
- Ordinary hits that do not strike the ground can keep using the Fire coating until you trigger the explosion or its timer ends. This is different from a buff consumed by the first contact with any enemy.
- The explosion is separate from the flail contact and improves through Faith and upgrades. A charged ground strike produces the stronger explosion, with 12 stance damage instead of 7.
- Shard of Alexander improves the explosion. Axe Talisman applies to a charged ordinary flail hit, while Godfrey Icon does not boost this explosion just because a charged heavy triggered it.
- Its attacks cannot be parried, and it can still perform backstabs and ripostes. The lack of critical attacks belongs to whips, not flails.
- Uses Somber Smithing Stones to +10. Its skill and affinity are fixed, and grease or weapon enchantments cannot be applied.
- It is a chest pickup in Fog Rift Fort's lower soldier courtyard. Black Knight Garrew and the high bridge beyond it are unnecessary for the chest.
- Fire damage bonuses strengthen the explosion, but do not make its 90-point coating scale with Faith. That flat coating and the separate Faith-scaled explosion are different benefits.
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