Smithscript Cirque

Notes

• Requires 9 Strength, 14 Dexterity, 11 Intelligence and 11 Faith, and weighs 2. Standard affinity favors Dexterity, with a smaller Strength contribution and small Intelligence and Faith increases to Physical damage.
• Two-handing draws the matching cirque and gives the paired moveset. A second copy is unnecessary for the pair.
• Light attacks are close slashes. Heavy attacks throw one or both circular blades along curved paths, giving a different approach from the straight flight of a throwing dagger.
• The throws have short range but do not lose damage across that flight in the same way as several other Smithscript projectiles. They still need a clear path and an enemy inside their reach.
• Thrown heavy attacks and guard counters have less stance pressure than the usual close-range Backhand Blade equivalents. Do not assume the ranged option keeps every benefit of the ordinary melee moveset.
• Ordinary thrown cirques do not add progress to consecutive-hit effects such as Winged Sword Insignia. Melee slashes and the weapon's skill have their own contact rules.
• Smithing Talisman improves eligible throws by 10% against enemies and 5% against other players. It does not increase projectile range or turn ordinary melee contacts into throwing attacks.
• Blind Spot is the starting skill. Its evasive side movement and guard-bypassing strike remain melee actions, rather than another cirque throw.
• Weapon-coating skills such as Sacred Blade, Chilling Mist and Royal Knight's Resolve are excluded. Being infusible does not mean it can use every Ash available to an ordinary weapon of the same class.
• Uses ordinary Smithing Stones to +25. Can use compatible Ashes of War and their supported affinities, but grease and weapon enchantments cannot be applied even with a Physical affinity.
• The pair is a fixed corpse pickup beyond the second lowered gate in Ruined Forge of Starfall Past. No random golem drop or boss defeat is required.