Smithscript Greathammer

Notes

• Requires 20 Strength, 10 Dexterity, 11 Intelligence and 11 Faith, and weighs 9. Standard affinity favors Strength, with smaller Dexterity scaling and tiny Intelligence and Faith contributions to Physical damage.
• Light attacks remain ordinary hammer blows. Heavy and running heavy attacks spin and throw the hammer, which reappears without using ammunition.
• Charging the heavy extends the wind-up before the throw. The spinning weapon can hit nearby enemies before release, so close contacts and the flying hammer are separate parts of the attack.
• Ordinary attacks deal Strike Physical damage on Standard affinity. The Intelligence and Faith requirements do not make it a spellcasting weapon or add elemental damage by themselves.
• Strength improves its Standard Physical damage, and Heavy shifts the scaling further toward Strength. Changing affinity changes the damage split and attributes; it does not remove the throwing heavy.
• 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.
• Axe Talisman improves a charged heavy throw. Shard of Alexander does not improve an ordinary throw simply because it is a projectile.
• Endure is the starting skill. It helps resist interruption briefly, but does not make the long spinning wind-up invulnerable.
• A roar that replaces heavy attacks can replace the usual throwing moves while its changed moveset lasts. Keep that tradeoff in mind when choosing a skill specifically for throwing.
• 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 hammer is a fixed corpse pickup beside the central pipe route in Taylew's Ruined Forge. Reaching the final altar or waiting for a golem drop is unnecessary.