Spiked Spear

Notes

• With Standard affinity, physical damage has equal Strength and Dexterity 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 14 Strength and 16 Dexterity and weighs 6. Standard has equal Strength and Dexterity scaling, so neither attribute has a stronger base coefficient.
• Has 50 innate Blood Loss buildup. Standard has no Arcane scaling; an appropriate affinity must add Arcane scaling before that attribute can improve the innate bleed.
• Its heavy swings deal Strike damage, while the ordinary thrusts deal Pierce. This gives it a useful alternative against enemies that resist one Physical type more than the other.
• Spear Talisman can improve eligible counterhits from the Pierce contacts. It does not turn the Strike heavy attacks into counterhit thrusts.
• Starts with Impaling Thrust for 9 FP. Its heavy sweep and skill lunge are different tools, so changing the Ash does not remove the ordinary swinging heavy attack.
• The base drop chance is 2% at 100 Item Discovery from spear-carrying Marionette Soldiers. Bow Marionettes do not provide this weapon drop.
• You do not receive a four-armed attack pattern from the enemy. The player weapon uses its own spear moveset, and no Sorcery scaling is granted by the Marionettes' association with sorcerers.