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hi. i went on a pillaging run in verdists and obtained a weap with deathblow effect. really need to know what it does keeping it till i get more info instead of selling... thank you for your time big help

DeathBlow on a weapon is the same as the Death Strike skill. It gives a small chance to kill an opponent in one hit. If you normally kill particular monsters in two or sometimes three hits, it is kind of amusing to have DeathBlow kick in on the third hit. I had a sword at the end of the game with level 3 DeathBlow. The effect shakes the screen, so if it happened more frequently, I would have had to switch swords.


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Death Strike (Passive)

Level 1: 1 percent chance that the enemy is killed. If the strike is successful, the opponent must have a spiritual resistance of 10 to survive. Required Clvl: 24
Level 2: 2 percent chance that the enemy is killed. If the strike is successful, the opponent must have a spiritual resistance of 20 to survive. Required Clvl: 30
Level 3: 3 percent chance that the enemy is killed. If the strike is successful, the opponent must have a spiritual resistance of 30 to survive. Required Clvl: 36
Level 4: 4 percent chance that the enemy is killed. If the strike is successful, the opponent must have a spiritual resistance of 40 to survive. Required Clvl: 42
Level 5: 5 percent chance that the enemy is killed. If the strike is successful, the opponent must have a spiritual resistance of 50 to survive. Required Clvl: 48

its basically useles

I'm not sure if it stacks with Death Strike (the skill) or Hammer Mastery's % chance of doing a deathblow or not, but yeah, it's basically useless. All animals (bees, snakes, spiders, etc) have 100% spiritual resistance, and later in the game, you won't encounter anything with less than a 50 in all resists, so it'll never happen. If you have a good weapon that also has deathblow, fine -- enjoy the thunderous shaking as what you're smacking dies suddenly -- but don't count on it happening very often.

It's no use against anything you really need it on, AND there's a bug with it that sometimes causes things killed with it to freeze in place instead of dying, so that they don't drop any items they're carrying!

Deathblow is a lot more trouble than it's worth!