Why do people like Reduvia so much?

[Jonas]

I thought a new char with this weapon would be fun. Turns out this thing, objectively speaking, has to be one of the worst early weapon choices in the game.
The auto attack range is really bad. Its only possible to hit stuff which is right in front of it. Also I was fighting tree sentinels with it and even when you stand right in front of them some auto attacks will miss just because the hitbox gets kind of weird when they are turning around and stuff, even if youre standing nearly inside the enemy its still possible to miss the auto attack.

The ash of war is nice but bleeding is not always the best answer. So overall I just dont get why some people are so obsessed with this inconsistent 0 range dagger when there are better alternatives for early / mid game.

Maybe someone can explain this to me.

[clock in clock out]

it's almost like its a pvp weapon that sits mainly in duel to keep people zoned

[FashionSuckMan]

dual wield it goofy. Wash the bleed go woosh and everything dies

[Jonas]

Originally posted by досуг:

it's almost like its a pvp weapon that sits mainly in duel to keep people zoned

So I guess its kind of stupid to play it in pve early game.
Does Reduvia get better in the later stages of the game?

[Mikamus]

Daggers are trash but reduvias special ash of war deals the highest bleed possible in game

[clock in clock out]

Originally posted by Jonas:

Originally posted by досуг:

it's almost like its a pvp weapon that sits mainly in duel to keep people zoned

So I guess its kind of stupid to play it in pve early game.
Does Reduvia get better in the later stages of the game?

yeah it gets semi-better for pve but basically you need to dedicate a whole bleed build (pump arcane stats) to have it be any sort of effect outside of pvp and into pve
+10 also really helps

[LuckyCheshire]

Yeah it's not that great at low levels. If you really pump your whole build into it, it can be pretty powerful, but still not my favorite choice by far.

[Toyosatomimi no Miko]

You hit with the physical attack of the WA and the projectile at the same time for double bleed buildup. That's why the weapon is liked for PvE. You need some more ARC to start really benefitting from the bleed tho.

[Vinnolo]

point blank ash is the reason why its so strong, there is no better option for bleed until you find rivers of blood

[Ant Ra]

Reduvia's weapon skill is very fast, much faster than its big brother rivers of blood and only ends when stamina and/or FP runs out. No pause. The range is not very big, but big enough to stay at a distance with a bit of skill. The cost for this weapon skill is also quite low, so you can do a few series.

Plus 110 critical for a backstab or parry & riposte is also nice to have. In PVE very good against pests like runebears, some bosses that react well to bleeding like Mogh etc. Finishing off Mogh with the small dagger while the god of hemorrhage lashes out with the bulky component is a nice touch.

Reduvia is a must for every dextery build, and for all others that can or want to provide 13 dex and 13 arc.

Song of praise end

[Vinnolo]

Originally posted by Ant Ra:

Reduvia's weapon skill is very fast, much faster than its big brother rivers of blood and only ends when stamina and/or FP runs out. No pause. The range is not very big, but big enough to stay at a distance with a bit of skill. The cost for this weapon skill is also quite low, so you can do a few series.

Plus 110 critical for a backstab or parry & riposte is also nice to have. In PVE very good against pests like runebears, some bosses that react well to bleeding like Mogh etc. Finishing off Mogh with the small dagger while the god of hemorrhage lashes out with the bulky component is a nice touch.

Reduvia is a must for every dextery build, and for all others that can or want to provide 13 dex and 13 arc.

Song of praise end :P6:

the whole point of the weapon is to be used by arcane builds, since the bleed built up increases with arcane, you are just wasting points in arcane just to use this, just use any bleed weapon you get if dex build

[BIGDOJO]

simplest answer is that its there, near the starting area, so you see it a lot because people happen by there and grab it and are like "wow what a special cool weapon" even if its not necessarily part of a build they are going for.

[JellyPuff]

It's one of the cheesiest weapons in the game. It's L2 melts anything, that you can bleed even at lower arcane and bleed is just pretty OP most of the time.

I was honestly surprised, how much better daggers are in general for PvE, compared to previous soulsgames (where they're only useful as offhand for pokes in PvP with some exceptions, like Murky's in DS3), especially if you build around them. Powerstance it with with some other status-dagger and you only need the AoW on Reduvia to keep the damage going when you're not quite within range. You can even make stealthy backstab builds work outside of bossfights. The "Darkness"-incant works on a surprising number of enemies.

[psheue]

It looks super kewl.