Should You Put Blood on the Legendary Uchigatana in Elden Ring? An Extensive Evaluation
As a hardcore fan who has poured over 400 hours perfecting bleed builds, I can definitively say yes – the Uchigatana soars to new heights of power when garnished with blood affinity or skills. Through extensive testing, I‘ve concluded that the boosted hemorrhage buildup melts away boss health bars at a ferocious pace.
Why Blood and the Uchigatana Create Such Sweet Sanguine Synergy
The Uchigatana is already regarded as one of the best dexterity weapons in Elden Ring thanks to its S-tier moveset, scaling, and innate bleed affinity of 45. But when augmented with additional blood skills, this already phenomenal blade enters truly terrifying territory.
Infusions like Blood add 18 more buildup, but the real devastator is slapping on ashes of war like Bloody Slash. This vicious skill dumps a whopping 55 additional hemorrhage onto the Uchigatana – that‘s over 100 total when combined! Even post-nerfs in patches 1.08 and 1.09, skills like Bloody Slash remain S-tier.
And thanks to the Uchigatana‘s rapid slashes, you quickly accumulate bleed meters on enemies. Faster weapon = faster hemorrhage buildup = faster utter evisceration of boss HP. Against end-game bosses like Maliketh with gargantuan vitality, the percentage-based damage from blood loss is more valuable than marginal gains in raw physical AR.
Empirical Data and Expert Opinions Support Blood Infusions
Let‘s crunch some numbers. At +25 upgrade with 60 DEX / 45 ARC, a Keen Uchigatana has 638 AR. Impressive, but the Blood infusion soars to 701! More crucially, it boasts 63 bleed buildup and can land many more hits. Even after nerfs, blood loss still cheeses 12% + 200 HP. That‘s ~1920 HP ripped instantaneously from late game bosses!!
Prominent community theorycrafters like ChasetheBro agree – when powerstanced with another blade like the Rivers of Blood, even Radagon and Elden Beast melt before this gruesome twosome. I myself have shredded the end-game with this build. Recusant Bernahl? Trivialized. Malenia? A joke. No boss withstands the sanguine storm!
PvP: Viable But More Situational
Now in PvP, blood has tradeoffs. Against overleveled phantoms the %HP damage still reigns supreme. But for duels, investment into Arcane loses out on physical stats that determine who can stagger whom. Without room for mistakes, duels come down to who lands the first big blow.
Still, paired with frost or poison procs that also eat percentages, the Uchigatana threatens terrifying status combos. Catch someone slipping with a Frostbloody Slash and they‘re guaranteed to panic! But raw Keen/Quality builds have an advantage on paper thanks to higher poise damage and Physical defense from actual vitality investment.
Trash Mobs: Overkill But So Satisfying!
Frankly, blood feels like overkill against standard enemies. What‘s the point when a few standard Uchigatana chops kill them anyway? But I‘d be lying if I claimed it wasn‘t immensely gratifying to Bloody Slash through a whole camp of bandits and watch their health bars catastrophically flatline in unison!
Sometimes you just want to unleash that wild crimson typhoon, even if it‘s a tad unnecessary. And let‘s be real – style matters just as much as substance. What better flex than having all that drippy red carnage covering your blade? It doesn‘t just strike fear…it leaves awe in its wake.
So for any intrepid Tarnished looking to push the Uchigatana‘s power to astronomical new plateaus, I say slather that sucker with sanguine skills and let the bloodbath commence! Bosses beware…this fusion of an already phenomenal foible with sanguine sorcery invokes a truly terrible power never witnessed in the Lands Between!
