Dual Blades

How it plays

• Enter Demon Mode on a clear opening, leave it before stamina runs out.
• Stay on one part: the hit count only pays if the hits land in the same place.
• Use chained dodges to reposition without breaking contact.

Focus Mode and wounds

Focus Mode fixes the weapon's classic flaw: a fast combo sliding off the targeted part. On a wound, the rate of attack makes the Focus Strike easy to reposition.

Defending

No guard, no offset attack: defence is entirely in dodging, and in the stamina left for it. That is the direct price of Demon Mode.

What it brings

• The hit count makes element work: a modest elemental value ends up weighing more than raw.
• Climbs status thresholds fast, and keeps up with mobile monsters that slow weapons only hit when still.

What loses hunts

• Staying in Demon Mode on principle: with no stamina, the weapon has no defence at all.
• Hitting a hard part. With low per-hit value, a poor hitzone returns almost nothing, and bouncing looms.

What the data says ?

• Despite the rate of attack that would suit it, no pair of dual blades carries sleep: the status is out of the category's reach.

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• Inflation of 1.4: a pair showing the same number as a hammer actually carries almost four times less true raw per hit.

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Defence

• Guardno
• Power Clashno
• Offset attackno