Judging by this comment section, there are a lot of people who haven't assessed this weapon properly at all, within the context of an ARC/DEX build. "It's a dagger, it's short, it deals low damage and poise damage, blah blah blah." As if you're going to spend a whole run using just one weapon. As if any arcane build wouldn't instantly become better with this weapon in its arsenal. As if some enemies being immune to bleed even matters to an arcane build with access to Occult weapons and incantations. Or, in the opposite direction, "this weapon is broken, deals huge bleed damage, spammable ash of war, rivers of blood 2.0." No, it's a weapon balanced by low base damage but good scaling and the ability to inflict bleed. Against applicable enemies, it will be good. Against other enemies, use something else.

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Alright I wasn't sure at first but not I'm convinced reduvia is so good. I recently built my arcane bleed build and needed a strong secondary weapon to compliment morgots curved greatsword and bleed spells. There are a lot of mixup you can do with reduvia. First you can cast fleshflies and sprint towards your enemy. Once you are within range you can start spamming the weapon art and most likely the person you are dueling is dodge rolling sideways to avoid the flies. Chances are your going to catch them atleast once with the weapon art and a little bit from the flies to proc bleed. Next is casting morgots weapon art which even if you miss the lingering blood explosions usually keep the enemy at a cautious medium range then bust out reduvia for some cheeky weapon art spam they usually don't expect range attacks right after morgots weapon art. My personal favorite is when people start to rush you you cast blood talons which creates a defensive blood explosion in front of you. 2 things will happen they will either get stunned and combos into reduvia weapon art. Or they will roll past you in hopes of doing a rolling attack in which case keep spamming the weapon art. It comes out usually faster than anything the enemy at close range can dish out and has great poise damage meaning even heavy armor builds will be stunned. Usually they get greedy and after 2 or 3 failed trades they die.

TLDR version:
-Reduvia is goated
-Great mixup potential on bleed builds
-Cheap fp cost, medium range, fast af, and great poise damage.

The bleed buildup on this weapons WA is ridiculous. The range it gives to the dagger is great and if mixed in with other attacks can very quickly bleed an opponent. For poise monsters that manage to get close I would recommend pulling out a weapon with higher poise damage (I recommend either mogh spear or occult star fists). Alternatively you can try to blender them with dual daggers if their weapon does low poise damage.

i started a bleed build to do another platinum trophy run. got this weapon at the very start, and spent 2 hours unlocking the full map, getting all seeds and goblets readily available, and getting the 9 somber smithing stones. after that, margit, godrick, radagan, renalla, godskin noble, ancestor spirit, loretta, leonin, godfrey, morgott, niall, were all easy claps even with meager dex/arc investment. a +9 reduvia to play standard ng is devastatingly destructive, and easily carried me to firegiant in 10 hours of gameplay.

One of the few early game weapons that is powerful enough to deal with invaders even if they are twinked. I can only recommend it.

I've beaten the game about 8 times and have a build of 12 strength, 80 dexterity, 80 intelligence and 80 arcane, if you're at those high levels It's awesome, not only do you have great melee coverage but also the bleed can be used to buff magic spells by 30% with the white mask and mogh talisman. It's awesome, not only do you have great melee coverage but also the bleed can be used to buff magic spells by 30% with the white mask and mogh talisman.

need to be nerfed to the ground alongside blasphemous blade. then maybe i will start playing the game