Something fun I've found is to have a higher damage weapon with Redmanes, and have this weapon with Glintblade Phalanx. Buff with Glintblade Phalanx on Miséricorde, swap to other weapon, run up to something, glintblades fly into enemy, use redmanes once, and it's a huge chunk of poise damage. It knocks down omens in the subterranean shunning grounds instantly. Switch back to Miséricorde for high crit.

''The weapon's name is based on the French word for "Mercy".''

Not really. In fact its based on ''Misere'' aka misery in English. Misericorde is more like ''clemency out of guilt over misery'', as in having mercy for the misery of an opponent or individual after defeat, and was most commonly used under a context where your fate is dependent on the decision of someone else, either voluntarily so or not. It isn't inherently merciful in intent, for whoever you'd submit to could just as well decide to kill you, it just mean that the decision is out of your own jurisdiction and therefor you beget them for mercy, but was most commonly used used in a context where a quick death was considered the merciful option. In turn, the IRL dagger design purpose was to be able to land a killing blow on heavily armored opponent, and was made so it could easily weasel itself between plates and chainlink as to deliver a quick strike to vital organs, and wasn't intended for active combat but more of a mean to expediate the execution of armor clad soldiery whom otherwise couldn't be easily killed. Like rather than bash their skull in an unceremonial fashion with a club or hammer, or dull your weapon trying to jab them, you'd take this dagger and shiv them in the armpits so they'd die rapidly of bloodloss rather than agonize on the battlefield.

That was my autistic 2 cent rant, have a good day.

Oh the misericorde, everybody wants to be my enemicorde

Fun fact, Executioners greataxe outperforms this in the crits department at high strength. In PvE you're still better off using this since most humanoid enemies are weak/neutral to pierce damage but for PvP or if you just don't like swapping use the Executioner greataxe. Especially if you're a strength build.

Use the Carian Greatsword/Grandeur ash with this and you basically have a makeshift Aquamarine Dagger on steroids.

You know the rules so do I...

Parrying powerstance ROB Soreseal katana users in PvP, has never been as fun as it is with this and the dagger talisman, lightning enchantment and boosts. I'm coming in hot with over 1900 damage riposte at level 40, boys. Stop abusing Soreseal, because it's only making me harder.

Oh boy if it isn’t the misery-cord!

You can also use shield attacks for high poise damage output instead of FOTR

What would hurt more in a crit? A massive greatsword that only few people have ever wielded requiring inhuman strength to use, or one stabby dagger