Haft and Head

Catch it on the wood. Answer with the iron.

Mode

Reflex

Used with

Warhammer, Greataxe, Greatsword

Stamina

30

Fury

25

Cooldown

6s

Range

1.8 tiles

Price

2,100 gold

Needs first

Guard-Breaker, Smith's Patience, Parry

What it does

With a two-handed heavy weapon the parry becomes a counter, on the core Parry's trigger and terms (RMB raises the weapon; its first 0.16 s is the window; raising costs 8 stamina, refunded; what the core can't parry, this can't answer; not while Berserk). A melee blow parried in the window is caught on the haft and the head goes into the attacker at once: the blow does nothing (an L body's lands at 50 %), the attacker is broken as by a parry and takes power 2.6 and 40 poise instead of 18, knock 260. Costs 25 Fury and 30 stamina; with less than 25 Fury, or within its 6 s cooldown, the core parry happens instead. No riposte window follows (this is the riposte). The parry's own +8 Fury still comes.

Edge: Quick Haft

Cooldown 6 -> 4.5 s.