Nail-Driver

Drive it down like a nail into oak. Whatever is still standing is next.

Mode

Reflex

Used with

Warhammer, Greataxe, Greatsword, Mace

Stamina

30

Fury

25

Cooldown

6s

Range

1.8 tiles

Price

2,200 gold

Needs first

Pendulum, Guard-Breaker, Death Blow

Deed

Bring 2 Mammoth Tusk. The Anvilfell's horn-gate, the arch over the forge cart, is pegged with tusk, and each Sworn hammer drives one new peg. Thrand wants two tusks: one for the gate, one to drive your first nail into.

What it does

On the Death Blow's trigger and with all its exclusions (a staggered foe in reach + 0.3 tile; the 0.15 s lift plus the class wind-up, warhammer 0.45 s in all; +15 Fury; execute S/M under 20 %, L under 10 %, never named beasts, Deep bosses, dragons, heroes or people; in a bout it drops the foe to the yield line), the Nail comes straight down: power 3.4 instead of 2.4, +25 % crit chance on this blow. If it kills, the body's fall sends a ring of radius 2.0 tiles: 1.4x to every other foe (heavy, knock 220), stagger 20 (x1.25 on Cracked foes), so one kill can stagger the next foe for the next Nail. If it doesn't kill: 3 Sunder, and the foe is braced 2 s after this stagger instead of 4. Costs 25 Fury and 30 stamina; with less than 25 Fury, or within its 6 s cooldown, the core Death Blow happens instead. The ring is foe-only.

Edge: Driven Deep

The kill ring's radius 2.0 -> 2.6 tiles.