This Bastard Sword had been coated with beastmen's blood, allowing the wielder to absorb his enemy's health.

I went to east altepa desert and battled Sabotenders to try and get 1000 Needles on me with Gluttony Sword, Earth Staff, and Bloody Sword. This is what happened:

Gluttony: 1000 dmg taken
Earth Staff: 800 dmg taken
Bloody: 1000 dmg taken

so no hidden effect :(
bought sword for nothing.

Edited, Sat Apr 8 07:10:45 2006

Being DRK, I don't use single hand swords in XP, but I have one of these for farming, coffer key fights and skillup, and it is great in those situations.

Damage isn't too bad (again for those situations), and the HP return is generally 15-30 on coffer level mobs. It procs fairly often in farming/coffer/skillup situations too. With my Vampire Cloak, Bloody bolts on my crossbow and this sword, farming is so much easier.

And from an aesthetic standpoint, it really is a handsome weapon.

Edited, Wed Aug 17 12:06:01 2005

a 64 pld friend told me she tried this sword and it has a latent effect. That effect she claims is phys dmg - 20% well i didn't believe it until she teamed with me equipped her blood sword i saw the dmg than equipped earth staff and low and behold the same dmg. Now i am wondering if the HQ has the same ability. Oh well i just bought one so i guess i'll find out soon enough

Wow 13 posts what a bastard.

Well I know for sure it is for Paladin because I just checked the AH (^_-). But why would a Paladin use it? I mean, the HP drain most likely isn't very large, and the odds of HP drain are most likely liek other drain weapons, bad. And finaly, the odds of a Paladin hitting most mobs in a normal EXP fight is about 50%, as the Paladin puts most of there EQ into building VIT, and other defense boosting items, not accuracy.

I really would only think a Paladin would use this sword under 2 contidions. 1: If the Paladin was farming for gil and wanted to not rest as much. and 2: if the party had a solid summoner, who had all of the avatars, including fenrir. I say this because if you are level 60+ Paladin and do not have a Gluttony sword... then you are hurting... +7 VIT is every Paladins dream, unless you are confused on your job. Anyways, if you have the summons and have blink, stone skin, and fenrir's buffs you wouldnt need the +7 VIT as much and can try to use a weapon that deals more damage for more hate.

Edited, Thu Jun 24 14:36:16 2004

*craped up the first post.*

If this is only a crafted blade, i can't even imagine what they'll implement on the next expansion.

Ikari

I was wondering how much hp does this drain per swing?

I just want to simply say "NICE!" for having a pix with the weapon stats.