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Spiked steel whip

Fouet d'acier
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A wicked whip woven from steel wires with spiny protrusions.

The essentials

  • Simplest: make it in the Krak Pot, Iron whip ×1 + Iron ore ×1 + Lava lump ×1.
  • Sells for 6,600 G.
  • Attack +54: 13th of 22 whips; top: Über Gringham whip (+140).
  • Used to make: Gigaspike whip.

“Simplest”, in this order: buy it (cheapest), pick it up, from a monster (best rate), make it, then the other sources.

Attack +54

Vocations that can equip it: Mage, Minstrel, Luminary

Effects: ×1.1 against humanoid; hits a whole group (damage ×1; 0.8; 0.6; 0.4 then 0.2 by target order)

Style: Vanity 37 · Aloof 35 · Chic 34 · Naive 33 · Casual 31 · Allure 27

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Iron whip ×1 + Iron ore ×1 + Lava lump ×1
  • Recipe in the book “An Encyclopaedia of Steel Weapons” (Alltrades Abbey – Interior B1)

Quests Read in the code

  • Quest 73 “Whipping Boy's Wish” (Swinedimples Academy): first time

Used to make

Best attack in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 20308; record no. 998 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 6600; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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