Category:Blood Art Skill Shortsword

Blood Arts - Shortsword
Demo video of all max rank Shortsword Blood Art (not by me): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Kok9lNUkU

>>>Square Attacks1 □ボタン攻撃1 > Windslash formation【風斬りの陣】 Adds an extra blue oracle blade slashing effect that does damage during your square attacks. Adds an extra slash on Rank II.

>Blood Splattering Dance 【血煙乱舞】 At the end of the default 5 hit ground square combo, this BA will start an infinite slashing attack. During this BA, the character cannot move but can change directions. Can be cancelled into Advance Step (aka step cancelled), jump cancelled, Rising Edge (R + square), or Devour (R + triangle) As this BA does not consume anything to use, it can be easily used to recover lots of OP, or force a Down on the Aragami by aiming their legs.

>>>Triangle Attacks 1 △ボタン攻撃 1

> Piercing Ray 【ピアシングレイ】 Enpowers △ attacks to have an extended reach via oracle blades. The oracle blades hit twice from Rank III onwards. The blades hits at about twice the range of the normal △ stab. the 3rd and 4th attack hits slight higher.

> Phantom Nail【ファントムネイル】 Changes the 5th hit of the default △ combo into a attack which makes your character do a slight backward step, before doing a huge lunge forward. Does not do as much damage as Killer Bee Stab(below), but the extended reach/evasive maneuver makes up for it

Triangle Attacks 2 △ボタン攻撃 2 >>【キラービースタッブ】【地獄の螺旋】【レイダースタッブ】

> Killer Bee Stab 【キラービースタッブ】 Changes the 5th hit of the default △ combo into a attack which makes your character do a slight backward step, then a strong forward stab. Essentially a charge attack. Does 3 hits on Rank III onwards.

> Hell Spiral 【地獄の螺旋】 Changes the 5th hit of the default △ combo into a attack which makes your character do a slight backward step, then do a forward drilling attack (keep tapping triangle to maintain the drill) on the spot.

The special thing about this BA that it can ONLY BE ACTIVATED when your hp is 40% and below, and consumes 5 hp per attack. Your hp will not drop below 1 while drilling, and if your allies heal you to above 40% hp, the attack will stop. This BA also doesn't not recover any OP. you can change the direction of the attack slightly.

Use status effect like 'Hold' on the Aragami, or skills like 'Survival Instinct' to increase damage since your life is so low anyway.

> Raider Stab 【レイダースタッブ】 Has the same attack motion as Killer Bee Stab. Recovers 12/17 hp upon hit for rank III and IV respectively. It is interesting to note that it works on felled Aragami corpses as well.

>>>Step attacks ステップ攻撃 > Gale Slash 【烈風刃】 Adds a shockwave to your Step attacks, both square and triangle attacks.

Step square attacks will result in a 3/4 way shockwave, while Step triangel attack will create a tall shockwave in the direction of the attack. The shockwaves will travel for about one step distance.

The shockwaves itself does quite a bit of damage.Although it's not stated in-game, the shockwave will nullify some Aragami's oracle attacks, and can go through Aragamis.

Rank II: △ shockwaves hits 2 times Rank III: □ shockwave increases from 3 -> 4 △ shockwave hits 3 times Rank IV: △ shockwave hits 4 times

>>>Air Square Attack 空中□ボタン攻撃 > Flying Lotus 【フライングロータス】 Changes the 3rd hit of the default air □ attack into a horizontal slash which pushes the player back. Rank II/III/IV onwards will create 2/3/4 oracle blades to deal more damage. Can be cancelled into areial step, double jump and triangle attacks.

> Dancing Zapper 【ダンシングザッパー】 On the 3rd hit of your air □ attack, if the 3rd attack hits, this BA will start, which makes the player teleport around the target to do extra slashes. After the entire BA ends the play will drop back onto the ground. This BA is good because as long as the BA is in motion, the player will keep teleporting to the target even if the target runs, unless the players get knocked out of the air or misses. Does 3/5/10/10 slashes on rank I/II/III/IV. The slashes comes in different colours:

1~3 Light Blue 4~5 Yellow 6~10 Red

Of course the later slashes do more damage. On Rank IV, if the attack is a critical there will be a special flash, but it is unknown exactly what it does. Can be cancelled into double jump or aerial step or guard. The timing for Aerial step is rather strict, but allows you to repeat the blood art. The attack is discriminate and only targets the same enemy even if it was downed during the attack.

>>>Air Triangle Attack 1 空中△ボタン攻撃 1 >>【スパイラルメテオ】【アストラルダイヴ】

>Spiral Meteor 【スパイラルメテオ】 Creates oracle blades while using air △ attacks. Creates 2/3/4 blades on rank II/III/IV.

>Astral Dive 【アストラルダイヴ】 Changes air △ triangle to have a charging animation before dashing down diagonally as per normal. Does extra damage when you land a critical strike with this BA. Due to the inability to change directions when activated, it may be difficult to hit the weak point for a critical strike

>Kirin Drive 【麒麟駆け】 Changes the air △ attack to make the player flip back into the air after landing a successful air △ attack. Successful Air △ attacks will also create a oracle explosion. Consumes 10/10/7/7 stamina upon successful hits. Using skills like Athlete, [B] Stamina Consumption DOWN and Burst Links to reduce the stamina can increase the damage. Skills like Sword Master (increased damage against weak spots, reduced damage to non-weak spots) can be used, given how quickly and accurately this BA can be used. [Note: Qilin refers to a a mystical hooved chimerical creature known throughout the East Asian culture, Kirin is a Japanese version of Qilin, which can also mean "giraffe". ]

Essentially it is possible to spam this move on the target provided it doesn't move around, or the part you're hitting have nothing below it (wings,tail, body of scorpion).

The backflip from this BA will position you slightly off centre if the angle of entry is a bit off, so take care when trying to chain spam this BA. Can be cancelled into advance step upon landing on the floor, so chain it into a Rising Edge to repeat the combo.

>>>Air Triangle Attack 2 空中△ボタン攻撃 2 >God Embroidery 【神縫い】 Changes air △ attack to have a small charging and jumping animation (in air), then slams down for a small area damage. Position of the drop can be adjusted slightly during the animation.

> Dragonfly 【ドラゴンフライ】 Changes air △ attack to become a somersault slash. Consumes 5/5/3/3 stamina per hit, can be used repeatedly. Using this BA after the 2nd hit of the air square combo will  allow you to maintain enough height to use this BA continuously.

>>> Rising Edge >>【ライジングファング】【フェイタルライザー】

>Rising Fang 【ライジングファング】 Creates oracle blades when using Rising Edge. Oracle blade hit three times from Rank III onwards.

>Fatal Riser 【フェイタルライザー】 Rising Edge action now charges for a short moment before becoming a powered-up version of the normal Rising Edge. Oracle blades hit 3 times from Rank III onwards

> Second Rise 【セカンドサンライズ】 Allows a second use of Rising Edge. Combo can be done in this way : Rising Edge -> Aerial Step-> Second Rise. Great way to damage and break parts out of reach.

However Second Rise is done, it cannot be cancelled into anything else so there is a huge window of vulnerability, so be careful when using.

All info translated from http://www16.atwiki.jp/godeater2, with some personal inputs

Posted by Shirakawa Wynn at 05:38