Manticore Steel Sword
The Manticore Steel Sword is the steel blade of the Manticore School gear, added with the Blood and Wine expansion. It is meant for humans, nonhumans and beasts, and its +250 armor piercing and +50% critical hit damage make it hit very hard.
Like the rest of the set it only exists at grandmaster level, so there is no chain of lower versions to craft first. Wearing three pieces lets critical hit chance and critical damage apply to bombs, which are also thrown without delay, and six pieces add one extra charge to every alchemy item.
The rest of the set: armor, gauntlets, trousers, boots, silver sword.
How to obtain
Crafted by a grandmaster blacksmith at character level 40. The diagram is part of Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Manticore Gear, one of the hunts Lazare Lafargue starts in Master Master Master Master!.
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