Bible

Bible
Internal name	Bible
Type	Melee Weapon
Scaling
Combo rate	One 3-hit combo every 1.73 seconds
Base price	2000
Damage
Base DPS	127 (139)
Base combo damage	220 (240
Base first hit	95
Base second hit	105
Base third hit	20 (40
Blueprint
Location	Drops from Werewolf and Dire Werewolf
Drop chance	1.7%
Unlock cost	50

The Bible is a sword-type melee weapon added in the Return to Castlevania DLC. If the second attack of the weapon hits a target, throw it on a rotary trajectory, dealing Critical Damage increasing with each new hit.

Details

• Breach Bonus: 0.5 / 1 / -1
  • Base Breach Damage: 142.5 / 210 / 0
  • Base Breach DPS: 204 (408
• Combo Duration: 1.73 seconds
  • First Hit: 0.61 (0.41 + 0.2 + 0)
  • Second Hit: 0.67 (0.47 + 0.2 + 0)
  • Third Hit: 0.45 (0.25 + 0.2 + 0)
• Legendary Version:
  • Forced Affix: Double Bullets
    • "Fires twice as much bullets"

Synergies

• The rotating bibles spawned by this weapon are counted as ranged projectiles and are therefore affected by the Point Blank mutation.
• Due to the large number of projectiles with multiple combos (and long duration of rotation), this weapon can benefit from mutations that trigger on hit like Instinct of the Master of Arms and Heart of Ice (when paired with crowd control equipment like Stun Grenade)

Notes

• The bible projectile rotates for several seconds, and each rotation is faster and on smaller diameter.
• Despite the description only mentioning the second attack hitting a target as a requirement, there is a third input to the attack combo that actually spawns the bible projectile.
  • If the player cancels the combo before that third input and doesn't follow it up before the combo timer expires, no projectile will spawn, even if the combo's second hit connected successfully.
  • By that same token, the player can roll out of the second combo hit to cancel recovery frames, then quickly follow up with an attack input to finish the combo and spawn the projectile.
• There is a specific achievement related to this weapon, Knowledge is power^RtC
  • Easiest way to achieve it is to keep a Bible while focusing on Brutality and go fight Conjunctivius with Stun Grenade and Heart of Ice
• Like all weapons added in Return to Castlevania DLC expansion, Bible is based on weapon from Castlevania - in this case called Bible/Holy Book/Grimoire
  • Look-wise, resembles Bible encountered in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
  • Function-wise, resembles variation used by Richter Belmont in Castlevania Rondo of Blood

History

3.3: Introduced.

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