Nidhögg the Primal

Nidhögg the Primal

Tangle your foes in roots, like the namesake of this blade.
Type	Sword
Damage	135 Slash 10 Poison
Stamina	16 primary, 28 secondary
Block	57 block armour
Weight	-
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Black forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Nidhögg 6x Flametal 1x Jade
Biome	Ashlands
Spawn ID	`spawn SwordNiedhoggNature`

When the charred close in faster than you can swing at them, Nidhögg the Primal is the jade-set blade that pins them in place in the Ashlands. It deals 135 slash and 10 poison. With 145 total damage it ranks 7th among swords, a step on the ladder rather than the top of it. In the Ashlands that matters more than it sounds. Morgen resist blunt, fire, pierce and slash but take full poison damage, so against them the poison lands in full. Poison damage also hurts Cultist and Ulv more than most mobs.

How to Craft

You craft it at a level 4 black forge from:

1x Nidhögg: made at a black forge.
6x Flametal: smelted from flametal ore in a blast furnace.
1x Jade: found in the charred fortresses of the Ashlands.

Name	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Nidhögg	Ashlands	Black Forge	`spawn SwordNiedhogg`
Flametal	Ashlands	Blast Furnace	`spawn FlametalNew`
Jade	Ashlands	-	`spawn GemstoneGreen`

When to Use It

Late game. Flametal comes from the Ashlands, the furthest south the map goes.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it 3 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. Every other figure on this page is for quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy sits somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Slash	Poison	Durability	Resources
1	Black forge (Level 4)	135	10	200	1x Nidhögg 6x Flametal 1x Jade
2	Black forge (Level 5)	141	10	250	6x Flametal 1x Jade
3	Black forge (Level 6)	147	10	300	12x Flametal 2x Jade
4	Black forge (Level 7)	153	10	350	24x Flametal 4x Jade

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Gemstone	Spawn ID
Nidhögg	135 Slash	-	Base weapon	`spawn SwordNiedhogg`
Nidhögg the Bleeding	135 Slash	-	Bloodstone	`spawn SwordNiedhoggBlood`
Nidhögg the Primal	135 Slash	10 Poison	Jade	`spawn SwordNiedhoggNature`
Nidhögg the Thundering	135 Slash	10 Lightning	Iolite	`spawn SwordNiedhoggLightning`

Properties

You pick this sword for the immobilise, not the poison. Jade adds 10 poison and a 20% chance to immobilise for 10 seconds. Immobilise stops a target from moving and turning, but it can still attack, block and roll, so it pins something in front of you rather than disabling it.

The poison is close to wasted here. Poison is the damage type the most creatures are immune to, and the Ashlands in particular has little that cares about it. Next to the Thundering variant's unblockable 75, the 10 poison is a rounding error.