Man Serpent Hatchet | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Awesome infusion weapon for a spellcaster in PvE. Low weight, low stat requirements, decent reach, swings fast, low stamina cost, and good scaling with fth or int depending on the infusion. Lightning version melts the princes ("no, YOU may rest here, bi***")

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MHS? No, buddy, 'round these parts we use the MSH.

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Ah yes the ultra shotel

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This is the best strength/quality axe overall imo, and easily the coolest. That bit of extra reach makes a lot more difference than you'd think

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"Thou shalt not panic roll"

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I've been playing around with a bunch of hollow weapons, and this has surprisingly become my preferred weapon for bosses or tough enemies. The long range is so great for spacing or roll-catching, and it swings pretty quick. If twinblades or daggers aren't enough reach, then I go to this bad boy.

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Wait, so this is a straight upgrade to the battle axe if you meet the requirements?

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After 50 minutes from Great Belfry bonfire with 210 item discovery + silver ring -
415,000 souls
70ish shards
16 chunks
5 lightning gems
1 small leather shield
4 deaths
5 snake bites
1 man serpent hatchet

Kinda tedious, but more rewarding and entertaining than most farms

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Manserpent's hatchet? No comrade, that's OUR hatchet.

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if you’re farming this, the lightning gems drop more than the actual hatchet.

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i want to try a build using this in my right hand and an arbalest in my left. would this be a viable build?

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This thing is MONSTROUS with chaos infusion on Int/Fth Pyromancy builds. I rock this with the Curse Ward Greatshield (for the fashion) and it just pops off.

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I guess this got buffed, a +10 heavy a base ar of 231 + A scaling strength

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The shotel, if he decided to start lifting weights, did some steroids, and made his own warcry.

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The Turtle Terminator 9000

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okay so this one is surprisingly strong with sharp. +10 Sharp, base str, 40 dex it has 404 ar and at +10 heavy, 40 str base dex has 410 ar. If going for quality at 27/40 sharp out damages the other infusions, even when two handed, and this holds even if you wanted to hit 40/40 str/dex. so unless you're going for a str build, this bad boy sharp infused is always the best physical infusion. except for hollow infusion at 40/40/40 str/dex/luck, but for such a stat hungry hollow build there's other better weapons.

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should've been a str curved sword with shotel shield piercing properties

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stalin was a bundle of sticks.

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i'm doubtful that this weapon even exists nearly, 3 years and i have never found this weapon.

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Do only the strong attacks do high chip damage like the shotels? If so, kinda sad bc axe r2s are slow as hell, and with the warcry buff, an average turtle will just roll away :(((

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I main this and the blacksmith hammer on my Joseph Stalin build

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Are these guys descendants of the sen’s fortress snakes too?

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Communism

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This is the weapon from game of thrones

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This has become one of my favorite PVE weapons for elemental infusions - not only does it scale well with almost any infusion, the physical damage for heavy attacks also gets a good chunk of damage through shields along with the elemental damage. Not to mention the range advantage over other axes. Good for one or two-shotting most light to mid-level mobs without using up FP on buffs, especially if you're farming.

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Well nothing against that weapon but that is something i call good gamegesign. 'Has the same damage,weight and scaling as the battle axe,but more range and pierces'. Because of that there is legit 0 reason for the Battle axe to even exist in the game.Why are there 2 weapons of the same type with identical stats in the first place, you could legit call it a skin for that weapon without that range and piercing factor. It is a complete replica of but worse. 10/10 FromSoft

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Best place to farm this is at the Archdragon Peak bonfire (the first one.) There are three hatchet wielding man serpents to the right of the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the Ancient Wyvern.

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Probably the best regular sized Axe in the entire game excluding the Dragonslayer Axe for split lightning. Then again, given this is basically a Battle Axe with longer Range, Shield piercing and good infusion/scaling it sorta outclasses D.S.A since chip/pierce > chip but you can get D.S.A way earlier than M.S.H. I'll let the reader decide on preference. I really can't overstate how useful these weapons are since all the attacks (are suppose to) have % pierce in addition to the charged strong attacks. I say "suppose" because that's what Patchnotes say but in the past my Harpe didn't work except HR2. I'll double check both when I'm home, fresh intall of DkS3 D/L'ing now. I'll add more if they aren't working correctly on respective pages.

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Criminally underrated and rarely used weapon. Has good strength scaling, innate shield piercing, good range, low stat requirements, allright choice for raw or elemental infusions getting A-Tier chip damage through shields. Fast enough that you cannot be reaction parried. Though, like great swords, your second R1 can be parried if the first one is blocked. I guess the straight sword meta prevalence, low drop rate, and late game appearance has kept this gem off most people's radar. I ran through archdragon peak atleast 3 dozen times on seven characters and multiple new games and this only dropped for me quite recently. I was surprised as I had never seen this weapon and had no idea the manserpents dropped anything besides titanite and lightning gems.

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This weapon parryable?

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It's my main weapon in pvp, dark infuse it for a ton of chip damage, revan did a good video on it

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From has no idea how some of their weapons work in real life. First and for all this weapon was meant to cut! Now look at it when we hold this weapon. How are we supposed to cut anything that way? It kicks you so hard out of the game seeing the serpent people running around like that....

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Perfect for my Dothraki savage cosplay

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I think someone should very closely test the range of this compared to the man serpent hatchet, because from what I could see it has just very, very slightly more range than the man serpent hatchet, at least in terms of sparking walls. I'm talking like 80% of the players foot model size in difference.

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Use this with xanthous chestpiece and the male conjurator hood or female sellsword headpiece and also use brigand gauntlets and you've got an awesome Egyptian/wasteland mercenary outfit for fashion :)

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Can you counter knife user with this thing, or better stick to curved swords?

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Thrall Axe = Saw Cleaver
This thing = Transformed Saw Cleaver

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did this get any buff to chaos/dark infusions with the recent patch?

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B Dex with Sharp not C.

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How in the hell is this a hatchet? This is clearly a sickle! Come on From get it together!

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Very underrated weapon because no one uses it, and you can roll-catch anyone because it's very slightly slower than a regular axe and has a deceptively long range

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Better than all the other 1H axes in almost every way. Unfortunately it has 0 fasion souls compared to the other axes and if you cared at all about stats you wouldn't be using an axe in the first place. Worthless.

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In Dark souls 2 axes were quiet good with the r2 wakeup and combo finisher.The regular R2 is weak doesnt combo has ***** range and no speed.You either 100% depend on the r1 (wich are good for roll catching but easy to parry)Or make yourself dependant on thefocus points and timer on youre warcry for a flashy, but predictable attack wich is good at closing distances.

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No one use this weapon in pvp and I am determined to get this weapon and use it in pvp

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I'm seeing cod playing Osiris as a possibility with this weapon and possibly a curved sword in left hand for parrying or a whip depending. Any armor suggestions for it?

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so this weapon doesen't lose it's dex scaling when you infuse it with heavy? anybody got any idea why this is so special? :o

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Shotel like Axe???THIS IS BASICALLY DKS3'S PURE PHYSICAL SILVERBLACK SICKLE!!!

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At 40str/13 dex with both weapons +9, heavy manserpent hatchet out damages the butcher knife by a few points (220+154 compared to 180+190), while also having lower stam cost, shield pierce, almost half the weight and is buffable unlike the butcher knife.A very good sidearm for slow heavy weapon str builds due to the fast swing speed and low weight.

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I updated the upgrade table, and tried it on chaos on 40/40 int/faith i got 465 AR wich irc is the best boost you could give it, but the warcry is boosting it only to 477 soooo.... cool and dangerous but I don't think the weapon art is worth using it.If some people could give it a try with int or faith or quality and share their AR would be nice.

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If you have the stats for it, this basically completely replaces the old Battle Axe. As the two are virtually identical, aside from the Man Serpent Hatchet's longer reach.

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I finally have it at +9, should I infuse it or apply buffs?

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I use the buff on this item and still don't pierce through shields. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if only certain shield can be pierced through?

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Reminds me of vagrant story

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the design looks a lot like a reverse sharpend egyptian kopesh

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