Sword Sheaths
Sword Sheaths are offensive accessories that provide effects for swords. When equipped, the player will receive the Sheath buff every few seconds while they hold a sword. The counter for receiving the Sheath buff will reset upon swinging the sword without the Sheath buff, or changing to a non-sword item.
With the Sheath buff active, the next successful strike the player does to an enemy with their selected sword will critically strike to deal massive damage (with the exception of the Writhing Sheath). The base damage increase of the strike is dependent on the type of Sword Sheath equipped, but also increases by a further multiplier for each percentage of melee critical strike chance and melee speed bonuses the player has. Additionally, certain Sword Sheaths will provide additional effects when striking foes. Only the sword strike itself will gain additional damage from the Sword Sheath; any projectiles spawned by the sword will deal their normal damage.
The bonus damage of the Sword Sheath will apply for the full duration of the sword swing. If the swing hits multiple targets in a single attack, the damage dealt will be reduced by a fixed percentage on each consecutive hit. This stat for each Sword Sheath is listed as "Multihit penalty" in the following table.
Only one Sword Sheath may be equipped at a time; attempting to equip more than one will not allow the accessory to be set within the player's accessory slots.
List
| Sword Sheath | Equipped | Source | HM | Charge time |
Multihit penalty |
Effects | |
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Leather Sheath | 
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 Leather (3) Silver Bar /  Tungsten Bar (4)@  / 
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4 seconds | 50% | Critically strikes for 1200% damage in total. |
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Leeching Sheath | 
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Leather Sheath Blood (20) Soul of Night (8)@  / 
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3 seconds | 50% | Critically strikes for 1000% damage in total, and restores 10% of the player's missing life. |
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Titan Slayer Sheath | 
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Leather Sheath Abyssal Chitin (8)Soul of Night (8)@ /
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3 seconds | 50% | Critically strikes for 2000% damage in total against bosses only. |
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Writhing Sheath | 
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Leather Sheath Void HeartSoul of Night (8)@ /
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3 seconds | 50% | Spawns 5 void blades that fly towards the cursor, damaging enemies for 100% of the sword's damage each. Inflicts Light Curse for 1 second on hit. |
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Jetstream Sheath 
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Leather Sheath Strange Plating (12)@ /
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3 seconds | 50% | Causes 5 slash projectiles to sequentially spawn over the closest 5 enemies (including the initial enemy struck), dealing 250% of the original sword's damage. |
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Gardener's Sheath
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Leather Sheath Ectoplasm (8) Petal (8)@ /
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3 seconds | 70% | Critically strikes for 1200% damage in total, and teleports the player to the cursor's position. Additionally deals 50% of the critical strike damage in an area around the player and grants brief invincibility upon teleporting. |
Notes
- The effects of a Sword Sheath will only apply to swords that are swung overhead; weapons that visually resemble swords but do not follow the previous attack pattern (such as Shortswords, the Arkhalis, or the Lingering Will) cannot activate a Sword Sheath's effect. Consequently, tools such as pickaxes or hammers that are swung overhead can activate a Sword Sheath's effect.
- Additionally, swords that are swung overhead, but feature an aura slash effect, such as the Night's Edge or the True Excalibur, will not receive any effects from Sword Sheaths.
- The damage from a Sword Sheath strike will not be affected by the standard ±15% damage variance normal weapons have.
- The damage from a Sword Sheath strike is affected by the modifier of the weapon (damage, speed, critical strike chance).
- The Sword Sheath strike is always considered a critical hit, thus allowing it to activate related effects such as the Crietz.
History
- 1.7.1.6: Introduced Jetstream Sheath.
- 1.7.1.3: Sprites updated.
- 1.7.1.0:
- Reworked:
- Swinging a sword while the Sheath strike is still charging will now reset the charge timer.
- Adjusted sheath strike damage formula to account for melee critical strike chance and melee speed bonuses.
- On-hit projectiles spawned from swords will no longer have their damage also increased with the sheath strike.
- Sheath strikes will apply for the entire sword swing duration instead of just affecting the first enemy struck. Subsequent enemies struck in a swing will reduce the sheath strike's damage, similar to Whips. On-hit effects will only activate on the first hit.
- Sheath strikes are now unaffected by random damage variance (±15%).
- Changed Writhing Sheath so its first hit is now a guaranteed critical strike with half the damage.
- Reworked:
- 1.6.5.6: Introduced Gardener's Sheath.
- 1.6.5.4: Introduced Leeching Sheath and Titan Slayer Sheath.
- 1.6.5.1: Introduced Leather Sheath.
- 1.6.5.0: Introduced Writhing Sheath.
