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“ A metal that changes color from added tin. „

Bronze is a Material in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Description[]

Bronze is involved in the crafting of a wide array of starting-tier equipment. For the most part, there is little purpose in crafting items using Bronze for the sake of equipping them because you will already be capable of crafting Iron-based equipment by the time you first establish the hub at Arvantville. In fact, the game goes out of its way to convey the value of Iron-based crafting by having Johannes give you four Bronze and four Iron when you first speak with him at his service, with which you can craft a Long Sword.

Incidentally, you will quickly find a free Baselard in a chest on your way to the Hellhold castle, the Sabnock fought early inside the Entrance drops Long Swords directly, and you can easily get a Thorn Whip by cooking a Rice Ball for Susie Quinn; these are all easy methods of acquiring strong weapons early, which devalue the appeal of spending Bronze on crafting gear you intend to equip. (Furthermore, while you can convert a single Bronze into a Ring, you will get three Rings anyway from Lindsay's first quest to slay five Mortes.)

In terms of the larger picture, Bronze is much more relevant as a material you gather for the sake of creating multiple duplicates of specific pieces of gear that are themselves used as materials for more relevant shard crafts and enhancements. For example, once you get the Sword Expertise shard to drop from the Sabnock (which requires the Long Swords it also drops to Enhance its Rank to 4), you can freely convert spare Claymores and Dull Blades into grades of Greatsword Expertise and Katana Expertise, respectively, which heavily improve your damage output with those two weapon types. Each Claymore takes two Bronze and would cost 600G otherwise, and each Dull Blade takes three Bronze and would cost 1,200G otherwise.

Another strong early-game application of the earliest units of Bronze you come across is that a total of three Bronze are needed to increase the rank of the Head Flail conjure shard to Rank 4, significantly increasing its coverage and allowing you to then spend Steel (another Sabnock drop) to rank it up to 7. This creates a very useful MP-spending Strike-attribute attack that can be used for much of the game.

The established method of amassing Bronze without having to pay 338G for each unit of it is to get it to drop from the Dullahammers (12%) in Galleon Minerva and find it at random from the blue chests that refill themselves within the Galleon and Entrance zones whenever those zones are exited and reentered. Alternatively, you can farm Long Swords from the aforementioned Sabnock and spend 3 Alkahests (farmed from the Ghost above it) to break each of them down into 2 Bronze and 3 Iron. These drop-based methods of stockpiling Bronze are somewhat more strenuous if you do it at the first opportunity to try to amass grades of one or both of the above-mentioned Expertise shards as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the Bronze-created equipment that is involved in Shard enhancements will not be worth expending on those shards until much later in the game when you can first acquire the equipment needed to actually top them off, since most of them are passive shards that will create skill shard clones of themselves once at Rank 9. By these points in time, you will have both a much better LCK rating and the Plunderer's Ring accessory to coax material drops with, so you can save time waiting until later in the game to gather large quantities of Bronze for yourself.

What follows is a list of instances from later stages of the game where having a stockpile of Bronze will help you start ranking passive shards when it is time to complete them:

  • The Dagger Expertise shard is dropped by Killer Barbers in Dian Cécht Cathedral, and the Swordbreaker dagger needed to reach Rank 9 with it can be crafted out of midgame-tier materials dropped by Axe Outsiders after finding Damascus Equipment/R in Underground Sorcery Lab. At that point, you can spend a total of 3 Bronze on three Knives to bring the shard up to Rank 4, thus saving you 1,800G.
  • The first three ranks of the aforementioned Katana Expertise shard each require 1 Nodachi, each of which requires 1 Bronze alongside 3 Iron. It can be topped off at Rank 9 by the time you can craft Raikiri with the help of Damascus Equipment/R.
  • The Spear Expertise shard is dropped by Lance Armors in later Livre Ex Machina and the upper reaches of the Cathedral, and you will need to craft Gondo-Shizunori (with the help of Mahogany found in chests in the later Forbidden Underground Waterway) to elevate that to Rank 9. At that point, you can spend a total of 6 Bronze and 3 Elms on three Spears to bring the shard up to Rank 4, thus saving you 3,600G. Three more Spears can also be used for the starting ranks of the Throw Spear conjure shard dropped by Zepars found as early as Hidden Desert, which will add spear projectiles to the effect.
  • The Firearm Expertise shard is dropped by Carriage Mortes in earlier Livre Ex Machina, and the Culverins needed to rank it up through Ranks 8 and 9 become craftable once you have explored Hall of Termination and found Fine Equipment/R. By that point, you can spend 1 Bronze and 1 Elm on each Musketoon needed to bring the shard up to Rank 4, thus saving you 300G for each gun.
  • The Resist Strike shard (dropped by the Puppy in the west station of Bridge of Evil), Resist Slash shard (dropped by the Scylla in the underwater portions of western Forbidden Underground Waterway), and Resist Thrust shard (dropped by the Living Fossil in Hidden Desert) are all passive shards that vaguely improve survivability and are not worth equipping in your Passive Shard slot in place of a damage-enhancing shard. For the sake of creating their Skill Shard equivalents, each one requires three Bronze Chestguards to rank up to 4 (as well as three Iron Breastplates to rank up to 7 and two Steel Breastplates to rank up to 9, and Steel Breastplates can be crafted as early as the eastern, early portion of the Waterway). Therefore, as soon as you get Resist Strike to drop, you will already be able to rank it up to the maximum, which will involve you spending 6 Bronze and 3 Houndskins on three Bronze Chestguards. The same will be the case with the Resist Slash and Resist Thrust shards when you first get them, meaning you will need to use up 12 more Bronze and 6 more Houndskins to create six more Bronze Chestguards if you want to avoid spending 400G on each armor.

Availability[]

Usage[]

Usable only by speaking to Johannes and selecting the Craft option. Bronze is one of the Materials required for crafting:

Bronze can be used to enhance the following Shards:

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