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Mandau Pasir is a Dagger in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Description[]
The Mandau Pasir is a "thrust-motion" weapon with the anti-flier Thrust damage attribute and a +45 ATK boost that is significantly higher than its immediate precessor, the +30 ATK Carnwennan. While it does not inherit the Carnwennan's Light damage attribute, its hefty ATK increase more than compensates.
The Mandau Pasir is the final "upgrade stage" of a series of crafted upgrades spanning four daggers total. It is upgraded from a Carnwennan using 1 Orichalcum (dropped by G Axe Outsider at a 2% rate in the Glacial Tomb, where blue chests can also contain it) and 1 Imbrued Bone (dropped by the Master Carpenter at a 12% rate in Oriental Sorcery Lab). Blue chests in The Tunnels can contain both of these materials. The recipe is unlocked by finding Legendary Equipment/R at a point in the Hall of Termination that requires either Invert or High Jump.
The Carnwennan, meanwhile, is crafted out of a Main Gauche using 1 Crimsonite, which is found in blue chests in the Oriental Sorcery Lab and dropped by the Ninja there, and the Crimsonite Equipment/R recipe book must also be found in that zone. The Main Gauche itself, rather unusually, can be bought for 16,800G without needing to craft that first, but the option to craft it is unlocked by finding Gold Equipment/R in later Livre Ex Machina. Upgrading a Swordbreaker into a Main Gauche takes 1 commonly dropped Steel and 1 Gold material (ideally found in blue chests in Hidden Desert). Finally, the Swordbreaker is crafted from scratch with the common mid-game materials Mithril and Damascus, requiring Damascus Equipment/R to be found in Underground Sorcery Lab.
The Mandau Pasir essentially competes with the Joyeuse rapier as an endgame-tier Thrust-attribute weapon because both weapons are improved at the same time by the Dagger Expertise passive shard. It can be said that the Joyeuse is superior simply because it offers 7 more ATK, likely overpowering any utility advantages the Mandau Pasir's two pre-loaded Dagger-series techniques may be seen to have over the two Rapier-series techniques. On the other hand, the Surprise Gift dagger technique (↓ ↘ → +ATK, 30 MP) is a long-ranged projectile whose MP cost is negligible near the end of the game.
Speaking of techniques, the Mandau Pasir, like the Carnwennan, starts out already capable of both Surprise Gift and the other Dagger-series technique, Assassinate (↓ ↙ ← → +ATK, 30 MP). To an extent, this means players might not want to bother spending time mastering either technique while wielding the game's earlier daggers since doing so will only end up adding the techniques to daggers that are weaker than the Mandau Pasir and its predecessor. However, this also makes these daggers convenient for mastering those techniques for the sake of unlocking the Brynhild's Blessing technique exclusive to the Valkyrie Sword.
Availability[]
- Can be crafted by "upgrading" 1 Carnwennan using 1 Orichalcum and 1 Imbrued Bone (requires Legendary Equipment/R).
- Can be bought from Dominique's store for 43,200G.
Mandau Pasir is a late-game crafted weapon which requires the player have access to Glacial Tomb for Orichalcum and be able to access and defeat the Master Carpenter to get an Imbrued Bone. Crafting it also requires the recipe book Legendary Equipment/R found in Hall of Termination, reachable only after getting Invert.
Usage[]
While Mandau Pasir is equipped, Miriam's attack becomes the "dagger thrust" with a +45 ATK boost (the highest among dagger-thrusting weapons) and the Thrust attribute.
It has access by default to both Techniques for Daggers:
- Assassinate (30 MP, Down → Down-Forward → Forward + Attack)
- Surprise Gift (30 MP, Down → Down-Back → Back → Forward + Attack)
Trivia[]
- Mandau Pasir is another name for a machete-like curved knife known as a Jimpul, used by the Iban and Kenyah peoples of Borneo. Like the standard Mandau, it has an association with headhunting rituals.