Fire Claw

Fire Claw
★Rarity☆	★☆☆☆☆ (Average Skill)
Non-Critical Damage	1
Critical Damage	2
SP Cost	1
Defense Piercing	1
Status Infliction	Burn-1 for 2 Turns
Target	All Enemies

“Slash all enemies using a claw of fire, dealing a small amount of damage, piercing 1 defense, and burning them for 2 turns.”

Overview

Fire Claw is one of 10 possible unique skills that can be obtained from Frogidi's Fortunes. Players can spend 10 Tokens at Frogidi's Fortunes for a chance to obtain the skill.

The Fire Claw skill has several alternative colours from Frogidi's Fortunes, which changes the flame of the player's hand and claw trail afterwards. Alternate colours are only learned once all the unique skills have been learned. Orange cannot be a possible colour.

The timing for the Action Command is about moment the player swings their right arm to the left. Succeeding the Action Command performs a 'Critical!' hit, increasing the Damage dealt.

Usage

Fire Claw deals a low amount of Damage to all enemies in addition to having 1 Defense piercing as well as Burn-1.

Compared to the other 1 SP cost Frogidi's Fortune skills: Bomb Toss and Lightning Spear, Fire Claw deals equal amounts of Damage to each enemy rather than the more focused Damage from both the other two skills.

Fire Claw is also comparable to the Tough Poison Spray, which inflicts similar Damage as well as a damage-over-time status and both costing 1 SP. The main difference is the Poison Spray's Poison status, but a lack of Defense piercing.

The most useful property of Fire Claw would be its Burn-1 status, as it results in dealing 2 Damage more in total. Due to the nature of the Burn status, Fire Claw is more useful in drawn out fights like Corruption 2 or 3 enemies and bosses, however its use is limited because of its low Damage. This property is overshadowed by Fiery Explosion, dealing more Damage from the initial attack and has a 3 Turn Burn-1 status instead, though it costs 3 SP. This makes Fire Claw more or less a supplement when 3 SP cannot be afforded or if Fiery Explosion is overkill for the situation.

Against Corruption 1 & 2 enemies, the enemy will all have at least 1 Defense, effectively raising Fire Claw by 1 Damage.

Against Corruption 3 enemies, the enemy will all have at least 3 Defense, rendering Fire Claw fully blocked unless the Damage is increased.

Overall, Fire Claw is mostly outshined by Fiery Explosion, but still useful as a weak clean-up tool on low HP enemies.

Notes

• The Burn status will not be inflicted if no Damage was dealt.

• Golems and Bedrock enemies are immune to the Burn status.

Trivia

• Fire Claw can be used by Corruption 2+ Wraiths.