Troika

Troika

★★☆☆☆ Offenses: Abilities: This item doesn't have any special abilities. CTR: Level 5+: CTR: Low Level 10: CTR: Medium

The Troika is a 2-star sword.

Description

A low-tech sword that makes up for its lack of high internal power with sheer weight and size. It is capable of delivering crushing blows for those that can handle it.

Attacks

The Troika's attacks excel particularly at knocking back many enemies at once before they can strike, clearing them away if the player is being boxed in. The downside is that against single targets, the slow attack speed hinders the overall damage per second, and against larger enemies that are more resistant to knock-back or enemies with ranged attacks, the player may find themselves getting counter-attacked before their own attack animation finishes. For this reason it's essential to have an alternative to the Troika's usual attack at hand when situations such as this present themselves.

Basic Attack

A powerful, if slow, 2-hit combo that covers a full 180 degree arc in front of the knight on both swings. The first hit is stationary and has a one square radius with a fair knockback. The second hit will move the knight one square forward and does a stronger attack with a 2 square radius reach.

Charge Attack

The Troika's charge attack will lunge the attacking knight about 2 1/2 squares forward and smash the area yet another 1 1/2 squares forward, hitting everything within a single square from the blast. This hit has no knock-back or status effect but is followed by a flash of light which does still more damage, applies heavy knock-back to enemies hit, and has a chance of inflicting stun on the monsters. The blast's knock-back is stronger than the second swing of the normal combo. When you charge the attack, your movement speed will be slightly slower than usual.

Vendors

Vendors that sell this item are:

• Quillion
• Basil (Recipe) in Clockworks and in Mission lobby of Oilers in the Boilers (4-2)
• Izola (Recipe)
• Vatel (Recipe)

Damage

The following damage values represent the weapon at its completed level, without any UV or bonus from other equipment, and listed as a range found from the first to last floor of each stratum.

Recipe

The 2-star recipe for this item costs 1,000 crowns; the alchemy cost is 400 crowns. Below are the materials needed to make the Troika.

Name	Amount
Red Shard	5
Vile Seal	2
Driftwood	2
Simple Orb of Alchemy

Note: When crafting using bound equipment as a precursor, the upgraded item will also be bound.

Alchemy Path

Troika's alchemy path

☆☆☆☆☆ ★☆☆☆☆ ★★☆☆☆ ★★★☆☆ ★★★★☆ ★★★★★ Troika Kamarin Khorovod Sudaruska Grintovec Jalovec Triglav

See Also

• Leveling Equipment
• Unique Variant
• Guides (Player Made)

Trivia

Troika is a Russian dance, where a man dances with two women. The word's general meaning is three of a kind, also in Russian.