Tonitrus

Tonitrus
Found
Yahar'gul, Unseen Village corpse. Sold by the Bath Messengers for 26,000 Blood Echoes after obtaining the Spark Hunter Badge.
Stats
		80/160
		-
		-
		-
		40/80		Attr. Bonus
		-
		100		D/B	E	-	D
Special Att.				Attr. Req.
0	0	100	100	12	8	-	-
Weapon Info
Weapon Type			Right Hand Weapons
Transform			Morning Star, 7 sec. Bolt charge
Imprints			Normal (Radial, Radial, Waning)
Notes			Strong against Kin.

The Tonitrus is a Trick Weapon in Bloodborne.

Description

In-Game Description

A unique trick weapon contrived by Archibald, the infamous eccentric of the Healing Church workshop.

Striking this peculiar iron morning star flail like a match generates the same blue sparks that blanket a darkbeast.

Unfortunately, for reasons untold, the hunters of Archibald's time did not fully take to the device.

Availability

Normal variant

• Hypogean Gaol:
  • At the end of the road after going left, out the main hall near the lamp.
• Available from the Bath Messengers for 26,000 Blood Echoes after obtaining the Spark Hunter Badge.

Characteristics

Tonitrus is a mace and has a moveset that deals only blunt damage with a small innate amount of Bolt damage as well. However, the weapon lacks any sort of transformation or change in moveset.

Instead, transforming the Tonitrus charges it with electricity for about 7 seconds, adding Bolt ATK. In other words, the transformation of this weapon is a temporary Bolt Paper.

However, this buff is quite interesting as it is NOT a flat damage boost as other buffs.

This buff, instead, adds a static 40 Bolt damage, then adds a 0.40 Arcane scaling, and finally multiplies all Bolt damage by a whopping 70%.

The weapon, however, finds balance in its scaling. It has decent scaling in Strength and bad Arcane scaling, however, it is versatile in the sense that players with high Strength can still get decent damage out of it, especially if they find themselves not having time to buff the weapon, whereas having high Arcane turns it into an extremely high Bolt damage weapon.

Upgrades

Tonitrus
Level	Materials					Damage					Attribute Scaling				Imprints
➕
0	-	-	-	-	-	80	-	-	-	40	D	E	-	D	-	-	-	-
1	3	-	-	-	200	88	-	-	-	44	D	E	-	D	1	-	-	???
2	5	-	-	-	260	96	-	-	-	48	D	E	-	D	1	-	-	???
3	8	-	-	-	300	104	-	-	-	52	D	E	-	D	2	-	-	???
4	-	3	-	-	360	112	-	-	-	56	D	E	-	D	2	-	-	???
5	-	5	-	-	400	120	-	-	-	60	C	E	-	D	2	-	-	???
6	-	8	-	-	440	128	-	-	-	64	C	E	-	D	2	-	1	???
7	-	-	3	-	500	136	-	-	-	68	C	E	-	D	2	-	1	???
8	-	-	5	-	540	144	-	-	-	72	C	E	-	D	2	-	1	???
9	-	-	8	-	600	152	-	-	-	76	C	E	-	D	2	-	1	???
10	-	-	-	1	640	160	-	-	-	80	B	E	-	D	2	-	1	???

Notes

• Bolt Paper or Fire Paper or Empty Phantasm Shell cannot be applied to the Tonitrus.
• Buffing the weapon adds 40 Bolt Damage, 0.40 Arcane scaling, and then multiplies the overall Bolt damage by 1.7 (70%).
• Quite effective against the Kin.
• It is recommended to use Nourishing Gems on this weapons in order to raise both damage sources. However, if players have a clear preference on Arcane investment, then going for pure Bolt Damp Gems is the best (players can farm very high radial Bolt damage gems from the Fishing Hamlet Priest, the ones who carry large staves and rain down thunder).
• Tonitrus has the lowest durability amongst trick weapons.

Trivia

• The Tonitrus appears to be based around a tesla coil.
• It is referred to as a "morning star flail" in its description. However, these statements are false, as the Tonitrus is clearly a mace. A "morning star" is a spiked mace, whereas a "flail" is a mace but with chain separating the head and the shaft.
  • Due to this being a weapon produced by the Healing Church weapon, the strange wording could perhaps be in reference to the morning stars used by clerics in the Dark Souls series, this possibility might hold some truth as clerics were also associated with lightning damage, or in this universe, Bolt damage.
• It does indeed produce the same "blue sparks" as the Darkbeast, as it is the exact animation.

Gallery

concept art