The Kingslayer in The Blood of Dawnwalker: Stats and Treasure Map Location

The Kingslayer is the sword Reddit’s early-game gear threads keep coming back to — “Brings justice where it’s needed,” says the flavor text, and community roundups of the best early legendaries lead with it. Here is what the wiki data and IGN’s equipment list actually document.

What Are The Kingslayer’s Stats?

Its four effects, quoted from Fextralife:

• Parry Window Multiplier: +25%
• Omniblock Stamina Cost Multiplier: −12%
• Parry Stamina Restore Multiplier: +15%
• Attack Stamina Cost Multiplier: −15%

Where Is the Riverbank Treasure?

Fextralife’s acquisition section for this sword is still an unfilled placeholder, so the documented route comes from IGN’s legendary equipment list:

1. Fight the bandits south of Svartrau City — they drop the Riverbank treasure map.
2. The treasure lies west of the Middens, by the second river.

Treasure maps are this game’s quiet gear economy — the day and night system matters less here than routing: the map drop and the dig site are both overworld trips that consume time segments if you cross regions at the wrong hour.

Why Parry Players Want This Sword

Every documented effect serves one loop: see the attack, parry it, spend the refund. A +25% parry window is the widest timing help in the legendary dataset, and it stacks with the directional-blocking fundamentals covered in the combat and skill trees guide.

Against the court bosses — Ambrus, Bakir, Xanthe — parry timing is the difference between a stamina-positive fight and a dead run. At 73 max damage it also out-hits Durandal (66) and The Purge (68), trailing only the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai (78), whose crit kit serves a different playstyle.