Mercenary for Hire - Moveset Mod
🟠 Updated over a year agoPreview

🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.4% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #33 of 666 Weapons mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Use your swift swordsmanship, brutal hand to hand prowess and crafty maneuvers to pave your way as a mercenary through the Lands Between!Be sure to watch the video showcase for the mechanics.
This moveset mod has two main aspects: Sword and Hand to Hand.
The Sword: (Mercenary's Longsword at Kale's shop)
- Use fast slashing sword attacks combined with heavy hitting elbows and kicks to create a balanced fightstyle that can adapt to any situation
- Uses the shuriken, deflects, and pot throw feint attacks from Clever's "Great Shinobi Owl" but has numerous additions and animation changes
- Chainable loops through running attacks and blocking feints
- Parry ash of war that can go into a lunging strike or a quick escape with smoke pots for tight situations
Hand to Hand: (Deez Hands at Kale's shop)
- For those unworthy of your sword, unleash satisfying brutal beatdowns with fast and powerful strikes
- Light attacks unleash brawler punches while heavies do kicks
- Unique dodge mechanic with the blocking stance. Make use of this in the middle of your attacks to not get interrupted by your enemy
- Forgot to mention in the video, but if you press light or heavy as you press block, you'll do a running attack. The timing is tight, but it is handy for closing distance.
Overall, I wanted to create a moveset to simulate a "Lone Mercenary" type of character that is more grounded but versatile and figured I'd share it with everyone cause I found it quite fun.
Massive shoutout to Clever, as I do not have the knowhow on adding animations to the base game, or adding new items etc. So, I had to use his mod for the animations.
Some issues:
- Apparently for some, the text is still showing as "Great Shinobi Blade" and "Meteor Fists". Smithbox be weird sometimes.
- When one handing the sword and using the ash of war, he just uses his hand and it looks a bit weird. Dont use the ash of war unless your two handing the sword I guess
taes used: 859 & 108 (The Longsword), 689 & 94 (Deez Hands), 964 (Mercenary's Finesse)
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Eldenring Mods
- Author
- therealsqueam
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 968
- Endorsements
- 33
- Category
- Weapons
- Created
- 9/4/2025
- Updated
- 9/6/2025
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