Phantom Blade Zero Drunken Sword: The Fanatic's Blade Reforged and Drunk

Getting the Drunken Sword

It is not a boss drop. The Drunken Sword is the Soul Tempered form of The Fanatic's Broken Blade — Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic's blade fully reforged — and it is made at the tempering bench rather than found on the map. The broken blade is collected at the Pangzhen Bridge Overlook bell in the Crimson Forest after that fight; the tempering happens at Myst's tavern in Pangzhen, around Chapter 4, and it is permanent and irreversible. Its in-game name is The Fanatic's Drunken Sword, and one community guide list calls it The Fanatic's Drunken Blade.

The Fanatic's Broken Blade page covers the blade before it is reforged, and the Blade roster files the Drunken Sword with the Single Blades.

What it does in a fight

The figures IGN's weapons table gives:

Drinking is the whole mechanic. [Bottomless Drink] — heavy attack plus block — restores Sha-Chi and puts Soul into the Tipsy state, and while Tipsy or Drunk every attack becomes a ranged Flying Sword strike. The reforged blade's damage no longer falls off over distance, which is the one thing the broken blade could not do.

Tipsy lasts 15 seconds and can be pushed to Drunk: 20 seconds of much stronger flying swords, heavily restricted movement, no guard, and automatic dodging. Pressing L2 again unleashes an Empowered Flying Sword Flurry that costs no Sha-Chi Essence and returns Soul to sober. The sober Power Surge costs 1 Sha-Chi Essence and starts the Tipsy state.

Moves: Standard Combo (five square attacks, which turn into ranged flying-sword attacks while Tipsy or Drunk) and Sha-Chi Combo (four triangle attacks, which can be chained after any swing of a standard combo and hit harder once Sha-Chi is full). Because Drunk removes the guard entirely, guides pair this weapon with a defensive Phantom Edge.

What you need before the tempering works

The tempering material is Fanatic's Obsession, and it only forms once you hold both Fanatic's Fragments:

With the material in hand, temper The Fanatic's Broken Blade at Myst in Pangzhen and the Drunken Sword is yours.

Taking it to level 30

Boundless Thirst at level 5 restores more Sha-Chi with each Drink and speeds the drink animation up. Drunken Clarity at level 10 extends Tipsy by 5 seconds. Drunken Counter at level 15 lets you press L1 just before a blockable attack lands to auto-evade it while taking a Drink, then counter. The published perk list names the unlocks but not what each one changes, and the level 15 and level 25 entries come from a guide written for the broken blade rather than for the tempered form, so read the effect on the upgrade screen before you spend.

What the upgrade ladder costs

Levels are bought at any bell and cost Remnant Dust plus the class metal and solvent chain:

One-handed Blades use the Forged Metal chain. The published figures give no per-band Remnant Dust price and no level 60 stat row, so read the dust cost of each step off the upgrade screen in-game. Sources also disagree on the cap itself: general weapon upgrade guides put it at level 30, while the community database's own upgrade table runs a 59-step ladder to level 60. Reforging is free up to level 10 and costs 1 Weapon Reforge Talisman from level 11 to 20 and 2 from level 21 up.

Where to go next

• The Blade roster — every Blade, its class and where it comes from.
• The Fanatic's Broken Blade — the blade this one is reforged from.
• Weapon types — what a one-hander gives up for its speed.
• Sha-Chi — the bar every Drink puts back.
• Phantom Edges — the second-slot weapon that covers the missing guard.