Scything Conduit [Fool's Facade]

Where is the item worn?: Hands

What does the item do?: Allows Tier 1 Slash skills to deal Dark damage in place of their usual damage type. Only the damage type changes, and not any other aspect of the skill's behaviour, similar to if a buff altered the damage type of a soulbound weapon.

What does the item look like?: A thin, bone white band etched with faded symbols, set into the wrist of the gauntlet. From the band, these symbols spread out and cover the metal, tracing the palm of the gauntlet.

So is it supposed to be temporary or a permanent buff? This will judge how much harder it will be to get your equipment.

It's mainly for the purposes of having the option to deal my preferred damage type (Dark) with my primary stat (Ppstr). Hence the comparison to a soulbound buff - damage type is altered, but otherwise it still uses Dex to derive damage and all that. In this case, it still costs HP, and still uses Ppstr for damage. I'd prefer to still be crit-capable given I'd still be paying a HP cost, and cannot get damage boosts other than arcana without soul skills with this particular choice in element, but I'd understand otherwise.

In any case, the effects of this equip would apply on a per-skill-use or similarly non-universal basis, and I'm more than fine with adding costs or limitations in order to make it easier to acquire the needed materials at this point in time. I probably would have applied one earlier, but nothing came to mind at that time.