Weapons

Legend:

▲ = High      Par = Parry         Bur = Burden       Intr = Interference
● = Mid       Ele = Elemental     For = Forbidden    Div = Divine 
▼ = Low       Dep = Deprecating   Sup = Supportive   Cur = Curative
▬ = None

Note: The information in these tables does not include bonuses from suffixes.

Melee

One-Handed Weapons (1H)

One-handed weapons typically have lower damage, higher accuracy, lower critical, weaker procs, and lower burden/interference than two-handed weapons. Also, only one-handed weapons can have parry.

Weapon	Damage Type	Equipment Proc	Dmg	Acc	Crit	Par	Bur	Intr	Notes
Axe	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▲▲	▼	●	▬	▲	●	Highest bleed damage of 1-handed weapons
Club	Crushing	Stun	▲	▼	●	▬	▲	●
Dagger	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▼	▲	●	▲	▼	●
Rapier	Piercing	Penetrated Armor	●	●	●	●	●	●	Semi-rare
Shortsword	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wakizashi	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▼	▲	●	▲	▼	●	Rare. Can be paired with a katana to use Niten Ichiryu
Sword Chucks	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	●	▬	▲	▬	▲	●	No longer drops. High critical chance and high bleed damage

Two-Handed Weapons (2H)

Two-handed weapons typically have higher damage, lower accuracy, higher critical, stronger procs, and higher burden/interference than one-handed weapons. Two-handed weapons don't have parry bonuses, and they don't have 'of the nimble' suffix that adds parry bonus to a weapon.

Weapon	Damage Type	Equipment Proc	Dmg	Acc	Crit	Bur	Intr	Notes
Estoc	Piercing	Penetrated Armor	●	●	●	●	●
Longsword	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▼	●	●	●	●
Mace	Crushing	Stun	●	▼	●	●	●
Scythe	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▲▲	▼	●	▲	▲	Semi-rare. High bleed damage.
Katana	Slashing	Bleeding Wound	▲	▲▲	●	▲	▲	Rare. Can be paired with a Wakizashi to use Niten Ichiryu

Staffs

Staffs are two-handed weapons that have the following characteristics:

• Crushing damage type.
• Ether Theft proc.
• No Interference and similar burdens between types.
• Similar physical damage bonuses between types.
  • Older staffs can have physical accuracy on it at the cost of no magic crit increase.

Weapon	MDmg	MAcc	MCrit	Magic Proficiencies						Elemental Damage						Notes
				Ele	Div	For	Dep	Sup	Cur	Fire	Cold	Elec	Wind	Holy	Dark
Ebony	▲	▲	●	●	▬	▬	●	▬	▬	●	●	●	●	▬	▬
Oak	▼	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▲	▲	▬	▬	▬	▬	▲	▬
Redwood	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	Very common
Willow	▼	▲	●	●	▬	●	▲	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	Semi-rare
Katalox	▲	●	●	▬	▲	▲	▲	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	●	●	Rare

See also

• Armor
• Equipment
• Equipment Procs
• Equipment Suffixes
• Fighting Styles
• Item World
• Level Scaling