Weapons

Found short sword in pile of bones. Found cursed.

Overview

Weapons are your main source of damage. There are two categories of weapons; Melee weapons and Ranged weapons.

If the required strength is less than the hero's, an additional damage uniformly distributed between 0 and heroStrength-requiredStrength is applied to the attack. That bonus only happens:

• with missile weapons for Huntress,
• with melee weapons for other classes.

A weapon will become identified after 20 successful hits.

Melee weapons

The Melee weapons are rated on a tier system which determines how powerful the weapon is. When a Scroll of Upgrade is used on a weapon, the damage goes up and the strength requirement goes down, but the tier, accuracy and delay values will remain the same.

Tier-1

Short sword

Main article: Short sword

	Short sword
	It is indeed quite short, just a few inches longer,[sic] than a dagger. This Short sword is tier-1 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 5 points per hit; and it usually requires 10 points of strength.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
1	10	5	1	1	Cannot be bought	20

Dagger

Main article: Dagger

	Dagger
	A simple iron dagger with a well worn wooden handle. This Dagger is tier-1 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 4 points per hit; and it usually requires 10 points of strength. This is a rather accurate weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
1	10	4	1.2	1	Cannot be bought	20

Knuckleduster

Main article: Knuckleduster

	Knuckleduster
	A piece of iron shaped to fit around the knuckles. This Knuckleduster is tier-1 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 3 points per hit; and it usually requires 10 points of strength. This is a rather fast weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
1	10	3	1	0.5	Cannot be bought	20

Tier-2

Quarterstaff

Main article: Quarterstaff

	Quarterstaff
	A staff of hardwood, its ends are shod with iron. This Quarterstaff is tier-2 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 7 points per hit; and it usually requires 12 points of strength.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
2	12	7	1	1	400	40

Spear

Main article: Spear

	Spear
	A slender wooden rod tipped with sharpened iron. This Spear is tier-2 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 10 points per hit; and it usually requires 12 points of strength. This is a rather slow weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
2	12	10	1	1.5	400	40

Tier-3

Mace

Main article: Mace

	Mace
	The iron head of this weapon inflicts substantial damage. This Mace is tier-3 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 7 points per hit; and it usually requires 14 points of strength. This is a rather fast weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
3	14	7	1	0.8	1200	80

Sword

Main article: Sword

	Sword
	The razor-sharp length of steel blade shines reassuringly. This Sword is tier-3 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 9 points per hit; and it usually requires 14 points of strength.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
3	14	9	1	1	1200	80

Tier-4

Longsword

Main article: Longsword

	Longsword
	This towering blade inflicts heavy damage by investing its heft into every cut. This Longsword is tier-4 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 13 points per hit; and it usually requires 16 points of strength.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
4	16	13	1	1	3200	160

Battle axe

Main article: Battle axe

	Battle axe
	The enormous steel head of this battle axe puts considerable heft behind each stroke. This Battle axe is tier-4 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 11 points per hit; and it usually requires 16 points of strength. This is a rather accurate weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
4	16	11	1.2	1	3200	160

Tier-5

War hammer

Main article: War hammer

	War hammer
	Few creatures can withstand the crushing blow of this towering mass of lead and steel, but only the strongest of adventurers can use it effectively. This War hammer is tier-5 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 15 points per hit; and it usually requires 18 points of strength. This is a rather accurate weapon.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
5	18	15	1.2	1	8000	320

Glaive

Main article: Glaive

	Glaive
	A polearm consisting of a sword blade on the end of a pole. This Glaive is tier-5 melee weapon. Its typical average damage is 17 points per hit; and it usually requires 18 points of strength.

Tier	Base strength	Base damage	Accuracy	Delay	Buy price	Sell price
5	18	17	1	1	8000	320

Pickaxe

Main article: Pickaxe

	Pickaxe
	This is a large and sturdy tool for breaking rocks. Probably it can be used as a weapon.

Required strength	Average hit	Accuracy	Delay
14	7	1	1

Missile weapons

Missile weapons can be used to attack an enemy from afar. They cannot be upgraded or enchanted (with the exception of the boomerang).

Dart

Main article: Dart

	Dart
	These simple metal spikes are weighted to fly true and sting their prey with a flick of the wrist. Average damage of this weapon equals to 2 points per hit.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
10	2	1	1	2

Incendiary dart

Main article: Incendiary dart

	Incendiary dart
	The spike on each of these darts is designed to pin it to its target while the unstable compounds strapped to its length burst into brilliant flames. Average damage of this weapon equals to 1 points per hit.

This weapon applies Burning debuff to the target.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
12	1	1	1	10

Shuriken

Main article: Shuriken

	Shuriken
	Star-shaped pieces of metal with razor-sharp blades do significant damage when they hit a target. They can be thrown at very high rate. Average damage of this weapon equals to 4 points per hit.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
13	4	1	0.5	15

Curare dart

Main article: Curare dart

	Curare dart
	These little evil darts don't do much damage but they can paralyze the target leaving it helpless and motionless for some time. Average damage of this weapon equals to 2 points per hit.

This weapon applies Paralyzed debuff to the target.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
14	2	1	1	12

Javelin

Main article: Javelin

	Javelin
	This length of metal is weighted to keep the spike at its tip foremost as it sails through the air. Average damage of this weapon equals to 8 points per hit.

This weapon applies Crippled debuff to the target.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
15	8	1	1	15

Tomahawk

Main article: Tomahawk

	Tomahawk
	This throwing axe is not that heavy, but it still requires significant strength to be used effectively. Average damage of this weapon equals to 12 points per hit.

This weapon applies Bleeding debuff to the target.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
17	12	1	1	20

Boomerang

Main article: Boomerang

	Boomerang
	Thrown to the enemy[sic] this flat[sic] curved wooden missile will return to the hands of its thrower[sic] Average damage of this weapon equals to 2.5+level×1.5 (integer part displayed) points per hit.

Required strength	Average damage	Accuracy	Delay	Sell price
10	2.5+level×1.5 (integer part displayed)	1	1	Cannot be sold

Enchanted weapons

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Vampiric War hammer

Enchantments can be found on melee weapons & the boomerang. However, the piercing and wild enchantments cannot be applied to the boomerang.

Upgrading enchanted weapons

When using a standard Scroll of Upgrade on a +N enchanted weapon, the weapon has a probability 1/N (1 if N=0) to keep its enchantment while becoming a +(N+1) weapon (still enchanted or not). Consequently, using a standard Scroll of Upgrade:

• a +0 or a +1 enchanted weapon will never lose its enchantment,
• a +2 enchanted weapon has a 50 % probability to lose its enchantment when becoming a +3 weapon,
• a +3 enchanted weapon has a 66.66… % probability to lose its enchantment when becoming a +4 weapon,
• etc.

In order to avoid this loss, use a Scroll of Weapon Upgrade. If you are a Warrior still having your Short sword, you can use the reforging trick described below.

Reforging/Disenchanting

As a Warrior, you can reforge your upgraded Short sword in order to upgrade (+1) another melee weapon (the Short sword will be destroyed). If any of the other classes obtain a short sword through a hero's remains, then they too will be able to reforge the sword. You can safely upgrade an enchanted weapon by reforging an upgraded Short sword, the enchantment cannot be lost during that upgrade (but, in contrary to a Scroll of Weapon Upgrade, a new enchantment won’t be added to a non-enchanted weapon).

As a Mage, you can disenchant your upgraded Wand of Magic Missile in order to upgrade (+1) another wand (the Wand of Magic Missile will be destroyed). Like the short sword reforging, the other classes can disenchant the wand of magic missile if they are transferred through Hero's remains.

If you plan to later reforge/disenchant your Short sword/Wand of Magic Missile, do not upgrade it above +1, as the melee weapon/wand you upgrade this way will only gain +1, and the additional levels of upgrade will be wasted.

Weapon generation

Weapon generation follows three steps:

1. two weapons are created, their type being randomly and independently selected from the table at Weapon/probabilities,
2. each weapon is randomized according to its type:
   1. a melee weapon has its level randomized following the table at Weapon/random, then acquires an enchantment with a 1/(level+10) probability, following the table at Enchantment/probabilities,
   2. a missile weapon has its quantity randomized,
3. the weapon which required strength is closest to 10 + numberOfGeneratedPotionsOfStrength (theoretical Hero strength, except for Warriors) is selected and dropped on the floor (75 %), put in an unlocked chest (20 %) or hidden in skeletal remains (5 %).

• In flooded vaults and rooms of traps, the generation is more complicated, as it involves armor generation too.