Melee
Melee
There are 5 melee weapon tiers. Each scaling in strength, from weakest to strongest, there is Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mithril, and Adamantite.
In each melee weapon tier, there are also different weapon types that have different strengths, again weakest to strongest is Dagger, Shortsword, Battleaxe, and Longsword. There are additional weapons, that have the same stats as their corresponding types, but a different appearence. The variants are...
Dagger - Dirk and Knife
Shortsword - Ceyl and Scimitar
Battleaxe - Greataxe and Broadaxe
Longsword - Jian and Odachi
These variants can only be found in the dungeon from dungeon shops or boss/miniboss drops, whereas the basic design can be bought in town. Here is an example of every melee weapon type...
All basic melee types and tiers can be purchased in town (except adamantite and mithril), they also all have the same reach and attack speed. But each has different damage...
Tier | Type | Damage | Gold Cost |
Bronze | Dagger | 5 | 1 |
Shortsword | 6 | 60 | |
Battleaxe | 7 | 120 | |
Longsword | 8 | 200 | |
Iron | Dagger | 9 | 300 |
Shortsword | 10 | 450 | |
Battleaxe | 11 | 650 | |
Longsword | 12 | 800 | |
Steel | Dagger | 13 | 1200 |
Shortsword | 14 | 1500 | |
Battleaxe | 15 | 1800 | |
Longsword | 16 | 2200 | |
Mithril* | Dagger | 17 | 4200 |
Shortsword | 18 | 5000 | |
Battleaxe | 19 | 5200 | |
Longsword | 20 | 5500 | |
Adamantite* | Dagger | 21 | ~9000 |
Shortsword | 22 | ~10000 | |
Battleaxe | 23 | ~11000 | |
Longsword | 24 | ~12000 |
*Mithril and Adamantite is not purchasable in town and is a rare drop from bosses/minibosses or shops on lower floors
After 1.2 update was released, all of these swords received new updates, special abilities don't show on melee weapons that have them and instead of using energy, they are using cooldown. In order to activate these abilities, you must wear any type of melee armor.
Dagger - has most DPS over all swords but lacks range
- - Shoots 3 daggers. Damage is based on material tier.
Shortsword - still remains the same but has equip animation which lasts for ~1.5 seconds
- - Hold out a shield which will block all incoming projectiles.
Longsword - has equip animation which lasts for ~2.5 seconds before you can use it, has long range over every sword
- - no special ability
Battleaxe - it can hit multiple targets
- - no special ability
Additionally, there are Legendary Swords.
Melee Armor
Can be bought at spawn from the armor shop. As well as Tier 2 armor (Cuircass) is an uncommon drop from Bosses.
Name | Gold Cost | Positives | Negatives |
Leather Armor | 500 | Decreases damage taken by 15% | Lowers Mana Regen by 20%
Lowers Spell Damage by 20% |
Chainmail Armor (Cuircass now) | 1000 | Decreases damage taken by 6+30% | Lowers Mana Regen by 20%
Can't cast spells |
Plate Armor | 7000 | Decreases damage taken by 10+40% | Lowers Mana Regen by 30%
Can't cast spells |
Heavy Plate Armor | 20000 | Decreases damage taken by 20+50% | Lowers Mana Regen by 50%
Can't cast spells |
Holy Knight Armor | Free* | Decreases damage taken by 35%
Increases Spell Damage by 5% |
Decreases Mana Regen by 10% |
*After the altar rework, it is unknown how to obtain Holy Knight Armor