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Overview

Rapier is a Uncommon rapier-class melee weapon in Windrose. A balanced rapier without excess. Its guard is studded with chips, jagged notches from hundreds of parried blows.

Rapiers are one-handed Pierce weapons that scale with Precision, making them the default melee pick for Precision-oriented builds. They pair naturally with an off-hand Pistol for a Precision dual-threat loadout.

At a Glance

Crafting

Craft at the Weaponsmith Workshop (Level 1). Base recipe: Copper Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2.

Upgrade Bands

Upgrading raises the item level (and ATK) in bands, each with its own material cost. Leveling from 1 to 15 is the standard path for every melee weapon before ascension.

How to Obtain

• Dropped from Blackbeard and Buccaneer chests across multiple pirate camps.

• Smugglers, old skeletons, and Thomas Richards' cache all share the loot entry.

Loot Sources

Specific chests and drop locations currently listed on the live item card:

Tactical Usage

The Precision baseline. Upgrades naturally into Rapier of a Thousand Cuts for bleed builds or Sturdy Rapier for a Perfect Block oriented duelist.

Thrust-first patterns punish over-commits more than sweeping slashes. Keep the distance short but not point-blank so light attacks can feed stacks or marks before committing to a heavy.

Talent Synergies

Precision-scaling weapons pull from the Marksman branch of the Talent System. Relevant picks include talents that boost Pierce damage, Critical Damage, Bleed damage, and Temporal Health conversion. Precision rapier builds also benefit from pistol-synergy talents, since the typical rapier loadout uses a Pistol off-hand.

See the Talent System article for the current list of unlockable talents and their exact bonus values. Respeccing talents costs an in-game currency, so early-game branch commitments tend to lock in weapon pairings for the rest of the playthrough.

Comparison Within Class

Rapier sits alongside 3 other rapiers on the current live index. Consider the alternatives:

• Rapier of a Thousand Cuts: Rare / Epic, 125 Pierce, Precision (C at Rare, B at Epic). Dealing Damage applies Bleeding. Stacks up to 5 times. Each stack deals 25 Damage per second.

• Rapier of Devastation: Rare / Epic, 210 Pierce, Precision (- at Rare, B at Epic). Light Attacks apply up to 8 Plague marks. Heavy Attacks consume all accumulated marks, dealing bonus Damage for each.

• Sturdy Rapier: Rare / Epic, 215 Pierce, Precision (A at Rare, S at Epic). Increases the Perfect Block opportunity window.

See Also

• Melee Weapons for the full melee index.

• Weapons for the cross-class roster.

• Rapiers for the rapier category roster.

• Precision is this weapon's scaling attribute.

• Weaponsmith Workshop is the crafting and ascension station.

• Combat covers stamina, posture, and Perfect Block timing.

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Weaponsmith Workshop

Disassembles Into

Sources