Weapons

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave splits its armaments into swords, spears, axes, bows, gauntlets and magic. Each type carries a fixed mechanical property rather than sitting inside a rock-paper-scissors matchup, so choosing what a unit carries is about the enemy in front of them, not about beating another weapon class. Weapons are bought and upgraded in Dagsion, carry a finite number of Uses, and spend those Uses only when a unit performs a Combat Art. Everything below is what has been published ahead of the September 17, 2026 launch.

Weapon Types and Their Roles

The August 2026 presentation ran through all six types in a single pass. Swords are the straightforward option and the easiest to wield. Gauntlets make a unit harder to hit. Spears deal heavy damage to cavalry. Axes trade accuracy for raw attack power. Bows reach across the field and can land fatal blows on flying units. Magic cuts through heavy armour, and it also heals and supports allies who are in trouble.

There Is No Weapon Triangle

The classic triangle in which swords beat axes, axes beat spears and spears beat swords does not exist in this game. There is no accuracy or damage bonus for matching one physical type against another. The per-type properties listed above take its place, so a spear gains nothing for facing a sword; it simply hits cavalry harder.

Type Properties Reported From Hands-On Sessions

Preview sessions added figures that have not been published directly. Swords are described as dealing 1.2 times damage on a follow-up attack. Axes are said to carry a damage floor, landing at least 5 damage on any hit that connects. At matching weapon rank the rough order of raw attack power runs axe, then spear, then sword, with spears and swords ahead on hit rate and attack speed. Treat these as preview figures until the game ships.

Weapon Stats

Every entry in the game shares one stat schema, and the same columns appear whether the weapon is a wooden practice sword or a personal relic.

The Curse Column

Curse sits between critical rate and range in the weapon table, and it has no counterpart in earlier entries in the series. Its column icon is the same one the interface uses for Blaze Arts, which points at a link between cursed gear and the soul-powered attacks the Heroes use. Only one weapon carries a published Curse value: Veroquine, a sword whose dark power previews trace to the underworld, reads Curse 2. Every other documented entry leaves the field empty, and what the number does has not been explained.

Uses and Durability

Weapons carry a finite number of Uses, and ordinary attacks do not spend any of them. Durability drains only when a unit performs a Combat Art, which turns Uses into a budget for special attacks rather than a maintenance chore. The figure is not shown on the weapon list until you hover over the entry, so it is easy to overlook in the pre-battle menu.

Individual arts carry their own cost. Raging Tempest, the one art with a published figure, spends 8 durability per use. Bows are reported to hold 20 durability, the Short Axe 25 and Sinza's Trident 30. Spells work on a different rule: each one holds a limited number of casts instead of a durability pool, so Thunder ships with 8, Wind and Bolganone with 10, Seraphim with 6, Physic with 5 and Nosferatu with 16.

Confirmed Stat Lines

Six weapons carry a complete or near-complete line ahead of launch. Cells marked Unknown are fields the published table leaves unfilled, and a Curse entry of None means the field is empty rather than zero.

Killing Edge grants the Deadly Blade combat art, and its description calls it a sharp blade made with eastern techniques. Veroquine grants Prune. Iron Bow is the only weapon with published forge levels, covered further down. Most other rows in the roster carry a name, a range and a durability figure and nothing else, so the tables below record only the fields that have actually been filled in.

Weapon Roster

The published roster runs to roughly 65 entries across the six types, plus two monster weapons, Beast Claw and Great Stinger, which appear on enemy units rather than in the shop. The roster is also incomplete by its own admission: at least one ranged spear, the Pilum, is documented as a weapon in this game without appearing as a row.

Swords

Spears

Axes

Bows

Gauntlets

Magic

Bonus Damage Categories

Four target categories carry a named weapon or spell each. Hunter's Bow hits beast units harder, Horsekiller Bow hits cavalry, Wind hits flying units, and Seraphim hits undead. The last of these matters for the late chapters, where the enemy side is drawn from the risen dead.

Forging and Enhancement

The capital holds a shopping arcade with a blacksmith stall. Weapons and tools are bought there, and gear already in the inventory can be upgraded with materials gathered elsewhere, mostly from the dungeons out on the world map covered on Dungeons and Clashes. Forge levels are written as a plus and a number after the weapon name, and they run to at least +2.

Iron Bow is the only weapon with published forge figures. Its base Might reads 9, at +1 it reads 11, and at +2 it reads 13, with range and Uses unchanged at 2 and 20 throughout. Combat arts are enhanced separately using a material called the Magic Resonance Stone, which is looted from defeated enemies.

Weapon Ranks

Each entry lists the rank a unit must reach before they can equip it, on a letter scale. Published entries run from E on the wooden and bronze tiers up to A on Zerberus, with D and C in between. Ranks rise through use in battle and through training at the arena plaza between matches, which is covered on Between-Match Preparation. One weapon breaks the pattern: previews report that Veroquine demands two proficiencies at once, B in swords and C in axes.

Unique Weapons

Nintendo's own framing promised swords that call down lightning, gauntlets that look like firearms, and other unique weapons to find, and both halves are literal. Levin Sword is the ranged sword on the roster. Firearms are real objects in this setting and they are filed under gauntlets, which means they inherit the evasion bonus that comes with the type.

Zerberus is a handheld firearm tuned for Troy that counts as a magic attack. Salamander is the second gun on the roster and appears in the hands of Anatolia. Both sit in the gauntlet column of the weapon table alongside the ordinary wooden and iron fists.

Hero's Relics return as Crest-stone weapons. Answerer is the only one confirmed by name so far, a sword tied to Dietrich and to House Lamine. Its published weapon rank reads E, which sits oddly against a legendary relic and may be a placeholder in the pre-launch data. The wider system is covered on Hero's Relics.

Several personal weapons come with a combat art only their owner can use. The Nameless is the protagonist's spear. Mahadu's Spear belongs to Theodora and grants Full Moon. Sinza's Trident grants Brute Throw. Long-Night Katara, a cursed sword carried by the merchant Talimun, grants Siphon Luck.

Shields and Other Equipment

Weapons are only part of a loadout. Shields sit in their own category and the roster includes a Wooden Shield and a Bronze Shield next to the matching weapon tiers. Consumables such as the Antidote, accessories such as the Miracle Gem, and the proficiency manuals for black and white magic are all covered on Items and Equipment. How weapon choice interacts with positioning, counterattacks and terrain is covered on Combat System.