Bonebreaker

Overview

Bonebreaker is a Rare / Epic club-class melee weapon in Windrose. A heavy mace capable of crushing any armor, and the bones beneath it. A skull and a shinbone are engraved on the haft, beside a row of notches. Looks like someone was keeping score.

Clubs are one-handed blunt Crude weapons that scale with Strength; they cannot Perfect Block, so club builds lean into posture damage and heavy staggers. See Clubs for the full class profile.

At a Glance

Effects

Rare and Epic variants share a base effect. Ascending the Rare to Epic at the Weaponsmith Workshop preserves the Rare effect and stacks an additional bonus on top.

Crafting

Craft at the Weaponsmith Workshop (Level 1). Base recipe: Wood x10, Copper Ingot x5.

Ascension to Epic

Ascending the Rare variant at the Weaponsmith Workshop converts it into the Epic variant and unlocks the Epic bonus line. Ingredients: Bonebreaker x1, Tumbaga Ingot x7. The ascension consumes the Rare weapon. See Tumbaga Ingot for sourcing notes and Upgrade System for the full ascension mechanic.

How to Obtain

• Drops from pirate caches and Buccaneer chests alongside Sturdy Mace.

• Can appear in late Foothills fort rotations.

Loot Sources

This weapon rolls from the shared Pirate Chest Loot Pool at a 20% per-chest chance across 13 chest spawns (Blackbeard Crew, Buccaneers', Decrepit, Old Skeleton, Smugglers', and Thomas Richards' chests). See that article for the full chest list and locations.

Tactical Usage

Rewards Stamina investment. Pair with Stamina-pool cloaks and the Crusher talent line so each swing lands with the buff active; +10% base Crit at Epic lifts it further.

Trade-hit with heavy swings and stagger chains since clubs cannot Perfect Block. Keep an eye on posture bars because most club effects and talents compound when enemies are staggered rather than just damaged.

Talent Synergies

Strength-scaling weapons pull from the Crusher branch of the Talent System, with Toughguy as a survivability complement. Relevant picks include talents that boost Crude damage, two-handed melee damage, posture break on staggered enemies, and stamina-efficient heavy attacks. Strength weapons also benefit from Toughguy talents like Stout Frame and Too Angry to Die that improve survivability during heavy-attack windows.

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

Bonebreaker sits alongside 5 other clubs on the current live index. Consider the alternatives:

• Club: Uncommon, 280 Crude, Strength (B). no special effect

• Swamp Creature's Tooth: Rare / Epic, 280 Crude, Strength (B). Critical Hits with this weapon no longer deal bonus Damage, but instead trigger a burst of Distortion, dealing Damage to all nearby enemies.

• Smasher: Uncommon, 225 Crude, Strength (A). Hits have a small chance to knock enemies down. The higher your Strength, the higher the chance.

• Crusher: Rare / Epic, 290 Crude, Strength (C at Rare, B at Epic). Hits have a small chance to knock enemies down. The higher your Strength, the higher the chance.

• Sturdy Mace: Rare / Epic, 295 Crude, Strength (A at Rare, S at Epic). Increases Posture Points by 1.

See Also

• Melee Weapons for the full melee index.

• Weapons for the cross-class roster.

• Clubs for the club category roster.

• Strength is this weapon's scaling attribute.

• Upgrade System covers Rare-to-Epic ascension with Tumbaga Ingot.

• Weaponsmith Workshop is the crafting and ascension station.

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

Stamina Mechanic Clarification

The damage line on the Rare effect is misleading on first read. The bonus scales with your current Stamina percentage, not your max Stamina pool. With a full Stamina bar you land the highest possible Bonebreaker swing; the moment you spend Stamina on a dodge, sprint, or heavy attack, the per-hit bonus drops with the bar. By the time the bar is empty the weapon is hitting for its base 300 Crude only.

Investing in Endurance raises your max Stamina, which gives you more swings before the damage decays, but it does not lift the per-hit ceiling. A character with 4 Endurance hitting at 100% Stamina deals the same opener as a character with 12 Endurance hitting at 100% Stamina. The difference is how many follow-up swings stay near peak before the bar drains.

Practical play loop: open from a full bar to land the high-damage opener, chain swings until Stamina drops into the lower half, then disengage to refill before re-engaging. Refer to Stamina Management for the regen cadence and to Stamina States for the exhaustion penalties that kick in once the bar is fully drained.

Caveat: the Bonebreaker is a poor fit for fights that demand frequent dodging or for the Combat Hard Mode difficulty preset, where stripped Stamina is the default state of every encounter. In those contexts the weapon spends most of its time below the threshold where its bonus is meaningful, and a steady-output one-handed Crude weapon will out-DPS it across the fight.

Compared against the other plague-themed one-handed options, the Bonebreaker tends to underperform on raw output. The Arboris Saber delivers higher sustained damage for boss work and ship boarding through its Plague Echoes 360 slam and temporal-health conversion, and the Rapier of Devastation out-bursts it on single-target heavies through Plague Mark consumption. The Bonebreaker's niche is the opener-burst playstyle: trade-hit fights where you can commit to a full-Stamina alpha and disengage cleanly, rather than extended skirmishes where Stamina churn is forced on you.

Bone Breaking Brawler Build

A crit-stacking opener-burst build that leans into the Epic +10% Critical Hit Chance bonus and squeezes extra crit chance from gear, talents, and food. The pistol slot is dedicated to the +15% damage-taken debuff from Drake's Double-Barreled Pistol; basic stone bullets are acceptable here because the gun is firing for the debuff application, not for raw bullet damage.

Gear

Stats

• 10 Strength: main scaling for the Bonebreaker's Crude damage.

• 6 Mastery: extra Critical Hit Chance and stagger payoff.

• 5 Vitality: keeps the build alive in trade-hit ranges.

• 4 Endurance: enough Stamina to stay in the high-bonus band for several swings before refill.

Talents

• 3 ranks Surgical Cuts: +9% Critical Hit Chance with one-handed melee.

• 3 ranks Quick Strikes: one-handed weapon damage scaling.

• 2 ranks Deadly Finale: +20% damage at 5 stacks of consecutive hits.

Food

• Burrito: +10 Mastery for additional crit chance.

• Spicy Breaded Kebab: +10 Strength for raw Crude damage.

Bring the best healing potions you can craft. Clubs cannot Perfect Block, so the Brawler build trades hits by design and burns through consumables in extended fights. The pistol's stone bullets are deliberate: it's there for the debuff, not the damage, so there's no need to spend higher-tier ammo on it.

Details

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Weaponsmith Workshop

Ascend Cost

Ascend at: Weaponsmith Workshop