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Rapier of a Thousand Cuts is a rapier in Windrose. The current live weapon pages list rare and epic variants. The base published card uses 100 ATK, 125 Pierce damage, and Precision scaling.

Rapier of a Thousand Cuts weapon icon from Windrose

Current Live Variants

Variant	Type	ATK	Damage	Listed Scaling	Stack Size
Rare	Melee Weapon	100	125 Pierce	Precision (C)	1
Epic	Melee Weapon	100	125 Pierce	Precision (B)	1

Listed Effects

Variant	Current Item-Card Effect
Rare	Dealing Damage applies Bleeding. Stacks up to 5 times. Each stack deals 25 Damage per second.
Epic	Dealing Damage applies Bleeding. Stacks up to 5 times. Each stack deals 25 Damage per second. Bleed damage dealt while holding this weapon restores Temporal Health.

Crafting and Conversion

Step	Variant	Level	Ingredients	Duration
Craft	Rare	1	Copper Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2	1s (60/min)
Craft	Rare	6	Foothills Iron Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2, Smithing Flux x3	1s (60/min)
Craft	Rare	11	Mire Metal Ingot x7, Crocodile Hide Piece x2, Smithing Flux x3	1s (60/min)
Epic conversion	Epic	1	Tumbaga Ingot x7, Rapier of a Thousand Cuts x1	1s (60/min)

Upgrade Materials

Variant	Levels	Ingredients
Rare	2-5	Copper Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2
Rare	6	Foothills Iron Ingot x4, Rough Hide x1, Smithing Flux x3
Rare	7-10	Foothills Iron Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2, Smithing Flux x3
Rare	11	Mire Metal Ingot x4, Crocodile Hide Piece x1, Smithing Flux x3
Rare	12-15	Mire Metal Ingot x7, Crocodile Hide Piece x2, Smithing Flux x3
Epic	2-5	Copper Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2
Epic	6	Foothills Iron Ingot x4, Rough Hide x1, Smithing Flux x3
Epic	7-10	Foothills Iron Ingot x7, Rough Hide x2, Smithing Flux x3
Epic	11	Mire Metal Ingot x4, Crocodile Hide Piece x1, Smithing Flux x3
Epic	12-15	Mire Metal Ingot x7, Crocodile Hide Piece x2, Smithing Flux x3

Current Notes

The public Epic page is listed as a Tumbaga conversion from the lower-rarity weapon, not as a completely separate base craft.
The public loot tables also list low-chance chest-table entries for Rare: 22 other listed chest-table rows at 0.02%.
The current public pages also say this weapon is not bought or sold by vendors.

Loot and Vendors

Variant	Vendor Trade	Guaranteed Loot	Other Listed Loot
Rare	Not bought or sold by vendors.	No guaranteed loot row listed.	22 other listed chest-table rows at 0.02%
Epic	Not bought or sold by vendors.	No guaranteed loot row listed.	No known loot source listed.

Traveler's Camp Acquisition Route

Although the item card lists no guaranteed loot drop, the community-verified acquisition path runs through a Traveler's Camp treasure chain in the Coastal Jungle. The chain starts at the first Traveler's Camp the player encounters in the region, which is identified by a red cloth tied to a nearby tree.

Step-by-step route: enter the Traveler's Camp and loot the chest next to the tent. Inside the chest is a clue note titled A Hat Worth Boarding For, which points the player to a buried treasure location. Leave the camp and head north until the tree with the red cloth is directly visible. Equip a Shovel and dig on the northwest side of that tree. A buried chest surfaces after several digs; opening it returns the Rapier of a Thousand Cuts along with incidental loot.

If the weapon does not appear: the buried chest drop table is not guaranteed on every run, so a single empty chest does not mean the wrong location was searched. Keep farming Traveler's Camp buried treasure routes around the Coastal Jungle, and extend the search into pirate camps in Blackbeard Waters. The weapon has multiple low-rate chest table entries across the region, so repeated treasure runs eventually surface it even if the first red-cloth site does not deliver.

Build context: the rapier scales with Precision, so it slots naturally into any build already running pistols or muskets. Because its Bleeding effect stacks up to five times and each stack deals 25 damage per second, the weapon's DPS climbs sharply in longer fights. Short repeated attack strings that keep pressure up without emptying the stamina bar outperform heavy committed swings on this weapon.

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