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Smasher
April 25, 2026 at 08:45 AM
Add fishing acquisition source, stats, and upgrade limitations
Smasher is a Uncommon club-class melee weapon in Windrose. A real swordfish, just not a well-known one.
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.
Field | Value |
|---|---|
Weapon Class | |
Rarity | Uncommon |
Damage | 225 Crude |
Scaling | Strength (A) |
ATK (Item Level 15) | 380 |
ATK (Level 1 crafted) | 100 |
Stack Size | 1 |
Flavor | The smell alone is enough to knock you off your feet. |
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.
Tier | Effect |
|---|---|
Rare | Hits have a small chance to knock enemies down. The higher your Strength, the higher the chance. |
Craft at the Weaponsmith Workshop (Level 1). Base recipe: Wood x10, Copper Ingot x5.
Smasher uses a five-band track that mirrors the Pistol structure but substitutes Smithing Flux for Master's Tools, because it is a single-tier melee weapon rather than a firearm.
Item-level upgrades for Smasher are performed at the Weaponsmith Workshop and follow the same per-band pattern documented for every weapon. See Weapon Upgrade Bands for the full per-band material costs.
Rare reward from fishing encounters and coastal loot in the early game.
Disassembles back into Wood x10 and Copper Ingot x5.
Despite being single-tier, Smasher's Strength (A) scaling and knockdown proc make it a usable Strength pick all the way through the Foothills tier. Replace when a Rare Crusher or Sturdy Mace comes online.
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.
Strength-scaling weapons pull from the Strength and Mastery branches of the Talent System. 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 pair well with the Crusher talent branch when it is available as a training option.
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.
Smasher 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.
Crusher: Rare / Epic, 290 Crude, Strength (B). Hits have a small chance to knock enemies down. The higher your Strength, the higher the chance.
Bonebreaker: Rare / Epic, 300 Crude, Strength (A). The more Stamina you have, the more Damage the weapon deals.
Sturdy Mace: Rare / Epic, 295 Crude, Strength (S). Increases Posture Points by 1.
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.
Weaponsmith Workshop is the crafting and ascension station.
Combat covers stamina, posture, and Perfect Block timing.
The Smasher is one of the few weapons in the game that does not come from a vendor, a chest, a quest reward, or a boss drop. It is a rare RNG drop pulled out of the water while fishing, and the specific fish that can yield it is the barracuda. There is no quest line that unlocks the drop and no flag that needs to be tripped first; the only reliable way to get the Smasher is to keep casting until it appears.
Barracuda are a deep-water species, so they will not appear from shallow shoreline casts. If most of the rest of the Fish Species dex is already filled, target deep-water fishing spots specifically; once the dex is mostly complete, deep water is essentially the only place new entries can come from, which makes barracuda encounters far more frequent than they were earlier in the run. Fishing the entire dex also unlocks the Fishing Ring as a side reward, which boosts the number of Fish Fillet pulled from each catch and pairs naturally with the deep-water grind needed to land the Smasher.
Because the drop is purely RNG, expect a long tail. Plan a fishing session around it rather than treating it as a quick stop, and bring bait and rods that you are willing to burn through over many casts.
The Smasher has a clear identity once it lands in the inventory. The headline numbers and rules:
Base damage: 225 Crude. Damage scales with the wielder's Strength stat, in line with the rest of the Clubs class.
Special: hits have a small chance to knock enemies down. The knockdown chance scales with Strength, so the more Strength on the build, the more often the proc fires.
Starting rarity: Rare. The Smasher does not have a green or blue base variant; the first copy you fish up is already the Rare item.
Upgrades: the Smasher follows the standard item-level upgrade track at the Weaponsmith Workshop, using the per-band materials documented in Weapon Upgrade Bands.
Ascension: the Smasher cannot be ascended. There is no Epic (purple) version available, so the upgrade ceiling is the fully banded Rare.
Class restrictions: clubs are one-handed blunt Crude weapons that cannot Perfect Block, so the Smasher inherits the same posture-trade pattern as every other club.
The Smasher is a fun, flavorful pick rather than a top-end melee option. With the ascension path closed, it caps out a tier below the strongest melee weapons in the live game, and dedicated melee builds will eventually swap to Plague Halberd, Arboris Saber, or Soul Eater once those become available. That said, the Strength-scaling knockdown proc is genuinely useful in crowd fights and against bosses with breakable posture, so a Strength-heavy build that wants a Clubs alternative to the Crusher line gets real mileage out of it. It also fits players who are filling out the Fishing dex anyway: if the deep-water grind is happening for completion, the Smasher is essentially a free reward from the same activity.
