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11 Strength is the weapon-damage stat for heavy melee in Windrose. It scales damage specifically for Clubs and Halberds the two weapon categories that trade attack speed for raw hit output. If your build uses either weapon, Strength is your primary damage stat; if it does not, Strength adds nothing to your damage.
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33 Weapons That Scale With Strength
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55 Club one-handed heavy melee; slow but hard-hitting.Halberd two-handed reach melee; slower swings with superior crowd control.Plague Halberd Epic halberd whose special attack restores 35% Max HP.Soul Eater greatsword-form Strength weapon with a health-drain special.Swamp Creature's Tooth Strength club that triggers AoE Distortion damage on critical hits.Bonebreaker rare club variant.Executioner rare halberd variant.
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77 Build Pairings
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99 Pikeman Set Strength two-handers (Halberd, Soul Eater) benefit directly from the Pikeman Set 4-piece +15% two-handed damage.Meaty Croc Kebab Epic dish granting +20 Strength for 30 minutes.Vitality companion stat heavy melee builds typically want Vitality alongside Strength so they can trade hits confidently.
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1111 See Also
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1313 Stats and TalentsAgilityPrecision
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1515 Soft Cap at 20
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1717 Strength follows a diminishing-returns curve with a clear soft cap at 20 points. Each point from 1 through 20 adds approximately 13.45 damage per light attack; every point past 20 adds roughly half that value. See the Stats and Talents diminishing returns section for the specific damage-per-point numbers. Budget 20 Strength for any heavy-melee build before allocating further into the stat, then use Meaty Croc Kebab (+20 Strength food buff) to temporarily push past the cap during boss fights rather than spending more points in Strength itself.
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1919 Weapon scaling grade (S, A, B, C) does not change the per-point Strength return. A C-scaling Halberd receives the same +13 damage per Strength point as an S-scaling Sturdy Halberd. Pick a Strength weapon for its effect, not for its scaling letter.
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2121 Stat Allocation Recommendations
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2323 Strength shares the same community-reported 20-point soft cap as the other damage stats. The first 1 to 5 points return the largest per-point damage gain on Clubs and Halberds. Points 6 through 20 return steady linear growth. Each point past 20 returns roughly half that value. The implication for build planning is that most Strength loadouts cap their primary stat at 20 and route remaining points into Vitality and Endurance, then return to Strength only after the planned defensive floor is set.
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2525 Build GoalSuggested AllocationPlague Halberd AoE mainStrength 20, Vitality 15, Endurance 10, Mastery 0 to 5Bonebreaker stamina-burst CrusherStrength 20, Endurance 18, Vitality 12 (Bonebreaker rewards a deeper stamina pool because its scaling rewards full-bar swings)Tank Crusher with Soul Eater hybridStrength 20, Vitality 20, Endurance 10 (Soul Eater's Vitality scaling at Epic compounds with the high HP pool)
2626 Food and Elixir Synergies
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2828 The standard Strength food stack is Meaty Croc Kebab (+20 Strength). With +20 active, a 20-point invested character functionally hits the 40-point mark during boss windows, which is the practical reason Strength builds frequently choose to stop investing at 20 and rely on food to push through soft caps. Pair with Infused Elixir of Firm Hand for stagger-focused encounters and Coffee for the Endurance push that heavy weapons need across long swings.
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3030 Why Strength Carries Its Own Stagger Story
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3232 Strength weapons (Clubs, Halberds, the Plague Halberd line, the Bonebreaker) trade attack speed for raw damage and posture-break potential. The build's principal value is not just that each hit lands harder; it is that staggered enemies cannot retaliate, and a Strength build that connects its first heavy swing typically has time to land a follow-up before the enemy recovers. The community-reported 20-point soft cap pairs naturally with this because additional Strength does not change the breakpoint at which an enemy's posture bar collapses; food buffs and weapon upgrades are the cleaner ways to push past it.