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Overview

Sturdy Mace is a Rare / Epic club-class melee weapon in Windrose. A well-crafted flanged mace mounted on a stout haft. It carries just the right weight to crunch ribs with a dull, satisfying thud, without numbing your hands or flying loose after a couple of blows.

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: Sturdy Mace 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

• Dropped from pirate camp and Blackbeard fort chests.

• Shares loot slots with other Sturdy-prefixed weapons.

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

Best single-target club on a stamina-efficient frontline build. Strength (S) at Epic plus 15% reduced stamina cost makes it the lowest-friction club to mainhand all the way through endgame.

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

Sturdy Mace 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.

• Bonebreaker: Rare / Epic, 300 Crude, Strength (B at Rare, A at Epic). The more Stamina you have, the more Damage the weapon deals.

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.

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Weaponsmith Workshop

Ascend Cost

Ascend at: Weaponsmith Workshop

Sources