Overview
Swamp Creature's Tooth is a Rare / Epic club-class melee weapon in Windrose. This weapon can stun and bite while it's at it, leaving terrible lacerations behind.
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
Field | Value |
|---|---|
Weapon Class | |
Rarity | Rare / Epic |
Damage | 280 Crude |
Scaling | Strength (B) |
ATK (Item Level 15) | 380 |
ATK (Level 1 crafted) | 100 |
Stack Size | 1 |
Flavor | How are these creatures still not extinct?! |
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.
Tier | Effect |
|---|---|
Rare | Critical Hits with this weapon no longer deal bonus Damage, but instead trigger a burst of Distortion, dealing Damage to all nearby enemies. |
Epic (adds) | The lower your remaining Health, the higher your Distortion Damage. |
Crafting
Craft at the Weaponsmith Workshop (Level 1). Base recipe: Wood x10, Copper Ingot x3, Ingot Arborum 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: Swamp Creature's Tooth 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 swamp creatures in the plague-affected Swamp biome.
Occasionally appears in plague crypt loot rotations.
Tactical Usage
Trades single-target crit damage for an AoE Distortion burst on every crit. The Epic scaling off low Health makes it a risk-reward weapon: it's strongest when you are at 10-30% HP, so it pairs well with Temporal Health sustain gear.
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
Swamp Creature's Tooth sits alongside 5 other clubs on the current live index. Consider the alternatives:
Club: Uncommon, 280 Crude, Strength (B). No special effect.
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 (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.
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.
Drop Source (Unconfirmed)
The exact drop source for Swamp Creature's Tooth is currently unconfirmed by the player community. Despite extensive testing across the Cursed Swamps and adjacent regions, no enemy has been verified to drop the weapon on a reliable, reproducible basis at the time of writing. The notes below summarize what has been tested and what remains speculative; treat any single drop claim as provisional until multiple independent runs confirm it.
Tested Sources with No Confirmed Drop
Players have farmed each of the following candidates without observing the tooth drop. If you are hunting the weapon and find a confirmed source, expect that information to update.
Plague Crocodiles (regular and elite variants in the swamp): repeated kills did not yield the tooth in community runs, despite the thematic name match.
Plague Crushers (the wooden-club, ground-wave swamp enemies): the visual similarity between the Crusher's club and the in-game weapon model led many players to focus farming here, but no drops have been observed across extended testing.
The High Priestess (the swamp story-line final boss): repeated kills, including post-completion re-engagements, have not produced the tooth.
General Plague Crypts loot rotations: chest spawns in plague-affected crypts have not produced the weapon in tracked runs.
Open Theories
Several explanations remain on the table. None of these have been verified, and players should weigh them as speculation rather than fact:
Future quest reward. The weapon may eventually become the reward for a not-yet-finalized stage of the Crocodile Altar quest line, which currently issues a decorative trophy on completion.
Alpha or hidden enemy variant. An unimplemented alpha plague crocodile or a rare named swamp enemy may carry the drop, gated behind spawn conditions or progression flags that are not yet active in the live build.
Patch-gated content. Several swamp-themed items remain placeholder in the current build, so the tooth may unlock alongside the Ashlands content or a later swamp expansion patch.
Confirmed but not wired up. The weapon definition exists in the game files with full stats, but its loot table reference may not be attached to any active spawn at present.
Functional Status in the Live Build
Even when the weapon is acquired through testing tools, its on-paper special ability has not been observed firing during play. Critical hits do not appear to trigger the documented Distortion burst in the current build, suggesting the effect is either gated behind a flag, mis-keyed in the active loot table, or simply not yet wired up. The weapon can be upgraded through the standard tier path, but it cannot be ascended further than its current cap, which is consistent with several other partially-implemented swamp items. Players considering tracking this weapon should treat the listed effect as a future-state description rather than a guarantee of present behavior.
Visual analysis of the in-game model is also worth noting: the teeth on the weapon do not closely resemble crocodile dentition, which has fueled the theory that the source creature is a different swamp predator entirely, possibly one not yet present in the live game. This is an aesthetic observation, not a confirmed lore detail, and should not be used to rule any candidate in or out on its own.
What to Do Until a Source is Confirmed
If you are seeking the tooth purely for collection or tier progression, your time is better spent on weapons with known drop or craft paths. Consider farming the alternatives listed in the Comparison Within Class section above, all of which have established acquisition routes. Keep an eye on patch notes and community testing logs; the source for this weapon, once it surfaces, will likely arrive in a tagged update rather than as a quietly-active live drop.