There are a variety of weapons in No Rest For The Wicked with each one offering different runes, playstyles, damage, stamina cost and focus gain. There will be a weapon type, and more specifically unique weapons standing out among the rest of the crowd. This guide aims to help you learn about all the weapon types in No Rest For The Wicked, helping you spot all the weapons we are aware of, and when and where you can expect them to drop.

Every Weapon and their Types¶

The weapons listed below are based on the earliest tier roll we have seen on them. The attributes required on the weapon may be slightly different, depending on the tier they dropped at. This is one of the reasons why we haven’t included energy cost, damage, or focus gain since those stats are affected by tier and level of the drop. The general idea is to give you an idea of what weapons exist in the game, which weapon drops you want for your attribute build, and the types of runes you can expect to encounter on those weapons.

You can get an idea of drop locations based on their tier. If it’s Tier 1, it’s an early game drop you can pick up. Mid tier comes from the Nameless Pass, and Tier 3 are typically end game, craftables, or crucible pickups.

We’ll gradually update this page with more weapons as and when we confirm more items in the game. All weapons listed below are confirmed lootable and craftable as of the launch of the game in early access.

Table of Contents:

• All One Handed Weapon Types
  • Knives
  • Straight Swords
  • Curved Swords
  • Katanas
  • Maces
  • Axes
  • Spears
  • Rapiers
• All Two Handed Weapon Types
  • Great Swords
  • Great Hammers
  • Great Axes
  • Halberds and Scythes
  • Staves
  • Dual Wields
• All Bows

All One-Handed Weapon Types¶

One handed weapons are often fairly medium to fast attack weapons, often equipped alongside a shield or a bow. There are different styles of one handed weapons, ranging from swords, with different attack patterns. Knives tend to be the closer range but fastest of the lot, while katanas offer another agile and fast style. If you want more range, try other one handed spears.

Knives¶

Knives are often the fastest one handed weapons in the game. They operate like daggers with backstabbing focus damage, but, you can use a shield and trade some offense for more defense.

All One-Handed Straight Swords¶

Straight swords are your standard one handed weapon that offer clean and consistant swinging, jabbing and thrusting type attacks. These weapons typically come with some form of fighter style combat, with the opportunity to use Thorn runes, throws, crowd control type strike or some form of enchantment for bonus damage,m which is very hand against bosses.

All One-Handed Curved Swords¶

Curved swords are very similar to straight sword, albeit their swiping attacks tend to be faster and much deadlier, at the cost of weaker thrust and range on the attacks.

All One-Handed Katanas¶

Katanas are weapons that often focus on magic runes, along with very fast hitting strikes against single target foes.

All One-Handed Maces¶

Maces are slower, but a more bonkier type of weapon, with more poise breaking than other single target weapons.

All One-Handed Axes¶

Axes tend to be a little slower than sword but faster than maces .They also do decent damage, and come with interesting rune choices built into them.

All One-Handed Spears¶

Spears are your go to weapons for jabbing and for range. You’ll essentially running a footman type build with a shield and range jabbing to play a safe yet effective build. There’s also plenty of mobility and cleave with certain runes available for spears too, offering plenty of versatility depending on the type of runes you want to run.

All One-Handed Rapiers¶

Rapiers are similar to katanas that they are fast attack weapons, but, are more focused on jabbing akin to spears. You’ll get plenty of fast paced gameplay with rapiers, but they are similar risk reward playstyles as knives and daggers.

All Two-Handed Weapon Types¶

Two-Handed weapons are slow, yet fairly high damage weapons, perfect for long range cleaving, huge burst damage, and poise destruction.

All Great Swords (normal and curved)¶

Greatswords are slow, yet strong weapons, offering plenty of range, cleave and jabbing, depending on the type of greatsword you use. Moreso, expect solid barbarian strength type weapons here, alongside a mixture of battlemage and faith builds in this weapon type.

All Great Hammers (Clubs, Maces and Hammers)¶

Great Hammers are a weapon type that are the most slow, but can deal lots of damage. They are also the kings of breaking poise, meaning a few hits against a boss can send them staggered to the floor for several seconds. Using your focus after these moments can chain them back into CC. If you like that type of playstyle, Great Hammers are for you.

All Great Axes¶

Great Axes again a hybrid between Greatswords and Hammers. They come with strong damage, but slightly slower than swords and not enough poise damage as hammers. They sit in the comfy middle ground of weapon types.

All Halberds and Scythes¶

Halberds and Scythes are niche weapons for the two-handed weapon type playstyle. Halberds are long range, jabbing and some cleave focuses weapons, while the Scythe is dedicated to cleave attacks. Consider them like the katanas, spears and rapiers of the two handed weapon type world.

All Staves¶

If you have a deep love for magic, then staves are you go-to weapon type in No Rest For The Wicked. These weapons are largely intelligence base,d but there is one with Faith scaling too. If you want that mage or priest playstyle, there’s plenty of magical options available for you.

All Dual-Wielding¶

Dual Wielding playstyles are for the rogue fantasy players out there. These playstyles sacrifice all defense in favor for ruthless fast attack offense. You’re going to want to go all in on mobility and swing for their backs using thematic damage, movement runes and whatever else tickles you fancy to do that.

All Bows¶

Bows are a special type of weapon that sits in your offhand slot. These bows will use focus to shoot arrows, offering dex and strength builds some ranged attacks if they need it, rather than using shields. You can also run pure dex builds if you’d like and use a focus generation build to exclusively use the bow if you’d like and had more elemental arrows to the rune slots to offer some more variation to your nock and loosing.