Weapon Masteries

Weapon masteries are upgrades that can be applied to your weapon at the Blacksmiths Anvil. These are notable and significant upgrades you can acquire for your weapons, and offer new build synergies and movesets.

Blades Of The Desert Hunt

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Build-Up	Charging the secondary attack increases the damage and duration of the projectile.	Holding the secondary button until the attack releases without releasing the button increases the damage and distance of the projectile.
Secondary: Additional Projectiles	The left-handed attack releases an additional projectile.	A second projectile is added.
Special: Single Target Focus	Special attacks deal double damage if only one target is hit.	Increased damage if only one enemy is hit by the special.
Special: Emergency Option	Special attack can now be used in the middle of other attacks but receives an extra 20s of cooldown.	Allows attack cancelling by using the special, but increases cooldown.

Galesworn Greatsword

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Whirlwind	Spawn a whirlwind on hit that lingers on the spot, and deals damage over time	Spawns a small AOE whirlwind if the wind slice on the secondary attack hits.
Secondary: Tempest-bound	Spawn extra, small gales that emerge from the impact location
Special: Stormheart	Bigger AOE	Bigger area of the wind slash effect of the special.	Not worth imo
Special: Wind Infusion	Gain extra attack speed based on unique enemies hit during special.

Gatekeepers Warhammer

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Build-up	You can charge even longer for even more damage
Secondary: Debuff	Reduce target damage resistance by 10% for 10 seconds.
Special: Crater	Deal damage to all nearby enemies, around impact.
Special: Build-up	Increases damage even more from charging.

Hallowed Branch

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Nature's Reach	The butterflies spread wider	The butterflies produced by charging your secondary attack will now spread in a much larger fan shape while retaining the same distance
Secondary: Tireless Allies	Butterflies travel further	The butterflies produced by charging your secondary attack will now travel further while retaining the same width
Special: Industrious Allies	The butterflies have an improved chance to trigger on hit effects	Butterflies from your special attack gain a ~40% increase in proc chance. This is additive.
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Horta's Antithesis

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
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Mace Of The Maiden

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
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Magnolian Thorn and Petal

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Battering Ram	Blocking an attack while dashing increases the damage of your secondary by 130%
Secondary:Line Breacher	Blocking an attack while dashing applies Exposed on all nearby enemies.
Special: Heavy Impact	The area of effect is increased by 50%
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Malvo's Toothpick

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Charge Up	Increases maximum from charging greatly, increases charge time slightly	Meant to increase maximum damage from charging greatly, while slightly increasing the charge time of the swing.
Secondary: Dmg Res Debuff	Reduce dmg resistance of targets, stronger debuff the more you charge	When charging, you reduce the general damage resistances of enemies nearby. This seems to apply to all damage resistances, including elemental.
Special: The Lord's Hunger	Pull enemies from all around you instead of a cone. Damage spread isnt reduced past 2 enemies	The cone "force pull" special attack now becomes a larger AOE pull all around you. Vader could never.
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Oathbound Rapier

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finisher to your combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Water Dance	Replace all attacks in the primary combo with a double attack that deals 50% damage for each hit	All attacks within your combo are now rapid double slash attacks that allow for on-hit effects to be applied twice.
Secondary:
Secondary: Slug Stab	Your sword gains extra damage from charging.	Your secondary gains more damage when charging the attack
Special: Slow	ON special hit: Slow enemies by 50% for 10s
Special: Unburned	You become damage immune during the jump	Your special jump gains immunity frames throughout the jump

Sacrificial Daggers

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Land AOE	Deal damage in an aoe after landing
Secondary: Long	Secondary travels further and increases damage for each hit
Special: Sentient Sand	Projectiles travel further and track targets
Special: Focus	You can charge your special for extra damage

The Aureate Curved Sword

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Flying Steel	The projectile no longer pierces targets but deals 200% damage.
Secondary: A Perfect Circle	When the projectile hits an enemy it deals damage in an area around the target.
Special: Event Horizon	Pulls enemies toward you while channeling. Become stationary while channeling.
Special: High Pitch	Spin 20% faster.	Increases the animation speed of the spin attack.

Typhlotic Pair

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Split Shot	Charging the secondary launches more projectiles instead of increasing damage.	Secondary projectiles now shoot out in a fan with 3 projectiles being produced at maximum.	All 3 projectiles can apply on-hit effects, leading to ~3x the effectiveness of on hits should all projectiles hit.
Secondary: Explosion	Projectiles explode and deal damage in a radius	Projectiles will now explode and do sanguine damage in a radius
Special: Aspect of Mandor'Esh	Increase clone durability, damage and upgrades its projectiles	Your clone spawned from your special move will deal increased damage, have more health, and receives an upgrade to its secondary as if you took the secondary upgrades.
Special: Aspect of Valdor'Esh	Increase clone durability, damage and gives it an extra attack on primary combo	Your clone spawned from your special move will now deal increased damage, have more health, and receives a finishing attack when using its melee combo

Vali's Cinderblade

Weapon Mastery	Description	Effects	Additional Notes
Primary: Finisher	Adds a finishing move to your primary combo that deals 165% damage.	This will ADD an attack to your combo chain that cannot be removed.
Primary: Shorter Combo	Removes an attack from your primary combo. Increases damage by 5%	Will remove an attack from the 2 chain combo, while seemingly only increasing the damage done by the primary attack.
Secondary: Vali's Claw	Fires 3 Projectiles	3 vertical sand projectiles will also burst forward in a small cone in front of you
Secondary: Calculated Risk	Triple max charge time and damage	The max charge can be tripled, tripling damage, but also requiring 3x the stamina	While this can be an amazing nuke ability, I would highly not recommend this as there are many enemies who's light attacks are capable of knocking you out of the animation.
Special: Boundless Resolve	Become immune to fatigue damage and increase damage each time you are hit while channeling	You cannot be staggered, and will instead gain damage each time you are hit while channeling the attack
Special: Surging Zeal	Each swing increases damage by 10% while channeling	For each swing in the special channel, gain +10% damage