Sephiria Weapons: Choose Your Combat Style

Weapon choice at a glance

Names follow official English announcements; Great Sword may also be written Greatsword in player discussions. The launch notes and September update supply the examples. This table does not assign unsupported base damage or range values.

What an upgrade can change

Exact base attack multipliers for all six branches, a complete unlock-price table and measured comparative DPS: not available. The official store advertises six distinct weapons, but an advertised total is not a substitute for an enumerated upgrade database.

Choose by the action you want to repeat

• Try the basic input before judging the visual effect. A weapon should be evaluated through the actions you will perform throughout a room, not just its most dramatic animation. Practice starting an attack, stopping, moving and returning to a useful position. Pay attention to the point at which you feel committed. This is a practical comparison exercise; it does not assign a universal difficulty rating to the branch. Different input devices and player habits can change which pattern feels natural.

• Give the special attack a separate test. The special can define an upgrade's identity, especially when it replaces an earlier action. Observe what starts it, what it consumes and what the weapon can do afterward. Then inspect every piece of equipment that names that action. A bonus to a specific special is not automatically a bonus to everything the weapon does. Keeping the categories separate prevents a misleading comparison between normal attacks and conditional effects.

Understand Sword and Shield dependencies

• Distinguish guarding from a guaranteed outcome. The patch history documents guard-related behavior and changes to Cleave. It does not establish that every player or every encounter is safe behind the weapon. Test the timing you intend to use and observe what happens when an enemy approaches from a different direction. If an Artifact calls for a successful guard or Perfect guard, use that exact condition in the comparison rather than counting any moment spent holding the defensive input.

• Inspect the partner before choosing a specialized upgrade. The new lightning and cold upgrades explicitly refer to particular Artifacts. That gives you a useful connection to investigate, but it also introduces a dependency. If the partner is unavailable, compare the remaining weapon effect against the current alternative. A specialized choice may be attractive later without being the most useful immediate decision. This page does not claim that the needed Artifact can be forced from a particular chest or shop.

Evaluate Great Sword and Dagger differently

• For health conversion, follow the whole state change. Bloodletting Gearblade is an example where comparing a single damage number misses the central tradeoff. Read what happens to maximum health at activation and what happens when the effect ends. Keep your observation focused on that interval. Until you have tested it, avoid equating more maximum health with a guaranteed safe result. Neither a universal health target nor a proven defensive setup is available in this reference.

• For Dagger, verify which action produces the benefit. The official 1.0.26 combat change allows Dash Attack to chain into Parry and Fury. That is useful input information, but it does not mean all effects triggered by one of those actions also trigger from the others. Practice the sequence in separate steps, then read the Artifact condition literally. A successful parry, a Fury hit and the final normal-combo hit are distinct conditions when a tooltip lists them separately.

Examine the entire ranged cycle

• Include reloading in a Crossbow comparison. An impressive shot is only one part of using an ammunition-based upgrade. Start from a ready state and keep watching until you return to that state. Record your comfort with the process and which support effects activate along the way. When an upgrade has a compression threshold, test below and at the stated threshold if the available training setup permits it. Do not extrapolate an unlimited damage curve from one threshold bonus.

• Read Staff upgrades individually. The launch update explicitly names Staff as a branch receiving new upgrades, but this site's collected official text does not establish a single scaling rule for every Staff. Check the current item's description instead of treating every weapon in the branch as interchangeable. Exact branch-wide range, resource costs and a complete upgrade path are not available. The useful choice is the one whose actual text supports your intended action.

Revisit Blade after replacements

• Do not carry the old rotation into a new special automatically. Arges illustrates this problem: the new special involves its own resource condition. When an action is replaced, first establish how the replacement becomes available. Then decide whether equipment that supported the old routine remains relevant. A weapon name and branch are identification aids, not proof that two upgrades share the same practical requirements. Relearning the loop is part of assessing the choice.