Along the way you’ll come across dozens of different weapons to ineffectually use (or accidentally kill your allies with) that all have amusingly useless descriptions and offer no stats or info of any kind other than listing a tier of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.
While you could go the long grind route and figure out which weapon type has the most interesting features on your own, you could also instead just briefly peruse our full break down of Necropolis weapons below.
While many of the deadly implements dropped by slain enemies are very similar, the main differences between the weapons are in their animations, speed, and attack arcs, which are determined by type: Shortsword, Longsword, Greatsword, Hammer, Rapier, Axe, and Staff.
For instance, any weapon that is a “shortword” type will essentially have the same basic attack patterns, even if some offer slightly different abilities than others, like fire resistance or increased speed. These differences have all been noted below.
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Necropolis Tier 0 Weapons
Pariah Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Ultralight
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A crooked blade. Looks best between the third and fourth rib.
Screamer Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Kind of a “undead warrrior shortsword” sort of thing.
Slow Hooked Blade
Type: Light
Heft: Shortsword
Special Abilities: Reduces Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s a slow hooked blade.
Old Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A hefty and slightly rusted blade. Weak handle and dull edge. It does the job, just not very well.
Hooked Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Blades given to the Blackguard upon recruitment into the House of the Crooked Street. Um. Forget I said that.
Grine Hooked Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Grine
Amazingly Useless Description: A hooked blade infected by the Grine. Not good.
Grine Pariah Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Ultralight
Special Abilities: Grine
Amazingly Useless Description: A Pariah Blade, only Grine-ier.
Frozen Pyramid Shortsword
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Ice Damage, Ice Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: For best use let thaw for 3 hours. Or rest gently in the chest cavity of a warm blooded enemy.
Pyramid Shortsword
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A bronze shortsword imbibed with mystical energy.
Cracked Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: When choosing between this “weapon” and let’s say a rabbit; a rabbit’s more useful in combat…
You probably want a better weapon than this…
Necropolis Tier 1 Weapons
Thak’s Party Starter
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Thak quickly found the hoarding business had low margins, he found greater success with this ready made bar fight implement.
Blackforest Ham
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s a Blackforest Ham.
Johnys Mallet
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s Johnys Mallet.
Ilarnek Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Ice Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Every living thing in Ilarnek carried a Longsword. Yes, even the chickens.
Pyramid Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A mystical gold sword alight with unearthly energy.
Bopha’s Sickblade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Acid Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: After the flaying and upholstering of Bopha, his soul imprisoned in his weapon. He’s serving 231 afterlife sentences in there.
Thran Battle Hammer
Type: Hammer
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Bash
Amazingly Useless Description: Setwa was the greatest weaponsmith in Thran. One day he started on a new hammer, got about half way through, and said “Eh, good enough.”
Bopha’s Cutter
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Bash, Bash Resitance
Amazingly Useless Description: Bopha solved the Riddle of Ephestrus by cutting his crown in half. I mean, Ephestrus was WEARING the crown, but hey, problem solved.
Sword of Cassus
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage, Grine Resitance
Amazingly Useless Description: Cassus the unstoppable carried this sword every day of his long life. Except one.
That Bastard’s Sword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Bash
Amazingly Useless Description: Not to be confused with a bastard sword. This one just belonged to an awful, awful person.
Bob’s Fire Sword
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Fire Damage, Fire Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Bob arose like a dream from the west. His fire sword is legendary, landing him no end of endorsement deals.
Axe
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: It is an axe. When you hit things with it, they tend to die
Hewn Hatchet
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A noble warrior inherited a mighty hatchet, he used that one to make this one.
Hoardman Axe
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A hoardman is only as good as his hoard. This is the primary instrument for gathering a hoard and keeping it.
Obisdian Quickblade
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Forged in the land of Palas, whose people are renowned for the use of slow killing poison. They are not renowned for naming things well.
Song of the Night
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A tune so soft and sweet, it will put you to sleep.
The Master Axe
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Made by a master, who was a master of making, and not fighting. He would still be alive if he had been.
Twilight’s Flame
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Fire Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Not as bright as midday’s sun, not as dark as the night. That stuff costs extra you know.
Pyramid Hand Axe
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A golden axe imbibed with arcane power, and a fresh, minty scent.
Mister Night Night
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage, Reduced Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: First in a series of weapons as centerpieces of children’s books—GOODNIGHT VICTIM.
Hoardman Hatchet
Type: Axe
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Fire Damage, Fire Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Issued at Darat, when the Hoard fell, to the madmen who fought for the Father of Knives (in a freelance capacity).
Fist of the Flayed God
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Bash, Reduced Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: It is said the Flayed God’s skin was ripped off to make the world. As you might imagine, this was a tad upsetting.
Sandakar Bastard Sword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Sandakar was a man of ambition. Always had plans for unrivaled greatness, this is prototype for greatness.
Staff of the Unpronounceable
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Increases Poise
Amazingly Useless Description: The staff that stands between light and darkness—between excitement and boredom—between your hand and the…um…ground.
Dun’s Bashing Stick
Type: Hammer
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Bash, Bash Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: If at first you don’t succeed, smash and smash again. So said Dun. Every other word was smash, honestly.
Pyramid Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Twenty-one feet of death.
Pyramid Pike
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A golden spear imprinted with mystical energy.
Grine Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Grine, Grine Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Oh, you know, only a sword made of the soul-essence of a million damned adventurers.
King’s Bane
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Zar the Great ruled all weapons made must carry his portrait. His men made one, killed him with it, and threw out the rule.
Grine Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Grine Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: The grim curse of the Grine infection is sort of like interdimensional cooties.
Not the best, but we’re at least getting somewhere now!
Necropolis Tier 2 Weapons
Thermias
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Fire Damage, Reduced Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: Everyone’s favorite sword: Now with more FIRE!
Plague Bearer
Type: Hammer
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Acid Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Why kill an enemy with blunt force when deadly fungus is just as effective? Why not both?
Spectral Shiv
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage, Increased Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: The blade on this weapon feels cold and almost immaterial. Makes swinging it faster, too.
Raven’s Wing
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Acid Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Successfully marketed on it’s dark color and matte finish, which are merely a result of substandard building materials.
The Moon Blade
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage, Arcane Resistance, Increased Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: Used by Agar the Terrible in the atrocities of Khar-Gamont, the raid of Ulik, and then as a coat hook for the Demon Ulixsteracktus.
Shadowborn Scimitar
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Hooked? Check. Giant? Check. Bug? Check. Wait, who made this list?
Hand Axe
Type: Axe
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage, Pierce Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Oota would sing while using this axe (which, if it were embedded in you, would be extremely disconcerting).
Hammer of Time
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Ice Damage, Ice Resistance, Reduced Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: And they said unto the Monsignor Calamas, Hammer.
The Sword of Off-White Skull
Type: Longsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Some guy with a pageboy cut wearing fur pants came in swinging this like an idiot.
Pyramid Pick
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s a Pyramid Pick.
Shadowborn Bolt Staff
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Psst. Hey, want a staff that uh…shoots smashes…thingies?
Lightning Hammer
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Capable of generating huge electrical arcs on impact, as well as broiling a steak in seconds.
Death’s Eye Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: So popular, now you can have your own.
The Staff of Inscrutable
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Bash
Amazingly Useless Description: Let’s just say, if you had to describe it, it would be…round? That can’t be right… Orange?
Blackheart
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s namesake is the man who it comprises it. Black’s heart was burned to a cinder and the remains used to color this blade. Gross.
Cephil’s Tooth
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: A life drinker
Cleaver
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Clever? That’s a terrible name for a weapon. Oh… CLEAVER. Sorry, the stains make it hard to read sometimes.
Dawn Blade
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: With enough volts to put that pep in your morning step!
Rage Fang
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: This sword is wild. It has a mind of it’s own. No, actually a mind of its own. Her name is Tammy, she’s a bit rude.
Sentinel Blade
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Weilded by Berelaine Sentinels, strange that it’s so simply designed. The Berelaine are usually so gaudy.
The Lost Blade
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Can’t seem to find anything written about this one, but I’m sure it’s famous or something.
Typhal’s Point
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Typhal was a famed orator, known for arguing long hours before delivering his point and defeating his enemies. This was his point.
Stone Cutter
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Increased Poise
Amazingly Useless Description: Once, on the windswept plains of Jandis, a man wandered, dispensing justice. Then some guy with this sword killed him and took his stuff.
Frozen Pyramid Pike
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Ice Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Death is as cold as they say.
Grine Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Grine, Grine Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: A greatsword infected by the Grine. Gross.
Sword of Aescapulus
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Like steel justice swooping across a vast…uh…lost my place in the metaphor. Big. Magic sword. Aescapulus was neat too.
The Sculptor
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Bash, Bash Resistance, Increased Poise
Amazingly Useless Description: Artists work in many mediums. Stone. Metal. …Viscera? Whatever you say, mister.
Rock of the Sky
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: When a rock falls from the sky, why not throw some spikes on it and make a weapon?
Shell Mace
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Fresh from a local Shell Mage. Try to ignore the sticky parts.
Fire Scythe
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Fire Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A curved and deadly weapon, hot enough to scorch, even you. Gloves optional, but recommended.
Sandakar Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Fire Damage, Fire Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Sandakar the weaponsmith loved the sound of children’s laughter, but he loved gold even more. It was close.
You might not die using this. No, you will still die using this.
Necropolis Tier 3 Weapons
Spiked Mace
Type: Hammer
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage, Reduced Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: Legends of Hombur tell that being struck with this weapon is the worst pain someone can feel. People from Hombur are weak.
Fenyx’s Tines
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: Fenyx answered the question: “What is better than a blade that pokes a hole in someone?” with “One that pokes 2 holes.” Fenyx was smarmy.
Blood Sickle
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Arcance Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Berelaine war campaigns were intermittable. This was by choice they cut foes with weapons such as these: exsanguination en masse.
Shadowborn Longsword
Type: Longsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage, Pierce Resistance, Arcane Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Does anyone ask about the Shadowborn’s hats? No. Their swords get all the attention.
Kopeshi Can Opener
Type: Rapier
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: Was used to open cans until it killed 74 people and they repurposed it.
Macuahuitl
Type: Longsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Resistance, Pierce Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Life ends in strange, often unpronouncable forms.
Pronged Hilt
Type: Rapier
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s a pronged hilt .
Adder’s Tooth
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Medium
Special Abilities: Acid Damage, Acide Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Seven people died cleaning this blade. Imagine if you hit something with it.
Cassilda’s Estoc
Type: Rapier
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage.
Amazingly Useless Description:Men would fall at Cassilda’s feet. Most with this sword through them.
The Wings of Winter
Type: Shortsword
Heft: Light
Special Abilities: Ice Damage
Amazingly Useless Description:If you hold it closely you can hear the wind whistling through the blades.
Shadowborn Scatterbomb Staff
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Fire Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description:Wouldn’t it be nice if all work tools could double as terrifying weapons of destruction?
Bell Ringer
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Increases Poise
Amazingly Useless Description: Have you heard the phrase “cleaning their clock”?
Longsword of Expensiveness
Type: Longsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Increases jump height/length
Amazingly Useless Description: Bling with a deathcount.
Frozen Pyramid Pick
Type: Hammer
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Ice Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s a Frozen Pyramid Pick
Staff of Bewilderment
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description:WHAT?! What is this? My god…a staff. INCREDIBLE.
The Subtractor
Type: Axe
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Bash
Amazingly Useless Description: Some tools fix things, others…not…so much.
Emerald Knight’s Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description:Most screams per square foot of any sword ever produced.
Crusher Skull Smasher
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Can’t Be Knocked Back
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s almost like no one thought what it would be like to walk around carrying this thing.
Sword of Pain
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description:The best part of a sword like this are all the conversations you no longer need to have.
Pyramid Greatscythe
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: None
Amazingly Useless Description:Clearly not for farming…food.
Spirit Scythe
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: A hooked nightmare of a thing which, strangely, also has a cupholder.
You might actually get somewhere with this one, plus, a cup holder!
Necropolis Tier 4 Weapons
The Sword of Personality
Type: Rapier
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Pierce Damage, Pierce Resistance, Arcane Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: A sword that talks, for some reason which I’m certain will come to mind…any time now.
Staff of WTF?
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: That sure is a staff. Yes indeed. I am ALMOST certain.
Axe of the Hunt
Type: Axe
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Acid Damage, Bash Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s all whining and screaming until you get to hold the axe. Then it’s all OOOHHH nice.
Grine Primal Greatsword
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Grine, Grine Resistance
Amazingly Useless Description: Oh boy, now THAT is a Grine infection.
Staff of the Rich and Famous
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Arcane Damage, Can’t Be Knocked Back
Amazingly Useless Description: Holding this staff makes you feel like the king of Dalus (before the whole burned alive thing).
Soul Morningstar
Type: Hammer
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Acid Damage, Can’t Be Knocked Back
Amazingly Useless Description: An ugly thing made for a singular purpose, to um…hit things. Very hard. Sorry. Was that not clear?
King’s Justice
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Increased Speed
Amazingly Useless Description: Interestingly, King’s Justice can be used to answer any question. What’s for breakfast? King’s Justice. See?
The Greatsword of Opulence
Type: Greatsword
Heft: Ultra Heavy
Special Abilities: Increases Poise
Amazingly Useless Description: Every time you swing it, it rains diamonds.
Serpent Staff
Type: Staff
Heft: Heavy
Special Abilities: Acid Damage
Amazingly Useless Description: It’s the Serpent Staff!
Get on finding that rare loot so you can look this epic!
These are all the weapons we’ve come across so far - let us know if you find any other in the procedurally generated levels of the maze!
