Queen's Domain Weapons: Full Melee and Throwing List

Damage type beats raw Power. Skeletons take Impact damage and shrug off swords, while plant and bug enemies fold to Slash, so the practical setup is one Impact weapon plus one Slash or Pierce weapon, swapped per enemy. If you want the specific loadout for each stage of the island, read the best weapons by stage. If you are still on the starting beach, the four early weapons and where to find them come first.

The Shock Rifle is a puzzle tool rather than a damage weapon: it toggles the power nodes on the three blue pyramids in the Ancient World.

Later in the island you also pick up the Rusted Longhammer, Kintsugi Zweihander, Soldier's Shock Blade, Plasma Sword, Wave Gun and Heavy Rifle. The Rusted Longhammer sits behind the optional Grave Guardian in the cemetery beside Deimpo Mausoleum.

Throwing weapons share three slots, fire from the off hand, never spend the Power meter, and refill their charges over time, so you never have to ration them.

Umbada's Trading Outpost opens from any Crystal Monument once you beat the Shrine Guardian and hand over the Stone Duck Figurine. Each figurine you give her adds stock, and the Golden Duck Figurine from the Necronomicon is what unlocks the later weapons.

• First stock: the Cestus, Hand Axe, Morning Star and Silver Needle, 20 Ancient Coins each.
• Golden Duck stock: the Occult Warhammer at 30 Ancient Coins and the Vampiric Scimitar at 42.
• After Dagoom: the Diamond Blade at 25 Ancient Coins and the Spiked Buckler at 33.
• Extra throwing weapon charges, the Occult Knife and the Throwing Axe.

Weapons carry their own level, separate from your character, and every level adds 3% damage up to a 30% bonus. At level 10 most of them change into a different weapon with a new secondary attack: the Rusted Short Sword becomes Sipeha's Twisted Heart, the Rusted Spear becomes Jigeki's Serpent Thrust, and seven other rusted weapons follow the same pattern. The full evolution list, the exceptions and how weapon experience is earned covers every pairing.

Two weapons are worth keeping in the loadout for the whole game rather than for a single fight. The Pandora Blade hides behind an illusory wall in the crypt under the starting camp, and its secondary attack is a forward dash you can chain while falling, carrying you across gaps a plain jump cannot. The Holy Sword Endu is the traversal sword, one Wind Dash per Wind Gem, and its upgrade path ends at the True Holy Sword Akunra in the Temple of Puwema.