Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Melee weapon · Base game · tier I–IV
Cacti Club
PrimitiveHeavy
At the game default stat block
45.30 DPSExpected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)
Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 1.36 s · one equipped weaponThe coefficients competitors leave out
What Cacti Club scales from
Use your current stats
Your Cacti Club numbers
Using 1 equipped weapon
The keep-stacking answer
What +1 more point is worth now
+1 Melee Damage+0.75 DPS
Outside the number above
What Cacti Club does that its DPS does not count
The DPS figure on this page measures direct damage to one target. Cacti Club also carries the following, and none of it is in that figure. These are stated, not quantified: an amount the game itself declares is quoted as it stands, and no DPS is computed for a channel this site has not modelled.
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Extra projectiles on hit
Damage the ranking does not count
A hit spawns further projectiles. Their damage is not in the DPS figure.
Metric boundary
What this number means
Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor) includes weapon base damage, the listed scaling coefficients, % Damage, weapon and player crit chance, projectile count, shooting duration, and steady-state mean cooldown. It assumes every projectile aimed at the primary target connects.
It excludes enemy armor, weapon-set damage bonuses, later pierce or bounce targets, melee area targets, misses, overkill, burning, explosions, spawned projectiles, on-hit effects, and weapon-scripted damage changes. The chain figure is separate and assumes enough distinct targets for every listed bounce and pierce. Neither figure is “actual DPS.”
Every figure here is measured with one equipped weapon. A character page ranks this same weapon inside that character’s own loadout, at the weapon-slot count that character starts with, and that count changes the steady-state cycle — so the same tier can show a different DPS there. Each character page states the count its figures use.
For melee cycle timing, the calculation uses the weapon’s listed maximum range as attack distance, matching the damage model’s cross-validation method; runtime target distance can change that timing.
Listed values + computed output
All available tiers
Zero player bonus stats
| Metric | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Tier IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base damage | 15 | 20 | 35 | 60 |
| Cooldown | 63 ticks1.05 seconds | 58 ticks0.97 seconds | 54 ticks0.9 seconds | 45 ticks0.75 seconds |
| Critical hit | 3% × 2 | 3% × 2 | 3% × 2 | 3% × 2 |
| Melee Damage scaling | × 0.8 | × 0.85 | × 0.9 | × 1.0 |
| Shop price | 20 | 39 | 74 | 149 |
| Expected damage / hit | 15.45 | 20.60 | 36.05 | 61.80 |
| Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor | 9.28 | 13.03 | 23.81 | 45.30 |
Read from the character pages
Characters that can start with Cacti Club
Cacti Club is one of the starting weapon choices for 28 of the 64 characters, at the tier each character’s own pool record declares. Each of those pages ranks that character’s whole opening pool by computed DPS, so you can see where this weapon lands before the first wave.
- Apprentice offers it at Tier I
- Buccaneer offers it at Tier I
- Chef offers it at Tier I
- Chunky offers it at Tier I
- Creature offers it at Tier I
- Cryptid offers it at Tier I
- Curious offers it at Tier I
- Druid offers it at Tier I
- Explorer offers it at Tier I
- Generalist offers it at Tier I
Showing 10 of 28 characters, alphabetically.
Same computation, read by weapon
Where Cacti Club is a notable outlier
This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Cacti Club at all, and which ones its computed rank moves materially away from the generic, zero-bonus order. Same comparison each character page uses — default 10 Max HP, zero other bonus stats, weapons at their highest usable tier, before enemy armor; full stated assumptions are on each character’s own page.
Cannot use this weapon
Ranks notably lower than generic
Generated relationships
