Melee weapon · Base game · tier III–IV

Thunder Sword

BladeElemental

At zero bonus stats

72.58 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 1.06 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Thunder Sword scales from

Melee Damage × 1.5

Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.5 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Elemental Damage × 1.5

Every point of Elemental Damage adds 1.5 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Thunder Sword numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit77.25one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)72.581.06 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Melee Damage+0.97 DPS

+1 Elemental Damage+0.97 DPS

Exact discrete change after the game’s truncation and rounding steps—not a smoothed estimate.

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.”

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 III	Tier IV
Base damage	40	75
Cooldown	36 ticks0.6 seconds	27 ticks0.45 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2	3% × 2
Melee Damage scaling	× 1.25	× 1.5
Elemental Damage scaling	× 1.25	× 1.5
Shop price	119	238
Expected damage / hit	41.20	77.25
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	33.93	72.58

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Thunder Sword is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Thunder Sword 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

Ranger — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Renegade — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Wildling — Weapon progression capped at Tier 2

Ranks notably lower than generic

Ranks 19 places lower for Artificer than generic (#34 of 48 melee weapons here, #15 generic)
Ranks 17 places lower for Masochist than generic (#32 of 48 melee weapons here, #15 generic)
Ranks 17 places lower for Pacifist than generic (#32 of 48 melee weapons here, #15 generic)