The weapon catalogue
Every weapon in the game, in one place and laid out far cleaner than the wiki — 249 arms across 10 classes, each with its icon, base damage and quality scaling, directional attack modifiers, reach and armour penetration. Search it, filter it by class, damage type or grip, and open any weapon for the full breakdown.
How to read a weapon
A weapon’s type fixes how it swings — the directional modifiers and damage type never change. Tier and quality only move the numbers: base damage and durability. Damage comes in three flavours, and each is beaten by a different armour weight and softened by a different attribute (−0.25 per point).
- Strong vs
- Light armour
- Reduced by
- Strength
- Strong vs
- Medium armour
- Reduced by
- Dexterity
- Strong vs
- Heavy armour
- Reduced by
- Constitution
For the deeper rules see the Armoury’s Weapons Reference and Item Quality guides, the Combat wiki’s damage types, or plan a loadout in the Build Maker.
Outlines follow each weapon’s in-game tier, read from the live client —Tier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5— the colour Gloria Victis draws around the item icon.
Knives & Daggers
One-handed · 11The shortest, fastest blades — stab-first tools that bleed at full power and can be thrown.
One-handed Swords
One-handed · 35The all-rounder. Paired with a shield: slashing swings and a piercing stab that causes bleed.
Two-handed Swords
Two-handed · 33Longswords, claymores and war swords — slashing reach with cleave, no shield.
One-handed Axes
One-handed · 28Hatchets and battle axes — overhead slashing with armour penetration that chews through shields, doors and light armour. Throwable, and pairs with a shield.
Two-handed Axes
Two-handed · 42Long axes, bardiches and glaives — the great two-handed cleavers: long reach, overhead armour penetration and cleave, no shield.
One-handed Blunts
One-handed · 22Maces, picks, morningstars and shestopers — bludgeoning built to break heavy armour.
Two-handed Blunts
Two-handed · 12Great hammers and studded clubs — the heaviest bludgeoning swings, with cleave.
Spears & Polearms
Two-handed · 24Short spears, spears and guisarmes — among the longest reach in the game, piercing through medium armour and bracing against cavalry.
Lances
Two-handed · 7Cavalry lances — the longest reach of all, built for the couched charge from horseback and to brace against other riders.
Bows
Ranged · 35Simple, reflex and longbows — ranged piercing that trades fire rate for armour penetration.
Base damage, tier, reach, attack cost, names and icons are read directly from the live Gloria Victis client for the current patch, and cross-referenced with the community-run Gloria Victis wiki. Event, GM and gathering items are excluded. In-game values may shift between patches.