Increases the damage inflicted by each round.

Impact

The speed at which you can launch attacks.

Swing Speed

How fast this weapon recharges its energy.

Charge Rate

Damage reduction while guarding with this weapon against most attacks.

Guard Resistance

How long you can maintain your guard with this weapon.

Guard Endurance

How many powerful attacks this weapon can launch before ammo is depleted

Ammo Capacity

Solar

[Heavy Attack]  : Launch a heavy spin attack.
Heavy attacks are stronger with full energy.

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Passively grants 30 Magazine Stat (identical to Extended Mag).

On Swords, it grants 30 Ammo Capacity Stat (identical to 2 Reserves Mods and 5 less than having Enduring Blade).

Backup Mag

Passively increases maximum Radar Range by 8 meters.

Radar Booster

Slightly increases the range at which radar detects enemies.

Passively grants 6 Charge Rate and 6 Guard Resistance.

Edge

Grants increased charge rate and guard resistance.

Scoring 12 Weapon Kills spawns an Elemental Pickup Matching the weapon's element. Kill counter persist through stow.

Kinetic Weapons spawn an Orb of Power that grants ?% Super Energy instead.

Synergy ignores the global spawning cooldowns of the Elemental Pickups but each spawn will still start the global cooldown. A Kill can trigger Synergy's Pickup spawn and that of a different Pickup Spawner simultaneously.

Synergy has its own Pickup spawning cooldowns separately from the global ones:

Kills during Synergy's Pickup spawning cooldown do not contribute any activation progress.

Synergy

Final blows with this weapon have a chance to create an elemental pickup matching its damage type, or an Orb of Power for weapons that deal Kinetic damage.

Masterworked: Impact

Hungry Edge

Greatly increased sword ammo at the cost of damage.

Enduring Blade

Honed Edge

Increased damage at the cost of sword ammo.

Jagged Edge

Tempered Edge

Sword Guard has balanced overall defenses.

Balanced Guard

Sword Guard has high resistance, but low endurance.

Burst Guard

Sword Guard has high endurance, but low resistance.

Enduring Guard

Sword Guard has high overall defenses, but lowers charge rate.

Heavy Guard

Sword Guard has low overall defenses, but increases charge rate.

Swordmaster's Guard

Strategist

Final blows with this weapon generate class ability energy. Activating your class ability briefly improves this weapon's stability.

Attrition Orbs

Dealing sustained damage creates an Orb of Power.

Wellspring

Kills with this weapon generate ability energy. This energy is divided between your uncharged abilities.

Unrelenting

Rapidly defeating targets triggers health regeneration. Guardians and powerful combatants count as more than one kill.

Duelist's Trance

Sword final blows grant increased charge rate and defense until this weapon is stowed.

Incandescent

Defeating a target spreads scorch to those nearby.
More powerful combatants and opposing Guardians cause scorch in a larger radius.

Relentless Strikes

[Light Attack]  : Landing three light-attack hits within a short time grants Sword ammo.

Final blows with this weapon generate improved class ability energy. Activating your class ability briefly improves this weapon's stability.

Dealing sustained damage creates a slightly improved Orb of Power.

Final blows with this weapon generate an improved amount of ability energy. This energy is divided between your uncharged abilities.

Rapidly defeating targets triggers improved health regeneration. Guardians and powerful combatants count as more than one target.

Sword final blows grant greatly increased charge rate and defense until this weapon is stowed.

Defeating a target spreads a longer lasting scorch to those nearby.
More powerful combatants and opposing Guardians cause scorch in a larger radius.

[Light Attack]  : Landing three light-attack hits within an improved short time grants Sword ammo.

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More perks become available as the weapon level increases.

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Surrounded

This weapon gains bonus damage when three or more enemies are in close proximity.

Chain Reaction

Each final blow with this weapon creates an elemental damage explosion.

Bait and Switch

Deal damage with all equipped weapons within a short time to give this weapon a damage boost.

Vorpal Weapon

Increased damage against bosses, vehicles, and Guardians with their Super active.

Counterattack

Blocking an attack immediately after guarding increases damage for a short duration.

Collective Action

Collecting elemental pickups or throwing a Strand Tangle grants a stacking period of increased damage.

Elemental pickups include Firesprites, Void Breaches, Stasis Shards, Ionic Traces, and Strand Tangles.

One for All

Hitting three separate targets increases damage for a moderate duration.

This weapon gains improved bonus damage when three or more targets are in close proximity.

Each final blow with this weapon creates an elemental damage explosion. Improves ammo reserves. Swords have improved guard endurance.

Deal damage with all equipped weapons within a short time to give this weapon a damage boost for an improved duration.

Increased damage against bosses, vehicles, and Guardians with their Super active. Stability is improved. Swords have improved guard resistance.

Blocking an attack immediately after guarding increases damage for an improved duration.

Collecting elemental pickups or throwing a Strand Tangle grants a longer initial period of increased damage, and an improved stacking period of increased damage.

Elemental pickups include Firesprites, Void Breaches, Stasis Shards, Ionic Traces, and Strand Tangles.

Hitting three separate targets increases damage for an improved duration.

Dealer's Choice

Final blows with this weapon grant a small amount of Super energy. Equipping multiple weapons from the Pale Heart increases this effect.

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