Weight
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Weight is the stat behind knockback, which is how far a monster slides backwards when a weapon connects. It never adds damage, so it is easy to overlook on a tooltip, yet it changes how a fight feels more than most numbers on the list. A heavy swing buys breathing room and shoves a crowd off a narrow cave ledge, while a light one leaves the target standing where it was, ready for the next stab. Each class of weapon starts from its own figure, individual weapons carry a bonus on top, Amethysts raise it at the Forge, Amethyst Rings scale the whole thing up, and one of the innate enchantments quietly scales it down. Which way to push it is a genuine choice rather than an upgrade.
Overview
The three weapon classes set the baseline, and the gap between them is wide. Daggers sit at the bottom, swords in the middle, and clubs at the top with triple a dagger's figure. That ordering lines up with how each one plays. A dagger stabs quickly and lives off critical hits, so it wants the target to stay in front of it. A club is slow and heavy, and its ground pound is the only special attack in the game that pushes a whole group of monsters away at once. A sword falls between the two, and its block even knocks flying monsters back without any swing at all.
Individual weapons then add a bonus on top of the class figure, and the pattern says a lot about what each was built for. The Crystal Dagger and the Galaxy Dagger both carry a large one, which lifts a class that would otherwise barely budge anything. Among the swords the Lava Katana, Neptune's Glaive, the Tempered Broadsword, the Claymore and the Iron Edge are the heavy ones, and the Lava Katana gets picked as much for the shove as for its damage. The Galaxy Hammer and the Wood Mallet lead the clubs, and the Kudgel is the early club chosen specifically because it pushes harder than the rest.
The bonus usually comes packaged with a trade. The Claymore, Neptune's Glaive, the Tempered Broadsword and the Iron Edge all slow the swing down to pay for the extra push, and all four hand back some defence in return, which suits exactly how they get used: standing in front of a crowd, hitting slowly, and keeping everything at arm's length. The Bone Sword and the Wood Mallet are the odd ones out, quick and heavy at the same time, and the Galaxy Hammer manages both as well.
The Forge adds weight through gems. Amethyst is the knockback gem, so each one forged into a dagger, sword or club raises the weapon's weight, and a weapon can take three forges in total. Gems stack separately rather than overwriting each other, so a blade forged with a Ruby, then an Emerald, then an Amethyst comes out with more damage, more speed and more knockback all at once. Putting a Diamond in instead fills every remaining slot with random upgrades for a small outlay of Cinder Shards, which can leave weight on a weapon by accident.
Rings work differently, and the difference matters. An Amethyst Ring does not add to the weight figure; it multiplies it, raising knockback by a tenth while worn. A second Amethyst Ring adds another tenth on top, so the pair push a monster a fifth further than the bare weapon would. Because the effect is a multiplier, it matters most on a weapon that is already heavy and barely registers on a light dagger. The ring comes from the Adventurer's Guild once the Initiation quest is done, and it also surfaces in fishing treasure chests and Mystery Boxes, which is often how the first one arrives.
The innate enchantments pull in the other direction. A weapon enchanted at the Forge with a Dragon Tooth can come out with a negative weight line, and that subtracts from the same multiplier the rings add to. At its strongest the enchantment halves the knockback the weapon would otherwise produce. That reads like a penalty and often is not. A fast weapon wants its target to stay in reach, and a monster that slides away after every hit has to be chased down before the next swing lands. Players chasing damage per second on a dagger treat a low weight roll as a reward, while anyone holding a choke point with a club wants the number as high as it will go.
Notes
Knockback is a positioning tool rather than a damage one, and the Skull Cavern is where that shows. Pushing a Serpent back creates the gap needed to swing again, and a club's ground pound can clear a ring of mummies off a stairwell. The same push works against a farmer who is trying to kill something quickly, because a monster launched across the room stops taking hits.
Weight shows up on a weapon alongside speed, defence and the critical lines, so two weapons can be compared on it before either is bought. A ring multiplier and an innate enchantment are not part of that figure; they are applied on top of it when the hit lands.
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