With nearly 30 weapons in Wuchang Fallen Feathers, finding the right weapon to test and build around can be tricky. Luckily for you, we’ve seen and played enough to know what weapons are great to use. In addition, we have a database that’s explored all the scalings on weapons, so we know what scaled very well into NG+. With that said, we are ranking the best weapons in Wuchang Fallen Feathers with a tier list, with pointers of what makes some weapons good or bad.
Just look at that range on the Spear. Easily the best Spear in Wuchang Fallen Feathers. Image via Gamer Guides / 505 Games.
Best Weapons Tier List in Wuchang Fallen Feathers¶
In general, the rule of thumb is the S Tier Weapons are godlike weapons for most of the game. It’s either down to essentially build defining scaling on them, or because of how effective the core weapon skill set is.
S-Tier
A-Tier
B-Tier
C-Tier
D-Tier
E-Tier
F-Tier
The Empyrean Axe is one of the best weapons in Wuchang Fallen Feathers Image via Gamer Guides / 505 Games.
S Tier Explained¶
The Firearm Blades Dual Blades Blademaster build are amazing for shooting and setting up the Clash Dual Blades playstyle. The speed of this weapon with its Discipline and Heavy Attack makes Clashing incredibly easy to perform, which can easily overpower enemies using a blade to clash against. Considering Clashing is an important part of the game, being able to endlessly combo, while taking no damage from a boss (despite them swinging their weapon at you) is incredibly OP.
Meanwhile the Empyrean Axe has one of the best mobility skills in the game. It’s extremely good for Axe playstyles to gap close annoying bosses and continue their Obliterate meters. Not to mention fire scaling on your Fire 
Temperance to keep important burns up on both bosses and low armored or no armored enemies. We use it in our Burning Axe Build.
Spear users rejoice, the Steampowered Spear is one of the best weapons in the game. Its synergy with fire, the extremely long attack range, the cleave, and the easy stagger knockdowns on enemies makes it a god tier weapon. What makes it better is it only cost a few Bamboo Shoots from the Panda trader too. There’s a really good clip of this in action over at Reddit from u/TheRailTracer19
Then you have the Swords. Astral Sword is a must have for any Magic and Spell focused build because of the innate passive. The Zhanlu’s Sword has the best Feathering scaling in the entire game, making it the masterpiece of the Feathering Build. If you get this, then it becomes a key item for NG+ builds that typically get a full Corruption / Feathering setup as they approach the end of their first playthrough.
A Tier¶
In the A Tier, we typically have weapons that offer other decent moves. These are often second weapon type items. Alternatively, they are good scaling weapons, or offer Poise build up. Poise is one of the strongest status build ups in the game, and when capped, they often do really large bursts. These are a solid option if you don’t want to deal with Burn or Paralysis counters and want something reliably to increase your DPS against bosses or annoying packs.
Note most Longsword sit in this tier too. Longswords are typically pretty versatile weapons and are often really good, but not directly the best at something bar the Longsword Parry Counter playstyle.
B Tier¶
The B Tier weapons are weapons that are fine. Yet, they don’t really have any standouts. These are often starting weapons, or niche playstyle weapons that don’t have the scaling. In addition, they typically are weapons with worse scalings, weapons you get early on, or don’t have amazing special attacks on them.
You’ll often see weaker Clash weapons down here, harder to use fire weapons, or weapon’s with weaker scalings in comparison to A and S Tier, depending on when you get the item. Take the Plumed Grace for example. That’s an end game item drop from the very last boss. But, it’s not as good compared to its S and A Tier counterparts. Same for the Moonlight Dragon longsword. Decent weapon, but one handed magic swords are so much better as your primary weapon.
C Tier¶
The axe that shoots is fun but its not worth the cost of the Skyborn might. Image via Gamer Guides / 505 Games.
The C Tier weapons are typically gimmicks or much weaker starting weapons in comparison to other weapons of the same weapon type. For example the Li Jiao’s Axe shoots a bullet from it as its special. It’s decent for staggering range opponents. You occasionally see this axe used from the Inner Demon encounters. But, other weapons do that too, and much better. It’s also not worth it for Axe players to spend Skyborn Might like that compared to other spells or skills.
Meanwhile, we sent the Blight and Lightning weapons down here. Blight is essentially useless except against human enemies that heal, or the Inner Demon enemies. There’s some decent Benediction for Blight spreading, increasing your Defenses against Blighted foes, and such, but it’s not really worth it when Fire is so versatile and Poise is so strong on its own.
Frostbite is also kind of worthless as you never notice an enemy’s stamina bar anyway. It’s typically only good against the really strong enemies in Chapter 4 and 5, but that’s a niche for farming. Lightning damage weapons are only good against armored enemies, which typically are the thick armored Ming rebel type enemies in Chapter 3. The damage mitigation from the Paralysis status effect is also not that strong, considering how easy it is to die, and how essential Glimmer is to dodging attacks.
Hopefully these explanations do a better job at prioritizing what Status effects and weapon you want to use. Good luck finding your best weapon for your Wuchang Fallen Feathers build.
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