Weapons

You don't choose classes in HOTK, you choose a weapon that determines all your skills and character roles.

Overview

In the game the player chooses a weapon when they are creating their character. Depending on the weapon chosen, this will determine their class. Note that although there are 18 weapons listed, some are unavailable and are expected to be released in future game updates. Weapons available for the 

Weapon Selection

North America release are as follows:

  1. Bow - Ranged DPS, back line fighter

  2. Charmer - AoE healer, AoE debuffer, AoE DD

  3. Cleaver - Heavy armor, DD, constant cast, CC

  4. Gauntlet - Heavy armor, Anti-stun weapon, semi DD/DPS, High Def

  5. Glaive - Heavy Armor, highest hp, slow cast, high DD

  6. Halberd - Heavy Armor, high hp, fast cast, DD/DPS

  7. Hatchet - Fast cast, stun/coma, burst DD, high chi weapon

  8. Hammer - (this weapon has not yet been made available for any releases of the game)

  9. Hooksword - Uses Hatred to become powerful, debuff, DD/DPS

  10. Mace - Barriers, DPS, survivability

  11. Ring Blade - Survivability king, dodge, CC, DPS

  12. Saber - Chasing, crit DPS

  13. Scepter - Ranged DD, AoE DD, CC, AoE Stun, 1v1 Stun

  14. Spear - Heavy Armor, Ranged DD, DPS, confusion, all around weapon

  15. Staff - Fastest AoE, def tank, Heavy armor, AoE stun

  16. Talons - Assassin, stealth, DPS, DD crit, stun lock

  17. Trident - (this weapon has not yet been made available for any releases of the game)

  18. War Fan - Ranged DD, CC, Heal, strongest AoE

Terms

DPS
Damage per second

DD
Damage dealer

CC
Crowd control

AoE
Area of Effect

Chi
"rage" of this game

Crit
Critical hit

The final skill for each weapon:

Sabre- hp+3% attack +8

Spear- hp+3% critical +2

Mace- hp+3% defend +5

Hooksword - hp+100 critical damage+5%

Ring Blade- hp+100 miss+3

Hatchet - hp+100 attack intensity+2%

Talons - hp +100 critical+2

Bow- hp+100 hit+3

War Fan- hp +100 melee resistance+5

Staff- hp+100 range assistance+5

Halberd- hp 3% base damage +8

Cleaver- hp +100 +3def

All HOTK weapons


HOTK weapon selection

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