The Best Weapon in Dragonwilds: A Cross-Class Damage Ranking

 

    Line up the single highest-damage weapon from every class on the Weapons wiki page, and the winner isn't close. Dragonwilds spreads combat across the RuneScape combat triangle — melee, ranged, and magic — and the wiki's own tables split those into six separate lists: 1-handed, 2-handed, shortbows, longbows, crossbows, and battlestaves. As the source page itself puts it, "the various foes in the world are weak to and resist certain types of attacks, so a varied arsenal is paramount for ease of exploration in Ashenfall." This article pulls the top base-damage pick from each of those six tables and puts the numbers side by side, with the arithmetic shown rather than eyeballed.

 

Six Tables, One Question

 

    Melee splits into one-handed weapons and two-handed weapons; ranged splits into shortbows, longbows and crossbows; magic runs on a single class, battlestaves. Not every table reports damage the same way — melee and two of the three ranged classes use a flat number, while shortbows and battlestaves use a multiplier instead — so before ranking anything across classes, each table's own top entry has to be pulled out and read on its own terms first.

 

Melee and Ranged: The Top Pick in Each Class

 

 

    Among one-handed weapons, the highest base damage the table confirms is the Mithril mace, at 92–164 (Power level 6). That's the ceiling we can confirm, not necessarily the class's true ceiling — the source's own wikitext cuts off mid-row right after the Mithril mace's crafting requirements, so whether a Power Level 7 one-hander exists with a higher figure is undocumented here, even though the page's Update History confirms Power Level 7 weapons overall arrived in patch 0.12.0 (22 June 2026).

 

    The two-handed table has no such gap, and its top pick is unambiguous: the Adamant greataxe, at 168–294 (Power level 7). Doing the arithmetic rather than assuming it: even the greataxe's worst roll, 168, still beats the mace's best roll, 164, by 4 points (168 − 164 = 4).

 

    Longbows "are very high-damage, long-range weapons, but difficult to use at close range," per the source, and carry a flat "Damage" column. The top confirmed figure is the Bow of Elidinis at 102 (Power level 7), just 2 points ahead of the Yew longbow's 100 at the same power level (102 − 100 = 2).

 

    Crossbows use that same flat column, and produce this article's most counterintuitive number: the top crossbow damage is not the Power Level 7 Adamant crossbow (75) — it's the Power Level 5 Dorgeshuun crossbow, at 97. A weapon two power levels lower out-damages the top tier by 22 points (97 − 75 = 22), or about 29% more (97 ÷ 75 ≈ 1.29).

 

Shortbows and Battlestaves: The Multiplier Classes

 

 

    Shortbows don't report a flat damage figure at all — their column is explicitly labelled "Arrow damage multiplier," topped by the Yew shortbow at 58× (Power level 7). That multiplier applies to whatever arrow is loaded, and the source doesn't list the arrow's own base damage, so an actual per-shot shortbow number is undocumented.

 

    Battlestaves work the same way: the column is "Rune damage multiplier," and the source doesn't give the base rune damage it multiplies, so a true per-cast figure is also undocumented. Magic "currently consist[s] only of battlestaves, using runes as ammo," per the source, which adds that "wands have also been confirmed to come in a future update" focused on mobility with lower rune multipliers — not yet in the game, so their numbers don't exist to document at all. What the table does confirm cleanly is a flat three-way tie for the top spot at an identical 8.4× multiplier: the Master's staff, the Pharaoh's sceptre, and the Toktz-mej-tal, all Power level 7.

 

The Cross-Class Verdict

 

 

    Only four of the six classes report a flat number with no multiplier layer: two-handed melee, one-handed melee, longbows, and crossbows. Ranked by their confirmed top-end figure: Adamant greataxe 294 → Mithril mace 164 → Bow of Elidinis 102 → Dorgeshuun crossbow 97. The greataxe's lead is not marginal — 294 against the mace's 164 is a 130-point gap, or about 1.8× the damage (294 ÷ 164 ≈ 1.79); against the longbow's 102 it's nearly triple (294 ÷ 102 ≈ 2.88); against the crossbow's 97 it's just over triple (294 ÷ 97 ≈ 3.03).

 

    Shortbows and battlestaves are deliberately left out of that specific ranking — both report a multiplier, and folding a "58×" or an "8.4×" into a table of flat numbers without the base figure each one multiplies would mean inventing a comparison the source can't support. On the numbers the wiki actually publishes, the two-handed Adamant greataxe is Dragonwilds' highest confirmed damage weapon — cross-class, not just within melee.

 

Practical tips

• The Adamant greataxe (168–294) is the highest confirmed raw damage figure across all six tables.
• Even the greataxe's minimum roll (168) beats the top one-handed weapon's maximum roll (164).
• The Power Level 5 Dorgeshuun crossbow (97) outdamages the Power Level 7 Adamant crossbow (75) by 22 points.
• Shortbow and battlestaff figures are multipliers, not flat damage — not directly comparable without a base number the source doesn't publish.
• The one-handed table's own wikitext cuts off after the Mithril mace, so a higher-damage Power Level 7 one-hander is undocumented, not ruled out.

 

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Conclusion

 

    Across Dragonwilds' six weapon tables, four classes report a flat damage figure and two report a multiplier. Among the flat-number classes, the two-handed Adamant greataxe (168–294, Power level 7) is the highest confirmed damage in the game, beating the top one-hander by 4 points at its worst roll and beating the top longbow and crossbow by roughly triple at its best. The one-handed ceiling we can confirm, the Mithril mace (92–164, Power level 6), may not even be the true top of that class — the source data cuts off before confirming or ruling out a Power Level 7 one-hander. Ranged holds a genuine surprise: the Power Level 5 Dorgeshuun crossbow (97) outdamages the Power Level 7 Adamant crossbow (75). And magic's ceiling is a flat three-way tie at 8.4× between the Master's staff, Pharaoh's sceptre, and Toktz-mej-tal.

 

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