Sword & Axe Enchants
Melee weapons carry their own enchant lists: some only work on a sword, some only on an axe, and a big shared pool fits either. They roll from the Wormhole and apply from Enchant Orbs like every other enchant. This page covers what each weapon line does and what changed in Map 4.
Every sword & axe enchant
Some enchants only fit a sword, some only an axe, and a large shared pool fits either. The Slot column says which. A few (Bleed, Monster Hunter, Detonate, Lucky, Hardened) are shared with bows, wands or armour and are listed on those pages too.
| Enchant | Rarity | Max | Slot | Exactly what it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scorch | Elite | 4 | Sword | 7% chance to proc on hit. On proc: fire burst for 110% of weapon base damage per level (up to 440% at L4). Also sets target on fire for 2-4s (fire DoT, no iframes). |
| Frostblade | Ultimate | 3 | Sword | 0.78%/level chance to proc on hit. On proc: Slowness I (II at L2+) on the enemy. Lasts 2s + 1s/level after L1 (up to 4s at L3). |
| Lightning | Legendary | 4 | Sword | 7% chance to proc on hit. On proc: lightning bolt smites the enemy for 137.5% of weapon base damage per level (up to 550% at L4). Bypasses iframes. |
| Lifesteal | Legendary | 5 | Sword | Works on every swing (no proc). 0.2% of damage dealt Leeched as Life per level (1% at L5). Leech heals over time, up to 1 HP per second from all Leech sources combined. |
| Weakness | Legendary | 6 | Axe | 5% chance to proc on hit. On proc: victim takes 8.33% more damage per level (50% more at L6) for 4s. |
| Bleed | Ultimate | 3 | Axe, Bow | 12% chance to proc on hit. On proc: bleed 1s per level (up to 3s at L3). Each 1s tick deals 150% of weapon base damage. Doesn't stack. Bypasses iframes; can't proc other enchants. |
| Rupture | Legendary | 3 | Axe | New. 8% + 4%/level to proc on a bleeding target (20% at L3). On proc: the bleed tears open and every remaining tick lands at once for triple damage. |
| Earthsplitter | Legendary | 3 | Axe | New. 3% + 2%/level to proc (9% at L3). On proc: a 6-block fissure runs the way you face, hitting every enemy on it for 150% of weapon base damage per level (450% at L3) and throwing them into the air. |
| Bloodlust | Legendary | 6 | Axe | Not a proc: always active. 10% increased damage per level vs bleeding targets (60% at L6). Bonus is additive. Pairs with Bleed. |
| Frenzy | Legendary | 4 | Sword, Axe | No proc: builds a damage combo from your own swings. 3% increased damage per hit per level, stacking each consecutive hit (capped at 100%). Combo resets when you take damage; new target/weapon resets it. |
| Famine | Elite | 3 | Sword, Axe | 2.5% per level to proc (7.5% at L3). On proc: drains 1 hunger and applies Hunger I to the target for 3s. |
| Trap | Legendary | 4 | Sword, Axe | 0.78% base proc chance + 0.39% per level. On proc: enemy cannot move for 1s per level. Max level: 4. |
| Silence | Godly | 5 | Sword | 0.25% + 0.05%/level to proc (0.5% at L5). On proc: blocks every defensive armour Proc on the target for 2s + 0.4s/level (4s at L5). Partial on a Resilience wearer. 10s before the same target can be silenced again. |
| Berserk | Legendary | 5 | Axe | 1.75%/level to proc (11.25% at L5). On proc: 6.5% increased damage per level (32.5% at L5), added to your damage with other enchants. Lasts 3s; gives you Confusion. Cooldown 5s. |
| Pummel | Ultimate | 3 | Sword, Axe | 12% chance to proc on hit. On proc: hurls 2 nearby blocks per level (6 at L3), each dealing 167.35% of weapon base. Block hits cannot proc other enchants. |
| Perfect Strike | Legendary | 5 | Sword, Axe | 6%/level to proc (30% at L5). On proc: ignores the target's defensive enchants for this hit and procs it triggers same tick. Bypasses only custom defenses (Tank, Armoured, Titan Blood, Last Stand, Tough Skin, etc.), not vanilla armor. |
| Execute | Ultimate | 4 | Sword, Axe | No proc: always active on low life. When the target is on low life (below 50% HP), this hit deals 6% increased damage per level (24% at L4). |
| Nemesis | Elite | 2 | Sword, Axe | +10% damage per level for each enemy you are outnumbered by, and -10% per level for each foe you outnumber. Capped at 30% per level (up to 60% at level 2). Counts the largest single enemy gang within 48 blocks, minus your nearby gang. |
| Deep Wounds | Elite | 3 | Axe | Extends your Bleed duration by 1s per level (+3s at L3). No effect without Bleed on the axe. Bonus is capped at the base Bleed duration (max doubles it). |
| Lucky | Legendary | 3 | Any armour + Pickaxe, Sword, Axe, Wand, Bow | 10% more chance per level for every Proc enchant on the same item, except Fault Line. Counts up to level 4 (40% more). Each piece's Lucky boosts only its own Procs. Level 4 via orb only. |
| Hardened | Ultimate | 3 | Any armour + Sword, Axe | The item lasts longer: 125% more effective durability per level (up to 375% more at L3). Applies per piece. |
| Electrocution | Elite | 3 | Sword | 7% chance to proc on hit. On proc: lightning hits target, then chains to 1 more enemy per extra level (3 enemies total at L3). Each target takes 360% of weapon base damage. Chains within 8 blocks; armour applies. |
| Molecular Harvester | Elite | 3 | Sword | 2.6%/level chance on hit (7.81% at L3) to repair each armour piece by 0.33%/level of its max durability (1% at L3). |
| Monster Hunter | Elite | 5 | Sword, Axe, Wand, Bow | 10% increased damage per level (50% at L5) to shades, wraiths, Erebus Guards, bosses and their adds. Not cell guards or stationary guards. |
| Dominate | Ultimate | 3 | Sword | Flat 3.9% chance on hit, at any level, to weaken your enemy: they deal 12%/level less damage (up to 36%, 50% cap) for 3s. |
| Enrage | Ultimate | 3 | Sword, Axe | Deal more damage the closer to death. Active below 40% HP; grows as HP falls. Up to 20% increased damage/level at near-zero HP (60% at L3). |
| Solitude | Legendary | 3 | Sword | Adds +10% per level (+30% at L3) to Silence's proc chance. Requires Silence on the same sword to do anything. |
| Fearless | Ultimate | 3 | Sword, Axe | Damage scales with range to target. Within 0.5 blocks: +15%/level (+45% at L3). Beyond 3 blocks: -6%/level (-18% at L3). Scales smoothly between. Always active, no proc. |
| Rejuvenate | Ultimate | 3 | Axe | 2.6%/level chance on hit (up to 7.81% at L3). On proc: repair all worn armour by 0.33%/level of max durability (up to 1% at L3). |
| Poison | Uncommon | 3 | Sword | 5.5% chance to poison on hit. Poison deals 296.4% of weapon base damage per second (reduced by armour), for 1s/level (up to 3s at L3). |
| Cannibalism | Uncommon | 4 | Sword, Axe, Wand | 2% + 2%/level to proc. On proc: restore 1 hunger/level (up to 4 at L4) and +1 saturation/level (up to 4 at L4). |
| Fling | Elite | 3 | Sword | 2%/level to proc (6% at L3). On proc: launches the target upward with 0.6 velocity per level. Sword only. |
| Daze | Simple | 3 | Sword, Axe | 0.78% + 0.39%/level to proc. On proc: jerks the target's view (confusion) for 0.01s per level (0.03s at L3). |
| Detonate | Godly | 5 | Sword, Axe, Wand, Bow | 10% + 5%/level chance, on a kill, to explode the corpse for 10% of its max health to nearby enemies within 3.5 blocks. Mobs killed by the blast can chain-explode. The blast is base damage, so it scales with your damage bonuses. |
| Injury | Elite | 3 | Axe | Hitting a player stacks a slow (0.6% per stack per level, up to 5 stacks). Up to 9% slower at L3. Refreshes on hit; fades after 4s, or instantly if they hit you back. |
| Sunder | Godly | 5 | Axe | Hits shred the target's defence: they take 2% + 0.5%/level more damage per stack from everyone, up to 5 stacks (22.5% more at L5). Each hit refreshes the shred; falls off after 5s without a hit. |
| Judgment | Godly | 5 | Sword | On a critical strike, call down a bolt of judgment: AoE lightning dealing 50% of the hit per level (up to 250% at L5) to the target and all enemies within 4 blocks. PvE only. |
| Melee Splash | Godly | 5 | Sword, Axe | Melee hits splash 10% + 4%/level (up to 30% at L5) of their damage to enemies within 2.5 blocks. Splash hits can't crit and can't re-splash. PvE only. |
Swordsman and Axeman were removed in Map 4.
New in Map 4
Rupture (Axe: Legendary)
A hit on a bleeding target can tear the bleed open: the bleed ends and every tick it had left lands at once for triple damage. It procs 8% plus 4% per level (20% at L3) and only rolls when the target is already bleeding, from your Bleed or another player's. Pair it with Bleed and Deep Wounds.
Earthsplitter (Axe: Legendary)
A hit can send a 6-block fissure along your facing. Every enemy on the line takes 150% of your weapon's base damage per level (450% at L3) and is launched into the air. It procs 3% plus 2% per level (9% at L3).
Only your own swings proc
Sword and axe enchants and Frenzy only proc or build from your own swings. Hits from Melee Splash, Judgment, Detonate or "of the Whirlwind" don't roll them, and Predator, Giant Slayer and your jewel damage bonuses no longer apply twice to those hits. Honed only boosts melee swings.
Against monsters and bosses
- Judgment and Melee Splash deal their full share of the hit against bosses, and Judgment bolts count toward your damage in the fight.
- Monster Hunter works on bosses and their adds with every weapon, alongside shades, wraiths and Erebus Guards. Sword and axe Monster Hunter no longer boosts damage to cell guards, stationary guards and other non-player NPCs.
- Execute (below 50% health), Judgment, Melee Splash and Electrocution now work on shades, wraiths and Erebus Guards, and enchant procs leech life off them.
New in Season 2
Nemesis (Sword / Axe: Elite, Wormhole)
An underdog enchant. You deal more damage the more you're outnumbered, and less when you outnumber your foes — built to reward fighting up against a stacked side rather than ganking. Rolls from the Wormhole at Elite rarity.
Sunder (Axe: Godly)
Your hits shred the target's defence, so they take more damage from everyone — not just you. Each stack is 2% + 0.5% per level more damage taken, up to 5 stacks, for 22.5% more at L5. Every hit refreshes the shred, and it falls off after 5 seconds without one. A strong opener to set up focus-fire in PvP and gang fights.
Injury (Axe: Elite)
Hits on a player stack a movement slow — 0.6% per stack per level, up to 5 stacks, so up to 9% slower at L3. Each hit refreshes the stacks; they fade after 4 seconds without a re-hit, or instantly if the target hits you back.
Rebalances & changes
Berserk
Rebalanced toward bigger, rarer spikes. The proc chance was halved (now ~11% at L5, down from ~22.5%), and the on-proc buff was bumped to 6.5% increased damage per level — up to 32.5% increased damage at L5 when it fires.
Poison
The tooltip now reads "reduced by armour." This is a wording fix only — Poison always was reduced by armour, and its damage is unchanged.
Monster Hunter
Monster Hunter is increased damage rather than more damage on every weapon, so it sums into your increased-damage pool instead of multiplying on top of it. In Map 4 it covers shades, wraiths, Erebus Guards, bosses and their adds, but not cell guards or stationary guards.
Damage-over-time stacking
Ailments no longer pile up without limit:
- Ignite and Bleed do not stack. A new proc replaces the live one only if it is stronger, refreshing its timer; a weaker re-proc is ignored.
- Venom stacks up to 3 times on a target. At the cap, a new proc replaces the shortest-remaining stack.
Detonate (Godly)
Detonate works on swords, axes, wands and bows. On a kill it has a 10% + 5% per level chance (35% at L5) to explode the corpse for 10% of its maximum health (25% before Map 4) to everything within 3.5 blocks, and mobs killed by the blast can chain-explode up to 3 deep. The blast is base damage, so it scales with your damage bonuses and can crit.
The Godly melee enchants
Five Godly enchants land on swords and axes, all of them from Mystery Godly Enchant Orbs.
| Enchant | Weapon | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Judgment | Sword | On a critical strike, call down a bolt of judgment: AoE lightning for +50% of the hit per level (up to 250% at L5) to the target and every enemy within 4 blocks. |
| Melee Splash | Sword & Axe | Melee hits splash 10% + 4% per level of their damage (30% at L5) to enemies within 2.5 blocks. Splash hits can't crit and can't re-splash. |
| Detonate | Sword, Axe, Wand & Bow | See above. |
| Silence | Sword | Chance on hit to block every defensive armour Proc on the target for 2s + 0.4s per level. |
| Sunder | Axe | Stacking defence shred; see above. |
Judgment, Melee Splash and Detonate all widen with Area of Effect from jewels. Area of Effect increases the area, so the radius grows by the square root of the increase: 20% more area is roughly 9.5% more radius.
Leech: healing from the damage you deal
Every "heal from damage dealt" effect in the game is now Leech, and they all share one budget.
- Lifesteal (Sword, Legendary) Leeches 0.2% of damage dealt per level (1% at L5), from your own swings only.
- Leech does not heal you instantly. It banks into a pool that drains into you at up to 1 HP per second, across all your Leech sources combined.
- Leeching faster than the cap can drain banks up to 6 HP, which keeps trickling in at the capped rate.
- The bank empties the moment you reach full health, and clears on death.
- Leech counts the full damage you deal to bosses, ubers, Avatars and the big fissure creatures.
- Enchant procs and damage over time Leech through your other sources (jewels, trims, the Orb of Moros), and proc leech now works on shades, wraiths and Erebus Guards. It does not work on cell guards or combat loggers.
Other Leech sources you may already carry, all lowered in Map 4: the Orb of Moros implicit, the Olympian weapon trim, the Skipstone wand trim, of Vampirism and of the Bloodletter jewels, and the Wraithheart's Soul Siphon. For flat regeneration outside the Leech cap, see the armour enchant Vitality.
Devour has been removed from the game.
Going deeper
Weapon enchants are only half of your combat kit. Pair them with Armour Combat Enchants. To pull an enchant back off a weapon, see Removing & Moving Enchants.
Version history
v4.0.0 (Map 4)
- New axe enchants Rupture and Earthsplitter (both Legendary).
- Swordsman and Axeman have been removed.
- Lifesteal now Leeches 0.2% of damage per level (1% at V), down from 1.5%, and only heals off your own swings.
- Fling now works on swords only.
- Silence now blocks every defensive armour Proc, and is partial against a Resilience wearer.
- Sword and axe enchants and Frenzy only proc or build from your own swings. Predator, Giant Slayer and jewel damage no longer apply twice to splash, Judgment, Detonate and Whirlwind hits.
- Judgment and Melee Splash deal their full share against bosses, and Judgment bolts count toward your boss damage.
- Monster Hunter now works on bosses and their adds with every weapon. Sword and axe Monster Hunter no longer boosts damage to cell guards, stationary guards and other non-player NPCs.
- Execute, Judgment, Melee Splash and Electrocution now work on shades, wraiths and Erebus Guards.
- Detonate blasts now deal 10% of the dead enemy's max health, down from 25%.
- Armour trim proc chance now also boosts Bleed, Rupture, Earthsplitter, Perfect Strike, Molecular Harvester and Rejuvenate.
- The Common rarity is now called Simple.
v3.0.0
- Soul Eater, Detonate, Judgment, Melee Splash, Spell Echo, Chain, Earthquake and Phantom Beam are now Godly enchants and roll from Mystery Godly Enchant Orbs.
- Detonate blasts now deal their own damage on a sword or axe, as a share of the dead enemy's maximum health.
- Melee Splash now splashes the intended share of your hit.
- Monster Hunter now works on every enemy that is not a player, and grants increased damage instead of more damage on every weapon.
- Healing from dealing damage is now Leech: Lifesteal Leeches 1.5% of damage dealt per level (7.5% at L5), banked and drained at up to 1 HP per second across all your Leech sources, with a 6 HP bank.
- Leech is no longer reduced against NPCs and bosses — the per-second cap replaced every PvE and boss healing penalty.
- Devour has been removed from the game.
- Ignite and Bleed no longer stack; a stronger proc replaces the live one. Venom stacks up to 3 times.
- Injury's slow is now 0.6% per stack per level, up to 9% at L3.
- Sunder now shreds 2% + 0.5% per level per stack, for 22.5% more damage taken at L5.
- Critical strike damage is now worded +X% to Critical Strike Multiplier everywhere.
v2.0.0
- New enchant Nemesis (Sword / Axe, Elite) — deal more damage the more you're outnumbered.
- New Godly enchant Sunder (Axe), stacking defence shred, up to 20% more damage taken at L5.
- New enchant Injury (Axe, Elite), stacking movement slow, up to 30% at L3.
- Berserk rebalanced — proc chance halved (~11% at L5) with a stronger 6.5%-per-level buff (up to 32.5% increased damage at L5).
- Detonate extended to swords and axes with chain-explosions; corpse-explosion damage now scales with your bonuses, can crit, and has a new arcane-burst visual.
- Poison tooltip corrected to "reduced by armour" (no damage change).