Gladius

Gladius

"A short sword of ancient design. Good for stabbing or slashing."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Ranged Combat

Mode

Melee

Damage

12 dmg

Warm-Up

0 ticks (0 secs)

Cooldown

117 ticks (1.95 secs)

Range

1 tile(s)

DPS

6.15

Mode

Melee

A simple weapon based on ancient design that deals a mild amount of cutting damage and requires 50 materials to make.

Gameplay Overview

The Gladius is a weapon often seen on pirates and outlanders. While not as good in terms of damage output as the Spear or Longsword, the Gladius remains a solid choice for an early-mid game melee weapon because of its low material cost and also its faster cooldown. This cooldown advantage means that this could be a better weapon to use in the hands of those less experienced with melee or physically hindered because of the accuracy disadvantage with those shortcomings, along with more chances to attack meaning that missing with a Gladius generally isn't as punishing as missing with a Longsword or Spear.

As a smithy-only weapon, the Gladius can be made from all standard materials, but not out of any stone blocks or Jade. Here's a table below displaying the damage output comparison between all possible materials for this weapon (assuming Normal quality and full durability)...

	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	4	12	14	6	4	13
Cooldown	1.76s	1.95s	1.56s	1.95s	2.15s	2.63s
DPS (to 3 dp)	2.273	6.154	8.974	3.077	1.86	4.943

DPS figures that are bold are those that are viable as they are greater than the base unarmed DPS (3.279), meaning those that aren't bold should generally be avoided as weapons.

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Weapons

Melee | Neolithic

Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval

Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra

Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic

Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval

Nerve spiker

Industrial

Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer

Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables

Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables

EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid

Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures

Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons

Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons

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