RuneScape: Dragonwilds Weapons

Every weapon in the game is made at one of four stations: the crafting table, the blacksmith’s bench, the fletching bench or the mystic forge. The same stations repair a weapon when its durability drops or it breaks, so the bench that built a weapon is also the bench that maintains it. Recipes are only half shop-bought knowledge — monsters and chests drop recipe items that have to be read before the weapon becomes craftable, and a number of the better recipes come out of a named quest instead.

Melee weapons deal blunt or slashing damage, and that split matters more than it first looks. A video guide published in July 2026 recommends not obsessing over it, but notes it is worth swapping a sword for a hammer in a zone full of skeletons or knights, because those are weak to blunt. The same video dislikes the hammer for general use — its special attack mostly stuns and the weapon is slow — and prefers either a one-handed mace with a shield or a two-handed sword, on the grounds that both stun-lock low-level enemies.

Two-handed melee climbs faster than one-handed at every tier. The adamant greataxe is listed at 168 - 294, the adamant warhammer at 156 - 244 and the adamant greatsword at 129 - 219, against 114 - 202 for the adamant mace — at the cost of a heavier weapon and no shield hand. The same video calls the greatsword its own favourite for general play, while being explicit that this is a preference rather than a test result.

Shortbows work at close and moderate range and do the least damage per shot, but they can be quick-fired for a faster rate at reduced range and damage. Longbows must be drawn, which gives them the lowest fire rate and the highest range and per-shot damage of the three. Crossbows are the only one-handed ranged weapons: they cannot be drawn at all, firing instantly and reloading automatically, with a reload that is delayed if you try to fire during it. They do moderate damage at the shortest range of the family.

Ranged weapons also carry the widest spread of special effects in the catalogue. The Wild scout’s shortbow and the Hunter stagbow both reduce draw time, with the stagbow also carrying a +10% draw time penalty listed against the same line. The Undead ranger’s bow adds damage at the cost of durability, the Shadow crossbow trades fire rate for weak point damage, the Blurite crossbow speeds up reloading while cutting durability by a quarter, and Ulv’s Longbow and the Crystal bow add damage against unaware targets and drop the arrow requirement from their special action respectively.

The wiki magic section states that its damage-per-second figures assume a full magic armour set bonus and include the magical critical chance and casting perks — meaning the numbers in that table are a geared caster rather than a naked one. Wands are described as trading rune damage multipliers for mobility and speed. Battlestaves get a secondary attack that spends five runes per cast, with the effect changing by rune: air stuns and knocks back, scaling with charge time; fire breathes a cone that gains duration rather than damage, at two to five ticks; water damages everything around you and then leaves a healing field that restores allies standing in it.

That water behaviour is worth flagging, because a separate video guide published in July 2026 lists healing through water magic as one of the reasons to run a melee character with a casting style alongside it. Two independent sources describing the same utility is about as close as this page gets to a recommendation.

Read down a weapon ladder and the materials change in a predictable order. The first four tiers ask for logs, thread, animal parts and metal bars. From the iron tier onward every metal weapon also wants Vault Shards, which come out of the vaults. The mithril tier swaps in Cursed Leather, Mystic Thread and Infernal Fragments, and the top tier wants Scorch Leather, Desert Thread, Dragonstones and Gypsum Wax — desert materials, which is a location gate rather than a level gate.

The other gate is knowledge. Recipes are learned from items — an educational blade on a church roof in Temple Woods teaches the wooden training sword; a dragonkin statue in the Fractured Plains vault teaches the Wild scout’s shortbow; a string of sinew taken from garou hunters teaches the Hunter stagbow. Others come from quests: the Crystal bow from Heartstrings, Ulv’s Longbow from Mirror, Mirror, the Bow of Elidinis from Mapping The Sands II, the Staff of light from Highlighting the Problem, the Zamorak staff from What’s Theirs is Mine!, the Pharaoh’s sceptre from Contact!, and the Granite maul from Granite Mauled.

• Weapon buffs sit outside the weapon. The July video names four — whetstones, weapon barbs, weapon poison and fire oil — all unlocked through separate skill tracks rather than crafted onto the weapon permanently.
• Special actions arrive with the weapon. The attack combo strings printed on the wiki include the bonus attacks from Weapon Expertise, which unlocks at 16 Attack, so a weapon reaches full combo length only after that point.

Most weapons on this page are a tier, a damage figure and a list of materials, and a table is the right home for them. A handful are not, because assembling them is a project with steps of its own. Those are the ones this site will split out first: the Granite maul, which needs an imbued head, an ornate handle and imbued leather wrappings plus a vault core; Titan’s Wrath, which is a rebuild that starts from a Broken Titan’s Wrath; Imaru’s talon, which consumes a steel scimitar and an undead draconic visage; and the magic-tier shortbow, longbow and rune crossbow, whose material lists the wiki has not published at all yet.

Until then, the honest reading of this catalogue is that it tells you what exists and what it costs, and does not tell you what wins. That is covered next on the armour guide for what you wear with all of this, and on the builds guide for how a weapon choice turns into a play pattern.