What is the S tier weapon in The Blood of Dawnwalker?

The Imbued Sword of St. Mihai, made through the Forge It Anew line. It is the only weapon that is simultaneously cross-verified by several sources, obtainable on purpose through a quest rather than a loot roll, and documented as specialising in Damage against Supernatural with attack-stamina reductions. That is an evidence ranking: no source publishes its damage numbers.

Why does this tier list have no DPS column?

Because no reliable source publishes per-weapon DPS for this game. Weapon cards do print a DPS line, but the only numbers that circulate come from single video captures, and the percentage affixes in those frames vary with loot rolls. Every such value here is written as not documented instead of being copied into a ranking.

Do weapons rank differently at night?

The ranking barely moves, because night combat largely abandons weapons: vampire form fights with claws, and claw abilities like Charge work without a sword. What changes is which card stats matter — Max Vampiric Health and Vampiric Ability Cooldown by night, Damage against Mortals and Max Human Health by day — and the 4 day plus 4 night quick slots swap loadouts automatically.

Are Sunshard Estoc and Nightfall Greatsword real weapons?

No. Neither name appears in any official or wiki source for The Blood of Dawnwalker. They are placeholder items from a template site about a different fictional game, along with Dawnforged Longsword, Sanguis Dagger, Bastion Silver Broadsword and the silver-holy damage mechanics attached to them.

The Blood of Dawnwalker Weapon Tier List: Ranked On Evidence, Not DPS

How Are Weapons Ranked In This Tier List?

Four questions, in order. This is a ranking of evidence and role, because the data for a damage ranking does not exist publicly as of patch 1.0.0:

Does the weapon exist in two or more independent sources? If not, it does not get a tier — it goes in the debunked table at the bottom.
Is its function documented on real card axes? Armor, DPS, Damage against Mortals / Damage against Supernatural, Attack and Block Stamina Cost, Activation Charge Restoration, Max Human / Vampiric Health, Vampiric Ability Cooldown.
Can you get it on purpose? Fixed quest and boss rewards outrank random loot, because a tier list you cannot execute is trivia.
Does it survive the form swap? A sword is usable by day and by night; claws are free at night. That is why one upgraded sword anchors a run — the decision framework is on /guides/best-weapons/, this page is only the table.

The Weapon Tier Table (Patch 1.0.0)

Tier	Weapon	Documented role (real card axes)	How you get it	Evidence
S	Imbued Sword of St. Mihai	Heavy Damage against Supernatural, reduced Attack Stamina Cost and dodge cost; area weapon art that changes between day and night	Reforge chain: St. Mihai’s tomb, then Forge It Anew with Uriashi, three Kobold-nest shards, quenching rite	Cross-verified (PC Gamer, MapGenie, Game8); stats documented as directions, values not documented
A	King’s Slayer	Defensive: reduced Block Stamina Cost; larger perfect-block window reported as +45%, not documented	Buried treasure, river bank west of Svartrau — no map needed, available after the prologue	Cross-verified weapon; the number is single video capture
A	Gladius	Damage against Mortals + Max Vampiric Health	Treasure box in the Balaur cave, The Beast of Balaur (climb the cliff at night)	Cross-verified
A	The Purge	Survivability longsword: large Max Human Health, attack and block stamina reductions	Loot Bakir’s headhunter camp north of Svartrau, or buy from the Silver Trader	Weapon cross-verified; the DPS/% card is not documented
A	Durandal	Reported as efficient: reduced Attack Stamina Cost + Damage against Supernatural (values not documented)	Collapsed bridge, western valley — the quest name attached to it is single-source	Weapon cross-verified; route pending manual review
B	Song of Valour	Level 21 Epic Shortsword — the first real upgrade most runs hold, before any legendary chain pays off	Kill /bosses/ambrus/	Cross-verified boss reward
B	Volk’s Sword	Reported ordinary-tier; no documented stats	Named in single-source footage only	Weak sourcing
B	Polished Long Cleaver	Reported ordinary-tier; no documented stats	Named in single-source footage only	Weak sourcing
N/A	Vampire claws	Not an item — night-form weapon, so it cannot be upgraded or tiered	Free with the form	Confirmed by gameplay captures

Why Is There No DPS Column?

Weapon cards in this game do print DPS — but nobody publishes the numbers for named weapons. What circulates is one set of on-screen frames: The Purge’s displayed DPS and percentage string, King’s Slayer’s reported perfect-block window increase, Durandal’s affix list. Those are single video capture readings, and loot rolls in this game vary, so the site’s rule is: values that no second source confirms get written as not documented rather than promoted into a ranking table. Inventing a clean base-damage ladder to make the page look authoritative is exactly the failure this revision removed.

What is comparable without numbers, and what the tiers above actually key off:

Directional defence economy — a block-cheap, perfect-block-reliant weapon beats a harder hitter, because Perfect Riposte turns defence into the guaranteed critical and stamina is your real DPS stat.
Activation Charge economy — attacks, blocks and parries fill the meter, 3 charges turn it gold, and Charge (1) / Artery Strike (2) spend it. Activation Charge Restoration is therefore a ranking axis even though nobody prints it in a comparison table.
Target-damage specialisation — Damage against Supernatural for the Vrakhiri fights, Damage against Mortals for the daytime crowd.
Unblockable tax — no weapon stat fixes a red-marked unblockable attack; you dodge it, so weapon weight matters less than positioning (the discipline every fight in /bosses/brencis/ tests).

How Do Upgrades Change The Order?

A maxed B-tier sword can beat an untouched A-tier one, because quality tier is what the vendor charges against and what the stat line scales on — you pay a blacksmith, armourer or the hermit smith in Denarius, no materials involved. Prices climb with item quality and Coen’s level, running into the thousands late, so the honest reading of this table is “rank of what to invest in”, not “rank of what you find on a corpse”. The flow and the vendor list are on /guides/forging-guide/, and the reason there is no material grind behind any of it is on /items/forging-materials-guide/.

What Changes Position Between Day And Night?

Phase	What the ranking rewards
Day (human)	Sword stats that hold up in long block wars, plus Damage against Mortals; Witchcraft carries ranged damage
Night (vampire)	Claws handle the fighting, so Max Vampiric Health, Vampiric Ability Cooldown and Damage against Supernatural on the pieces you still wear matter more than the sword in your hand

Slots are 4 daytime + 4 nighttime and the swap is automatic, so a two-form build (the reasoning is on /guides/best-builds/) cares about the union of both columns, not the best single-phase weapon. If you only want the short version of which blade to fund, it is on /guides/beginner-guide/ and /guides/best-weapons/.

Which Weapons Are Fake?

These names appear in “Dawnwalker weapon tier lists” elsewhere on the web and in no official or wiki source for this game. They are template placeholder content, listed here so players can recognise and discard them:

Non-existent weapon	The fabricated mechanic usually quoted with it
Sunshard Estoc, Nightfall Greatsword, Dawnforged Longsword, Sanguis Dagger, Bastion Silver Broadsword, Militia Shortsword	Steel/silver weapon categories, percentage “holy damage” bonuses, silver coating oils
Any “Fine Silver Broadsword in the prologue miller’s cellar” route	A region and a quest that are not in this game
Blood Gauge lifesteal weapons, Faith/Agility scaling grades	Neither a Blood Gauge resource nor a Faith scaling grade exists on weapon cards

The underlying error is the same one debunked on /items/silver-swords/: silver is a prohibited metal and a black-market commodity in Vale Sangora, not a damage type, and the quest-tied blades that really exist are indexed on /items/legendary-weapons/.

Sources & Verification

games.gg — How to upgrade weapons and armor in The Blood of Dawnwalker — no crafting loop; upgrades are vendor services bought with denarius, priced by quality tier and level.
games.gg — The Blood of Dawnwalker beginner’s guide — directional combat, perfect block costing no stamina, the Activation Charges meter, day/night quick slots.
IGN Wiki — The Blood of Dawnwalker — weapon-card attribute axes, Crafting (consumables only), How to Sell Silver (the Silver Trader as a vendor for The Purge), and the skill-tree capture behind Perfect Riposte / Charge / Artery Strike.
PC Gamer — Forge It Anew sword shard locations — the S-tier entry: three Kobold-nest shards, Uriashi’s reforging, and the imbued result.
MapGenie — quests & legendary equipment — legendary roster cross-check.
Game8 — The Blood of Dawnwalker Wiki — full legendary table; fields this environment could not scrape are marked pending manual review (待人工复核).
Bandai Namco Europe — official site / gameplay reveal recap — first-party framing of the day/night forms and directional combat.

More The Blood of Dawnwalker Weapon References

Which to actually equip and why: /guides/best-weapons/
Quest routes for every fixed legendary: /items/legendary-weapons/
The upgrade economy behind the rankings: /guides/forging-guide/
Build archetypes these tiers plug into: /guides/skill-trees/ and /guides/best-builds/
Gear trophies to plan around: /guides/trophy-guide/