Grand Blue Weapons Guide — Swords, Guns, Prices & Locations

Grand Blue Weapons Overview

Weapons in Grand Blue serve as your character’s primary physical armament. Equipping a weapon alters your standard light attack strings, grants dedicated weapon mastery skills, and provides critical strike bonuses that stack alongside your Fighting Style and Cursed Fruit.

1. Cutlass (Starter Standard)

• Cost: 2,000 G
• Location: Anchor Town Smithy (near the main gate)
• Required Level: Level 10+ recommended

Weapon Overview & Skills

The Cutlass is the first significant weapon upgrade available to new adventurers. Replacing your bare hands with the Cutlass immediately boosts your basic attack damage by over 40% and expands your swing arc, allowing you to hit multiple Marine trainees with a single swing.

• Thrust Attack (Z Skill): A quick forward thrust that pierces light shields and causes a brief stagger, creating an opening for your Novice Swordsman dash.
• Recommended Synergies: Novice Swordsman fighting style and Long-Arm race (for extended blade reach). Follow our Leveling Guide to farm Anchor Town G quickly.

2. Willow Blade (Agile Saber)

• Cost: 8,000 G
• Location: Clown Town Harbor Weapon Merchant
• Required Level: Level 35+ recommended

Weapon Overview & Skills

The Willow Blade is forged from flexible spring steel, allowing rapid successive slashes that overwhelm opponent blocking gauges. It excels in mob grinding scenarios where you need to keep 3 to 4 Clown Officers staggered simultaneously.

• Whirlwind Flourish (Z Skill): Spins the blade in a 360-degree circle around your character, knocking back surrounding mobs and providing breathing room.
• Recommended Synergies: Chop Fruit (for immune blade dueling) or Skyfolk race (for aerial dive attacks).

3. Katana (High-Crit Samurai Blade)

• Cost: 10,000 G
• Location: Clown Town Central Armory (across from the Mayor’s mansion)
• Required Level: Level 50+ recommended

Weapon Overview & Skills

The Katana is the premier bladed weapon in Early Access Grand Blue. It features high base damage scaling and the highest native critical strike multiplier among early-to-midgame swords. When paired with high Strength and Sword Mastery stat investments, its critical hits can wipe out half of an enemy player’s health bar in a single combo.

• Crescent Cleave (Z Skill): Unleashes a wide horizontal wave of compressed air that travels forward, damaging all enemies in its trajectory.
• Iaido Strike (X Skill): Sheathes the blade briefly before performing an instantaneous flash dash that cuts through targets and inflicts heavy bleed.
• Recommended Synergies: Gladiator trait (+15% physical damage) and Long-Arm race.

4. Last Laugh (Smuggler’s Dagger)

• Cost: 12,500 G
• Location: Clown Town Smuggler’s Alley (tucked behind the giant circus tent)
• Required Level: Level 55+ recommended

Weapon Overview & Skills

The Last Laugh is an exotic dagger favored by rogue players. In addition to rapid, low-cooldown stab animations, landing backstabs with the Last Laugh deals triple critical damage and causes enemy mobs to drop extra Gold (G).

• Sneak Attack (Z Skill): Teleports a short distance behind your locked-on target to deliver an armor-piercing strike.
• Recommended Synergies: Trickster fighting style (Pocket Sand blind guarantees safe backstab positioning) and Fleetfooted trait.

Weapon Mastery & Stat Investment

When wielding weapons in Grand Blue, keep these core mechanics in mind:

1. Weapon Mastery EXP: Every kill scored with a weapon active adds experience toward that weapon’s mastery rank, unlocking additional active weapon skills at ranks 10, 25, and 50.
2. Stat Allocation: Weapons scale primarily with Strength and Weapon Mastery. If you plan to play a pure swordsman build, allocate 60% of your level-up stat points to Strength and Weapon Mastery, 30% to Stamina, and 10% to Health.
3. Weapon + Fruit Combinations: Unlike some RPGs where equipping a sword disables magic, Grand Blue lets you use sword skills on your primary number keys while your fruit skills remain active on Z, X, C, and V.