Best weapon upgrades in the forge?

[Dragonfyre]

Hey everyone,

so I just recently got to play the Stardew Valley 1.5 patch and I'm wondering what the best upgrades for the galaxy sword and galaxy hammer are (let's admit it, the galaxy dagger is fairly useless). So far I have upgraded two galaxy swords, one with 3 rubies to increase attack and one with 3 emeralds to increase speed. The increase in attack makes the galaxy sword even more powerful than the vanilla galaxy hammer. While the speed upgrade ends up with the galaxy sword having a total of +11 speed, just by testing I have the impression that it's not faster than my other galaxy sword with upgraded attack. So this makes me wonder whether the speed is capped somehow due to the animation of the sword? That would make speed upgrades useless on the galaxy sword. On the other hand, I noticed a considerable speed increase on the galaxy hammer, but considering its huge knockback, I'm wondering whether attack isn't a better option as well.

I didn't really consider the other uprade options, since I don't like relying on random mechanics (critical hits) due to being too unreliable and I generally prefer offence to defence, particularly since the latter seems to become more irrelevant against toughter enemies.

So whats your take on this?

[Omegatherion]

Damage all day long. Everything that dies, can't hit you. So killing it quickly with a lot of damage is the way to go for me. That's why there is no other choice for me but the ruby.

[Dragonfyre]

Thanks, it's great to have my reasoning confirmed :)

[Xpliciit]

I personally increased the crit damage and base damage of the sword.

I prefer the hammer and its broken mechanics though so again increase damage and crit to make basically everything one hit.

[I Kinda Fail]

I think the speed was like, +3 and +2 and +2? So I did 1 speed boost and 2 damage boosts for my sword.

The dagger, with the new forge boosts and rings, is arguably the best weapon in the game though. You get like a 30-40% chance to crit, your special attack cools down immediately, and your special attack hits 3x. So you're getting a 90-120% chance of one-hitting any enemy in the game, every second. The only downside is that groups of enemies, like if you get surrounded by flying snakes, can be tricky. But everything else is nearly guaranteed to be a OHKO.

I still prefer the sword, personally.

[Včelí medvídek]

I went with balanced combination defense+damage+speed

Actually having 2 iridium bands already I did not feel like another damage bonus really make difference at this stage of game - while combine rings with slime charm and crabshell somehwo gave me more comfort with damage mitigation and sword added bit more over it- it is more notable in multiplayer where is no pause game in most scenarios so i feel somethow more vurneable (+ spending extra time in inventory or eating)

Though imho 3 rubies are possibly "best" choice I was quite satisfied with my setup.

Btw using weapon without the attack arc is useless imho - who care about some theory damage output - everything dies easily and everything that matters at this stage is drive off serpents coming form multiple directions in skull cavern progress.

[DigitalBlizzNX]

For me personally with my hammer, I went 2 speed and 1 damage and never looked back. My biggest issue with the hammer has always been it's terrible speed compared to the sword, and having that patched up with the emeralds really helped. Speed increases go 2>3>2 in effective in terms of affecting the stats so getting +5 speed on the hammer really helped. I haven't tested it with +2 speed rather than +5 off forging, but I might go back and try it soon.

[Cal Thang]

For me:
Infinity Blade(s): +dmg +def +knockback (for some reason they always +10 to knockback), Crusader and Bug Killer.
Infinity Dagger(s): +dmg +crit chance +crit dmg, Crusader and Artful. Usually 1HKO anything with special attack.
Infinity Gavel: +spd +crit chance +crit dmg, Artful for spamming special attack
(Acrobat for Combat Route).
Ring Combination: Slime + Iridium band, Crabshell + Napalm Ring

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by Dean McCoy:

For me:
Infinity Blade: +dmg +def +knockback (for some reason they always +10 to knockback), Crusader and Bug Killer.
Infinity Dagger: +dmg +crit chance +crit dmg, Crusader and Artful. Usually 1HKO anything with special attack.

You can only have one enchantment per weapon, unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying? Like, I'd love to have Crusader and Haymaker, but to my knowledge you can only have 1?

[Cal Thang]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

Originally posted by Dean McCoy:

For me:
Infinity Blade: +dmg +def +knockback (for some reason they always +10 to knockback), Crusader and Bug Killer.
Infinity Dagger: +dmg +crit chance +crit dmg, Crusader and Artful. Usually 1HKO anything with special attack.

You can only have one enchantment per weapon, unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying? Like, I'd love to have Crusader and Haymaker, but to my knowledge you can only have 1?

Yeah, i have 2 Blades and 2 Daggers

[BCD]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

The dagger, with the new forge boosts and rings, is arguably the best weapon in the game though. You get like a 30-40% chance to crit, your special attack cools down immediately, and your special attack hits 3x. So you're getting a 90-120% chance of one-hitting any enemy in the game, every second. The only downside is that groups of enemies, like if you get surrounded by flying snakes, can be tricky. But everything else is nearly guaranteed to be a OHKO.

A dagger that's actually good? Incredible! I'll try to remember this, OHKs are more fun than repeating sword attacks.

[andrew.viall]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

I think the speed was like, +3 and +2 and +2? So I did 1 speed boost and 2 damage boosts for my sword.

The dagger, with the new forge boosts and rings, is arguably the best weapon in the game though. You get like a 30-40% chance to crit, your special attack cools down immediately, and your special attack hits 3x. So you're getting a 90-120% chance of one-hitting any enemy in the game, every second. The only downside is that groups of enemies, like if you get surrounded by flying snakes, can be tricky. But everything else is nearly guaranteed to be a OHKO.

I still prefer the sword, personally.

+2 +3 +2