TotK Soldier's Broadsword: Attack, Durability and Locations

Soldier’s Broadsword is a one-handed weapon in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game describes it this way: “A light, thin metal sword used by the guards of Hyrule Castle. Its light weight makes it easy to handle and enables quicker charged attacks.” This page gives its numbers and maps every place the game puts one.

The decayed Soldier’s Broadsword is the one found on the surface; the intact one, with its own Compendium number, is covered in pristine weapons.

Where do you get Soldier’s Broadsword?

The game’s world data places it in 394 spots: 17 in treasure chests, 333 carried by monsters, and 44 lying in the world. The most are near Abandoned Eldin Mine in Eldin (21).

Zoom the map in to tell the points apart, and pick a kind or a monster in the list above it.

The 20 landmarks with the most, largest group first. “Show on map” moves the map above to one of them.

• Carried by a monster: beat the monster and it drops the weapon. Most often Blue Bokoblin (141), Black Bokoblin (65), Fire-Breath Lizalfos (24), Blue Moblin (17), and Ice-Breath Lizalfos (13).
• Treasure chest: a chest can be opened only once.
• Lying in the world: placed in the scenery, free to pick up.

How good is Soldier’s Broadsword?

Decayed it has attack 6 and durability 17; intact, 12 and 23. The effect the game gives it: Enables quicker charged attacks. The number is before Fuse; what a fused material adds is in the Fuse guide, and how durability runs down in weapon durability.

See also

• All weapons
• Best weapons
• Pristine weapons
• Interactive map