TotK Weapon Durability: Most Durable Weapons, Repair, Fuse

Weapons in Tears of the Kingdom break. This page lists the most durable weapons of each type, explains how durability works, and covers the three ways to make a weapon last: fusing a material, feeding it to a Rock Octorok, and saving the material with Pelison. Every weapon’s number is on the full weapon list.

Which weapons are the most durable?

The ten most durable of each type. The durability column is the number of uses before it breaks.

One-handed

Two-handed

Spears

Bows

Shields

The Hylian Shield, at 800, lasts longer than the other 32 shields put together (594). More on the shields page.

How does durability work?

Each weapon, bow and shield can be used a set number of times before it breaks. You get two warnings: an on-screen message appears when a weapon is badly damaged, and it flashes red in the inventory. The Master Sword is the one exception: using it only drains its energy, and it can be used again after it recharges, which takes about 10 minutes.

Some weapons trade durability for power on purpose. In the game’s words, the Royal Guard’s weapons yield “massive destructive power just before it breaks”, and they are all built with less durability than other weapons of the same power. The Gloom weapons have the highest attack of their types, but the game warns that “its gloom will gradually wear down the body of its wielder”.

How do you repair a weapon?

Let a Rock Octorok swallow equipment before it breaks. This works for ordinary melee weapons, bows and shields, including the Hylian Shield. An item that has already shattered and disappeared from your inventory cannot be repaired.

How do you make it swallow and return the equipment?

1. Dismiss your sage avatars, then approach. They can kill the Octorok before you finish. When you get close, it burrows underground with its rock still showing.
2. Drop one damaged item from your inventory in front of it. Do not throw it at the enemy or leave a pile of equipment. If necessary, use Ultrahand to place the item on the ground in front of its mouth.
3. Back away until it emerges. Stay within sight and wait for it to inhale. Standing right beside the rock keeps it hiding.
4. Wait for the chewing and sparkles. Leave it alone during the repair. It spits the equipment toward Link, so sidestep the projectile before collecting it.
5. Check your inventory. The red badly damaged warning should be gone; inspect the new bonus too. Save before feeding it if you want to preserve a particular bonus.

A successful repair does the following:

• Restores durability. A normal fused attachment does not need to be removed first. If the attachment is another piece of equipment, its durability can be restored too.
• Reportedly rerolls the bonus. Attack Up and Durability Up are among the possible bonuses, and equipment with a white bonus fed to another unused Rock Octorok is said to turn yellow. The game parameters have nothing for this, and your existing effect is not guaranteed to stay; see weapon bonuses.
• Keeps the weapon’s identity. A repaired decayed weapon remains decayed. For a better base weapon, use the pristine weapons guide.

Can the same Octorok repair more than one item?

Each Rock Octorok can successfully repair one item per Blood Moon cycle. Feeding it a second item or briefly leaving and returning does not create an unlimited repair service. The same weapon can be repaired again by a different, unused Octorok.

For a repeatable route, collect your repaired equipment, then defeat the Octorok and mark its position. Return after the next Blood Moon respawns it. The reset depends on a Blood Moon; resting at a campfire overnight is not enough. If you wait beside a spawn through the Blood Moon, travel away and return so the area reloads. How often it comes and what it resets: the Blood Moon guide.

What is a short Rock Octorok repair route?

This route follows four nearby spawns on Eldin’s Flank, north of Death Mountain, from south to north. Travel to Sibajitak Shrine, then head north and slightly east toward stop 1. Continue between the stops without teleporting after every repair. Climb around rocky slopes as needed and look for the exposed rock when you reach each position.

The map below shows these four spawns. Skip any Octorok you have already used or defeated. For more stops, open the Octorok location map; use the full interactive map for terrain and other nearby objectives.

Which equipment cannot be repaired directly?

The order matters when repairing a special item as an attachment:

1. If a valuable material is already attached to the damaged weapon, have Pelison separate it in Tarrey Town first so you can keep it.
2. Equip an ordinary weapon or shield that an Octorok can repair. Drop the special item and Fuse it onto the ordinary equipment. Adding a material to the special weapon while leaving it as the base does not bypass the restriction.
3. Feed the combination to an unused Rock Octorok. Collect it, then have Pelison separate the pieces so you can retrieve both. The special item does not gain a random bonus of its own.

Does Fuse add durability?

Yes, and it is the everyday fix. Fusing a material to a weapon close to breaking adds both durability and attack. Fusing a monster material generally adds 25 durability, but only 10 for Royal Guard and Gloom weapons and for cheap gear — the Rusty weapons, Soup Ladle, Torch, Tree Branch, Wooden Stick weapons, Boat Oar, Farming Hoe, Farmer’s Pitchfork and Fishing Harpoon. The Fuse guide lists the materials that add the most attack.

See also

For more damage without wearing weapons out faster, Mighty food raises attack for a while; the strongest weapons page compares the top weapons of each type.

Which bonuses exist, how high they go and which weapons can roll which: weapon bonuses.