TotK Weapon Bonuses: Max Attack Up, Types and How to Get Them

Weapons, bows and shields in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sometimes come with an extra effect such as “Attack Up +6” — a weapon bonus. It is not the same as a weapon’s fixed trait (the Royal Guard series’ huge attack when about to break, for example): the trait is always there, the bonus is rolled when you get the weapon. All numbers on this page come from the game parameters; base attack is in all weapons.

What bonuses are there, and how high can they go?

Tears of the Kingdom uses one set of numbers for everything that can have a bonus: white +3 to +5, yellow +6 to +10, for attack, durability and shield guard alike. The highest Attack Up is therefore +10, however strong the weapon itself is.

In English both attack tiers read “Attack Up +”; the icon color tells them apart.

The 18 items with no bonuses: Master Sword, Scimitar of the Seven, Boulder Breaker, Lightscale Trident, Great Eagle Bow, Daybreaker, Biggoron’s Sword, Fierce Deity Sword, Dusk Claymore, Dusk Bow, Sword of the Hero, White Sword of the Sky, Sea-Breeze Boomerang, Sea-Breeze Shield, Demon King’s Bow, Magic Rod, Magic Scepter and Magic Staff. The game data has no bonus settings for them. The Hylian Shield is not on the list and can have one.

Which bonuses can each weapon roll, and how many points does it take?

The tables show whether each weapon can roll Critical Hit and Long Throw (Quick Shot and Five-Shot Burst for bows), and the kill points after which that weapon spawns white and then yellow in chests and in enemies’ hands. The last column is the better weapon that takes its place once the points are higher still. Decayed and intact versions are listed separately.

One-handed weapons

Two-handed weapons

Spears

Bows

Shields

How do you farm weapons with bonuses?

1. Build up kill points. Every enemy you defeat adds points by type: a Silver Lynel 120, each temple boss 300, King Gleeok 180. Once the total passes a weapon’s thresholds, enemies and chests carry it white, then yellow. Weapons in a series also move up: a decayed Traveler’s Sword becomes a Soldier’s Broadsword after about 2,267 points, then a Knight’s and a Royal one.

Unlike Breath of the Wild, the game data has no “this chest is always yellow” setting, so there is no list of guaranteed yellow chests.

2. Have a Rock Octorok reroll it. A weapon a Rock Octorok repairs comes back with a random bonus, and a white one fed to another unused Rock Octorok may turn yellow. Each one repairs a single item at a time. The bonus you get is random; save first if you want to keep the one you have. Steps and a route are in weapon durability.

Where can you reliably get high-attack weapons?

A bonus adds at most 10; the base weapon and Fuse make the real difference. Reliable sources:

• The Royal Guard series. Near the top of every category, at fixed spots mostly in Hyrule Castle: Royal Guard’s Claymore 3, Royal Guard’s Sword 3, Royal Guard’s Spear 4, Royal Guard’s Bow 5. The catch is low durability.
• Royal weapons in silver enemies’ hands. The game data has the Royal Claymore in 28 places, 19 of them held by enemies; the higher your points, the better the weapons of a series enemies carry, and the likelier a yellow bonus.

• Intact versions from the Depths. The intact version of a weapon hits much harder — the Royal Claymore is 14 decayed and 34 intact. How to get them: pristine weapons.
• The Gloom series. The Gloom Club, Gloom Sword and Gloom Spear have the highest attack of their types; a Phantom Ganon wielding a Gloom Sword leaves it behind when defeated.
• Lynels. White-Maned and Silver Lynels carry the Savage Lynel Bow (which can roll Five-Shot Burst) and drop it when defeated; their horns are for Fuse. See Lynel farming.

See also

• Weapon farming: where to pick up Royal Guard weapons, Royal Bows and Savage Lynel Bows after every Blood Moon.
• Breath of the Wild weapon bonuses: different ranges for every weapon, and guaranteed yellow chests in Master Mode.
• Enemy scaling: the same kill points turn monsters and the horns on their weapons stronger.
• Damage calculator: enter the Attack Up +N and a Fuse material to get the damage per hit.