Shiren 1 DS:Weapon

Weapons (Japanese: 兵器) are the most reliable way of dealing damage in  Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. Shiren's Strength statistic and bare-handed punching quickly become useless upon hordes of Monsters.

Upgrade Value - Can be upgraded to equal Max Upgrade value.
Base Strength - Weapon power independent of upgrades.
Max Upgrade - Maximum upgrade potential number.

All weapons have an unalterable base power value: Base Strength, and receive additional power through upgrades, in which all weapons have a set Max Upgrade value which cannot be exceeded. The Upgrade Value number is shown next to the weapon name as +[Value].

A weapons Upgrade Value can be increased by +1 by reading a Air Bless Scroll with the weapon equipped, or by paying a Blacksmith 1,000 Gitan. Both methods can rarely increase this value by +3 instead of +1

Combining weapons in a Melding Jar will add the Upgrade Values of multiple weapons together into the first inserted, as long as the Max Upgrade value has not been exceeded.

Weapon Seals

See: Fusion

Some types of weapons have inbuilt abilities (Seals), with various effects, including:

• Increased damage against certain types of monsters.
• Performing Critical Hits.
• The ability to dig through walls.
• Creating Meat from defeated monsters.

Melding Jars can combine many of these Seals into one item, creating an insanely powerful weapon. If a weapon with two 200% damage to a specific monster type seals hits a monster of both types, 400% damage will be dealt (normal damage is quadrupled). Floating-type is the most common in monsters of two types, therefore the Air Slayer Seal is one of the most useful.

Curses

See: Curses

Weapon Seals do not function while the item is cursed but the upgrade value will be preserved and still function for attack power. Once equipped, the Weapon also cannot be normally removed.

Rusting

Triggering Rusty Traps and Green Slime Family Monsters can decrease the Upgrade Value of weapons and monsters level 3 and 4 can remove Seals.

A weapons minimum upgrade value is the same number as its Base Strength, but negative. Eg. a Fragile Edge has a Base Strength of 20, but will continue to decrease until it stops at a minimum upgrade value of -20.

Grey Slimes and Red Slimes

The [Gld] Seal will be removed first, then the other seals in a random order. When attacking, your weapon or shield will either rust or have a seal removed from it.

• Green Slimes: Decrease upgrade value by 1 each rust.
• Purple Slimes: Decrease upgrade value by 2 each rust.
• Grey Slimes: Decrease upgrade value by 1 each rust and can remove seals.
• Red Slimes: Decrease upgrade value by 3 each rust and can remove seals.

Exceptions

• Golden Blades can never rust because they cannot lose their inherent [Gld] Seal, though other weapons with this seal can rust by Grey or Red Slimes.
• Cudgels cannot rust by Rusty Traps, but can rust by Green Slime Family Monsters (all levels).

Weapons cannot lose their intrinsic ability, e.g. a Dragonkiller cannot have its [Drg] Seal removed, however the [Drg] seal can potentially be lost if this shield is melded into a Polearm or another Weapon other than a Dragonkiller (or Dragonkill X).

Buying and Selling

• Weapon base price: Weapon cost without added inherent Seal Price.
• Upgrade value price: ${\text{Weapon's upgrade value}}\pm {\text{ive}}\times {\text{(Buy+) (or) (Sell+) value}}$
• Total seal value: No change whether buying or selling.

Equations for Weapon Price

Buying	$\color {Blue}{\text{Weapon's base price}}\color {Black}+\color {Red}{\text{Upgrade value price}}\color {Black}+\color {Green}{\text{Total seal value}}$
Buying (cursed)	$\color {Black}(\color {Blue}{\text{Weapon's base price}}\color {Black}+\color {Red}{\text{Upgrade value price}}\color {Black}+\color {Green}{\text{Total seal value}}\color {Black})\times 0.9$
Selling	$\color {Blue}{({\text{Weapon's base price}}\times 0.3)}\color {Black}\pm \color {Red}{\text{Upgrade value price}}\color {Black}+\color {Green}{\text{Total seal value}}$
Selling (cursed)	$\color {Black}{\bigl [}\color {Blue}{({\text{Weapon's base price}}\times 0.3)}\color {Black}\pm \color {Red}{\text{Upgrade value price}}\color {Black}+\color {Green}{\text{Total seal value}}\color {Black}{\bigr ]}\times 0.9$

Values of Individual Seals

500	1,000	200	2,000	400	3,000	1,500	300	300	800	300	300	200	2,500	1,000

When checking the 'info' of a weapon with multiple seals, they will be listed in the above order. The breakable Pickaxe [Dig] Seal and the unbreakable Pickaxe Seal [Dig] are mutually exclusive.

Weapons

The following list are all the weapons you can find, listed in alphabetical order.

Weapon InformationBuying and Selling

Sprite	Name		Description	Rune	Base Strength	Max Upgrade
	English	Japanese
	Air Slayer	斬空剣	Inflicts 200% damage to floating-type enemies. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Air]	4	8
	Bufu's Cleaver	ブフーの包丁	Can sometimes carve meat from monsters you kill.	[Meat]	3	30
	Crescent Arm	三日月刀	Inflicts 200% damage to exploding enemies. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Crescent]	3	8
	Cudgel	こん棒	Will not rust by Rusty Traps, or Green Slime Family Monsters level 1 and 2, but will rust by both abilities of monsters level 3 and 4.	None	2	20
	Cyclops Killer	一ツ目殺し	Inflicts 200% damage to one-eyed enemies. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Eye]	3	8
	Dragonkiller	ドラゴンキラー	Inflicts 200% damage to dragon-type enemies. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Dragon]	5	8
	Drain Buster	ドレインバスター	Inflicts 200% damage to drain-type enemies. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Drain]	4	8
	Firebrand	火迅風魔刀	Get a blacksmith to upgrade a Katana +50. Added seals on the Katana will be lost.	None	20	99
	Fragile Edge	使い捨ての剣	Although strong at first, the blade dulls with each blow.	[Disposable]	20	8
	Golden Blade	金の剣	A weak blade made of gold, but will never rust.	[Gold]	2	8
	Homing Blade	必中の剣	Attacks will never miss.	[Homing]	1	8
	Kabra Reborn	秘剣カブラステギ	Upgraded by a Blacksmith from a Kabra's Blade+70.	None	50	99
	Kabra's Blade	剛剣マンジカブラ	A powerful sword honed by ancient swordsmith Kabra, it is rumored to be the ultimate blade.	None	12	70
	Katana	カタナ	A reliable weapon trusted by many wanderers.	None	6	50
	Kigny Axe	キグニキングの斧	If current HP is ≤ 10% of maximum HP attacks will be Critical Hits	[Kigny]	10	50
	Mastersword	どうたぬき	A dependable blade known as the Masakuni sword.	None	8	60
	Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧	~26% chance to cause a Critical Hit Occasionally dropped by Taur.	[Critical]	5	8
	Pickaxe	つるはし	Can dig through walls, but may break. Can be made unbreakable by a Blacksmith.	[Dig]	1	8
	Polearm	長巻	A bladed weapon with a long handle.	None	4	30
	Razor Wind	妖刀かまいたち	Simultaneously strikes the three directions in front of you.	[Triple]	2	8
	Sickle Slayer	成仏の鎌	Inflicts 200% damage on Ghost-type Monsters. (Normal attack is doubled.)	[Holy]	3	8

Sprite	Name		Base Strength	Max Upgrade	Rune Value	Shop
	English	Japanese				Cost	Cost+	Value	Value+
	Air Slayer	斬空剣	4	8	300	5,300	50	1,500	15
	Bufu's Cleaver	ブフーの包丁	3	30	800	3,300	25	1,550	7
	Crescent Arm	三日月刀	3	8	300	3,100	28	1,140	8
	Cudgel	こん棒	2	20	None	400	4	120	1
	Cyclops Killer	一ツ目殺し	3	8	300	3,900	36	1,380	10
	Dragonkiller	ドラゴンキラー	5	8	1,000	6,000	50	2,500	15
	Drain Buster	ドレインバスター	4	8	300	3,900	36	1,380	10
	Firebrand	火迅風魔刀	20	99	None	30,000	300	9,000	90
	Fragile Edge	使い捨ての剣	20	8	200	4,200	40	1,400	12
	Golden Blade	金の剣	2	8	500	6,500	60	2,300	18
	Homing Blade	必中の剣	1	8	3,000	13,000	100	6,000	30
	Kabra Reborn	秘剣カブラステギ	50	99	None	40,000	400	12,000	120
	Kabra's Blade	剛剣マンジカブラ	12	70	None	15,000	150	4,500	45
	Katana	カタナ	6	50	None	800	8	240	2
	Kigny Axe	キグニキングの斧	10	50	2,500	22,500	200	8,500	60
	Mastersword	どうたぬき	8	60	None	1,500	15	450	4
	Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧	5	8	2,000	8,000	60	3,800	18
	Pickaxe	つるはし	1	8	[Dig] 200 [Dig] 1,000	700	5	350	1
	Polearm	長巻	4	30	None	600	6	180	1
	Razor Wind	妖刀かまいたち	2	8	1,500	9,000	75	2,250	22
	Sickle Slayer	成仏の鎌	3	8	400	2,400	20	1,000	6

Rescue reward exclusive weapons

These weapons are not found normally, and are obtained as rewards for successful rescues in specific locations. They are the same in appearance to their regular counterparts but have a much higher Max Upgrade potential. They are exclusive to the DS port. For other rescue reward item locations see: Rescue Reward Items.

Weapon InformationBuying and Selling

Sprite	Name		Rune	Base Strength	Max Upgrade	Rescue Location
	English	Japanese
	Cudgel X	こん棒改	None	2	50	Final Puzzle 1 - 99 Kitchen God 26 - 99 Table Mountain 1 - 29
	Dragonkill X	ドラゴンキラー改	[Dragon]	5	40	Ceremonial Cave 21 - 29 Final Puzzle 1 - 99 Kitchen God 11 - 99
	Goldblade X	金の剣改	[Gold]	1	40	Ceremonial Cave 10 - 29 Final Puzzle 1 - 99 Scroll Cave 1 - 99 Table Mountain 17 - 29 Tainted Path 31 - 98
	Master X	どうたぬき改	None	8	80	Ceremonial Cave 1 - 29 Final Puzzle 1 - 99 Kitchen God 81 - 99 Scroll Cave 81 - 99 Tainted Path 51 - 98
	Polearm X	長巻改	None	4	60	Final Puzzle 1 - 99 Kitchen God 51 - 99 Scroll Cave 51 - 99 Table Mountain 10 - 29 Tainted Path 31 - 98

Sprite	Name		Base Strength	Max Upgrade	Rune Value	Shop
	English	Japanese				Cost	Cost+	Value	Value+
	Cudgel X	こん棒改	2	50	None	800	8	240	2
	Dragonkill X	ドラゴンキラー改	5	40	1,000	11,000	100	4,000	30
	Goldblade X	金の剣改	1	40	500	12,500	120	4,100	36
	Master X	どうたぬき改	8	80	None	3,000	30	900	9
	Polearm X	長巻改	4	60	None	1,200	12	360	3

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Weapons
Japanese		兵器

References

• Rescue Reward item locations data obtained from Lord Gek on GameFAQ's Via Gabikun/ Official strat guide.
• Data via Akurasu.net
• Revised data via SexyPioneer's blog