Cavalry Saber family
Cavalry Saber
One-handed saber in use since the Civil War. Lightweight with good reach.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Heavy
- 252
- Light
- 150
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 180
Handling
Swinging it
A melee weapon records none of the firing stats. What it records is the trade between the two swings - a heavy costs stamina and time for the damage it adds.
- Light 150
- Heavy 252
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.85s - 5.3× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Its attacks are not one damage type - light attack deals Melee Slash, heavy attack deals Melee Stab - so which one you pick below changes what it is strongest and weakest against.
Light attack
- Damage
- 101
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- Cleave cap
- 3 bodies
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.7s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.35s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.85s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 303
- Upper torso 152
- Torso 101
- Left arm 101
- Right arm 101
- Left leg 71
- Right leg 71
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. Melee carries no falloff, so these do not change with distance.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Slash damage. It hits Firebreather hardest (4.4x) and Bloodskin softest (0.44x).
Killed outright by one hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver Head
One hit
Hive HeadFirebreather Head
Two hits
Water Devil Body
Three hits
Armored HeadImmolator Head
Four hits
Concertina Armored Head
Five or more
Meathead Torso UpperAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotSpider HeadHellborn HeadButcher Torso UpperScrapbeak HeadBloodskin Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Traits and perks
Traits that apply
Every trait this weapon's own data references. A recommendation is the game's own; the numbers above are the ones we can prove from the weapon's attribute presets.
Silent Killer Recommended 3 pts Reduce noise when performing melee attacks.
A few perks carve out exceptions in their own description - Crack Shot excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants - so read the perk text, not just the listing.