Decade weapon

Decade weapons are unique weapons which all have an inherent bonus during events (e.g. "Deals 20% additional damage during Festival events").

Properties

All Decade weapons have one of these two modifiers:

• Martial weapons: deals 20% additional damage during Festival events
• Caster weapons: 20% chance to halve the casting time of spells during Festival events

Decade weapons released during the 10th Anniversary Celebration (except for Decade Staff "Astral Pillar") have one of the following two features:

• A unique combination of existing skins, often with unusual attribute requirements (e.g. a mesmer wand with a sword skin, a pair of axes as an axe skin)
• A replicable skin, but with a unique particle effect on auto attacks (e.g. black particles for scythe, red ones for hammer).

Decade weapons released during the 20th Anniversary Celebration have the following features:

• A skin that was previously only available via a pre-order item
• A maximum value "of the (Profession)" modifier for a profession not associated with the item's base type
• A particle effect on auto-attacks in a color corresponding with the "of the (Profession)" modifier

Acquisition

Decade weapons can be acquired during the Anniversary Celebration from the Ancient Anniversary Weaponsmith in Embark Beach for 5 Proofs of Legend.

List of Decade weapons

Items in italics indicate a property (other than the unique inscriptions) that cannot be replicated for items of a given type and attribute.

Set	Name	Type	Attribute	Damage Type	Prefix	Inscription	Suffix	Skin and Effects
10th	Rival Skies	Axe	Axe Mastery	Slashing	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Fiery Blade Axe & Icy Blade Axe
	Roaring Earth	Hammer	Hammer Mastery	Blunt	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Igneous Maul; red particles
	Distant Horizon	Sword	Swordsmanship	Slashing	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Crystalline Sword (grey); teal particles
	Falling Star	Flatbow	Marksmanship	Piercing	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Ivory Bow (black); yellow particles
	Astral Pillar	Staff	Any Monk	Holy	Hale	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Enchanting	Ghostly Staff
	Undying Service	Wand	Any Necromancer	Dark	n/a	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Memory	Dead Sword
	All the World	Wand	Any Mesmer	Chaos	n/a	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Memory	Jade Sword (white)
	Antipode Alloy	Wand	Any Elementalist	Chaos	n/a	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Memory	Elemental Sword
	High Noon	Daggers	Dagger Mastery	Slashing	Zealous	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Fiery Gladius x2 (black)
	Underworld Pillar	Staff	Any Ritualist	Dark	Hale	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Enchanting	Earth Staff (obsidian), attack spirit projectiles
	Funeral Fang	Scythe	Scythe Mastery	Slashing	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Enchanting	Ancient Scythe (common) (black); black particles
	Mist Piercer	Spear	Spear Mastery	Piercing	Furious	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Fortitude	Spiraling Spear; teal particles
20th	Bear's Roar	Hammer	Hammer Mastery	Blunt	Furious	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Paragon	Bear's Sloth
	Scorpion's Clutch	Flatbow	Marksmanship	Piercing	Sundering	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Warrior	Scorpion's Lust
	Unicorn's Valor	Wand	Any Monk	Chaos	n/a	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Mesmer	Unicorn's Wrath
	Snake's Lineage	Staff	Any Necromancer	Chaos	Adept (Spawning Power)	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Ritualist	Snake's Envy
	Hourglass's Patience	Staff	Any Mesmer	Fire	Adept (Energy Storage)	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Elementalist	Hourglass Staff
	Dragon's Inheritance	Staff	Any Elementalist	Holy	Adept (Mysticism)	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Dervish	Dragon's Envy
	Dragon's Restraint	Daggers	Dagger Mastery	Slashing	Zealous	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Ranger	Dragon Fangs
	Spirit's Absolution	Staff	Any Ritualist	Holy	Adept (Divine Favor)	HCT 20% (during Festivals)	Monk	Spiritbinder
	Soul's Repentance	Scythe	Scythe Mastery	Slashing	Vampiric	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Necromancer	Soulbreaker
	Sun's Revolution	Spear	Spear Mastery	Piercing	Zealous	Dmg +20% (during Festivals)	Assassin	Sunspear

Notes

• Decade weapons' damage property will count once, no matter how many different effect stacking requirements are met.
• Decade weapons are customized upon acquisition, so take care to purchase them on the character you wish to use them on.
• The inherent bonus effect during events is only active during certain events (Canthan New Year, Anniversary Celebration, Dragon Festival, Wayfarer's Reverie, Halloween, and Wintersday).
• The appearance of Decade weapons is not changed when under the effects of a weapon spell, except wands and staves released during the 10th Anniversary Celebration.

See also

• Gallery of decade weapons
• Anniversary weapons

Trivia

• Decade weapons, as their name implies, were added during the 10th and 20th Anniversary Celebrations.

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There originally was a Decade Shield; it was cut for a couple reasons. 1: the shield would have needed a unique festival-based mod, whereas the martial and caster weapons already have them. 2: the shield would have been able to stack with the existing 1-hand Decade weapons, increasing their total effectiveness (during festivals).

— Joe Kimmes

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