Soulframe Weapon Tier List — Preludes 15 (All 55 Weapons)

Quick answer — the best weapons by stage

Historical P15 ranking: the weapon counts, tables, rankings, stats, and dates below retain their P15 baseline. They are not a verified P16 tier list. For current pickup and Temper decisions, use the P16 rules below.

TL;DR: All 55 weapons in the Preludes 15 catalog, ranked by type. New players: no-gate starters — Wulder (Long Blade), Thistle (Bow), Gwylen (Magick), Nettle (Short Blade). Mid: Orst-III (76 ATK, Courage 12), Falx, Veilk (P15 new). Endgame: Marrow's Bane (Courage 21, Rare), Gathannan (Spirit 19, Rare), Seathorn (198 charged, Rare).

• Data source: the tables preserve this site's P15 weapon-catalog snapshot (55 published weapons). The linked weapon catalog and individual pages may now carry newer information.
• How to pick: match the weapon's Virtue gate to your build (see Virtues explained); below the gate = no attunement bonus.
• Three P15 additions: Veilk · Ilverac · Vrusht-IX — see the P15 new weapons box.
• Not a DPS sim: ATK, charged, stagger, and smite are catalog stats; real output depends on Virtues, Tempers, and your Pact.

Which weapon should I use in Preludes 15?

Pick by stage and Virtue, not raw ATK: a no-gate starter beats a 21-Courage Rare you can't attune. New envoys should run the free starters, then move to the low-gate picks in the three-stage table — and since Preludes 15 made Virtue respec free per loadout, you can retarget whenever your weapon drops.

How this list is built

• Grouping: by the catalog's type field — Long Blades, Heavy, Polearms, Bows, Magick, Short Blades, Flyblades, Shields (8 types). The community independently counts weapon classes by grip at "seven or eight" (community view) — which lines up with the catalog's 8 types.
• Columns: Attunement · Virtue gate · ATK · Charged · Stagger · Smite · Primary source — all straight from each weapon page.
• Gate notation: single gates read "Courage 12"; dual gates read "Courage 13 + Grace 11" — dual-gate weapons need both thresholds met for any scaling (Virtues explained).
• Rarity: (Rare) marks rare-tier weapons; anything unmarked is Common or Uncommon. P15 new marks the three weapons added in Preludes 15: Gods & Ghosts.

New in Preludes 15

Three weapons were added in Preludes 15: Gods & Ghosts (2026-06-10) — all three are Ode'n weapons and all are farmed from whole-weapon preview drops:

• Veilk — Polearm, Courage 13, Uncommon. 59 ATK / 60 stagger / 5% smite. Farm Discharged Nimrod on the Brewer of Hues / Sinecure line.
• Ilverac — Long Blade, Courage 12, Common. 52 ATK / 8% smite. Lowest Courage gate of the Ode trio; farm Gruul Seeker Ruthos.
• Vrusht-IX — Heavy mace, Courage 18, Common. 63 ATK / 60 stagger / 8% smite; charged throw is a lightning strike. Farm Crypt Crawler.

Weapon tier tables

Sorted by base ATK within each type. Click a weapon for the full page — stats, Tempers, and every drop source.

Long Blades (15)

Heavy (5)

Polearms (5)

Bows (6)

Magick (8)

Note the charged column: Magick staves (and bows) live on charged attacks — Seathorn's 198 charged is the highest charged value in the catalog. See charged-attack caps in Virtues explained.

Short Blades (10)

Short Blades trade ATK for speed — the catalog's twin-blade Rivt-II splits in combat for dual-strike attacks, which raw ATK doesn't show.

Flyblades (3)

Shields (3)

Three-stage recommendations (New player / Mid / Endgame)

Derived objectively from the tables above — New player: no gate or combined gates ≤ 8 (fits the 16 starting Virtue points); Mid: primary gate 11–15; Endgame: primary gate 16+, Rare tier, or dual gates ≥ 13+11.

Reading notes:

• ATK is not the whole story — Orst-III's 76 ATK comes with 74 stagger; Seathorn's 44 ATK hides a 198 charged attack. Compare all four stat columns plus your Virtue build.
• Dual-gate picks (Juniper, Odiac, Witan, Espadarte) are efficient for hybrid builds because their combined gates stay low.
• Acquisition difficulty matters: Zenith Founders weapons need the Wares of Zenith; Marrow's Bane and Gathannan are fragment drops from Vadagar Bear/Stag — see farming routes.

Moonsteel quick check

Moonsteel weapons are identified by a silver-colored vine in the top-left corner / a white-leaves icon (three independent community sources agree). Moonsteel is a rare cosmetic decoration with no combat bonus — don't pay a premium for it stat-wise. Related visual shorthand (community-sourced): weapon edge colors hint at Temper slots — colorless 0 / green edge 2 / blue (three-star) 3 / yellow 4 — see Chordstone refining for what Tempers do.

Pickup decisions — current P16 rules

The old pre-P16 bundle-refining forecast and quality/Temper-count-only stockpile advice are superseded. Inspect the specific Tempers on each drop and whether Tuvalkane has learned them. Quality and slot count alone do not decide a duplicate's value.

• Unlearned Temper: after completing The Steelsinger, dismantling from Inventory or the ground grants learning progress for the Tempers present. Each Temper needs 10 points; each dismantle grants one point per Temper present, with amped copies granting progress for each copy. Earlier dismantles are not retroactive.
• Learned Temper: Striking requires a Level 30 weapon, Tuvalkane Rank 3, and a learned Temper applicable to the weapon's type and Origin. Origin Tempers stay within their Origin; a Bow-only Temper cannot be Struck onto a Long Blade.
• Slots and replacement: Striking can fill an empty slot or replace an unwanted Temper, including amplifying one already present, within the weapon's Temper limit. Replacement is permanent; restoring a removed Temper requires learning it and spending the resources to Strike it again. Legendary quality is not listed as a Striking prerequisite.
• For pickup/dismantle decisions, see Inventory management; for the current Temper Striking workflow, see Preludes 16.

Source: Avakot's P16 community patch transcription, “Temper Striking.” These are published rules, not client-tested costs, damage comparisons, or P16 rankings.

Quality chain quick reference

The historical community quality chain is Military → Officer → Noble → Sovereign → Legendary. It does not establish Legendary-only customization or a current one-step refining saving. Keep a duplicate when it improves the weapon you intend to use; consider dismantling it when its specific Tempers advance learning after The Steelsinger. If those Tempers are already learned, check the weapon's usable slots and Striking gates above before keeping it solely for Sovereign or Legendary quality. Full pickup/dismantle decisions: Inventory management.

Community feel

Community impressions — not catalog data; treat as opinions pending in-game re-testing:

• Duplicate drops match your highest rank (community-sourced): rank a weapon model to 30 and every later drop of that same model arrives at 30 — no re-levelling from scratch. Same model only; it does not generalize to the whole weapon class. Farming maths: farming routes.
• Polearms & Long Blades: "Gathannan is the strongest polearm; Marrow's Bane the strongest Courage long sword" (community view, transcribed from a creator video — happens to match the catalog: Gathannan is the highest-ATK polearm at 69, Marrow's Bane carries the top Courage gate at 21 and 40 stagger).
• Rapier feel (community view): described as a "favorite melee weapon" — long thrust range, right-click charge plus heavy throw, and a satisfying parry.
• Spirit-staff pragmatism (community view): on the early Spirit track, "Seathorn does the job" — a single Rare staff carries the build, and fly blades earn their slot as the Smite-fishing tool rather than as a damage stat. Same source builds it into a charged-Rune nuker: Tethren spirit build.
• Duelo passive note (multi-source community transmission): perfect dodges reportedly trigger bleed and leave a decoy — relevant if you pair agile Grace weapons with the Duelo Pact. The site's pact guide already carries the honesty note.

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