Tessen
For official shards · Mace Fighting · two-handed · every figure sourced
For 6 seconds the attacker's damage against you is cut by 20-50%, the figure set by your own weapon skill.
Needs 70 weapon skill, 30 Tactics · base mana 30. Bushido or Ninjitsu
Swings with both weapons; a 25% base chance of an extra attack.
Needs 90 weapon skill, 60 Tactics · base mana 20. Ninjitsu
The Tessen is a two-handed Mace Fighting weapon: 10–13 base damage at 2 seconds a swing, with Feint as its primary special move and Dual Wield as its secondary.
The numbers
| Skill | Mace Fighting |
|---|---|
| Hands | Two-handed — no shield with it |
| Base damage | 10–13 |
| Weapon speed | 2 seconds |
| Primary move | Feint |
| Secondary move | Dual Wield |
| Hue | 0 [!] — undyed: a plain Tessen wears its art's own colours, which is how the picture is drawn. A crafted one takes the colour of the metal or wood it is made from. |
How fast it actually swings depends on your stamina and Swing Speed Increase — the toolkit's weapon builder and Reference › Weapons work that out for your character.
Named weapons and artifacts built on the Tessen — 2
Every item in the toolkit's database that its own data places on this weapon. Each keeps the Tessen's specials and base swing; the properties are its own.
| Item | Properties |
|---|---|
| Pilfered Dancer Fans | DI 20 · SSI 20 · DCI 5 · FCR 2 · Spell Channeling |
| Wind's Edge | Hit Mana Leech 40% · DI 50 · SSI 50 · DCI 10 |
Other Mace Fighting weapons
The gargoyle version: Gargish Tessen.
Two-handed: Black Staff · Bo Staff · Candied Staff · Gargish Gnarled Staff · Gargish Tessen · Gargish War Hammer · Glass Staff · Gnarled Staff · Nunchaku · Paladin Hammer · Quarter Staff · Serpentstone Staff · Shepherd's Crook · Skull Gnarled Staff · Tetsubo · War Hammer
One-handed: Barbed Whip · Club · Diamond Mace · Disc Mace · Escrima · Gargish Maul · Gargish Otsuchi · Hammer Pick · Mace · Maul · Scepter · Sledge Hammer · Smith's Hammer · Wand · War Axe · War Mace · Wild Staff
Where these come from
Damage, speed, hands and skill are the toolkit's weapon table; the special moves, their base mana and what they do come from uo.com's Special Moves page; the named weapons and their properties are the toolkit's item database. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished where it appears.
More from UO Toolkit
- Every weapon — all 126, each with its own page
- Damage calculator — how a hit is worked out, step by step
- Every skill — what each does, its stats and where it caps
- The toolkit itself — the weapon builder, swing speed at your stamina and SSI, and every calculator, free
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