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Va'ruun Painblade

Va'ruun Painblade
Starfield Weapon

62

1.8

11260

The Va'ruun Painblade is a melee weapon in Starfield made by House Va'ruun.

It takes 17 mods across 3 slots, comes in 6 quality tiers from Standard to Exceptional, and can roll up to 3 legendary effects. Its mods need 4 research projects.

It is boosted by 8 skills. Chems can raise its damage too: 9 consumables affect it.

Va'ruun Painblade Builds

Starfield build

Jump into the character build planner with this weapon already equipped, then build skills, traits, and the rest of your loadout around it.

Create a build with Va'ruun Painblade

Mods

interactive

62

1.8

11260

Crit Damage

x2

blade

No Mod

Stainless Steel Blade

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Corroding Blade

Adds Corrosion Damage.

Irradiated Blade

Adds radiation damage.

Adds Poison Damage.

Alloyed Steel Blade

Improved Sneak Attack Damage.

High Carbon Steel Blade

Increased damage.

handle

No Mod

Experimental Alloy Handle

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Ergonomic Handle

Increases Critical Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Weighted Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Lightweight Handle

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Force-Extruded Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

62

1.8

11260

Crit Damage

x2

blade

No Mod

Stainless Steel Blade

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Corroding Blade

Adds Corrosion Damage.

Irradiated Blade

Adds radiation damage.

Adds Poison Damage.

Alloyed Steel Blade

Improved Sneak Attack Damage.

High Carbon Steel Blade

Increased damage.

handle

No Mod

Experimental Alloy Handle

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Ergonomic Handle

Increases Critical Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Weighted Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Lightweight Handle

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Force-Extruded Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Related Skills

interactive

You can select skills to see their effects on this weapon.

Pain Tolerance (Tier 2)

Physical damage is reduced by 5%.

Martial Arts (Tier 3)

15% increased chance to crit with a melee or unarmed attack.

Concealment (Tier 4)

You no longer set off enemy mines. Ranged sneak attacks do 2.5x normal damage and your melee sneak attacks do 4x normal damage.

Isolation (Tier 2)

Do +10% weapon damage and gain 15 Damage Resistance for each Spacesuit and Helmet equipped when you don't have a companion or any crew.

Dueling (Tier 1)

Melee weapons do 25% more damage. Take 10% less damage while wielding a melee weapon.

Crippling (Tier 4)

Human enemies have a 30% increased chance to enter a downed state after taking enough damage.

Robotics (Tier 3)

You deal 10% more damage to Robots and Turrets. You can force a target robot up to 10 levels higher than you to stop fighting for a limited time.

Automated Weapon Systems (Tier 4)

Automated ship weapons do 10% more damage and reduce all targeting mode costs by 20%.

Related Consumables

Consumables (9)

+25% Melee Damage for 300s

+40% Melee Damage for 1800s · +40% Ranged Damage for 1800s · 40% O2 Recovery for 1200s · 10 O2 damage

+40% Damage for 120s · +50% Movement Speed for 120s · -50% Movement Noise for 120s

+40% Melee Damage for 180s · +300 Damage Resistance for 180s

+50% Melee Damage for 120s · +50% Movement Speed for 120s · 2x Jump Height for 120s · +400 Damage Resistance for 120s

+20% Damage for 120s · +20% Movement Speed for 120s

+3% Power Recovery for 10s · Slows time by 35% for 10s · +40% Damage for 10s · +50% Movement Speed for 10s

Supermassive Black Heart

+500% Power Recovery for 10s · Slows time by 50% for 10s · +50% Damage for 10s · +75% Movement Speed for 10s

+25% Damage for 120s · +35% Movement Speed for 120s

Legendary Mods

+10% damage against humans.

+20% damage against robots.

Each consecutive hit deals more damage.

Damage increases as health decreases.

Chance that humans drop extra Med Packs on death.

Chance to freeze target.

+25% increase in attack speed.

Randomly deals radioactive damage and demoralizes the target.

Randomly deals poison damage and slows the target.

Small chance to stagger enemies.

Randomly applies a bleed effect to the target.

Randomly deals corrosive damage and reduces the targets' armor over 6 seconds.

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Small chance to demoralize a target.

Randomly deals Corrosive, Radiation, Poison, and Incendiary damage.

Small chance to frenzy a target.

Every fourth shot fires two projectiles at once.

Small chance to knock down targets.

Randomly switches to explosive rounds.

Premium build materials make this weapon light as a feather.

Rounds will sometimes emit electricity where they land that damages and slows nearby targets.

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Other Mods

stat-upgrade

No Upgrade

No Upgrade.

Attack Speed Upgrade

Increases Attack Speed.

Increases Damage.

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