Vampire's Edge

Fallout 3 weapon
Vampire's Edge
Requirements
Skill	Melee Weapons
Attack statistics
Dmg/attack	15 (15.8)
DPS	34.6 (36.3)
Crit dmg	20
Crit % mult	x3
Attacks/sec	2.3
AP	28
Other
Weight	1
Value	100
Item HP	750
Repair	Chinese officer's swords
Form ID	00078441
Perk effects
Perks (dam.)	Bloody Mess (+0.8)

 

Vampire's Edge is a unique Chinese officer's sword found in Fallout 3.

Characteristics

The Vampire's Edge does slightly more damage than the regular version; it also weighs only 1 pound compared to the 3 pounds of the Chinese officer's sword. Due to the very low weight, fast attack speed, high critical chance, and good durability, the Vampire's Edge is among the best melee weapons in the game, despite its lower base damage value compared to other unique melee weapons.

Durability

Vampire's Edge can successfully strike about 1000 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

• Chinese officer's sword
• Jingwei's shocksword - An electrified version of the Chinese officer's sword, the shocksword is much stronger and deals electrical damage over time.
• Samurai's sword - An ancient weapon from Japan that deals an extra helping of damage on critical hits, and is much more durable than the standard sword.

The following is based on Fallout 3 cut content.

• Clover's Cleaver - A Chinese officer's sword that was cut from the base game. It was intended to be used by Clover and was to be the Evil follower unique weapon, much like Fawkes' super sledge and Butch's Toothpick were for the other Karma levels.
• Katana - A variant of the samurai's sword that deals much less critical damage, but knocks foes down with critical hits.

End of information based on Fallout 3 cut content

Comparison

Legend
	- Weapon name (melee or unarmed)			- Attacks in V.A.T.S.
	- Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive)			- Action point cost
	- Damage per attack (damage per projectile)			- Damage per action point
	- Damage per second			- Weapon spread
	- Area of effect damage			- Magazine capacity (shots per reload)
	- Effect damage & duration			- Durability (number of attacks before breaking)
	- Bonus effects			- Weight
	- Attacks per second			- Value in caps
	- Critical chance % multiplier			- Value to weight ratio
	- Critical damage			- Skill required
	- Critical effect damage & duration			- Strength required
	- With all mods attached

Chinese officer's sword	10	23.1		2.31	x2	15	28	0.7	1000	3	75	25
Jingwei's shocksword	35	82.8	+2/5s	2.31	x2	25	28	2.9	486	3	500	166.7
Samurai's sword	24	55.4		2.31	x2	40	19	2.5	833	3	75	25
Vampire's Edge	15	34.6		2.31	x3	20	28	1.1	1000	1	100	100

Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.

Location

The Vampire's Edge belongs to Vance, and can be found in a 'sword cabinet' (labeled as such in game) in his room at Meresti Metro station, an important location during the Blood Ties quest. Apart from its unique label, the sword cabinet's appearance is that of a normal wooden cabinet.

The cabinet is a 'Hard' level lock to unlock via lockpicking. Vance carries the key to the cabinet and may be pickpocketed, but he is a difficult target to pickpocket unnoticed, even with a Stealth Boy active. The key can, of course, also be looted from his corpse.

Notes

• The sword is found with a condition of approximately 50%. It can be repaired using ordinary Chinese officer's swords and is also much more durable than the normal Chinese officer's sword.
• Dogmeat will not retrieve the weapon from the sword cabinet like he will with the Victory rifle.

Weapons in Fallout 3 Unarmed Brass knuckles (Steel knuckles) · Deathclaw gauntlet · Power fist (Fisto!, The Shocker) · Spiked knuckles (Plunkett's Valid Points) Melee Weapons Bladed Auto axe, Steel saw (Man Opener, The Mauler) · Axe (The Dismemberer) · Chinese officer's sword (Jingwei's shocksword, Samurai's sword, Vampire's Edge) · Combat knife (Occam's Razor, Stabhappy, Trench knife) · Knife (Ant's Sting, Slasher knife, Ritual knife, Toy knife) · Ripper (Jack) · Shishkebab · Shovel (Fertilizer shovel) · Switchblade (Butch's Toothpick) Blunt Baseball bat · Lead pipe · Nail board (Board of Education) · Police baton · Pool cue (The Break) · Repellent stick · Rolling pin · Shock baton (Electro-Suppressor) · Sledgehammer (The Tenderizer) · Super sledge (Fawkes' super sledge) · Tire iron (Highwayman's Friend) Small Guns Pistols .32 pistol (Wild Bill's Sidearm) · 10mm pistol (Colonel Autumn's 10mm pistol) · Chinese pistol (Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol) · Dart gun · Silenced 10mm pistol · Scoped .44 Magnum (Blackhawk, Callahan's Magnum, Paulson's revolver) Shotguns Combat shotgun (The Terrible Shotgun) · Double-barrel shotgun · Sawed-off shotgun (The Kneecapper) SMGs 10mm SMG (Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG) Rifles Assault rifle (Infiltrator, Perforator) · BB gun · Chinese assault rifle (Xuanlong assault rifle) · Hunting rifle (Ol' Painless) · Lever-action rifle (Backwater rifle) · (Lincoln's repeater) · Railway rifle · Sniper rifle (Reservist's rifle, Victory rifle) Big Guns Direct fire Drone cannon (Drone cannon Ex-B) · Flamer (Burnmaster, Rapid-torch flamer, Slo-burn flamer) · Gatling laser (Precision Gatling laser, Vengeance) · Heavy incinerator · Minigun (Eugene) · Rock-It Launcher Area of effect Fat Man (Experimental MIRV) · Missile launcher (Miss Launcher) Energy Weapons Pistols Alien atomizer (Atomic pulverizer, Captain's Sidearm) · Alien blaster (Firelance) · Laser pistol (Colonel Autumn's laser pistol, Protectron's Gaze, Smuggler's End) · Mesmetron (Microwave emitter) · Plasma pistol (MPLX Novasurge) Rifles Alien disintegrator (Destabilizer) · Gauss rifle · Laser rifle (Metal Blaster, Wazer Wifle) · Plasma rifle (A3-21's plasma rifle) · Tesla cannon · Tri-beam laser rifle Explosives Grenades Bio-gas canister · Cryo grenade · Frag grenade · Nuka-grenade · Plasma grenade · Pulse grenade Mines Bottlecap mine · Cryo mine · Frag mine · Plasma mine · Pulse mine Cut content Accessible (Black Bart's Bane) · (Breaker) · (Clover's Cleaver) · (Curse Breaker, Excalibat) · (Discharge hammer) · Fists · (Gauss rifle (Beta)) · (Grenade launcher) · Katana · (Law Dog) · (Lightning gun) · (Love Tap) · Mirelurk bait grenade · (O'Grady's Peacemaker) · (Pa's Fishing Aid) · Signal flare · Smoke grenade · Spanner · (Tesla cannon (Beta)) · (Wanda) Parentheses () denote unique weapon variants, italics denote weapons available through add-ons.