Weapon Recommendations
Many Neopets players ask the question: "Which weapons are worth wielding to wallop my opponents?" Whether you're looking to simply farm your daily drops from your challenger of choice, prepare for a plot, or just to test the limits of you and your Neopet, the weapons you choose to use can be the difference between sweet victory and agonizing defeat.
This guide is written with 1-Player battling in mind. If you're looking to get into 2-Player battling, check out our League 54 Home!
This guide's pages are roughly divided by budget and how strong your pet is expected to be given that budget. Outliers will be noted when they appear.
Intermediate
Think you're ready to slug it with the big kids, but you're not quite ready to buy stuff that isn't available via the Shop Wizard? This is the section for you. If you're just looking to farm your daily 15 items from the Battledome and don't care about making your pet much stronger after that, you might not even need to advance past this segment of the market. That's what over two decades of power creep will do for you!
Almost all of the weapons on this page should be buyable on the Shop Wizard with a price under 1 million Neopoints. The healers in this section are also mostly meant for pets with at least 50 maximum hit points—you may be served just as well by a cheaper option if your pet doesn't have that much HP yet.
Weapons
Constant Attackers
Before you continue: if you participated in The Wraith Resurgence plot back in 2017-2018, check to see if you have any of these two constants. These two weapons pack even more raw power than a Sword of Skardsen, but they're no-trade, so if you don't have them, you can't get them.
Otherwise, you're looking at these fine still-buyable but somewhat-expensive weapons:
Turned Tooth is the dividing line between beginner and intermediate battling. While its minimum damage is "only" 13 icons per attack (which can matter in some situations), it averages about 15.3 icons, and it has a good chance of dealing more than that. It tends to be very affordable for its effect, though sometimes it's the target of inflation. Since its rarity is only 83, ambitious restockers should find ample opportunity to restock one from the Tyrannian Weaponry Shop in such a scenario.
Bowling Ball of Lost Cities has a solid niche in its ability to deal 15 icons every time it's used. Unfortunately, it's usually more expensive than Turned Tooth and Roxtons Trusty Bowie Knife, since it doesn't restock in any store and was only ever given out once. Still, it's good to check to make sure that's the case, since prices can fluctuate.
Roxtons Trusty Bowie Knife is like a Bowling Ball of Lost Cities that also blocks 75% of all incoming earth—that 75% block works identically for a pet with 1 defence as it does for a pet with 850 defence, so your decision to skip defence day at the Training School will feel a little less bad now. If you got this from the Advent Calendar back in 2022 and don't have anything better, you should probably be using this! Since this item is also a Void Essence weekly collection prize, feel free to use it if you win it.
Void Blade is a 16-icon constant attacker, released en masse in the 2021 Festival of Neggs and rereleased in the prize shop for The Void Within. It's your best option for doing more damage than a Turned Tooth without using something from the Hidden Tower.
Healers
Greater Healing Scroll and Helm of Recovery are functionally identical: they heal up to 50 HP. The one you should get is the one you can get the cheapest, so if you're in the market for one, be sure to check the price of both.
Feel Better Soup is a very strong healing item, despite its incredibly low price, healing 50% of your pet's maximum HP and blocking 100% of all incoming air damage the turn you use it. Keep in mind that this only heals more than a Greater Healing Scroll or similar item once your pet has more than 100 max HP.
Flowers of Inner Healing is similar to Feel Better Soup except it blocks 75% of Dark instead of blocking 100% of Air—and, for some reason, it does not take up your healer slot, which means you can equip it with another healer, and you can equip as many Flowers of Inner Healing as you want! That extra flexibility is why it's pricier than the Soup. These flowers are a very strong option as a result, but be careful: TNT has never clarified if they're meant to be equippable with other healers, so this multi-equippability may change in the future.
The new Sefira Gold Feather is a small step up in terms of healing from the 50% healers above: it heals 65%, but it doesn't block any damage. The higher your pet's maximum HP is, the more that extra 15% will matter, but you could plausibly want the defense from one of the 50% healers more when you're up against certain challengers.
TNT's decision to release Leaded Elemental Vial as a The Void Within Hospital Shift prize for a brief period was one of the biggest shakeups to the Battledome metagame in years. The most powerful healing effect the game has ever seen is quite literally the cheapest it has ever been now — even cheaper than when Jade Scorchstone was in the Hidden Tower over twenty years ago. If you can afford it, you should absolutely buy it - if you won it from a Hospital shift, you should absolutely be using it on your set already!
Be careful - Leaded Elemental Vial is a consumable potion that can be used on your pet if you are not careful! Always be sure to equip it from the Battledome Neopet Status page instead of from your inventory. You will save yourself from some serious heartache (and bank-account-ache) that way!
Bombs
Jhudoras Potion was as expensive as a Sword of Skardsen for a long time, but it has come down in price significantly since then. It's the strongest attacking bomb that's still buyable at an average of about 20.85 icons, but you can only equip one.
Thistleberry Pingrenade is a somewhat-forgotten bomb that appears to do a similar icon spread as Turned Tooth. It's not as strong as Jhudoras Potion, so it's not very necessary, but it's not bad overall.
Lightning in a Bottle has a good niche for being the cheapest way to guarantee 15 icons on a weapon that isn't one-use. If you find yourself bemoaning that 13-icon minimum of Turned Tooth, this is your cheapest way around it.
Freezers
With the release of Thunder Sticks into The Void Within's prize shop, Sleep Ray is back on the menu for buyable-only battlers! It's your best choice if you can afford it, but can't yet afford Thunder Sticks.
If Sleep Ray is too expensive for you, you can choose to compromise with your bank account by opting for a cheap freezer that always works but can break sometimes. Ancient Lupe Wand can only be used by Lupes, but it breaks less often than Scroll of Freezing, which in turn breaks less often than Terror Stone. If one of these items breaks, it goes away forever, and you'll need to buy another one, so you'll want to save these for your important battles:
You can choose to change your pet's species to a species that is fortunate enough to have a species freezer that always works. If your battle pet is already a Lenny, you should absolutely get one of these if you don't already have a better freezer:
You can choose to get freezers that don't always work, but are cheap and are not fragile. Unfortunately, their unreliability makes them a poor choice for farming Battledome drops.
Defensive Options
By now your pet should either already have the Lens Flare ability or your pet should be getting it soon, so it's better to invest the bulk of your money into items that do more damage and pet training.
Downsize! is still so cheap and good that it's probably still worth holding on to.
Thick Smoke Bomb is a single-use weapon that blocks all incoming damage on the turn you use it. It's expensive enough that you won't want to use one every battle, but if you're struggling to beat an avatar-granting opponent it could help you win.
Sample Sets
Intermediate Set 1
Here's an example of what your set might look like if you've just bought two Turned Tooth—the basic structure of the core of your set isn't very different, but there's no shame in that. The Jhudoras Potion isn't mandatory, but the extra damage can be nice in some situations.
Intermediate Set 2
This set samples the most expensive but most powerful items in each category that you can buy off the Shop Wizard and don't care about your pet's species: Bowie Knife and Jhudoras Potion are your strongest attacking items, and Feel Better Soup's healing grows with your pet as long as you keep training.
Intermediate Set 3
This set demonstrates some of the alternate options laid out above. Sword of Malum + Blazing Embers are both functionally identical and they're both better than Roxtons Trusty Bowie Knife. Sleep Ray is your best bet for a buyable freezer, but you might be able to save some money by using a species-specific alternative. Finally, extra Flowers of Inner Healing round out the remaining slots, just in case we want more healing.
This article was written by: macosten
