Sapwood Blade is one of the latest craftable weapons from the Sumeru region. This weapon has taken the community by storm as to how good it is on practically all support sword users in Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact releases craftable weapons for each region and for the most part they are either geared toward support or dps. While the dps craftables have been good, the support ones- not so much until now.
What Makes Sapwood Blade So Good in Genshin Impact
Support characters in Genshin Impact rely on their elemental skills and elemental bursts for their utility and function. As such, they need a reliably high amount of energy recharge to keep their bursts up for when they need to use them. Since most support units also work as reaction enablers and sub-dps they also benefit from ATK.
Sapwood Blade has the highest Base ATK and it has an energy recharge main stat which naturally makes it a great support weapon. The reason why the Base ATK matters is because it is the stat on which DMG modifiers, ATK% buffs and Crit will be counted. A naturally high Base ATK means significantly high damage numbers on your support character. In that regard, Sapwood Blade shares the position of having the highest 4-star sword Base ATK with two dps 4-star weapons namely- Prototype Rancour and Blackcliff Longsword.
The passive of Sapwood Blade also grants a leaf that buffs elemental mastery of teammates when picked up by them but this only works when Dendro reactions are in play. Considering how Dendro is quickly changing the meta and will soon be an inseparable part of Genshin Impact’s elemental gameplay, it’s not wrong to say that this weapon will be important and powerful going forward, especially for characters that do react with Dendro.
As of now this is the best-in-slot 4-star weapon for Bennett and is also a great option on Xinqiu, Dendro Traveler, Kuki Shinobu and so on. As more Dendro characters and support characters are released, we’re sure that this will also benefit them immensely so we recommend you build this one up to Lv. 90 as soon as possible.