Summary
- Free Aim weapons in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 upgrade attack power as heroes level up, found in dungeons, matches, or bought.
- Different weapons like Cruleram, Gaulteram, and Troubadim are best suited for Gustave, Maelle, and Lune, offering various advantages.
- Leveling up attributes is crucial for unlocking special abilities like generating Stains or improving damage with specific elements.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 technically gives each character two weapons, but only one can be equipped. For starters, Free Aim is a technique that uses a character's ranged abilities to attack monsters. Gustave, for example, has a gun, whereas Lune uses her innate magic abilities to strike foes.
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Attack power for Free Aim weapons upgrades automatically depending on how players level up their heroes in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. For the actual weapons, players can find them all over the game, they can win them in matches, or buy them. For the early hours, let's go through the weapons best suited for Gustave, Lune, and Maelle, ranked by their power and usefulness.
8 Cruleram
Fight Enemies In Flying Waters
- Character: Gustave
The 
Cruleram is a sword for Gustave that can be obtained by fighting a wild group of monsters in Flying Waters. It’s recommended to fight mobs of enemies in dungeons at least once because they can sometimes hide weapons or Pictos in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Unlock most weapons in the game, the Cruleram has no upgrade path for its levels, but it does have ice elemental damage. That alone makes it a good weapon for Gustave when a dungeon with monsters weak to ice does appear.
7 Gaulteram
Fight Bourgeon On The World Map
- Character: Gustave
The 
Gaulteram is another weapon for Gustave, based on earth, and it can be acquired on the world map after players obtain Esquie. If players head north of Esquie’s layer, they will find a large monster named Bourgeon, the same monster that players can encounter in Flying Waters. It’s a tough mini-boss because it can swallow allies whole, but effective dodges and using lightning-based attacks can take it down. Esquie is like a vehicle players can find in Final Fantasy games that can transport them across land, sea, and air.
6 Troubadim
Fight Chromatic Troubadour In Flying Waters
- Character: Lune
The 
Troubadim is a weapon for Lune, who is like the game’s equivalent of a mage in an RPG. This weapon has no elements associated with it, but it does have good level upgrades, so players should find and kill the Chromatic Troubadour min-boss in Flying Waters.
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The starting bonus will make Free Aim hit multiple targets. At level ten, Free Aim attacks do 50% more damage, and the final upgrade can generate a Stain. A Stain is based on Lune’s elemental attacks and can be used for various skills.
5 Sekarum
Gestral Village Merchant
- Character: Maelle
Compared to other weapons, the 
Sekarum is one of the easiest to get for Maelle. Players just need to find a merchant named Eesda within Gestral Village, which is somewhere that players need to go to in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s story. This weapon has a starting bonus that will switch Maelle to her Virtuose Stance if players Break an enemy, and this Stance gives her a 200% attack bonus. The next level will cause Free Aim attacks to break two Shields on enemies if they have them up, and the final upgrade will make all Virtuose Stance attacks break through Shields.
4 Brulerum
Fight Enemies In Flying Waters
- Character: Maelle
The 
Brulerum is another weapon for Maelle, which is fire-based, and players just have to encounter a random mob of enemies within Flying Waters. The starting level bonus will cause critical hits to apply Burn. Burn is a great status effect in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that will cause fire-based damage to be applied every turn for a set amount. At level ten, two Burn effects will be stacked on an enemy, and the final upgrade will cause Maelle to hit critical strikes 100% of the time so long as she has no Stance.
3 Trebuchim
Fight Enemies In Ancient Sanctuary
- Character: Lune
The 
Trebuchim is a weapon for Lune that can be obtained from an enemy mob within the Ancient Sanctuary. It has a lightning element attached, and the starting bonus will generate a Stain for every Free Aim attack.
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At level ten, one point of AP will regenerate if players consume Lune’s accrued Stains, like if players use her Mayhem skill in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Finally, at level twenty, Lune’s normal attacks will generate two random Stains.
2 Lighterim
Found In Spring Meadows
- Character: Lune
The 
Lighterim is another weapon for Lune, and this can be found in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first dungeon, Spring Meadows, just lying around a bunch of crates. It is imbued with fire, which will come in handy in the Ancient Sanctuary as enemies in there are weak to it.
Innately, this weapon will reduce the cost of fire-based skills for Lune, like Wildfire. At level ten, fire-based attacks will do 20% more damage, and at the final upgrade, Lune will start with one Strain of ice magic, which is odd for a fire-infused weapon to generate in any RPG.
1 Medalum
Compete With Maelle In Gestral Village’s Arena
- Character: Maelle
The best starter weapon in the game is for Maelle, the 
Medalum, and it is easily missable. During the Gestral Village arc of the game, players have to compete in a tournament, and they can only take one character into battle.
If they go through it with Maelle, she can get this weapon. With the Medalum, she will start a battle in Virtuose Stance, and all other upgrades will help with fire-based damage. Getting the Medalum is critical to finishing the One-Puncho side quest early in Gestral Village.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 92 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- April 24, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Kepler Interactive
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Playable
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Turn-Based RPG, JRPG, Fantasy
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
