Penance trident

The Penance trident is a staff from Barbarian Assault. It requires level 70 Magic to wield and it is a 2-handed weapon. The trident comes with a special effect. When wielded, it will attempt to 'save' the runes used in any spell. This is how it does so:


 * 1) The trident finds out how many different rune types you are using for your spell.
 * 2) For each rune type the trident makes a 1 in 60 roll.
 * 3) If sucessful it will save all runes of that type.

For example, the spell Earth blast requires 1 death rune, 3 air runes and 4 earth runes. There is a 1 in 60 chance that once cast, your penance trident will do any one,two or three of these things: save 1 death rune, 3 air runes or 4 earth runes. Your penance trident cannot save only 'some' of the runes of any rune type: for example, it will not save 1 or 2 air runes from the above example, as it will save none or all of any rune type.

The Penance trident also has a special attack called Reap, which gives a chance of instantly killing an enemy with a combat level less than 50 (not including players, bosses, summoning familiars, or creatures that must be killed in a specific way). In PvP, 'Reap' has the same chance of removing a third of the opponent's current hitpoints. To use the Reap special attack, it consumes 50% of the players special attack bar.

Trivia

 * Many believe the trident is the first staff to have a special attack however it isn't, the Rod of Ivandis is also a staff with a special attack.
 * Although being a trident, the penance trident is considered a staff.
 * While a player is attacking, they attack with a lunging joust position.
 * While a player is blocking an attack, they will spin their weapon backwards.
 * Even though this weapon exceeds the Ancient staff by 2, people prefer to use the Ancient staff because of the 15+ magic attack and the 10% bonus damage
 * Some find this staff an alternative for casting Ancient Spells as the chance of saving runes can really help the cost
 * A trident was also the weapon of the god Poseidon in the Greek mythology.