Armadyl godsword



The Armadyl godsword is one of the four Godswords. Like all godswords, it requires level 75 Attack to wield. It has a special attack called The Judgement which inflicts 25% more damage with a 50% Special bar drain. The Armadyl godsword is considered to be the strongest weapon in the game. Using all the best Strength equipment, boosting potions, and having 99 Strength, a player can hit up to 91+ with its special attack against monsters. Although potentially a player could hit 98 whilst wearing the Castlewar bracelet and using the sword's special attack, this is now impossible due to the fact that the untradable potions cannot be used in pvp areas such as castlewars. This weapon's main competition comes from the Dragon Claws which have a similar hard-hitting special attack. The Godsword is created by Smithing together the three Godsword shards (80 Smithing or higher is required to do this) and putting an Armadyl hilt onto the end (no requirements) creating the wieldable Armadyl godsword.

Market
On 15 July 2009 Jagex introduced an update to PVP Worlds and Bounty Hunter Worlds in which players were automatically skulled on entering the world and the Protect Item prayer was disabled on these worlds. The Armadyl Godsword, a popular item used by one itemers started to see a rapid drop in price along with other itemer weapons such as Dragon Claws and the Saradomin Sword. The Armadyl Godsword suffered a 4.1 million gold loss the day after the update though several players in World 2 could be found selling them for as low as 30 million gold plus junk items, and for 100% full junk in Falador worlds that were striking.

However, on 17 July 2009 Jagex made another update introducing Bounty Worlds (+1 Item). Even though players are still unable to use protect from prayer these new +1 item worlds will allow everyone to always keep their most valuable item protected.

On 3 October 2009 the Armadyl godsword peaked at a price of 104m and was then for quite a while on the most expensive items list. The next day it started to suffer losses of over 4m per day for two days after which the drop slowed down. In a few days it was rising again.

Use
The Armadyl godsword is used most commonly in safe PvP minigames, Bounty + 1 item worlds, and killing boss monsters such as General Graardor due to its high hitting special attack. It can be used for training but not as effectively as the Saradomin godsword due to the fact that a slightly larger amount of damage every few minutes is not as useful as healing.

Trivia

 * Armadyl Godsword is currently the most expensive weapon in the game.
 * In Runescape the maximum hit of the Armadyl Godsword is 93, with a maximum equipment Strength bonus (excluding cape and helm), a Super strength potion and Piety prayer in castle wars with a castle wars bracelet equipped while entering. A player must switch the bracelet with barrows gloves from Recipe for Disaster and attack the flag holder in a game of castle wars to achieve a max hit. Only under these circumstances will this work.