Abyssal whip

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Abyssal whips are powerful one-handed melee weapons which require 70 Attack to equip. The whip is among the most powerful non-degradable melee weapons outside of Daemonheim and is capable of attacking at the same speed of daggers and scimitars at 2.4 seconds per hit. It may only be obtained as a drop from abyssal demons, which require 85 Slayer to harm, or by trading with another player, either directly or through the Grand Exchange.

Abyssal whips were introduced into the game with the release of the Slayer skill. The update added the Slayer Tower to a previously unoccupied area north of Canifis and placed abyssal demons, along with various other Slayer monsters, in the tower. Given the high Slayer level required to obtain abyssal whips and the slow speed of the skill, abyssal whips were fairly uncommon immediately after the skill's release.

On 12 July 2011, the abyssal vine whip, an extension of the abyssal whip, was released. The abyssal vine whip may be crafted by combining an abyssal whip with a whip vine dropped by mutated jadinko guards and mutated jadinko males, high level slayer monsters in the Jadinko Lair.

Unlike most one-handed weapons, the abyssal whip lacks an offhand counterpart due to animation difficulties. Instead, the enhanced excalibur is the offhand equivalent of an abyssal whip.

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Training
Many players make use of the whip's fast attack speed, high offensive bonuses, and moderate cost to train. However when comparing a whip to a chaotic longsword, it is important to note that even though a whip attacks faster, the chaotic longsword has higher damage. If accuracy is ignored, a simple equation can be made to calculate damage/second: strength/speed. In this case, for a whip, this comes out to 672/2.4=280. A chaotic longsword has 980/3=326.6. Not to mention the chaotic longsword has higher accuracy making it better than a whip overall, although chaotic equipment has a high repair cost.

Re-colouring
With the Barbarian Assault improvements update on 19 January 2010, players were given the option of purchasing abyssal whip paint in any of four different colours for a price of 50 honour points each. The whips may be coloured blue, white, green, or yellow, and colouring a whip renders it untradeable and non-lendable. However, the paint may be removed using a cleaning cloth, returning the whip back to normal. On 29 March 2010, the rewards interface was updated so that players could recolour whips indefinitely once the specific colour had been purchased. Prior to this, each time a whip was coloured, 50 honour points were required. Additionally, abyssal vine whips may be coloured just as regular abyssal whips are.

History
Since the whip's introduction into the game in 26 January 2005, it has undergone several graphical and functional changes. When PvP worlds were introduced, an abyssal whip was a possible drop from killing another player in PvP combat. However, on 16 June 2009, abyssal whips, along with other unique boss drops, were removed from the drop table. Jagex cited complaints on the forums as the reason for this move.

Immediately after its release, the market price of an abyssal whip was several million coins. Since its release, the whip's price has been greatly influenced by several updates, including those which changed PvP drop tables, provided anti-'76k'ing measures, added the ability to colour whips, changed the 100% drop of abyssal demons to infernal ashes, introduced the whip vine, and removed most macros from the game. Overall, the price of an abyssal whip has been in a relatively steady decline for the past few years. The price of the abyssal whip has been increasing (due to the combat rework which will allow any weapon to train all combat skills) yet seems to have whipsawed in price and is now heading down. There is no logical reason for why this is occurring at this time.

It might be considered to be falling because of the massive decrease in bot creation that seemingly accompanied the combat rework. This can be considered that because of the new wilderness rules, bot makers are unwilling to put forth bots, large consumers of whips, into the Wilderness.

Trivia

 * The abyssal whip is featured in the emote for the max cape when the player latches the whip around the monster's waist and pulls it to the ground for the killing blow.
 * Mod Mark described the abyssal whip as the spine of an abyssal demon.
 * A fake abyssal whip may be obtained from an abyssal minion. When equipped, it will merely turn into ashes.
 * When attacking monsters in free-to-play with an abyssal whip equipped, the player holds it rigidly and hits the target with it rather than the unarmed punches or kicks used when players have most members only weapons equipped on F2P. This also affects a few popular weapons, such as the bandos godsword and the staff of light.

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