Rune scimitar

The rune scimitar is the strongest non-degradable scimitar available to free players, along with the rune dagger. Like all rune weapons, it requires 50 Attack to wield. The scimitar's attack style is the Slash attack style. It is also the second strongest scimitar available to free players, behind the corrupt dragon scimitar. Players can make a rune scimitar with a Smithing level of 90 using 2 rune bars, giving the player 150 Smithing experience.

Before the Evolution of Combat, the Rune scimitar was viewed as the superior weapon compared to the Rune longsword. The scimitar had more damage over time as a result of the increased attack speed, making it a more efficient training weapon than the longsword. This made one of the most popular and most used non-members weapons in the game.

The rune scimitar was commonly used in PvP Combat in free-to-play. It was generally considered one of the best weapons in the non-members game. With the Evolution of Combat release, however, the rune scimitar's popularity in player killing situations is dwindling because all other rune weapons offer the same damage per second, with the Rune mace also offering a Prayer bonus and having the same damage and attack speed as the scimitar, differing with its crushing attack style (which does not matter in PvP).

Levels 1 to 99

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Levels 100 and above

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Trivia

 * On 28 July 2009, the Animation Pack 1 update changed the appearance and attack animations of the Rune Scimitar in order to make combat look more realistic, This was done with the godswords, the dragon scimitar, the rune and dragon longswords, and the abyssal whip.
 * On 23 July 2009, five days before the scheduled update, the Rune scimitar image in the Grand Exchange database was replaced by the new model. Players found the image and posted about it in the RuneScape Forums, making it widely known before Jagex removed the image a few hours later. Five days later, the image was once again put up along with the official release.
 * Before the Evolution of Combat, the rune scimitar was one of the most common, if not the most common, weapons in the F2P game due to its popularity in the F2P PKing community. After the launch of the EoC, however, many F2P PKers began switching to the cheaper rune mace because it provides a +4 Prayer bonus and has the same stats and attack speed as the scimitar. The lack of monsters with a slash weakness in the non-members game is also contributing to its drop in popularity.

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