Dragon scimitar



The Dragon Scimitar is the strongest scimitar available, and can only be wielded by members who have at least 60 Attack and who have completed the Monkey Madness quest, a long and difficult quest set on the dangerous island of Ape Atoll. It can be bought for 100,000 coins at Daga's Scimitar Smithy on Ape Atoll, though it is advised to buy it at the Grand Exchange instead. Due to the high possibility of being attacked and dying on the island, it is strongly recommended that a greegree be used to make the trip to the stall safely. A monkeyspeak amulet does not need to be worn if you right click trade on Daga.

The Dragon Scimitar has a special attack, Sever, which, along with increasing the user's accuracy for that hit, has the chance of rendering the target unable to use protection prayers (with the exception of the Protect Item prayer) for five seconds. This uses 60% of the user's special attack energy, although the special drain is displayed rounded down to the nearest 10 on the special bar. Most notably, the special attack deactivates the protection prayer altogether. The opponent must reactivate the prayer after 5 seconds are over. However, this effect doesn't work on NPCs (such as the Kalphite Queen), and is almost useless against them.

The Dragon Scimitar is widely regarded as the best strength-training one-handed weapon in the game and second best one-handed weapon in the game, behind the Abyssal Whip. Ironically, both of these weapons are criticised because many players feel they have a poor special attack. The scimitar is popular for Strength training, as it has comparable bonuses to the Dragon longsword, but is slightly faster. It is also popular for training Strength as the Abyssal whip has no option to directly train Strength, so players will usually opt for a Dragon Scimitar instead of using the Controlled option.

As with all Dragon equipment (except the Dragon platebody and the Dragon sq shield), this item cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Future Updates
On 23 July 2009, the Dragon scimitar image in the Grand Exchange Database was replaced by the image seen to the left. It appears to be a new model for the Dragon scimitar, presumably for use in a future graphics update. 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. It currently cannot be found anywhere on the website any more.

Trivia

 * The Dragon Scimitar is most recommended to be used in Barbarian Assault, because it has all combat styles. However, the Dragon longsword has slightly better stats and has all combat styles as well, but is slower.


 * If you talk to Zeke, the scimitar seller of Al Kharid, and ask him for a Dragon scimitar he responds, "The banana-brained nitwits who make them would never sell any to me. Seriously, you'll be a monkey's uncle before you hold a Dragon Scimitar." After completing the Monkey Madness quest the conversation changes a bit and you say "Funny you should mention that." In the quest, you tell the Monkey Child that you are his uncle, making you a monkey's uncle.