Gravite 2h sword



The Gravite 2h sword is a melee weapon bought as a reward from the Rewards trader. Like all Gravite weapons, it requires 45 Attack to wield (with 45 Dungeoneering). It can also serve as a knock-out weapon for many Activities.

This item cannot be created by Smithing. It can only be bought as a Dungeoneering reward, costing 40,000 tokens. Like all other gravite weapons, the Gravite 2h will degrade after 10 hours of continuous combat.

Due to the high Crush and Strength bonus of the Gravite 2h, it has been continuously proven to do higher damage per minute than a rune scimitar. This is especially true for PvP situations in which a rune scimitar's low attack bonus is often neglected. In a dangerous PvP situation (in which monk robes are used), the gravite 2h would still hold the advantage in terms of practicality. This is because of the Gravite 2h's tendency to hit high and dominate the battle quickly, forcing the opponent to always be on the defensive. The Gravite 2h has been to known to hit 200s through prayer and significantly higher without, providing the player has max strength, uses prayer and using potions, and is using rune gauntlets. However, if the player does not have the significant stat to hit high, or is simply unlucky with accuracy, the rune scimitar holds the advantage of having a higher damage/per minute in a prolonged fight. A Gravite 2h is able to deal multiple knock-out worthy blows accurately and consistently, even without the use of prayer. This is currently the strongest and most accurate weapon in F2P, therefore making it very popular to those who can obtain it. Note that the Gravite 2h sword has the same speed as battleaxes, which is faster than other 2h swords.

Repair costs
The weapon will be 20% charged when first bought. Repairs are made incrementally in 1% portions; Gravite weaponry can be repaired as long as they are not 100% charged.
 * 100% charged (Fully charged) – no cost.
 * 99% charged – 10,000 coins or 1,000 coins and 65 tokens
 * 90% charged – 100,000 coins or 10,000 coins and 650 tokens.
 * 20% charged - 800,000 coins or 80,000 coins and 5200 tokens.
 * 0% charged (No charge) – 1,000,000 coins or 100,000 coins and 6,500 tokens.

Maximum Hit
In F2P, the maximum hit of this weapon is 362 with a Strength Potion, Ultimate Strength, 99 Strength and a weapon strength bonus of +102 (Gravite 2h Sword, Amulet of strength and Rune gauntlets).


 * The Gravite 2h sword has the highest strength bonus of any weapon in F2P, followed by the Corrupt dragon battleaxe. Maximum equipment bonuses bring these weapons to +102 and +101, respectively. Due to slight errors in the formulas used by maximum hit calculators, these weapons are falsely believed to hit higher (367 and 365, respectively) than they do.
 * It was once possible to stack a Strength potion with the stat boosting effects of a Kebab, therefore boosting a player to 113/99 strength. This no longer works, and has contributed to the popular misconception that the weapon can hit higher than it does.
 * Contrary to popular speculation, the Amulet of zealots does not increase the maximum hits of melee weapons in F2P because it replaces the Amulet of strength.

Trivia

 * The original price for this reward used to be 90k tokens (before the 21 April 2010 update).
 * Using the Gravite 2h in combat costs approximately 27.78 gp per second (assuming you are repairing it with gp only).
 * This weapon greatly resembles the Fractite 2h sword in appearance, but has attributes closer to that of a Fractite maul in that it is mainly a crush type weaponry. The Gravite 2h differs, however, from a Fractite maul in that it has a higher strength bonus, a slightly lower crush bonus, and a faster attack speed.
 * The Gravite 2h requires 40k Dungeoneering Tokens, or 400k Dungeoneering experience. Realistically, one would need to achieve level 64 Dungeoneering before one can accumulate enough tokens to purchase the 2h, assuming one has not spent any tokens on anything else. Ideally, however, one can have 400k xp at just 63 dungeoneering.
 * The Gravite 2h has three slash options, however it has a slash bonus of -4 (which possibly suggests that it was originally intended to be a maul). This leads it to being rather difficult to use for a hybrid, particularly ones attempting to use the "range-2h" combo. However, PKers using the Rune gauntlets method (The Rune Gauntlet is replacing the position of the scimitar for risk, and one uses the 2h as the main weapon) will find that a Gravite 2h is quite effective in risky-PvP combat situations.
 * Another method is using a rune sword as a back-up or main weapon. When a player is wearing monk's robes or "no arming", this method is quite useful as it gives the player the ability to deal swift damages up to 250, and then allowing the player to quickly pull the 2h for a big KO.
 * A Gravite 2h can be very effective in armoured PvP situations as well, provided that the player has high attack (90+), very high strength (95+), and mediocre/decent defence (70+ min/80+ recommended). High defence, although no doubt useful in combat in general, is not a large factor in overall success in most 1v1 PvP situatations considering the large offensive bonuses one has when using a Gravite 2h.
 * Despite various rumours, a rune chainbody's extra crush bonuses of +6 over the rune platebody's is nowhere near enough to reduce the effectiveness of a Gravite 2h by a realistic margin (as the Gravite 2h's +87 crush would just as easily overwhelm the extra crush bonuses of the chainbody).
 * Pures may choose to use a black chainbody to prevent getting "damage spammed" against a gravite 2h character who is in the same level range (the 10 levels higher and lower on a PvP world). This strategy doesn't work if the gravite 2h user has 85+ attack.
 * The Corrupt dragon chainbody is the only piece of armour that has a crush defence bonus higher than the Gravite 2h's crush attack. Thus, it is the most effective means of defence against the gravite 2h for F2P.
 * Contrary to a major misconception, Gravite 2h sword will not degrade while wielding. It will only degrade during combat.
 * Nearly all rune armour will be kept over the Gravite 2h on death, as the Gravite 2h's high alchemy value is only 27,200 coins. It takes much longer to get 40k dungeoneering tokens than it does to get enough money to buy Rune armour.
 * The best F2P armour that you could wear to not risk the Gravite 2h while skulled is: Rune med helm, Adamant platebody, Adamant platelegs, rune gauntlets and rune sq shield(if you're using the Gravite 2h weapon as a KO weapon).

Gravite 2h sword