Death Lotus dart

Death lotus darts are level 85 Ranged weapons from the Eastern Lands, unlocked through player owned ports. They are equipped in the mainhand slot. They are the third strongest ranged weapon in the game (behind the Ascension crossbows and Noxious longbow), as well as the strongest thrown weapon and have a range of 6 squares.

They can be created at level 92 Fletching, requiring one set of ancient bones and 25 Ascension shards, granting 250 experience and creating 25 darts. As with all craftable items in the workshop, boosts will not work when making them. They are made at the workbench just outside the workshop, at the last option "thrown weapons".

As of the patch on 17 February 2014, Ava's device does pick up the darts after they have been thrown. In PvP situations, upon death each dart is turned into 200 coins.

The effective cost of death lotus darts depends on the price of scrimshaws. Currently, the most expensive scrimshaw is the Scrimshaw of ranging, which leads to an effective cost of coins per dart.

Players on a budget may consider dual-wielding an ascension crossbow with off-hand death lotus darts. When first attacking a target, the main hand weapon is used and thus its ammo is lost far more often than the offhand ammo. Therefore, this combination negates the high upfront cost of the off-hand ascension crossbow and greatly reduces the loss of indirectly expensive/untradeable death lotus darts while sacrificing a relatively small amount of damage and accuracy.