Saradomin godsword


 * Not to be confused with Saradomin sword.



The Saradomin godsword is one of the four godswords that was fought over during the God Wars. Like all godswords, it requires 75 Attack to wield. It is created by adding the Saradomin hilt to a completed godsword blade. This weapon is rather rare as players must have level 70 Agility to enter the Saradomin Encampment in the God Wars Dungeon in order to defeat Commander Zilyana, the boss monster that drops the Saradomin hilt.

It has a Special attack called Healing Blade. When used, half (rounded down) of the damage dealt by the sword is restored to the player's life points, and 1/40 of the damage is restored to the player's Prayer. This drains the special attack bar by 50%. The sword's special attack must hit to have an effect; however, it is extremely accurate. As long as the attack hits, there is a minimum restoration of 100 life points and 5 Prayer points, even with a hit of 1. Therefore, hits between 1 and 201 damage have the same healing effect, but hits of 202 or more will increase the amount of restoration.

Recommended uses
The Saradomin Godsword has many uses. Its main advantage is that it restores prayer as well as life points, without compromising any attack or strength bonuses that other weapons would sacrifice.

The godsword has a prayer bonus of +8, making it a good weapon to use while fighting monsters that require prayer to kill. I (personally) love this weapon.

The main uses of the sword are shown below.

Slayer
This sword is useful for training Slayer using melee, as its special attack can save the player plenty of food over time. The Saradomin Godsword's special is arguably superior to the ability of a full Guthan's set, because it only takes up one inventory space instead of four and doesn't degrade. Furthermore, the special attack is far more consistent in its healing effects, and restores prayer as well. Despite these advantages, the godsword only heals life points on a 1:2 ratio, comparing to the Guthan's set bonus of 1:1 healing. This means that a hit of 200 life points will heal 100 life points whilst using the Saradomin godsword, while 200 life points would be healed if using the Guthan's set. Another disadvantage with the Saradomin Godsword's healing effect is that it is limited by the special attack bar. If started at 100% it means the minimum health restore would be 200 life points; in order to heal again, a wait of 2–3 minutes is needed for the special attack bar to restore. However, with the effect of full Guthan's, more than 200 life points will be healed in a time span of 2–3 minutes. But you can't use Guthan's on a task such as Aberrant Spectres, because you will need a nose peg/slayer helm; this is the place where the Saradomin Godsword becomes useful. The special energy bar regenerates at rate of 10% every 30 seconds, requiring 5 minutes to regenerate from empty to full.

Training
Players may use the godsword to train against monsters. It is a useful weapon, as it will reduce food and prayer usage over time. This is especially useful against higher levelled monsters such as Hellhounds, which can be hard to kill in large numbers without the aid of healing media, such as healing familiars and Guthan's set.

Pickpocketing (Thieving)
Players can save food, and even depend solely on the Saradomin godsword's special to heal the damage taken while pickpocketing.

Other areas
Other situations in which the Saradomin godsword can be useful are some of the following:


 * Pyramid Plunder
 * Phoenix Lair
 * Bork
 * Certain Slayer tasks, notably Waterfiends, Aberrant spectres and Abyssal demons
 * Hunting the Chaos Elemental
 * Hunting the Kalphite Queen
 * Bandos' throne room
 * God Wars Dungeon by healing on the sergeants in between fights with the generals, or using the special to restore prayer when camping on a Spiritual mage
 * Barrows, especially in the tunnels when a player may need some health and prayer
 * TzHaar Fight Caves
 * The Saradomin godsword is also very popular for the later waves of the Barbarian Assault activity as one can take a lot of damage as an attacker and a healer is not always available. Players may use the special attack to restore some of their life points until a healer can reach them.
 * Tormented Demons, helps by saving a bit of prayer potions.

Market
In the months following their release in August 2007, Saradomin Godswords were worth 100-150m. However, the price gradually declined, and in September 2008 they were worth only 38m. This was their all-time low. From then, the long-term trend until around May 2009 was a slow rise up to 50m. Then in June 2009 the price started rising faster (mostly due to coins coming into the game from pvp worlds). Despite periodic declines in price and even some full-out crashes, the long-term price trend from June to December 2009 has been a significant increase. Even more recently, however, the Saradomin Godsword seems to be taking to a downward trend most likely caused by the release of the new chaotic weapons.

Trivia

 * When using the special attack, the player resembles an Icyene attacking in flight for the Glory of Saradomin, much like the power of Commander Zilyana.
 * In the Brazilian worlds, both the Saradomin sword and the Saradomin godsword used to share the same name. This has been fixed.
 * The healing value from the special attack of a Saradomin Godsword is calculated before the +40 damage added from the effects of a Ferocious Ring, requiring the player to hit over 241 to recover more than 100 life points.
 * When using the special attack on a shadowy stranger, a glitch causes the head to disappear. This can be seen in the above animation.
 * When borrowed and place in a bank, the Saradomin Godsword is not visible. Only the lent symbol can be seen.