Longsword

This article is about longswords, the article about short swords, see Sword.

Longswords are medium speed slashing weapons, with a more effective stabbing attack than the scimitar. Longswords, like all slashing weapons, are good against cloth and leather armour.

Many players debate that Longswords are better than Scimitars, this is simply not true. While Longswords offer higher strength and attack bonuses than Scimitars, they are a full bar slower. There is a 3 second delay between attacks with a Longsword, whereas with a scimitar, the delay is only 2.4 seconds. This equates to 20 attacks per minute with a Longsword per minute as compared to 25 attacks per minute with a Scimitar. The extra 5 hits per minute completely overshadows any slight damage or accuracy boost a longsword will give. Since both Scimitars and Longswords are Stab/Slash weapons, there are no situations in which a Longsword is superior to a Scimitar.

Special longswords

 * Blurite sword
 * Corrupt dragon longsword
 * Corrupt vesta's longsword
 * Darklight
 * Decorative swords
 * Fremennik blade
 * Rapier
 * Silverlight

Trivia

 * Before the graphical update, the longsword was more round, much like today's shortsword.
 * A few days before the new longsword look came out, the black knights swords had changed to the current graphics before it was introduced, Jagex surprisingly never noticed this error.
 * The new Rune Longsword is held upright like a Dragon Longsword, unlike the rest.