Bandos godsword

OS

For this item's augmented variant, see augmented bandos godsword.

For other variants of this item, see lucky, golden, passive.

Bandos godsword
Release	28 August 2007 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Lendable	Yes
Lendable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Value	1,250,000 coins
Value	1,250,000 coins
High Alchemy	750,000 coins
High Alchemy	750,000 coins
Low Alchemy	500,000 coins
Low Alchemy	500,000 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	33000
Reclaim	33000
Sacrifice	132000
Sacrifice	132000
Exchange	1,077,819 coins (info)
Buy limit	10
Weight	10 kg
Examine	A brutally heavy sword.
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The Bandos godsword is one of the four godswords that were fought over during the God Wars. Requiring 75 Attack to wield, it is created by attaching a Bandos hilt to a completed godsword blade, which has no requirements and can be done by any player.

General Graardor is one of the most popular boss to kill in the God Wars Dungeon. Due to his relatively low life points, the comparative weakness of his three sergeants, and the presence of a prayer altar in the boss room itself. As a direct result, the amount of Bandos hilts in the game is quite high, and thus the completed sword is (and historically has been) the cheapest of the four godswords.

Combat Stats

Requirements
75
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
75
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		1676		-
Accuracy		1694		-
Style		Slash
Range		1
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				4		0		0		0
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Special Attack

Warstrike, the special attack of the Bandos godsword.

The Bandos godsword has a special attack, Warstrike, which deals 25%-350% ability damage and drains the enemy's stats. Using this attack costs 100% adrenaline.

The enemy's Defence level is drained visibly according to the damage dealt, and their Defence rating is also drained like saps from the Ancient Curses. The Defence level drain appears to range from 0.5%-1% of the damage dealt (or 5%-10% of the damage dealt in Legacy), with lower damage draining closer to 1% (or 10% in Legacy). Successive use of the special attack will result in drains of diminishing returns to any stats already drained but also drains to other combat skills such as attack, range and magic and even prayer points (about 400-500 prayer points from tests).

The Bandos godsword has no effect on a target's affinity.

Passive

The bandos godsword (passive) is made by using the godsword on the altar in General Graardor's room in the God Wars Dungeon. This makes the godsword untradeable, loses its special attack, but gives it a passive effect that has a 25% chance of activating upon a successful hit: it decreases the target's level in Defence by 1 if they are above 90% of their Defence level.

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	22.5
Item quantity required	1
Material count	12
Base junk chance	?  4.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 4.2% 1 34 4.2% 2 49 4.1% 3 64 4.0% 4 69 4.0% 5 78 3.9% 6 83 3.7% 7 91 3.7% 8 95 3.5% 9 105 3.4%
Possible materials
Special
1 × Bandos components	100%
Often
Base parts	35%
Blade parts	30%
Metallic parts	30%
Rarely
Sharp components	3%
Strong components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 4.2 Junk chance: 4.2

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Trivia

File:BTS vid 16 Bandos godsword hint.png

A close up of the updated Bandos godsword, as shown in the 16th BtS video.

• Like all godswords (and the God Wars Dungeon itself), the Bandos godsword received a graphical update in September 2012.
• Previously, if a player wielding a Bandos godsword goes to a free-to-play world and attacks a target, they would do a unique animation in which they smash the target with the pommel, dealing the same damage as unarmed combat. After an update, members weapons now prevent players from attacking at all on free worlds.