Weapon Special attack

**Weapon Special attack**
Release date	14 July 2014 (Update)
Members	Yes
Skill	Constitution
Level	10
Type	Special
Adrenaline	Varies%
Equipment	Special attacks
Cooldown	0 seconds
Description
	Some of the most powerful weapons grant you unique special attacks.

OS

"Spec" redirects here. For the shield, see Spectral spirit shield.

This article is about special attacks as they are today. For the historical attacks, see Special attacks (historical).

[view] • [talk]

Weapon Special attack is a Constitution ability that can only be used when specific weapons that have a special attack are equipped. The effect and adrenaline cost vary from weapon to weapon.

Normal combat mode[]

To activate Weapon Special attack, a weapon that possesses a special attack must be equipped. The ability is found in the Powers interface in the Constitution abilities tab. When wielding a weapon that has a special attack, the name of the ability changes to the name of the special attack for that weapon; however, the icon will always be the same. Alternatively, one may click on the Adrenaline bar on the Action bar to use a special attack. It is also possible to designate a keybind for Weapon Special attack in the options menu, which does not occupy any slot on any action bar. Special Attacks cannot be automatically activated by Revolution.

The Ring of vigour can reduce the adrenaline needed to perform a special attack and the Asylum surgeon's ring has a chance to reduce a special attack's adrenaline cost.

Each special attack requires a certain amount of adrenaline to use, which is also consumed on use. For example, the Korasi's sword's special attack, Disrupt, may only be used at 60% adrenaline, and once it is used, 60% adrenaline is drained. There are no cooldowns for using special attacks, although there are two exceptions: the Zaros godsword's and the Seren godbow's.

All special attacks (that can miss) receive an accuracy boost. When using a special attack, your weapon's accuracy stat (note this is not your overall accuracy) is multiplied by (Your current stat level)/(spec weapon level), which also takes into account boosted levels. For example, Guthix staff normally has an accuracy bonus of 1132. With a magic level of 118, upon using the special attack, Guthix Staff's accuracy is elevated to 1132*118/60=2226, which is around the accuracy of a T86 weapon.

Legacy combat mode[]

To use the special attack in Legacy combat mode, you can either click the adrenaline bar (Note that this refers to the bar itself as the swords icon toggles Auto-retaliate) or enable the Legacy interface mode; from there, the special attack bar can be found at the bottom of the Combat Settings menu.

Each special attack requires a certain amount of special attack energy to use, which is also consumed on use. For example, the Korasi's sword special attack, Disrupt, requires 60% special attack energy, and once it is used, 60% energy is drained.

Ability damage in Legacy combat mode[]

Because ability damage does not exist in Legacy combat, such a number is calculated and used with special attacks. This value is calculated as follows:

D=1.2ad\times sm

Where:

$D$ is the result, worth 100% ability damage when using special attacks in Legacy
$ad$ is the player's auto-attack damage with their main-hand or off-hand, as seen in the Loadout screen
$sm$ is a multiplier that localises damage from weapons of different speeds:
${\displaystyle s = \begin{cases} \frac{96}{149} \approx 0.644295 & \text{Average}\\ \frac{960}{1225} \approx 0.783673 & \text{Fast}\\ 1 & \text{Fastest}\\ \end{cases} }$

If dual-wielding, the results from main-hand and off-hand are added together. Hence off-hands will increase the damage of main-hand special attacks, as they do in the modern combat system.

Weapons that have a special attack[]

Melee weapons[]

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Abyssal whip Lucky abyssal whip	Energy Drain	50%	Deals 100% weapon damage and steals all your opponent's run energy.
Abyssal vine whip	Vine Call	60%	Summons a vine near your opponent that will hit them 10 times for 125% of your accuracy, and 1/3rd of your strength. The attacks will only hit as long as your opponent is in range.
Ancient mace Superior ancient mace	Favour of the War God	100%	Attack ignores protection prayers and will recharge Prayer points by 10% of the weapon damage while draining your opponent's Prayer points the same amount.
Annihilation	Gravitate	60%	For 30 seconds all successful attacks on your opponent(s) adds a stack (one stack per ability, or two stacks per Legacy Mode auto-attack), which increases your damage by 1% per stack (capping at 20%).
Barrelchest anchor	Sunder	50%	Swing the anchor with increased accuracy to deal 75-150% weapon damage and randomly reduce your target's Defence, Attack, Ranged or Magic level.
Bone dagger	Backstab	75%	Deals 50-200% weapon damage and lowers your target defence proportional to the damage dealt. Accuracy is increased by 100% when hitting unsuspecting targets.
Brackish blade	Rum'ify	75%	Doubles the chance of hitting and increases your Attack, Strength and Defence proportional to the damage dealt.
Brine sabre	Liquefy	75%	Doubles the chance of hitting and increases your Attack, Strength and Defence proportional to the damage dealt. Can only be used underwater.
Darklight	Weaken	50%	Strike your target reducing their Attack, Strength and Defence by 5%. Against demons, this is twice as effective.
Granite maul	Quick Smash	50%	Perform an instant attack, dealing up to 150% weapon damage and ignoring any cooldowns.
Keenblade	Critical Strike	75%	Strike the enemy with 25% increased accuracy for 100-150% weapon damage.
Korasi's sword	Disrupt	60%	Perform a reliable magic attack on all enemies around you.
Lava whip	Get over Here!	75%	Stuns and binds an NPC for 6 seconds. When used on a player, it will drag them to an adjacent tile near the user. This attack will work over blocked terrain (e.g a pool of water), but will not work if the user cannot see the target (e.g a wall). If a player is pulled from single way zone into a multiway zone in the wilderness then the multiway effect will be delayed by 10 seconds.
Noxious scythe	Mirrorback	100%	Summon a mirrorback spider to lower and reflect damage for 10 seconds.
Rune claw & Off-hand rune claw	Impale	25%	Impale your target for 25-135% weapon damage.
Saradomin sword Lucky Saradomin sword	Saradomin's Lightning	100%	Call upon Saradomin's power to inflict extra magic damage upon your opponent.
Statius's warhammer Superior Statius's warhammer	Smash	25%	Deal up to 50% more damage and lower your opponents defence by 30%
Vesta's longsword Superior Vesta's longsword	Feint	25%	Deal 100-250% damage with a greater chance to hit.
Vesta's spear Superior Vesta's spear	Spear Wall	50%	Damages all targets adjacent to you for 50% weapon damage and reflects 50% of any damage you receive back at attackers for 5 seconds.

Dragon weapons

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Dragon claw & Off-hand dragon claw	Slice & Dice	50%	Unleash four brutal claw slashes upon your opponent.
Dragon dagger	Puncture	25%	Two quick slashes with increased accuracy and damage.
Dragon battleaxe	Rampage	100%	Do 20% more melee damage but reduce your hit chance and defence by 10% for a minute.
Dragon halberd	Sweep	30%	Swipe all targets in front of you twice.
Dragon hatchet	Clobber	100%	Attack that lowers your opponents defence and magic by 10%
Dragon longsword	Cleave	25%	A powerful attack dealing 100-250% weapon damage
Dragon mace	Shatter	25%	Deals a massive blow of 100-300% weapon damage with 25% increased accuracy.
Dragon spear Zamorakian spear Lucky Zamorakian spear	Shove	25%	Push your opponent back and stun them for 3s. This attack deals no damage.
Dragon 2h sword	Powerstab	60%	Hit enemies surrounding you.
Dragon pickaxe Gilded dragon pickaxe Crystal pickaxe	Shock	100%	Powerful attack that drains your opponents Attack, Ranged and Magic by 5%.
Dragon scimitar	Sever	55%	A slash with increased accuracy that, if successful, prevents the target from using protection prayers for five seconds.

Godswords

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Armadyl godsword Lucky Armadyl godsword Golden Armadyl godsword	The Judgement	50%	Unleash the power of Armadyl with up to 250% weapon damage.
Bandos godsword Lucky Bandos godsword Golden Bandos godsword Superior honourable kyzaj Superior bloodied kyzaj	Warstrike	100%	Deals up to 200% weapon damage and drains one of your targets combat stats by 10% of the damage dealt.
Saradomin godsword Lucky Saradomin godsword Golden Saradomin godsword	Healing Blade	50%	Deals up to 175% weapon damage, heal 50% of your damage you deal and restores your prayer points by 2.5% of the damage you deal.
Zamorak godsword Lucky Zamorak godsword Golden Zamorak godsword	Ice Cleave	60%	Deals up to 175% weapon damage and freezes the target for 10 seconds.
Zaros godsword	Blackhole	50%	Summons a black hole over the immediate vicinity for 20 seconds. While this black hole is active, melee damage is increased by 25%, and if your target enters the black hole, it takes 25-50% ability damage every 1.8 seconds.

Ranged weapons[]

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Dark bow	Descent of Darkness	65%	A powerful double attack that hits for 200% weapon damage, or 300% when using dragon or dark arrows.
Decimation	Locate	50%	All of your attacks hit all available targets within 3 tiles of your main target (i.e. all of your attacks become area-of-effect attacks) for 10 seconds.
Hand cannon	Aimed Shot	50%	Fire a shot which deals 30-200% weapon damage and has 75% greater accuracy, but takes longer to aim. There is a chance that the hand cannon will explode and be destroyed.
Magic composite bow Magic shieldbow	Powershot	35%	A powerful attack with 20% increased weapon damage and accuracy.
Magic shortbow	Snap-Shot	55%	A quick double attack that reduces your accuracy by 30% but deals 20-200% weapon damage each shot.
Morrigan's javelin Superior Morrigan's javelin	Phantom strike	50%	Inflicts a bleed on the opposing player that will deal 100% of the damage dealt. Against non-player opponents this will deal 20% extra damage.
Morrigan's throwing axe Superior Morrigan's throwing axe	Hamstring	50%	Deal 20% extra damage^[sic] and increase the enemies run energy drain rate for a minute.
Noxious longbow	Mirrorback	100%	Summon a mirrorback spider to lower and reflect damage for 10 seconds.
Quickbow	Twin Shot	75%	Fire two arrows with 25% increased accuracy for 100-150% weapon damage.
Rune throwing axe	Chain-hit	10%	Throw an axe which hits its target then bounces up to 3 nearby targets for up to 100% weapon damage each.
Seercull	Soulshot	60%	Lowers your target's magic level based on damage dealt.
Strykebow	Deep Burn	25%	12.5% of stored damage will be released in the form of a rapid damage over time attack that will last for 4.8 seconds.
Zanik's crossbow	Defiance	50%	An attack that deals more damage to those with an affinity to the gods.

Godbows

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Guthix bow	Balanced Shot	55%	Deals 150% weapon damage to your opponent and heals the same amount of damage you would have dealt over time. When Guthix arrows are equipped, a random chance of dealing 100% in earth damage.
Saradomin bow	Restorative Shot	55%	Deal 100% weapon damage to your opponent and heals twice the amount of damage over time. When Saradomin arrows are equipped, a random chance of dealing 100% in water damage.
Seren godbow	Crystal Rain	30%	Five arrows are launched into the air in a 5x5 area centered randomly on any tile occupied by the player's target, with one arrow always in the center. Each arrow does 50-200% ability damage if it hits, but if the target is hit multiple times, the maximum damage is reduced by 25% per arrow.
Zamorak bow	Twin Shot	55%	Fire your bow, dealing 200% weapon damage against your opponent. When Zamorak arrows are equipped, a random chance of dealing 100% in fire damage.

Magic weapons[]

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Iban's staff	Iban Blast	25%	A powerful attack dealing 100-250% spell damage.
Mindspike	Rune Flame	75%	Blast your target with 25% increased accuracy for 100-150% weapon damage.
Noxious staff	Mirrorback	100%	Summon a mirrorback spider to lower and reflect damage for 10 seconds.
Obliteration	Devour	100%	For 10 seconds, when your opponent heals themselves, it will only heal for 50% of the amount it normally would.
Penance trident Penance master trident	Reap	50%	Strike your target for 25-200% active spell damage with a 5% increase in your critical chance rate.
Staff of darkness	Power of Darkness	100%	Absorbs and reflects 25% of all incoming damage for the next 20 seconds.
Staff of light	Power of Light	100%	Reduce all melee damage by 50% for the next minute.
Staff of Sliske	From the Shadows	50%	A shadow clone is summoned from the Shadow Realm that attacks your target five times, dealing 20-100% ability damage each attack.
Zuriel's staff Superior Zuriel's staff	Miasmic Barrage	100%	Deal up to 200% weapon damage and slow your opponents attack speed down.

Godstaves

Weapon	Name	Adrenaline	Description
Armadyl battlestaff	Tempest of Armadyl	50%	Perform a barrage of magical attacks at your opponent.
Guthix staff	Claws of Guthix	25%	Call upon the divine energy of Guthix to perform a powerful magical attack that lowers your opponents defence by 5%.
Saradomin staff	Saradomin strike	25%	Call upon the power of Saradomin to perform a powerful magical attack that lowers your opponents prayer points.
Zamorak staff	Flames of Zamorak	25%	Call upon the power of Zamorak to perform a powerful magical attack that lowers your opponents magic by 5%.