Dragon dagger(p++)

The dragon dagger(p++) is the strongest dagger in RuneScape and can be wielded by players with at least 60 Attack, after completion of the Lost City quest. This dagger is made by players by putting weapon poison (++) on a regular dragon dagger. The only difference between the regular dragon dagger and the dragon dagger(p++) is that it also has a 25% chance to poison your opponent for 6 damage. The dagger is popular due to its cheap price and its potentially devastating special attack, which deals two hits at once with an extra 25% accuracy and 10% max hit for each of the two hits, using up 25% of the special attack bar.

The damage calculator for both hitsplats in the special attack uses the remaining hitpoints the target has at the start of the animation. For example, if a target has 20 hitpoints, it would hit a maximum of 20-20 even though this exceeds their remaining hitpoints. This is one of the reasons the dragon dagger is a preferred special attack weapon, as while all damage dealt is pre-calculated, the dagger hits twice allowing for more damage on opponents that would normally heal themselves in time to survive.

Trivia

 * The dragon dagger special attack has separate hitsplats on monsters, but when used on players, the hitsplats appear at the same time.

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