Scimitar

Bronze scimitarIron scimitarMithril scimitarFile:Sacred clay scimitar.pngCorrupt dragon scimitarDragon scimitar
Primary type	Slash
Secondary type	Stab
Speed

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Scimitars (pronounced "sim-mit-tar" and not "skim-mit-tar") are somewhat-powerful slashing weapons, despite their less effective stabbing attack. On average, they deal slightly more damage per hit than shortswords, but less than longswords. Scimitars are a much favoured training weapon against armourless opponents, because what it lacks in absolute power, it makes up for in speed. The balance favours a player's Strength being higher than their Attack. This quality, when combined with the great popularity of training Attack and Strength alone and neglecting Defence, results in its popularity. They have the exact same speed as the considerably weaker daggers and two-handed claws, so they are widely used. However, they have less attack than longswords and battleaxes, and they lack versatility due to possessing only an effective slash attack. They are also ineffective against stronger enemies that have a good defence. In that case, it is suggested to bring a longsword with you as it is more accurate, hits harder than a scimitar, and is much cheaper.

Scimitars are made with the Smithing skill, purchased at a scimitar shop identified with the scimitar icon on the map, or bought from another player. One scimitar shop is Zeke's Superior Scimitars, located in Al Kharid. Unfortunately, it only sells bronze, iron, steel, and mithril scimitars. There is also a members-only scimitar shop located in the Ape Atoll that is only available after completing the Monkey Madness quest. This shop sells Dragon scimitars.

Combat Styles

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Grand Exchange prices are shown below:

Grand Exchange prices

Metal		Price
File:Bronze Scimitar.PNG	Bronze	48 coins
File:Iron scimitar.PNG	Iron	36 coins
	Steel	71 coins
	Black	1,856 coins
	White	1,845 coins
File:Mithril scimitar.PNG	Mithril	386 coins
	Adamant	1,349 coins
	Rune	14,969 coins
File:New Dragon Scimitar.png	Dragon	59,627 coins

Scimitar vs. Longsword

While Longswords offer higher strength and attack bonuses, they are a full speed bar slower than Scimitars. There is a 3 second delay between blows with a Longsword, where as with a scimitar, the delay is 2.4 seconds. This equates to 20 attacks per minute with a Longsword as compared to 25 attacks per minute with a Scimitar. The extra 5 hits per minute usually outweigh any damage or accuracy boost that a longsword will give against an unarmoured opponent. This could be very different against an opponent in armour, though in which case a longsword is the preferred weapon.

One test carried out by a player compared the experience gained per minute by each weapon. Having 84 strength, wearing Rune armour, an amulet of glory, Rune gauntlets (charged), wielding a Rune Berserker shield (charged), and fighting Deadly Red Spiders, he obtained the following results:

Rune Scimitar: Average: 670.2 exp/min-1 (713.6, 638.4, 676.8, 652).

Rune Longsword: Average: 549.2 exp/min-1 (515.2, 559.2, 603.2, 519.2)

These results suggest that the Rune Scimitar delivers more experience than the Rune Longsword. However, there are two possible flaws in this testing. The first is that while the Rune Scimitar was tested on Level 50 Deadly Red Spiders, where the Scimitar's accuracy sufficed, some parties may argue that the accuracy of a Rune Longsword inflicts more damage on more defensive NPCs or even on players, while the Rune Scimitar may inflict rapid 0's. Also,the player was wearing an amulet of glory which is not available in F2P. More exhaustive testing is required to produce definitive results, which will prove useful due to the lack of current testing on these weapons.

A second test carried out by a player with maximum combat stats using full void melee, turmoil, overloads, completionist cape, dragon defender and ring of vigour whilst in aggressive stance tested both weapons on level 122 Hellhounds.

The results are as follows :

Rune Scimitar : Averaged 2,183.4 exp/Min or 36.39 exp/Sec

Rune Longsword : Averaged 1,343 exp/Min or 22.38 exp/Sec

These results should clear up any remaining doubt between these weapons, whilst the difference in exp/sec may be relatively small at lower levels, when used at higher levels with better equipment, the difference in speed is significant, with the rune longsword averaging over 14 XP less per second than a rune scimitar.

Thus, The rune scimitar is the best choice of weapon between a Rune longsword Vs a Rune Scimitar.

Special Scimitars

• Corrupt dragon scimitar
• Sacred clay scimitar

Stealing Creation - Scimitars

• Scimitar (class 1)
• Scimitar (class 2)
• Scimitar (class 3)
• Scimitar (class 4)
• Scimitar (class 5)

Trivia

• Dragon scimitars can be bought from Dealga in the Varrock swords shop or from Ape Atoll after completing Monkey Madness.
• Holding position of scimitars was updated with the Herblore Habitat update on 24 November 2010.
• All scimitars give a +1 Slash defence bonus.
• Prior to 12 April 2011, the Dragon Scimitar was the only scimitar to have had an animation update that distinguished it from all other scimitars. Jagex have updated this so that all scimitars share the updated animation.
• Outlaws wield the old version of scimitars.

References

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