The Dark Split-Sword is a melee weapon with the unique ability to change weapon type depending on the Stance mod with which it is equipped: a double-bladed greatsword when equipped with Heavy Blade stances, or wielded as two separate blades when using Dual Sword stances.
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 20,000 |
 Dual Skana1 |
 Forma1 |
 Rubedo1,200 |
 Mutagen Mass10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 225
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 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Tenno Lab Research 3,000
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10,000 |
 Tellurium1 |
 Alloy Plate800 |
Rubedo 62 |
 Mutagen Sample20 |
Time: 2 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Nami Skyla | |||||
 x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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Characteristics[]
This weapon deals 
Radiation damage.
Advantages:
- Innate
Radiation damage – effective against health.
- Radiation proc causes an opposing team to attack each other.
- Third highest base damage in heavy blade stances, behind the War and Scindo
- Tied with Dual Kamas/ Dual Kamas Prime and Dual Zoren for the third highest attack speed of all dual swords, behind Dual Keres and Nami Skyla Prime.
- Innate polarity.
Disadvantages:
- Innate Radiation damage – less effective against shields
- Tied with the Dual Raza for the third lowest damage of all dual swords.
- Stance slot has polarity, does not match the Conclave-only Dividing Blades stance.
- stance polarity is incompatible with any of the heavy blade stances.
Comparisons:
- Dark Split-Sword (Heavy Blade) (Normal Attack), compared to Dark Split-Sword (Dual Swords) (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage (96.00 vs. 101.90)
- Lower total damage (96 vs. 101.9)
- Lower attack speed (0.92x animation speed vs. 1.17x animation speed)
- Higher block resist (50% vs. 45%)
Notes[]
- Without any stance equipped, the Dark Split-Sword is used as a Heavy Blade weapon by default.
Tips[]
- Heavy Blade and Dual Sword stances do not share any polarities, meaning players are forced to commit to either one of the two weapon types.
- Alternatively, players can remove the stance slot's polarity with a Forma at the cost of capacity points.
Trivia[]
- The Dark Split-Sword is the first melee weapon capable of using two different types of Stance mods, in this case Heavy Blade and Dual Sword stances, giving it the ability to use a total of 6 individual Stance mods.
- The Dark Split-Sword is made up of a Dark Sword and a Dark Dagger. This can be seen when equipping a dual swords stance.
- The Dark Split-Sword is the first weapon from the Tenno Lab to require Mutagen Masses to craft.
- On the Release of Update: Lunaro (2016-06-15) on PC, PC Gamer offered a limited time promo code for the Dulus weapon skin, which is essentially a stretched out PC Gamer logo on the sword.
Media[]
Dark Split-Sword in Codex showing its heavy blade form.
Dark Split-Sword in its dual swords form.
Tenno Reinforcements - Dark Split-Sword
Warframe Lunaro Weapon Skin Giveaway - PC Gaming Show 2016
Warfrane- Dark Split Sword Game Play and Coloring
Warframe - Dark Split-Sword (Weapon Review)
Warframe Dark Split Sword Setup (U18.14.2)
DARK SPLIT SWORD - Double the trouble 2 forma - Warframe
Dark Split-Sword Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 22.20.5 (2018-05-24)
- Fixed Dark split Sword appearing as unranked for Clients at the beginning of a mission even though it's ranked.
Hotfix 21.0.8 (2017-07-13)
- Fixed Dark Split Sword Rivens having no effect when equipped.
Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
- Fixed Mods equipped on the Dark Split Sword not staying on the weapon when exiting out of the Arsenal.
- Fixed incorrect sheathing of the Dark Split-Sword when equipped with a Dual Sword Stance Mod (Crossing Snakes, Swirling Tiger, Dividing Blades).
Update: Recurring Nightmares (2016-10-27)
- Fixed incorrect entries for the Dark Split-Sword in player profile.
- Conclave: Reduced the damage of the Dark Split Sword in the two handed form.
Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
- Fixed an issue where the Dark Split Sword would show a Mire when being built in the Foundry.
Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)
- Increased Dark Split-Swords critical chance while dual wielding by to 25% and Critical Multiplier to 2.5x.
- Slightly increased the Dark Split Sword dual wield attack speed.
- Slightly decreased the Dark Split Sword Heavy Blade attack speed.
- Increased the Dark Split Sword Heavy Blade Element Damage to 90 and status chance to 25%.
Hotfix 18.14.2 (2016-06-09)
- Visually tweaked the Dark Split-Sword’s Energy trail to fit better on the weapon.
- Fixed the Dark Split-Sword not listed in the Melee section of the Codex.
- Fixed ranked Stance Mods equipped on the Dark Split-Sword being un-ranked.
- Dark Split-Sword can now be used in the Conclave.
Hotfix 18.14.1 (2016-06-08)
- Dark Split-Sword can now be sold from Inventory.
- Fixed the Dark Split-Sword not rewarding Affinity for Clients.
Update 18.14 (2016-06-08)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.8.2 (2018-09-19)
See also[]
- Dark Dagger, a dagger of the same family.
- Dark Sword, a single-handed sword of the same family.
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