The Dark Sword is a longsword that deals Radiation damage.
This weapon can be sold for 5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.
- Slam Radial Damage deals Toxin damage, bypassing Shield and Proto Shield.
- Stance slot has polarity, matching Iron Phoenix and Rising Steel (Conclave only) stance.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Highest base damage of all swords.
- Highest status chance of all swords.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High total damage (260)
- Very high status chance (40.00%)
- Very high disposition (●●●●● (1.48x))
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (5.00%)
- Very low attack speed (0.83x animation speed)
- Very low crit multiplier (1.50x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
The Dark Sword's blueprint can be bought from Nightwave Offerings. Note that the offerings are on a 7-day rotation, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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20,000 |
Neurodes 2 |
Ferrite 800 |
Plastids 200 |
Polymer Bundle 75 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush: 25 | |||||
Market Price: N/A | Blueprints Price:N/A |
Notes[]
- The Slam Radial Damage has a 40% chance to inflict the Toxin status effect, which is unaffected by status chance mods.
Trivia[]
- The Dark Sword and its shorter counterpart the Dark Dagger were previously physical damage weapons. Update 13.0 (2014-04-09) changed them to deal purely Radiation damage on their normal attacks, making them the first melee weapons to do so.
- Prior to Update 19.0 (2016-11-11), the Dark Dagger and the Dark Sword used exactly the same image for the Arsenal and Codex.
- Due to its black color and Radiation damage, it may be an homage to Kanajana, which is a notably radioactive "manifestation" of the Black Sword (Stormbringer), from the works of science fiction author Michael Moorcock.
Media[]
Dark Sword Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31) Actual patch notes made a mistake on old damage number according to archived versions of Module:Weapons/data.
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 8
- Damage increased from 37 Radiation to 260 (120 Puncture, 60 Slash, and 80 Radiation).
- Range increased from 1 to 2.5.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 40%.
- Slam Attack increased from 74 Radiation to 780 Radiation.
- Slide Attack increased from 79 Radiation to 260 Radiation.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
Update 17.2 (2015-08-19)
- Dark Sword can now be used in PvP.
Update 7.8 (2013-04-19)
- Fixed Darksword blueprint, it can now be crafted.
Hotfix 7.7.4 (2013-04-15)
- Fixed Dark Sword blueprint Alert reward.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Introduced with game release.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See also[]
- Dark Dagger, the shorter counterpart to this weapon.
- Dark Split-Sword (Heavy Blade), the hybrid counterpart to this weapon