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.
- 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 |
 Neurodes2 |
 Ferrite800 |
 Plastids200 |
 Polymer Bundle75 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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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. However, they were eventually patched again to deal both physical damage types and Radiation, with the ability to deal Toxin on slam attacks.
- 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[]
Darksword in game
Dark Sword - redesign
Warframe Dark Sword
Dark Sword Skins
Day of the Dead
Seasonal
Seasonal
Arit
Tennogen
Tennogen
Dero
Tennogen
Tennogen
Eisen
Tennogen
Tennogen
Ezriel
TennoGen
TennoGen
Insidia
Tennogen
Tennogen
Ion
Tennogen
Tennogen
Tengushen
Tennogen
Tennogen
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
