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A blade forged using dark metals, capable of delivering high-damage charge attacks.

The Dark Sword is a longsword that deals DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation damage.

This weapon can be sold for Credits64 5,000.

Characteristics[]

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)

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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Credits
20,000
Neurodes
2
Ferrite
800
Plastids
200
PolymerBundle
75
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 25
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge N/A Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:N/A

Notes[]

  • The Slam Radial Damage has a 40% chance to inflict the DmgToxinSmall64 Toxin status effect, which is unaffected by status chance mods.

Trivia[]

  • The Dark Sword and its shorter counterpart the DarkDagger Dark Dagger were previously physical damage weapons. Update 13.0 (2014-04-09) changed them to deal purely DmgRadiationSmall64 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 DmgRadiationSmall64 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

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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[]

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