Swordsmanship

Swordsmanship allows the use of bladed weapons with a swing speed between the faster fencing weapons and slower macing weapons.

• All one-handed swords can be poisoned using the Poisoning skill. NO two-handed swords weapons can utilize poison.
• The chance to hit with a swords class weapon is equal to (attacker's swordsmanship skill + 50) / ((defender's weapon or wrestling skill + 50) * 2) plus any relevant accuracy bonuses.

PvM: Swordsmanship Weapon Special Attack

• Only works against creatures, not other players
• Players have a 10% chance of inflicting a Swords Weapon Special Attack
• This chance can be further increased via the Arms Lore Skill, Water Aspect Armor, or Mastery Chain Links
  • Causes the target to take "bleed" damage every 3 seconds for the next 15 seconds
    • Each bleed damage amount is 20% of the total weapon damage caused by the initial attack except as part of a backstab (see below)
    • Each bleed damage amount is 20% of (33% * the total weapon damage caused by a successful backstab with a sword weapon.
  • Also applies a "Lacerate" effect
    • Lacerate increases the chance for players to inflict weapon special attacks against that creature by 5% for the next 8-16 seconds (scaled based on weapon speed)
    • A creature can only have a maximum of 5 Lacerate effect bonuses active at once (bleed can be stacked an unlimited number of times on a creature however)

Codex

• Swordsmanship can benefit from a codex, see more: Weapon and Shield Codexes

Training

• Swordsmanship is trained through combat with a Swordsmanship weapon equipped. See the Weapons Chart for a list of Swordsmanship weapons.
• Up to 50.0 skill can be trained by an NPC weaponsmith.
• Skill gains for Swordsmanship up to 70.0 are accelerated in the New Player Dungeon.
• 50-70 fight creatures in the New Player Dungeon.
• 70-100:
  • Method One:
  • Melee fight creatures in the world.
  • Method Two:
  • Purchase Wooden Training Sword from any NPC provisioner or blacksmith.
  • Use a 2nd account as a sparr dummy by attacking it with the character who is training.
  • Then toggle war/peace on the 2nd account dummy character.
    • Note: If training against another player, it is best to be in the same guild or else form a party where both members check "Flag Green to Party" in order to avoid being flagged as a criminal.
    • You will need a way to heal the second account character.