Rune warhammer

Rune warhammer

Release date	29 March 2004 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Lendable?	Yes
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	24,900 coins
Low Alch	16,600 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	41,000 coins
Examine	I don't think it's intended for joinery.
Weight	1.8 kg

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a detailed image of a rune warhammer

A Rune warhammer is the third strongest type of warhammer in the game, better than the adamant warhammer but weaker than Torag's hammers and Statius's warhammer. Like all Rune weapons, it requires 40 Attack to wield. At one point, it was the best warhammer available. It is dropped by trolls and rarely by Warped Tortoises and Magpie Implings. It is also a rare object in free worlds, because it can only be originally obtained from a player with level 94 Smithing. Players can make a rune warhammer with the Smithing skill at level 94 using 3 Rune bars, giving the player 225 Smithing experience.

Though it is uncommon for players to use it as a weapon, it is used in certain Level 3 clue scrolls.

In F2P it is debatable whether if this weapon would be effective in player killing or not. While it does have the best accuracy against full rune of every rune item in the game due to its crush bonus (even more accurate than the Rune 2h sword if set on Pound), the slow speed and low strength bonus means the KO ability is small, so foes wearing plate armour will be greatly damaged but may run away causing you to lose a kill. Arguably, however, faster weapons such as the rune scimitar are too unreliable for hitting often enough against armour, so the warhammer is a better choice. It can be noted however that as long as extremely powerful hits aren't needed, the rune warhammer has the ability to serve as a very accurate method of knocking out players in full armour, provided their hitpoints are in reach of the warhammer's average hit.

Bonuses

Hover over image for type												A player wielding a Rune warhammer. A player wielding a Rune warhammer.
Attack bonus
-4	-4	+53	-4	0
Defence bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Other bonuses				Slot
+48	0	0%	0
FastestInterval: 2.4 seconds

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 99

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Kraka	91	1	3Uncommon
Pee Hat	91	1	3Uncommon
Ice troll female	82	1	4Rare
Ice troll male	82	1	4Rare
Ice troll runt	74	1	4Rare
Warped terrorbird	81	1	4Rare
Warped tortoise	96	1	4Rare
Locust ranger	98	1	7Unknown
Ninja impling	Not applicable	1 (hunter)	7Unknown

Levels 100 and above

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Kalphite Queen	333	1	3Uncommon
Troll general	113	1	3Uncommon
Locust lancer	109	1	7Unknown
Stick	104	1	7Unknown

Combat styles

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Adamant 2h Sword	Most accurate weapon in RuneScape	Dragon Battleaxe