Rune Blade
For official shards · Swordsmanship · two-handed · every figure sourced
Knocks the weapon out of the target's hands; they cannot re-arm for 5 seconds, and cannot be disarmed again for 10. Usable unarmed, and exempt from Tactics when it is.
Needs 70 weapon skill, 30 Tactics · base mana 20.
The weapon picks the move for you: a random one of several, with no way to say which. It can be set to draw from the offensive moves or the defensive ones.
Needs 90 weapon skill, 60 Tactics · base mana 15.
The Rune Blade is a two-handed Swordsmanship weapon: 14–17 base damage at 3 seconds a swing, with Disarm as its primary special move and Blade Weave as its secondary.
The numbers
| Skill | Swordsmanship |
|---|---|
| Hands | Two-handed — no shield with it |
| Base damage | 14–17 |
| Weapon speed | 3 seconds |
| Primary move | Disarm |
| Secondary move | Blade Weave |
| Hue | 0 [!] — undyed: a plain Rune Blade wears its art's own colours, which is how the picture is drawn. A crafted one takes the colour of the metal or wood it is made from. |
How fast it actually swings depends on your stamina and Swing Speed Increase — the toolkit's weapon builder and Reference › Weapons work that out for your character.
Named weapons and artifacts built on the Rune Blade — 5
Every item in the toolkit's database that its own data places on this weapon. Each keeps the Rune Blade's specials and base swing; the properties are its own.
| Item | Properties |
|---|---|
| Corrupted Rune Blade | — |
| Luminous Rune Blade | Hit Lightning 40% · DI 55 · SSI 25 · Night Sight |
| Mage's Rune Blade | — |
| Runeblade of Knowledge | SDI 5 |
| Runesabre | — |
Other Swordsmanship weapons
Two-handed: Axe · Bardiche · Battle Axe · Bladed Staff · Crescent Blade · Daisho · Double Axe · Executioner's Axe · Gargish Axe · Gargish Bardiche · Gargish Battle Axe · Gargish Daisho · Gargish Scythe · Gargish Talwar · Halberd · Hatchet · Large Battle Axe · No-Dachi · Ornate Axe · Scythe · Tachi · Two Handed Axe
One-handed: Bladed Whip · Bokuto · Bone Harvester · Broadsword · Butcher Knife · Cleaver · Cutlass · Dread Sword · Elven Machete · Gargish Bokuto · Gargish Bone Harvester · Gargish Butcher Knife · Gargish Cleaver · Gargish Katana · Glass Sword · Katana · Longsword · Pickaxe · Radiant Scimitar · Scimitar · Skinning Knife · Stone War Sword · The Redeemer · Viking Sword · Wakizashi
Where these come from
Damage, speed, hands and skill are the toolkit's weapon table; the special moves, their base mana and what they do come from uo.com's Special Moves page; the named weapons and their properties are the toolkit's item database. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished where it appears.
More from UO Toolkit
- Every weapon — all 126, each with its own page
- Damage calculator — how a hit is worked out, step by step
- Every skill — what each does, its stats and where it caps
- The toolkit itself — the weapon builder, swing speed at your stamina and SSI, and every calculator, free
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