Dual macuahuitl

Dual macuahuitl
Released							20 March 2024 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
League region							Varlamore✓
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Wield, Drop
Examine							A brutal pair.
Values
Value							290,010 coins
High alch							174,006 coins
Low alch							116,004 coins
Weight							3.628 kg
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Exchange							4,322,183 coins (info)
Buy limit							15
Daily volume							912
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Advanced data
Item ID							28997
Link							MOID

The dual macuahuitl (in English pronounced roughly mah-KUA-weetl) is a non-degradable two-handed spiked weapon that requires level 70 Attack and 75 Strength to equip, which is obtained as a possible reward from the Lunar Chest in Neypotzli.

The weapon hits twice per attack, spaced 1 game tick apart when attacking monsters, and dealing damage in two hitsplats, with both hitsplats having their max hit halved. If the player has an odd maximum hit, the first hit's maximum damage will be rounded down and the second hit's will be rounded up, e.g. a maximum hit of 25 will be split into two maximum hits of 12 and 13.

Each hitsplat has its own accuracy check. However, unlike other two-hit weapons like Torag's hammers or sulphur blades, where both checks are independent (either can hit or miss without affecting the other, equivalent to two separate hits with a single-hit weapon), the Dual macuahuitl checks the two hits sequentially, and the second check will only proceed if the first succeeds.

If the first accuracy check succeeds, damage will be rolled for the first hit, and a second accuracy check will then be performed for the second hit. If the first accuracy check fails, the second check will not proceed at all, and both hits will deal no damage. As a result, one "half" of the weapon's DPS functions normally, while the other "half" is reduced due to requiring both accuracy checks to succeed.

This is an intentional design^[1] to push the weapon into a niche against targets with lower Defence levels and mirrors the attacks of the Moons of Peril, which check accuracy in the same way.

As a slight counterbalance to this drawback, the dual macuahuitl has relatively high attack bonuses for its attack speed and level requirements. Its Crush bonus substantially exceeds that of the abyssal bludgeon and rivals the combined crush bonus of an inquisitor's mace and avernic defender.

Attack bonuses
+115	-4	+121	-4	+0
Defence bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot
+81	+0	+0%	+0	List

The dual macuahuitl has a special attack, Blood Infusion, costing 25% special attack energy and requiring the full blood moon armour set to use.

Blood Infusion removes the sequential accuracy check and raises the player's minimum and maximum hit by 25% for that attack, whilst taking damage equal to 25% of their current Hitpoints, rounded down (dealing no damage when less than 4 health). Additionally, the Bloodrager set effect is guaranteed to trigger if the attack hits; if the special attack fails, the player will still take the damage used for it.

Within the Nightmare Zone, the special attack will remove absorption charges if above 4 HP, dealing 0 damage to the player.

When worn with all of the other pieces of the blood moon armour set, the player gains the Bloodrager set effect where the dual macuahuitl has a 33% chance upon a successful hit to attack one tick earlier than usual, allowing the player to attack again after 3 ticks. Both hits count towards this independently^[1], meaning there is a 5/9 (55.5...%) chance to trigger the effect if both hits are successful. If wearing an amulet of blood fury, it can drain the blood fury's charges quite quickly, due to having 2 hits per attack and attacking faster than normal with the set effect.

• During the Clones special attack phase of the Eclipse Moon fight, only a single hitsplat is dealt, rather than the two the weapon should deal; other multi-hit weapons, such as the scythe of Vitur and the sulphur blades, also suffer from this bug, resulting in only one hitsplat.

• A macuahuitl is a wooden club with obsidian blades embedded in its shaft. It was prominently used amongst the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican civilizations for over 2,400 years. In the Nahuatl (Aztec) language, macuahuitl means "hand-wood" and is pronounced /maːk.kʷa.witɬ/.
  • Some Varlamorian guards and undead ones in Shilo Village carry a more basic one-handed macuahuitl that is unobtainable by players.
• In Nahuatl, the '-tl' in macuahuitl is pronounced as a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate. This is achieved by first placing the tongue as if to make a 't' sound, then pushing out the air like in the 'l' sound (lowering the sides of the tongue). When done correctly, it resembles a harder 'th' or softer 'ch'.

v t e Neypotzli
NPCs	Eyatlalli Jessamine Moons of Peril Eclipse Moon Blue Moon Blood Moon Attackable Blood jaguar Grimy Lizard Moonlight Cockatrice Sulphur Nagua Wyrmling Other Moonlight moth Moss Lizard Sunlight Moth Frog
Items	Raw bream Cooked bream Raw moss lizard Cooked moss lizard Moonlight grub Moonlight grub paste Moonlight potion Sulphurous essence
Rewards	Sulphur blades Eclipse moon armour Helm Chestplate Tassets Atlatl Atlatl dart Blue moon armour Helm Chestplate Tassets Spear Blood moon armour Helm Chestplate Tassets Dual macuahuitl
Scenery	Cooking stove Supply crates Lunar Chest Monolith
Other	Strategies Lost to Time The Moons of Ruin Bladed moon (scrapped)

v t e Crush weapons
Mace	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon (bh) (cr) Ancient Barronite Bone Tzhaar-ket-em Inquisitor's
Warhammer	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon (cr) Granite Statius's
Cane	Black Adamant Rune Dragon
Kitchen weaponry	Frying pan Rolling pin Meat tenderiser
Maul	Gadderhammer Hill giant club Granite maul (ornate handle) Tzhaar-ket-om (t) Elder maul (or)
Mjolnir	Guthix Saradomin Zamorak
Magic hybrid	Ivandis flail Blisterwood flail Staves (Battle), (Mystic) Toktz-mej-tal Void knight mace Ahrim's staff Blue moon spear
Other	Abyssal bludgeon Blackjacks Barrelchest anchor (bh) Crimson kisten Dual macuahuitl Glacial temotli Keris partisan (Amascut) (breaching) (corruption) (sun) Sarachnis cudgel Torag's hammers Verac's flail Viggora's chainmace Ursine chainmace

v t e Multi-hit weapons
	Sulphur blades Glacial temotli Earthbound tecpatl Infernal tecpatl Torag's hammers Dark bow Dual macuahuitl Twinflame staff Tonalztics of ralos Scythe of vitur