Harpoon (weapon)

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Harpoon



Primary type							Stab
Secondary type							Slash

Attack speed

5 ticks (3.0 seconds)

Harpoons are wieldable Fishing equipment that double as stab weapons. They are similar to swords, though notably weaker.

They are mainly used to free an inventory space for an extra Fishing resource, and rarely see use in combat.

Combat styles

Combat style		Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Experience	Level boost
	Stab	Stab	Accurate	4 ticks (2.4s)	1 tile		+3 Attack
	Lunge	Stab	Aggressive				+3 Strength
	Slash	Slash	Aggressive				+3 Strength
	Block	Stab	Defensive				+3 Defence

Harpoons

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
Item
	Barb-tail harpoon	9	4	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0%	0	0	1.360
	Infernal harpoon	38	32	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	2.267
	Dragon harpoon	38	32	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	2.267
	Crystal harpoon	38	32	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	0.907

Stab	Pickaxe Harpoon Dagger Sword Hasta Spear Partisan
Slash	Sickle Machete Axe Claws Cutlass Scimitar Scythe Longsword Battleaxe Whip Two-handed sword Halberd
Crush	Banner Blackjack Cane Polestaff Mace Maul Warhammer

	Shortbow Longbow Composite bow Crossbow Ballista
Thrown	Dart Throwing knife Thrownaxe Chinchompa Blowpipe

Other

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon ^(cr)
	Abyssal ^(bh) Bone Dark Glowing Keris Wolfbane

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon ^(cr)
	Training Wooden Rapier Leaf-bladed Toktz-xil-ak Belle's folly Ghrazi rapier ^(holy) Osmumten's fang ^(or)

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black Mithril Adamant Rune ^(gilded) Dragon ^(cr)
	Bone Guthan's Leaf-bladed Sunspear Vesta's Zamorakian

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Mithril Adamant Rune ^(gilded) Dragon
	Zamorakian Dragon hunter lance

Kitchen weaponry

Other

Cattleprod
Dual sai
Earthbound tecpatl
Keris partisan ^{(Amascut) (breaching) (corruption) (sun)}
Swift blade

Source

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