They are identical in damage and attack speed to daggers and maces.

Scimitars are generally the most expensive of the three fastest weapon types, and they lack the prayer bonus offered by maces.

Nevertheless, they remain popular due to the reputation they have gained over the years as being the ideal training weapon.

One scimitar shop is Zekes Superior Scimitars, located in Al Kharid.

Unfortunately, it only sells bronze, iron, steel, and mithril scimitars.

There is also a members -only scimitar shop located in the Ape Atoll that is only available after completing the Monkey Madness quest.

There is a 3 second delay between blows with a longsword, whereas with a Scimitar, the delay is only 2.4 seconds.

This equates to 20 attacks per minute with a Longsword as compared to 25 attacks per minute with a Scimitar.

The extra 5 blows per minute usually outweigh any damage boost a longsword will give.

However, the extra five hits, due to the lower damage bonus of a scimitar, may be 0s or low hits, as opposed to stronger hits with a longsword.

Conducting accurate tests to compare the two weapon types, although attempted, have never brought about conclusive evidence of superiority due to the many factors that must be accounted for, such as enemy defence and Attack level, along with weaknesses to certain attack types.

For the most part, its merely personal preference as to which is a better weapon.

Due to changes brought about during the Evolution of Combat, however, most (if not all) weapons have been balanced to have an equal damage per second, making attack style one of the only things to consider when choosing a weapon.

This has been updated, so that all scimitars share the updated animation.

Scimitat Of Speed Dmg