Melee Weapons are arguably the most important part of any melee setup. Therefore, they make up a significant part of a players melee gear. So, knowing how to optimise for the best melee weapons will be important to create the best melee setup for your OSRS account.
What are the Best Melee Weapons in OSRS?
- Scythe of Vitur
- Ghrazi Rapier
- Blade of Saeldor
- Inquisitor’s Mace
- Abyssal Tentacle Whip
- Osmumten’s Fang
1. Scythe of Vitur
The Scythe of Vitur is the strongest melee weapon in the game and the best slash weapon in osrs. It requires a minimum of level 90 strength and 80 attack to equip, making it one of the highest requirement weapons.
The Scythe excels against large NPCs, as it can deal 3 hit splats on monsters that are 2 tiles or bigger. This makes it especially good for melee based bossing such as Cerberus, Chambers of Xeric and more.
How to get the Scythe of Vitur?
The Scythe can be obtained as a super rare drop from completing the Theatre of Blood.
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2. Ghrazi Rapier
The Ghrazi Rapier is the best stab weapon in osrs and requires a minimum of level 80 attack to equip. The weapon provides the highest damage output of any 4-tick melee weapon. But, this is tied with the Blade of Saeldor and Inquisitors Mace. Making it one of the best melee weapons for general use.
How to get a Ghrazi Rapier?
The Rapier is also obtained from the Theatre of Blood as a unique drop. However, it is slightly more common than the Scythe of Vitur.
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3. Blade of Saeldor
The Blade of Saeldor is the best one-handed slash weapon in OSRS. This weapon also requires a minimum of level 80 attack. While it is a great weapon for general use, the Mace or Rapier is generally preferred. As the Blade must be charged in order to use, which can be costly and annoying.
How to get the Blade of Saeldor?
To create the blade players will need to use an enhanced crystal weapon seed with 100 crystal shards on a singing bowl. This process requires 82 smithing and crafting. Alternatively, players can have Conwenna or Reese create the weapon for an additional crystal shard fee.
The enhanced crystal weapon seed can be obtained from the gauntlet or corrupted gauntlet.
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4. Inquisitor’s Mace
The Inquisitor’s Mace is the best crush weapon worn in one-hand. It’s damage output is identical to that of the blade of saeldor and ghrazi rapier. However, the mace has a +2 prayer bonus unlike the rapier and blade, which both have +1 each. Making the mace minimally better as an overall melee weapon. The mace also acts as a Zamorakian item for protection in the God Wars Dungeon.
How to get the Inquisitor’s Mace?
The Inquisitor’s Mace is a rare reward from completing the nightmare and Phosani’s Nightmare.
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5. Abyssal Tentacle Whip
The Abyssal Tentacle Whip only requires level 75 attack and is a strong slash weapon. It is an upgraded version of the abyssal whip. That has +8 slash and +4 strength over the original version. Additionally, it has the ability to poison opponents, at a rate of 1 in 4 per successful hit.
How to get the Abyssal Tentacle Whip?
To create an Abyssal Tentacle Whip, players will need to combine a kraken tentacle with an abyssal whip. The abyssal whip can be obtained from abyssal demons or the abyssal sire. Additionally, the kraken tentacle can be obtained from the Kraken boss or cave kraken.
10,000 charges will be applied to the item when created. After these have been used the item will return to the kraken tentacle, consuming the whip.
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6. Osmumten’s Fang
The Osmumten’s Fang is a one-handed stab weapon that requires a minimum of level 82 attack to equip. The Fang has two passive effects which are hugely effective against high defence monsters. It works by making your damage rolls far more consistent, you wont hit as high as other weapons. But, your damage will be far more consistent.
Players will find the Osmumten’s Fang is especially good against monsters such as the Corporeal Beast, Bandos, Tekton and high invocation ToA raids.
How to get an Osmumten’s Fang?
The Osmumten’s Fang is a rare reward from completing the Tombs of Amascut.
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