Achromatic Balmung

For this item's augmented variant, see Augmented Balmung.

For other variants of this item, see non-achromatic, viridian, cobalt, crimson.

Achromatic Balmung
Release	4 March 2013 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	Koschei's Troubles
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Disassembly	No
Destroy	You can get Balmung back by speaking to Kharshai in his cavern under Rellekka.
Actions
Backpack	Wield, Toggle-colour, Destroy
Values
Value	225,000 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 300,000 Sacrifice: 0
Weight	2.721 kg
Examine
A mighty axe; a gift from Kharshai.
Advanced data
Item ID	27495
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The Achromatic Balmung is one of four Balmung upgrades as reward for completing the miniquest Koschei's Troubles. Unlike the Viridian, Crimson, and Cobalt Balmung, it was released two weeks later as a neutral colour. It is obtained by detecting curses on the gem or attempting to crush it during the miniquest and handing it to Kharshai to unlock a new memory. After enhancing the Balmung, one can right click and select "Toggle-colour" to remove the colour. The same process can be used to regain the colour.

When used on dagannoth, all enhanced Balmungs have a 45% bonus to hit chance, and deal 45% more auto-attack damage, or 35% against Dagannoth Supreme. With abilities, the extra damage is 22.5%, or 17.5% against Dagannoth Supreme.

Combat stats

Requirements
70
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
70
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		1599.5		-
Accuracy		1486		-
Style		Slash
Range		1
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0
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Update history

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• patch 12 March 2013 (Update):
  • The level requirements for Balmung have been updated.

• patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • Added to game.
    • Players can choose to have an uncoloured version of the upgraded Balmung.

• update 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

Unlike most Average-speed two-handed swords (including its original counterpart), upgraded Balmung uses a damage multiplier of $22.85$ instead of the standard $22.35$. All versions of upgraded Balmung share this trait, effectively giving them an approximate $2.2\%$ weapon damage (equating to $3.3\%$ ability damage) bonus over other tier 70 weapons.