Cobalt Balmung

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

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

Cobalt Balmung
Release	18 February 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 blue axe; a gift from Kharshai.
Advanced data
Item ID	27412
Links	MRID • recipe
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The Cobalt Balmung is a reward for completing the miniquest Koschei's Troubles. It requires attempting to cut the Jewel into a Blue Jewel, and handing it to Kharshai to unlock a new memory. This Jewel can be retrieved from Karshai when the player wishes to recolour Balmung. However, without the Jewel, the Cobalt Balmung can be changed into the Achromatic Balmung by right clicking and selecting the "Toggle-colour" option.

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.

• update 18 February 2013 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• In Norse mythology, Balmung (or Gram) was the magical sword of the hero Sigurd or Siegfried as known in Germany.
• Wallasalkis are affected by the Balmung effect as if they were Dagannoth.
• Cobalt is a grey metal, although Cobalt blue is a common blue pigment.
• 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.