# Dragon battleaxe

For this item's off-hand variant, see off-hand dragon battleaxe.
For other variants of this item, see corrupt.

The dragon battleaxe is the second strongest battleaxe that can be used outside of Daemonheim, behind the Necronium battleaxe. It can only be wielded by members who have at least 60 Attack and who have completed the Heroes' Quest. It can be bought from Happy Heroes' H'emporium in the Heroes' Guild for 200,000 coins, or as a reward from a Gold Chest in the Shades of Mort'ton minigame. However, it is advised that players buy this weapon from the Grand Exchange in Varrock or another player as prices are normally lower.

For a long time, this weapon had the highest damage rating for all nondegradable one-handed weapons.

## Special attack

The dragon battleaxe's special attack, Rampage

The Dragon battleaxe has a special attack called Rampage. It requires 100% adrenaline to activate. Upon activation, it drains the player's Attack, Defence, Magic, and Ranged levels by 10%, rounded down. The Strength level of the player is then boosted by 10, plus another level for every 4 levels the special attack drained. Given the nature of the calculation, the player's Strength level is not taken into consideration when calculating the overall boost.

In addition to the stat changes, the player receives a multiplicative 10% reduction in their hit chance and a hidden damage boost. This damage boost scales multiplicatively with other boosts such as prayers, auras, Berserk, or the special attack of the Zaros godsword. This damage boost is usually a ${\displaystyle 1.2\times }$ bonus, but becomes a ${\displaystyle 1.1\times }$ bonus while the Berserk ability is active. Both the hit chance reduction and the hidden damage boost last for 60 seconds and are lost upon lobbying or death.

This means that when using the Berserk ultimate, instead of multiplying the damage by ${\displaystyle 2}$ as the ability normally would, the damage is multiplied by ${\displaystyle 2\times 1.1=2.2}$. Similarly, when using the special attack from the Zaros godsword, instead of multiplying the damage by ${\displaystyle 1.25}$, the damage is multiplied by ${\displaystyle 1.25\times 1.2=1.5}$.

### Example

For an example of this, consider a player with level 99 Strength, with levels 50 in Attack, Magic, and Ranged, as well as level 116 in Defence:

{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}&{\text{Attack Drain}}=\lfloor 50\times 0.1\rfloor =\lfloor 5\rfloor =5\\&{\text{Ranged Drain}}=\lfloor 50\times 0.1\rfloor =\lfloor 5\rfloor =5\\&{\text{Magic Drain}}=\lfloor 50\times 0.1\rfloor =\lfloor 5\rfloor =5\\&{\text{Defence Drain}}=\lfloor 116\times 0.1\rfloor =\lfloor 11.6\rfloor =11\end{aligned}}}

The total Strength level boost can then be determined:

${\displaystyle {\text{Strength level boost}}=10+{\bigg \lfloor }{\frac {5+5+5+11}{4}}{\bigg \rfloor }=10+{\bigg \lfloor }{\frac {26}{4}}{\bigg \rfloor }=10+\lfloor 6.5\rfloor =10+6=16}$

And given that in this example the player has level 99 Strength, the boosted strength level is:

${\displaystyle {\text{Boosted Strength level}}=99+16=115}$

In Full Manual and Revolution modes, the special attack can be performed without a target if activated by the Special Attack keybind set in the game controls or by clicking the adrenaline bar on the main action bar. On Legacy Mode, the special attack can be activated every 5 minutes without needing to gain adrenaline in combat, thus becoming a free and reusable boost to Strength that increases damage done to rocks whilst mining.

## Drop sources

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## Update history

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• patch 11 May 2020 (Update):
• Updated the tooltip for the Dragon Battleaxe special attack to more accurately reflect its effect.
• ninja 22 January 2018 (Update):
• The 34 Defence requirement has been removed from both main-hand and off-hand dragon maces and battleaxes, and from modifying house teleport tabs.
• patch 19 January 2015 (Update):
• The dragon battleaxe special attack buff is now cleared upon starting a duel.

## Trivia

• The player shouts "Raarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!" when the special attack is activated. This quote is different depending on the game's language setting.
• In the 2012 Winter Weekends during week 5, it was a possible drop from the snowmen raids.