Granite maul

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Granite maul
Release	26 January 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Lendable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Wield
Values
Value	50,000 coins
High alch	30,000 coins
Low alch	20,000 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 3,434 Sacrifice: 13,736
Weight	4.535 kg
Examine
Simplicity is the best weapon.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	29,346 coins (info)
Buy limit	10
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Advanced data
Item ID	4153
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The granite maul is a 2-handed maul, and is part of the granite equipment set. It requires level 55 Strength and level 55 Attack to wield and is dropped exclusively by gargoyles, Slayer monsters which require 75 Slayer to kill.

This weapon cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Combat stats

Requirements
55 55
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
55
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		1229.3		-
Accuracy		983		-
Style		Crush
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
FAQ • docs

Special attack

The granite maul's special attack, Quick Smash

The granite maul has a special attack, Quick Smash, which requires 50% adrenaline and is an instant attack that ignores any cooldowns, dealing 35-176% ability damage.

This is essentially a weaker version of the Dragon mace special attack, as it consumes double the adrenaline and does less ability damage. The Dragon mace special attack DOES incur the global ability cooldown, and is inferior to the Granite maul special attack in that way.

Drop sources

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Gargoyle	93	1	1/512

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Warhammers
Disassembly XP	16.5
Item quantity required	1
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  39.5% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 39.5% 1 34 39.2 2 49 38.4 3 64 37.6 4 69 36.8 5 78 36.0 6 83 34.8 7 91 34.0 8 95 32.8 9 105 31.6
Possible materials
Often
Base parts	35/100
Head parts	30/100
Smooth parts	30/100
Rarely
Heavy components	3/100
Strong components	2/100

History

In early March 2007, a glitch that allowed infinite iterations of its special attack was discovered and abused by many players. The glitch was later fixed, and the abusers received bans of varying lengths.

When the granite maul was first released, players were allowed to "pre-set" a special attack by clicking on the special bar as an NPC died or by other similar fashion, then recharging the special bar. Using this "glitch", players would then be able to use two consecutive special attacks on top of one another, allowing potentially 4 devastating hits instead of the now 3. At that time, the granite maul was one of the most, if not the most, popular form of "3-hitting" enemies in the Wilderness (as opposed to, say, a dragon dagger). Maul pures were thus born, with 50 Attack, 1 Defence, and extremely high Strength. However, this glitch was patched soon thereafter, leaving many players disappointed.

This was a popular scamming item because it resembles the rock hammer; players would initially present an often noted granite maul in the trade window, and quickly switch it to a rock hammer (noted if appropriate) and hope the receiver did not notice the change.

When PvP worlds were released, the price of the granite maul went up from around 50,000 to 150,000 coins. Again, when Bounty Hunter worlds were released, the granite maul went up again, to 250,000 coins.

Update history

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• patch 15 September 2014 (Update):
  • Spam clicking the granite maul's special attack will no longer use 100% of your special attack bar/adrenaline when delivering just one special attack.

• patch 4 August 2014 (Update):
  • The granite maul's attack speed has been increased, bringing it in line with the gravite 2h sword.

• patch 29 September 2008 (Update):
  • The range of items that one can lend to other players has been expanded. These include a small amount of newer Treasure Trail items as well as some old ones, dragon spears and most rune and granite armour and weapons.

• update 26 January 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Before the Evolution of Combat update, the gravite 2h sword used to give higher bonuses in comparison to the granite maul, despite the fact that the gravite 2h sword required 5 less Attack to wield. The two weapons are now on par with each other bonus-wise, as well as sharing the same attack requirement.
• The granite maul's infinite special attack glitch reappeared after the Legacy Mode beta was released. It was patched shortly afterwards.