Dark Sword

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Dark Sword
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Sword
Mastery Rank Requirement	8
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	N/A
Utility
Attack Speed	0.83x animation speed
Block Angle	55°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●●● (1.48x)
Follow Through	0.6x
Range	2.50 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.25 m
Normal Attack
120 ( 46.15%)
60 ( 23.08%)
80 ( 30.77%)
Total Damage	260 (46.15%  Puncture)
Attack Speed	0.83x animation speed
Crit Chance	5.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.50x
Fire Rate	0.833 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	40.00%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	1,300
Slam Damage	1,040
Radial Damage	1,040
Slam Radius	8.0 m
Wind-up	0.6 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	780
Slam Radius	7.0 m
Radial Damage	260
Slam Radial Element	Toxin
Radial Forced Proc	Impact
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	260
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	SWORDS_STANCE
Riven Family	Dark Sword
Introduced	Update 5.0 (2012-12-18)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Variants	Dark Sword
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Tenno Weapons Puncture Damage Weapons Sword Dark Sword Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Base Silent Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

CODEX

A blade forged using dark metals, capable of delivering high-damage charge attacks.

The Dark Sword is a longsword that deals damage on hits.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000 Credits 5,000.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	2	800	200	75	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 25
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

The Dark Sword blueprint can be acquired from Alert missions.

Characteristics

This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor and Robotic enemies.
• Jump attacks are very effective at knocking down multiple enemies at once, whilst Dealing damage
• 100% status proc on ground finisher.
• Stance slot has polarity, matches  Iron Phoenix and  Rising Steel stances.

Disadvantages:

• Slow attack speed compared to other swords.
• Low critical chance.

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Notes

• Normal attacks have a little area of effect, and when enemies are close a portion of the damage is spread, much like Scindo. It is very noticeable when using elemental mods, as the visual effect is applied with the damage too.
• The Taking Flight combo of  Iron Phoenix will also trigger the AoE proc.

Tips

• Because this weapon deals innate damage, two more combined elemental types can be added to form a three-element build. With a and combo, the Dark Sword can be made into an anti-Grineer weapon capable of defeating Ferrite Armor, Alloy Armor and Machinery. This same build also makes it effective against Corrupted.

Trivia

• The Dark Sword and its shorter counterpart the Dark Dagger were previously physical damage weapons. Update 13.0 (2014-04-09) changed them to deal purely damage on their normal attacks, making them the first melee weapons to do so.
• Prior to Update 19, the Dark Dagger and the Dark Sword used exactly the same image for the Arsenal and Codex.

Media

• Darksword in game
• Dark Sword - redesign

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Warframe Dark Sword

Dark Sword Skins

Edit

SWLongswordAritSkin.png

Arit
Tennogen

SWDeroSword.png

Dero
Tennogen

SWLongswordEisen.png

Eisen
Tennogen

Frysta

Insidia
Tennogen

Ion
Tennogen

Kopesh

Oscira

Rephrax

Tannukai

SWLongswordTengushenSkin.png

Tengushen
Tennogen

Patch History

Update 17.2 (2015-08-19)

• Dark Sword can now be used in PvP.

Update 7.8 (2013-04-19)

• Fixed Darksword blueprint, it can now be crafted.

Hotfix 7.7.4 (2013-04-15)

• Fixed Dark Sword blueprint Alert reward.

Vanilla (2012-10-25)

• Introduced with game release.

Last updated: Hotfix 22.19.1 (2018-05-03)

See also

• Alert missions
• Dark Dagger, the shorter counterpart to this weapon.
• Dark Split-Sword, the hybrid counterpart to this weapon