Elder maul

Elder maul
Released							5 January 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
League region							Kourend✓
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Wield, Drop
Examine							A maul crafted from the component parts of Tekton.
Values
Value							500,010 coins
High alch							300,006 coins
Low alch							200,004 coins
Weight							5.443 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							126,591,156 coins (info)
Buy limit							8
Daily volume							291
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Advanced data
Item ID							21003

The elder maul is a two-handed crush weapon that requires Attack and Strength levels of 75 to wield. It can be obtained as a possible reward from the Chambers of Xeric.

It is the highest tier crush weapon available in Old School RuneScape. It overtakes the godswords as the weapon with the highest strength bonus. Despite the strength bonus, the abyssal bludgeon often has higher overall damage output against low-defence monsters because of its quicker attack speed, making it only useful in places such as Tekton. Because of its high strength bonus, it is often used as a finisher in player killing.

Although its normal attack has fairly limited use cases, its special attack surpasses that of the dragon warhammer and is best in slot for many bossing encounters and raids that utilise defence reduction including the Corporeal Beast, the Chambers of Xeric, and the Theatre of Blood.

As with the dragon warhammer, it too can be used as a substitute for a regular hammer when banging the big door at the entrance of Bandos' Stronghold in the God Wars Dungeon, as well as in the Chambers of Xeric to stun Jewelled Crabs and build any storage chest (with the required mallignum root planks and Construction level).

A player attacks an opponent with the elder maul.

Combat stats

Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+135	-4	+0
Defence bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot
+147	+0	+0%	+0	List

Combat style		Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Experience	Level boost
	Pound	Crush	Accurate	6 ticks (3.6s)	1 tile		+3 Attack
	Pummel	Crush	Aggressive				+3 Strength
	Block	Crush	Defensive				+3 Defence

Special attack

The elder maul has a special attack, Pulverize, costing 50% special attack energy. Increasing the player's accuracy by 25%, a successful hit will reduce the target's Defence level by 35%, effectively acting as a superior version of the dragon warhammer's special attack. Even then, due to the maul's stats, it is slightly more accurate than a dragon warhammer with an avernic defender, beating the pair by +12 crush bonus and +54 strength bonus. It does miss out on some damage as the dragon warhammer gets a 50% damage buff from the special.

When used against Tekton, the first special attack from an elder maul is guaranteed to hit, however, if subsequent attacks were to fail to hit, it will instead reduce 5% of his Defence level.

Defence level reductions will stack over multiple successful hits; each reduction is calculated from the current temporary level (so follow-up drains reduce fewer levels). The Defence level of the target after each respective hit, with no rounding, would be 65%, 42.25%, 27.5%, 17.85%, 11.6% then 7.5% of the original. However, fractional defence levels reduced by the special attack will be rounded down.

For example, on a monster with 75 Defence, the first special attack will reduce 26 levels (rounded down from 26.25), leaving the enemy at 49 Defence. The next special attack will then reduce 17 levels (rounded down from 17.15), leaving the enemy at 32 Defence.

Note: The special attack has a 1-tick delay over a regular attack, meaning if you are flinching a monster like Kalphite Queen you will be attacked.

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  A player performs Pulverize without any other equipment.
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  A player performs Pulverize whilst wearing a cape.

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Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:5 June 2024| |0}} {{#explode:5 June 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 June 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The elder maul can now be used to ring the gong outside the Bandosian quarter of the God Wars Dungeon and to build or upgrade the bank chest in Chambers of Xeric.
[[{{#explode:29 May 2024| |0}} {{#explode:29 May 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:29 May 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The elder maul has been given a special attack.

Trivia

• The elder maul was available from the supplies table in an unrestricted world during the week of 18 August - 25 August 2016 as a test weapon for players. As it was used solely for testing its power, a magenta Tzhaar-ket-om was used as a graphics placeholder.