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''See [[Attack speed]], for an in-depth article on attack delay.''

This page lists the base and minimum delays of all melee and ranged weapons weapons and the skill level required to reach this minimum.

==Useful Info==
Every weapon has a base delay. For every 2 levels in the corresponding weapon [[skill]], your attack delay is reduced by 1 [[aut]] (ie. 0.1 [[decaAut]]), until it reaches the minimum delay.

Most weapons have minimum attack delays of 5, 6, or 7 aut. The minimum delay is the smaller of (base delay / 2) and 7, with a few exceptions:
*[[Rapier]]s and [[quick blade]]s, which reach 5 to match other [[Short Blades]].
*Crossbows ([[hand crossbow]]s, [[arbalest]]s, [[triple crossbow]]s), which have a mindelay of 10.
*[[Stone]]s, [[dart]]s, and [[boomerang]]s, which are capped at 7.

[[Unarmed Combat]] works differently. For every 5.4 skill levels, unarmed attack delay is reduced by 1 aut. Therefore, Unarmed Combat starts at 10 delay and reaches 5 delay at skill 27.

===Modifiers===
Some factors may further alter weapons' speed:
* [[Speed (brand)|Speed]]-branded weapons, which reduce the attack delay of a weapon by 33% at all skill levels.
* [[Heavy]]-branded weapons, which increase attack delay by 50% at all skill levels.
* [[Haste]] or [[Berserk]] multiplies all delays by 66%.
* [[Finesse]] halves all attack delays. Does not stack with haste/berserk.
* If you are wearing a shield you may suffer some penalties. See [[Shields#Shield_penalties|Shields]].
* [[Ranged weapon]]s are also encumbered by [[body armour]]. See [[Ranged Weapons#Armour penalty|Ranged Weapons]].

Delays are rounded randomly in a weighted manner (if delay = 3.4, there is a 40% for 4 aut and 60% for 3 aut).

==List of weapon delays==
===[[Short Blades]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Weapon || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Dagger]] || 10 || 5 || 10
|-
| [[Short sword]] || 10 || 5 || 10
|-
| [[Rapier]] || 12 || 5 || 14
|-
| [[Quick blade]]* || 12 || 5 || 14
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Quick blades strike twice for every turn spent attacking.

===[[Long Blades]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Falchion]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Long sword]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Scimitar]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Demon blade]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Eudemon blade]] || 12 || 6 || 12
|-
| [[Double sword]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Great sword]] || 17 || 7 || 20
|-
| [[Triple sword]] || 19 || 7 || 24
|}
===[[Maces and Flails]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill required
|-
| [[Club]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Whip]] || 11 || 5 || 12
|-
| [[Mace]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Flail]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Morningstar]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Demon whip]] || 11 || 5 || 12
|-
| [[Sacred scourge]] || 11 || 5 || 12
|-
| [[Dire flail]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Eveningstar]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Great mace]] || 17 || 7 || 20
|-
| [[Giant club]] || 16 || 7 || 18
|-
| [[Giant spiked club]] || 18 || 7 || 22
|}

===[[Axes]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Hand axe]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[War axe]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Broad axe]] || 16 || 7 || 18
|-
| [[Battleaxe]] || 17 || 7 || 20
|-
| [[Executioner's axe]] || 19 || 7 || 24
|}

===[[Polearms]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Spear]] || 11 || 5 || 12
|-
| [[Trident]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Demon trident]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Trishula]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Halberd]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Glaive]] || 17 || 7 || 20
|-
| [[Bardiche]] || 19 || 7 || 24
|}

===[[Staves]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Magical staff]] || 12 || 6 || 12
|-
| [[Quarterstaff]] || 13 || 6 || 14
|-
| [[Lajatang]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|}
===[[Ranged Weapons]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Sling]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Shortbow]] || 14 || 7 || 14
|-
| [[Orcbow]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Arbalest]] || 19 || 10 || 18
|-
| [[Hand cannon]] || 19 || 10 || 18
|-
| [[Longbow]] || 17 || 7 || 20
|-
| [[Triple crossbow]] || 23 || 10 || 26

|}

===[[Throwing]]===
{|class="wikitable"
! Name || Base Delay || Min Delay || Skill Required
|-
| [[Dart]] || 10 || 7 || 6
|-
| [[Stone]] || 11 || 7 || 8
|-
| [[Boomerang]] || 13 || 7 || 12
|-
| [[Javelin]] || 15 || 7 || 16
|-
| [[Large rock]] || 20 || 7 || 26
|}

==In-game display==
There are three different ways to obtain some information about your attack speed.

*Viewing the weapon in the '''i'''nventory will display its current average delay.
*The '''@''' command will print your average attack delay.
*The turn counter in the stat area will display the time your last action took in parentheses next to the total time the game has taken. Using ctrl+direction to swing at nothing a few times should give you a pretty good indication of your attack delay.

The former two commands display the ''average'' attack speed, to the nearest aut. If your attack delay is not an integer, it'll semi-randomly round up and down.

==See Also==
*[[Melee weapon]]
*[[Attack speed]]
See individual weapon articles for more information about a given weapon.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.17]], [[unarmed combat]] was penalized by armour.
*Prior to [[0.15]], [[ranged weapon]]s used a completely different delay formula: <code>Base delay - Weapon Skill*4*Average Stat/250</code>.
*Prior to [[0.14]], the [[speed_(brand)|speed]] brand halved your attack delay rounding up, and decreased pre-AC damage by 10%.
*Prior to [[0.13]], Finesse had no effect on non-[[blowgun]] throwing weapons.

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