Elephant tusk

Elephant tusk

An elephant's tusk. It is very durable and valuable. While somewhat unwieldy as a melee weapon, it can still be deadly.

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Market Value

80 

Mass

1.8 kg

HP

150

Deterioration Rate

0.5

Ranged Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Point
18.2 dmg (Stab)
27% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Point
18.2 dmg (Scratch)
27% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 3 

Base
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Technical

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AnimalPart

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ExoticMisc

An elephant tusk is ivory obtained from butchering an elephant. Tusks can be sold to exotic goods traders, or used as a melee weapon.

Acquisition

Can be purchased from traders.

Hunting and slaughtering an elephant will yield two (2) elephant tusks.

Summary

Always produced in pairs.

A good hunting based trade item, they are also excellent early melee weapons

One of two (2) horn type weapons present in the game.

The horn weapon is the much rarer thrumbo horn.

Analysis

An elephant tusk can be used as a (sharp) melee weapon, which is in the terms of average DPS and AP, equal to the warhammer.

Version history

In Beta 19 its market price was reduced from 450 silver to 80 silver.

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