Chungou/Chunjun (Purity) - Its patterns resembled a row of stars in a constellation.He also made three swords for King Goujian of Yue, named Longyuan (龍淵), Tai’e (泰阿) and Gongbu (工布). Donald Wagner Legendary swords Īccording to the Yuejue shu (Record of Precious Swords), the swordsmith Ou Yezi forged five treasured swords for Gan Jiang and King Zhao of Chu, named, respectively, Zhanlu (湛盧), Juque (巨闕), Shengxie (勝邪), Yuchang (魚腸) and Chunjun (純鈞). Most iron swords are also long, and the development of the long bronze sword is often considered to be related to the development of the long iron sword. An example from the First Emperor's mausoleum. A rather sudden development, perhaps in the mid-third century BC, is the bronze "long sword", typically about a metre long. The early bronze swords are seldom over 50 cm in length and are sometimes referred to as "short swords". By around 500 BC, however, the sword and shield combination began to be regarded as superior to the spear and dagger-axe. Still, iron and steel tools were not produced in significant quantities until much later. China started producing steel in the 6th century BC. At this point, at least some soldiers used the jian rather than the dagger-axe due to its greater flexibility and portability.
īy the late Spring and Autumn period, jians lengthened to about 56 cm. These short stabbing weapons were used as a last defense when all other options had failed. īronze jians appeared during the Western Zhou. Knives were found in Fu Hao's tomb, dated c. Ornate sword hilts from the Spring and Autumn period Outside of China, Chinese swords were also used in Japan from the third to the sixth century AD, but were replaced with native Japanese swords by the middle Heian era. However, longer swords have been found on occasion. īesides specialized weapons like the Divided Dao, Chinese swords are usually 70–110 cm (28–43 in) in length. In modern times, the ceremonial commissioned officer's sword of the Chinese navy has been patterned after the traditional jian since 2008. They switched to wrought iron and steel during the late Warring States period. Bronze jians appeared during the Western Zhou period. The jian has been translated as a long sword, while the dao has been translated as a saber or a knife. Jians are straight swords, while daos are single-edged swords and mostly curved from the Song dynasty forward. Historically, a Chinese sword is classified into two types, jian and dao. Scimitars will still do more DPS to dragons than longswords if the slash style is used for the scimitar, even if the longsword is used on stab.Spring and Autumn period jian, Warring States jian, Qin dynasty jians, Han dynasty jian, Ming dynasty jian, Qing dynasty jian Longswords have a much higher attack bonus for stab than scimitar and will do more DPS, assuming the player is using the stab attack style on the scimitar. As a simple example, dragons are relatively weak to stab. It gets more complicated as other factors come into play, such as enemy's defence bonuses, the player's Attack and Strength levels, and the player's attack bonuses from other gear. This makes them better to use than the longsword in most situations. Longswords have slightly higher strength bonuses than their scimitar counterpart, which gives them an additional +1 to the maximum hit.Ĭomparing the two weapons, the scimitar will hit 25% faster in exchange for 1 damage to the max hit. This lets scimitars attack 1 tick (about 0.6 seconds) faster. However, scimitars have an attack speed of 4 while longswords have an attack speed of 5.
The scimitar and longsword are very similar weapons as they are both slash weapons and have nearly the same attack bonus for slash.
Overall, it is recommended to get a scimitar over a longsword whenever possible. Longswords have slightly higher strength bonuses which gives them higher possible maximum hits. In short, scimitars have better DPS against most monsters than longswords and are better suited for PvM and training melee stats.
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