Phantom Rod

The Phantom Rod is a Fishing Rod Weapon dropped from Phantom Fishers, requiring   level XXI

This was the first Fishing Rod Weapon introduced into the game, the other being the Shredder. This means it can be used as a fishing rod and as a weapon with fishing and sword enchantments able to be applied.

The Phantom Rod's ability allows you to terrify mobs caught by the hook, dealing melee damage and knocking them back. This has no cooldown, meaning you can spam left click to effectively stun-lock an enemy. This ability doesn't work on slayer bosses except the Tarantula Broodfather.

Tips

 * This weapon pairs well with low Effective Health dungeon builds, as it can turn melee classes into ranged classes.
 * This weapon can be converted into a dungeon item and starred with undead essences, and will not require Catacombs levels to use.
 * This weapon is a great weapon to deal damage to Arachne. You can hook her with Phantom Rod and spam left click to deal massive amounts of damage, ignoring all the cobwebs that she spawned if Arachne was already hooked by a Phantom Rod. This also makes a player a lot safer, as the player can keep distance from her and dealing massive amounts of damage. Currently, it is one of the best method to deal damage to Arachne, with similar damage output with Scorpion Foil when doing bossfight.

Trivia

 * The Phantom Rod is one of the 2 new weapons added in the 0.9.10 update, with the other weapon being the "Soul Whip".
 * This is one of two 'fishing weapons' in the game the other being the Shredder.
 * This weapon can stunlock Thorn, similar to the Bonemerang.
 * This is the only weapon in the game that can be dungeonized to increase sea creature chance(besides weapons enchanted with Chimera with any pet that gives sea creature chance), with Expertise X and the Salty reforge.