Runescape Quest GuideDesert Treasure |
| Start: Shanty pass in Al-kharid |
| Required: |
| Items: Desert equipment (robes, boots, shirt, waterskins) shanty passes, 12 Magic logs, 6 Steel bars, 6 Molten glass, Ashes, Charcoal, 1 Blood rune, Regular bones, Cake, Super restore potions, Spiked boots, Climbing boots (this is not needed if you can teleport to trolheim) Garlic, Many Lockpicks (you can also get them during the quest but best is to buy them a rogue's den) , 1 Silver bar, Spice (bought at ardougne stalls), Pestle and mortar, Facemask, Tinderbox, Ice gloves(if you melee fareed) , Waterskins, knife, Energy potions and anti poison potions. Also you must have around 30 prayer potions, 4-6 super restore potions and a lot of food! |
Quests: Digsite Quest, The Tourist Trap, Temple of Ikov, Priest in Peril, Waterfall Quest and Troll Stronghold. |
| Skills: Level 10 Slayer, Level 50 Firemaking, Level 50 Magic, Level 53 Thieving, low agility will be a disadvantage. |
Monster encounters: Fareed (lvl 169) Damis (lvl 107,174) Desous (lvl 139) Kamil (lvl 151) |
Note: This quest contains very strong monsters and will test your combat skill to the limit. It is advised that you don't try this quest under combat lvl 80. Also all the bosses have a weakness (water, fire, earth and air) so if you got the required magic lvl to use blast or wave use it! 70+ magic is a great advantage!
This guide is rather large so use these quick find links to search for what you want.
Starting the quest
Diamond of blood
Diamond of smoke
Diamond of shadow
Diamond of ice
The pyramid
Items needed for this part:
12 Magic logs, 6 Molten glass, 6 Steel bars, Ashes, Charcoal, A blood rune, bones and 1000 gp. Make sure you got everything in notes except the money of course. (teleport to Al-kharid will safe you time from walking)
Go to the shanty pass in Al-kharid and bring all the dessert equipment you need. Take the carpet ride to the Bedamin camp. Now talk to the archeologist just near the carpet.
Ask him about a quest and he will tell you about a stone tablet that he found. You must take it to the Digsite for examination. Now teleport or fly back on the carpets to Al-kharid and go to the digsite.
West of the digsite at the learning class find the Expert and talk to him. You find out that he is Terry Balando and he will take the stone tablet. Talk to him again and he will give you notes.
You need to get back to the archeologist. Also take the items mentioned above in notes. When you reached the archeologist give him the notes from Terry balando and he will tell you to go search south in the bandit camp for clues.
Take al you're Saradomin and Zamorak stuff off because people in the bandit camp will attack you if you don't.
Go to the bar in the bandit camp and buy a drink from the barkeeper (650 gp). Now talk to him again and ask him about the diamonds.
Now go to the house east and talk to Elbis about the diamonds off Azzanadra. He will ask you to get some stuff. Give him all the noted items you brought and then walk to the south east until you come to some mirrors.
Talk to Elbis and he will tell you to look in every mirror. You will see 6 places but only 4 of them are true.
You can now choose what diamonds you want to get first.
Here is a list of the difficulty of the bosses
Hardest-Damis (shadow)
Hard-Kamil (ice)
Easy- Dessous (blood)
Very easy- Fareed (smoke)
Use the fast links to go to the chosen diamond.
Diamond of blood
Diamond of smoke
Diamond of shadow
Diamond of ice
The pyramid
Diamond of blood
Items Needed: silver bar, garlic, spice, pestle and mortar, food, and prayer potions.
Best is to bring mage equipment (for wind blast or wave) but if you got a good ranging lvl and you got Karils crossbow or crystal bow you can better bring ranging equipment.
Go to Canfis bar and you will see a cutscene off Malak talking to the barkeeper. Now talk to Malak yourself and ask about the diamonds. He will offer you a deal. You must kill Dessous and he will give you the diamond of blood. Keep talking to Malak and ask about how to kill him and where he is. You will need to make a blessed silver pot filled with garlic and spice to lure him out off his tomb.
Go to draynor sewers and talk to Ruantun and give him the silver bar and you will get a silver pot (also get garlic in draynor if you haven't gotten one already it's on a second floor of a house in a cupboard)
Now put off all you're armor and get go to Entrana and get in blessed by the high priest inside the church.
Now go back to Malak and he will bite you for the blood. Now add the spice and ground the garlic with the pestle and mortar and add that to.
Now get food (sharks preferred), 2 prayer pots and the armor you want to wear and go follow this map to the grave of Dessous. (You can take the shortcut from the Canfis bar if you can). Make sure you got enough food because the ghasts there will rotten you food sometimes.
When you reached the graveyard go to the middle and use the silver pot with the grave. Dessous will appear and you must kill it.
Killing Dessous
Dessous is lvl 139 and uses melee and a magic based attack.
The best thing is to wear full magic robes and use protect from melee. His magic will hit 10 on every attack with bats. So you may think to use protect from magic but really don't do this. Just keep using air blast or wave (best) and he will die before you run out off food. You CANT hide behind the fence because Dessous will just teleport near you.
Of course if you use range just do the same thing but use arrows.
Another way is to wear full rune or better and use protect from magic. Just beware that he can hit quite high so keep attention to you're health.
Note: If you die or lose from him you need to get spice, garlic and blood again.
After you killed him he will drop no diamond. Go back to Malak and you will receive the diamond of blood. Put it on the bank as fast as possible or else you will get attacked by a stranger with a poison dagger!
Diamond of smoke
Items Needed: Facemask, food and prayer potions, tinderbox, ice gloves (if you use melee) energy potions are optional but not needed. Get you're dessert equipment but do not use no much waterskins because you need to bring food etc.
From the Shanty pass take a carpet to Polivineach and walk south west around the cliff to find a smoky well. (follow red line)
Now get inside with your facemask equipped and walk to the very north east of the dungeon and light the standing torch. Now RUN to the south east torch and light that one. After that go to the North West torch and finally the south west torch.
After the last torch go east to the square big room with fire giants and open the chest to get a warm key.
Note: If one of the torches go out you need to light them again before you can open the chest.
Now go to the east big chamber and open the door with you're key. Now Fareed will appear and you need to kill him.
Killing Fareed
Fareed is the easiest demon off all because he only uses melee (he does use flames of Zamorak very often) and doesn't drain stats or prayer. So in fact you can just turn protect from melee on and use prayer pots to kill him.
The best is to mage him with water wave (I was lvl 71 magic and I got him dead in 10-15 waves) If you are planning to melee him make sure you got ice gloves because you will drop you're weapon if you don't (this also counts for staffs)
If you are ranging this all goes the same.
If you won't use prayer beware of the high hits he makes!
After you killed him get the diamond of smoke and put it as fast as possible on the bank or else you will be attacked by a stranger with a poison dagger!
Diamond of shadow
Items needed: food. Lockpicks (can be gotten during quest), anti poison potion and around 15-20 prayer pots.
Go to the ardougne picnic area. (red for picnic blue for Rasolo the merchant)
Talk to Rasolo the merchant nearby and tell about the diamonds. He will tell that you have to need a special ring to see Damis and to get inside his lair.
He will give you the ring if you get his gilded cross back.
Go to the bandit camp with lots of food and a few anti poison potions and search for a tent in the south west of the camp. Look inside and you will see a chest. To open the chest you need to have Lockpicks. Either steal them from the low lvl bandits there or buy them at the rogues den. Steal or buy around 20 and use them to pick the 3 locks on the chest. Eventually you will open the chest and get the cross.
Note: the chest may poison you and you could break a lot of Lockpicks.
Now get back to Rasolo and give him his cross and you will get a ring of visibility.
Now get ready for a hard battle
Bring 15-20 prayer pots and fill the rest of you're inventory with shark or swordfish and a way to teleport out.
Now go back to the picnic place and put on you're ring of visibility. You will see a ladder. Climb it down and walk
all the way east
then all the way north
then a bit to the east
then all the way south
then all the way east until the floor get red.
Get inside the big room and put on protect from melee...Damis, a prayer sucking demon will appear he also got 2 forms! An lvl 107 and 174
Killing Damis
The weakness of this demon is earth.
I suggest to take:
20 prayer pots and filled the rest with swordfish. Wear full prayer robes with a wizard's hat. Use protect from melee. The first form one was really easy I just killed him with earth wave and blast. The second form was very dangerous because he drains prayer 4 on every hit he made. I needed to prayer pot every time my prayer was below 10-20 (note it goes very fast). Use earth wave to kill him.
Other ways
Bring a dragon scimmy or long fight him melee style with full prayer robes. A tip is to pot first and then look of you're prayer is low because the time you take to look if you're prayer is low could be fatal for you.
If you do not want to fight him face to face there is another way. This is quite difficult though. There is a torch on the south side of the wall in the room where you can hide behind. If you bring a poison dragon dagger (s) (+) or (p) you can poison him and hide behind the torches until he dies. Still this is very dangerous because you may have chance that he follows you behind the torches and you could die very easy.
Just remember to pot prayer fast. And teleport away if it gets to hectic.
After you killed him grab the diamond and put in on the bank fast before the stranger wil attack you.
Quest part reward: you can now get the ghostly robes. Use this guide.
The diamond of ice
Items needed: cake (or anything sweet), prayer potions, Super restore potions, spiked boots, Climbing Boots if you can't teleport to Trolheim (needs Eadgars ruse quest to use)
Bring at least 5 super restores (4) and around 4 prayer pots and go to the ice gate north of Trollheim. (you can better take ectophial or dueling ring)
When you reached the ice gate talk to the troll child and he will be crying. He will need something sweet so give him the cake or anything else that's sweet. He will say that a bad man has frozen his parents because they stole a diamond from him. This is not true because the troll parents found it on the floor.
You will need to find this "bad man" so go through the ice gate.
BEWARE!
When you go trough the ice gate every 10 seconds your stats will drop with 1. So make sure to drink super restore potions if you're stats get to low. Only drink when it's necessary because you don't want to run out of them.
You will accouter some ice trolls lvl (124). Kill 5 of them using protect from melee and kill them using melee, magic or range. Still I killed them very easy with some fire spells and my friend was using melee and he was fighting quite longer.
After you killed 5 of them you can go trough the cave. I recommend to get new supplies because you will need to be at you're best to defeat Kamil. Make sure you got 4-5 super restore potions a few prayer pots and the best food you can get. Go to through the ice gate again (if you went back) and go to the cave opening to the south east. Get inside and you will come out through the outer side. Folow the path and you will encounter some wolfs. There are lots of them so put protect from melee on. After the wolves Kamil will appear and you need to kill him.
Killing Kamil
Kamil is a hard demon that will use an ice attack so that you can't move and will use powerful melee. The hard thing is you can't protect because he will use magic and melee. Also you're stats are drained by him and the surroundings.
The best thing is to mage him with offensive fire spells while drinking prayer and super restore potions and using protect from melee. You got a VERY high advantage if you're magic is high.
You can attack him using melee but you won't hit much at all. Many ppl will lose because they run out of food. If you melee use good armor and a weapon and use protect from mage because the magic will hit you way to much with melee armor on.
After you killed him its not over yet!
Go further and walk around the mountain until you see and ice trail. This ice trail is slippery so you will fall sometime and get 2 damage. Keep forcing the ice trail and you will come to the 2 troll parents. Smash the ice and talk to the 2 troll parents to get teleported away. (Green Kamil, blue wolves ,red ice trolls)
You will get the ice diamond. Put it on the bank fast so you won't get attacked by a stranger.
The pyramid
Congratulations on getting all the diamonds.
The great reward is near but don't get crazy because there is still a difficult maze to go.
Items needed:
Around 5 prayer pots, energy potions are recommended but not needed, the 4 diamonds and anti poison potions (around 2)
Go to the pyramid south of the mirrors.
On every corner there will be a obelisk. Use the correct diamond on every diamond obelisk to open the pyramid.
Shadow
Smoke
Blood
IceGet on top of the pyramid and get inside. Find you're way trough every lvl by using protect from melee. You will sometimes get attacked by a swarm that will poison you. There are a lots of mummy's to so watch out. It's best to put run on all times because you can fall down trough a trap that will take you out of the pyramid.
On the fourth and last lvl you will find Azanadra in a big room in the center. Talk to him and he will grant you ancient magicks!!!
| Reward: Ancients magicks and 20k magic exp | Quest points: 3 |
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| Writer: Darkmontanax |
Pictures: Darkmontanax and Joost |
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