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Ancient sceptre



Released							11 January 2023 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
League region							Fremennik✓

Properties

Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Wield, Drop
Examine							A very old and powerful stick.

Values

Value							211,000 coins
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							2.267 kg

Advanced data

Item ID							27624
Link							MOID

The ancient sceptre is an upgraded version of the Ancient staff that requires level 70 Magic, 60 Strength, 50 Attack, as well as completion of Secrets of the North to wield. It is made by bringing the untradeable Ancient icon and staff to Eblis. This combination process is irreversible.

The ancient sceptre, like its predecessor, can be used to autocast spells from the Ancient Magicks and standard spellbook. Unlike the ancient staff, the ancient sceptre provides a 10% Magic damage bonus, as well as a passive effect that increases the effects of Ancient Magicks by 10%. This passive effect does not increase the Magic damage bonus.

As a Zarosian item, it will also grant god protection towards Zarosian NPCs in the God Wars Dungeon.

If the player dies a PvP death and the item is unprotected, it is reverted to an ancient staff that is dropped for the killer, and the ancient icon disappears. To prevent this, a Trouver parchment and a payment of 500,000 coins can be given to Perdu in order to permanently lock the item. The locked item will remain in the player's inventory; however, the item will be in a mangled, unusable state and must be repaired by using it on Perdu and paying him 500,000 coins.

Combat stats

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Attack bonuses

+20	-1	+50	+20	+0

Defence bonuses


+2	+3	+1	+15	+0

Other bonuses				Slot


+60	+0	+10%	-1	List

	Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Level boost
Bash	Crush	Accurate	4 ticks (2.4s)	1 tile	+3 Attack
Pound	Crush	Aggressive			+3 Strength
Focus	Crush	Defensive			+3 Defence
Spell	Magic	Defensive Autocast	5 ticks (3.0s)	10 tiles	None
Spell	Magic	Autocast	5 ticks (3.0s)	10 tiles	None

Autocasting options
Standard spellbook
Arceuus spellbook
Ancient Magicks

Passive effect

The ancient sceptre has a passive effect which increases the effects of all Ancient Magicks by 10%:

Spell		Buffed effect
	Smoke Rush	Poison severity is increased to 11, up from 10. (Poison caused by these spells starts with 1 hit of 3 damage, instead of starting at 2 damage.)
	Smoke Burst
	Smoke Blitz	Poison severity is increased to 22, up from 20. (Poison caused by these spells starts with 2 hits of 5 damage, instead of starting at 4 damage.)
	Smoke Barrage
	Shadow Rush	Opponent's Attack level is reduced by 11% instead of 10%.
	Shadow Burst	Opponent's Attack level is reduced by 11% instead of 10%.
	Shadow Blitz	Opponent's Attack level is reduced by 16.5% instead of 15%.
	Shadow Barrage	Opponent's Attack level is reduced by 16.5% instead of 15%.
	Blood Rush	Successful hits heal the caster by 27.5% of the damage dealt instead of 25%.^[a]
	Blood Burst
	Blood Blitz
	Blood Barrage
	Ice Rush	Ice Rush receives no buff from using the sceptre.^[b]
	Ice Burst	Opponent is frozen for 17 ticks (10.2 seconds) instead of 16 ticks (9.6 seconds).
	Ice Blitz	Opponent is frozen for 26 ticks (15.6 seconds) instead of 24 ticks (14.4 seconds).
	Ice Barrage	Opponent is frozen for 35 ticks (21 seconds) instead of 32 ticks (19.2 seconds).

^ This stacks multiplicatively with bloodbark armour; when worn alongside the ancient sceptre, successful hits heal the caster by 38.5% of the damage dealt.
^ A 10% increase to Ice Rush's freeze duration is 8.8 ticks. As most calculations almost always round down due to the game's engine, this effectively results in no buffs for Ice Rush.

Creation

Requirements
Completion of Secrets of the North
Members		Ticks	? (edit)
Tools	None	Facilities	Eblis

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Ancient staff	1	60,512
	Ancient icon	1	N/A
Total cost			60,512
	Ancient sceptre	1	N/A

Quartz upgrades

The ancient sceptre can be enhanced with quartzes dropped by various bosses from Desert Treasure II.^[1] This process can be reversed.

The enhanced sceptres require 75 Magic, 60 Strength, and 50 Attack to wield.

Sceptre	Quartz	Dropped by	Effect
Blood ancient sceptre	Blood quartz	Vardorvis	Blood magic can now overheal you by 10% of your Hitpoints.
Ice ancient sceptre	Ice quartz	Duke Sucellus	Ice magic gains 10% accuracy on unfrozen, freezable targets.
Shadow ancient sceptre	Shadow quartz	The Whisperer	Shadow spells also drain Strength and Defence in addition to the target's Attack level.
Smoke ancient sceptre	Smoke quartz	The Leviathan	Smoke spells reduce healing received by 20% for 10 ticks on hit if the target is poisoned.

Products

	Skills	XP	Materials
Blood ancient sceptre	None	None	1 × Ancient sceptre 1 × Blood quartz
Ice ancient sceptre	None	None	1 × Ancient sceptre 1 × Ice quartz
Shadow ancient sceptre	None	None	1 × Ancient sceptre 1 × Shadow quartz
Smoke ancient sceptre	None	None	1 × Ancient sceptre 1 × Smoke quartz

Used in recommended equipment

Rank	Method
2	Slayer training (Magic (Barrage))
3	Skeleton (Ape Atoll) (Magic)
3	Barrows/Strategies (Magic (Low level))
4	Nightmare Zone/Strategies (Magic)
5	Abyssal Sire/Strategies (Phase 1 Magic)
3	Maniacal monkey/Strategies (Magic - Ice Burst)
3	Maniacal monkey/Strategies (Magic - Ice Barrage)
4	One-defence pure (Magic)
3	Theatre of Blood/Strategies (Magic)
3	Inferno/Strategies (First cape)
4	Ultimate Ironman Guide/Equipment
4	Ultimate Ironman Guide/Slayer
2	Smoke devil/Strategies
2	Slayer task/Dust devils (Magic (Barrage))
2	Slayer task/Abyssal demons (Magic)
2	Slayer task/Jellies (Magic)
4	Slayer task/Trolls (Magic)
2	Ecumenical key/Strategies (Magic)
2	Slayer task/Nechryael (Magic)
4	Royal Titans/Strategies (Magic weapon)
4	Hespori/Strategies (Mage)
2	Slayer task/Custodian stalker (Magic)

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Changes

Date	Changes
22 July 2026 (Update)	The ancient sceptre's magic damage bonus has been increased from 5% to 10%.
8 July 2026 (Update)	Fixed a bug where Ancient Sceptres with Trouver Parchment protection were being lost to deaths in the Wilderness. New broken and mangled variants of the Ancient sceptre have been added. Locked Ancient sceptre now breaks on death below level 20 Wilderness, adding a "(broken)" suffix after the existing "(l)" suffix. Locked Ancient sceptre now mangles on death above level 20 Wilderness, adding a "(mangled)" suffix after the existing "(l)" suffix.
9 April 2025 (Update)	An issue in which the sceptre's passive effect did not apply to multiple hits that added up to 10 Hitpoints has been fixed.
25 January 2023 (Update)	The item has been rotated slightly when worn.

Gallery (historical)



11 January 2023 – 25 January 2023	25 January 2023 – present

Gallery

Concept art of the ancient sceptre by Mod Jerv.

Trivia

When pitched in the poll blog, the item's name was "Soulblight sceptre". This was because the name of the quest and its rewards were polled by the development team as a "Mysterious Quest", where they wished to keep the Zarosian nature of the rewards a secret.
- The true name of the quest and its rewards from the boss were then revealed in the Winter Summit 2022 a month later.
It is currently one of six items with a negative prayer bonus (required for a master clue step), with the other items being its four upgraded versions and the ancient staff used to create it.

References

^ "Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire". Old School RuneScape News. Jagex. 27 July 2023. Archived from the original.

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Signature drops	Ancient essence Ancient icon Venator shard Frozen cache Charged ice Muphin
Equipment	Forgotten brew Ancient sceptre Venator bow Saturated heart
Other	Strategies Scoreboard Spike

Magic weapons

Staves

	Staff ⁽⁺⁴⁾ Magic ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Bob the Cat ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Iban's ^(u) ^(o) ^(uo) ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ White ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Slayer's ^(e) ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Twinflame ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Ancient ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Bryophyta's ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Toktz-mej-tal ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Thammaron's (a) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Ahrim's ^(echo) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Nightmare ⁽⁺¹⁶⁾ Zuriel's ⁽⁺¹⁸⁾ Accursed (a) ⁽⁺²²⁾ Purging ⁽⁺³⁷⁾
Elemental staves	Air ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Water ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Earth ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Fire ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
God staves	Guthix ⁽⁺⁶⁾ Saradomin ⁽⁺⁶⁾ Zamorak ⁽⁺⁶⁾

Battlestaves

Battlestaff ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Air ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Water ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Earth ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Fire ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Lava ^(or) ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Mud ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Steam ^(or) ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Smoke ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Mist ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Dust ⁽⁺¹²⁾

Mystic staves

Air ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Water ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Earth ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Fire ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Lava ^(or) ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Mud ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Steam ^(or) ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Smoke ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Mist ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Dust ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾

Powered staves

	Starter staff ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Warped sceptre ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Bone staff ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾ Thammaron's sceptre ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Trident of the seas ^(e) ^(o) ^(eo) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Accursed sceptre ⁽⁺²²⁾ Trident of the swamp ^(e) ^(o) ^(eo) ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Sanguinesti staff ^(holy) ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Dawnbringer ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Eye of ayak ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ Tumeken's shadow ⁽⁺³⁵⁾
The Gauntlet	Crystal staff (basic) ⁽⁺⁸⁴⁾ Crystal staff (attuned) ⁽⁺¹²⁸⁾ Crystal staff (perfected) ⁽⁺¹⁸⁴⁾

Bladed staves

Staff of the dead ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Staff of light ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Staff of balance ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Toxic staff of the dead ⁽⁺²⁵⁾
Blue moon ⁽⁺³⁰⁾

Wands

Beginner ⁽⁺⁵⁾
Apprentice ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Teacher ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾
Dragon hunter ⁽⁺¹⁶⁾
Master ⁽⁺²⁰⁾
3rd age ⁽⁺²⁰⁾
Kodai ⁽⁺²⁸⁾

Croziers

Ancient ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Armadyl ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Bandos ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Guthix ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Saradomin ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Zamorak ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾

Other

Cursed goblin staff ⁽⁺⁰⁾
Salamanders ⁽⁺⁰⁾
Rod of ivandis ⁽⁺⁴⁾
Ivandis flail ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Blisterwood flail ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Void knight mace ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Dramen ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Skull sceptre ⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Lunar ⁽⁺¹³⁾
Ancient sceptre _{(smoke) (shadow) (blood) (ice)} ⁽⁺²⁰⁾

Upgraded equipment

Upgrade items

Stones	Primordial crystal Eternal crystal Pegasian crystal Black tourmaline core Smouldering stone Crystal tool seed Blood shard Smoke quartz Shadow quartz Blood quartz Ice quartz Echo crystal
Monster parts	Araxyte fang etched Elder venator fang etched Kraken tentacle Magic fang Drake's claw Drake's tooth Hydra tail Nihil horn Basilisk jaw Hydra's claw
Dragon metal	Lump Slice Shard
Other	Guthixian icon Saradomin's light Kodai insignia Runescroll of swampbark Runescroll of bloodbark Armadylean plate Bandosian components Ancient icon Mokhaiotl cloth

Equipment

Weapons

Armour

Dragon	Platebody Kiteshield
Swampbark	Helm Body Legs Gauntlets Boots
Bloodbark	Helm Body Legs Gauntlets Boots
Masori	Mask Body Chaps
Torva	Full Helm Platebody Platelegs
	Primordial boots Eternal boots Pegasian boots Avernic treads (max) Guardian boots Echo boots Boots of brimstone Devout boots Neitiznot faceguard

Tools

Other

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