Defender

Defender
Slot							Shield slot
Type							Melee

Defenders are untradeable items wielded in the shield slot resembling daggers, providing some of the best melee strength and attack bonuses in the slot, as well as good defensive stats. Wielding a defender requires both the Attack and Defence level corresponding to its tier of metal.

Due to their untradeable nature and high melee bonuses, killing the monsters that drop defenders is very often a goal for players.

The mooleta is the only defender obtainable by free-to-play players, and is the only shield slot item available to free-to-play accounts that has offensive melee bonuses. It is dropped by the boss Brutus and has similar bonuses to a steel defender.

Standard metal defenders are obtained by killing cyclopes in the Warriors' Guild at a rate of 1/50 for bronze through rune and 1/100 for dragon. After obtaining the first defender of each metal, the player must leave the room and re-enter before the next tier defender can drop. Once the defender is obtained and you've left the room, it can be banked and the next defender will still drop regardless of whether it is in the player's inventory. Defenders up to rune are obtained on the top floor, while the dragon defender can only be obtained in the basement after showing Lorelai a rune defender. The entrance to the basement is behind the Warriors' Guild.

Multiple defenders of the same metal can be obtained by having the next lowest defender while killing cyclopes. On average, a player will need to kill approximately 450 cyclopes to obtain a dragon defender. The number of tokens needed will vary heavily based on combat levels and gear, but expect upwards of 2,000 warrior guild tokens.

Once a dragon defender has been obtained, it can be combined with a tradeable Avernic defender hilt to create an Avernic defender, which has even higher stats. Ghommal's hilt 5 or 6 can then be attached to the Avernic defender to form Ghommal's Avernic defender 5 or 6, which possess the bonuses of the Avernic defender and the additional benefits of the hilt.

Defenders do not count as a knife or slash weapon for the purposes of cutting webs or Kharidian cacti.

Before showing any of the metal defenders to Kamfreena, she says: "I'll release some cyclopes which might drop bronze defenders for you to start off with, unless you show me another. Have fun in there."

Using a metal defender on Kamfreena: "I have a (type) defender, please let me in to kill some more Cyclopes!"

Kamfreena's responses to each metal:

• (Bronze) "Bronze eh? The next cyclopes are ready, toddle in when you're ready."
• (Iron) "Wow, iron eh? The next cyclopes are ready, toddle in when you're ready."
• (Steel) "Strong as steel eh? The next cyclopes are ready, toddle in when you're ready."
• (Black) "Black, hmmm, about half way to Rune then! Keep going! Cyclopes have been released, enter when you're ready."
• (Mithril) "Mithril? Getting good at this aren't you? Okay, I've released those cyclopes that sometimes drop adamant defenders, enter when you're ready."
• (Adamant) "An adamant defender, eh? Trying for the Rune defender I'm betting. Okay, I've released those cyclopes. Enter when you're ready."
• (Rune) "Well done, you truly are a brilliant warrior! You should speak to my apprentice Lorelai in the basement for an additional challenge. If you'd rather stay up here, I've released the cyclopes. Enter when you're ready."
• (Dragon) "Well done! You can only get more Dragon defenders from the basement. If you'd rather stay up here, I've released the cyclopes that can drop rune defenders. Enter when you're ready."

Lorelai's response to getting a dragon defender:

• "Congratulations you've found a Dragon defender! You're welcome to go back inside and try to get more."

There is notably no white metal defender.

• Defenders are based off of the parrying dagger, specifically the main-gauche - a dagger wielded alongside a longer weapon, used to assist with parrying.

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Monsters	Cyclops Bronze armour Iron armour Steel armour Black armour Mithril armour Adamant armour Rune armour
Defenders	Bronze Iron Steel Black Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon Avernic
Barrels	One Two Three Four Five
Other items	Warrior guild token Defensive shield 18lb shot 22lb shot Ground ashes
Shops	Armoury Food shop Potion shop
Features	Warriors' Guild bank Warrior's Guild Basement
NPCs	Ajjat Anton Gamfred Ghommal Laidee Gnonock Harrallak Menarous Jade Jimmy Kamfreena Lidio Lilly Ref Shanomi Sloane Yadech Strongarm Lorelai Rory
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