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Start pointMap icon Speak to the Guildmaster in the Champions' Guild.
Official difficultyExperienced
Official lengthMedium
DescriptionProve yourself a true champion. Kill the mighty dragon Elvarg of Crandor and earn the right to buy and wear the Rune platebody.
Requirements

These skills are given upon setting up the speedrun:

Items required

These items are provided upon setting up the speedrun:

Enemies to defeat An asterisk denotes that there is only one of each monster that drops the required key. They can be noted by small differences in appearance stated later in the guide.

Walkthrough

Pre-quest set-up

  • If you haven't used the wilderness lever before, use it and select 'do not show this warning', in order to prevent the deep wilderness warning from showing during the speedrun.
  • Decide whether to use the adamant sword route or the maple shortbow route:
    • The adamant sword allows constant usage of the anti-dragon shield during the Elvarg fight, but will be slower and cannot be used to kill Wormbrain without spells. Its lower cost compared to the maple shortbow + 50 adamant arrows allows buying Crumble Undead runes, which negates the need to prepare Melzar's Maze for casual runs.
    • The maple shortbow has a higher damage output and can kill Wormbrain and Melzar's Maze NPCs at range, but requires constantly switching to the anti-dragon shield during the Elvarg fight to not get horribly burnt. The higher cost does not allow for Crumble Undead, making preparing Melzar's Maze highly encouraged (but not required).
  • Optional: Prepare all Melzar's Maze NPCs in advance (kill all except the lesser demon once for their key to go further, then get their Hitpoints as low as possible — they will regenerate to only 50%-60% health by the time you get back in the actual run, saving about a minute and reducing RNG for their kills).
    • Your unarmed max hit is 6 (7 with Ultimate Strength).
    • Your max hit with an adamant sword is 8 (9 with Ultimate Strength).
    • Your max hit with a maple shortbow and adamant arrows is 9 (10 with Eagle Eye).

Speedrun

  • Talk to Guildmaster in Champions' Guild. (Chat 2)
  • Minigame Teleport to Soul Wars, leave via the portal to Edgeville (Chat 1)
  • Go to the Edgeville General Store and buy a hammer, knife and bucket.
  • Trade with Oziach to skip some initial dialogue. (Chat 1•1•1)
  • Fill your bucket up on the well.
  • Run to the lever and teleport to the Wilderness. Run to the Mage Arena, cutting webs as you go.
  • If using a maple shortbow, go to Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop and buy:
  • If using an adamant sword, go to Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop and buy:
  • Teleport to Varrock, then from Thessalia's Fine Clothes. buy 1 silk.
    • If choosing to use an adamant sword, buy it from the Varrock Swordshop now (Skip buying the studded armour, bow, and arrows later on).
  • Talk to Guildmaster in Champions' Guild. (Chat 2•1•1•1•2•3•2)
  • Teleport to Lumbridge, go to the roof of the castle and collect 3 logs, then speak to Duke Horacio. (Chat 1•1•1•2)
  • Teleport to Varrock again, drop your knife and remaining fire runes.
  • Run to the Lumberyard, buy 3 planks and 100 steel nails.
  • Teleport to Falador, buy a wizard's mind bomb from the Rising Sun Inn (Chat 2)
  • Run to the Estate Agent and buy a house (Chat 1•1)
  • Teleport outside of your player-owned house, then run north-west to Melzar's Maze, drop the construction guide. Drop the maze key after entering.
  • Kill the small zombie rat with a long tail (melee/ranged works best) to get the key and enter the north-western door and climb up the ladder.
  • Kill the ghost wearing a hood, a tube top, and no cape (Crumble Undead works best) to get the key and enter the second door from the north on the eastern wall and climb up the ladder.
  • Kill the skeleton with the round shield (Crumble Undead works best) to get the key and enter the westmost door on the southern wall and climb down the ladder 3 times.
  • Kill the zombies (Crumble Undead works best) to get the key and enter the blue door.
  • Kill Melzar the Mad (melee/ranged works best) to get the key and enter the purple (magenta) door. Consider flicking Eagle Eye/Ultimate Strength + Incredible Reflexes to help kill him faster.
  • Kill the lesser demon with Water Blast to get the key and enter the green door (finish the kill with melee/ranged if needed). Search the chest for the map part.
  • Teleport to House, run south-east and take the bronze pickaxe from on top of the table in the building.
    • Adamant sword - Equip studded body and chaps if purchased earlier.
  • Run north to Rimmington Mine and mine 1 clay, then use your bucket of water on it. Drop the empty bucket and pickaxe.
    • Maple shortbow - Drop any remaining chaos runes you have.
    • Adamant sword - Keep the chaos runes to use against Wormbrain, then drop them after grabbing his map part.
  • From Gerrant's Fishy Business, buy a lobster pot.
  • Run south to the Port Sarim jail. Kill Wormbrain with ranged/bolt spells and Telekinetic Grab his map part.
  • Talk to Klarense in the southern docks of Port Sarim by the Void Outpost boat and pay him 2,000 coins. (Chat 4•1)
  • Go on board, climb down the ladder and repair the hole 3 times.
  • Teleport to Lumbridge, head toward the cemetery while dropping your remaining coins, any remaining nails and your hammer.
  • Talk to Count Check and have him teleport you (Chat 3•1)
  • At Barbarian Village use the pottery wheel to make an unfired bowl.
  • Run to the Oracle on Ice Mountain (Chat 1)
  • Enter the Dwarven mine and use silk, lobster pot, unfired bowl, wizard's mind bomb on the magic door at the north-east side of the mine. You should automatically enter the door.
  • Enter the magic door, open the chest, and search the chest to receive a map part. Press space or ensure that you finish the dialogue.
  • Teleport to Lumbridge, drop your empty beer glass. Run to Draynor Village.
  • Talk to Ned with the map in your inventory. (Chat 1)
    • Optional: Consider withdrawing more lobsters from the bank.
  • Teleport to House and return to the boat you previously repaired in Port Sarim. Board the ship and talk to Captain Ned. (Chat 1)
  • Climb on top of the volcano and enter the hole.
  • Head south and kill Elvarg.
    • Maple shortbow - Pray Protect from Magic and Eagle Eye, and alternate equipping your shield when Elvarg attacks in between bow shots to avoid taking high damage from the dragonfire. Stepping under her after attacking will give you more time to equip the shield.
    • Adamant sword - Equip your anti-dragon shield, and pray Protect from Magic, Ultimate Strength, and Incredible Reflexes.
    • Note: If you are not finished with the fight by 17:50:00, you will have to restart the speedrun.
  • Teleport to Falador as soon as Elvarg dies, before the animation of removing her head. Run to Edgeville.
  • Talk to Oziach in Edgeville.

Speedrun complete!

Rewards


Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
Diamond
Time 37:00 28:00 22:00 19:00 16:00
Points 10 30 80 200 0
Dragon Slayer I
NPCs
Crandor Wizards
Melzar's Maze
Items
Keys
Locations
Music
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