| Grotesque Guardians Speed-Runner (#94) | ||||
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| Released | 21 July 2021 (Update) | |||
| Members | Yes | |||
| Description | Kill the Grotesque Guardians in less than 1:20 minutes. | |||
| Tier | Grandmaster | |||
| Monster | Grotesque Guardians | |||
| Type | Speed | |||
| League region |  Morytania✓
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| Advanced data | ||||
| ID | 94 | |||
Grotesque Guardians Speed-Runner is a grandmaster combat achievement which requires the player to kill the Grotesque Guardians in less than 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Strategy
Players have two options for this achievement; pure melee, or a melee/ranged hybrid.
As hybrid, players are recommended to bring both the toxic blowpipe with dragon darts and a venator bow with dragon arrows. At the start of the fight, the player can get 4-6 hits with a blowpipe before needing to swap to the venator bow. Make sure that Dusk is next to Dawn while hitting the latter so that the bow will bounce twice on her.
For Dusk, a scythe of vitur is highly recommended due to Dusk's near non-existent Defence, allowing it to hit very hard and frequently.
During phase 3, the player can get 3-4 hits with a blowpipe before needing to switch to the venator bow. As soon as Dawn reaches 10 or less health, immediately smash her with the rock hammer to save a tick.
During phase 4, the player can save a tick by immediately manually smashing Dusk when his health becomes critical. The player should dump as many special attacks as possible during this time. Allowing for the smashing to occur automatically will cause an extra tick or two to pass before the player actually finishes off Dusk, which can be delayed even longer with gear swaps. The boss kill time is recorded as soon as Dusk dies, not when the drops appear, although the achievement is not marked as complete until they do.
As pure melee, a noxious halberd is mandatory as Dawn can only be hurt with melee weapons classified as polearms. The polearm can hit even harder than ranged options, and with good luck can easily cause phase transitions in a few hits. A crystal halberd special attack can be used as a finisher before phase transitions since the 7-tick speed isn't a detriment due to the bosses being immune to damage, but burning claws are recommended to be dumped solely on Dusk because failing to deal sufficient damage or missing will result in more ticks wasted from the crystal halberd's 7-tick speed. Despite Dusk's immunity to burn damage, his lack of Defence means that every special is likely to hit. If accuracy is still a problem, players can bring oathplate armour over other armour.
Other tasks
There are 15 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 59 points) available for Grotesque Guardians.
| Name | Description | Type | Tier | Comp% |
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| Static Awareness | Kill the Grotesque Guardians without being hit by any lightning attacks. | Mechanical |  Hard (3 pts) | 24.9% |
| Don't Look at the Eclipse | Kill the Grotesque Guardians without taking damage from Dusk's blinding attack. | Mechanical | Hard (3 pts) | 24.8% |
| Granite Footwork | Kill the Grotesque Guardians without taking damage from Dawn's rockfall attack. | Mechanical | Hard (3 pts) | 25.1% |
| Prison Break | Kill the Grotesque Guardians without taking damage from Dusk's prison attack. | Mechanical | Hard (3 pts) | 25.3% |
| Grotesque Guardians Adept | Kill the Grotesque Guardians 25 times. | Kill Count | Hard (3 pts) | 21.7% |
| Heal No More | Kill the Grotesque Guardians without letting Dawn receive any healing from her orbs. | Mechanical | Hard (3 pts) | 25.3% |
| Grotesque Guardians Speed-Trialist | Kill the Grotesque Guardians in less than 2 minutes. | Speed |  Elite (4 pts) | 17.3% |
| From Dusk... | Kill the Grotesque Guardians 10 times without leaving the instance. | Stamina | Elite (4 pts) | 13.8% |
| Perfect Grotesque Guardians | Kill the Grotesque Guardians whilst completing the "Don't look at the eclipse", "Prison Break", "Granite Footwork", "Heal no more", "Static Awareness" and "Done before dusk" tasks. | Perfection | Elite (4 pts) | 23.3% |
| Grotesque Guardians Veteran | Kill the Grotesque Guardians 50 times. | Kill Count | Elite (4 pts) | 18.7% |
| Done before Dusk | Kill the Grotesque Guardians before Dusk uses his prison attack for a second time. | Mechanical | Elite (4 pts) | 25.2% |
| Grotesque Guardians Speed-Chaser | Kill the Grotesque Guardians in less than 1:40 minutes. | Speed |  Master (5 pts) | 11.6% |
| ... 'til Dawn | Kill the Grotesque Guardians 20 times without leaving the instance. | Stamina | Master (5 pts) | 8.1% |
| Perfect Grotesque Guardians II | Kill the Grotesque Guardians 5 times in a row without leaving the instance, whilst completing the Perfect Grotesque Guardians task every time. | Perfection | Master (5 pts) | 11.3% |
| Grotesque Guardians Speed-Runner | Kill the Grotesque Guardians in less than 1:20 minutes. | Speed |  Grandmaster (6 pts) | 5.2% |
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