Shayzien/Historical

Kourend Favour was removed after an update. As the contents of this page no longer exist in Old School RuneScape, this article is preserved for historical purposes.

Players can gain favour with Shayzien by assisting them in various activities in the Shayzien Encampment. Earning Shayzien favour will allow players to fight lizardmen, tackle organised crime in the kingdom to help keep order, and earn tiers 1-5 Shayzien armour through the Combat Ring as the player earns more favour.

To progress in the Architectural Alliance miniquest, players must gain 100% Shayzien favour and speak to Shayda, who is found south of the Shayzien Administration building in the centre of Shayzien.

Wounded soldiers can be found in the Infirmary within the Shayzien Encampment. In order to heal the soldiers, players must use Shayzien medpacks on them, which are found in medpack boxes by each tent in the Infirmary. To speed up the process, a player can right-click a medpack box to "Take-many" which instantly fills the player's empty inventory spaces with Shayzien medpacks. Players can rotate clockwise healing soldiers, as by the time players heals the last soldier, the first soldier healed will need healing once more.

Players are given 0.2% favour for every healed soldier; thus 500 soldiers must be healed if choosing this way to gain 100% favour. It is the only method to gain Shayzien favour without engaging in any combat. It will take less than 2 hours to get 100% favour, which is a pretty fast method.

Once players have 5% favour, they are able to kill lizardmen and their brute counterparts in the eastern Lizardman Canyon to gain 0.1% Shayzien favour per kill. Lizardmen in the western swamp area do not count; you must kill them in the area marked on map with a brown star. Lizardmen are poisonous, so a way to cure poison is advised when killing them. The western half of the eastern section is a multicombat area, meaning a dwarven multicannon or burst spells can be used to earn favour quickly.

The western canyon, containing 3 lizardman shamans and only a few lizardmen, is only accessible to players with 100% Shayzien favour.

Lizardmen have a 1/250 chance of dropping a Xeric's talisman (this is increased to a 1/125 chance with completion of the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary). This talisman can be charged with fangs they drop to teleport around Great Kourend. Players can check lizardmen kill count by talking to soldiers in the canyon.

Lizardmen commonly drop Xerician fabric, which will fill the player's inventory quickly, especially if using a cannon. Players with at least level 14 Crafting who wish to do some Crafting training alongside gaining favour are recommended to take a needle & thread to craft fabrics into Xerician robes.

One of the requirements for the Tale of the Righteous quest is having 20% Shayzien favour. Besides favour, this quest requires completion of Client of Kourend, level 16 Strength, and 10 Mining.

Completion of the quest will grant a Shayzien favour certificate worth 10% favour.

Players can help Captain Ginea east of the War Tent in tackling organised crime, where they gain information on where gang meetings are taking place, and taking out the gangsters.

Every 30 minutes, a notice appears on the wall in Captain Ginea's tent. The notice gives the location of an organised crime meeting. After reading the notice, players are prompted to take a note to remind players of the location (this is not needed in order to gain favour). The meeting lasts for five minutes.

Once the player obtains 60% Shayzien favour, the player can challenge soldiers wandering around the Combat Ring in battle. The only rules when fighting them are that Magic and Ranged combat cannot be used during the battle.

The player must start from the tier-1 soldier and can rise up to challenge tier-5 soldiers in battle. Upon defeat, the soldiers will drop one part of their armour as a reward for the player. To challenge the higher ranked soldiers, players must have a full set of armour that is of their tier, or at minimum one rank lower than theirs. The items do not have to be in a player's inventory. Without it, the talked-to soldier will redirect them to the lower ranked soldiers.

The player will gain favour at a 0.4% for tier 1, 0.6% for tier 2, 0.8% for tier 3, and 1% for tier 4 soldiers. Tier 5 soldiers give no favour as they require 100% favour to defeat.

• A Dwarf multicannon against lizardmen and gangsters can speed up kills.
• Earning 100% favour will take players roughly between one and two hours if healing soldiers, killing lizardmen with a cannon until reaching 86%, and winning Shayzien armour for the remaining 14%.
• While waiting for gang meetings, it is strongly suggested to do some favours like healing, Combat Ring, or lizardmen. Also, using a timer helps. It is possible to world-hop to speed up this process, making the climb from 40% to 100% favour incredibly fast.
• If killing lizardmen for favour, it may be worth completing the Easy Kourend & Kebos Diary first because it doubles the drop chance for a Xeric's Talisman.
• If you are at a gang location during tackling organised crime, you can hop worlds to kill another series of gang members.

• At 20% favour, players can access Briget's Weapons and Blair's Armour.
• At 60% favour, players can earn tier 1 Shayzien armour by defeating tier 1 soldiers located in the Combat Ring.
• At 70% favour, players can earn tier 2 Shayzien armour by defeating tier 2 soldiers located in the Combat Ring.
• At 80% favour, players can earn tier 3 Shayzien armour by defeating tier 3 soldiers located in the Combat Ring.
• At 90% favour, players can earn tier 4 Shayzien armour by defeating tier 4 soldiers located in the Combat Ring.
• At 100% favour, players can earn tier 5 Shayzien armour by defeating tier 5 soldiers located in the Combat Ring.
• At 100% favour, players can kill lizardman shamans, who can drop dragon warhammers (barring the ones in Chambers of Xeric).
• Players who have completed the hard Kourend & Kebos Diary can talk to Captain Cleive to be able to wear their Slayer helmet or Slayer helmet (i) as a Shayzien helm (5).