Dragonfire

Dragonfire is, as the name suggests, the fiery breath used by dragons against their enemies. All adult dragons are able to use it, with the exception of the Revenant dragon.

Abilities
Dragonfire is much more powerful than regular fire or the fire from fire spells. A dragon can deal up to 600 damage to players without proper equipment. Dragonfire is unique in the fact that it defies the combat triangle. It is a different form of attack in itself and it cannot be deflected by any protection prayers or deflect curses. Regular armour doesn't offer any additional protection from the flames. However, there is a chance that one will "resist some of the dragonfire." This is only a small part, however, and even then it can hit up to 400+ damage. Familiars are not affected by dragonfire.

Normal chromatic dragons (green, blue, red, and black) only use close ranged dragonbreath, meaning that the dragons will only use it if the player is adjacent to the dragon. Stronger dragons, like the King Black Dragon, brutal green dragons, Elvarg and metal dragons, have long-ranged dragonfire, and use it when both close or far away from the target. The King Black Dragon is even able to use different kinds of dragonfire, each with a different effect, including freezing, poisoning and stat-reducing. Baby or pet dragons cannot use dragonfire.

The skeletal wyverns don't use dragonfire, instead, they use an ice-type breath which is even more dangerous. It can reduce the stats of a player and prevent them from moving.

Protection
There are several methods to protect yourself against dragonfire.


 * Protect from Magic: One way to protect yourself is by using the protect from magic prProtection_from_magic.PNG, which slightly increases your resistance against dragonfire. However, this protection is extremely small, and so, not advised when fighting dragons.


 * Antidragon shield: The second, and much more useful way, is using an anti-dragon shielAnti-dragon_shield_detail.png. An anti-dragon shield reduces the damage from dragonfire down to around 30, making it the most used way of protection. This shield can be obtained during the Dragon Slayer quest and thus players must have completed this quest in order to increase their change against a dragon greatly. This shield does NOT provide protection from the icebreath of skeletal wyverns.


 * Dragonfire shield: Those with 90 smithing have the ability to upgrade their anti-draDFS.png shield to a dragonfire shield using a draconic visage. Alternatively, it can be traded between players. The draconic visage is an extremely rare drop from stronger dragons like frost dragons or metal ones. The visage is not dropped by any chromatic dragons except black dragons. A dragonfire shield can be charged with dragonfire. Each dragonfire attack provides the shield with one charge, and each charge improves the shield's defence bonuses by 1. The shield can carry up to 50 charges. Players can also discharge the shield. A dragonfire shield also offers protection from the icebreath of skeletal wyverns.


 * Antifire potion: Another way to protect yourself from dragonfire is the antifire potion. ThAntifire_potion_detail.png potion offers protection for 6 minutes and can be made by those with 69 herblore using a clean lantadyme herb and dragon scale dust on a vial of water. However, the potion doesn't offer good protection against dragonfire and it's not advised to use in battle as your only protection. An anti-fire potion is instead used in combination with an anti-dragon shield, causing the bit of protection the shield doesn't offer to be offered by the potion, providing full protection to the player. Antifires and an anti-dragon shield is often used against the King Black Dragon, metal dragons or other stronger dragons.


 * Antifire mix: 2 doses of antifire can be mixed with caviar to create an anti-fire mix. Which,Antifire_mix_(detail).png next to its normal effect, also heals 60 life points of the player.


 * Super antifire: Those with level 85 herblore can combine 3 antifires with a desert phoenix feaSuper_antifire.png to create a super antifire. Super antifire offers full protection against dragonfire. Players using those don't need an anti-dragon shield. However, they should mind the 6 minute limit of the potion. This potion is untradeable and the assist system can not be used to make it.
 * Elemental shield: Any kind of elemental shield (normal, mind, body, cosmic) offers protectionElemental_Shield_Detail.png against the icebreath of skeletal wyverns but NOT against dragonfire. Therefore, it is useless against normal dragons. The shields can be obtained during the elemental workshop quest.


 * Divine spirit shield and Elysian spirit shield: A divine spirit shield or an elysian spirit sDivine_spirit_shield_detail.png also may help to reduce the damElysian_spirit_shield_detail.png caused by Dragonfire. For example, the Divine can knock a 500 hit down to 350, and the elysian can knock down a 500 to a 375, however it only has a 70% chance of doing so, where as a divine has a 100% chance to do so, at the cost of some prayer points. These abilities work beyond dragonfire.

Using dragonfire
Players can also use dragonfire in combat, but only under the right conditions. The dragonfire used by players has the same effect as dragonfire used by dragons. Therefore, it can it very high against players without proper protection.

One way to use dragonfire is by using enchanted dragon bolts in ranged. These bolts have, like other enchanted bolts, a special attack. This special attack enables the wearer to occasionally hit the opponent with a blast of Dragonfire, dealing 400 to 710 damage. The amount of damage dealt is based on the opponent's Defence level.

Another way players can use dragonfire is by use of the Dragonfire shield. If the shield is operated while containing charges accumulated taken from dragons' dragonfire breaths, the charges are released in a devastating dragonfire attack upon the target. Each time this attack is performed, charges are lost, thus lowering the shield's defensive bonuses. Consequently, it can only be performed 50 times before needing to recharge the shield.

Just like regular dragonfire, both these methods will not cause damage if the opponent is a fire monster or a dragon. In PvP situations, if the opponent is wearing an Anti-dragon shield or under the effects of Antifire potions (or both) the damage is reduced significantly.

Magical fire is not considered as dragonfire. The protection needed for dragonfire doesn't provide protection against fire spells.

After While Guthix Sleeps, players need dragonfire to combine the two parts of the dragonkin key. This can be done by using both parts of the key on a mithril dragon.

Trivia
Dragonfire
 * The message when you are partially protected from dragonfire is different depending on what kind of protection you have. For example: If you are using an anti-fire shield, it will say "the shield protects you from the heat". If you are using just an antifire potion, it will say "the anti-fire potion protects you from the fiery substance". This implies that dragonfire is made up of several different factors, such as heat, substance and even magic.