Dungeoneering/Equipment

There are 11 tiers of weapons and armours accessible in the Dungeoneering skill. Players are limited in their use of equipment by their combat skill levels but not their level in Dungeoneering.

The weapons and armour have higher bonuses than the weapons and armour outside of the area Daemonheim, but carry greater negative bonuses, especially against unexpected classes of combat (magic robes will incur ranged and melee accuracy penalties, but melee gloves carry a strength bonus which potentially encourages full melee suit incombat). While non-Dungeoneering magic and ranged armour generally do not have melee attack penalties, magic and ranged equipment found in Daemonheim do have melee attack penalties, making mixed combat armour less desirable.

There are no one-click special attacks for any weapons in Daemonheim; only special weapons and armours have passive special feats.

Tier 11 equipment cannot be smithed or crafted by players; they can only be obtained as drops from bosses. Due to the fact that only 4 items can be bound at once, and that the current boss in that room may drop tier 11 equipment, only a maximum of 5 parts of tier 11 equipment can be worn at once, and so no player character can wear full tier 11 equipment.

NOTE: You cannot boost any of your combat levels using potions to be able to wield any armour or weapons. =Melee=

Melee armour
There are 11 tiers of Melee armour that players may wear depending on their Defence level. Each tier set consists of a platebody/chainbody, plateskirt/platelegs, boots, gauntlets, kiteshield, and a full helmet.

Platebodies
Platebodies offers better slash, stab and ranged defence, at the cost of some crush defence and negative ranged attack bonus.

Chainmails
Chainmails offers no negative ranged attack bonus and less negative magic attack bonus, at the cost of some slash, stab and ranged defence.

Plateskirts
Just like chainbodies, plateskirts offers a better crush defence, they're often worn with platebodies, to compensate the relatively low crush defence bonus.

Platelegs
Just like platebodies, they offer a better stab, slash and ranged defence bonus, they're often worn with chainbodies to compensate the relatively low bonuses in these areas.

Kiteshields
They're often bound with any one handed weapon and tank class, this lowers the incoming damaged by a certain amount depending on the level.

Daggers
They can be poisoned and has same speed of a rapier, players are not advised to bind these weapons, due to relatively low bonuses.

Rapiers
They have a fast attack speed and offers a good strength bonus. However, they lack of a good accuracy. Some players prefer binding battleaxes or longswords due to its better strength bonus and accuracy.

Longswords
They are slower than rapiers, but they have a better accuracy and strength bonuses. They can also be used with shields to utilize the Tank class ring, or with magical boxes for effortless switching between melee and magic attacks. They are slightly more accurate than battleaxes, but they sacrifice strength for this.

It should be noted warhammers have better accuracy and a little less strength bonus than a longsword.

Battleaxes
They offer better strength bonuses than longswords and warhammers, and have same attack speed, but, they have less accuracy. Nevertheless, they are one-handed like longswords and warhammers, and can therefore be used with a shield in order to utilize the Tank class ring. Alternatively, battleaxes can be used with the magical blastbox or the celestial surgebox for effortless switching between melee and magic attacks.

Two-handed swords
Two-handed swords are slightly weaker than mauls and equally slow, but are very versatile as they can use both the 'crush' and 'slash' attacks styles. Some players prefer having two handed swords over mauls due to this versatility. Furthermore, as both styles can be used in the 'Aggressive' stance, many players prefer to use two-handed swords with the Berserker class ring. The main drawback to using them is that they are, obviously, two-handed. Therefore, shields cannot be used with them, preventing use of the Tank class ring. This can also pose a problem if a dragon is encountered, as two-handed swords cannot be used with anti-dragon shields, instead forcing the use of prayers or potions, which only provide partial protection and may result in large amounts of food or prayer being wasted if the dragon is not dispatched quickly.

Warhammers
Warhammers have the same attack speed as battleaxes and longswords, but offer better accuracy at the cost of some strength. They can only use the 'crush' attack style, however.

Spears
Spears are also a great alternative to one handed weapons, they have the same attack speed as longswords, battleaxes and warhammers, while offering higher bonuses in accuracy and strength. However, they cannot use the 'Accurate' or 'Aggressive' stances, and subsequently cannot be used in tandem with Tactition or Berserker class rings. In addition, they are 2-handed, which prohibits the use of the Tank class ring. This can also pose a problem if a dragon is encountered, as they are unable to be used with anti-dragon shields, instead forcing the use of prayers or potions, which only provide partial protection and may result in large amounts of food or prayer being wasted if the dragon is not quickly dispatched. Spears can be poisoned but must be before binding.

Mauls
These are the alternatives to 2-handed swords. Like warhammers they only use the 'crush' attack style and equally slow as two-handed swords, but they have more accuracy and strength than both. The main drawback to using them is that they are, of course, two-handed, disallowing the use of a shield, which also prevents the use of the Tank class ring. This can also pose a problem if a dragon is encountered, as they are unable to be used with anti-dragon shields, instead forcing the use of prayers or potions, which only provide partial protection and may result in large amounts of food or prayer being wasted if the dragon is not quickly dispatched.

Weaknesses
Certain floors in the dungeon have weaknesses against weapon types.

The higher level players in the game, with 50+ Dungeoneering, usually bind a high level spear, 2h, longsword, or battleaxe (tier 9/10) and a high levelled platebody (although if given the option you should bind a shadow silk hood or blood necklace because of their secondary effects). Spears are the best choice of weapon as they have high attack and strength bonus and you can switch between all different attack styles, depending on what you are attacking as well as being able to poison it for extra damage (although a 2h has the attack options that allow you to use its secondary attack option on the foes that are not weak to slash, and the longsword and battleaxe are other good options as well since you are able to take advantage of the protection of a shield). another advantage to using a 2h, longsword, or battleaxe is the advantage of being able to use the dungeoneering melee class ring which the spear unfortunately is unable to use since it can only use the controlled and defend attack options.

=Ranged=

Ranged armour
There are 11 tiers of Ranged armour, that players may wear depending on their Ranged and Defence levels. Each tier set consits of a coif, chaps, vambraces, body, and boots.

Ranged Weapons
There are 11 tiers of ranged weapons, each consisting of a longbow and a shortbow.

Shortbows
They are less accurate, but faster.

Longbows
They are more accurate, but slower.

Arrows
There are 11 tiers of arrows that are dependent on the tier of metal. It is interesting to note that none of the arrows exceed even rune arrows in strength.

=Magic=

Magic armour
There are 11 tiers of Magic armour, each one consisting of a hood, robe top, bottom, gloves and boots.
 * Hood
 * Robe top
 * Robe bottom
 * Gloves
 * Boots

Staves
There are 10 tiers of unimbued staves, which players can equip depending on their Magic level. They can be fletched from wood or dropped by monsters. Staves can be imbued with an element on a Runecrafting altar (tier 2+) or they can be imbued with catalytic properties to raise magic attack.


 * Tangle gum staff (Tier 1)
 * Seeping elm staff (Tier 2)
 * Blood spindle staff (Tier 3)
 * Utuku staff (Tier 4)
 * Spinebeam staff (Tier 5)
 * Bovistrangler staff (Tier 6)
 * Thigat staff (Tier 7)
 * Corpesthorn staff (Tier 8)
 * Entgallow staff (Tier 9)
 * Gravecreeper staff (Tier 10)

Staves can be imbued with the following (empowered versions have the same attributes, but greater magic bonuses):


 * Water empowered
 * Earth empowered
 * Fire empowered
 * Air empowered
 * Catalytic empowered

There are two special, uncraftable staves:


 * Doomcore staff
 * Celestial catalytic staff (Tier 11)

The Doomcore staff increases magic damage by 25%, while the Celestial catalytic staff increases magic damage by 30%.

=Slayer Rewards=

The following items can be obtained by defeating the various Slayer creatures found throughout each dungeon.


 * Seeker's charm
 * Blood necklace
 * Shadow silk hood
 * Silver precision bracelet
 * Golden precision bracelet
 * Sunstriker boots
 * Incantor's boots
 * Sorcerer's boots
 * Marksman boots
 * Absorption boots
 * Grounding boots
 * Protector's ward
 * Guardian's ward

=Corresponding Items= Many of the items in Daemonheim can be confusing to use, but most of them are similar in terms of usage to those in the "outside world." These are based on weapon and armour requirements: skill requirements to gather (e.g. Woodcutting and Mining) are different. They have rather unusual names, and can be hard to memorise which are the "copper" like ores and the "magic" logs of Daemonheim.

Trivia
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 * If you look closely you'll notice that the melee full helms will slowly grow horns as you go up the tier ladder.
 * If you look closely you'll notice the melee shields will slowly grow in size as you go up the tier ladder
 * If you look closely you'll see that most melee weapons look alike in style from tier 1 to 5, then from 6 to 8, from 9 to 10, and all of the primal weapons look different from the other tiers of the same weapon.
 * As you go from Novite to Primal weapons and armour, the items seem more sinister and wicked looking.
 * Platelegs and Plateskirts (of the same tier) are very different unlike their counterparts in the rest of Runescape: Plateskirts are still marginally lighter, but they also offer a much greater crush defence (as much as two times that of the platelegs) and lower offensive Magic/Ranged penalties. Platelegs offer higher stab, slash, and ranged defence.
 * Strangely, mauls wielded by players have the same attack animation as an Obsidian maul, but when used by forgotten warriors they have the attack animation of a granite maul. It is unknown if this is a glitch or not.
 * When you bind any type of rapier, you'll hold it like a Chaotic Rapier. When it isn't bound, you'll hold it like a Dragon Scimitar.