Unholy cursebearer

Unholy Cursebearer is a boss in Daemonheim, requiring 29 Dungeoneering. He is usually easy to defeat.

While fighting this creature an undead rot starts to affect the player. These spells will eventually whittle away at all combat stats (excluding prayer). Stronger versions of this boss cause combat stats to decay quicker. Prayers do not help protect against the undead rot effects, and Curse prayers can be turned off by this boss. However a myth says that prayer heals the boss, which is not true as all normal prayers are not affected by the cursebearer.

There are two unholy fonts on the wall opposite the entrance which allow for restoring one's stats. When doing so, the Unholy Cursebearer will restore health equal to 1/8th of his maximum lifepoints.

This boss uses a melee attack and a magic attack in which red energy appears on top of his staff and a red ball is fired at the target. The magic attack can either be single-targeted or multi-targeted.

Damage can be completely avoided by using Protect from Melee and quickly switching to Protect from Magic when he raises his staff and the red energy appears on top of it; however, the effects of the undead rot still do damage regardless of activated prayers. While team fighting, it is recommended to wear strong melee armour for tanked and turn on protect from magic for all players. Ranging and maging players in team are recommended to wear magic-resistant armours, although the former-mentioned prayer will block the magic attacks totally.

Since there is no minimum limit of his stat draining ability (he will eventually drain all of a player's combat stat to zero if the fight is long enough), gatestone might be not useful as players are prone to be reduced to under 32 magic.

Primary Drops

 * Air staff
 * Empowered air staff
 * Water staff
 * Empowered water staff
 * Earth staff
 * Empowered earth staff
 * Fire staff
 * Empowered fire staff
 * Catalytic staff
 * Empowered catalytic staff
 * Celestial catalytic staff
 * Parts of the Dungeoneering journals

Trivia

 * The Unholy Cursebearer appears to be wielding an Empowered catalytic staff.
 * His spell resembles Iban Blast.
 * Although he is called Unholy Cursebearer, he is called a skeletal archmage by the message given when a player restores their stats while fighting him.
 * The Unholy Cursebearer is one of very few Dungeoneering bosses that can be poisoned.
 * The Unholy Cursebearer shares the same walking and death animations as Rammernaut, as well as the same walking sounds. The face and headgear that the Unholy Cursebearer has is also similar in design to the Mask of dragith nurn in The Blood Pact Quest.
 * It is likely that the Unholy Cursebearer was once a human who served Bilrach, but eventually betrayed him, and was turned into the Unholy Cursebearer. It is likely that the book The price of betrayal was written about him, as no other boss drops it, and the book seems to be referencing the Unholy Cursebearer (killing others, rotting, being undead, etc.).