Ancient effigies



Ancient effigies is a Distraction and Diversion released on the 15 June 2010. These require randomly selected levels from 91 - 97 to restore, rewarding a significant amount experience in the skill used and a dragonkin lamp upon full completion of the effigy.

They do not require any levels to receive as a drop, and the assist system can be used if you do not have the required level in either of the two skills the effigy requires. Each stage of the effigy has two different skills which can be used before passing onto the next stage.

Players can possess multiple effegies. They do not stack in the bank.

The effigies are a rare drop, and are dropped by (presumably) most high levelled monsters. Receiving an effigy as a drop will show up on your adventurer's log and more than one can be held at one time. It has been confirmed that the ring of wealth doesn't affect the drop rate.

Introduction
Ancient effigies are rare drops from a range of creatures. There are 4 types of ancient effigies:


 * 1) Starved ancient effigy - This will require at least a level of 91 in one of the two skills to investigate and after investigation it becomes nourished, and reward 15,000 experience in the skill used.
 * 2) Nourished ancient effigy - This will require at least a level of 93 in one of the two skills to investigate and after investigation it becomes sated, and reward 20,000 experience in the skill used.
 * 3) Sated ancient effigy - This will require at least a level of 95 in one of the two skills to investigate and after investigation it becomes gorged, and reward 25,000 experience in the skill used.
 * 4) Gorged ancient effigy - This will require at least a level of 97 in one of the two skills to investigate, and after investigation, you'll receive 30,000 experience in the skill used, it crumbles to dust, and leaves behind a dragonkin lamp.

After investigating an ancient effigy you are awarded with some experience, depending on the type of effigy. As such starved effigies give 15,000 experience, nourished effigies give 20,000 experience, sated effigies give 25,000 experience and gorged effigies give 30,000 experience in the skill used to investigate them. After you have enlightened an entire ancient effigy - from its starved form to its gorged form - you will have received a total of 90,000 experience in various skills.

Requirements
You need no skills to get the effigies, but you will need various skills between the levels of 91 and 97 to feed them knowledge and retrieve the object stored within them. If you do not have the levels yourself, you will be able to get aid from someone else who does through the Assist System, however not all skills are available in the assist system.

The skills which can be used to successfully investigate an effigy will always be paired, though, so you at least have some choice of which to use. The pairings are:
 * Agility or Crafting
 * Construction or Thieving
 * Cooking or Firemaking
 * Fishing or Farming
 * Fletching or Woodcutting
 * Herblore or Hunter
 * Mining or Smithing
 * Runecrafting or Summoning

You will always be able to get assistance in at least one of the skills an ancient effigy craves.

Monsters
The following monsters are known to drop ancient effigies.


 * Aberrant spectre
 * Abyssal demon
 * Aquanite
 * Armoured zombie
 * Black demon
 * Black dragon
 * Blue dragon
 * Chaos dwogre
 * Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer
 * Corporeal Beast
 * Dagganoth
 * Dark beast
 * Desert strykewyrm
 * Dust devil
 * Fire giant
 * Flesh crawler
 * Gargoyle
 * General Graardor
 * Giant mole
 * Greater demon
 * Green Dragon
 * Hellhound
 * Ice strykewyrm
 * Iron dragon
 * Jungle strykewyrm
 * King Black Dragon
 * Mithril dragon
 * Mutated bloodveld
 * Nechryael
 * Steel dragon
 * Suqah
 * Terror dog
 * Tormented demon
 * TzHaar-Ket
 * Waterfiend
 * kurask

Rewards
A dragonkin lamp, which gives another chunk of experience. The formula for the lamp is $$\frac{x^3}{20}$$, in which $$x$$ is the skill level. Would the skill level be 10, it'd be $$\frac{10*10*10}{20}$$, which would be one thousand divided by twenty $$=50$$, thus giving fifty experience. A complete table can be found here. (This formula only gives a rough estimate of the experience. It is not entirely accurate.)

Trivia

 * On realease day, Mod Rathe revealed on the RuneScape Forums that the ring of wealth does not affect the drop rate of the ancient effigies.