Dominion Tower/Desert bosses strategy

All four bosses of the Desert Treasure quest can appear in a match in the Dominion Tower: Damis, Dessous, Fareed, and Kamil. Their combined special abilities and combat styles make them a tough fight for an unprepared player.

The combined bosses can attack with melee, magic, and ranged. The melee attacks tend to do the most damage, and ranged the least. All bosses are vulnerable to magic while some are quite strong against melee. So, one effective strategy is pray Protect from Melee or Deflect Melee, wear armour with high magic defence, and slay the bosses using magic.

Suggested equipment

 * Armour with good magic defence, such as Dragonhide armour, Splitbark armour, or Void Knight equipment.
 * Staff with magic damage bonus, such as Staff of light, Armadyl battlestaff, or similar. Warning: Do not bring a Polypore staff as it is ineffective against Fareed. Do not bring Iban's staff, as Iban Blast is ineffective against Fareed.
 * Runes to cast the most powerful earth, fire, water, and wind spells from the standard Spellbook. Each boss is vulnerable to one of these spell types. Other magic spells can be used but may not be as effective.
 * Several prayer-point recharging potions such as Prayer, Super prayer, or Prayer renewal potions or flasks. The fight can last several minutes, and one boss can eventually drain prayer.
 * High-healing food such as Sharks, Rocktails, or Scorpion meat.
 * Ice gloves. Weapons cannot be wielded against Fareed unless the gloves are worn. (Fareed can be killed without a weapon, if the player only uses runes for the spells to attack him. However, this is slower as the player does not benefit from the magic damage bonus of a staff.)

Optional:
 * A poisoned Dragon dagger.
 * A combat or healing familiar.
 * A magic-boosting potion or flask such as Magic or Extreme magic, for its magic-damage boost.
 * Ice arrows are effective against Fareed but are bothersome to obtain.
 * A Ring of recoil can be useful to recoil some damage you will take. Alternatively, a Seers' ring is useful to boost magic ability.

Alternative: Depending upon the handicaps the player is fighting under, substitute other items if the recommended items cannot be used. For example, if the no food handicap is in place, substitute Saradomin brew and Super restore potions or flasks for food.

Strategy
Turn on protect from/deflect melee. Also use a stats-boosting prayer like Piety or Turmoil if available. Watch prayer points and drink potions as needed.

If you brought a poisoned dragon dagger, use its special attacks against Dessous, Fareed, and Damis. All are strong against melee, so the attacks may fail.

Kill Kamil first to get rid of his freezing ice magic.

Kill Dessous second to get rid of his magic/ranged bat attack.

Kill Fareed third. Since he mostly attacks with melee, his infrequent magic attacks are less of a threat.

Save Damis for last. You do not want to fight his Level 174 prayer-draining form if any of the other bosses are around. Since your prayer makes you immune to melee damage, Damis cannot hurt you while your pray.