Dreadnaut

Dreadnaut is a boss monster encountered on the Warped floors. This boss requires a Dungeoneering level of 95 to encounter and fight. His main attack style is melee, and he also uses a special attack that disables your protection prayers or deflect curses for 5 seconds.

Dreadnaut is in fact Rammernaut Hoskins, except he is warped by the tainted magic that affects the Warped floors due to their closeness to The Rift. He appears to have gotten a lump in the back and his shield transformed into an eye.

Running around the room while using magic is not as safe as it may seem. Running away and using magic is only temporary useful, before he shouts "You cannot run from me forever!" temporarily lowering your magic level by 10% of whatever amount of damage is dealt to you.

He, like Rammernaut, can also disable prayer, where he will point his shield at you and it will shoot a red beam, which also causes damage, hits through prayer and it disables them.

It used to be possible to safe spot Dreadnaut if you wish to use magic (or ranged), which was especially useful as he is weak to Magic. To do this, you needed to drop the group gatestone outside the boss door, and with your minimap facing the door. Enter the boss room, hugging the wall, go east, and drop a gate in the corner by the barrel. After dropping your gate, teleport to the group gatestone and wait for Dreadnaut to come up towards the door. Once he is there, teleport to your personal gate, leaving the group gatestone outside for emergencies and proceed to kill him with Magic. He would be unable to move as he was trapped by the boxes, and therefore would not deal you any damage, he was also unable to spawn the little "orange blobs" which deal you damage. Due to a recent update, this is no longer possible as the boxes in the room have been removed.

With the same update however, it is now possible to autocast combat spells even if your magic stat drops below the required level. Which means you may run around the room and use magic. Be cautious when using this technique because his magic draining special attack may reduce your magic below the level required to teleport, which will trap you inside the boss room, unable to escape. Bringing magic potions may prevent this from occuring.

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Trivia

 * The examine text seems to indicate that Dreadnaut is under the mind-control of a stalker, similar to the way sea slugs control minds. Or, more likely, it could be referring to his shield, mutated into an eye.
 * The name of Dreadnaut's music track is spelled Dreadnaught.
 * Sometimes before fighting Dreadnaut, there are a couple Brutes standing nearby trying to talk to him. Both Brutes talk back and forth saying that something isn't right, before Dreadnaut decides to kill them.