Ancient effigies



Ancient effigies are Distractions and Diversions released on the 15 June 2010. These require randomly selected levels from 91 - 97 to restore, rewarding a significant amount experience in the skills 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 players 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 effigies. They do not stack in the bank.

The effigies are a rare drop, and are dropped by many high-level 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 does not affect the drop rate, but defeating a higher level monster will give a greater chance of receiving an effigy.

Stages
Starved ancient effigies are received as rare drops from a range of creatures. An effigy will always be found in the starved stage. 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; after investigation it becomes nourished, rewarding 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 ; after investigation it becomes sated, rewarding 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; after investigation it becomes gorged, rewarding 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. After investigation, it provides 30,000 experience in the skill used and, then crumbles to dust, leaving behind a dragonkin lamp.

The formula for the lamp is $$\frac{x^3-2x^2+100x}{20}$$, in which $$x$$ is the skill level. For example, at a skill level of 60, the experience gained would be $$\frac{60^3-2*60^2+100*60}{20}=10,740$$. A complete table can be found here.

After players have enlightened an entire ancient effigy - from its starved form to its gorged form - they will have received a total of 90,000 experience across the skills used.

Requirements
Players need no skills to get the effigies, but they will need various skills levels of 91, 93, 95, and 97 to feed them knowledge and retrieve the object stored within them. The level required depends on the stage that the effigy is in. If players do not have the required levels themselves, they can request assistance from other players via the Assist System, however not all skills are available in this system. If the Assist System is used, the assisting player will receive the experience instead (as long as the 30k experience cap per day isn't reached, in which case the player's assistance will not work).

Players will be able to get assistance in 1 skill out of a pair that an ancient effigy craves.

Boosts will work, as well as for those assisting.

The paired skills which can be used to successfully investigate an effigy are:

If a player does not possess the skill levels required to feed the effigy, and does not wish to search for someone to assist them in doing so, he or she can hand the effigy to Historian Minas in the Varrock Museum in order to gain an experience lamp worth 5k experience to any skill over level 50. This is almost the same experience as using the dragonkin lamp in a skill of level 47.

Monsters
The following monsters are known to drop ancient effigies.

Almost all monsters (excluding high-level boss monsters) are assigned by Slayer Masters, so training the Slayer skill is a good way to obtain ancient effigies.


 * Aberrant spectre
 * Abyssal demon
 * Abyssal walker
 * Ankou
 * Aquanite
 * Armoured zombie
 * Aviansie
 * Baby black dragon
 * Baby blue dragon
 * Banshee
 * Basilisk
 * Black demon
 * Black dragon
 * Black Knight
 * Bloodveld
 * Blue dragon
 * Brine rat
 * Bronze dragon
 * Brutal green dragon
 * Cave crawler
 * Cave horror
 * Chaos dwogre
 * Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer
 * Cockroach soldier
 * Commander Zilyana
 * Corporeal Beast
 * Dagganoth (but not Dagannoth Kings)
 * Dark beast
 * Desert strykewyrm
 * Dust devil
 * Earth warrior
 * Elf warrior
 * Fire giant
 * Flesh crawler
 * Gargoyle
 * General Graardor
 * Ghoul
 * Giant mole
 * Giant Rock Crab
 * Goblin
 * Greater demon
 * Green dragon
 * Hill giant
 * Hellhound
 * Hobgoblin
 * Ice strykewyrm
 * Ice warrior
 * Infernal Mage
 * Iron dragon
 * Jelly
 * Jungle strykewyrm
 * Kalphite guardian
 * Kalphite Soldier
 * Kalphite queen
 * Kalphite worker
 * Killerwatt
 * King Black Dragon
 * Kree'arra
 * K'ril Tsutsaroth
 * Kurask
 * Living rock patriarch
 * Living rock protector
 * Living rock striker
 * Mithril dragon
 * Moss giant
 * Mummy
 * Mutated bloodveld
 * Nechryael
 * Pyrefiend
 * Red dragon
 * Rock crab
 * Skeletal Wyvern
 * Steel dragon
 * Suqah
 * Terror dog
 * Tormented demon
 * Tormented wraith
 * Turoth
 * TzHaar-Ket
 * TzHaar-Xil
 * Vampire
 * Warped tortoise
 * Waterfiend
 * Werewolf
 * Zamorak warrior
 * Zombies

Trivia

 * When trading a starved effigy to Historian Minas, he mentions that he'll "have his top men look into this right away," to which your character replies, "Who?" To this, Minas only says "Top...men...", an almost direct quote from the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.