Farseer kiteshield



The Farseer kiteshield is a youtube video released with the Dungeoneering skill on 12 April 2010. The shield requires a Defence level of 80 and a Dungeoneering level of 80 to wield. At least two million Dungeoneering experience is required to attain the 200,000 Dungeoneering tokens needed to purchase the item.

After approximately 10 hours of combat, the farseer kiteshield will degrade completely and must be recharged before it may be used again; it has a 20% charge on purchase. Once these charges have been used up, the shield can be recharged for a fee by the rewards trader. To do so, right-click on him and select "Recharge" with the depleted shield in your inventory. There are two methods of recharging: cash, or a combination of cash and Dungeoneering tokens. A cash repair will cost up to two million coins (for a shield with no charge at all); a combination of cash and tokens will cost up to 200,000 coins and a number of Dungeoneering tokens (for a shield with no charge at all).

The farseer kiteshield soaks up 7% of all received Magic damage and 14% of all received melee damage that would have hit for 200 life points or more. Ranged damage is not soaked up at all. Any damage soaked up by the shields will be noted in both your chat window and the chat window of your opponent (if fighting another player). "Soaking" damage lessens the charge on a shield more quickly than usual. It is important to note that a melee hit of 300 won't necessarily end up with 45 points of damage being soaked (in other words, only up to 14% of melee damage and up to 7% of magic damage is soaked for attacks that would have hit for 200 life points or more, not necessarily always 14/7%).

Repair costs
The shield is purchased at 20% charge. Repair costs come in 1% values; you can repair them at anytime when there's at least 1% charge missing.
 * 100% charged (Fully charged) – no cost.
 * 99% charged – 20,000 coins or 2,000 coins and 200 tokens.
 * 90% charged – 200,000 coins or 20,000 coins and 2,000 tokens.
 * 0% charged (No charge) – 2,000,000 coins or 200,000 coins and 20,000 tokens.

Trivia

 * This item gives the second best magical attack bonus of any item in the off-hand slot, second only to the arcane spirit shield.
 * Its inventory icon closely resembles that of the Gorgonite kiteshield.
 * Since Chaotic Rapier is considered by many to be the best "Hybriding" weapon, due to its rapid attack speed, huge hits, and deadly accuracy, and since the magic dungeoneering shield has +17 magic bonus, no negative melee bonus, up 20% melee soak, even the up to 10% magic damage soak helps, and even +40 ranged defence, the Chaotic rapier + Farseer Kiteshield + Staff of light/Chaotic staff is considered one of the deadliest "Hybriding" combos you can have.
 * In the Runescape Knowledge Base, it stated that the Farseer Kiteshield soaked 10% magic damage and 20% melee damage. On 11/9/10 Mod Ash confirmed the Kiteshield in fact soaked 7% magic damage and 14% melee damage. This upset players that purchased the shield for its original bonuses.