Unholy cursebearer

The Unholy cursebearer is a boss in Daemonheim, requiring 29 Dungeoneering. It can be found on the abandoned floors.

Strategy
On the back wall to this room, there is an unholy font which will recharge your stats, however it will also heal the cursebearer. While fighting this creature an undead rot starts to affect the player. These spells will eventually whittle away at all combat stats (excluding prayer). Stronger versions of this boss cause combat stats to decay quicker. Prayers do not help protect against the undead rot effects, and Curse prayers can be turned off by this boss. However a myth says that prayer heals the boss, which is not true as all normal prayers are unaffected by the cursebearer.

There are two unholy fonts on the wall opposite the entrance which allow for restoring one's stats. When doing so, the Unholy Cursebearer will restore health equal to 1/8th of his maximum lifepoints.

This boss uses a melee attack and a magic attack in which red energy appears on top of his staff and a red ball is fired at the target. The magic attack can either be single-targeted or multi-targeted.

Damage can be completely avoided by using Protect from Melee and quickly switching to Protect from Magic when he raises his staff and the red energy appears on top of it; however, the effects of the undead rot still do damage regardless of activated prayers. Also, turning on Protect from Magic and Piety or Chivalry will nearly do away with damage. While team fighting, it is recommended to wear strong melee armour for tanked and turn on protect from magic for all players. Ranging and maging players in team are recommended to wear magic-resistant armours, although the former-mentioned prayer will block the magic attacks totally.

There is one tactic that might slow the drain of the rot. Turning on Rapid Restore will cause your stats to regain some points in the duration of the fight. The benefit is that this prayer is a very slow draining prayer. The downside is that this prayer is small compared to the rate of drain.

Since there is no minimum limit of his stat draining ability (he will eventually drain all of a player's combat stat to zero if the fight is long enough), the player may find that their Magic level is reduced below 32 (or 64, as the case may be), the level required to teleport to gatestones. If the player is in imminent danger and cannot teleport out because of this, it may be to their advantage to use the unholy font to restore their magic level to re-enable gatestone teleport(s).

The best strategy to avoid the stat drain and any damage is to use a gatestone. Place a regular gatestone outside the boss room and enter just long enough to hit him once before teleporting out. If done right, the player will not lose any lifepoints or combat stats.

Drops

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Trivia

 * The Unholy Cursebearer appears to be wielding an Empowered catalytic staff.
 * His spell resembles the spell Iban Blast.
 * Although he is called Unholy Cursebearer, he is called a skeletal archmage by the message given when a player restores their stats while fighting him.
 * The Unholy Cursebearer is one of very few Dungeoneering bosses that can be poisoned.
 * He appears to have an irregular attack speed, similar to Cave horrors. Sometimes he attacks at a speed of 6, and sometimes at a speed of 5.
 * The Unholy Cursebearer shares the same walking and death animations as Rammernaut, as well as the same walking sounds (this might be because the curse bearer appears to be an undead version of a brute mage). The face and headgear that the Unholy Cursebearer has is also similar in design to the Mask of dragith nurn in The Blood Pact Quest.
 * It is likely that the Unholy Cursebearer was once a human, brute or Rammernaut who served Bilrach, but eventually betrayed him, and was turned into the Unholy Cursebearer. It is likely that the book The price of betrayal was written about him, as no other boss drops it, and the book seems to be referencing the Unholy Cursebearer (killing others, rotting, being undead, etc.).
 * He is missing his right arm, and this makes him as the first NPC that is left handed, seeing that he melees with his left.
 * It is advised to bring stat restore potions if you do not want to use the undead fonts.
 * There is apparently a glitch where, if you teleport out at the exact time you use the undead font, when you re-enter you will not be re-afflicted by it.