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For the possessors of the Ancient Warriors' equipment, see The Ancient Warriors.
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Ancient warriors are melee based enemies found in the Ancient Prison in the God Wars Dungeon. Occasionally when fighting an Ancient warrior, they perform their special attack that appears as little black clouds of dust on the ground, closing in on the player in the shape of an 'X' until converging at the place where the player had been standing. If the player doesn't quickly move at least two squares away, they will be hit for heavy damage (commonly over 2,800 life points of damage). This attack cannot be blocked by any means, including Devotion and Barricade, but can be avoided by moving away. This is similar to one of Warped Gulega's special attacks. Killing Ancient warriors counts toward the required kill-count of 40 to enter Nex's chamber. It is recommended to stay near the entrance to the prison area if the player needs to get killcount so that only the warriors will attack them.

Ancient warriors can be made unaggressive if the player is wearing the Shard of Zaros, a post-quest reward from Fate of the Gods.

It is possible to farm these for super attack and defence potions, but is not recommended due to the risks and high requirements needed to fight them.

Drops[]

Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Coins 1000Coins1; 500; 1,337Common1–1,337
Pure essencePure essence23 (noted)Common690
Mind runeMind runeUnknownCommon19
Mud runeMud rune15Unknown13,020
Mithril longswordMithril longsword1Common2,508
Super attack (1)Super attack (1)1Uncommon1,603
Adamant barAdamant bar1–4 (noted)Uncommon1,761–7,044
CoalCoal1–8 (noted)Uncommon112–896
Nature runeNature runeUnknownUncommon405
Adamant chainbodyAdamant chainbody1Uncommon7,111
Super strength (1)Super strength (1)1Uncommon4,796
Prayer potion (2)Prayer potion (2)1Uncommon1,395
Super defence (1)Super defence (1)1Uncommon2,604
LobsterLobster1Uncommon141
Uncut rubyUncut ruby1Rare1,842
Potato cactusPotato cactus(noted)Rare5,249
Sealed clue scroll (hard)Sealed clue scroll (hard)1RareNot sold

Universal drops[]

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.
These drops are dropped alongside main drops.
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Key tokenKey token1RareNot sold
Mimic kill tokenMimic kill token1Very rare5,575

Trivia[]

  • A common drop is 1337 coins. This represents the internet slang, l33t, or Leet, meaning elite.
  • The Ancient Warriors wear a light brown version of the previous version of Torva armour.
  • Ancient warriors, along with ancient rangers, are one of the few human NPCs in RuneScape that do not have their death animation similar to that of a player before the Evolution of Combat.
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