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| Release date | 10 January 2011 (Update) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Members | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Combat level | 103 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| XP per kill | 750 (and 247.5  experience)
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| Examine text | He looks angry and dangerous! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 2800 lifepoints of damage). It cannot be blocked by prayer. 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. They use crush attacks the majority of time. It's recommended to stay close to the entrance if fighting these, that way the only monster that can attack you are the warriors.
Ancient warriors can be made unaggressive with sufficiently high melee defence bonuses, or if the player is wearing the Shard of Zaros.
It is possible to farm these for super attack and defence potions, but is not recommended due to the risks.
Drops
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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 | |
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 | Coins | 1; 500; 1,337 | Common | 1–1,337 |
 | Pure essence | 23 (noted) | Common | 690 |
 | Mind rune | Unknown | Common | 19 |
 | Mithril longsword | 1 | Common | 2,508 |
 | Super attack (1) | 1 | Uncommon | 1,603 |
 | Adamant bar | 1–4 (noted) | Uncommon | 1,761–7,044 |
 | Coal | 1–8 (noted) | Uncommon | 112–896 |
 | Nature rune | Unknown | Uncommon | 405 |
 | Adamant chainbody | 1 | Uncommon | 7,111 |
 | Super strength (1) | 1 | Uncommon | 4,796 |
 | Prayer potion (2) | 1 | Uncommon | 1,395 |
 | Super defence (1) | 1 | Uncommon | 2,604 |
 | Lobster | 1 | Uncommon | 141 |
 | Uncut ruby | 1 | Rare | 1,842 |
 | Potato cactus | 1 (noted) | Rare | 5,249 |
 | Clue scroll (hard) | 1 | Rare | Not sold |
| Item | Quantity | Rarity | GE price | |
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 | Key token | 1 | Rare | Not sold |
 | Mimic kill token | 1 | Very rare | 5,575 |
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 animiation similar to that of a player before the Evolution of Combat.