Crystal ward

This article is about the current version of the crystal ward. For the historical version, see Crystal ward (historical).

For other variants of this item, see attuned.

For this item's augmented variant, see augmented crystal ward.

Crystal ward
Versions
Release	7 February 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Value	90,000 coins
Value	90,000 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	Drop
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	7500
Reclaim	7500
Sacrifice	30000
Sacrifice	30000
Exchange	160,718 coins (info)
Buy limit	2
Weight	2.721 kg
Examine	A sturdy crystal shield for mages.
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Release	7 February 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Stacks in bank	No
Stacks in bank	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	90,000 coins
Value	90,000 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	Drop
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	7500
Reclaim	7500
Sacrifice	30000
Sacrifice	30000
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	2.721 kg
Examine	A sturdy crystal shield for mages.

The crystal ward is a degradable Magic shield, requiring 70 Defence, 50 Agility, and completion of Roving Elves to wield.

Combat Stats

Requirements			Degrades
70 , 50			50,000 charges
Class			Slot
Magic
Tier			Type
70			Shield
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		-		-
Accuracy		-		-
Style		-
Range		-
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				297		PvM: 7%			PvP: 0%
Life points				35		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
[FAQ] • [doc]

Creation

Required materials:
- - - - - - - - - -
Production JSON:
{ "product": "Crystal ward", "image": "[[File:Crystal ward.png|link=Crystal ward]]", "mats": [ { "name": "Crystal armour seed", "quantity": "1", "image": "Crystal armour seed.png" },{ "name": "Harmonic dust", "quantity": "375", "image": "Harmonic dust.png" } ], "skill": "Smithing", "level": "75" }

Crystal ward

		-
375 XP		-		160,718
Requirements
Smithing level				75
Completed The Eyes of Glouphrie and Plague's End
Members only				Yes
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Crystal armour seed	1	3,824	3,824
	Harmonic dust	375	N/A	-

Obtaining the ward

A crystal ward can be made from a crystal armour seed in two ways:

• Paying either Eluned/Islwyn in the Ithell Clan district or Rhodri Dail in the Max Guild a scaling amount of coins
• With 75 Smithing, using 375 harmonic dust to make one at the crystal singing bowl in the Ithell Clan district of Prifddinas (giving 375 Smithing experience)

The amount of coins needed to create (and repair) is based on the number of times a crystal weapon/armour seed has been made into an item for coins - the cost is shared over all crystal weapons and shields. The first time costs 1,000,000 coins, and each subsequent creation costs 200,000 less until the fifth time (and every time thereafter), when it costs 200,000 coins.

Additionally, a 20% charged crystal ward is a possible reward of Roving Elves, and fully charged wards can be bought from Islwyn in Isafdar forest for 1,000,000 coins (this price does not reduce).

The crystal ward will revert to seed after 50,000 charges of combat, but uses two charges per hit except while within Prifddinas, where it uses one charge per hit. A partially degraded ward can be recharged for a fraction of your current creation cost - if it has 90% charges remaining, and the lowest creation price has been achieved, it would cost 20,000 coins to repair.

Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Edimmu	122	1	Rare
Edimmu (elite)	125	1	Rare
Motherlode Maw	N/A	1	Rare

Disassembly

Crystal items are guaranteed to give a special component. They will either give 1 crystal part (common), 1 Seren component (uncommon), or 1 Faceted component (uncommon).

Disassembly XP	21.0
Item quantity required	1
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  23.0% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 23.0% 1 34 22.8% 2 49 22.4% 3 64 21.9% 4 69 21.4% 5 78 21.0% 6 83 20.3% 7 91 19.8% 8 95 19.1% 9 105 18.5%
Possible materials
Special
1 × Crystal parts	Not 100%
OR
1 × Seren components	Not 100%
OR
1 × Faceted components	Not 100%
Often
Cover parts	35%
Base parts	30%
Deflecting parts	30%
Rarely
Strong components	3%
Protective components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 23 Junk chance: 23

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Trivia

• Even though it takes only 50 Agility to wield the crystal ward, an agility level of 56 (although temporary boosts may be used) is needed to complete the Regicide quest, which is a prerequisite to complete the Roving Elves quest. It is however, possible to buy the shield from the Grand Exchange at full charge, but it cannot be wielded until Roving Elves is complete.
• If a player attempts to cast low level alchemy or high level alchemy on a Crystal shield, they will receive a message saying 'You can't do that to elven crystal!' because of a bug allowing you to alchemise a recharged crystal armour and weapons in Free to Play worlds for 900,000.
• After the EoC update, there was a bug that the shield didn't degrade in combat. This has been fixed.
• Until the release of Prifddinas the Crystal ward was called the "Crystal shield".