RuneScape/Desert Treasure

Desert Treasure

Skill Requirements Level 10 slayer. Level 50 firemaking. Level 50 magic. Level 53 thieving. A high agility level. Be able to defeat extremely tough enemies above level 150.

Quest Requirements The Digsite Quest. The Tourist Trap. The Temple of Ikov. Priest in Peril. Waterfall Quest. Troll Stronghold.

Item Requirements About 1000gp. A cake. Shantay passes and a couple of waterskins would come in handy. Tinderbox. Facemask. 6 Steel bars, 6 Molten glass, 1 Charcoal (Shilo Village general store). Ashes. Blood rune. 12 Magic logs. 1 bone (normal kind). 1 Silver bar. Garlic (search the cupboard upstairs in a house in Draynor Village). Pestle and mortar. Spice. 1 Spiked boots (give Dunstan in Burthorpe climbing boots and an iron bar). Ice gloves. Lots of lockpicks (buy them in the Rogues Den).  Item Recommendations Lots of prayer potions, (I used about 25 at 100 combat). Plenty of good food, lobsters at the least. Stat restore potions (about 10 should do it). Ectophial or elf crystal (one click teleport). Plenty of runes for teleporting around. Plenty of runes for high level elemental spells (death or blood). Antipoison potions, lots of energy potions. Rings of life. Good armour (rune and above). Good magic armour (mystic would be good). Prayer boosting armour (initiate or monk's robes). Range armour (dragonhide).

The Archaeologist
To start the quest head to the archaeologist at the bedabin camp (take a magic carpet there south of the Shantay Pass). Talk to him and he will tell you about buried treasure hidden in the desert. He gives you some etched notes to take to Terry Bandalo at the digsite exam centre. Head to the digsite, Terry Bandalo can be found in the exam centre. Give him the notes and he will give you a translated book. Take this back to the archaeologist. After a bit of talk agree to split the reward 50-50 with him. Next head south to the bandit camp. Make sure you're not wearing anything Saradomin or Zamorak related or else everyone will attack you. Head into the pub and buy a bandit's brew (650gp) off the bartender. Speak to the bartender about the four diamonds of Azzandra. He will tell you to talk to an elder. Head east from the pub until you reach a house with a man called Elbis inside. Talk to him about the diamonds of Azzandra and he will tell you about how they were stolen by four mighty warriors. He will tell you that he can help you find them but you need to bring him some things.

Gem #1, The Diamond Of Shadow
Teleport to Ardounge or to Camelot and go talk to the guy west of the fishing guild named Rasool. After you talk to him he will tell you bandits stole an item from him. From there tell him that u will get the item back in return for the gem. he will agree. Now teleport to as close as u can get to the desert with all the bandits. If you have lock picks bring them otherwise u need 53 thieving to thieve the bandits to get lock picks. The chest that is south of the bar in a little hut will poison you when you fail to open it. This part can be very time consuming. Bring some food if u dont have any locks picks and start thieving bandits until u get one. The bandits also give anti-poison potions that will be useful when you fail to open the chest. Keep thieving until you have a lockpick and go attempt to pick the lock on the chest. The chest will eventually open and you will get the item out. Take the item back Rasool and he will give u a ring of visibility. Equip the ring and go to the park next to him, there will be a ladder here that was not there before. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMENDED that you bring good food, armor, and good weapon. The monster ur about to fight has been seen to hit up to 28. Bring half a load of food and half a load of prayer pots. When you have all the items go back to the ladder and climb down it. Walk until a guy named Damis pops up. The first form of him is very easy just kill him and be prepared MAKE SURE you have on ur prayer the whole time walking through this dungeon type deal The Second form of Damis will pop up make sure u pray and dose on prayer pots because this guy drains prayer VERY fast i looked at it and it was draining 2 prayer every second The method i used was entangle him and range him from a distance IT took me a while to kill him but i got through it But i was also 81 range when i did it Dispose of him and get the diamond

Gem #2, The Diamond Of Blood
Go to Canifis and go into the bar. Talk to Malak the vampire and he will tell you about a vampire that has the next diamond. The Vampire is in Draynor dungeon. You must get a pot, get it blessed by the head monk on Entrana, then take it back and he'll fill it with blood (from you). After which, you need to add spice and crushed garlic. That is the simple part. Now you will need to fight level-139 Dessous. Do not kid yourself, this is no easy task. He uses a special attack on you that will hit double 5's one of which will miss if you have protection from magic prayer ON. If you use protection from range prayer or protection from melle prayer, he will teleport right next to you. The best way to kill this demon is to stand behind the fence and range or mage him. KEEP YOUR PROTECTION FROM MAGIC PRAYER ON AT ALL TIMES. Once you killed him, talk to Malak and you will get the blood diamond.

Gem #3, The Diamond Of Ice
Teleport to Trollheim and walk over and speak to the troll child. Give him a cake when you are told to do so. He will tell you to unfreeze his parents to get the ice diamond. It's recommended that you wear good armour and bring several stat restore potions and prayer potions before you continue. Pass through the ice gate and put protect from melee on. Kill 5 of the lvl 120 ice trolls until all the ice-icles fall off the cave entrance to the east. You might want to replenish your supplies before continuing.

More stat restore potions, prayer potions, and plenty of good food is recommended for the next part, as well as some spiked climbing boots (give a pair of climbing boots and an iron bar to Dunstan in Burthorpe). Carry on through the cave, and put protect from melee on when you get to the wolves. Carry on past them until it says you feel an evil presence. Kamil (lvl 154)will appear. This guy is tricky, as well as your stats being continously drained he will freeze you now and again and attack with melee. Protect from melee is recommended, and if he's freezing you too much swicth from melee protect to mage to confuse him. I ranged him with rune arrows at 71 range and 56 prayer and used about 3-4 prayer pots.

Once he is dead, continue past where he was until you come to the icy path. Put on your spiked boots and carry on walking. Using the super stat restore Kamil dropped here would be an advantage as you will fall for 2 damage now and again if your agility is low. Keep on going until you walk across the bridge and come to two frozen ice cubes. Smash them with a melee weapon or your fists. They have 10hp each. When both parents are freed you'll be teleported back to the troll child who will give you the diamond of ice.

Gem #4, The Diamond Of Smoke
For this diamond good mage gear, runes for water blast and ice gloves are recommended, with plenty of energy pots and some prayer pots. A facemask and a tinderbox is a must. This is probably the easiest of the diamonds. Head through the Shantay Pass and take the magic carpet to Pollinveach and walk to the smoke well by going south then east. Climb down the well and walk to the northwest corner of the dungeon. Make sure your energy is topped up and set to run. Light the standing torch then run to the southwest corner and light the next torch. Then the northeast corner torch then the southeast. Then run to the big room in the middle of the dungeon and open the chest to receive a warm key. If any of the torches go out you'll have to relight them before you can claim the key. When you have the key walk to the western gate and open it. Fareed (lvl 169) will appear. If you're not wearing ice gloves he will unequip your weapon. Put on protect from melee and kill him. Water blasts are highly effective but he's pretty weak so anything could work. When he's dead the diamond of smoke will appear in your inventory.

The Pyramid
Take all four diamonds and go back to the mirrors to talk to Elbis. He'll tell you about the Spirit of Azzandra trapped in a giant pyramid south of him. For the pyramid light armour (monks robes would be ideal), prayer potions and plenty of energy pots are recommended. Place each diamond in it's corresponding obelisk outside the pyramid and it will open. Now comes arguably one of the most frustrating parts of the quest. Head through the pyramid with protect from melee on and run as much as you can. There are lvl 100 Mummies and lvl 92 scarabs that can poison you. If you have protect from melee they shouldn't be a problem. There are four floors to the pyramid, and at any point at any time on any floor you can trigger a random trap that puts you outside the pyramid. It took me 7 tries before I made it all the way through. Eventually you'll come to a room with the Spirit of Azzandra in. Speak to him to complete the quest. Congratulations! You've done it!

Reward: 20,000 Magic Exp. Ancient Magicks

Notes: You can swap between ancient magicks and normal by praying at the alter inside the pyramid. There is a shortcut when you complete it so you don't have to go through the pyramid. You can buy an Ancient Staff that autocasts ancient magicks from Elbis for 80,000gp. If you lose it you'll have to kill mummies for one of buy one off a player.