Ancient elven ritual shard

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Ancient elven ritual shard
Release																				30 July 2018 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A small shard of crystal, often used by the elves to attune darker magics and prayers.
Options
Backpack																				Activate, Drop
Values
Value																				300,000 coins
High alch																				180,000 coins
Low alch																				120,000 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 14,992,302 Reclaim: 14,992
Weight																				2.267 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				14,992,302 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10
Volume																				188
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Advanced data
Item ID																				43358
Links																				MRID • recipe

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The ancient elven ritual shard is a prayer restoration item that when activated, will restore 37.5% of the player's total Prayer points over 30 seconds. It has a 5-minute cooldown and can be activated an infinite number of times. It is unaffected by the holy wrench or Reverence aura.

At level 99 Prayer, it restores 75 Prayer points every 6 seconds, 5 times, totaling 375 prayer points per activation (4,500 per hour with perfect activation timing). This works out to +1.25 prayer points per second. This is nearly as much as a dose of super prayer potion (which is 417 points per dose at 99). By comparison, a 6-dose extreme prayer flask contains 3,390 Prayer points, and a 6-dose super prayer renewal potion contains 5,472 Prayer points over 36 minutes (9,120 per hour). In comparison with the shard, the potion can benefit from the holy wrench and can be used with a potion reservoir.

The shard can be obtained either from Lost Grove creatures with a drop rate of 1 in 1,500 while on a Slayer task (1 in 5,000 off task) or from Solak with a drop rate of 1 in 1,000.

Like the Enhanced Excalibur's effect, the shard's cooldown resets when players exit to the lobby or switches worlds (notably, players may use the shard approximately five seconds after logging back in).

Common use cases

The shard is commonly used in situations where prayer points are constantly, yet slowly drained like:

• Long Slayer tasks or boss encounters in order to save supplies such as super restore potions
• When skilling with tools with the Imp Souled perk.
• When using Seren prayers from Ancient Curses (typically used in conjunction with the Grace of the elves necklace).
  • Superheat Form and Chronicle Attraction can be entirely supported by the shard and grace of the elves.
  • Light Form needs the additional support of a prayer restore potion, prayer renewal potion, or Reverence aura. Ancient maul, blessed spirit shield, grasping rune pouch and other such prayer bonus items can be used in conjunction to lower prayer drain rate to a near sustainable level.

Drop sources

A player activating the ancient elven ritual shard which results in saying the phrase "Valodorux inshinata!"

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Bulbous crawler	140	1	1/5000
Moss golem	140	1	1/5000
Solak	2000; 7000	1	1/1000
Vinecrawler	140	1	1/5000

Disassembly

Ancient elven ritual shard
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% 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 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 12 April 2021 (Update):
  • A 'high value item' disassembly warning has been added to the Ancient Elven Ritual Shard.

• patch 12 August 2019 (Update):
  • The Elven Ritual Shard will now be dropped rather than destroyed if killed when skulled in the wilderness.

• patch 6 August 2018 (Update):
  • Ancient elven ritual shard can now be traded and purchased on the grand exchange.

• update 30 July 2018 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The ancient elven ritual shard's prayer restoring effect was originally the effect of Erethdor's grimoire prior to the update of 30 July 2018. Due to player feedback on the underwhelming ability for a rare item from a difficult boss, the grimoire's effect was changed and the ritual shard, a new item with the grimoire's original effect, was created.
• The shard was made tradeable on 6 August 2018, a week after its release.
• Previously, the shard's cooldown only decreased while logged in and paused while logged out.