Death guard (tier 80)

For this item's off-hand variant, see Skull lantern (tier 80). For this item's augmented variant, see augmented Death guard (tier 80).

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Death guard
Release																				7 August 2023 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A necromancer armguard.
Options
Backpack																				Wield, Use, Drop, Examine
Equipped																				Remove, Examine
Bank																				Wield
Values
Value																				25,000 coins
High alch																				15,000 coins
Low alch																				10,000 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1,617,120 Reclaim: 1,617
Weight																				0.453 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,617,120 coins (info)
Buy limit																				100
Volume																				4
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Advanced data
Item ID																				55532
Links																				MRID • recipe

The death guard is a one-handed necromancy siphon. It has tier 80 stats, and is obtained by upgrading the tier 70 variant after the completion of Kili's Knowledge VI or Kili's Knowledge VI (power).

It can be upgraded to the tier 90 variant at the soul forge.

Players need to have created the death guard at least once in order to wield it. This can be hastened by buying a lower tier death guard from another player and upgrading it.

Combat stats

Requirements 80 Class Necromancy Slot Tier 80 Offensive attributes   Tooltip Ability Damage 1192.0 768 Accuracy 1924 Style Necromancy Range 6 Speed 6 ticks (3.6s) Style attributes   Damage 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accuracy 0 0 0 0 Defensive attributes  Armour 0.0 Reduction  LP 0 PvM 0%  Prayer 0 PvP 0%

Special attack

The death guard's special attack, Death Grasp.

Death Grasp is the special attack of the tier 70 and higher death guards. It costs 25% adrenaline and has a cooldown of 30 seconds, shown in a debuff. It stuns and binds the target for 4.8 seconds, dealing 405%-495% Necromancy damage. It also deals an additional 40% Necromancy damage for each Necrosis stack, consuming all of them. At 12 Necrosis stacks, the special attack deals up to 885%–975% Necromancy damage.

In PvP, damage is only 40% effective.

Death Grasp damage

Necrosis stacks	Damage	Average
0	405%–495%	450%
1	445%–535%	490%
2	485%–575%	530%
3	525%–615%	570%
4	565%–655%	610%
5	605%–695%	650%
6	645%–735%	690%
7	685%–775%	730%
8	725%–815%	770%
9	765%–855%	810%
10	805%–895%	850%
11	845%–935%	890%
12	885%–975%	930%

Creation

Requirements
Members			Yes
Ticks			5 (3s)
Facility			Soul forge
Skill			Level	Experience
Smithing			75 (b)	300
Other requirements
Kili's Knowledge VI or Kili's Knowledge VI (power)
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Death guard (tier 70)		1	1,309,570
	Greater ensouled bar		3	100,170.75
	Miasma rune		25	14,050
Total cost				1,423,790.75
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Death guard (tier 80)		1	1,617,120
Profit				193,329.25

Products

For an exhaustive list of all products, see here.

Product		Members	Using	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Augmented Death guard (tier 80)		N/A	2	50	1 ×  Death guard (tier 80) 1 ×  Augmentor	N/A
	1 × Death guard (tier 90)		Soul forge	85	350	1 ×  Death guard (tier 80) 5 ×  Greater ensouled bar 50 ×  Spirit rune 50 ×  Bone rune 50 ×  Flesh rune 50 ×  Miasma rune	2,061,957

Disassembly

Death guard
Disassembly category					Siphons
Disassembly XP					24.0
Item quantity required					1
Special chance
Undead components × 1					Not 100%
Normal chance
Base junk chance					?  2.3% 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 2.3% 1 34 2.3% 2 49 2.3% 3 64 2.2% 4 69 2.2% 5 78 2.1% 6 83 2.1% 7 91 2.0% 8 95 2.0% 9 105 1.9%
Material count					8
Base parts					Often
Deflecting parts					Often
Smooth parts					Often
Imbued components					Rarely
Precious components					Rarely
Advanced data
Raw category					siphons
Item level (for junk chance)					80
Estimated cost
Parsed					1617120
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Update history

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• update 2 March 2026 (Update):
  • Necromancy weapons' attack speeds were reduced to 6 ticks, and damage increased to compensate (768.0 → 1192.0). Overall ability damage unchanged.

• hidden 12 February 2024 (Update):
  • Visual effects have been added to Necromancy weapons.

• update 7 August 2023 (Update):
  • Added to game.