Killing Telos, the Warden

Killing Telos, the Warden

Requirements
Skills
138 recommended 106 recommended 95 recommended 96 recommended
Items
Tier 90+ magic weapon and armour 2 x Large rune pouch (one dyed recommended) Dreadnips Tier 90 + shield Elder overload potion (6)s Saradomin brew flask (6) Super restore flask (6) Weapon poison++ (4) High healing food such as (Rocktail or Sailfish) Pack yak pouch or Ice nihil pouch Enhanced excalibur
Quest
The Temple at Senntisten recommended (for ancient curses)
Other
Strategies
Results
Profit	Experience gained
16,993,283.83	55,000 18,150
Inputs (6,429,260.33)	Outputs (23,422,544.17)
2 × Elder overload potion (6) (486,267.33) 2 × Super prayer renewal potion (6) (84,374) 6 × Weapon poison++ (1) (46,284) 77 × Saradomin brew flask (6) (3,368,673) 44 × Super restore flask (6) (1,105,148) 66 × Rocktail (338,514) 1,000,000 × Coins (1,000,000) for armour repairs / divine charges (assuming augmented t90 gear and high Smithing)	92.72 × Black dragonhide (224,393.29) 100.19 × Blue dragonhide (202,379.76) 16.32 × Crushed nest (77,930.78) 17.03 × Crystal key (407,764.96) 960.5 × Incandescent energy (296,793.88) 1,212.2 × Luminous energy (250,925.4) 95.06 × Red dragonhide (180,227.12) 8.62 × Wine of Saradomin (882,468.05) 827.16 × Dragon arrowheads (228,295.36) 110.82 × Onyx bolt tips (840,718.45) 58.31 × Uncut dragonstone (586,200.48) 0.31 × Uncut onyx (969,776.81) 72.36 × Grimy dwarf weed (1,060,478.85) 70.92 × Grimy lantadyme (593,007.95) 48.22 × Grimy toadflax (515,080.54) 73.97 × Grimy torstol (402,719.9) 100.19 × Raw rocktail (442,029.46) 86.86 × Tiny blunt rune salvage (587,233.42) 19.73 × Light animica stone spirit (86,119.18) 59 × Small bladed rune salvage (863,030.06) 14.45 × Water talisman (63,265.16) 51.37 × Battlestaff (154,623.7) 210.5 × Dragon dart tip (202,497.15) 0.0088 × Orb of pure anima (3,630,763.54) 0.0088 × Orb of volcanic anima (3,630,763.54) 0.0088 × Orb of corrupted anima (3,630,763.54) 0.0088 × Dormant staff of Sliske (322,352.76) 0.0088 × Dormant Seren godbow (230,101.74) 0.0088 × Dormant Zaros godsword (769,155.16) 0.0088 × Reprisal Ability Codex (501,964.2) 588,720 × Coins (588,720)

The profit rate assumes 11 kills per hour at 100% enrage with no streak. Your actual profit may be higher or lower depending on your speed, enrage, and streak.

Any combat style can be used, as Telos is equally weak to all forms of combat. Telos has very high accuracy, capable of hitting through tier 92 armour quite frequently.

The most prioritised auras should be the berserker auras (Reckless, Berserker and Maniacal), as they provide the most accuracy bonus against Telos in addition to increased damage. Despite the increased damage, it is vital to defeat Telos as quickly as possible. Most damage incurred can be countered with Soul Split and protection curse flicking, and any severe damage can be negated by using Resonance on his double tap attack. However, it is dangerous to use it on high enrage kills outside the player's comfort zone.

Behind these auras should be accuracy auras (Sharpshooter, Runic and Brawler). These auras add accuracy (3-10% depending on level) and do not reduce the player's defence nor make them incur more damage. However, these auras do not apply a bonus like the Berserker auras and do not deal extra damage, meaning that the player's accuracy and damage output will be significantly lower. These auras are best used when climbing enrage and practicing on those levels until the player is comfortable with using a berserker aura.

Do not fight Telos without either of these auras, as doing so results in significantly slower kills and far higher difficulty due to Telos' defence level of 80 with 40 affinity, often resulting in numerous missed attacks. Even with a berserker aura, it's still possible to miss with a tier 92 weapon, tier 99 curse, overload and nihil.

Starting off at Telos

Telos yields considerably high, consistent rewards for players despite a steep learning curve due to his numerous mechanics that a beginning player may have trouble with. The boss yields a high risk/reward factor, in which the more unclaimed loot there is, the better future potential rewards will be in a killstreak.

Telos is a high-level solo boss. Its difficulty varies based on its enrage, which is a number that affects its damage output and its mechanics. Telos is one of the most mechanically complex bosses in the game. If the mechanics are not properly dealt with, they can quickly lead to the player's death, especially as its enrage increases. Although Telos' combat level increases by 10 for every 1% of enrage, enrage only affects Telos' health and damage - its combat stats remain unaffected, much like Gregorovic.

Telos is one of the few high-level bosses that are not immune to stuns, binds, and weapon poison, which are extremely helpful throughout the encounter. Proper usage of stuns can greatly stall Telos's attempts to attack the player, which in turn results in less damage received. Knowledge of defensive abilities is also important; apart from the instant-kill and the final hit from a drained font, all of Telos' other attacks deal soft typeless damage, which is affected by most defensive abilities. Additionally, they are essentially required at high enrages; an unmitigated attack can easily kill the player from full health in one hit.

Although any combat style may be used, it is recommended to start off using Magic due to its safety and flexibility. Ranged provides even faster kills than melee and magic, but the initial costs are significantly higher. All of the enemies in the encounter, barring plain anima-golems, are susceptible to the inquisitor staff.

Note: Before fighting Telos, make sure that camera settings are set to Freedom Classic. This will make phases 2-5 much more smoother. It can be accessed by Settings > Camera > System.

Mechanics

Universal Mechanics

This chart displays the attack rotation per phase.	This section displays the various attacks
The abilities you should execute are shown in each section. After phasing, Telos will follow with the special attack of the same colour. In place of Surge you can use Escape or Bladed Dive.	Telos uses a special attack after every three auto-attacks. If Telos cannot attack the player for some time, it will throw rocks on the player.
Phase 1 Grip/tendril ▶ Uppercut Swipe Swipe Stun/Stomp ▶ Phase 2 / Grip/tendril ▶ Magic onslaught ▶ Stun/Stomp ▶ Black Virus Uppercut Phase 3 Uppercut ▶ Stun/Stomp ▶ Red Virus Discharge Discharge Phase 4 / Swipe or Discharge Uppercut Weak anima bomb Stun/Stomp ▶ Swipe or Discharge Phase 5 Minions ▶ Discharge Random virus Discharge Anima Bomb	Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Maybe Swipe (melee auto-attack) Mechanics: Telos uses his blade arm to attack the player with melee, and has a range of three tiles. On phase 4 this only occurs if the player is within melee range. Prayer required: Deflect Melee Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Maybe Maybe Maybe Magical Discharge (magic auto-attack) Mechanics: If unable to attack with melee, Telos discharges a small ball of anima to attack the player. On phases 1, 2 and 4 this only occurs if the player is too far to be swiped at. The magic autoattack is weaker than his melee autoattack except in phase 5, where it deals similar damage to the melee attack did in previous phases; this is likely related to the red beam constantly being on Telos. Prayer required: Deflect Magic Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Siphoning Tendrils also known as Grip Message: Your anima will return to the source! Mechanics: Telos slams his tendril arm down into the platform, causing tendrils to deal soft typeless damage to immobilise the player. One tick after latching, Telos will heal itself once, with the subesquent hits healing half of this first heal and draining adrenaline by 5%. A set amount of damage must be done to force Telos to release his grip on the player; if it is not achieved in 15 seconds, then Telos will automatically release the player. Tips: To combat this mechanic you simply need to hit a few threshold abilities to break out. Telos heals itself and the required damage to break free is based on the enrage All types of damage count towards release. Telos will also perform an auto-attack during the tendril release animation if not stunned before this animation when it releases its grip. Telos takes the player's weapon range into account and will drag players next to it if they are too far for it to be attacked. Prayer required: None (typeless attack that cannot be reduced with prayer) Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Energy Sword also known as Gielinor Uppercut Message: Gielinor, give me strength! Mechanics: Telos charges itsself up for an attack on the player. When fully charged, it dashes towards the player while swinging its blade arm for soft typeless damage. This drains some of its anima from the special bar. Tips: This attack can be avoided by using Surge, Escape, Barge, or Bladed Dive on the correct tick, which is 1 tick after the overhead dialogue disappears. Players must be at least 3 spaces away from their initial tile after using the aforementioned abilities, or damage will still be incurred. Resonance can nullify this attack's damage, although it is not recommended to do so as the stun attack comes up next. Resonance will not heal the player for any damage it would have dealt, either. Prayer required: None (typeless attack that cannot be reduced with prayer) Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Double Tap also known as Stun Message: Hold still, invader. Mechanics: Telos flails his tendril arm at the player before smashing it down on them for heavy melee damage. He will then proceed to jump at the player's position, dealing soft typeless damage The heavy melee hit stuns and binds the player for 3 seconds, while the stomp attack will disable any overhead protection prayers/curses for 5 seconds if struck. During the flailing animation, Telos will also perform an auto-attack, meaning that the it starts his next special attack after performing two auto-attacks if not stunned before the flailing animation. Tips: To combat this mechanic you need to use Freedom and run away, or Freedom and Resonance/Divert the second hit for a massive heal/adrenaline gain respectively. Alternatively Anticipation may be used before the stun attack initiates. Prayer required: Deflect Melee Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Strong Anima Bomb also known as So Much Power Message: SO. MUCH. POWER! Mechanics: Used if the special bar is filled. Telos launches a large ball of anima towards the player, dealing soft typeless damage. Like the stun attack, Telos performs one auto-attack during this animation. This attack will temporarily override Telos's next special attack when he performs one, before returning back to normal. Tips: Use Resonance, Reflect, Debilitate to reduce damage from this attack. (Resonance will not heal you) If your health is low enough for the bomb to kill you, use Barricade or Immortality to block damage. Shield Dome/Disruption Shield is another good alternative if defensives are unavailable, as it is a spell and thus not affected by the instant-kill bomb's resetting capabilities. Prayer required: None (typeless attack that cannot be reduced with prayer)

Enrage

When Telos is fought for the first time, he will have 0% enrage and 400,000 life points (4 phases of 100,000 life points each). Unlike the fight with Araxxor and Araxxi, Telos does not increase his rage during the kill. Upon defeating Telos and getting potential rewards, the player has the option to either claim their reward immediately (which resets the killstreak and enrage) or continue the challenge. The player can elect to leave the coffer and claim the reward at the anima font outside. If the player continues without claiming their rewards, Telos's enrage will increase anywhere from 5% to 20% after each kill (an average of 12.5%).

Enrage greatly affects the fight; while insignificant on low enrage, they start to become more visible as his enrage stacks. Despite the increased damage from higher and extreme enrage, very experienced players can kill Telos within 4–6 minutes; these are the most optimal kill times. If kill times take longer than 7 minutes, consider if you have the DPS required to push for higher enrage.

At these enrages, Telos gets new/modified mechanics:

Enrage	New/Modified mechanic
50%	On phases 2 and 3 respectively, Telos gains access to a virus attack. The virus deals rapid damage to the player, and can only be removed by standing on the anima stream that appears in their respective phases. If the virus is still present after 30 seconds, it will be removed, but deals a heavy hit equal to 10 times its base damage on that enrage. The virus is also part of Telos's attack pattern during those two phases. It always inflicts it onto the player 3 auto-attacks after his stun attack, and also determines what Telos starts off with in the next phase. On phase 2, if he phased during or after the virus attack, iit will start with his uppercut attack on phase 3. On phase 3, if he phases during or after the virus attack, he will start off with a stun attack on phase 4. Viruses are also removed upon phasing Telos if still on the player when it occurs. Telos will also begin to recover his stats at 50% and higher enrage. This recovery time increases even faster every 50% enrage after that, capping at 250%.
100%	The "true" fight with Telos begins at this enrage; a 5th phase (refer below) is added onto the original 4 phases. It can also inflict a green virus, though it only appears during phase 5 and behaves the same way as the black and red viruses. The virus in phase 5 is significantly stronger than those in phase 2 and 3.
150%	At this enrage and higher, Telos will occasionally perform Freedom when bound or stunned with a 30 second cooldown between freedoms and a game message accompanying it stating Telos breaks free from its bindings. This does not provide it with stun immunity however, so it may be stunned immediately after it breaks free. Although binds will trigger Freedom, binds appear to be unaffected otherwise.
200%	Telos's health during phases 1-4 caps at 600,000.
250%	At this enrage or higher, during phase 5, after breaking free of any stuns or binds, Telos becomes stun immune for 6 seconds. It will use Freedom far more frequently compared to 150%-249% enrage with a cooldown of 18.6 seconds as opposed to 30.
300%	Telos's health during phase 5 caps at 200,000 (a total of 800,000 life points for the entire fight).
500%	The pure, volcanic and corrupt anima fonts' hit points cap at 10,000.
1000%	During phase 4, rocks that normally appear on phase 5 start falling down on this phase. During phase 5, up to 5 piles of rocks can fall on the player's location. The green anima stream drains prayer points at an even faster rate. Telos' instant-kill bomb on phase 5 will ignore the player's Immortality effects if it is active. It will use Freedom far more frequently compared to 250%-999% enrage with a cooldown of 9.6 seconds as opposed to 18.6.
2700%	Telos's tendril attack will cap at a maximum requirement of 30,000 damage to break loose. However, damage dealt to the player and Telos' healing from the tendril attack both continue increasing past this enrage; 15,000 initial healing at 2700% to a maximum of 21,500 at 4000%. If no damage is done to Telos while it launches its tendril attack, each heal after the first caps at 15,000 after 2700% enrage.
4000%	Maximum enrage level (hard cap - cannot be boosted any further; the fight can be initiated at 4000+5% and streaks can be done past 4000%, but the enrage is still capped at 4000%).

Phase mechanics

After Telos reaches the damage cap on each phase, a message will appear stating Telos begins smashing the platform!, jumping to the middle of the arena and jumping up and down to break the platform. The player automatically navigates their way out of the platform and into the next phase's arena.

Phase 1

HP

	0% Enrage	100% Enrage	200%+ Enrage	Effect when met or depleted
Telos (start of phase)	400,000	500,000	600,000	N/A
Telos (damage cap)	300,000	375,000	450,000	Begins next phase

Green stream (and Blue stream in colourblind mode) - Standing in this stream will give you a rapid adrenaline increase (in intervals of 10% adrenaline per tick, which is doubled if Natural Instinct is active) but drain 5 prayer points per tick. If Telos stands in the stream, it will increase his attack speed to once every 3 ticks and fill up its anima bar.

This stream will always spawn aiming at Telos and will persist for 20 tick intervals (12 seconds) and disappear for 28 ticks (17 seconds). This is the only stream that is not consistent throughout the whole phase. It will begin appearing slightly after the uppercut mechanic is initiated.

• On encounters of 1000% enrage or more, the green stream will drain prayer points at an increased rate.

Attack rotation:

• 7 auto-attacks
• Grip
• 3 auto-attacks
• Uppercut
• 3 auto-attacks
• Stun
• Repeats, but with 3 auto-attacks instead of 7

Phase 2

HP

	0% Enrage	100% Enrage	200%+ Enrage	Effect when met or depleted
Telos (start of phase)	300,000	375,000	450,000	N/A
Telos (damage cap)	200,000	250,000	300,000	Begins next phase

Black stream - Standing in this stream causes the player to both take and deal 30% less damage. If Telos stands in the stream, it fills up his anima bar and Telos takes 20% less damage. These streams always spawn aiming at Telos. This beam will persist for 33 ticks (20 seconds) and will remain active the entire phase.

Telos' Magic Barrage

• Magic barrage - Telos pauses and discharges anima energy onto the player. It starts off with pale yellow projectiles, but the longer it performs this attack, they will gradually change to moderately damaging orange and eventually ending at highly damaging red projectiles after 5 projectiles. For the duration of the barrage, Telos's attacks have 100% hit chance, but with sufficient armour rating, it is possible for a hit to miss; if this happens, a second, unavoidable hit will be inflicted, which deals 50% less damage. Although Telos can be stunned during the onslaught, it does not delay his next attack.
  • If the attack is initiated and the bar is empty, only one weak projectile is launched before resuming the attack rotation.

Attack rotation:

• Magic barrage
• 3 auto-attacks
• Stun
• 3 auto-attacks
• Black Virus (if over 50% enrage)
• 3 auto-attacks
• Uppercut
• 3 auto-attacks
• Grip
• Repeats

Telos's first special attack in this phase determines on the last special attack used in the previous phase:

• If the last special attack in phase 1 was grip, the next special will be magic barrage after there have been a total of 3 auto-attacks between the two specials.
• If the last special attack in phase 1 was uppercut, the next special will be the stun attack after there have been a total of 3 auto-attacks between the two specials.
• If the last special attack in phase 1 was stun, the next special will be tendrils after there have been a total of 3 auto-attacks between the two specials. The auto-attack before the stun counts as a standard auto-attack in the attack pattern.

Phase 3

HP

	0% Enrage	100% Enrage	200%+ Enrage	Effect when met or depleted
Telos (start of phase)	200,000	250,000	300,000	N/A
Telos (damage cap)	100,000	125,000	150,000	Begins next phase

Red stream - Standing in this stream will cause you to take and deal 30% more damage. If Telos stands in the stream, his special bar moves to the right and his attacks deal 30% more damage.

• Unlike the previous two streams, there are six pre-determined spots for beams to appear in. The beam will persist for 33 ticks (20 seconds) before changing locations, and will always be active during this phase after taking several seconds to appear since the beginning of the phase.

A new bar temporarily replaces the original anima bar from the other phases. This bar contains three notable features; two red areas at end of both sides, and a green marker that represents Telos' current anima levels. This green marker is always placed in the middle of the bar. As Telos' enrage increases, the red areas of the bar will continually creep towards the center, stopping upon reaching 300% enrage.

Telos' Shockwave attack

• Shockwave - If Telos's special bar reaches the red area on the right, it will unleash a powerful shockwave dealing 2,000 soft typeless damage (at 0% enrage). It only uses the shockwave in conjunction with its special attacks. When using its uppercut or stun attack, he will only release one shockwave. However, when it inflicts the virus (or attempts to in encounters of 49% enrage or lower), he releases up to three in a very short period of time.
• Anima-golems - Three anima-golems will appear one at a time, charging its anima bar to the right. The first golem appears in the south-east corner, the second in the central north, and the third in the south-west corner. They collapse on the ground upon reaching 0 life points; a bar will appear over them. It takes 28 ticks (17 seconds) for their bar to refill. When this bar fills, they heal to full life points and resume charging Telos. The health of the golems begins at 1,000 and scales with enrage (1,000 + enrage * 2.5). These golems will not attack the player, even if attacked. These are susceptible to the hexhunter bow, but their relatively low health means that most weapons can easily take them down in a few hits.
• Drain - If Telos's special bar reaches the red area on the left, it will start draining the player's adrenaline and prayer. The adrenaline drain begins at 10% per "charge", but this will begin to increase after 400%. Although a game message says that Telos charges itself, the bar does not move towards the right. At encounters of 3300% or higher, if Telos does not touch the red beam at the start of phase 3, the first drain will fully drain prayer and adrenaline. Telos drains percentage prayer according to the formula 3 * enrage/100, capping at 99%.

Attack rotation:

• 7 auto-attacks, after which a mechanic is initiated and follows below:

• 3 auto-attacks
• Uppercut
• 3 auto-attacks
• Stun
• 3 auto-attacks
• Red Virus
• Repeats

The third phase starts 7 auto-attacks followed by the following special attack:

• If the last special attack was the magical onslaught, the first one will be the red virus. While the virus will not appear in encounters of 49% or lower enrage, Telos will still attempt to use it, though nothing will happen.
• If the last special attack was either the stun, black virus, or uppercut, Telos will use 10 auto-attacks before using the uppercut special.
• If the last special attack was the grip attack, the first one will be the stun attack.

Phase 4

HP

	0% Enrage	100% Enrage	200%+ Enrage	Effect when met or depleted
Telos (start of phase)	100,000	125,000	150,000	N/A
Telos (damage cap - 1)	75,000	93,750	112,500	Siphons from pure font
Telos (damage cap - 2)	50,000	62,500	75,000	Siphons from volcanic font
Telos (damage cap - 3)	25,000	31,250	37,500	Siphons from corrupted font
Telos (damage cap - 4)	0	Ends fight, begins phase 5 if 100% or higher enrage

This is the only phase in which no anima streams are present during the fight. The player lands near the pure anima font; Telos will automatically land east of the player's position.

Attack rotation:

• 3 auto-attacks
• Uppercut
• 3 auto-attacks
• Weak anima bomb
• 3 auto-attacks
• Stun
• Repeats

The fourth phase starts with 3 auto-attacks followed by the following special attack:

• If the last special attack was the uppercut attack, the first one will be another uppercut attack.
• If the last special attack was the stun attack, the first one will be the weak anima bomb attack.
• If the last special attack was red virus, the first special attack on phase 4 will be the stun attack.
  • In encounters of 49% or lower enrage, the red virus will still count as if it was there despite Telos never using it. This only applies if Telos was moved to the next phase on the forth to sixth attacks after the stun attack on phase 3.

Like in phase 1, Telos can use his high-damage anima bomb attack whenever his bar is completely filled. This bar fills as he drains anima from the font. There is no way to lower this apart from tanking an instant-kill bomb (which completely drains the bar) or uppercut attacks. He also gains a new ability for the duration of this phase:

• Weak anima bomb - Telos will yell Let the anima consume you!, launching an anima bomb at the player that deals up to 2,500 soft typeless damage (increasing with enrage, scaled as 2,500 + 10 * enrage). When the bomb hits the player, they will be highlighted green, along with a message stating You body absorbs the anima. Stand near a font to cleanse yourself! This also inflicts a bleed that deals 10% of the bomb's base damage as hard typeless damage per hit and drains overload timers by 15 seconds with each hit. If no overloads are in effect, then the player's combat stats are drained by 2 every tick. By standing next to a font, a message appears stating The anima is cleansed from your body!. If the player is one square away from or on the font, then the anima is automatically removed, and no bleed damage is taken. The hit may be reflected, causing the message You reflect the anima into the font., although this does nothing outside of halving the damage dealt from the initial hit and reflecting some damage back to Telos.

• Ceiling Collapse - This mechanic only occurs in encounters of 1000% or higher enrage, and after Telos performs a special attack. A rock will fall around the player's position with a 3 square grid from the center (5x5), dealing heavy soft typeless damage if caught in its radius.

Instant-kill Bomb

Siphoning anima from a font while fighting anima-golems at the same time.

Telos also gains a new ability, an instant-kill bomb during this phase. It will automatically perform this attack in 25% health intervals from the starting health on this phase, beginning with the pure anima font at 75%, volcanic at 50% and corrupted at 25%. It will stop attacking the player and automatically walk to the font when reaching these thresholds, unless placed in a way that it cannot path straight to it (barring binds); if this occurs, it will instead jump to the font. This is always the case when going to the corrupted font.

Three specialized anima-golems will also spawn near the respective font as an indicator of where Telos is going; one pure, volcanic and corrupted anima-golem, which share the same combat level as Telos. The golems possess level 90 offensive stats, a Defence level of 80 and 90 affinity towards water/ice spells, 65 towards other spells, 55 melee and 45 ranged. They are not immune to poison, leech, stun or reflect effects, and are also susceptible to the inquisitor staff.

The pure and corrupted anima-golems possess halberd range, while the volcanic golem does not. All of them can still attack diagonally across from the player. The golems start off with 8,000 health at 0% enrage, scaling with the formula (8,000 + 20 * enrage). The golems additionally also have the following effects:

• Pure anima golem - Its attacks become stronger over time.
• Volcanic anima-golem - Successful attacks have a chance to stun and bind the player for 3 seconds.
• Corrupt anima-golem - Successful attacks can apply an "Armour Break" debuff, (), at intervals of 5%. Every 1% reduces the player's armour rating by said amount and can stack up to 100% and is cleared out at intervals of 5% or 10% at a time.

When Telos reaches the font, a message will appear stating Telos begins draining anima from the font. Absorb the anima first! and a bar will appear over Telos. When the bar fills, it will launch an anima-bomb that will instantly kill the player if it connects, unless the player manages to intercept Telos' attempt to drain the font. A warning will appear just before it launches the bomb, indicated as Telos prepares to fire an anima bomb!

To prevent the bomb from killing the player, they must stand near the font it is attempting to drain from. Doing so will damage the player, but will inevitably protect them from the bomb. The font possesses 5,000 health, scaling with the formula (5,000 + 100 * floor (current enrage/10)), capping at 10,000 health at 500% enrage. The player deals 20% of the font's current health as damage towards it as they drain it, which the player also takes as soft typeless damage. The last hit however, is hard typeless. When the process begins, a message will appear stating You draw anima from the font, but it damages you in the process. After the font is completely drained, another message will appear stating You unleash anima from the font, creating a shield around it.; if the shield was quickly set up, Telos will automatically yell You dare to defy me?.

If Telos is prohibited from accessing the font and the player completely drains it before it has a chance to do so, Telos will automatically siphon from the font, accompanied with the message Telos drains anima from the font. This generally occurs if Telos is bound while attempting to traverse to the volcanic font.

By standing inside this shield, the player will be automatically protected from Telos' instant-kill bomb. When the bomb lands on the player inside the dome, a message will appear stating You survived the anima bomb! The bomb still overrides current defensive abilities and puts unused ones on a 6-second cooldown upon impact in this manner. Telos also resumes his attack rotation from where it left off.

High damage bomb

Like in phase 1, Telos uses the high damage anima bomb when its anima bar is completely filled, and overrides the next special attack in line when the bar is filled.

Phase 5

This phase only occurs in encounters of 100% and higher enrage. After Telos falls into the pool of anima, it will quickly emerge once more, refusing to let the player defeat it.

HP

	100% Enrage	200% Enrage	300%+ Enrage	Effect when met or depleted
Telos (start of phase)	100,000	150,000	200,000	N/A
Telos (damage cap)	0	Ends encounter

Attack rotation:

• Summon golems
• 10 auto-attacks
• Strong virus
• 17 auto-attacks
• Instant-kill bomb
• 2 auto-attacks
• Repeats

After Telos appears, there is a one second time frame before it begins attacking players. In encounters of 150%+ and higher enrage, it will automatically break free of binds and stuns in the process.

Telos will always start the phase off by summoning six anima-golems to attack the player alongside itself, all of the same type. The golems are identically the same as the previous phase, except their health has been lowered, and the volcanic golems now have halberd-range melee. The golems start off with 4,500 health, scaling with the formula (4,500 + 22.5 * (enrage - 100)).

If the golems still persist when Telos attempts to summon a new set, it will not summon them until it attempts the mechanic once more. All three golem sets must be cycled before it can resummon them; if volcanic golems were the first batch of the first set, it may not call on them again until the pure and corrupted batches are cleared. The golems may not be summoned back-to-back either; pure golems in the last of the three of the first set cannot be the first of the second set.

Fonts

Along with the golems, a message will appear informing the player to kill the anima-golems near their respective font to charge it. If an anima-golem is killed within three spaces of their affiliated font, its energy will be transferred to the font. Each slain golem adds 25% charge to the font, so four need to be killed to fully charge it.

If none of the golems were killed, the font that needs to be charged will change.

Anima Streams

All three anima streams from the first three phases will also be present in this phase; one in the west, east and north middle. These streams are the same as the previous phases, and the player can benefit from their effects if they are blocking the stream themselves.

The streams will remain active for 60 ticks (36 seconds) before becoming inactive for 3 ticks and resuming after 1 tick from this. They will change positions, but this does not guarantee that the stream's placement will be random, as they may remain the same as usual.

Strong Virus

When the bar reaches halfway, Telos will inflict a more powerful variant of its virus, working and dealt with the same way as the ones in phase 2 and 3. A green virus is added to the mix.

Ceiling Collapse

Periodically throughout the fight, the chamber's instability now means that the ceiling will now begin collapsing onto the current platform. A small pile of rocks will appear near the player's position as a warning indicator; 2 seconds later, a large rock will fall on that arena, with a 3 tile radius from the small rocks (5x5 AoE). Getting caught in this attack deals heavy soft typeless damage.

In encounters of 1000%+ and higher enrage, five piles of rocks will fall at a time, although some of them have a 1 second delay before others.

Instant-Kill Bomb

Two auto-attacks after Telos' bar fills, a warning message will appear indicating Telos is charging a pure/volcanic/corrupt bomb, use the font to intercept it!. Telos will stop attacking players for the duration of this mechanic, as it raises both of his tendril arms to charge a powerful anima bomb to kill the player. The player's attacks are reduced by 90%; poison and familiar damage are unaffected by this.

The intended method to deal with this mechanic is to use the respective anima-font to unleash a powerful blast that knocks Telos out cold for several seconds and lifts the damage barrier.

Immortality will work against this mechanic in encounters of 100-999% enrage, despite being an instant-kill mechanic. It will not work after 1000%+ enrage.

General Strategies

All enrages assume the player is using Magic.

Low Enrage

This enrage is considered to be below 250%.

Start off the encounter with an ultimate ability damage rotation. Drink a dose of adrenaline and perform one special with their Guthix staff and apply Vulnerability, either as a spell (for mages) or a bomb. Bombs are faster than spell-casting, provide higher accuracy and do not interrupt the global cooldown, albeit it takes up an inventory space and may be costly. Remember that Telos will break free of binds and stuns every 30 seconds at 150%-249% enrage.

Siphoning Tendrils

Tendrils can be easily bypassed with a single threshold ability of the player's choosing. Try to time the ability so that Telos does not heal himself or drain your adrenaline.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Green Stream

One should appear sometime during or after the uppercut attack. Although not harmful, players with particularly high DPS can end the phase before the stream even appears. The phase should end with tendrils or uppercut as the last used mechanic.

Reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks as required. Keep Telos away from the black streams as they reduce your damage towards it and can slow the phase down and make the next phase significantly worse.

Siphoning Tendrils

Tendrils can be easily bypassed with a single threshold ability of the player's choosing. Try to time the ability so that Telos does not heal himself or drain your adrenaline.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Magical Onslaught

If Telos' bar is barely filled, the attack can be tanked with relative ease. This is the only time you should block the black stream to prevent Telos from performing this attack indefinitely. If the bar is high, use of defensive abilities may be necessary depending on enrage.

Virus (50%+ enrage)

Clear the virus by intercepting the black stream, then move out immediately.

As with before, reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks. The player has the option of whittling down Telos' health as normal or the Onslaught method. Intercept all red streams and do not let them hit Telos. With the Onslaught method, the player will perform Onslaught until prompted to cancel. Dreadnips are required to perform this method as the potential chance to stun Telos can allow for one or two additional casts before having to cancel the ability.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears. It is important to time it properly as the player will take increased damage if standing on the red stream and failing to dodge the attack.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Virus

The player should be intercepting the red stream and there is no need to move at all.

Shockwaves

If shockwaves occurs, use all defensive abilities available to mitigate damage. One shockwave is performed after the double tap/uppercut attacks, and three are performed after every virus attack.

Reapply Vulnerability - optionally, the player can also reapply affinity stacks. Use Combust and stunlock Telos to phase the first set of golems. This should be done for every font. Alternate between refreshing Vulnerability and affinity stacks for every font if not reapplying both when the phase starts. Ideally, the player should clear this phase without a single high-damage bomb going off.

An example of golems ideally lured with a side green, where Tsunami can hit all six and Telos.

Target Telos with Vulnerability (a hotkey will auto-cast when it is selected) and reapply affinity stacks. If using vulnerability bombs, apply them on the edge of the inner hole. Move to the green stream, deploy a dreadnip upon arriving and stunlock Telos; temporarily switch to Deflect Melee until it wears off, and flick between it and Deflect Magic. Clear off all golems with Tsunami; depending on position, one golem may need to be killed with basic abilities.

Prepare an ultimate ability rotation and continually stunlock Telos when the chance arrives. If a black or red virus is applied, use Debilitate and Bladed Dive/Surge to the stream to clear the virus. Return to the green stream and finish off Telos. The phase should end before it has a chance to perform the instant-kill attack.

Moderate Enrage

This enrage is considered to be 250-999%.

Start off the encounter with an ultimate ability damage rotation. Drink a dose of adrenaline and perform one special with their Guthix staff and apply Vulnerability, either as a spell (for mages) or a bomb. Bombs are faster than spell-casting, provide higher accuracy and do not interrupt the global cooldown, albeit it takes up an inventory space and may be costly. Remember that Telos will break free of binds and stuns every 18.6 seconds at this enrage.

Siphoning Tendrils

Tendrils can be easily bypassed with a single threshold ability of the player's choosing. Try to time the ability so that Telos does not heal himself or drain your adrenaline.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Green Stream

One should appear sometime during or after the uppercut attack. Although not harmful, players with particularly high DPS can end the phase before the stream even appears. The phase should end with tendrils or uppercut as the last used mechanic.

Reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks as required. Keep Telos away from the black streams as they reduce your damage towards it and can slow the phase down and make the next phase significantly worse. Ideally, it should be phased on its onslaught attack, but uppercut is fine. Always avoid phasing when the last special attack is tendrils.

Siphoning Tendrils

Tendrils can be easily bypassed with a single threshold ability of the player's choosing. Try to time the ability so that Telos does not heal himself or drain your adrenaline.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Magical Onslaught

If Telos' bar is barely filled, the attack can be tanked with relative ease. This is the only time you should block the black stream to prevent Telos from performing this attack indefinitely. If the bar is high, use of defensive abilities may be necessary depending on enrage.

Virus

Clear the virus by intercepting the black stream, then move out immediately.

As with before, reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks. The player has the option of whittling down Telos' health as normal or the Onslaught method. Intercept all red streams and do not let them hit Telos. With the Onslaught method, the player will perform Onslaught until prompted to cancel. Dreadnips are required to perform this method as the potential chance to stun Telos can allow for one or two additional casts before having to cancel the ability. This method should only be used if the last previous attack was not tendrils, as the first special attack will either be a virus (if phased during onslaught) or uppercut (anything else other than tendrils).

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears. It is important to time it properly as the player will take increased damage if standing on the red stream and failing to dodge the attack.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers. Reflect may be used beforehand to deal massive damage back onto Telos, but is not completely necessary.

Virus

The player should be intercepting the red stream and there is no need to move at all.

Shockwaves

If shockwaves occurs, use all defensive abilities available to mitigate damage. One shockwave is performed after the double tap/uppercut attacks, and three are performed after every virus attack.

Reapply Vulnerability - optionally, the player can also reapply affinity stacks, depending on how fast phase 3 was cleared. Use Combust and stunlock Telos to phase the first set of golems. This should be done for every font. Alternate between refreshing Vulnerability and affinity stacks for every font if not reapplying both when the phase starts. Ideally, the player should clear this phase without a single high-damage bomb going off. Due to the increased frequency of Telos using Freedom, binding it after the first font may prove useful as it will always be more than enough to force a second Freedom while siphoning from the second font, and allow it to be stunlocked without interruption.

Starting Off

When this phase starts, Telos will automatically break free of stuns and binds. This will also apply a six second immunity to stuns and binds whenever this occurs.

Streams

Always stand on the green stream to prevent Telos from accelerating its attack pattern. The green stream provides a constant, beneficial adrenaline gain.

With side greens (magic):

▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸

With far greens (magic):

▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸

Reflect should be used after 400% enrage, while Revenge should be used after 450%. Even without damage boosts, a Corruption Blast > Detonate > Tsunami combo should kill all the golems below 400% enrage.

Focus on Telos until the stunlock wears off; immediately clear all attacking golems. Drinking a powerburst of vitality is optional to tank the incoming rock fall, but make sure to eat up to avoid getting killed by it. After the golems are killed, return focus on Telos until the virus applies; move to the respective stream to clear it. Return to the green stream and redeploy a dreadnip if given a black/red virus. Keep prayer high and Onslaught Telos once the second rock falls; the encounter should end quickly.

Loops

Ideally, there should be no loops at this enrage. If this does occur, it is required to use Immortality against the incoming instant-kill bomb and perform an ultimate ability damage rotation. When Telos summons the golems, switch to Deflect Melee and add Revenge, as you will be constantly attacked by golems from multiple angles. If Telos is still not defeated, immediately Barricade, return to 100% adrenaline, make a turn and bind the lead golem.

If a virus is applied, it is important to clear it. Bind incoming golems and make your way to the green or red stream, depending on current adrenaline levels, where the golems are and Telos' health. Ideally the encounter should end before the next instant-kill bomb; if this occurs again, head to the required font, kill all the golems and launch the font at Telos. Immortality only works once every two instant-kill bomb attacks, unless an raids armour reset occurs, but the player should be using power armour due to the fight's importance on high DPS.

Ability rotation (magic):

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Extreme Enrage

This enrage is considered to be 1000% and higher. By this point the player should already have enough experience to deal with all of Telos' mechanics. It is highly advised to use the Ancient Spellbook for all kills at this enrage if not doing so already, with Spellbook Swap on the side for Entangle and Vengeance.

Start off the encounter with an ultimate ability damage rotation, and throw a bomb near Telos as soon as the fight starts. I Remember that Telos will break free of binds and stuns every 9.6 seconds at this enrage.

Siphoning Tendrils

The tendrils will begin to deal increasingly more damage and the threshold needed to break free of them will begin to drastically increase. A stalled Detonate/Wild Magic combo, along with Reflect afterwards, should be more than enough to force the tendrils away. This should be obviously done while under the effects of Sunshine.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Green Stream

One should appear sometime during or after the uppercut attack. Although not harmful, players with particularly high DPS can end the phase before the stream even appears. The phase should end with tendrils or uppercut as the last used mechanic.

Reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks as required. Keep Telos away from the black streams as they reduce your damage towards it and can slow the phase down and make the next phase significantly worse. Ideally, it should be phased on its onslaught attack, but uppercut is fine. Always avoid phasing when the last special attack is tendrils.

Siphoning Tendrils

Use the same combo as the previous phase to break free of this attack.

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers.

Magical Onslaught

Telos should not have much of its bar filled during this phase, because the projectiles are more likely to kill the player as enrage increases. Use defensive abilities if necessary.

Virus

Clear the virus by intercepting the black stream, then move out immediately.

As with before, reapply Vulnerability and affinity stacks. The player has the option of whittling down Telos' health as normal or the Onslaught method. Intercept all red streams and do not let them hit Telos, because there is less margin for error at this enrage. With the Onslaught method, the player will perform Onslaught until prompted to cancel. Dreadnips are required to perform this method as the potential chance to stun Telos can allow for one or two additional casts before having to cancel the ability. This method should only be used if the last previous attack was not tendrils, as the first special attack will either be a virus (if phased during onslaught) or uppercut (anything else other than tendrils).

Uppercut

Surge away one tick after the overhead dialogue disappears. It is important to time it properly as the player will take increased damage if standing on the red stream and failing to dodge the attack.

Double Tap

Use Freedom or Anticipation before the attack commences, and use Resonance or Divert after the auto-attack registers. Reflect may be used beforehand to deal massive damage back onto Telos, but is not completely necessary.

Virus

The player should be intercepting the red stream and there is no need to move at all.

Shockwaves

If shockwaves occurs, it is very likely for death to occur unless using Debilitate and Reflect or Barricade, although this can greatly impede kill times as a result of using defensive abilities.

Reapply Vulnerability - optionally, the player can also reapply affinity stacks, depending on how fast phase 3 was cleared. Use Combust and stunlock Telos to phase the first set of golems. This should be done for every font. Alternate between refreshing Vulnerability and affinity stacks for every font if not reapplying both when the phase starts. Ideally, the player should clear this phase without a single high-damage bomb going off. Golems should be bound far away from the fonts, but not too far so the player can get adrenaline off them. Single rocks will also begin to fall after Telos performs any mechanic outside of the siphon, but this should not occur at all with high DPS. After each bomb, it is recommended to surge past the golems as they are most likely to break free from their bind by the time the instant kill bomb hits. They must be bound throughout the phase or the player will quickly die. Due to the increased frequency of Telos using Freedom, binding it after the first font may prove useful as it will always be more than enough to force a second Freedom while siphoning from the second font, and allow it to be stunlocked without interruption.

Starting Off

When this phase starts, Telos will automatically break free of stuns and binds. This will also apply a six second immunity to stuns and binds whenever this occurs.

HP

	1000% Enrage	2000% Enrage	3000% Enrage	4000% Enrage
Anima-golems	24,750	47,250	69,750	92,250

Immediately throw a vulnerability bomb at Telos' position and apply a Guthix staff special. You will need to flick between melee and magic prayers because the damage taken will be incredibly high at this point. Defensives such as Reflect and Revenge are also mandatory to further reduce the already high-damage. A powerburst of vitality is highly recommended to tank additional damage. Reflect and Revenge will last more than enough until the first rockfall. Use Barricade if damage proves to be too much. Be prepared to use Surge once the rockfall occurs, as each occurrence of this attack will drop five rocks around the player.

After surging from the rocks, immediately bind the lead golem and make your way to the red stream. Similarly to the last phase, the golems must always be kept bound. If the golems move towards the player, quickly run away from them and reapply a bind to the lead golem as fast as possible.

Streams

The green stream provides a constant, beneficial adrenaline gain. However, unlike the other enrages, camping the green stream will not be possible due to the threat of the anima-golems.

Loops

Ideally, there should be no loops at all because damage output is essential in this phase. If a loop does occur, the kill is likely to be lost unless the anima golems are quickly killed at the font (at least up to 2000% enrage).

Miscellaneous Information

There are several niche combat tricks and game mechanics that are useful to know at Telos. These allow players to smoothly fight the boss as it is one of the few bosses that can be stunned and bound.

Dreadnips

Dreadnips, rewards from the Dominion Tower, are highly valuable when facing Telos. Most notably is their ability to stun, which applies a stun similar to normal threshold stuns whenever they activate it. This is useful for all combat styles as it prevents Telos from attacking as frequently, further delaying his ability to perform special attacks. Dreadnips can also poison Telos, working well with the player's poison effects.

Binds

As Telos' enrage increases, the anima-golems in phases 4 and 5 will become too powerful to deal with while facing Telos at the same time, as their health and damage will scale highly to the point that trying to deal with them in standard combat is unfeasible. Therefore, they are better off bound far away from the player while they focus on Telos.

Melee and ranging players will have to rely on sticky bombs, which bind targets in a 3x3 AoE for 6 seconds. Ranging players also have the advantage of bolas, which binds but does not deal any damage for 10 seconds. This should be used with Corruption Shot to spread the binding effects to more golems.

Maging players have the advantage of Ice Barrage, which binds targets in a 3x3 AoE for 9.6 seconds. If used as an auto-attack, this has a 100% activation rate when hit; otherwise, it is 10% with abilities, or 20% with abilities while under the effects of Dark Form. When using the spells as auto-attacks, it is recommended to dual wield for a faster attack rate.

Be aware that targets that have been recently lifted from binding effects will be temporarily immune to the effect for a few seconds, so don't immediately re-bind targets when they eventually break free.

Font Stalling

During each font siphon, the fonts Telos drains from follows a set amount of time before it performs its instant-kill bomb. If the player drains from the font however, this will also speed up Telos' draining speed and cause it to launch the bomb early.

When Telos is phased to the volcanic font, it should be walking over from the pure font to do so. It can be bound as it walks over, further stalling its attempts to reach the font and begin draining it. This will not occur when phasing to the corrupted font, but the player still has some extra time to deal with the final set of golems as long as the high damage bomb was not used after the volcanic font.

Both of these methods allow the players additional time to clear golems before having to deal with the instant-kill attack. This is only particularly useful for enrage levels in which the golems can be consistently killed; otherwise, refer to the binding section above.

Detonate + Ability combos

When using magic, the player has the ability to combine Detonate with another ability of their choosing to deal additional damage at or near the same tick. This is particularly useful when dealing with the siphoning tendrils mechanic or clearing golems at higher enrages.

High damage:

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Golem clearing:

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Stunlocking

When using melee or magic, the player has access to three stun abilities; a basic and two thresholds. This is particularly useful in all enrage encounters. Note that melee and magic's channeled stun threshold, Destroy and Asphyxiate respectively, only stun for 3 hits; the fourth hit does not stun.

In 150%-249% enrage, Telos performs Freedom every 30 seconds. In 249%-999% enrage, Telos performs Freedom every 18.6 seconds, and in 1000%+ enrage, it does so every 9.6 seconds. By utilising this stunlocking feature, the player can safely stall Telos longer than usual, especially if it has just broken free of stuns and this stunlocking method is utilised. Remember that Freedom will kick in during phase 5, which reduces the effectiveness of stuns to 12.6 and 3.6 seconds respectively for phase 5 at their respective enrage.

As mage:

▸ ▸

As melee:

▸ ▸

The basic stun simply halts Telos from attacking, while the channeled threshold stun stuns Telos for 3 hits, as the fourth does not stun. After using the normal threshold stun, assuming it hits, the player can safely perform another ability of their choosing before Telos may attack again.

Alternatively if the player is worried about missing on the first stun, the basic and channeled threshold stun may be swapped with each other as the channeled threshold always stuns regardless if it hits or not.

Phasing

To save some time while phasing during 1, 2 and 3, the player can make their way to the area where they jump off to the next arena. Alternatively, this can also be used to stall for additional time for an ability to be ready before the next phase starts.

In addition to this, the cutscene at the end of phase 4 can be very inconvenient if phased quickly and the player's stats are low. It is best to prepare before-hand by ensuring that the phase ends with the player having 8,000+ health and 500+ prayer points before phase 5 begins. The player should also remain still as trying to move at the end of phase 4 will stall the player until phase 5 begins, which will affect the golems' spawn positions.

Presets

• Gear:
  • Obliteration for tier-87 DPS
  • Crystal ward for defensive abilities
  • Low cost tier-80 armour set combining Anima core of Seren along with Virtus
  • Low cost tier-90 gloves called Celestial handwraps, for its high defence rating
  • Low cost amulet called Arcane blood necklace created with a blood necklace shard

• Cost:
  • Weapons: 70,549,835
  • Armour: 72,479,621

• Spells:
  •  Ice Barrage (chance to stun Telos in phase 4 and 5)

• Familiar:
  • War tortoise or Pack yak filled with Rocktails

			10

• Gear:
  • Inquisitor staff for best-in-slot DPS
  • Merciless kiteshield with Turtling 4 perk for defensive abilities
  • Ring of vigour for ultimate ability adrenaline saving
  • Wand of the Cywir elders for Planted Feet switch

• Spells:
  •  Ice Barrage and  Blood Barrage

• Runes:
  • in primary rune pouch for ice barrage (primary spell) and blood barrage (swap spell).

• Familiar:
  • Pack yak filled with 3:1 ratio of Jellyfish and Sailfish

50	10

• Gear:
  • Inquisitor staff switch for best-in-slot DPS
  • Ring of vigour and Ring of death for special/ultimate and to reduce death costs
  • Wand of the Cywir elders for Planted Feet switch
  • Merciless kiteshield with Turtling 4 perk for defensive abilities (very useful for phase 5)
  • Main and off-hand melee weapon for Bladed Dive (100%+ enrage only)

• Spells:
  •  Ice Barrage and  Blood Barrage

• Runes:
  • in primary rune pouch for ice barrage (primary spell) and blood barrage (swap spell).

• Familiar:
  • Pack yak filled with 3:1 ratio of Jellyfish and Sailfish

10	50

• Gear:
  • Inquisitor staff switch for best-in-slot DPS
  • Essence of Finality amulet with Guthix staff stored special attack
  • Augmented Superior Zuriel's set with optimal perks for phase 5
  • Ring of vigour and Ring of death (i)(o) for special/ultimate and to reduce death costs
  • Wand of the Cywir elders for Planted Feet switch
  • Merciless kiteshield with Turtling 4 perk for defensive ability benefits (very useful for phase 5)
  • Arcane spirit shield with Lucky perk for stronger defensive ability benefits

• Spells:
  •  Blood Barrage and  Ice Barrage

• Runes:
  • in primary rune pouch for blood barrage (primary spell) and ice barrage (swap spell).
  • in second rune pouch for Disruption Shield.
  • in third rune pouch for Spellbook Swap.

• Familiar:
  • Ice nihil (familiar) or Smoke nihil (familiar) for 5% accuracy boost to Magic
  • Ripper Demon (familiar) for DPS increase

			50
10

• Gear:
  • Noxious scythe switch for Golem and minion clearing, and for attacking Telos while standing in the beam
  • Dragon hatchet to apply debuff
  • Ring of vigour and Ring of death for special/ultimate and to reduce death costs
  • Malevolent kiteshield with Turtling 4 perk for defensive abilities (very useful for phase 5)

• Familiar:
  • Pack yak filled with 3:1 ratio of Sailfish and Jellyfish

	10	50

• Gear:
  • Noxious scythe switch for Golem and minion clearing, and for attacking Telos while standing in the beam
  • Zaros godsword switch for best-in-slot DPS and special attack switch
  • Essence of Finality amulet with Statius's warhammer stored special attack
  • Augmented Masterwork set with optimal perks for phase 5
  • Ring of vigour and Ring of death (i)(o) for special/ultimate and to reduce death costs
  • Malevolent kiteshield with Turtling 4 perk for defensive ability benefits (very useful for phase 5)
  • Divine spirit shield with Lucky perk for stronger defensive ability benefits

• Familiar:
  • Blood nihil (familiar) for 5% accuracy boost to Melee
  • Ripper Demon (familiar) for DPS increase

Inventory: Overload flasks, Supreme overload potions or Elder overload potions. Dreadnips (optional) and Weapon poison+++ (one dose) Vulnerability bomb to reduce target's defence Powerburst of vitality to tank potentially fatal attacks Deathtouched darts to save high enrage kill-streaks (optional)

Unlocks: Enhanced Excalibur for free healing Guthix staff to apply debuff Double Surge codex recommended (Bladed Dive can be used as an alternative) Corruption Shot/Corruption Blast and Sacrifice for extra damage Melee only: Greater Fury, Greater Barge, Greater Flurry for extra damage

Recommendations

Levels

• 99 , 99 , 99 , and 99
• 99 Defence for Defence skillcape perk
• 96 Herblore for Overloads, 98 for Supreme overloads, or 106 for Elder overloads
• 95 Prayer for Anguish/Torment/Turmoil
• 67 Summoning for War tortoise, 87 for Nihil, or 96 for Pack yak
• 99 Invention or higher for advanced perks

Equipment

Magic is the strongest combat style against Telos, as while it is equally weak to all combat styles, mages have some of the best advantages over ranged and magic - throughout the entire encounter, Telos is susceptible to the inquisitor staff (including the phase 4 and 5 golems), long ranged stun via Asphyxiate, Vulnerability and Enfeeble to increase damage taken and decrease damage it inflicts by 10%, Ice Barrage/Entangle for binding and Spellbook Swap to access the standard and lunar spellbooks from the ancient one. If Spellbook Swap cannot be used, then it's best to simply remain on the Standard spellbook for Vulnerability; also bring nature runes for Entangle, as they are very useful for 250%+ enrage encounters.

Recommended equipment for Magic

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Elite tectonic mask / Achto Primeval mask (high enrages)	Tectonic mask	Superior Zuriel's hood	Refined anima core helm of Seren	Virtus mask
	Essence of Finality amulet(or)	Reaper necklace(or)	Amulet of souls(or)	Arcane blood necklace	Arcane stream necklace
	TokHaar-Kal-Mej	God cape	Completionist cape / Max cape	Defence cape	N/A
	Elite tectonic robe top / Achto Primeval robe top (high enrages)	Tectonic robe top	Superior Zuriel's robe top	Refined anima core body of Seren	Virtus robe top
	Elite tectonic robe bottom / Achto Primeval robe legs (high enrages)	Tectonic robe bottom	Superior Zuriel's robe bottom	Refined anima core legs of Seren	Virtus robe legs
	Wand of the praesul	Seismic wand	Wand of the Cywir elders	Attuned crystal wand	Virtus wand
	Inquisitor staff	Staff of Sliske	Noxious staff	Superior Zuriel's staff	Obliteration
	Imperium core	Seismic singularity	Orb of the Cywir elders	Virtus book	N/A
	Merciless kiteshield	Kalphite rebounder	Arcane spirit shield	Ancient lantern	Blighted rebounder
	Achto Primeval gloves (high enrages)	Cinderbane gloves	Deathtouch bracelet	Spellcaster gloves	Celestial handwraps
	Blast diffusion boots / Achto Primeval boots (high enrages)	Hailfire boots	Virtus boots	Boots of subjugation	Lunar boots
	Asylum surgeon's ring (i) with Ring of vigour switch	Ring of death (i)(o) with Ring of vigour switch	Seers' ring (i)	Onyx ring (i)	Sixth-Age circuit
	Maniacal aura	Runic accuracy aura	Dark magic aura	Inspiration aura	Penance aura
	Superior scrimshaw of the elements	Erethdor's grimoire	Illuminated god book	Superior scrimshaw of magic	Berserk blood essence (without overloads)

Mechanised chinchompas and bolas are recommended for AoE damage and binding respectively. Ranged has access to bakriminel bolts, black stone arrows and multiple useful special weapons which can allow the player to deal very consistent, high damage against Telos throughout the entire encounter. Greater Ricochet with Caroming 4 provides very high damage for a low cooldown time. Note that the player must push out more DPS due to the combat style's lack of a threshold channeled stun, and skipping the mechanics in phase 4 is mandatory as a result.

Recommended equipment for Ranged

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Elite sirenic mask / Achto Tempest cowl (high enrages)	Sirenic mask	Superior Morrigan's coif	Pernix cowl	Refined anima core helm of Zamorak
	Essence of Finality amulet(or)	Reaper necklace(or)	Amulet of souls(or)	Farsight blood necklace	Farsight sniper necklace
	TokHaar-Kal-Xil	Completionist cape / Max cape	Ava's alerter	Defence cape	N/A
	Elite sirenic hauberk / Achto Tempest body (high enrages)	Sirenic hauberk	Superior Morrigan's leather body	Pernix body	Refined anima core body of Zamorak
	Elite sirenic chaps / Achto Tempest chaps (high enrages)	Sirenic chaps	Superior Morrigan's leather chaps	Pernix chaps	Refined anima core legs of Zamorak
	Blightbound crossbow	Ascension crossbow	Shadow glaive	Attuned crystal chakram	N/A
	Seren godbow	Noxious longbow	Decimation	Wyvern crossbow	Hexhunter bow
	Off-hand Blightbound crossbow	Off-hand ascension crossbow	Off-hand shadow glaive	Off-hand attuned crystal chakram	N/A
	Vengeful kiteshield	Kalphite repriser	Elysian spirit shield	Strykebow	Dark bow
	Ruby bakriminel bolts (e)/Diamond bakriminel bolts (e)	Ascendri bolts (e)	Ascension bolts / Araxyte arrow	Wild arrow	N/A
	Achto Tempest gloves (high enrages)	Cinderbane gloves	Nightmare gauntlets	Deathtouch bracelet	Swift gloves
	Achto Tempest boots (high enrages)	Flarefrost boots	Pernix boots	Armadyl boots	N/A
	Asylum surgeon's ring (i) with Ring of vigour switch	Ring of death (i)(o) with Ring of vigour switch	Archers' ring (i)	Onyx ring (i)	Sixth-Age circuit
	Reckless aura	Sharpshooter aura	Dark magic aura	N/A	N/A
	Superior scrimshaw of cruelty	Erethdor's grimoire	Illuminated god book	Berserk blood essence (without overloads)	Attacker's insignia

Two-handed weapons are suggested since their AOE attacks can help clear the golems. Similarly, a weapon with halberd range, mainly the Noxious scythe or Dragon Rider lance, will help clear out the golems with a few threshold abilities. Melee users also have access to the trimmed masterwork armour, the set effect of which can allow a player to survive a fatal situation on enrages that other armour would kill them on. Some mechanics will still need to be dealt with accordingly on extreme enrage, however. Like magers, melee users can stun Telos for a prolonged period of time via Destroy, followed by Kick/Backhand and their threshold variants. They also have the capability to debuff Telos the most with Quake and Statius's warhammer's Smash ability, increasing his affinities by 7. Furthermore, the Ingenuity of the Humans ability can allow melee users to use Vulnerability reliably, albeit at a reduced frequency compared to mages due to the sigil's cooldown. They can also opt to use Vulnerability bombs, which can be used at a distance and also on the golems to debuff most of all of them, helping to clear them quicker. However, this can prove to be a problem during phases 3-5. During phase 3 Telos may walk the player out of the stream or they will be out of range and be forced to bring a halberd weapon in order to attack it without moving. During phase 4, the player will have to tank all three golems at each font, and Telos will be placed in a position that forces players to wait in the dome during the instant-kill attack, the timing of which can allow Telos to unleash a high-damage anima bomb if it had performed 3 autoattacks since his last special. During phase 5, the golems will also have to be stacked on each other in order for them to be cleared out with AoE abilities, though the reach of a halberd type weapon can help with this.

Recommended equipment for Melee

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Trimmed masterwork helm / Achto Teralith helmet (high enrages)	Malevolent helm / Masterwork helm	Superior Statius's full helm	Torva full helm	Refined anima core helm of Zaros
	Essence of Finality amulet(or)	Reaper necklace(or)	Amulet of souls(or)	Brawler's blood necklace	Brawler's knockout necklace
	TokHaar-Kal-Ket	Completionist cape / Max cape	Abomination cape	Defence cape	N/A
	Trimmed masterwork platebody / Achto Teralith cuirass (high enrages)	Malevolent cuirass / Masterwork platebody	Superior Statius's platebody	Torva platebody	Refined anima core body of Zaros
	Trimmed masterwork platelegs / Achto Teralith leggings (high enrages)	Malevolent greaves / Masterwork platelegs	Superior Statius's platelegs	Torva platelegs	Refined anima core legs of Zaros
	Khopesh of Tumeken	Drygore weaponry	Blade of Nymora	Attuned crystal dagger	Lava whip
	Zaros godsword	Noxious scythe	Dragon Rider lance	Superior Vesta's spear	Annihilation
	Khopesh of Elidinis	Drygore weaponry	Blade of Avaryss	Off-hand attuned crystal dagger	N/A
	Malevolent kiteshield	Kalphite defender	Divine spirit shield	N/A	N/A
	Trimmed masterwork gloves / Achto Teralith gauntlets (high enrages)	Goliath gloves	Deathtouch bracelet	Razorback gauntlets / Masterwork gloves	Torva gloves
	Trimmed masterwork boots / Achto Teralith boots (high enrages)	Emberkeen boots / Masterwork boots	Torva boots	Bandos boots	N/A
	Asylum surgeon's ring (i) with Ring of vigour switch	Ring of death (i)(o) with Ring of vigour switch	Warrior ring (i)	Onyx ring (i)	Sixth-Age circuit
	Berserker aura	Brawler aura	Dark magic aura	N/A	N/A
	Superior scrimshaw of vampyrism	Erethdor's grimoire	Illuminated god book	Berserk blood essence (without overloads)	Attacker's insignia

Invention Perks

Using good perks on augmented items through Invention and Ancient invention will greatly increase the damage dealt and thus increase overall profit per hour.

• To unlock Invention you need level 80 in Divination, Crafting, and Smithing, and for Ancient invention you need to purchase and read the 'Ancient gizmos' blueprint.
• For two-handed weapons, simply add both the weapon perks given below onto it.
• Click on the links in the Perk column to view the gizmo configuration required to create it.

This has a level requirement of Invention 103, or Invention 86+ with extreme invention potions. All prices factor in the number of tries required to get each perk at level 103.

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Main-hand		Precise 6	1,748,796 for 1 x Small crate (historic)	Precise increases your minimum damage by 1.5% per rank of your maximum damage.
Off-hand		Equilibrium 4	716,159 for 2 x Small crate (timeworn)	Equilibrium increases minimum hit by 3% per rank, and decreases maximum hit by 1% per rank.
Body		Crackling 4	1,190,403 for 0.5 x Large crate (vintage)	Crackling periodically zaps your combat target for 50% per rank of your weapon's damage.
		Relentless 5	1,190,403 for 0.5 x Large crate (vintage)	Relentless gives a chance to prevent adrenaline from being consumed when using abilities.
Legs		Absorbative 4	642,883 for 2 x Ganodermic gloves	Absorbative gives a 20% chance of reducing damage by 5% per rank.
		Mobile + Venomblood	381,765 for 100 x Powerburst of vitality (4)	Mobile allows you to Surge twice as often. Venomblood makes you immune from all poison-damage.
Total cost per set			5,692,658

This has a level requirement of Invention 99 with extreme invention potions. All prices factor in the number of tries required to get each perk at level 99 with extremes.

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Main-hand		Precise 6 + Genocidal	1,748,796 for 1 x Small crate (historic)	Precise increases your minimum damage by 1.5% per rank of your maximum damage. Genocidal deals up to 7% extra damage depending on how far you are through your Slayer task.
Off-hand		Equilibrium 4	716,159 for 2 x Small crate (timeworn)	Equilibrium increases minimum hit by 3% per rank, and decreases maximum hit by 1% per rank.
Body		Biting 2 + Mobile	2,749,757 for 84 x Huge blunt adamant salvage	Biting forces a +2% chance per rank to critically hit opponents. Mobile allows you to Surge twice as often.
		Crackling 4 + Relentless 3	4,812,548 for 3 x Hand cannon and 1 x Large crate (vintage)	Crackling periodically zaps your combat target for 50% per rank of your weapon's damage. Relentless gives a chance to prevent adrenaline from being consumed when using abilities.
Legs		Impatient 4 + Devoted 4 (Devoted is optional)	1,745,550 for 0.2 x Virtus wand (level 9+) 2,352,502 for 1 x Zamorak godsword (level 9+)	Impatient gives a 9% chance per rank for basic abilities to generate 3 extra adrenaline. Devoted has a chance each hit of replicating the Devotion ability for 3 seconds.
		Enhanced Devoted 4	4,147,965 using 700 x Crystal flask	Gives a chance on each hit of replicating the Devotion ability for 3 seconds.
Total cost per set			18,273,277

A recommended perk for a shield is:

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Shield		Turtling 4	1,105,728 for 1 x Small crate (historic)	Turtling increases the duration and cooldown of Barricade by 10% per rank.

The recommended perks for weapon switches are:

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Sunspear		Planted Feet	4,132,259 for 0.5 x Orb of the Cywir elders (level 9+)	The duration of Sunshine and Death's Swiftness is increased by 25%, but they no longer deal periodic damage to your target.
Excalibur		Wise 4 + Mobile	3,005,765 for 12 x Crystal ward	Wise provides +4% additional experience, up to 50,000 XP per day. Mobile halves the cooldowns of Surge, Escape, Barge, and Bladed Dive.

This has a level requirement of Invention 120 with extreme invention potions. All prices factor in the number of tries required to get each perk at level 120 with extremes.

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Main-hand		Precise 6 + Genocidal	1,491,569 for 1 x Small crate (historic)	Precise increases your minimum damage by 1.5% per rank of your maximum damage. Genocidal deals up to 7% extra damage depending on how far you are through your Slayer task.
Off-hand		Aftershock 4	61,775,739 for 1.5 x Anima core legs of Zaros (level 9+)	After dealing 50,000 damage, create an explosion dealing up to 40% per rank weapon damage to nearby enemies.
Body		Biting 4	53,097,722 for 0.3 x Noxious longbow (level 9+)	Biting forces a +2% chance per rank to critically hit opponents.
		Relentless 5 + Crackling 4	20,849,137 for 9 x Large crate (vintage)	Crackling periodically zaps your combat target for 50% per rank of your weapon's damage. Relentless gives a chance to prevent adrenaline from being consumed when using abilities.
Legs		Impatient 4 + Mobile	10,435,275 for 1.5 x Virtus wand (level 9+) 2,352,502 for 1 x Zamorak godsword (level 9+)	Impatient gives a 9% chance per rank for basic abilities to generate 3 extra adrenaline. Mobile allows you to Surge twice as often.
		Enhanced Devoted 4	4,147,965 using 700 x Crystal flask	Gives a chance on each hit of replicating the Devotion ability for 3 seconds.
Total cost per set			154,149,908

A recommended perk for a shield is:

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Shield		Turtling 4	1,105,728 for 1 x Small crate (historic)	Turtling increases the duration and cooldown of Barricade by 10% per rank.

The recommended perks for weapon switches are:

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
Sunspear		Planted Feet + Aftershock 1	26,334,017 for 0.5 x Anima core legs of Zaros (level 9+) and 1 x Orb of the Cywir elders (level 9+)	The duration of Sunshine and Death's Swiftness is increased by 25%, but they no longer deal periodic damage to your target.
Excalibur		Wise 4 + Mobile	3,005,765 for 12 x Crystal ward	Wise provides +4% additional experience, up to 50,000 XP per day. Mobile halves the cooldowns of Surge, Escape, Barge, and Bladed Dive.

Main article: Optimal PvM Perk Setup

This has a level requirement of Invention 120 with extreme invention potions. All prices factor in the number of tries required to get each perk at level 120 with extremes.

Slot	Icons	Perk	Cost	Effect
2-handed		Precise 6 + Ruthless 1	27,773,243 for 1.5 x Armadyl chestplate (level 9+), 1.5 x Armadyl chainskirt (level 9+)	Precise increases your minimum damage by 1.5% per rank of your maximum damage. Ruthless increases damage output by 0.5% per rank for 20 seconds whenever an enemy is killed.
		Aftershock 4 + Equilibrium 2	185,357,555 for 4.5 x Anima core legs of Zaros (level 9+)	Aftershock creates an explosion dealing up to 40% per rank weapon damage to nearby enemies, every 50,000 damage. Equilibrium increases minimum hit by 3% per rank, and decreases maximum hit by 1% per rank.
Total cost per weapon			213,130,797

The following list of invention perks are recommended on your shield/defender:

• Turtling
• Lucky or Absorbative - for spirit shields.

Cape perks

If players own a max cape and/or the Anachronia cape stand, the following capes have the best passive perks for this activity:

Skillcape		Combat styles	Perk category	Perk
	Defence cape	All	Lifesaving ability	The cape's perk provides the effects of a sign of life once an hour.
	Ranged cape	Ranged only	Damage enhancement	Increases the special effect chance of ranged ammunition by 20%.
	Strength cape	Melee only	Damage enhancement	Causes Dismember's damage over time to last an extra 3.6 seconds (displayed as 2 seconds on the tooltip).
	Constitution cape	All	Health regeneration	Doubles base life point regeneration to 0.2% every 6 seconds, and allows regeneration during combat (stacks with Fortitude.)

Archaeology relics

Requires Archaeology 97. The set below provides 500 more life points, increased damage based on missing life points and increased adrenaline gain.

Relic power		Effect	Level	Required relic(s)	Monolith energy
	Fury of the Small	All basic abilities generate 1% more adrenaline.	97	Goblin Warpaints	150
	Berserker's Fury	Deal up to +5.5% damage the lower your life points are below max.	56	Dharok's Memento	250
	Font of Life	Increases maximum health by 500.	5	The Mortal Cup	50
Total monolith energy used					450

Requires Archaeology 120 and Mysterious City mystery. The set below provides damage reduction, increased damage based on missing hp, and increased adrenaline gain.

Relic power		Effect	Level	Required relic(s)	Monolith energy
	Fury of the Small	All basic abilities generate 1% more adrenaline.	97	Goblin Warpaints	150
	Berserker's Fury	Deal up to +5.5% damage the lower your life points are below max.	56	Dharok's Memento	250
	Death Ward	5% damage reduction when your life points are below 50%; 10% damage reduction when they are below 25%.	81	Ring of Solomon	150
Total monolith energy used					550

Requires Archaeology 98. The set below provides more adrenaline, prevents adrenaline drain between phases, and provides permanent LOTD (eliminates ring switching).

Relic power		Effect	Level	Required relic(s)	Monolith energy
	Luck of the Dwarves	You will always gain the effect of tier 4 luck.	83	Hand of Glory (Luck of the Dwarves)	200
	Fury of the Small	All basic abilities generate 1% more adrenaline.	97	Goblin Warpaints	150
	Persistent Rage	Your adrenaline will not drain outside of combat.	98	The Rings of Razulei	150
Total monolith energy used					500

References

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