Phoenix Lair

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Phoenix Lair
Release						6 January 2009 (Update)
Members						Yes
Location						Piscatoris
Teleports						Phoenix Lair Teleport
Music						The Phoenix Attack I Attack II Attack III Attack VI
Map

The Phoenix Lair is a dungeon hosting a repeatable, single-player encounter involving various skills, including Crafting, Fletching, Firemaking, and Slayer. Players must have completed the quest In Pyre Need and require 51 Slayer to enter the Phoenix Lair.

Getting there

Phoenix Lair is near the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Players can get to the area by walking or one of these methods:

• Use the Phoenix Lair Teleport scroll obtained from Treasure Trails. It takes players to the entrance of the lair, and is very cheap at 558 coins. This is the fastest method to get to the lair.
• Teleport using the ability of the Mask of the Airut.
• Take the rowboat near the Eagles' Peak lodestone, west of the Tree Gnome Stronghold.
• Use fairy ring AKQ - Kandarin: Piscatoris Hunter area - (requires partial completion of A Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen). The closest bank is northwest of the master fairy ring in Zanaris.
• Teleport to the Piscatoris Hunter area using a spirit kyatt's ability (requires Summoning level 57 and a spirit kyatt pouch).
• Use the teleport from memory strands located in the currency pouch and walk north. There is also a bank nearby.
• Teleport to the Piscatoris elder tree via the nature's sentinel outfit and then head west.

Gameplay

Phoenix Lair

• Lesser reborn mage
• Greater reborn mage
• Lesser reborn ranger
• Greater reborn ranger
• Lesser reborn warrior
• Greater reborn warrior
• 
  Phoenix
• 
  Twigs
• Order in which the first 5 caves are encountered and the monsters within them are random

In the Phoenix Lair, players must navigate through a series of caverns and optionally fight against the aggressive reborn monstrosities that can teleport to attack the player if another reborn is already attacking the player. The monsters that may be encountered are:

• Greater reborn mage
• Greater reborn warrior
• Greater reborn ranger
• Lesser reborn mage
• Lesser reborn warrior
• Lesser reborn ranger

Summoning familiars can be used in the cavern. Combat familiars can be used to help you fight through the caverns, but it is advised to simply avoid the monsters for speed. When heading for the next cavern, any damage your familiar took will be completely healed. High Level Alchemy cannot be used in the caverns.

In each of the first five caverns, players collect twigs from trees. These will later need to be cut into ribbons which are then used to build the phoenix's pyre in the last cavern calling the Phoenix to battle.

The Phoenix has a Combat level of 84, her main attack is Magic-based, and she is weak to arrows. She also has an unblockable dust attack, which lowers Attack, Ranged, and Magic level by approximately 50 percent for a few seconds, nullifying stat-boosting potions.

When the Phoenix has been defeated, she crawls onto the pyre. The player can then light the pyre to set it alight, and the Phoenix is consumed by the flames to be reborn. Once she reappears, the player can talk to her to receive the reward and to optionally engage in some dialogue.

Logging out, using an "Escape" exit, or teleporting before the Phoenix's pyre has been lit will require you to start over, even if you have already finished the battle and the Phoenix is wounded. If you forget to talk to the Phoenix before exiting the cave, the next time you enter the cave system you will be in her cave and be able to obtain your quills.

Speedrunning the caves

The fastest way to complete the Phoenix Lair is to pay 10 unnoted phoenix quills at the entrance to go straight to the last chamber and start the fight with the Phoenix.

Players who wish to complete the Phoenix lair as fast as possible but without paying 10 Phoenix quills should follow the following guidelines:

• Turn off auto-retaliate so that the reborn monsters do not drag you toward them.
• Avoid killing any reborn monster and go straight to the tree in every cavern.
• Use Surge, Dive and Barge whenever possible to reach the trees/exits faster.
• Immediately after clicking a tree click the entrance to the next cave. You do not need to wait for the animation of collecting the twig to end.
• As soon as you enter the final chamber, turn auto-retaliate on so that in case the Phoenix attacks you first, your character will immediately retaliate.
• After killing the Phoenix, light the pyre, collect your reward by talking to the phoenix, and surge to the exit.

Rewards

Reward for completing the Phoenix's challenge each time:

• 3,750 experience
• 1,500 experience
• 500 experience
• 250 experience (5,000 experience is awarded the first time the Phoenix is defeated)
• 2 phoenix quills (70,156 coins total) from talking to the Phoenix after it is defeated and reborn
• A 1/100 chance when exiting the cave after claiming the quills to enter a chamber with a large egg. If a player teleports out or dies after claiming the quills, they will not have a chance at a pet. The phoenix eggling can be either cute if the egg is hatched by clapping to the egg, or mean if the egg is hatched by kicking it. The players can have one of each variation and the "drop chance" of the second pet will be the exact same as the first pet because which pet the players get is determined by which action is chosen. Level 72 Summoning is required to hatch the egg within the cavern; however, the players may obtain the egg without the required Summoning level.
• Any items the players collected from the first five caverns.

Gallery

• 
  The final room
• 
  Fighting the phoenix
• 
  Egg chamber

Achievements

• Arise from the Ash ( 10) – Defeat the phoenix once, after 'In Pyre Need'.

Dialogue

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Update history

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• patch 30 March 2026 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving Phoenix Eggling pets after completing the D&D encounter.

• update 16 March 2026 (Update):
  • This encounter is no longer limited to one completion per day.
  • Drops and experience rewards have been adjusted:
    • Firemaking XP: 7,500 → 3,750
    • Fletching XP: 3,000 → 1,500
    • Crafting XP: 1,000 → 500
    • Slayer XP: 500 → 250
    • Phoenix quills : 5 → 2

• patch 4 June 2018 (Update):
  • The Escape option has been removed from the exit of the Phoenix Lair, as it was functionally identical to Exit.

• patch 2 May 2017 (Update):
  • Completing the Phoenix Lair won't give a pop-up for 'Arise from the Ash' every time. You will need to complete the fight again for your Master Quest Capes.

• patch 13 June 2016 (Update):
  • It is no longer possible to log out in the phoenix egg reward chamber.

• ninja 8 June 2015 (Update):
  • The Phoenix's pyre's left-click option is now 'Craft' before the player has finished building the pyre, rather than always having the 'Light' option.

• ninja 26 May 2015 (Update):
  • A new Level 84 familiar has been added:
    • Has a chance to burn 2 logs at once when using bonfires.
    • Requires 2 phoenix quills.
    • Uses the same scroll as the original phoenix.
    • Invisible +12 Firemaking boost.
    • Same quest restriction as the original Phoenix familiar.
  • Reborn mages no longer block movement.
  • Surge, Barge and Escape are now allowed.
  • 10 quills can be paid to skip to the fight.
  • The branch harvesting animation no longer causes a delay.
  • Using unfletched twigs fletches them.
  • The cave exit's 'Look at' option has been replaced with a 'confirm' box.

• patch 15 December 2014 (Update):
  • Fletching twigs in the Phoenix Lair will no longer take an excessively long time to finish.

• patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
  • The Phoenix Lair no longer has a flickering light on the wall.

• patch 20 October 2009 (Update):
  • Rendering problems with the fires outside the phoenix's cave.

• patch 10 August 2009 (Update):
  • Music did not play reliably outside the Phoenix Cave.

• patch 21 April 2009 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug in the Phoenix Lair that was preventing the phoenix's death cutscene from playing.

• patch 3 March 2009 (Update):
  • Players should be able to go back into the Phoenix Lair if they lose connection at a particular stage in the event.

• patch 10 February 2009 (Update):
  • The bug that caused familiars to get lost in certain circumstances (like the Phoenix Lair) has been fixed, so you should be able to call your familiar if it disappears.

• update 6 January 2009 (Update):
  • Added to game.