left skull half

[brents]

so ive been searching alll around and asking lots of people! no one can tell me where i can get the left skull half! its crazy! there is a right one give by the minotars but to put it together, you need a left one! so, where is it? what do i need to do to get it? what needs to be killed in the process?

 

 

 

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[Doomster]

The mightiest monster and level of the stronghold, the Ankou.

 

 

 

Safespot mage, or rune armoured melee works best on them, although you CAN kill 1 or 2 with a melee pure, standing by the door for a quick escape, it can be an eating contest, and a moment's lag can be fatal - they can hit 8, and hittting 8, 8 is not unknown, if you let HP drop too low, getting hit an 8 as you break and another 8 in the door is possible.

 

 

 

While they do not hit especially often through rune armour, a double max is still possible, though much less likely than with lower grade armour.

[brents]

well good!

 

i dont guess anyone would sell me one?

[bsmovies]

theyre non trade. same as all sceptre pieces.

[brents]

(bad word)

 

well good!

 

but im no where close to that level im like 51 and they are like 80 something! and im inpatient!

 

what does the skull do?

 

its a helm ive guessed but is it good?

[icecube]

Actually no. You need 4 pieces to complete the item, the two skull halves and the top and bottom of the sceptre. You then combine it to form a Skull Sceptre.

 

 

 

The bottom half is dropped by Flesh Crawlers and the top by Catablepon.

 

 

 

Stat wise, it stinks. It's only good for the 5 teleports it provides to Barbarian Village. After using all 5, it disappears and you need to make another one. You can only have 1 at a time. It doesn't look too bad either if you just want it for looks.

 

 

 

There is a Tip.It page that has all this information:

 

http://tip.it/runescape/?page=stronghol ... tm#rewards

[brents]

aaahhhh forget it then! im ok with walking... i hope to increase my mage to 40 after i get a maul and att of 50

 

that will allow me to teleport to lots of places! yay! :)

[D. V. Devnull]

Well then, you're gonna hate yourself later.

 

 

 

At CB 70+, I have found that the Skull Sceptre is a life-saver, and it has pulled me out of many bad situations. The time spent to assemble that item is worth it for the 5 times you can pull yourself out of danger without burning up runes. :)

 

 

 

~Mr. Devnull

[Doomster]

The sceptre is a handy one piece teleport item, more so in F2P, where it is the ONLY one-piece teleport.

 

 

 

I'm actually beaing a little sarcastic calling the Ankou "mighty", as with the safespot, I can demolish them with fire strikes.

 

 

 

I have completed sceptres on a level 34, level 32, and even a level 16 !

 

 

 

The level 16 elite tactics:

 

 

 

1st level: Range Minotaur over the fences, collect arrows (can also mage here, or they are not that tough to melee), get right half.

 

2nd level: I melee'd the two Flesh Crawlers at the right, though there are some awkwatd safespots, High level melee, go to the southeast room with lots of them.

 

 

 

On the low level challenge, skip the 3rd level, just blitz run it if not already passed, if passed, portal it.

 

 

 

4th level: The Ankou - for melee, the northeast room, but for mage, go south, cross one room west and then find the safespot on the south wall of the next room. Use up chaos runes with crumble undead, or shoot fire strikes, with moderate luck, you can hold the spot until they are non-agressive, especially if you don't insist on grabbing every half-decent drop. I usually curse before the attack. Can range, but not as effective, these guys are weak to magic.

 

 

 

3rd level: Catablepon - I hate these guys, they have insane defence, weaken and melee attack. I use the northwest room safespot, west wall, and this is an ABSOLUTE safespot - dive into the break in the bones (opens to the north) and they are too big to follow. So I unarmour, mage armour is I have it, and curse - can take a lot of attempts before it takes, then switch to range kit and range them - even then, at low levels, you either lose a lot of arrows, or have to take a hit or two as you collect (on each one).

 

 

 

On my level 16, I got lucky with both the Ankou and the Catablepon dropping a piece on about the 5th one.

 

 

 

My main has 11 spare piece sets (can only assemble 1 at any time) and carries it as an escape teleport at the skeleton coalmine.