I completed Contact! 2 days ago and during the boss fight I took loads of damage while praying MAGE - cos it looks to b attacking with Mage and the person in the screenshot on your guide is using MAGE prayer - this is very miss leading seeing as the Giant Scarab attacks with RANGE... I only thought to change my prayer because of the huge damage I was taking (20+ and poison!) - this damage wasn't helped by me wearing Lunar mage gear which is very bad for range defence - only cos I was maging the boss.

 

 

 

I'm sorry I can't provide a screenshot because I was too busy eating monkfish till I changed prayer then I was still casting Iban blast (unless I'm much mistaken the staff doesn't autocast that) so combined with this and the high damage of Ivan blast, I didn't get chance to screenshot the kill

If I remember, the mage prayer was to protect against his minions, not him. I remember a semi-safe spot where I was only attacked by the scarab and not his cronies, so in that case, range prayer would be best (or would it be melee prayer instead?).

 

 

 

I don't know, but I agree that this is a guide that could use some more confirmation and work (from my own past experience with the quest).

Hmm... You mayb right about the cronies, however he (player) seems to b stood in about the same place as I stood and I was only getting hit by a range attack - damage stopped after I turned correct prayer on...?

 

 

 

So I'm not sure but it definately needs looking at!

you can see he is wearing full rune and that is why he is praying mage, because one of the servants uses mage attacks