Here’s everything you need to know about the Crystal Armour pieces.
There are three pieces of crystal armours: the legs, the body, and the helm. While they are not tradeable, you can get crystal armour seeds from the GE for roughly 5m OSRS GP each. You will also need crystal shards to sing the armour pieces or to pay an NPC if you don’t have the Smithing and Crafting levels to make them yourself. You cannot buy crystal shards directly from the GE. However, you can buy various crystal seeds, which you can then exchange with an NPC (Amrod) for the shards. The least costly per shard is currently buying the enhanced crystal teleport seed, which will give you 150 shards for around 12k OSRS GP per shard.
You’ll Need Gold, A Lot of It
Suppose you don’t want to get the shards by engaging in various activities in Prifddinas. In that case, you will need two enhanced crystal teleport seeds to get enough shards for all three pieces of crystal armour, so you will be spending over 10m OSRS GP for the crystal shards alone. With the amount you’ll have to spend for the crystal armour seeds, of which you’ll need a total of 6, you will roughly spend over 40m OSRS gold for the full set. If that wasn’t obvious from the start, crystal armours involve a lot of gold.
Requirements
Since you can only get crystal shards in Prifddinas, you must have completed the Song of the Elves quest, which unlocks this area, to get any crystal armour pieces. To start this quest, you will need many skills in the 70s, and to complete the quest, you’ll also need a high combat level, as you’ll have a few brutal fights during the quest.
- 70 Agility
- 70 Construction
- 70 Farming
- 70 Herblore
- 70 Hunter
- 70 Mining
- 70 Smithing
- 70 Woodcutting
If you want to save a bit and sing the armour pieces yourself, you will need specific Crafting and Smithing levels for each of the pieces:
- Crystal helmet – 70 Crafting and Smithing
- Crystal legs – 72 Crafting and Smithing
- Crystal body – 74 Crafting and Smithing
To wear the crystal armour pieces, you will also need a defense level of at least 70.
Ironman
As an ironman, you don’t have the option to buy the crystal armour seeds and the enhanced crystal teleport seed from other players, so you must drop all of them yourself. While you can passively get crystal shards by doing various activities around Prifddinas, such as training your woodcutting with the Teaks located in the North East of Prifddinas or training your Agility starting at level 75 on the Prifddinas course, the only way to obtain the crystal armour seed is by completing The Gauntlet or the more complex version, the Corrupted Gauntlet.
You have a 1 in 120 chance to obtain a crystal armour seed from The Gauntlet and a 1 in 50 chance to drop it from The Corrupted Gauntlet. You’ll also get 5-9 crystal shards each run, and you’ll potentially also get enhanced crystal weapon seeds, which you’ll need for some powerful complementary weapons.
Why You Should Get It
The crystal armour pieces complement two excellent ranged weapons: the crystal bow and the Bow of Faerdhinen. It will give you a 15 percent damage bonus and a 30 percent accuracy bonus when using either of the two crystal-ranged weapons. While even as ironman, you can buy the crystal bow, the Bow of Faerdhinen is only obtainable from the enhanced crystal weapon seed, a rare drop from The Gauntlet or the Corrupted Gauntlet with a drop chance of 1 in 2000 or 1 in 400.
Where to Use It
The crystal armour is perfect against a series of bosses. For example, combined with a crystal Bow or Bow of Faerdhinen, it is the best against bosses such as the Abyssal Sire, Commander Zilyana, General Graardor, and Phantom Muspah. It’s also excellent for tackling combat minigames like Fight Caves and Inferno. It is also a decent pick against Callisto, Cerberus, Chambers of Xeric, Dagannoth Kings, K’ril, Zulrah, or Tombs of Amascut. Many players also use crystal when farming Skeletal Wyverns, Basilisk knights, or Demonic Gorillas.
Recolors
Starting February 2023, you can choose to recolor your crystal armour, and there are eight variations. To recolor each piece, you will need to buy a recoloring crystal from an NPC in exchange for 500k OSRS GP each, costing you 1.5 mil OSRS gold to recolor your full armour set. You can choose the eight colors: white, black, magenta, green, yellow, cyan, red, and blue, and you will need to buy a different crystal for each color. Besides getting a cosmetic upgrade, you will not modify the armor’s stats. You get a crystal and apply it to the crystal weapons in your OSRS accounts for sale to look cool.