Gleason's Gielinor Guide

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	Achievement Complete
The jingle that plays upon completing a combat achievement.

Combat Achievements (commonly abbreviated as CA) are a set of combat-based tasks and challenges released on 21 July 2021. They are intended to test the player's prowess in combat related content, ranging from endurance challenges, killing monsters under a set time limit, and restriction based tasks in which players must kill a monster in a specific manner.

The overview interface for Combat Achievements can be accessed via the Character Summary tab. An overview of bosses can additionally be visited from the Combat Achievements interface.

There are some combat achievements that can be completed by free-to-play players, although in every tier most tasks are exclusive to members.

Tasks which check the player's boss kill count, as well as time-based tasks for The Gauntlet and Corrupted Gauntlet, are automatically completed if players have the achievements prior to the release of the Combat Achievements system.

Tiers

The main interface for Combat Achievements.

Combat Achievement tasks are split into six categories based on their difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite, Master, and Grandmaster. Each tier contains a number of tasks rewarding points, with the point value per task increasing with each tier. Rewards can be obtained by achieving specific amounts of points from tasks of any tiers.

	# of tasks	Points per task	Points in tier	Points required for rewards
Easy	41	1	41	41
Medium	64	2	128	169
Hard	89	3	267	436
Elite	166	4	664	1100
Master	173	5	865	1965^[a]
Grandmaster	122	6	732	2697^[a]
Total	655		2697

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 Note that group ironmen do not have to complete combat achievements which require team sizes greater than their own, meaning that the number of points required for them to reach this tier is less than that of non-group ironmen.

Task types

The tasks interface for Combat Achievements.

Tasks are sorted into categories based on the requirements. Most tasks within Combat Achievements will rely on the player's ability to complete them alone, though there are tasks which require multiple players to complete, such as tasks for the Chambers of Xeric, Theatre of Blood, and The Nightmare. A small number of group boss tasks award completion whether or not the player is alone, such as Perfect Hueycoatl.

Task type	Description
Kill count	Kill a monster a certain number of times.
Mechanical	Defeat a boss in a way that hints at how players are supposed to fight the boss, or tasks the player to kill the boss in a specific, difficult way
Perfection	Complete a task without taking damage or dying.
Restriction	Complete a task under a set of restrictions.
Speed	Kill a boss within a set timeframe.
Stamina	Kill a boss a certain number of times without leaving the area.

Rewards

Players may claim their rewards by speaking to Ghommal or Laidee Gnonock by the entrance to the Warriors' Guild, or from the Leagues Tutor in Leagues. Unlike Achievement Diaries, players do not need to complete all of the tasks of the previous tier before claiming a reward set for another tier; each reward tier requires having a certain amount of points before players can claim them. This means players can claim a tier's rewards through any combination of tasks, instead of having to complete a lower tier's tasks before being able to claim rewards from a higher tier. The exception to this is the Grandmaster tier reward, which requires completion of all currently available combat tasks.

During Leagues the player can claim their combat rewards from the Leagues Tutor.

Should new tasks be released, and the requirement for a previously-met tier increases above a player's point total, rewards for the appropriate tiers are disabled and become unequippable until the new point requirement is met. Higher-tiered versions of Ghommal's hilt can still be activated to teleport, though with the limitations matching the lower tier; for example, Ghommal's hilt 3 can be used to teleport only 5 times per day to the God Wars Dungeon entrance when you have points matching the Medium tier.

	Required points	Rewards
Easy	41	Antique lamp worth 5,000 experience in any skill of at least level 20 5% increased chance to receive an easy clue scroll from all sources (excluding implings) Ghommal's hilt 1 Three daily teleports to the God Wars Dungeon entrance (by the large boulder) The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 40 kills, up from a limit of 35 (the minimum kill count is always 3) One additional Void Knight commendation point per game of Pest Control 100% bonus Warrior guild tokens from the Warriors' Guild
Medium	169	Antique lamp worth 10,000 experience in any skill of at least level 30 5% increased chance to receive a medium clue scroll from all sources (excluding implings) Ghommal's hilt 2 Five daily teleports to the God Wars Dungeon entrance While equipped, the Prayer drain effect at Barrows is nullified The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 45 kills, up from a limit of 40 200% bonus Warrior guild tokens from the Warriors' Guild Two additional Void Knight commendation point per game of Pest Control The Dwarven multicannon can hold up to 35 steel cannonballs, up from 30
Hard	436	Antique lamp worth 15,000 experience in any skill of at least level 40 5% increased chance to receive a hard clue scroll from all sources (excluding implings) Ghommal's hilt 3 Unlimited teleports to the God Wars Dungeon entrance The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 50 kills, up from a limit of 45 God Wars Dungeon benefits: The follower kill count required to fight a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 35, down from 40 Increased chance on receiving ecumenical keys (from 1/60 to 1/55) Access to private instances for God Wars Dungeon boss rooms for a fee of 150,000 coins, with the required follower kill count of 35 or an ecumenical key The fee to rent a private instance to fight The Hueycoatl is reduced to 25,000 coins, down from 50,000 coins The fee to rent a private instance to fight Sarachnis is reduced to 12,500 coins, down from 25,000 coins. The fee to rent a private instance to fight the Giant Mole is reduced to 12,500 coins, down from 25,000 coins. The ability to create a dragon hunter crossbow (b) by combining it with kbd heads The cost of imbuing items at the Nightmare Zone and Soul Wars minigames is halved Three additional Void Knight commendation points per game of Pest Control The Dwarven multicannon can hold up to 45 steel cannonballs, up from 35
Elite	1100	Antique lamp worth 25,000 experience in any skill of at least level 50 5% increased chance to receive an elite clue scroll from all sources (excluding implings) Ghommal's hilt 4 Three daily teleports to Mor Ul Rek (south-east of the inner city bank) The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 55 kills, up from a limit of 50 God Wars Dungeon benefits: The follower kill count required to fight a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 30, down from 35 Increased chance on receiving ecumenical keys (from 1/55 to 1/50) The fee to rent a private instance of a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 125,000 coins, down from 150,000 Ability to create a dragon hunter crossbow (t) by combining it with Vorkath's head Ghommal or Laidee Gnonock can make players a Tztok slayer helmet Bracelets of slaughter and expeditious bracelets have a 10% chance to fully recharge instead of breaking Superior slayer monsters spawn at a rate of 1/150, up from 1/200 The Dwarven multicannon can hold up to 60 steel cannonballs, up from 45
Master	1965	Antique lamp worth 35,000 experience in any skill of at least level 60 Ghommal's hilt 5 Five daily teleports to Mor Ul Rek Ability to create Ghommal's avernic defender 5 by combining it with an Avernic defender Ghommal's lucky penny When consumed, offers a 5% chance to not use a charge when using items that consume charges (such as jewellery and weapons) The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 60 kills, up from a limit of 55 Slayer tasks to kill TzTok-Jad or TzKal-Zuk are increased to 2 kills per task God Wars Dungeon benefits: The follower kill count required to fight a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 25, down from 30 Increased chance on receiving ecumenical keys (from 1/50 to 1/45) The fee to rent a private instance of a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 100,000 coins, down from 125,000 Ghommal or Laidee Gnonock can make players a vampyric slayer helmet Summoned thralls last twice as long
Grand- master	2697	Antique lamp worth 50,000 experience in any skill of at least level 70 Ghommal's hilt 6 Unlimited teleports to Mor Ul Rek Ability to create Ghommal's avernic defender 6 by combining it with an Avernic defender The Slayer reward Like a boss now allows setting the required boss kill count anywhere up to 65 kills, up from a limit of 60 Slayer tasks to kill TzTok-Jad or TzKal-Zuk are increased to 3 kills per task God Wars Dungeon benefits: The follower kill count required to fight a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 15, down from 25 Increased chance on receiving ecumenical keys (from 1/45 to 1/40) The fee to rent a private instance of a God Wars Dungeon boss is reduced to 75,000 coins, down from 100,000 Laidee Gnonock can make players a Tzkal slayer helmet When imbued, the Tzkal slayer helmet (i) can be shown to TzHaar-Ket-Keh for on-task damage bonuses for the TzHaar Fight Cave and Inferno while equipped (this benefit does not provide Slayer experience nor increased pet chances)

Changes

Date	Changes
26 August 2026 (Update)	Nine tasks for the Mad Angel have been added. The Mad Angel now contributes to the total Boss Kill Count in the Combat Achievements interface.
22 July 2026 (Update)	Nine tasks for the Maggot King have been added.
23 April 2026 (Update)	The Combat Achievements menu now shows the correct number of completed tasks for Brutus.
25 February 2026 (Update)	Five tasks for Brutus have been added.
4 February 2026 (Update)	Seven tasks for the Shellbane Gryphon have been added.
1 October 2025 (Update)	The Combat Achievements interface now preserves the last tab viewed.
3 September 2025 (Update)	Fifteen tasks for the Doom of Mokhaiotl have been added. As criteria for Doom's speed, kill count and endurance tasks were tracked on release, these were automatically completed upon opening the Combat Achievements interface.
27 August 2025 (Update)	Recent bosses such as Amoxliatl, Araxxor, Whisperer, Leviathan, Vardorvis and others now contribute to the total Boss Kill Count in the Combat Achievements interface.
25 June 2025 (Update)	The master reward which increases the duration of thralls by 50% has been removed. The grandmaster reward which doubles the duration of thralls has been moved to the master tier. Players can now use a TzKal slayer helmet on TzHaar-Ket-Keh to gain on-task damage bonuses for the TzHaar Fight Cave and Inferno, without any of the other on-task benefits.
11 June 2025 (Update)	Players can open the collection log and Combat Achievement interfaces at the same time.
29 May 2025 (Update)	Eleven tasks for Yama have been added. Unlike previous Combat Achievement releases, speed times were not tracked on release, and opening the Combat Achievements interface will not automatically complete kill count tasks; players must kill Yama after this update to complete them. Additionally, players who have completed at least one sigil contract before this update will not have automatically completed Contractually Unbound.
18 February 2025 (Update)	Eleven tasks for the Royal Titans have been added. As criteria for Royal Titan Speed-Runner was tracked prior to this update, the task is automatically completed upon opening the Combat Achievements interface.
16 October 2024 (Update)	Eleven tasks for the Hueycoatl have been added. Nine tasks for Amoxliatl have been added.
11 September 2024 (Update)	Twelve tasks for Araxxor have been added. As criteria for Araxxor's speed tasks were tracked on release, these were automatically completed upon opening the Combat Achievements interface.
10 July 2024 (Update)	Five tasks for Tormented Demons have been added.
17 April 2024 (Update)	Twelve tasks for the Moons of Peril have been added. Thirteen tasks for the Fortis Colosseum have been added.
31 January 2024 (Update)	Five tasks for Scurrius have been added. Nine tasks for each of the Leviathan, the Whisperer, Vardorvis, and Duke Sucellus have been added.
10 May 2023 (Update)	Ghommal's hilt 2 or above is now required to negate the Prayer Drain effect at Barrows instead of Ghommal's hilt 1 or above.
3 May 2023 (Update \| poll)	Combat Achievement rewards now use a points-based system to encourage players to try harder tasks earlier in their account progress, instead of feeling like there was no point in trying until they were ready to complete the entire tier. Tier icons have been shrunken by 7 pixels. Boss models in the Combat Achievements interface now spin when they're supposed to.
15 March 2023 (Update)	A visual bug has been fixed in which Group Ironman Combat Achievements were erroneously being counted toward the total number in the interface.
1 March 2023 (Update)	Thirteen tasks for the Phantom Muspah have been added.
18 January 2023 (Update)	The boost to clue scroll drop rates gained from completing Combat Achievement tiers has been extended to drift net fishing.
30 November 2022 (Update \| poll)	A variety of new rewards were added for all tiers of Combat Achievements. 51 tasks for the Tombs of Amascut have been added.
13 April 2022 (Update \| poll)	76 kill count tasks have had their kill count requirements significantly reduced, while 12 of those have had name changes to better fit the adjusted amount.
23 February 2022 (Update)	Eleven tasks for Nex have been added.
9 September 2021 (Update)	Various Combat Achievement tasks will no longer interrupt your actions, most noticeably in Chambers of Xeric. The information boxes for Combat Achievement rewards have been tidied up.
12 August 2021 (Update)	Ten tasks for Phosani's Nightmare have been added.
4 August 2021 (Update)	Various kill count tasks have been reduced/increased. The goblin paint cannon now counts as a melee weapon for tasks that specify usage of one. Tasks for the Fight Caves will now properly save progress upon logging out. Tasks for The Nightmare should now work as intended. The master task Sleep Tight has been made an elite task. The elite task Nightmare (Solo) Speed-Trialist has been made a master task. The task Perfect Verzik will no longer fail if damage was taken from her green ball attack, providing that it was bounced to another player.
28 July 2021 (Update)	The task Squashing the Giant now requires players to have the appropriate prayer activated when Obor attacks, instead of killing him without taking any damage. The task Prepared for Battle has been renamed to Shayzien Protector, and now requires players to kill a lizardman shaman in the Lizardman Temple without taking damage from it, rather than killing one whilst wearing tier 5 Shayzien armour. Tasks which previously specified that Arclight must be used can now be completed with any demonbane weapon. Kill counts for Phosani's Nightmare will now count towards The Nightmare kill count tasks. Completion counts for the Corrupted Gauntlet will now count towards The Gauntlet kill count tasks. Fighting as Intended and Fighting as Intended II can now be completed on Deadman Mode worlds. Perfection tasks within the Theatre of Blood will no longer fail upon the boss starting their death animations. Typos have been fixed in the tasks Dagannoth Supreme Adept and Playing with Lasers. General Graardor is no longer referred to as "General Graador" in task descriptions within the Combat Achievements interface.

Trivia

Unreleased models for a Hunllef slayer helmet by Mod West.^[1]

An off-hand blade was proposed to be added as a reward for completing each tier of the Combat Achievements, which provided increased melee attack bonuses and increased with each tier of tasks completed. The blade was polled in the Combat Achievements poll and failed to pass, only receiving 64.3% of the supporting votes. The item was later reworked as a teleport item, in the form of Ghommal's hilt. Later, the Grandmaster and Master hilts were updated to be able to be combined with the Avernic defender.

	Melee attack bonus	Reclaim cost (coins)	PvP death drop (coins)
Easy	+15	5,000	3,750
Medium	+20	10,000	7,500
Hard	+25	20,000	15,000
Elite	+30	30,000	22,500
Master	+35	40,000	30,000
Grandmaster	+40	50,000	37,500

Models were made for a slayer helmet design based on the Crystalline and Corrupted Hunllef, though it was never offered as a reward.
Prior to the release of Combat Achievements, God Wars Dungeon access was only possible with partial completion of Troll Stronghold. Ghommal's Hilt now allows limited builds, such as an obby mauler with 1 Attack, to enter the God Wars Dungeon without having to accept the 3000 Attack experience reward from Death Plateau.^[2]
On release, a competition was held for the first players to complete each tier of Combat Achievements, with varying prizes. The winners were announced on 16 February 2022.^[3]

Tier	Winner	Prize
Easy	Ozzys	One year of membership
Medium	evonaabi
Hard	igotnoolife
Elite	Nosevesey	One year of membership and a King Black Dragon brick-building set
Master	Karl
Grandmaster	Ginny

TzHaar-Ket-Rak's Challenges can be displayed as a player's top boss, but do not count towards the total boss count.
As of 2nd of September 2025, 0.13% players had achieved Grandmaster, 0.59% achieved Master, and 2.01% achieved Elite tier out of all players who were in any combat achievement tier.^[4]

References

^ Jagex. Mod West's Twitter account. 19 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023. Mod West: "I made my own one for fun a while ago but I'm not sure it really fits as a slayer helm. I also went way too far to the point it's hard to tell that they are even slayer helms 😂"
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 16 August 2021. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Mod Ash: "I hadn't heard plans to require that quest for the hilt's teleport."
^ "9th Birthday Event". Old School RuneScape News. Jagex. 16 February 2022. Archived from the original.
^ Jagex. Old School RuneScape's Twitter account. 7 April 2026. Archived from the original on 2 September 2025.