Crystal equipment

Crystal equipment is a range of degradable weapons and armour made from elven crystal. Crystal combat equipment requires completion of Roving Elves to use, as well as 50 Agility (although 56 Agility is a boostable requirement to travel through Tirannwn), among other skill requirements unique to each piece. Crystal tools and crystal armour can only be obtained after Song of the Elves. There are also the crystal saw and crystal chime, which are rewards from the quests The Eyes of Glouphrie and The Path of Glouphrie respectively.

Upon death in the Wilderness, the killer will receive the seed form of the crystal equipment.

All crystal equipment may be sung from a certain type of crystal seed and varying amounts of crystal shards by the player via the use of a singing bowl, which requires various levels in Crafting and Smithing. If players do not have the requirements, they can have Conwenna or Reese nearby create the items for them for additional crystal shards.

However, for items created via crystal weapon seeds, players can take them to Ilfeen, who will create the items for coins rather than crystal shards.

Item		Skills	Crafting XP	Smithing XP	Materials
	Celestial signet	70 70	5,000	5,000	100 × Crystal shard 1000 × Stardust 1 × Celestial ring 1 × Elven signet
	Crystal helm	70 70	2,500	2,500	50 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal armour seed
	Crystal legs	72 72	5,000	5,000	100 × Crystal shard 2 × Crystal armour seed
	Crystal body	74 74	7,500	7,500	150 × Crystal shard 3 × Crystal armour seed
	Crystal axe	76 76	6,000	6,000	120 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal tool seed 1 × Dragon axe
	Crystal felling axe	76 76	6,000	6,000	120 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal tool seed 1 × Dragon felling axe
	Crystal harpoon	76 76	6,000	6,000	120 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal tool seed 1 × Dragon harpoon
	Crystal pickaxe	76 76	6,000	6,000	120 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal tool seed 1 × Dragon pickaxe
	Crystal bow	78 78	2,000	2,000	40 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal weapon seed
	Crystal halberd	78 78	2,000	2,000	40 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal weapon seed
	Crystal shield	78 78	2,000	2,000	40 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal weapon seed
	Enhanced crystal key	80 80	500	500	10 × Crystal shard 1 × Crystal key
	Eternal teleport crystal	80 80	5,000	5,000	100 × Crystal shard 1 × Enhanced crystal teleport seed
	Blade of Saeldor	82 82	5,000	5,000	100 × Crystal shard 1 × Enhanced crystal weapon seed
	Bow of Faerdhinen	82 82	5,000	5,000	100 × Crystal shard 1 × Enhanced crystal weapon seed
	Blade of Saeldor (c)	82 82	N/A	N/A	1,000 × Crystal shard 1 × Blade of Saeldor (inactive)
	Bow of Faerdhinen (c)	82 82	N/A	N/A	2,000 × Crystal shard 1 × Bow of Faerdhinen (inactive)
	Crystal saw	N/A	N/A	N/A	1 × Crystal saw seed
	Crystal chime	N/A	N/A	N/A	1 × Crystal chime seed

Standard crystal weapon seeds can be used to create three types of equipment: crystal bows, shields, and halberds. However, the halberd can only be created after completion of the Hard Western Provinces Diary.

Enhanced crystal weapon seeds can be used to create the blade of Saeldor and the bow of Faerdhinen. These weapons can then be overcharged with crystal shards to create corrupted versions, which no longer degrade.

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
	Blade of Saeldor	55	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	93	0%	0	0	1.814
	Bow of Faerdhinen	0	0	0	0	128	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	106	0	1.500
	Crystal bow	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	78	0	1.814
	Crystal halberd	85	110	5	-4	0	-1	4	5	0	0	118	0%	0	0	1.814
	Crystal shield	0	0	0	-10	-10	51	54	53	0	80	0	0%	0	0	2.721

Item		Material cost[n 1]
	Blade of Saeldor	111,892,664.33
	Bow of Faerdhinen	111,892,664.33
	Crystal bow	1,142,522.73
	Crystal halberd	1,142,522.73
	Crystal shield	1,142,522.73
	Blade of Saeldor (c)	130,504,478.33
	Bow of Faerdhinen (c)	151,184,271.67

While players can use a singing bowl to create crystal combat equipment out of crystal weapon seeds, they can alternatively have Ilfeen enchant them to crystal bows, shields, and halberds for coins. Having her sing halberds requires completion of the Hard Western Provinces Diary. Ilfeen cannot "recharge" the crystal items themselves, players must manually revert their item to a crystal weapon seed and choose the item that they want to pay her for. While singing yourself with shards always costs 827,192 coins, the price she charges depends on how many times she has previously been paid to enchant weapon seeds, down to a minimum price:

Item		Enchantment cost
		First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth and thereafter
	Crystal bow	900,000	720,000	540,000	360,000	180,000
	Crystal halberd	750,000	600,000	450,000	300,000	150,000
	Crystal shield

Crystal armour seeds can create three pieces of armour: the crystal helm, body, and legs. These can only be created by the player at a singing bowl, or by having Conwenna or Reese sing the crystal for them for an extra 60 crystal shards per piece.

The armour pieces start off at 2,500 charges; the maximum charges that can be stored is 20,000. One charge is depleted for each successful hit that is received from combat, except in the following cases:

• Damage that is completely negated by protection prayers and Absorption potions does not deplete charges.
• Damage from non-monster sources such as divine potions does not deplete charges, with the exception of damage taken from a strange device which does deplete charges.

Using the shard value of making divine super combat potions, the cost per charge is 144.82. Using the shard cost of trading in enhanced crystal teleport seeds to Amrod, the most efficient option for buying crystal shards directly, the cost per charge is 206.8. Assuming continuous unprotected combat against an enemy with an attack speed of 4 ticks, each piece of armour will lose 1,500 charges per hour, costing 310,196.87 per hour per piece (or 930,590.61 per hour with all 3 armour pieces) using the cost of trading in enhanced crystal teleport seeds.

To recharge the armour pieces, the player must load in crystal shards (this can be done before it is inactive as well), with each shard granting 100 charges. Dismantling a crystal armour piece will return the crystal armour seeds to the player but all crystal shard charges that were previously loaded will be lost.

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
	Crystal helm	0	0	0	-10	9	12	8	14	10	18	0	0%	0	2	0.500
	Crystal body	0	0	0	-18	31	46	38	48	44	68	0	0%	0	3	2.000
	Crystal legs	0	0	0	-12	18	26	21	30	34	38	0	0%	0	2	1.000
Totals		0	0	0	-40	58	84	67	92	88	124	0	0%	0	7	3.5	N/A

Each crystal armour piece has a bonus effect when equipped to give a damage and accuracy increase to the crystal bow and bow of Faerdhinen, adding up to a total 15% damage and 30% accuracy bonus when the full set is equipped.

While wearing the crystal body and/or crystal legs with the Slayer helmet (i), the damage bonus from crystal armour pieces is multiplied by the 15% ranged damage boost from the helmet. With both crystal body and legs, this results in a combined damage bonus of approximately 29.375%.

Item		Accuracy bonus	Damage bonus	Material cost[n 1]
	Crystal helm	5%	2.5%	6,579,019.67
	Crystal body	15%	7.5%	19,737,059.00
	Crystal legs	10%	5%	13,158,039.33
Totals		30%	15%	39,474,118.00

Crystal tool seeds can create three pieces of equipment: the crystal axe, pickaxe, and harpoon, which share the same combat stats as their dragon equivalents but offer faster gathering speeds. These can only be created by the player at a singing bowl, or by having Conwenna or Reese sing the crystal for them for an extra 60 crystal shards per piece.

The tools start off at 10,000 charges; the maximum charges that can be stored is 20,000. One charge is depleted for each item that is obtained using the tool. To recharge the tools, the player must load in crystal shards (this can be done before it is inactive as well), offering 100 charges per shard. Dismantling a crystal tool will return the dragon equivalent and crystal tool seed to the player and doing so will lose all crystal shard charges that were previously loaded.

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
	Crystal axe	-2	38	32	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	0.907
	Crystal harpoon	38	32	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	0.907
	Crystal pickaxe	38	-2	32	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42	0%	0	0	1.360

Item		Material cost[n 1]
	Crystal axe	26,834,247.20
	Crystal harpoon	28,874,068.20
	Crystal pickaxe	27,360,137.20

Other equipment made from crystal includes the crystal saw, crystal chime, and celestial signet.

A crystal saw provides a +3 Construction boost for constructing furniture using a saw which stacks with other Construction boosts. The crystal chime is required to slay warped creatures. The celestial signet combines the elven signet and celestial ring to enable the benefits of both to be used with a crystal pickaxe.

While not equipment, divine potions and enhanced crystal keys are also made from crystal shards, as well as teleport crystals and eternal teleport crystals, which are created from their own crystal seeds.

The crystal armour, corrupted blade of Saeldor, and corrupted bow of Faerdhinen can be recoloured to colours representing the eight Elven Clans of Prifddinas by use of crystals purchased from Lliann's Wares for 500,000 coins each. You will need one crystal per piece of armour or weapon you wish to recolour and they are used up when applied to the item. In their default colouration, the armour has the colours of the Meilyr clan, and the corrupted weapons have the colours of the Hefin clan. If an armour piece is reverted to a crystal armour seed, the recolour will be lost and the recolouring crystal will not be refunded.

A Deadman variant can be unlocked for the crystal armour and corrupted bow of Faerdhinen by giving Nigel an annihilation weapon scroll. Crystal equipment reverted from the Deadman variant will be reset to the default colours of the item; the Meilyr clan colours for the armour, and the Hefin clan colours for the bow.

• 
  The original design of crystal armour shown in the reveal and poll blogs for Song of the Elves.
• 
  Revised concept art of crystal armour by Mod Gee, following player feedback on the original design.

• There was once a glitch that allowed players to cast High Level Alchemy on crystal bows and crystal shields in free-to-play worlds and make several thousand coins per piece. Players could buy crystal seeds from other players, pay the reduced recharge cost, and make large sums of money. Because of this glitch, it is no longer possible to alchemise crystal equipment at all.