Lightbearer

Lightbearer
Released							24 August 2022 (Update)
Members							Yes
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Wear, Drop
Examine							A heavy ring that glimmers with a strange power.
Values
Value							1,000,000 coins
High alch							600,000 coins
Low alch							400,000 coins
Weight							0.05 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							4,438,817 coins (info)
Buy limit							8
Daily volume							929
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Advanced data
Item ID							25975
Link							MOID

The Lightbearer is a ring obtained as a rare reward from the Tombs of Amascut. The ring was crafted by the warrior Ahmek from the unstable energy left behind from Tumeken's sacrifice that ended the Kharidian–Zarosian War.^[1]

The ring has no requirements to wear. It regenerates the player's special attack energy twice as fast at 15 seconds per 10%, or 2 minutes and 30 seconds for 100%. Equipping the ring will cause the special attack energy restoration timer to reset only if natural regeneration is below half. Unequipping the ring will always cause the special attack energy restoration timer to reset.

Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Defence bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot
+0	+0	+0%	+0	List

Because of the unique way Lightbearer interacts with the existing energy and special attack system, it creates many opportunities for new strategies.

When using dragon tools (harpoon, axe, pickaxe) or their upgraded variants that share the bonus special attack, Lightbearer doubles the frequency of the skilling bonus granted, making it viable to consistently gather resources 1 level (100% uptime) or 2 levels (80% uptime or 100% with Preserve) above a player's base.

Because Preserve increases the time before a skill boost decreases by a level from 60 to 90 seconds, and Lightbearer reduces the special attack recharge time to 150 seconds, mistiming the special attack when skilling can lead to a period of up to 70 seconds where the boost is only +1 level before the special attack is available again. In order to use Preserve and Lightbearer to constantly remain boosted by at least 2 levels, the player cannot use their special attack as soon as it becomes available. Instead, to maintain a +2 level skilling boost with 100% uptime, the special attack should be used immediately after the skill bonus decreases from +2 to +1.

Similarly, when using Lightbearer alone (without Preserve) to maintain a persistent +1 boost, mis-timing the tool's special attack can lead to a period of up to 30 seconds with no boost before the special attack fully recharges. To eliminate this period, the player should use their special attack immediately after the boost falls from +1 to 0 (no boost), which works out to be every 180 seconds.

When used alongside special attacks that restore prayer points - particularly the Saradomin godsword or Eldritch Nightmare staff - the Lightbearer can allow the endless use of protection or damage boosting prayers without the need for consumables, while health restoring specials like the Toxic blowpipe and Saradomin godsword can reduce or eliminate the need for food entirely.

These combinations may be very useful for lowering the number of banking trips during any outing, or increasing the number of bosses killed before a bank is necessary.

In general, Lightbearer competes with damage-boosting rings when using a strong special attack weapon (such as Voidwaker, Zaryte crossbow or Bandos godsword), especially for prolonged encounters. However, it is more situational.

Whether the Lightbearer is more efficient than other rings depends on a number of factors:

• the amount of downtime – when not attacking anything where a damage bonus would be useful, special attack can regenerate faster without sacrifice
• the effectiveness of the special attack versus main weapon – if the special attack is only slightly more powerful or useful in comparison, sacrificing damage for more specials is not worthwhile
• the main weapon itself – some weapons benefit from strength upgrades more than others due to their damage calculation, notably the scythe of Vitur and emberlight
• combat style(s) used – with melee, the ultor ring (or its downgrades) provides a substantial boost to overall damage, making Lightbearer less useful in comparison; conversely with ranged, the venator ring provides only a minor boost; and with magic, there are few especially powerful special attacks

For example, at Theatre of Blood there is usually little downtime (except between rooms, where special attack energy refills automatically) and the main weapon of choice is a scythe of Vitur; as such, the ultor ring provides higher damage output than the extra special attacks provided by Lightbearer would (unless not using the scythe). In contrast, at Tombs of Amascut special attacks play a more pivotal role (for damage, defence reduction and healing with Keris partisan of the sun) while damage-boosting rings give less substantial bonuses to Tumeken's shadow and Osmumten's fang, making the Lightbearer better overall.

Popular PvP strategies rely heavily on special attacks from various weapons to finish or gain advantages in a fight. Because of this, the lightbearer can be used to trick or surprise players who otherwise believe they are safe from a special attack and may have spent time memorising the default special attack timings.

Because the time to regenerate 10% of your special attack energy is reduced as well, new combinations of weapon special attacks may become more viable. For example, a dark bow special (55% energy) followed by dragon claws (50%) combination would usually take 30 seconds but can now be executed in 15.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Chest (Tombs of Amascut)	N/A	1	7/24

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  Concept art of the Lightbearer by Mod Jerv.