Wen's attack of the Senntisten cathedral brings forth the Glacor Siege – a powerful elemental army of glacors and glacytes, storming the ancient city streets and freezing everything in their path. You’ll need to send armies of elves south across a bridge to hold off these frozen foes, and assist a group of six mages as they take on the formidable Arch-Glacor!
This bitterly cold battle is especially exciting because it features new adjustable mechanics for the boss fight, allowing you to scale up your experience to learn, challenge and grow. This is your guide to taking on the Front and the rewards you’ll reap if you’re successful.
Getting Started
The Glacor Front is available on all platforms, including mobile, from Tuesday August 31st. It’s a members-only experience, and you’ll need 84 Slayer or more to fight the glacytes south of the Cathedral in the City of Senntisten.
Remember that for each Front we release, you can benefit from free death reclaims and free Ring of Death charges when engaging in combat activities. With the Glacor Front, deaths are free forever for the normal mode (including for Hardcore Ironmen).
How To Play
If you didn't have a chance to join us last Friday, you can watch the reveal stream over on Twitch, where we discussed the boss and mechanics in detail.
You can also read this article for a detailed description of the boss and its various malicious manoeuvres, from its pillars of ice to its terrifying exposed core attack!
Rewards (as promised)
The Glacor Front offers some of the most powerful rewards ever seen in RuneScape, so if you’re looking for wicked weapons, we suggest you jump on the polar express pronto. Here’s what you can expect to score while you protect Senntisten from Wen’s icy assault.
Main-hand weapons:
Dark Ice Shard
Type: Main-handed sword
Stats: T85 damage, T85 accuracy
Requirements to craft:
- 2 500 Glacor Remnants*
- 5 Dark Nilas'**
- 10 Black Stone Hearts
- 2 Glorious Bars
Has a set effect with the Dark Sliver of Leng/Dark Ice Sliver:
- When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.
Dark Shard of Leng (Hard Mode only)
Type: Main-handed sword
Stats: T95 damage, T95 accuracy
Requirements to craft:
- 7 500 Glacor Remnants*
- 10 Dark Nilas'**
- 1 Dark Ice Shard
- 1 Frozen Core of Leng***
Special attack:
- Icy Tempest (Costs: 20% adrenaline) - Imbue your weapons with the power of primordial ice. For 30 seconds, your damage cap is increased by 30%. This special attack has a cooldown of 60 seconds.
Has a set effect with the Dark Sliver of Leng/ Dark Ice Sliver:
- When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.
Off-hand weapons:
Dark Ice Sliver
Type: Off-hand dagger
Stats: T85 damage, T85 accuracy
Requirements to craft:
- 2 500 Glacor Remnants*
- 5 Dark Nilas'**
- 10 Black Stone Hearts
- 2 Glorious Bars
Passive effect:
- When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only).
Has a set effect with the Dark Shard of Leng/Dark Ice Shard:
- When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.
Dark Sliver of Leng (Hard Mode only)
Type: Off-handed dagger
Stats: T95 damage, T95 accuracy
Requirements to craft:
- 7 500 Glacor Remnants*
- 10 Dark Nilas'**
- 1 Dark Ice Sliver
- 1 Frozen Core of Leng***
Passive effect:
- When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only)
Has a set effect with the Dark Shard of Leng/Dark Ice Shard:
- When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.
Armour:
Enhanced Nightmare Gauntlets
Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Nightmare Gauntlets. Same effect.
Requirements for crafting:
- 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 1 Leng Artefact****
- 1 Nightmare Gauntlets
Enhanced Gloves of Passage
Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Gloves of Passage.
New effect:
- Enduring Ruin - After the Havoc or Smash ability successfully hits your next melee attack within 6 seconds deals 10% increased damage and the target takes 20% increased damage from bleeds for 10 seconds.
Requirements for crafting:
- 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 10 Necronium Bars
- 1 Leng Artefact****
- 1 Gloves of Passage
Enhanced Kerapac's Wristwraps
Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Kerapac's Wristwraps. Same effect.
Requirements for crafting:
- 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 1 Leng Artefact****
- 1 Kerapac's Wristwraps
Cosmetic rewards
Glacor's Adornment
Requirements for crafting:
- 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 2 Dark Nilas'**
Arch-Glacor's Adornment
- 5,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 5 Dark Nilas'**
Ur-Glacor's Adornment
- 10,000 Glacor Remnants*
- 10 Dark Nilas'**
* Basic crafting ingredient, required for most rewards (also drops from Slayer glacors).
** Rare crafting ingredient required for basic weapons.
*** Very rare crafting ingredient for enhanced weapons. Only available in Hard Mode.
**** Rare crafting ingredient, required for the glove upgrades. Available from 5 mechanics turned on or in Hard Mode.
Pets
Gladys (Arch-Glacor Boss Pet)
Check out this cool critter! Gladys is your very own mini Arch-Glacor. Something to remember it by…
Scripture of Wen
The Elder God Wars Dungeon will introduce brand-new God Books based on each of the Elder Gods. These God Books offer improved stats over Illuminated God Books, and each come with a unique effect. In the Glacor Front, the book is the Scripture of Wen, which offers:
- +5 Prayer bonus
- +8 to all styles
- Special Ability - Sheer Cold - Each attack have a chance to summon an icy beam for 3.6 seconds that attacks anythings standing in it. Once targets have been hit 5 times by the beam, they will shatter for 400% ability damage.
The Book itself can only be acquired as a drop from Arch-Glacor, but Pages can be dropped by any enemies on the Glacor Front.
*Note: Elder God Books cannot be illuminated.
Sounds cool? It will be. The Glacor Front arrives on August 31st, so stay tuned for our future updates by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.