Lava dragon/Strategies Guide – OSRS

Lava dragons reside on Lava Dragon Isle in the Wilderness (between level 36 and 42 Wilderness) and have low Magic resistance, making spells as low as Water Bolt sufficient enough to kill them due to their Elemental weakness to Water. Aside from the dangers involved, willing players can travel there and safespot them in hopes of the highly elusive draconic visage.

Getting there

There are two entrances to Lava Dragon Isle: The main gate on the north side and an Agility shortcut, a stepping stone, on the southern side requiring 74 Agility and completion of the hard Wilderness Diary to use.

• The fastest teleport is a revenant cave teleport and then go north-east to the main entrance.
• Annakarl teleport and go west to the main entrance.
• Games necklace teleport to the Corporeal Beast lair, or make a waka canoe (requiring 57 Woodcutting and an axe), and go north to use the Agility shortcut.
• The Wilderness lever, requiring a weapon with slash bonus or a knife to cut a web, run south through the deep Wilderness gate to the northern entrance.

Banking can be done at the Mage Arena bank or via an amulet of glory by going south to level 30 Wilderness and teleporting to Edgeville.

Requirements

As always, only bring items you are willing to risk. It is therefore strongly recommended to only bring 3 or 4-item with a top, bottom, weapon and shield, preferably an anti-dragon shield. Anything else should be expendable and easily obtainable, such as God cape, book, or diary items.

At 74 Agility, an Agility shortcut becomes available for back-door access in the south. Furthermore, completion of the elite Wilderness Diary grants noted bones in the Wilderness.

Suggested skills

•  70+ or (80+ Recommended)
•  43+
•  70+ (optional)
•  74+ (optional)

Equipment

Lava dragons attack with both Melee and dragonfire, so as long as you maintain distance, you’ll be safe from their attacks. As you’ll be safespotting, your biggest threat is player killers. You want to keep risk to a minimum at all times!

The accursed sceptre is the most effective magic weapon to use against lava dragons. Due to the fact that Lava dragons are very weak to Magic, it’s also most effective weapon outclassing ranged alternatives. However, the revenant ether adds a considerable amount of risk, making the player a somewhat lucrative target to player killers. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that only gear with Magic damage bonuses matter for maximizing DPS (Occult necklace, Imbued god cape, etc.) and the rest can simply be tank gear or Prayer bonus equipment. In addition, the high magic bonus from this equipment enables players to escape from PKers more easily by using Entangle or Ice Barrage.

Using the Accursed sceptre (a) with Water Surge and tome of water offers even higher damage output than the regular Accursed Sceptre attacks, however this is only recommended if the player isn’t skulled and willing to risk a significant value in runes.

Slot	Recommended equipment for Magic – Item (most effective → least effective)
	Helm of neitiznot[1]	Xerician hat	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Occult necklace	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Imbued god cape[2]	God capes	Cape of Accomplishment (t)	Ardougne cloak 4	N/A
	Black d’hide body[3]	Xerician top	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Black d’hide chaps[3]	Xerician robe	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Accursed sceptre	Sanguinesti staff	Trident of the swamp	Trident of the seas	Mystic water staff[4]
	Book of darkness / Anti-dragon shield	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Rada’s blessing 4	God blessing / Rada’s blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Tormented bracelet	Barrows gloves	Rune gloves	N/A	N/A
	Mystic boots	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Ring of wealth (i)[5]	Ring of shadows / (uncharged)	Beacon ring	N/A	N/A

1. Has decent defensive bonuses and is relatively cheap.
2. Only bring this item if you do not mind potentially losing it.
3. Equip only when you’re being attacked by player killers.
4. With Water Wave or Water Surge.
5. For the doubled clue drop chance.

The webweaver bow is most effective ranged weapon to use against lava dragons although it is not as accurate as Magic. However, the revenant ether adds a considerable amount of risk, making the player a somewhat lucrative target to player killers.

Slot	Recommended equipment for Ranged – Item (most effective → least effective)
	Blessed coif	Archer helm	N/A	N/A
	Necklace of anguish	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A
	Ava’s assembler	Ardougne cloak 4	Cape of Accomplishment (t)	Ava’s accumulator
	Blessed body	Black d’hide body	N/A	N/A
	Blessed chaps	Black d’hide chaps	N/A	N/A
	Webweaver bow	Craw’s bow	N/A	N/A
	Rada’s blessing 4	God blessing / Rada’s blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A
	Barrows gloves	Blessed vambraces	Black d’hide vambraces	N/A
	Pegasian boots	Ranger boots	Blessed boots	Snakeskin boots
	Ring of wealth (i)[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A

1. For the doubled clue drop chance.

The Ursine chainmace offers high accuracy against lava dragons when set to the stab attack style. While the lava dragons cannot be safespotted using melee, praying protect from melee and using a super antifire potion offers complete protection from damage, and the chainmace offers better DPS than comparable Webweaver bow setups. The DPS of the chainmace is still inferior to magic setups using the Accursed sceptre, however.

Slot	Recommended equipment for Melee – Item (most effective → least effective)
	Slayer helmet	Helm of neitiznot	N/A	N/A
	Amulet of strength	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A
	Infernal cape[1]	Mythical cape	Mixed hide cape	N/A
	Mixed hide top	Fighter torso[1]	Black d’hide body	N/A
	Mixed hide legs	Black d’hide chaps	N/A	N/A
	Ursine chainmace[2]	Viggora’s chainmace[2]	N/A	N/A
	Avernic defender[1]	Dragon defender[1]	Dragonfire shield	Anti-dragon shield
	Rada’s blessing 4	God blessing / Rada’s blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A
	Barrows gloves	Rune gloves	Combat bracelet	N/A
	Dragon boots	Mixed hide boots	Climbing boots	N/A
	Ring of wealth (i)[3]	N/A	N/A	N/A

1. Locked with a Trouver parchment.
2. Set to the stab attack style.
3. For the doubled clue drop chance.

Dragonfire

Protection used			Maximum damage
			Chromatic[a]
Unprotected			50	30
			5	5
			10	10
			5	5
			35	15
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0

Legend

	Player failed the accuracy roll: You’re horribly burnt by the dragon fire!
	Player won the accuracy roll: You manage to resist some of the dragon fire!
	Anti-dragon shield
	Protect from Magic
	Antifire potion(4)
	Super antifire potion(4)

1. Chromatic dragons, brutal dragons, lava dragons, and reanimated dragons all share the same dragonfire mechanics.

Inventory

For the inventory, you want to bring some food, runes if not using a powered staff or Ranged, a looting bag, pestle and mortar (to grind up scales, but optional), and a games necklace if teleporting to the Corporeal Beast cave. A stamina potion could help for running, but if taking potions, it’s recommended to take a stamina, saradomin brew, super restore, and a ranging potion if ranging with the latter omitted if maging instead. As for food, it is recommended to take four to six lobsters or better.