Runescape Beginner's Queen Black Dragon (QBD) Guide | 2020/2021

i've been starting to get into bossing in my hardcore ironman series and decided that as i did so i start building some pvm guides aimed primarily at people like me that is people who are looking to boss in some optimal gear with suboptimal confidence and sometimes some optimal skill this is where my queen black dragon guide is coming from it's aimed as an entry level guide for people looking to get their first kills or iron out their process if they're struggling at qpd in this guide i'm going to cover minimum and recommended requirements gear setups inventory ability bars and boss mechanics using clips for examples before showing a full kill including getting to the boss as an example i'll also put timestamps into the description for the video so you can skip to specific parts you're interested in i'm putting my recommended unlocks and stats on screen right now i would recommend 70 plus in ranged or magic depending on the style you want to use 70 plus in defense 70 plus in prayer with the pious prayers unlocked which you unlock through the night's waves mini quest 60 summoning completion of the song for the depths quest access to super anti-fires which requires 85 her blood and 25 heaving although this can be boosted and access to wars retreat and the water retreat teleport spell out of these only 60 summoning is actually a requirement everything else is purely recommended 70 plus in your chosen attack style and defense will help you get cleaner kills 70 plus prayer will likewise give you easier and cleaner kills completing song from the depths reduces the damage you take from qbd throughout the fight super anti-fires likewise reduce all the fire damage you take throughout the fight you can use regular anti-fire potions but you'll take significantly more damage from many of the mechanics which i'll go into later access to water treat is purely a convenience but will give you much faster kills overall as we'll get to and from the boss a lot quicker my first assumption here is that you don't have high end gear maybe you're an iron man like myself or maybe you just don't have any money if you're interested in optimal gear setups i'll leave a link in the description to the wiki which has you covered but that's not the aim of this guide my second assumption is you're not the most confident pvm and you find the mechanics of combat a little intimidating i'm showing the gearing stats i used on screen right now i would recommend using ranged or mage for qbd you can use melee but several of the mechanics discussed later are easy to deal with if you're not in melee distance as a weapon i'm using the magic staff iteration of the sunspear a tier 78 weapon qbd has quite high defense so for smooth kills i'd recommend this weapon or better for mainstay players the royal crossbow is a great cheap ranged weapon and for ironman who don't have the sunspear you could use vanquish as a tier 75 weapon but this will result in longer kill times for the rest of the gear aim to use the best power armor you have goldball's one gear is great skeletal armor or spined armor is an easily obtainable alternative fireman avoid tank armor if possible even if it's the higher tier as the damage increase you get from the power armor is typically more useful than the damage reduction you get from using tank um for jewelry take the best element you have access to in the style you're using i'm using the dragon rider amulet from one of a kind as it's free i'm also using a ring of life as i'm a haiku iron man but if you aren't i'd recommend your best damaging ring the asylum surgeon ring is free and very powerful similarly i'm using a port and of light for my pocket slot if you're less worried about dying than i am then a gold book would be a low cost alternative the general idea with the gear here is simply to maximize the offensive bonus for your chosen style if you have invention unlocked precise and equilibrium are good perks that are easy to get dragon slayer is obviously a good perk for killing qbd specifically in the following clips i'm also using a slayer helm as i'm killing qbd as part of a slayer task it's definitely not essential but i recommend trying to do this as the 15 bonus damage and accuracy is significant you can skip tasks with slayer points use slayer tickets or clear tasks with surreal to force the qbd task duradill girdle motherin and laniaker can all assign black dragon tasks for the inventory i keep it very simple you need a super anti-fire potion or regular amplified potion if you can't make the superior version and like dying the best defensive potion you have a prayer potion for emergencies your best comment familiar i'm using a talon beast i would avoid beast of burden for this method as they shouldn't be necessary 60 summoning is a requirement for qed so there's no excuse not to bring at least some dps familiar even if it's not very good you'll also need runes if you're using magic i'm using airsurge the rest of the inventory can just be food i'm using catfish in the following clips as it's easy to obtain also we're going to be using the walls retreat to quickly restock our inventory and refill our adrenaline after every kill so there's no need to bring more than the resources required to get a single kill you can also use presets to minimize banking time if you don't have access to water treat teleports you can unlock it by speaking to war after getting 10 total boss kills across any boss which you should definitely do and it's a very very very useful teleport obviously there's a whole slew of items you could bring that would make the kills quicker or smoother instead of all this food you could bring dread nips vulnerability bombs weapon switches ring switches adrenaline potions the list goes on but this is a beginner's guide so i'm assuming you probably don't have access to some of these higher end options if you do and feel confident using them then use them and enjoy the lower kill times they bring qbd is immune to poison though so don't bother bringing weapon poisons or cinder beams i'm using the magic sunspear in the following clips so use the ability bar shown below it's taken straight from the wiki and i'll leave a link in the description i've also included their recommended setup for magic dual wield range two-handed and range dual build in the screenshot some of these abilities like sunshine or death swiftness have requirements so it's worth checking the wiki to see what your optimal setup would be i've tried doing this on both manual and revolution and didn't notice the significant dps difference from my testing so feel free to use either don't use legacy mode seriously it's almost 20 21. i also include the following abilities on a secondary ability bar freedom anticipation and devotion these are used purely for adrenal installing which i cover later lastly i have a one click teleport and my brads i'm using the tier 70 or reaper unlocked by the knights wave mini quest along with the protect from ranged as i do not have the prayer level for high end curses yet use the high tick cursors if you have them now let's talk mechanics qbd has four phases with each lasting for 25 000 hit points in phase one she has three core mechanics firstly a basic range and melee attack i recommend standing exactly here in phase one standing here you add a range of qbd's melee distance so she will only attack with ranged letting you pray range the whole time with protect from range she will hit up to 1 500 which sounds scary but it's actually relatively slow and inaccurate secondly a standard dragon fry attack this will hit 400's with the super amplifier potion but twice this with just a regular 95 ocean thirdly her far-rated mechanic this is the only mechanic that requires any real interaction with in phase one in chat box message with the text the queen black dragon takes a huge breath appears and she rears up she creates a firewall moving from my head to the edge of the arena if you have super amplifiers this wall has 750 damage per game tick there are four primary ways to interact with this attack one stand a single tile gap that appears in each wave doing this results in no damage being taken but moving around can reduce your dps so it's not always recommended 2. you can simply walk through the fire wave this results in getting hit for a single game tick which is 750 damage 3. if you time your movement through the wall correctly you will actually take no damage which is what i show here i find it easy to step away in the back into the flame more personally but your experience may be different the timing requires some practice but the penalty for failure is typically low as you'll just take 750 damage four you can do absolutely nothing if you simply stand still let the wall hit you you will take damage for two ticks which is 1 500 damage the lower dps the more important it is to avoid damage from the flame wall as otherwise you could run out of food but in general the flame mechanic can be largely tanked and i would not suggest wasting too much dps moving to avoid it when she hits the zero hit points dragon can artifact your next two starts to light up and you have to click on it to start the next phase until you do this you cannot damage qed any further additionally until you click the artifact you'll summon aggressive worms if your ranging or maging is recommended you can instantly click the artifact and qbd should not create a single worm in this phase if she does though don't worry just ignore them for the rest of the fight in phase 2 qbg maintains all existing mechanics with two changes firstly the final mechanic now creates two flame walls short distance apart as shown here they can be dodged in the same manner as the first phase although moving to the gap in the firewalls can become impractical given the distance between them so i'd recommend just stepping through the walls at this point if you continue to take no damage that's great but taking 750 damage is also fine as you can eat through it secondly qbd begins to summon torches holes in phase two a chat box message appears with the text the queen black dragon summons one of her captured souls and a purple ghost appears one tile to your west after a short delay it fires a slightly cloud at you that can hit up to 1 500 typeless damage if you time it correctly as shown in this clip the chaotic cloud will follow you through the ghost and the tortured soul takes damage instead if you time it incorrectly you will take the damage you do not need to kill the tortured souls but i would recommend it as otherwise they can get out of hand and can actually heal qbd also for role-playing reasons put them out of their misery when qbd hits zero hit points the far west artifact will then light up you have to run and clock on it as before if you spend too long on the platform as i do in this clip here you will take 1 500 points of typeless damage to try not to linger as before if you take too long the qbd will start to spawn worms that will attack you for the rest of the fight if you're using ranged or mage it's fairly easy to limit this to a single worm regardless i'd recommend ignoring any spawned worms for the rest of the fight in phase three qbd adds one new ability and modifies two existing ones when she summons a firewall she now summons three waves instead of two additionally when she summons her tortured souls she now summons two ones to the west and one to the east similarly to before if you time it correctly you can move through for souls and both their attacks will get blocked by a single soul lastly qbd adds a new ability where she temporarily changes her affinity to take more damage and magic and less in physical attacks or vice versa this ability is random and other than bringing a hybrid setup cannot be interacted with so it can be mostly ignored at the end of phase three when qbd hits zero light points again the far east artifact will light up as before simply click on it and then move off the platform as quickly as possible in phase 4 qbd adds another ability and modifies her tortured soul ability when she summons the torture souls you now summons four of them in a box around you as shown here as before if you time your movement correctly you can move so that the attacks are blocked also the souls gain the time stop ability which allows them to stop time one of the torches souls teleports to the corner as shown here and starts rambling about time being short you need to kill the torture soul within 10 seconds or you will be frozen in time and unable to attack move or heal this is bad news the qbd will continue attacking you and you will take all the received damage at the end of the timestop so there's a very high chance you die her new ability is extreme dragon breath you see a chat box message that says the queen black dragon gathers her strength to breathe extremely hot flames and then she will deal damage every tick for three ticks you take more damage in the center i put the exact damage received on the screen currently as this little complex if you're using ranged or mage it's easier to stay on the edge here and take reduced damage compared to using melee if you don't have super anti-fires damage here can become unmanageable which is why i would not recommend using regular amplifiers phase 4 is really the danger face for qbd both the extreme dragon breath and the torch's souls can hit very hard very quickly if you're not careful if qbd stacks the two abilities together you run the risk of being ko'd you can see what's happening in the current clip by almost dying in a separate clip i didn't record it also have a ring of light proct in a similar situation for this reason if you are a hardcore iron man i would not recommend doing qbd without a ring of life even if you feel confident phase 4 ends the same way as the previous phases the central southern artifact lights up when qbd hit zero life points and you just click on it to confirm the kill this covers all the boss mechanics so now i'll run a fill kill with some unscripted commentaries so let's see how that goes you can see i'm starting in water treat i've attuned the boss portal to go to qbd uh it costs 100k it is massively worth it you'll get back 100k in a single kill you do need this at least one kill in qbd to do that if you don't have that then i would recommend you just run by the ports from low stone and get that kill and then instantly change the boss portal it will massively decrease your total kill times it also lets you use adrenal installing like i'm doing here you can see i've come in with 100 adrenaline i'm using defensive abilities to keep that up that means i'm going to start the fight for sunshine which is a really powerful ultimate ability and phase one is when you want to use it phase two and uh or phase three and four you can be a little bit mobile phase one and phase two you can typically just stand here for most of it which means you can stay in the sunshine beam that means that firstly yeah it's just a great ability to use and secondly there's no better time to use it in the fight than right now i like to stand right here because it's outside of melee range so you just have to worry about ranged attacks i'm pregnant it's ranged um it also means you're right next to the artifact from the phase ends like here and secondly in phase two you can stay here for a bit longer to enjoy that sunshine beam and you see when you summon this torch's soul it appears one step to the west which is where it wants to be if you step if you're on the other side of the artifact then it might spawn somewhere else right there would be space for the spawn one step to the west and it could bug out a little bit and that could be a problem now the phase is going to end in a second i'm going to run and i'm going to hit the dragon artifact i think i spent a little bit too long on the platform during this clip i can't quite remember i think i take some damage on it yep i take some damage so yeah trying to spend less time also it looks like two groceries got spawned that's not a problem uh she does become crystal resistant in his face uh sorry she gains the consistency of crystals it becomes magic resistance it does draw the phase out a little bit it's going to take a bit longer but there's something you can do about that right now she's going to summon her souls she summons two of them again like in phase one you just sidestep both the chaotic clouds get caught for the souls i think clean them up you don't technically have to but if you don't kill them then they can cause problems later on i just think it gets too risky um i get a warning about my charge back that's fine enough to fix after this fight now this phase is almost over it's definitely taking longer than usual it's taken like almost the whole length of the previous two phases combined because firstly i'm not using sunshine and secondly that uh crystal form if i'm using magic is pretty brutal now that phase ended i clicked the artifact phase for the beginning see how i moved in from the edge of there um i don't think i covered this in the mechanics but i stepped in away from the edge because if you don't do that and she summons her tortured souls in that uh she sums four of them in phase four in little box around you if you're at the edge some of them can't summon where they're supposed to they summon elsewhere and it makes it harder to dodge the attacks but shooting some of them it's fine the phase is over i touched the last crystal and now it's nothing more than to see what i get i don't think i got anything good on this chest i'll find out in a second i don't think i did ah ten torso you know what for an iron man that's lovely uh but there's a full run you can see now you teleport back in i think i have to go over for my charge back but if i didn't do that i would be able to run straight back uh just restock with the preset um refill adrenaline crystal and go back through right so really with water treat there's almost no downtime which is great that's why definitely a hundred percent use the water retreat portal do not run through ports for him any more than you have to just do that once you get the first kill and then never do it again you use water tree it's so worth it lastly why do we kill qbd well for loot obviously the nice thing about qbd is that she has very consistent drops you're not really hunting a specific rare drop to make your money as just the common drops are very valuable the average value for jobs is just under 200k per kill at the current ground exchange prices when i made this video for ironman she drops the royal crossroad pieces a powerful tier 8200 crossbow as well as a number of great pvm resources such as sarah brews sharks rocktails superstars and herbs that just about wraps it up for this guide don't forget to like 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Length: 16min 28sec (988 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 13 2020