The Gauntlet Minigame Guide of OSRS Game

The Gauntlet is a dangerous solo minigame in which you have to explore the hidden rooms to gather resources and supplies and kill Crystalline Hunllef in a randomly generated dungeon layout in a limited time (10 minutes for regular and 7.5 minutes for the Corrupted). Today we will show you how to play the minigame in the guide.

Requirements

You must have completed the OSRS quest: Song of the Elves to enter Prifddinas.

High levels (85+) in two of Magic, Ranged.

At least level 40 Prayer to use Protect from Missiles.

Getting There and Start a Game

You can use the (eternal) teleport crystal, Prifddinas teleport (or House teleport with POH in Prifddinas) tablet, or the Spirit Tree to teleport to Prifddinas and run to arrive at the Gauntlet Portal in the northwest of Prifddinas. Then enter the room.

In the room, you will find a Portal in the north. Right-click on it to select Enter The Gauntlet or Enter-corrupted The Gauntlet. And The Corrupted Gauntlet is a more challenging version of The Gauntlet.

Choose one to enter the dungeon with a 7x7 grid of rooms.

Starting Room

You will find yourself in a starting room next to the boss. There are some tools used for processing the collected resources.

The Singing bowl: You can use it to make armour, weapons, teleport and escape crystals, vials, and crystal paddlefish.

Range: You can cook the paddlefish on the Range.

Water pump: You can fill your vials with water at the water pump or any fishing spots.

Tool storage: If you lose your tools, you can take them from the tool storage in the center of the room.

Collecting resources and supplies

Light the nodes of each room with the Crystal sceptre. You will find some resources, supplies, or monsters in it. Explore the rooms to collect the following items:

5 of each Phren Barks, Crystal Ores, and Linum Tirinum

2 Grym leaves

2 Weapon Frames

320 - 460 Crystal Shards

Any 2 or 1 of Crystal orb (dropped by the Crystalline Dragon), Crystalline bowstring (dropped by the Crystalline Dark Beast), and Crystal spike (dropped by the Crystalline Bear)

10 - 25 Raw Paddlefish

Tips:

You can only find the Crystalline dragons, dark beasts, and bears in the outermost rooms. Kill 1 or 2 of any to receive two of the Crystal orb, Crystalline bowstring, and Crystal spike.

Explore around the starting room first to collect a weapon frame and 80 Crystal shards to make an attuned weapon.

Enable the quick drop setting to drop the items quickly.

Preparation

Make armour, weapons, and potions with the resources you have gathered. And cook all your paddlefish.

Armour: Attuned helm, legs, and body.

Weapon: 2 perfect weapons or a perfect one and an attuned one depending on your combat stats.

Potions: 2 Egniol potions (3). Make two vials and fill them with water. Then use the Grym leaves on the water-filled vials. Use a pestle and mortar with 20 crystal shards to receive 20 Crystal dust. Finally, use the Crystal dust on the Grym potions (unf) to receive two Egniol potions (3).

Attacks of the Boss

Both the Crystalline and Corrupted Hunllef use the same attacks.

Standard: Magic and Ranged, alternating every 4 attacks.

Stomp attack: If you are underneath the boss when it tries to attack you, it will perform a stomp attack that does not count towards the 4 attacks.

Prayer Disabling Attack: When the boss is attacking you with the Magic attack, sometime it will disable your Prayer.

Tornados: The boss will summon multiple tornados to attack you. Run away and keep them away from you.

Damaging floor: During the fight, the floor will light up in various places. Do not stand on it, or you will be hurt badly.

Kill the Boss

Because the boss uses protect prayers to protect itself, we need two different attack styles to defeat it. It switches the prayers after every sixth attack. You can use the cycle to kill it with your best attack style. If you have a high Ranged level, you can fight it as follows:

Check if the boss uses Protect from Missiles or not when you have entered the starting room. If it does, leave and re-enter.

If the boss uses Protect from Melee, range it with a bow five times, then attack it with staff once.

The boss will switch the Prayer to Protect from Magic.

Range it with a bow five times, then attack it with melee (no weapon and kick it).

The boss will switch the Prayer to Protect from Melee.

Repeat until you defeat it.

Reward

After defeating the boss, you will receive two (three for Corrupted) rolls on the regular loot table, several crystal shards, and a roll for the unique rewards.

The unique reward items are the Gauntlet cape, Crystal weapon seed, Crystal armour seed, Enhanced crystal weapon seed, and the Youngllef pet.

Including crystal shards and unique drops, a kill is worth around 320k osrs gold coins. It is one of the best money-making methods in the game.

The RSBee Team