Corrupted Gauntlet — Zero-Gear Solo Money Making

You craft everything at singing bowls inside. Crystal weapons come in three tiers (basic → attuned → perfected) and three styles: bow (Ranged), staff (Magic), halberd (Melee). Because Hunllef prays against your style, you need at least two weapons. The standard, high-success setup:

• Main weapon (T3): perfected bow or staff — this is your damage, always push it to tier 3
• Off-style weapon: a halberd (or the other ranged/mage option) to keep hitting when Hunllef prays your main style; T1–T2 is fine
• Armour: full T2 (helm/body/legs) is the sweet spot — chasing T3 armour burns prep time for little gain. Damage scales off total armour tier, so 2× T3 pieces ≈ full T2
• Food: 20+ paddlefish (heal 20 each) — bring more fish over perfect armour while you're still dying
• Egniol potions: made from grym leaf; restore run energy and prayer points during the fight
• Teleport crystal: optional escape if you botch prep (leaving/dying gives a token reward, no unique chance)

• Enter with an empty inventory (bank everything in the chest by the entrance first)
• Inside you make/find a crystal pickaxe, axe and harpoon to gather crystal ore, phren bark, linum tirtinum, grym leaf, raw paddlefish and crystal shards
• Final fight inventory: T3 main weapon, off-style weapon, T2 armour set, egniol potions, ~20+ paddlefish
• Drop weapon/armour frames you won't use so gathering clicks stay clean; never enter Hunllef underfed

1. You have 7 minutes 30 seconds to prep (30% less than regular Gauntlet). Move fast and follow a fixed room route.
2. Gather on the way: crystal ore, phren bark and paddlefish first; grab grym leaf and linum tirtinum for potions and armour.
3. Hunt the demi-bosses — Crystalline Bear, Dragon and Dark Beast (all level 172). The first Bear kill guarantees a crystal spike (needed for a T3 halberd); they also drop weapon/armour frames.
4. Craft your T3 main weapon first, then a second style, then full T2 armour, then egniol potions.
5. Enter the boss room with food, pots and both weapons ready (or the timer auto-teleports you in at 0:00).
6. Fight the Corrupted Hunllef: match its attack style with Protect from Magic/Missiles, swap your weapon every time it changes its overhead, and keep moving through tornadoes and floor tiles.
7. Loot the chest, leave, and immediately re-enter. Cutting dead time between runs is where GP/hr is won.

• 1000 HP. Corrupted Hunllef has more health and higher stats than the regular version — kills take longer and hit harder, so DPS and armour both matter.
• Overhead switch every 6 attacks. Hunllef prays against your current style after 6 of its own attacks. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6, then swap your weapon so you keep dealing damage.
• Protection prayers. It alternates Magic and Ranged attacks — flick Protect from Magic / Missiles to match. Off-prayer hits are large.
• Tornadoes. The #1 killer. Run along edges / cut diagonally to shake them; do not stand still to DPS.
• Damaging floor & stomp. Step off glowing tiles immediately and give it space during the stomp attack.
• Leaving early or dying gives only a small token reward — no chance at seeds or armour.

CG profit is top-heavy: a single enhanced crystal weapon seed is worth roughly as much as hundreds of ordinary chests, so your real GP/hr is dominated by that 1/400 drop. Between seeds you bank shards, smaller seeds and alchables — a decent baseline, but the big number only shows up when you stay consistent over many runs.

• Enhanced crystal weapon seed — 1/400. The jackpot; makes Bow of Faerdhinen or Blade of Saeldor. If you don't want it, exchange it with Amrod for 1,500 crystal shards.
• Crystal armour seed — 1/50. Three are needed for a full crystal armour set, so mains usually sell them.
• Crystal weapon seed — ~1/25. The basic (non-enhanced) seed for crystal bow/halberd/staff.
• Baseline every run: crystal shards, plus common drops (runes, coins, alchables).
• Supplies/death cost: zero GP — you bring nothing in. The only cost is time (and HCIM status).

Prices swing a lot, so treat GP/hr as a range. Check the current enhanced seed and armour seed prices on the GE Tracker before comparing CG to Zulrah or Vorkath.

• Entering Hunllef with a T1 weapon or under ~15 paddlefish
• Chasing T3 armour instead of a repeatable T3-weapon + full-T2-armour prep
• Losing the 6-attack count and staying on the prayed-against weapon
• Standing still to squeeze DPS instead of running the tornadoes
• Wasting prep time backtracking — commit to one room route and stick to it
• Quitting after a dry seed streak; 1/400 means long droughts are normal, keep sending runs