Scorpia/Strategies

A pair of players battle against Scorpia and her little guardians.

Scorpia is a powerful Wilderness boss capable of poisoning her opponents starting at 20 damage as well as hitting up to 16 with melee. Her lair, located beneath the Scorpion Pit, is filled with many Scorpia's offspring, which use accurate ranged attacks with a max hit of 2 and inflict poison starting at 6 damage.

Once Scorpia reaches 99 health or lower, she will summon two Scorpia's guardians which will continually heal Scorpia when within a few tiles of her until they are killed or despawned. The guardians will not respawn if killed, and will despawn if they are too far away to heal Scorpia for 15 seconds.

An effective strategy is to exploit her low magic defence by using ice barrage to freeze her (ice burst, ice blitz or entangle will also work fine), staying out of melee range while attacking her with magic, and using Protect from Missiles to prevent damage from Scorpia's offspring. Once her guardians spawn, players should wait until Scorpia is about to become unfrozen, then quickly freeze both guardians and lure Scorpia far away from them. This should cause the guardians to despawn, allowing Scorpia to be easily finished off.

Tips

• If you are comfortable with it, set NPC attack options to "always right click" so you don't accidentally target the offspring, as this hinders your movement and wastes runes and Scorpion slayer kills. Alternatively, a plugin available in any approved third-party game client called "Menu Entry Swapper" will allow customizable left/shift click settings, allowing you to set the left-click option of the offspring as "Walk here".
• Consider using longrange/defensive casting. Standing further away makes positioning easier when Scorpia unfreezes.
• A good way to lure Scorpia away from her guardians is to position yourself at the side where you will be luring her just before she reaches half hp and freezing the healers immediately as they spawn. This requires careful timing, as Scorpia should ideally unfreeze very soon after you freeze both the guardians.
• If using ancient magicks, you may utilise manual casting of blood spells to heal yourself when Scorpia is frozen and minions are not around.
• Lower levelled players not using a toxic weapon may also try to poison Scorpia with a couple casts of Smoke blitz/barrage when starting the kill for a little bit of extra damage.
• The guardians give highly reduced experience. Do not rely on experience drops to see whether you hit them.

Suggested skills

• 78+ for Trident of the swamp
• 40+ for Protect from Missiles

Equipment

The setup primarily consists of only taking 3 or 4 expensive items as this boss resides in a multi-combat area in level 50+ Wilderness, meaning player killers may quickly kill off-guard players.

Scorpia is not immune to venom and poison; therefore, using a trident of the swamp will do some additional damage over the course of the kill. Due to her low magic defence, a minimally geared player will rarely miss, therefore magic damage and prayer bonus should be prioritised over magic accuracy to reduce risk and prolong trips.

If bringing a powered staff, a magic boost such as a Magic potion, Forgotten brew, or Saturated/Imbued heart will provide additional magic damage.

Recommended equipment for Magic

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Slayer helmet (i)	Bloodbark helm	Mitre	Farseer helm	Mystic hat
	Occult necklace	God stole	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power	Unholy symbol
	Imbued god cape	Ardougne cloak	God capes	Vestment cloak	N/A
	Bloodbark body	Monk's robe top	Zamorak monk top	Mystic robe top	Xerician top
	Bloodbark legs	Monk's robe	Zamorak monk bottom	Mystic robe bottom	Xerician robe
	Accursed sceptre / Thammaron's sceptre	Sanguinesti staff	Trident of the swamp	Trident of the seas	Iban's staff
	Elidinis' ward (f)	Elidinis' ward / Malediction ward / Ancient wyvern shield	Book of darkness	File:God book.pngGod book	Broodoo shield
	Rada's blessing 4	File:Peaceful blessing.pngGod blessing / Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Tormented bracelet	Barrows gloves / Dragon gloves	Rune gloves / Adamant gloves	Combat bracelet	N/A
	Bloodbark boots / Mystic boots	Ghostly boots	Splitbark boots	Moonclan boots	N/A
	Ring of shadows / (uncharged)	Explorer's ring 4	Beacon ring	Ring of recoil	Ring of wealth (i)

Inventory

12	File:Saradomin brew(4).png	File:Saradomin brew(4).png	File:Saradomin brew(4).png
		File:Saradomin brew(4).png	File:Saradomin brew(4).png
			File:Stamina potion(4).png
			300

• Multiple araxyte venom sacks or 2 antidote++/superantipoison
  • Can be replaced with twice the number of Sanfew serums for more prayer
• 6+ Blighted super restore (can bring more or fewer)
• High healing food primarily for escaping player-killers. A mix of manta rays and Cooked karambwan is recommended as both can be consumed in the same tick.
• 4+ Saradomin brews
• Saturated heart (ensure the item is protected on death)
• 100+ casts or Blighted ancient ice sack for Ice Blitz, Ice Barrage, or Entangle. If lasting a full trip with the recommended inventory bring 300+ casts.
• 1 or 2 Stamina potions for escaping player-killers and during kills, especially if finishing a kill after running out of binds
• Wilderness sword 1 or better, Knife or slash weapon if running from Edgeville lever
• Lockpick, for escaping into the magic axe hut
• Black d'hide body and chaps, for tanking player killers
• Looting bag