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1. Quest Overview: A Taste of Hope in OSRS
A Taste of Hope is a quest in Old School RuneScape (OSRS) that continues the Myreque storyline, involving players in the fight against the vampyres of Morytania. Here’s an overview:
- Requirements: The quest requires specific skill levels, including 48 Crafting, 45 Agility, 40 Attack, 40 Herblore, and 38 Slayer. Players must also have completed the Darkness of Hallowvale quest.
- Starting Point: The quest begins by speaking to Garth, who is located just outside the Theatre of Blood in Ver Sinhaza.
1.1 Storyline
The storyline involves the player assisting the Myreque in gathering intelligence, crafting a weapon, and ultimately confronting Ranis Drakan, a powerful vampyre. The quest delves into the lore of Morytania, exploring the conflicts between humans and vampyres.
1.2 Rewards
Upon completing A Taste of Hope, players receive significant rewards, including quest points, experience in various skills, and Drakan’s medallion.
- 6 Quest Points
- 7,000 Attack XP
- 6,000 Crafting XP
- 4,000 Slayer XP
- Drakan’s medallion, a teleport item
These rewards make the quest worthwhile for players seeking to advance their characters and explore new content in OSRS.
2. Essential Requirements for A Taste of Hope
Meeting the requirements is crucial for successfully undertaking A Taste of Hope. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the necessary skills, quests, and items:
2.1 Skill Requirements
To begin A Taste of Hope, players must have the following skill levels:
- 48 Crafting: Crafting is necessary for creating certain items required during the quest.
- 45 Agility: Agility is needed to navigate obstacles and shortcuts.
- 40 Attack: Attack is essential for combat encounters.
- 40 Herblore: Herblore is required to create potions needed during the quest.
- 38 Slayer: Slayer is necessary as the abomination has a low magic defence.
2.2 Quest Requirements
- Darkness of Hallowvale: This quest must be completed before starting A Taste of Hope, as it sets the stage for the events and introduces key characters.
2.3 Item Requirements
Gathering the necessary items before starting the quest can streamline the process. Here is a list of essential items:
- Coins: At least 1,000 coins are needed, with additional coins (10,000 per trip) if taking Andras’ boat from the Ectofuntus.
- Knife or Sickle: For cutting or slashing tasks.
- Emerald: Used in crafting processes.
- Chisel: Needed for shaping materials.
2.3.1 Magic and Enchantment Items
- Runes: 3 Air runes and 1 Cosmic rune (if using the standard Spellbook).
- Enchant Emerald or Jade Tablet: For enchanting the emerald sickle.
- Rod of Ivandis: Can be obtained during the quest or beforehand.
2.3.2 Potion and Miscellaneous Items
- Pestle and Mortar: Can be obtained during the quest for creating potions.
- Vial of Water: Obtained during the quest.
- Weapons and Armor: For combat encounters.
2.4 Recommended Items
Having these items can make the quest easier and more efficient:
- Combat Level 70: Recommended for combat encounters.
- Pickaxe: Can be obtained during the quest for mining.
- Stamina Potion and Weight-Reducing Clothing: To manage run energy.
- Explorer’s Ring: For run-energy regeneration.
- Morytania Legs 3 or 4: For quick access to Burgh de Rott.
- Ectophial: For teleporting to the Ectofuntus.
- Shades of Mort’ton Teleport: For quick access.
- Restore Potion or Super Restore: To restore stats during the abomination fight.
2.5 Preparing Your Inventory
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3. Starting A Taste of Hope: Step-by-Step Guide
Embarking on A Taste of Hope involves several key steps. Following this guide will help you navigate the initial stages smoothly.
3.1 Traveling to Ver Sinhaza
Your first task is to reach Ver Sinhaza, the starting location for the quest. Here are a few methods to get there:
- Ectophial Method:
- Use the Ectophial to teleport to the Ectofuntus.
- Take the rowboat north for 10,000 coins.
- Burgh de Rott Method:
- Travel to Burgh de Rott using methods like the Shades of Mort’ton minigame teleport or Barrows Teleport.
- Use the Agility shortcut (requires 50 Agility).
- Climb up the rocks and run along the wall to reach Ver Sinhaza.
- Port Phasmatys Method:
- Follow the road south from Port Phasmatys, passing Slepe. Note that this option involves a lot of walking.
3.2 Speaking to Garth
Once in Ver Sinhaza, locate Garth, who is positioned just outside the entrance to the Theatre of Blood. Talk to him to initiate the quest dialogue. Garth will mention the connection between Serafina and the Theatre, setting the stage for the quest’s events.
3.3 Observing Vanstrom and Ranis
During your conversation with Garth, you will notice Vanstrom Klause and Ranis Drakan entering the Theatre. Express your concern about this to Garth. This observation is crucial, as it propels the quest forward by highlighting the suspicious activities of key vampyre figures.
3.4 Informing Safalaan
Safalaan, the leader of the Myreque, needs to be informed about the situation. To reach him quickly:
- Speak to a Vyrewatch and request to be sent to the mines.
- Mine 15 Daeyalt ores.
- Speak to a Vampyre Juvinate to leave the mines. You will appear near the Myreque hideout.
- Follow the blue path on the map to reach the hideout.
- Speak to Safalaan inside the hideout and inform him of what you observed at the Theatre.
3.5 Spying on Ranis and Vanstrom
Safalaan decides to investigate further and sends you to speak with King Roald’s mercenaries, who are stationed at the south-east corner of Ver Sinhaza. Return to Ver Sinhaza and speak to any of the mercenaries. They will tell you that both Ranis and Vanstrom are still at the theatre and suggest you spy on them through a window in the castle.
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4. Vampyric Espionage: Infiltrating the Theatre
This section details the steps required to spy on Ranis and Vanstrom within the Theatre of Blood.
4.1 Getting to the Theatre Roof
Return to Ver Sinhaza. Head to the south-west corner of Ver Sinhaza, just west of the bank. Attempt to climb up the rubble at the base of the wall to access the top of the Theatre. However, a nearby vyrewatch will intervene and stop you.
4.2 Talking to Harpert
Speak to Harpert, who is located nearby. He offers to distract the guard for 1,000 coins. If you do not have the required coins, use the nearby bank to withdraw them. Paying Harpert is necessary to proceed with your infiltration.
4.3 Climbing the Theatre Roof
After Harpert distracts the guard, climb up the rubble and follow the wall around to the north. You will encounter vents along the way that need to be climbed up and down. Be cautious when climbing the vents, as they may release boiling hot steam, dealing damage and pushing you back down.
4.4 Watching the Cutscene
Continue east, climbing up and down sections of the roof until you reach a red window. Look through the red window to trigger a short cutscene. You will witness Ranis and Vanstrom speaking with Verzik Vitur, who provides them with an abomination to help track down the Myreque. Watching the cutscene restores your health, prayer, and run energy.
4.5 Reporting to Safalaan
Return to Safalaan at the Myreque Hideout and inform him about what you saw during the cutscene. Safalaan will begin planning with Vertida based on your report.
4.6 Speaking to Flaygian Screwte
Flaygian Screwte, the head researcher translating the Haemalchemy book obtained during Darkness of Hallowvale, is in the same room as Safalaan. Talk to Flaygian, who will explain that the vampyres were conducting experiments on both humans and vampyres.
4.7 Speak to Safalaan Again
Return to Safalaan and have another conversation with him.
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5. The Myth of Serafina: Unlocking the Past
This phase of the quest involves investigating the myth of Serafina and uncovering hidden information that could aid the Myreque.
5.1 Speaking to Safalaan
After speaking with Flaygian Screwte, return to Safalaan and have another conversation with him. Safalaan plans to meet up with Veliaf Hurtz’s team in Burgh de Rott and escape Morytania, as it may no longer be safe for the Myreque to hide there. You can inquire about Serafina, and he will provide information about her whereabouts.
5.2 Exiting the Hideout
Exit the hideout by climbing up the stairs, jumping the gap, and climbing down the ladder. Head due north through the three doors in a line, then go due west until you reach the wall. Head north-west to reach a broken fountain.
5.3 Meeting Safalaan
Climb down the stairs in the building directly south of the broken fountain to meet up with Safalaan once more. Optionally, search the bed by the stairs to obtain an old diary.
5.4 Discussing Serafina and the Locked Door
Safalaan expresses frustration with the story of Serafina, believing it gives false hope to Morytania’s citizens. He mentions a locked door in the room that may contain what they seek.
5.5 Obtaining Items
Search the crates and barrels in the room to find the following items: a mysterious meat, a mysterious herb, a vial, and a pestle and mortar.
5.6 Preparing the Unfinished Potion
Use the vial on the broken fountain north of the house to obtain a vial of water. Add the mysterious herb to the vial of water to create an unfinished potion.
5.7 Preparing the Blood Potion
Crush the mysterious meat with the pestle and mortar. Use the crushed meat on the unfinished potion to complete the blood potion.
5.8 Unlocking the Door
Use the finished blood potion on the locked door. However, nothing will happen.
5.9 Speaking to Safalaan Again
Talk to Safalaan with an empty vial in your inventory. He will give you a vial of blood. Use another mysterious herb on the vial of blood to create an unfinished blood potion. Add the mysterious crushed meat to the unfinished blood potion to complete it. Use the finished blood potion on the locked door to unlock it.
5.10 Retrieving Old Notes
Open the chest in the room to find the old notes.
5.11 Giving Old Notes to Safalaan
Hand over the old notes to Safalaan.
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6. It’s a Trap! Surviving the Abomination Attack
This section covers the intense sequence where the Myreque hideout is attacked, and you must defend against a powerful abomination.
6.1 Returning to the Hideout
Head back to the Myreque hideout and speak to Safalaan.
6.2 Trap Revealed
Safalaan informs everyone that the notes you retrieved were complete nonsense and realizes that Vanstrom tricked him into giving up his blood at Serafina’s house.
6.3 Danger Approaches
As the group is about to leave the hideout, Flaygian Screwte alerts them that it’s too late, and the abomination created by Vanstrom reaches their base. It proceeds to attack, resulting in the deaths of Mekritus A’hara, Andiess Juip, and Flaygian Screwte.
6.4 Safalaan’s Power
As the abomination is about to attack Safalaan, he levitates and emits a strange cyan glow, which is amplified, leading to a powerful explosion that weakens the abomination.
6.5 Defeating the Abomination
Safalaan weakens the abomination, and you, along with Vertida, must defeat it. The abomination uses both melee and ranged attacks, occasionally launching a black projectile that can drain your stats by up to 3. Consider bringing restore potions or super restore potions for stat and Prayer point restoration. The abomination has low Magic Defence, relatively high Ranged Defence, and moderate melee defence.
6.6 Safespotting
You can safespot the abomination by hiding behind the brick wall and allowing it to attack Vertida. Hitting it again will cause it to become aggressive toward you. You can also use Protect from Missiles to avoid taking damage if safespotting.
6.7 Completion
Work with Vertida to defeat the abomination, keeping in mind that his damage output is low.
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7. The Legendary Weapon: Crafting the Ivandis Flail
After surviving the abomination attack, the quest shifts towards crafting a weapon effective against the vampyres.
7.1 Meeting Safalaan and Vertida
After defeating the abomination, Safalaan and Vertida will ask you to meet them at their old base, a small room beneath Old Man Ral’s house. You can access this room via a trapdoor in the north room of Old Man Ral’s house, which is located northeast of Burgh de Rott.
7.2 Discussion and Revelation
Safalaan insists on leaving, but Vertida interrupts, informing Safalaan that Flaygian managed to translate more of the book during your investigation of Serafina’s home.
7.3 Flaygian’s Notes
Speak to Vertida, and he will give you Flaygian’s notes to read. These notes reveal that a weapon potentially effective against the Vyrewatch is a flail, with the rod of Ivandis being suitable as the flail’s shaft.
7.4 Obtaining the Components
Search the nearby crates to find a silver sickle (b) and a chain. You can obtain the rod of Ivandis from Veliaf Hurtz in Burgh de Rott (under the pub) or create it yourself if you have talked to Vertida about it.
7.5 Creating the Ivandis Flail
- Attach the emerald to the silver sickle (b) to create an emerald sickle (b).
- Cast Lvl-2 Enchant on the emerald sickle or use an enchant emerald or jade tablet on it.
- Finally, use the chain on the enchanted emerald sickle or the Rod of Ivandis to create the Ivandis flail.
7.6 Confronting Ranis Drakan
Safalaan informs you that the vampyres believe the Myreque has been defeated by the abomination, and Ranis Drakan intends to announce this to all of Meiyerditch at Ver Sinhaza. Safalaan proposes confronting Ranis during his speech.
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8. Final Boss Fight: Confronting Ranis Drakan
The climax of A Taste of Hope involves a challenging boss fight against Ranis Drakan.
8.1 Preparing for the Boss Fight
Before facing Ranis Drakan, ensure you have sufficient high-quality food, prayer potions, and combat boosts. Note that rings of recoil do not work on this boss.
8.2 Meeting Kael
Return to Ver Sinhaza, located just east of Old Man Ral’s house. Speak with Kael near the entrance to initiate the final boss fight with Ranis Drakan. If you need to escape from the fight, you can right-click on the Meiyerditch citizen directly behind you.
8.3 Boss Fight – Ranis Drakan
Ranis Drakan is level 233 and can only be harmed by the Ivandis flail. He uses melee and magic attacks that can hit up to 20. Protection Prayers reduce damage by 50% but won’t completely block his attacks. Ranis can cast Blood Barrage, healing himself for half the damage dealt. Periodically, he charges an attack and explodes, hitting up to 30. You can reduce this damage to 6 by moving away from him before he explodes.
8.4 Boss Fight Phases
- Phase 1 (100% – 65% Health): Ranis uses melee and magic attacks. Stay protected and deal damage with the Ivandis flail.
- Phase 2 (65% – 25% Health): Ranis summons two level 87 vyrewatch and becomes airborne. While airborne, he throws blood bombs that can hit up to 40. Move away from the tile where the bomb is launched to avoid damage. You can use these blood bombs to damage the vyrewatch if they are on the landing tile.
- Phase 3 (25% – 0% Health): Ranis repeats the airborne phase, summoning two vyrewatch again. In the final phase, Ranis goes berserk, attacking faster and more accurately. His max hit is 6 during this phase. Use Sprint and move away from Ranis after each hit to reduce incoming damage.
8.5 Tips for the Fight
- Equip magic-resistant gear such as Dragonhide or Blessed d’hide.
- Pray Protect from Magic and approach Ranis only after he has cast a magic attack.
- Consider using a Melee shield like Rune or Dragon Kiteshield for higher slash defense.
- If your Attack level is low, use Super Attack Potions or Super Combat potions.
- Bring high-quality food like Sharks or Manta rays.
- Super Restore Potions can be more efficient than Prayer potions.
- Use combat prayers like Incredible Reflexes, Ultimate Strength, or Piety if Prayer is not an issue.
- When fighting Vyrewatch, position yourself opposite them to kill them faster.
- During the final phase, use Sprint and move away from Ranis after each hit to reduce incoming damage.
8.6 Last Steps
After defeating Ranis, you will give an inspirational speech to the Meiyerditch citizens. If you disconnect after defeating Ranis, speak to Kael again to restart the cutscene with your speech.
9. The End: Quest Completion and Aftermath
With Ranis Drakan defeated, the quest nears its conclusion.
9.1 Returning to the Hideout
Head back to the hideout located beneath Old Man Ral’s house.
9.2 Talking to Safalaan
Speak to Safalaan inside the hideout. Safalaan will commend you for defeating Ranis Drakan, providing genuine hope to the Meiyerditch citizens.
9.3 Receiving Drakan’s Medallion
Kael will present you with Drakan’s medallion, which he recovered from Ranis’ corpse.
9.4 Vanescula and Vanstrom
In a separate scene, Vanescula Drakan and Vanstrom Klause visit Ranis’ corpse. Vanstrom expresses concern that Lord Drakan will be displeased. Vanescula tells him that she is counting on Lord Drakan’s displeasure.
10. Congratulations: Quest Complete
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10.1 Rewards Recap
- 6 Quest Points
- 7,000 Attack XP
- 6,000 Crafting XP
- 4,000 Slayer XP
- Drakan’s medallion
FAQ: Mastering A Taste of Hope
- What are the main requirements for starting A Taste of Hope?
You need 48 Crafting, 45 Agility, 40 Attack, 40 Herblore, 38 Slayer, and completion of the Darkness of Hallowvale quest. - Where do I start the A Taste of Hope quest?
Speak to Garth outside the Theatre of Blood in Ver Sinhaza. - What items are essential for A Taste of Hope?
Essential items include coins, a knife or sickle, an emerald, a chisel, and runes. - How do I reach the Myreque hideout quickly?
Speak to a Vyrewatch to be sent to the mines, mine 15 Daeyalt ores, then speak to a Vampyre Juvinate to leave. - How do I get past the vyrewatch guarding the Theatre roof?
Pay Harpert 1,000 coins to distract the guard. - What is the purpose of spying on Ranis and Vanstrom in the Theatre?
To gather intelligence on their plans and activities with Verzik Vitur. - How do I prepare the blood potion for the locked door?
Combine a vial of water from the broken fountain with a mysterious herb, then add crushed mysterious meat using a pestle and mortar. - What strategy should I use for the abomination fight?
Use safespotting behind the brick wall, and bring restore potions or super restore potions. - What is the Ivandis flail used for?
It is the only weapon that can harm Ranis Drakan. - How do I defeat Ranis Drakan?
Use the Ivandis flail, equip magic-resistant gear, and pray Protect from Magic.
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