Into the Mist/Guide

Dungeon Mechanics

Afflicted Monsters

The first twenty monsters in the dungeon are Afflicted versions of randomly chosen monsters between Combat Level 165 and 677. Aside from monsters from

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Dark Waters

, Legaran Wurm, and Cursed Lich, any monster in that range can be chosen including boss monsters from other dungeons.

These monsters have all their normal stats and special attacks, but are stronger in two ways: They gain +20% Damage Reduction, and they become Afflicted, causing their attacks to apply a special status effect on the player.

If the monster is originally from a Slayer Area with an Area Effect, that effect will not apply as combat is not happening in that area.

The Final Boss

After defeating 20 Afflicted Monsters, the player must defeat all three phases of the boss. Each phase uses a specific combat style and can only be damaged if the player is using the same style. This means that purchasing the

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Dungeon Equipment Swapping

upgrade from the

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Shop

is mandatory for completing this dungeon.

Before each phase, combat will be paused to allow the player a chance to read over the boss's special abilities and change their equipment set. This means, for example, that you do not need to own three separate copies of Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs, as you will have time to swap it between each equipment set. Once players are ready, they start the phase by clicking a button.

Affliction

Afflicted Monsters and all three final boss phases can apply a special status effect called Affliction when they complete an attack. Each attack or special attack that the enemy uses, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses the player, has a 70% chance of applying a stack of Affliction, up to a maximum of 50 stacks. Special attacks that hit more than once will only apply a single stack.

For each stack of affliction, the player's max HP is reduced by 1% until the player is at 50% of their original maximum HP. Critically, this will also impact the player's Auto Eat threshold, making each attack successively more dangerous.

Affliction stacks are only cleared after each monster is defeated or when the player leaves combat whether due to death or fleeing.

Manual Eating

This is the first dungeon in the game that typically requires manual eating, while there are ways to avoid having to do this, they take much longer to set up for very little practical gain. Completing ITM should generally be done as soon as possible, as the Combat Passive Slot is extremely powerful.

For all phases of the dungeon, as long as you do not get instantly killed by a single attack (one shot), you are able to complete the dungeon with an appropriate weapon.

There are 4 different ways to eat food to keep yourself safe. It's important to note that this dungeon only needs to be completed once, so the strategy is not about completing the dungeon as fast as possible, but rather not dying, so you can complete it at least once. It is far more important to ensure you have enough HP to survive an attack than not resetting your attack timer through manual eating.

Autoeat - Let autoeat heal you and do not interrupt your attack. No player input!
Eat After Attacks - Click once to eat food immediately after you finish an attack. Usually every attack.
Eat to full
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HP - Eat food until you are at full HP. Then let autoeat heal you.
Hold Eat - Click and hold the food button to continuously eat food.

Rewards

Completing ITM will permanently add Dark Waters monsters to the Master tier of

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Slayer

Tasks. These monsters all have specific weaknesses and heavily punish the player for using the "wrong" combat style or equipment against them, making it far more difficult to use

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Auto Slayer

to fulfill the 40 task requirement for unlocking Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Master). If desired, Perilous Peaks Master Tasks can be completed before ITM is finished, although this is not required. Completing Into the Mist also allows the player to use the Passive equipment slot.

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Pablo

is obtained by completing the dungeon 5 separate times.

Stats and Buffs

Minimum Recommended Levels

The only hard requirement to complete this dungeon is

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Level 90

and enough HP and Damage Reduction to not be killed instantly. The recommended levels to complete this dungeon are roughly

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Level 85

,

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Level 85

,

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Level 85

,

950

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HP

,

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Level 85

,

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Level 85

,

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Level 95

, it is possible for a player to complete the dungeon roughly 10 levels lower in each skill, so if any of your stats are lagging behind, its not the end of the world.

Consumables

Food:
- Whale or similar, you want a food item that heals for a large amount all at once, so that one click heals you for the vast majority of your hp no matter what.
Potions:
- Diamond Luck Potions for the entire dungeon.
Summoning Tablets:
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  Dragon and
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  Minotaur,
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  Centaur, or
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  Witch.
Prayers:
- These will be outlined on a case-by-case basis for each Boss phase below.
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  Protect Item will not be recommended so as to not plan for failure. There are many ways to ensure you do not die, and losing the power of one of your prayers can actually increase your chance of death.
Consumable Slot:
- Whetstone
- Wizard's Scroll - These can be skipped as they don't give any DPS benefit
Diamond Luck Potions and
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Dragon Tablets are the most important buffs for this dungeon, the potion will drastically increase the amount of times you actually hit the enemy, and the tablets add a lot of extra damage with their own attacks, buff your damage and accuracy, and the burn effect of Dragons can help getting the bosses HP down quickly so you spend less time at high stacks of affliction.

Agility

While agility helps provide useful combat bonuses, it mostly helps lower the floor of the HP level you need to attempt ITM. Typically, switching agility just for ITM is not super important.

Tier	Obstacle	Reasoning
1	Any	No obstacles provide combat bonuses.
2	Any	No obstacles provide combat bonuses.
3	Pipe Climb	Only obstacle that provides a combat bonus.
4	Coal Stones	No negative bonuses
5	Cliff Balance	Be sure to remember the HP increase in your HP/DR damage calculations.
6	Rocky Waters	Lake Swim is typically more useful if you are higher level, where the HP increase is proportionally less effective.
7	Boulder Trap or Water Trap	No negative damage modifiers.
8	Raft Building	Extra damage and HP.
9	Ice Jump or Frozen Lake Crossing	Ice Jump is typically the only obstacle used on this tier, there's really no reason to stop using it now.
10	Lava Waterfall Dodge or Ocean Rafting	Changing this obstacle from Lava Waterfall Dodge is expensive, and usually not really worth it.
Pillar	Pillar of Combat	Pillar of Combat is the only DPS-boosting pillar, but it is not necessary to use if you already have a different Pillar as its bonuses are not particularly helpful for this dungeon.

Fight Details

Afflicted Monsters

In general, waves 1-20 are best completed with your best Magic gear and Ancient Magicks or by actively switching to take advantage of Combat Triangle bonuses. Typically, these monsters are not very dangerous, swap to the correct combat style, and the monster falls over.

It's highly recommended that once you reach the final boss, you take the time to calculate the DR values and maximum hits per attack of each phase.

Notes for all Boss Phases

It is recommended to make a notecard with your effective auto-eat threshhold at various stages of Affliction build-up, typically every 10 stacks or so. This means write down what 40% of your HP is at 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50% Maximum HP, then write down or pay attention to the maximum damage values of each of the bosses attacks so you can make more informed decisions than the general advice given below.

If in doubt at any time, try to eat immediately after one of your attacks finishes, don't rely too heavily on this, as resetting your attack also removes any chance of using special attacks on the next attack.

Mysterious Figure - Phase 1

Slot	Better to Worse
Head	God Helmets	(G) Ancient Helmet	(G) Dragon Helmet
Body	God Platebodies	(G) Ancient Platebody	(G) Dragon Platebody
Leggings	God Platelegs	(G) Ancient Platelegs	(G) Dragon Platelegs
Boots	Ragnar God Boots	Terran God Boots	(G) Dragon Boots
Hands	Ragnar God Gloves	Terran God Gloves	Paladin Gloves
Cape	Infernal Cape	Fire Cape	Maximum Skillcape
Neck	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Elite Amulet of Defence	Elite Amulet of Glory
Ring	Ring of Blade Echoes	Fighter Ring	Gold Sapphire Ring
Weapon	Infernal Claw	Darksteel Dagger	Sunset Rapier
Offhand	Dragonfire Shield	Earth Layered Shield	(G) Dragon Shield

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Protect from Melee

and

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Battleheart

or the highest level melee prayer you have available.

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Protect from Melee

is important here, as it sets the boss's chance to hit to 20%, reducing the chance of healing when using Reap and Return significantly. If possible, swapping

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Protect from Melee

to

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Piety

when the boss is using any other attack can help you squeeze in a little extra damage.

The choice to use 1h weapons here is important, as their attack interval is low enough to drop stacks of Mark of Death easily. Terran Godsword and Ragnar Godsword ( > ) are both very good and may be able to kill the boss faster depending on your specific stats, but they have a slow attack interval and will generally require you to pay more attention to when you eat.

Ultima Godsword is a fantastic weapon that circumvents the drawbacks of a 2h weapon by doing a ridiculous amount of damage. If owned, this weapon should be used, however, it is not necessary or recommended as the weapon can be quite difficult to obtain. Do not use any other equipment that provides a special attack ( Ring of Blade Echoes) as they will ruin your damage potential by lowering the chance of using one of the Ultima special attacks.

Phase 1: Abilities and Eating Methods

Mark of Death: Typically not dangerous, you want to complete an attack as soon as possible after this attack hits you. Failing to remove the stack of Mark of Death before the next attack hits you massively complicates things.
Cursed Edge: Dangerous at medium stacks of affliction, heal to full if this attack deals more than your auto-eat threshold. NOT dangerous if the attack deals at least 60% of your total HP because each hit will cause your auto-eat to set you to at least 80% HP.
Reap and Return: Dangerous at high stacks of affliction, if in doubt, hold eat to avoid death. NOT dangerous if the attack deals at least 60% of your total HP

This phase is by far the most difficult, it may be prudent to run if you feel you are in danger.

Phase 1: Idle

Manually eating while under the effect of Mark of Death can still kill you, do NOT manually eat if attempting to idle.

To fully idle Phase 1, you will need a weapon that has an interval faster than 2.6 seconds (all weapons above fit this criteria) and enough HP and DR to survive a 600 damage max hit when your HP is reduced by 50%, the below table lists some common HP checkpoints:

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1,000 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	67%	63%
1,040 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	66%	61%
1,070 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	65%	60%
1,100 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	64%	59%

Mysterious Figure - Phase 2

Slot	Better to Worse
Head	Aeris God Helmet	Terran God Helmet	Slayer Cowl (Elite)
Body	Aeris God Platebody	(U) Ancient D-hide Body	(U) Black D-hide Body
Leggings	Aeris God Platelegs	(U) Ancient D-hide Chaps	(U) Black D-hide Chaps
Boots	Aeris God Boots	Terran God Boots	(G) Dragon Boots
Hands	Aeris God Gloves	(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces	(U) Black D-hide Vambraces
Cape	Cape of Prat	Infernal Cape	Maximum Skillcape
Neck	Deadeye Amulet	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Elite Amulet of Ranged
Ring	Deadeye Ring	Silver Emerald Ring	Ring of Barrage
Offhand	Scaled Shield	(U) Ancient D-hide Shield	(U) Black D-hide Shield
Throwing Weapons	Ancient Javelin	Ancient Knives	Dragon Javelin
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Bolts	Jadestone Bolts	Diamond Bolts	Emerald Bolts

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Battleheart

and

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Rigour

or the highest level Ranged prayers you have available.

2h weapons like the Stormsnap are generally fine, but they will require you to pay more attention to when you eat as they have less Damage Reduction due to not being able to wear a shield, and being slow and unwieldy for dropping stacks of Mark of Death.

Phase 2: Abilities and Eating Methods

Mark of Death: Typically not dangerous, you want to complete an attack as soon as possible after this attack hits you. Failing to remove the stack of Mark of Death before the next attack hits you massively complicates things.
Concealed Danger: Typically not dangerous unless you fail to remove mark of death.
Shadowstep: Does no damage, however, if the boss tries to use it twice in a row she will use a Normal Attack instead, her Normal Attack Max hit is quite high, and becomes much more dangerous if you have failed to remove Mark of Death

This phase is by far the easiest, so it is not critically important to optimize it perfectly, nearly any setup should have no real problem clearing this phase. Eating during this phase should be almost entirely unnecessary.

NOTE: At exceptionally high stacks of affliction, and while under the effect of Mark of Death, it is possible for the boss's Normal Attack to deal more damage than your total HP. This is only possible if you manually eat and fail to remove the Mark of Death before the attack connects. If this scenario occurs, you must run to guarantee your survival.

Phase 2: Idle

Manually eating while under the effect of Mark of Death can still kill you, do NOT manually eat if attempting to idle.

To fully idle Phase 2, you will need a weapon that has an interval faster than 3.9 seconds (all ranged weapons fit this criteria by default) and enough HP and DR to survive a 772 damage max hit when your HP is reduced by 50%, the below table lists some common HP checkpoints:

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1,000 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	75%	71%
1,040 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	74%	70%
1,070 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	73%	69%
1,100 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	72%	68%

Ahrenia - Phase 3

Slot	Better to Worse
Head	Glacia God Helmet	Ancient Wizard Hat	Air Expert Wizard Hat
Body	Glacia God Platebody	Ancient Wizard Robes	Air Expert Wizard Robes
Leggings	Glacia God Platelegs	Ancient Wizard Bottoms	Air Expert Wizard Bottoms
Boots	Glacia God Boots	Ancient Wizard Boots	Air Expert Wizard Boots
Hands	Glacia God Gloves	Terran God Gloves	(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces
Cape	Skull Cape	Infernal Cape	Maximum Skillcape
Neck	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Elite Amulet of Magic	Elite Amulet of Defence
Ring	Warlock Ring	Ring of Spirit Power	Shaman Ring
Weapon	Air Imbued Wand	Magic Wand (Powerful)	Cloudburst Staff
Offhand	Scaled Shield	Earth Layered Shield	Cloudburst Staff

With Imbued Wands:

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Incinerate,
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Gust, or
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Slicing Winds.
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Protect from Magic and
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Stone Skin

With Cloudburst Staff:

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Water Surge, and
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Fury II.
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Battleheart and
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Augury or the highest level Magic prayers you have available.

As this phase is relatively weak, Cloudburst Staff under most circumstances should be deal enough damage to kill Ahrenia before she becomes a real threat, however, as the phase is relatively simple, it is recommended to use the Ancient Magicks as they will allow you to use Damage Reduction Potions instead of Diamond Luck as your hits are already guaranteed at 20k+ Accuracy Rating.

Phase 3: Abilities and Eating Methods

Shadow Burst: Can be dangerous at low stacks of Affliction. Gives the player -1% Accuracy rating when it hits, up to a maximum of 50%. To guarantee 20k+ Accuracy at maximum stacks of this effect, the player must have 33,333 Accuracy Rating.
Into the Mist: Does no damage. Gives the enemy +10% Damage Reduction each time they are hit, so if using Ancient Magicks, it may be prudent to swap to
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Ignite or
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Quake to get more effective damage for the duration.
Fallen Light: Not dangerous.

Phase 3: Idle

To fully idle Phase 3, you will only need enough HP and DR to survive an 800 damage max hit when your HP is reduced by 50%, the below table lists some common HP checkpoints:

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1,000 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	75%	72%
1,040 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	74%	71%
1,070 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	74%	70%
1,100 Error creating thumbnail: File missing HP	73%	70%