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Desperate Measures Requirements & Quick Guide

IntermediateMembersThe Elder God Wars seriesReleased 27 July 2020

Everything you need before starting Desperate Measures in RuneScape 3: skill levels, the full chain of quests to finish first, and what completing it opens up. Check your own stats against it below.

Requirements from the RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), snapshot 2026-09-28.

Skill requirements

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Enter your RuneScape name to compare your hiscores levels with every requirement below. Unranked skills read as level 1.

Desperate Measures itself

SkillLevel
AgilityAgility50
ArchaeologyArchaeology50

Including every prerequisite quest

The highest level of each skill you need across Desperate Measures and all the quests you must finish first.

SkillLevelNeeded for
AgilityAgility50Desperate Measures
ArchaeologyArchaeology50Desperate Measures
DivinationDivination50Desperate Times
MiningMining50Desperate Times
SmithingSmithing50Desperate Times

Quest requirements

2 direct prerequisites, 5 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Quick guide: order to unlock Desperate Measures

One valid order: every quest comes after its own prerequisites. Skip any you have already done.

  1. Anachronia base camp tutorial
  2. The Needle Skips
  3. There's No Place Like Home...
  4. You Are It
  5. Desperate Times
  6. Desperate Measures

XP rewards

Skills Desperate Measures gives guaranteed XP in (fixed XP or a skill-locked lamp; choice lamps not listed). See the wiki for exact amounts.

  • ArchaeologyArchaeology

Quests that need Desperate Measures

Full walkthrough, items needed and exact rewards: Desperate Measures on the RuneScape Wiki . Requirement data is adapted from the wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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