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Desperate Times Requirements & Quick Guide

IntermediateMembersThe Elder God Wars seriesReleased 13 May 2019

Everything you need before starting Desperate Times 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 Times itself

SkillLevel
DivinationDivination50
MiningMining50
SmithingSmithing50

Quest requirements

2 direct prerequisites, 3 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Quick guide: order to unlock Desperate Times

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

  1. The Needle Skips
  2. There's No Place Like Home...
  3. You Are It
  4. Desperate Times

Quests that need Desperate Times

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

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