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Shield of Arrav Requirements & Quick Guide

NoviceFree-to-playMahjarrat Mysteries series1 QPReleased 4 January 2001

Everything you need before starting Shield of Arrav 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.

Shield of Arrav itself

No skill requirements for Shield of Arrav itself.

Quest requirements

No quests need to be completed before Shield of Arrav.

Ironman notes

Do when convenient (4/10 in our Ironman ranking).

See where it fits in the Ironman Quest Cape order.

Quests that need Shield of Arrav

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

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