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The original was posted on /r/2007scape by /u/kerbh on 2025-07-24 10:44:41+00:00.


During the delve boss shield phase where you have to hit the boss with melee (not the blue shield one), melee weapons seem to have 100% accuracy, and also the boss takes some "echo" hits, that seem to be based on the total melee strength bonus of your character.

For example in this chally spec hit, the 29+32 is what the chally itself hit, and the 24+24 are the echo hits.

The formula for the echo hits seems to be exactly or very close to: TOTAL_MELEE_STR / 5 (this includes melee str from other gear, but with the current ranged meta that does not seem worth it), so this results in:

  • 1 way dual macuahuitl hit is +32 from echo
  • 1 way burning claws spec is +21
  • 1 way dragon claws spec is +48
  • 1 way crystal halberd spec is +48
  • i haven't tested scythe, since I don't have one, but a 1way scythe hit should be +45

This means that emberlight is mostly dead for the encounter (it's a very low str bonus weapon), since both burning claws and boppers 1shot the grubs. Burning claws is a higher APM option since you do have to spec during the shield break phase.

Also burning claws/dclaws/chally might be worth bringing as a dps spec in cases where you don't have a ZCB.

Keep in mind to calc this fully you also need to take into account the average damage the weapon itself does with 100% accuracy, and that depends on whether your bringing melee potions, if you care to swap to piety, etc. and I don't want to make those assumptions in the post, but it is worth exploring the usefulness of these weapons for your delve boss runs.

Also leaving some unformatted data I used to figure out the formula, in case anyone wants to check my numbers.

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