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{{Infobox Item
|name = Crystal shield
|image = [[File:Crystal shield.png]]
|AKA = New crystal shield (when fully charged)
|release = [[7 February]] [[2005]]
|update = Roving Elves
|members = Yes
|quest = Yes
|tradeable = Only when it's new or it's turned back into a [[crystal seed]].
|equipable = Yes
|stackable = No
|high = No
|low = No
|value = 100000
|destroy = Drop
|store = 750,000
|exchange = gemw
|gemwname = New crystal shield
|examine = A nice sturdy crystal shield.
|weight = 2
}}

[[File:Crystal shield detail.png|left|A detailed image of the Crystal shield]]
The '''Crystal shield''' is a powerful shield available after a player completes the [[Roving Elves]] quest, and a possible reward from this quest along with the [[Crystal bow|Crystal Bow]]. To wield the crystal shield, a player must have 70 [[Defence]] and 50 [[Agility]]. It can be considered on a similar tier to the [[Barrows rewards]] due to its requirements and degradation. The Crystal shield is especially good against [[Ranged]] attacks as it is in fact the strongest non-dungeoneering shield against ranged attacks, while at full charge. It also holds the strongest defence against [[Summoning]] [[familiar]]'s attacks.

It should be noted that this shield's melee defence bonuses are only slightly better than those of the [[dragon sq shield]], which is cheaper and does not degrade.

{{Infobox Bonuses
|slot = shield
| astab = 0
| aslash = 0
| acrush = 0
| amagic = -10
| arange = -10
| dstab = +51
| dslash = +54
| dcrush = +53
| dmagic = 0
| drange = +80
| dsummon = +70
| str = 0
| rangestr = 0
| prayer = 0
| magicdamage = 0
| absorbmelee = 6%
| absorbranged = 12%
| absorbmagic = 0%
| image = Crystal shield equipped.png{{!}}240px
| caption = A player wielding a Crystal shield.
}}

==Degradation==
The crystal shield degrades over time. When a player obtains a new crystal shield, it will be a "'''New crystal shield'''". However, after 2500 life points worth of damage, it degrades into a "'''Crystal shield 9/10'''", and for every 2500 life points of damage taken thereafter it will degrade another 1/10th, until it reverts into a [[crystal seed]] after a total of 25,000 life points of damage taken.

As the shield degrades the negative magic and range attack bonuses remain the same while the positive bonuses decrease as shown below.
{|class="wikitable"
!rowspan="2"|Condition
!colspan="5"|Defence Bonus
|-
![[File:White dagger.png|Stab]]
![[File:White scimitar.png|Slash]]
![[File:White warhammer.png|Crush]]
![[File:Ranged-icon.png|Range]]
![[File:Summoning-icon.png|Summoning]]
|-
|Full || +51 || +54 || +53 || +80 || +70
|-
|9/10 || +49 || +52 || +51 || +78 || +68
|-
|8/10 || +47 || +50 || +49 || +76 || +66
|-
|7/10 || +45 || +48 || +47 || +74 || +64
|-
|6/10 || +43 || +46 || +45 || +72 || +63
|-
|5/10 || +41 || +44 || +43 || +70 || +60
|-
|4/10 || +39 || +42 || +41 || +68 || +58
|-
|3/10 || +37 || +40 || +39 || +66 || +56
|-
|2/10 || +35 || +38 || +37 || +64 || +54
|-
|1/10 || +33 || +36 || +35 || +62 || +52
|}

Once a crystal shield runs out of charges, it turns back into a crystal seed, and must be recharged before it can be used again.

==Recharging==
[[Ilfeen]] will recharge crystal seeds into crystal shields ''or'' crystal bows. She can be found teleporting back and forth between two clearings in [[Isafdar]]; however, players who have completed [[The Prisoner of Glouphrie]] can also find her in the centre of the elven village [[Lletya]].

Initially, Ilfeen charges 750,000 coins to re-enchant a crystal seed into a crystal shield. However, the price is decreased by 150,000 coins each time Ilfeen re-enchants a seed for a player, in the following manner, until reaching the minimum recharge cost of 150,000 coins:

{|class="wikitable"
!Enchantment
!Cost for re-enchantment
|-
|First
|750,000
|-
|Second
|600,000
|-
|Third
|450,000
|-
|Fourth
|300,000
|-
|Fifth and thereafter
|150,000
|}

Ilfeen is also able to re-enchant partially degraded crystal equipment, at a proportion of the cost. For example, a Crystal shield in '9/10' condition can be recharged back to full condition for 15,000 coins if the minimum recharge cost has already been reached. A recharge this way will also count towards reducing the cost for future re-enchantments.

It is important to note that the count of the number of times you have had an object recharged is shared between the crystal bow and shield. If you have had a crystal bow recharged twice, then a shield recharge would cost 450k, as if you had already recharged it twice as well.

==Obtaining & trading crystal shields==
A crystal shield with 2/10 charges is a possible reward for completion of Roving Elves. Additionally, players can buy new crystal shields from [[Islwyn]] for 750,000 coins each. Unlike Ilfeen's recharge price, the price of a new crystal shield does not decrease.

The distinction between a ''new'' crystal shield and a ''full'' crystal shield is important, as only new crystal shields are tradeable. A crystal shield that is bought from Islwyn is new; a crystal seed that is re-enchanted into a crystal shield by Ilfeen is full. Once damage is taken by a new crystal shield, it becomes a full crystal shield, and is untradeable.

As crystal seeds are tradeable, players can buy them from other players or the [[Grand Exchange]] and pay Ilfeen to re-enchant them into crystal shields.

==Trivia==
* Even though it takes only 50 [[Agility]] to wield the crystal shield, an agility level of 56 (although temporary boosts may be used) is needed to complete the [[Regicide]] [[quest]], which is a prerequisite to complete the [[Roving elves|Roving Elves]] quest. It is however, possible to buy the shield from the Grand Exchange at full charge, but it cannot be wielded until Roving Elves is complete.
* If a player attempts to cast [[low level alchemy]] or [[high level alchemy]] on a Crystal shield, they will receive a message saying 'You can't do that to elven crystal!' because of a bug allowing you to alch recharged crystal armour and weapons in f2p worlds for 900k.
* One could pay less for a crystal shield by degrading the partially damaged one you receive from the end of Roving Elves, selling the crystal seed on the Grand Exchange, and then buying a brand new shield from Islwyn with some of the money you received from the seed, thus saving about 200K. You are saving money because to recharge a crystal shield costs 750K, and you also must have a seed with you already. However this is a short-sighted strategy, since the cost of recharging the shield falls rapidly, whereas the cost of a new one stays the same.
* The shield resembles the head of a [[wikipedia:venus flytrap|Venus flytrap]].
* The Crystal Shield has one of the highest damage absorption rates out of all the shields.

==See also==
*[[Crystal]]
*[[Crystal bow]]
*[[Crystal seed]]

[[fi:Crystal shield]]
[[nl:Crystal shield]]
[[Category:Crystal|Shield]]
[[Category:Shields]]
[[Category:Roving Elves]]

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