Hopespear's Will


Released		9 February 2022 (Update)
Members		Yes
Quest series		None
Developer(s)		John A (original), Mod Ed (Old School)

Hopespear's Will is a miniquest where the player assists Hopespear, a goblin spirit, in returning the remains of the goblin high priests to Yu'biusk, the ancestral goblin homeland. It follows on from the events of Land of the Goblins.

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Start point	Speak to Hopespear in the crypt of the Goblin Temple. Show on map
Official difficulty	Master
Official length	Short
Description	Help an old goblin spirit return the remains of his successors to the lost goblin homeland.
Requirements	Started The Restless Ghost Completion of Desert Treasure I Completion of Fairytale II - Cure a Queen Completion of Land of the Goblins 50 Prayer ^{[not boostable]}
Items required	Ghostspeak amulet or Morytania legs 2 or better Ring of visibility or ring of shadows Goblin potion Dramen or lunar staff (unless the Lumbridge & Draynor Diary has been fully completed) Food and potions to defeat 5 enemies without armour, weapons, or magic
Recommended	Combat potions 90 Combat level Plain of mud sphere or charged skills necklace Quick access to fairy rings
Enemies to defeat	Snothead (level 32) Snailfeet (level 56) Mosschin (level 88) Redeyes (level 121) Strongbones (level 184)
League notes	Not completable, as prerequisite quests require access to Misthalin.

Walkthrough

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Head to the Goblin Cave entrance located just east of the Fishing Guild's entrance. Enter the cave and walk north, then west until you find two goblin guards guarding the entrance to the temple. Drink a dose of goblin potion and enter the temple. Do not equip the ghostspeak amulet and ring of visibility yet, or you will revert to human form and be expelled from the temple.

Make your way to the crypt within the Goblin Temple, and once inside then equip the ghostspeak amulet and ring of visibility or ring of shadows. You will see the ghost of Hopespear, the goblin prophet. Ask him why he is here, and he will tell you that he is waiting for the Big High War God to take his spirit to Yu'biusk.

Tell him that you have been to Yu'biusk, and he will ask you for a favour: to free the souls of the goblin high priests. To do this, you must complete a ritual which includes killing the goblin priests, without the use of weapons, spells, or armour, and retrieving their bones to be buried in Yu'biusk.

Remove any items you have equipped or else the goblin high priests will not drop their bones upon defeat. This includes any equipment that gives stat bonuses, and jewellery like rings of recoil. Attempting to cheese the fights with stat-less attack speed enhancing weapons such as the Ham joint or goblin paint cannon will not work either. However, the ghostspeak amulet and ring of visibility or ring of shadows can still be worn, but Morytania legs cannot be worn.

Now summon and battle the five high priests as done during Land of the Goblins by speaking their name over their grave. Unlike the quest, the high priests can be fought in any order.

	Level	Grave location	Attack Style
Snothead	32	South-west	Melee
Snailfeet	56	South-east	Melee and Magic
Mosschin	88	North-west	Melee and Ranged
Redeyes	121	North-east	Melee, Magic, and Ranged (Lowers Attack, Strength and Defence)
Strongbones	184	North	Melee, Magic, and Ranged. Summons level 29 skoblins, and lowers Attack, Strength, and Defence

Strongbones is by far the hardest of the high priests. To take him on it is recommended to have at least level 70 melee stats along with 70 Prayer for Piety, or slightly higher melee stats if using Chivalry. Redeyes and Strongbones will also periodically lower your Attack, Strength and Defence, so a few regular super combat potions are also advised to keep boosting throughout the fight. Strongbones will hit up to 18 regularly so bring as much high-healing food as possible, as well as 2-3 Prayer potions (3-4 if around 70 melee stats) to keep up Protect from Melee and Piety. Having access to the ring of shadows over the ring of visibility will also aid in boosting combat stats.

Note: You can recharge your Prayer inbetween fights at the altar outside of the crypt, provided you still have doses of your goblin potion. Drink a dose of it before leaving the tomb. You also do not have to defeat all the high priests in one go; you can leave the crypt to restock and bank any bones collected thus far. When returning, another dose of goblin potion is needed to enter the crypt but the ghostspeak amulet and ring of visibility are not needed. If you die fighting any of the high priests, you will lose any bones in your inventory and they will not be protected by your gravestone, so you must fight them again. Your gravestone will appear in the Goblin Cave, near the stairs leading to the temple, thus, you do not need another dose of goblin potion to reclaim your items.

Note: You must pick up each goblin's set of bones before killing the next, as the new goblin's death will cause the old goblin's bones to despawn.

Finally, use fairy ring code BLQ to reach Yu'biusk, and once there bury the bones. Players do not need to bury all five sets of bones at once. Burying all of the bones will complete the miniquest.

The rewarded XP for each priest is as following:

Priest bone		Prayer experience
	Snothead's bone	1,250
	Snailfeet's bone	2,500
	Mosschin's bone	5,000
	Redeyes' bone	10,000
	Strongbones' bone	20,000
Total		38,750

These bones do not benefit from the increased experience bonus granted after burning chewed bones on a pyre ship, nor can they be converted using the Sinister Offering spell.

Transcript

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This article on a miniquest has an associated dialogue page.
Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the miniquest.

Historical

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Hopespear's Will was released in RuneScape 3 on 12 November 2007 alongside Land of the Goblins. Both this miniquest and its parent quest were extracted from the August 2007 Archive of RuneScape that Old School RuneScape is built off of. Compared to the original, the Old School version has a few differences:

Level 50 Prayer is required to start the miniquest, rather than level 40 in RuneScape 3.
The total amount of Prayer experience rewarded is 38,750, rather than 13,750 in RuneScape 3.
The goblin high priests are significantly stronger than their RuneScape 3 counterparts.

Trivia

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Hopespear's Will is the first miniquest from the original game to be ported to Old School RuneScape since the start of the game.

Hopespear's Will

NPCs

	Hopespear
Goblin priests	Snothead Snailfeet Mosschin Redeyes Strongbones

Items

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Transcript

Land of the Goblins

NPCs

	Grubfoot Mistag Zanik Oldak Goblin guard Makeover Mage High Priest Bighead Preacher Guard Priest Dipflip Aggie
Enemies	Snothead Snailfeet Mosschin Redeyes Strongbones Skoblin
Goblin tribes	Ekeleshuun Horogothgar Huzamogaarb Narogoshuun Saragorgak Yurkolgokh

Items

	Black mushroom Black dye Pharmakos berries (bush) Goblin potion Whitefish Plain of mud sphere
Goblin mails	Black Blue Orange Purple White Yellow
Goblin tribe keys	Ekeleshuun Horogothgar Huzamogaarb Narogoshuun Saragorgak Yurkolgokh

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