Celestial dragon

Celestial dragon

Release date	10 March 2014 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	127
XP per kill	1,878 (and 619.7 experience)
Examine text	Its wings shine with the old light of distant stars.
Slayer info
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	976.3
Assigned by	Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Category	Celestial dragons
Combat info LP Max hit 22,750 1,168 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 1 91 1 91 Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous No No Attack styles Weaknesses Melee Dragonfire Arrows Bane

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Celestial dragons are modified white dragons that use temporal abilities to stun their opponents. They can be found in the Dragontooth Island resource dungeon after the One of a Kind quest is complete. They drop various hides, in addition to rare Dragon rider armour and the very rare celestial handwraps.

During the quest, an instanced version of the resource dungeon is visited with around six attackable Celestial dragons which drop only Dragon bones - they do not appear to respawn. After that stage is complete, the full version of the dungeon is available.

The celestial dragon was the winner of one of the January 2014 Power to the Players ruby-tier polls, beating the alchemical, gemstone and gold dragons, which were the other options.

Strategy

The celestial dragon's special ability freezes the player in time and prevents the dragon from receiving any damage, as well as stopping any damage over time effects for roughly three seconds. It also traps your familiar/follower in space and time, making it disappear from the current realm for the duration of the freeze, at the end of which it will return. The animation for this ability shows the dragon raising its wings as it casts a spell, followed by a green orb expanding around you. The only way to stop this effect is to simply wait it out and resume attacking, as the effect cannot be prevented with Anticipation, nor can it be removed with Freedom. For this reason, you should drink another dose of antifire or super antifire potion when you have around 15-30 seconds of immunity remaining to avoid being hit heavily. However, if your antifire or super antifire does run out during a freeze, the potion effect will stay active until the freeze is over.

Celestial dragons seem to use their time trapping ability roughly every 5-6 attacks, and will always attack with dragonfire or melee (depending on the player's distance away) 5-6 times after being engaged before using this. As such, if the player can deal enough damage to kill the dragon in a short period of time, this attack can be avoided altogether. One may stun a dragon with Binding Shot to delay its next attack, effectively delaying the time trap. 

Note: The time trap ability does not reset if the dragon has been left alone. Therefore, if a dragon attacks four times and is left alone (full lifepoint restoration), the next attack or second attack from the dragon when attacked will result in a time trap.

There is currently a glitch where the celestial dragon will restore to full lifepoints if the player does not attack it after it has used its time trapping ability. Thus, it is advised to leave auto-retaliate on, and attack the dragon immediately once the time trap is over.

Because mages or rangers will take no damage from celestial dragons other than dragonfire, (unless, of course, they stand within melee range) it is recommended to use the gear with the best damage bonuses specific to the style used. For those who don't use expensive degradable gear, Warpriest of Bandos/Armadyl armour is a good choice due to its high chance of reducing the cooldown of abilities.

Drops

100% drops

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Charms

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Dragon bones	1	Always	2,136

No charm
4–5%	3%	9–10%	74–75%	8–9%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 27,561 kills. 2 charms are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Armour

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Runes and talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Steel platebody	8 (noted)	Uncommon	15,648
	Rune platebody	1	Uncommon	37,480
	Celestial handwraps	1	Very rare	336,678
	Dragon Rider body	1	Very rare	246,534
	Dragon Rider cape	1	Very rare	279,370
	Dragon Rider chaps	1	Very rare	232,403
	Dragon Rider helm	1	Very rare	150,124

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Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Astral rune	15	Common	6,225
	Cosmic rune	20	Common	8,240
	Fire talisman	4 (noted)	Uncommon	836
	Water talisman	2 (noted)	Uncommon	5,056

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Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These drops are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Unicorn horn	4 (noted)	Common	13,616
	Adamant bar	4 (noted)	Common	7,044
	Green dragonhide	2 (noted)	Common	3,396
	Blue dragonhide	2 (noted)	Common	4,992
	Red dragonhide	2 (noted)	Uncommon	5,728
	Black dragonhide	2 (noted)	Uncommon	6,964
	Dagannoth hide	4 (noted)	Uncommon	24,140
	Battlestaff	1 (noted)	Uncommon	3,012
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	Rare	1,187,911
	Dragon Rider kit	1	Very rare	740,742
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

Trivia

• There is a glitch where, if a dragon is killed just as the player is about to be trapped in time, no death animation will occur.
• Celestial dragons originally counted as steel dragons for slayer assignments. With the update on 14 April 2014, they were made a category of their own.
• When a Dragon uses the trapped in time ability, any followers or familiars temporarily disappear for the duration of the move. Dreadnips will not, as they are not actual followers.
  • This ability also seems to negate the effects of the spring cleaner for that kill. If the dragon dropped a Rune platebody, the spring cleaner will not dismantle/convert into xp.
• Despite the fact that they are dragons, the dragon slayer gloves do not work against them.
• If Dragon Bones are used on a Celestial Dragon, the Dragon will rear its head and roar whilst the chatbox reads "It did not seem to like that."