OSRS Chaos Elemental Guide: Strategy & Gear Setups

The Chaos Elemental is a dark cloud with six tentacles located just west of the Rogues’ Castle. This wilderness boss has a higher pet drop rate than the Chaos Fanatic and is also killed by players for the Dragon 2h sword and pickaxe drops. The fight is quite challenging as players will always take damage due to random damage types unless they are flinching or using the safe spot method. Killing the Chaos Elemental is also required to complete the Hard Wilderness Diary.

Recommended Combat Stats for Fighting Chaos Elemental

For melee, 

• 80 attack
• 80 strength
• 70 defence
• 70 prayer: 37 prayer will also work.

For ranged,

• 80 ranged
• 70 defence
• 44 prayer for protect against magic and the Eagle's eye. 74 prayer is also quite good so players can use rigour.

How to get to the Chaos Elemental

As mentioned above, the Chaos elemental can be found west of the Rogue’s castle as shown below

Here are the fastest methods to get there:

• Wilderness Obelisk: this method requires completion of the hard wilderness diary, If completed, players can redirect the Wilderness Obelisk from their house or outside the Ferox Enclave to level 50 wilderness and then they can run west to the Chaos elemental. This is generally the best option, as it does not require any items and is the fastest path to get to the Chaos Elemental.
• Wilderness sword 4: players can use this to get to Fountain of Rune and then they can run west to the Chaos Elemental. The WIlderness sword is a reward for completing the elite wilderness Diary tasks which are given by Lesser Fanatic in Edgeville. It can also be retrieved from him if lost.
• Annakari Teleport or tablet: this requires the completion of Desert Treasure I. After using the teleport, players can run northwest to a gate in the fence and then northeast from there to get to the Chaos Elemental.
• Desert Keep: players can run north from this location, cut the web, and then run east past the Resource Area and Scorpion Pit to get to the Chaos Elemental.
• Mage Arena Bank: From here, players can pull the level and cut the two webs, then continue east.

Gear Setup for fighting the Chaos Elemental

It's smart to carry only 3 or 4 valuable items when venturing into the wilderness, as there's always the chance of running into a PKer. The gear listed below is reliable, but if you have better equipment and are willing to take the risk, you might want to use it instead.

Melee Setup

Head slot - Helm of neitiznot

Neck slot -  Amulet of torture

Cape slot - Mythical cape

Body slot - Black d’hide body

Leg slot - Black d’hide chaps

Weapon slot - Viggora’s chainmace

Shield slot - Dragon defender

Ammo slot - Rada’s blessing: this gives a +2 prayer bonus

Glove slot - rune gloves

Boot slot - climbing boots

Ranged setup 

Head slot - Snakeskin bandana

Neck slot -  Necklace of anguish

Cape slot - Ava’s assembler

Body slot - Black d’hide body

Leg slot - Black d’hide chaps

Weapon slot - Craw’s bow: this bow works really well against the Chaos Elemental, it can be gotten as a drop from revenants found in the Revenant Caves. It must be charged with revenant ether before it can be used.

Ammo slot - Rada’s blessing: this gives a +2 prayer bonus

Glove slot - black d’hide vambraces

Boot slot - Snakeskin boot

Inventory Setup for Fighting Chaos Elemental

This consists of:

• 1 divine ranging potion
• 3+ blighted super restore
• 1 looting bag (optional)
• Curry or summer pies as food
• Anti-venom or antidote++ to remove venom from PKers

How to Fight the Chaos Elemental

The Chaos Elemental’s location is deep in the Wilderness and a popular PKer zone, players should only bring items that they are willing to lose, change the player attack option to hidden, and ensure they have the right items that would be kept on death. To fight the Chaos Elemental, you have to understand its attacks and how to evade them as shown below:

Chaos Elemental Attacks

The Chaos Elemental has three attacks:

Discord

The Discord is a projectile made up of a series of three different colours. This attack can deal either Magic, ranged, or melee damage and it is not possible to tell which damage is dealt. However, magic is the most likely so players are advised to always use protect from magic. This attack hits up to 20+ damage.

Confusion

When the Chaos Elemental performs this attack, it teleports the player several tiles away from it.

Madness

If the Madness attack is successful, it will remove up to four items that the player has equipped and place them in the player’s inventory, causing the player to take time to equip them while taking damage. The only way to stop the Chaos elemental from using this attack is to bring food that leaves an item behind after it has been used, for instance: the Guthix rest, summer pie, and curry. Also, ensure to disable vial smashing through the game setting or Barbarian guard when bringing potions so that the vial is left behind after you finish drinking a potion.

Strategies For Fighting Chaos Elemental

Team

Fighting the Chaos Elemental with a team is a lot easier. Players should turn on protect against magic and take armour with high ranged and melee defence such as Dragon or Barrows equipment while ensuring to not risk too much due to the chances of running into a PKer

Flinching Method

Similar to flinching other monsters, this method will allow the player to kill the Chaos Elemental while taking very low damage. Players can use the nearby trees to hide after attracting the Chaos Elemental’s attention, wait for its hitpoint bar to disappear then hit it once and run back behind the tree. Continue the process until the Chaos elemental is dead. Although it is a lot slower, it is the safest method of fighting the Chaos Elemental. A good spot to safespot the Chaos elemental is by using the dead trees at the southwest tip of Rogues’ Castle.

Stand in the tile marked 1 as the Chaos elemental spawns. When it spawns, immediately run to tile 2. This is a good flinching spot as the Chaos Elemental will only be able to make one attack against you and will get stuck

Gear for Flinching Method

For faster kills with this method, players should use melee with good gear like full Verac’s equipment but this means risking the Verac’s helm. A safer alternative would be to use a Godsword, Dragon Warhammer, and the Dharok’s greataxe or Defender. For the rest of the gear for both options, cheaper gear that can boost offensive bonuses and prayer-boosting gear that you are willing to lose should be worn. Some examples have been shown in the gear section above.

Safe Spot Method

This safe spot method will allow players to attack the Chaos Elemental without it being able to attack them. It is more complicated than regular safe spotting; the setup requires practice and some trial and error to be able to do it properly and consistently. 

Although you won’t take any damage after the initial setup has been done, you will take damage while luring and setting up the Chaos Elemental so be sure to bring some food with you. Generally, it is much faster and more AFK than the flinching method. To safespot the Chaos Elemental, you need to mark a number of tiles from north to south close to the Wilderness Resource Area as shown in the image and steps below:

• Firstly, mark tile that lines up with the Yew tree in the northwesternmost area of the wilderness resource area as shown below, staying on that line, run all the way south to the Wilderness fence and mark this tile as shown in the second image below. This line is the farthest west that the Chaos Elemental can attack. 

• When the Chaos Elemental is near its spawn by the Rogue’s Castle, aggro it and run straight to the south of the wilderness fence (there is a 2x2 tree near its spawn you can hide behind to avoid a few hits as you lure it south). 
• With the Chaos Elemental trying to attack you, run west along the Wilderness fence while staying as close to the fence as possible until you reach the marked tile.
• Wait here until the Chaos Elemental reaches you, when he does, run directly north until you get to the two northernmost tile which you marked then stop until the Chaos Elemental reaches you again.
• As soon as Chaos Elemental shows up, run directly to it and when you get to melee range, step one tile to the west and attack it from there

If you have followed these steps correctly, the Chaos Elemental will be floating on the marked tile line and you will be one tile west of that line. Since the marked tile line is the farthest that the Chaos Elemental can attack from, you can attack it from that tile and it won’t be able to attack you unless you go east over the marked tile line.

If you are unlucky, the Chaos Elemental might attack you with confusion when running from the southern to northern tile which can teleport you west, away from the marked tile line. If you are not able to reaggro the Chaos Elemental before it starts to reset, you have to wait until it returns to it’s spawn area and then restart the steps again.

How to Avoid Pkers When Fighting The Crazy Elemental

There is a high chance that players who are in the Crazy Elemental area will get attacked by PKers since it’s deep in the Wilderness. It is a good idea to hop worlds after each kill to reduce your chances of being spotted and so you won’t have to wait for the Chaos Elemental to respawn. 

The chances of surviving a Pker are quite low so always ensure you only take items that you are willing to lose and turn on protect item to keep more of your items. The methods below give players the best chance of escaping a PKer.:

• A Wilderness Obelisk: this is located southeast of the Rogues’ castle as shown above, without completion of the hard Wilderness Diary, the destination of the Obelisk is random. You will likely be teleported to a safer part of the wilderness. Players won’t be able to use this option if they have been teleblocked.
• The Deserted Keep: this is west of the Chaos Elemental’s location as shown above, it has a lever that can teleport players to Ardougne or Edgeville, players should bring a knife to slash the web leading to this area if they want to escape through this route. If you get teleblocked, you won’t be able to use this method.
• The Rogues’ Castle: Since it contains several doors and rooms, players can buy enough time to log out by running through several doors and closing them as it might confuse the PKer.
• Magic axe hut: players have to bring a lockpick and have atleast 23 thieving for them to use this method. You or the PKer will likely get attacked by an axe which will give you enough time to logout.

Drops From the Chaos Elemental

The average Chaos Elemental kill is worth 39,000 coins based on the grand exchange prices of the items below

Food: These are dropped at a rate of 1/5. Blighted anglerfish, blighted karabwan, blighted super restore, dragon bones, Supercombat potion. 

Weapons and armour: Dragon pickaxe, rune dart, rune plateleags, rune plateskirt (1/32), rune 2h sword (1/42.67), rune battleaxe (1/42.67), rune full helm (1/42.67), rune kiteshield (1/42.67), Mystic air staff (1/42.67), mystic water staff (1/42.67), mystic earth staff (1/42.67), mystic fire staff(1/42.67), dragon dagger (1/64) , dragon 2h sword (1/64) , dragon platelegs (1/64), dragon plateskirt.(1/64) 

Runes and ammunition: 300-500 Chaos rune (1/16), 100-250 Blood rune (1/16), and 150 rune arrow (1/25.6)

Herbs: these are obtained in noted form: 5-8 Grimy ranarr weed (1/32), 5-8 grimy snapdragon (1/32), 5-8 grimy avantoe (1/42.67), 5-8 Grimy Kwuarm (1/42.67)

Resources: these are noted: 75-150 coal(1/25.6),, 8-16 Mahogany planks(1/25.6), 3-5 Runite bar (1/32), and Adamantite bar (1/32)

Materials: 20,005-29,995 coins (1/18.29), 20-40 Blighted ancient ice sack (1/25.6), 15-25 noted blighted karambwan, 10-15 noted (1/32), 2 wilderness crabs teleport (1/64).

Rare drops: 3000 coins (1/97.52), 1 loop hald of key (1/101.6), 1 tooth half of key (1/101.6; 1/102), 1 uncut sapphire (1/409.6; 1/208), 1 runite bar (1/409.6), 67 nature rune (1/682.7), 1 rune 2h sword (1/682.7), 1 rune battleaxe (1/682.7), 1 uncut emerald (1/819.2; 1/416), 45 law rune (1/1,024), 45 death rune (1/1,024), 150 steel arrow (1/1,024), 42 rune arrow (1/1,024), 20 adamant javelin (1/1,024), 1 rune sq shield (1/1,024), 1 dragonstone (1/1,024), 100 silver ore (noted) (1/1,024), 1 uncut ruby (1/1,638; 1/832), 1 rune kiteshield (1/1,638), 1 dragon med helm (1/2,162), 1 rune spear (1/2,162; 1/512), 1 shield left half (1/3,074), 1 nature talisman (1/4,369; 1/2,219), 1 dragon spear (1/5,765; 1/669), 1 uncut diamond (1/6,554; 1/3,329), 5 rune javelin (1/13,107; 1/6,656)

Tertiary Items: Looting bag (1/3), Weapon poison (++) (1/12.8), Brimstone key (1/59), Clue scroll (elite) (1/200; 1/100), Pet chaos elemental (1/300)

Wilderness Slayer Tertiary: Slayer’s enchantment (1/30), Larran’s key (1/58)