OSRS Perilous Moons Guide: Descend into Neypotzli!

Hey adventurers! Looking for a challenging mid-level boss rush with fantastic rewards, heavily inspired by the classic Barrows experience? Then look no further than the Moons of Peril! Hidden deep within Neypotzli beneath Cam Torum in Varlamore, these three imprisoned nagua – the Eclipse Moon, Blue Moon, and Blood Moon – offer a unique and rewarding PvM challenge.

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to conquer the Perilous Moons: getting started, gathering essential resources within the prison, understanding the core mechanics, tackling each boss, and claiming your awesome Moon Armour rewards!

Getting Started: Entering Neypotzli

Before you can face the Moons, you must complete the quest Perilous Moons. This quest serves as an introduction to the area and its mechanics.

  • Location: Neypotzli, beneath Cam Torum in Varlamore.
  • Recommended Combat Level: 75+ (suggested 70+ Attack, Strength, Defence).
  • Recommended Skills: 50+ Cooking, Hunter, and Herblore are highly beneficial for making supplies inside.

The entrance is at the northern end of Cam Torum. You can get there via:

  • Calcified moth teleport.
  • Quetzal Transport System (requires unlocking).
  • Running from various Varlamore teleports.

Neypotzli: Your Self-Sufficient Base Camp

One of the coolest aspects of Perilous Moons is its self-sufficiency. You generally don't need to bring external food or potions (except maybe an emergency dose). The dungeon provides resources for powerful supplies:

  • Campsites: Contain supply crates with tools (rope, net, pestle & mortar) and a cooking stove (restores run energy via "Make-cuppa").
  • Food:
    • Cooked Moss Lizards: Catch Moss Lizards (Hunter req) in Earthbound Cavern. Heals based on Cooking/Hunter level. Higher Cooking can yield multiple cuts per lizard. Recommended if Hunter > Fishing or Cooking is high.
    • Cooked Bream: Catch Raw Bream (Fishing req) in Streambound Cavern. Heals based on Cooking/Fishing level. Higher Cooking speeds up cooking time.
  • Potions:
    • Moonlight Potions: Gather Moonlight Grubs (near campsites), grind into paste, mix with water. Acts as Prayer Potion + Super Combat + Divine Super Defence! Higher Herblore yields more doses.
  • Prayer Restore:
    • Moonlight Moths: Catchable at 75 Hunter (net) or 85 (barehanded) near camps. Restore 22 Prayer points each, saving potions between fights.

Important: Supplies gathered/made in Neypotzli (except Moonlight Moth Paste) are destroyed upon leaving.

Core Boss Mechanics

All three Moons share some fundamental mechanics:

  • Individual Health: While you can fight alongside others, each boss's 500 HP is tracked per player. You must deal the full damage yourself.
  • 3-Hit Basic Attack: Their standard melee attack hits three times very quickly. Crucially, if one hit misses, the rest of the sequence also misses. High Defence is key to mitigating damage!
  • Protection Prayers: Ineffective against any of their attacks. Focus on defensive gear and dodging mechanics.
  • Eyatlalli's Glyph: Eight sigils circle the arena. Eyatlalli empowers one. During standard attacks, stand on the glowing glyph to avoid rapid chip damage and curse buildup. The glyph rotates clockwise every two standard attacks.
  • Curse of the Moons: Each standard hit applies stacks (1, 2, 5 per hit in the sequence). The specific curse effect varies per boss, maxes at 127 stacks, degrades slowly, and disappears after defeating a Moon.
  • Self-Damage: Moons slowly damage themselves over time (no hitsplat). This contributes to the kill but slows down at low HP.
  • Weaknesses: Each Moon is weak to a specific melee style.

Facing the Moons: Strategies & Specials

Eclipse Moon (Weak to Stab)

  • Flat Armour: Has +6 Flat Armour (reduces your damage per hitsplat by 6). Reduced to +4 during Clone phase.
  • Curse: Causes your attacks to occasionally be "glancing," reducing your max hit significantly. Chance increases with stacks.
  • Specials (Triggered on New/Full Moon glyph):
    • New Moon: Searing Rays: Pushes you behind a moving moon shield. Follow it precisely (walking usually works, run if you mess up) to avoid damaging light rays.
    • Full Moon: Clones: Binds you in the centre. Clones spawn around you. Face each clone as it appears (click the glowing circle below it) to parry its attack, dealing damage back to the boss. Accuracy is buffed per parry – swap to a slow, hard-hitting weapon (even Crush/Slash) during this phase!

Blue Moon (Weak to Crush)

  • Flat Armour: Has -5 Flat Armour (increases your damage per hitsplat by 5). Multi-hitting weapons (e.g., Dual Macuahuitl, Glacial Temotli, Scythe) excel here.
  • Curse: Cancels your next attack after reaching 18 stacks. You'll get chat messages warning you as stacks build (3, 9 stacks).
  • Specials:
    • New Moon: Weapon Freeze: Freezes your weapon into one of three ice blocks (target the glowing one). Punch it twice with bare hands to break it free, dodging ice shards. Failure deals damage. Safespot: 1 tile N of centre. Logout = reclaim weapon from Eyatlalli.
    • Full Moon: Frost Storm: Extinguishes two braziers. Boss heals rapidly per unlit brazier. Run to relight them while avoiding moving storms. Safespots exist beside braziers. You can potentially out-DPS the healing if strong enough.

Blood Moon (Weak to Slash)

  • Flat Armour: Has -2 Flat Armour (increases your damage per hitsplat by 2). Multi-hitters are good.
  • Curse: Heals the boss based on damage dealt (1x, 2x, 3x per hit), with the 3rd hit healing a minimum of 30! Indicated by blood transfer. Crucial Tip: Walk into the boss as the third hit lands to potentially negate the large heal.
  • Specials:
    • Full Moon: Blood Rain: Boss disappears. Pools of blood form rapidly. Avoid standing in them (heals boss). Staying off pools damages the boss slightly. Glyph may reappear but pools on it are still dangerous.
    • New Moon: Blood Jaguar: Jaguar spawns, blood pools form. Stay on the active glyph! Jaguar siphons HP (up to 15) then cleaves two tiles in front, while pools target the back two tiles. Attack the jaguar to restore HP (up to 20). Dodge the cleave when the pool sound ends/pool fully forms.

Looting the Lunar Chest

After defeating at least one Moon, you can access the Lunar Chest in the Ancient Shrine.

  • Unique Rolls: Each Moon defeated gives an independent 1/56 chance at one of their specific unique items (armour piece or weapon).
  • Duplication Protection: You won't receive duplicate armour pieces from a set until you've completed that set.
  • Overall Unique Chance (3 Moons): Roughly 1/19 chance of getting at least one unique per run.
  • Standard Loot: If no unique is rolled, you get standard loot rolls based on Moons killed (1 Moon = 1 roll, 2 Moons = 3 rolls, 3 Moons = 6 rolls).

Rewards: The Moon Equipment

The main prize! Three distinct sets, each with a weapon and armour requiring 50 Defence and 75 in their respective primary combat skill (Str for Blood, Mag for Blue, Rng for Eclipse). See our Moon Equipment Guide for full details!

  • Blood Moon Armour (Melee - Str): Features the Dual Macuahuitl (2 hits per attack) and the Bloodrager set effect (chance for faster attacks). Excellent stepping stone to Bandos armour.
  • Blue Moon Armour (Magic/Melee Hybrid - Mag): Features the Blue Moon Spear and the Frostweaver set effect (chance for instant melee attack after binding).
  • Eclipse Moon Armour (Ranged/Melee Hybrid - Rng): Features the Eclipse Atlatl (uses Melee Strength for Ranged damage!) and the Eclipse set effect (chance to apply a stacking burn).

Eyatlalli Sacrifice: You can offer Moon equipment pieces back to Eyatlalli for another (unguaranteed) roll on the unique table.

Farming Strategies

  • General Route: Typically involves gathering supplies, killing Eclipse -> Blue -> Blood, looting, and repeating. You get teleported near the next required camp after each kill.
  • Blood Moon Only: For targeting Blood Moon uniques specifically, a faster route exists focusing only on that boss and returning to the chest immediately.

Conclusion

The Moons of Peril offer a refreshing and engaging mid-level PvM experience. The self-sufficient nature of Neypotzli, the unique boss mechanics demanding attention to detail (especially defence and positioning), and the highly desirable Moon equipment sets make this a fantastic piece of content. It takes practice, but mastering the Moons is a rewarding challenge! Good luck, and may your Lunar Chest runs be fruitful!

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