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Crimson Kisten

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Crimson Kisten

Crimson Kisten
Type Item
Videos 2 (first 2026-02-17, latest 2026-03-05)
Main source Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog

Crimson Kisten is an item topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2026-02-17 and 2026-03-05. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • In Gnomonkey's calcs, the Crimson Kisten goes from 21 percent worse than Burning claws on phase 2 Verzik to 16 percent worse, so it is still not good in Theatre of Blood.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey expects the Crimson Kisten to be the new best special attack weapon at Phosani's Nightmare, probably at Araxxor, and likely at Sarachnis because she is weak to crush.2
  • Gnomonkey says the Crimson Kisten has few uses since there are not many crush-weak bosses, nothing in raids is really weak to crush, and for Tekton you want a Warhammer; it is still slightly worse than Void Waker at Kephri.2
  • Gnomonkey says an Ironman without Burning claws could use the Crimson Kisten in place of them, but not as well; he considers it the least usable of the existing special-attack DPS weapons, a niche rather than bad addition.3
  • Gnomonkey would not be surprised if the Crimson Kisten is the best special attack at the Maggot King.4
  • Gnomonkey says the two-handed clarification makes the Crimson Kisten quite a bit worse: it remains the Phosani's Nightmare spec but is less good there, and at places like Theatre of Blood it is now quite a bit worse than Burning claws.5
  • Gnomonkey says he would have kept the Crimson Kisten one-handed because it was already not that good, but it is already two-handed in the poll.6
  • Gnomonkey agrees with Jagex that the Crimson Kisten should not be a main hand weapon, since crush weapons are currently not very good and he doubts it would see much use even as a spec.6
  • Gnomonkey concludes the Crimson Kisten is fine as is, maybe okay as a one-handed weapon, and that it is not a problem to have a lesser-used spec when the boss drops other very strong rewards.7

Events

  • The Crimson Bludgeon (crush claws) is being renamed the Crimson Kisten and buffed with an extra 23 crush accuracy bonus, to plus 80 total crush bonus.8

Trivia

  • The Crimson Kisten is the new crush special attack weapon, described as basically crush claws.9

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-03-05 Why CRUSH Isn't Good in OSRS Added: 5 statements (opinion, trivia)
2026-02-17 Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog Page created: 6 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog, 2026-02-17. ▶ 0:57 ↩

  2. Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog, 2026-02-17. ▶ 1:26 ↩↩

  3. Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog, 2026-02-17. ▶ 1:56 ↩

  4. Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog, 2026-02-17. ▶ 2:29 ↩

  5. Why CRUSH Isn't Good in OSRS, 2026-03-05. ▶ 1:00 ↩

  6. Why CRUSH Isn't Good in OSRS, 2026-03-05. ▶ 1:27 ↩↩

  7. Why CRUSH Isn't Good in OSRS, 2026-03-05. ▶ 11:32 ↩

  8. Power creep in OSRS - Blood moon Rises Rewards Blog, 2026-02-17. ▶ 0:29 ↩

  9. Why CRUSH Isn't Good in OSRS, 2026-03-05. ▶ 0:31 ↩

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