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Gatekeeper's cane

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Gatekeeper's cane

Gatekeeper's cane
Type Item
Videos 1 (first 2026-07-07, latest 2026-07-07)
Main source NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS)

Gatekeeper's cane is an item topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2026-07-07. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

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Methods

  • The cane's special attack costs 50% energy for a hit with 100% increased accuracy and 50% increased damage; if it connects and deals damage you gain a buff for your next three attacks with 100% increased accuracy, 50% increased damage, and a two-tick attack rate.1

Stats and numbers

  • The Gatekeeper's cane is a proposed magic DPS spec weapon (a powered staff) with stats identical to the Eye of Ayak, including a three-tick attack rate, but a lower base max hit of 8 compared to the Eye's 21.2
  • The Gatekeeper's cane gives plus 30 mage accuracy and some defense bonuses with no inherent magic damage percent.1
  • In Gnomonkey's calcs, against Phosani's Nightmare totems (guaranteed accuracy) the Eye of Ayak is about 23.36 DPS while the Gatekeeper's cane is about 47.5, though it does not reduce time to kill much there.3

Tips

  • A good indicator for whether the cane is good enough is whether it beats a Zaryte crossbow against Akkha, since you would be maging him normally and he has fairly low mage defense.4

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey likens the Gatekeeper's cane to mage claws: a mage DPS spec that is not terrible, which has long been missing as magic basically had only the Eye, a poor scepter, and a volatile staff that is never used in PvM.5
  • Gnomonkey finds the Gatekeeper's cane spec generally not quite as good as a Zaryte crossbow, but very strong against low mage defense targets such as Akkha, Thermonuclear smoke devil, Dagannoth Rex and Kraken.6
  • Gnomonkey thinks the cane's only good endgame use may be Phosani's Nightmare, where it may beat a Kodai-style spec, and finds it odd for a raid reward to be mainly good at low-level bosses.7
  • Gnomonkey would buff the accuracy bonus the cane's buff gives (for example from 100% to 150-200%) without changing its base accuracy, so it could replace claws or a Zaryte crossbow against mage-tanky bosses such as Akkha.7
  • Gnomonkey says the cane's concept of speccing, buffing up and then using very fast attacks is a really cool idea and decent on paper, but he wants it a bit better.8
  • Gnomonkey thinks Jagex is reaching with some examples: in his calcs the cane is actually weak on the Whisperer, tankier targets like Zalcano's magma phase and Ulm's hand are poor, and it is okay in normal mode but not good in challenge mode there.8
  • Gnomonkey likes that the cane's spec can spread damage across multiple targets, for example swapping between the melee and mage Vanguards, as it is quite accurate against both.9

Events

  • Jagex listed bosses where the cane is okay: Kalphite Queen, all God Wars generals, Dagannoth Rex, Zalcano's magma phase (Gnomonkey thinks they mean the serp phase), Whisperer, Ultimate Ulm's hand and others.8

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-07-07 NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS) Page created: 13 statements (event, method, opinion, stat, tip)
## References

  1. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 10:48 ↩↩

  2. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 10:11 ↩

  3. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 11:54 ↩

  4. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 20:39 ↩

  5. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 11:12 ↩

  6. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 12:25 ↩

  7. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 12:52 ↩↩

  8. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 13:51 ↩↩↩

  9. NEW RAIDS 4 REWARDS AND BLOG UPDATE (OSRS), 2026-07-07. ▶ 14:49 ↩

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