Dark ice shard

Dark ice shard is a tier 85 members main-hand weapon for melee, with a high alchemy value of 500,000 coins. No shop sells Dark ice shard and no monster drops it, so an Ironman makes it: it takes 85 Smithing and 85 Crafting and gives 5,000 Smithing XP, using 2500 × Glacor remnants, 5 × Dark nilas, 10 × Black stone heart and 2 × Glorious bar.

“A powerful longsword, created using shards of pure, primordial ice.”

MembersTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 500,000 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

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Where the materials come from: Glacor remnants (dropped by Glacyte (level 105)); Dark nilas (dropped by Arch-Glacor (level 7000)); Black stone heart (dropped by Taraket the Necromancer (level 1000)). Making ten takes 25,000 × Glacor remnants, 50 × Dark nilas, 100 × Black stone heart and 20 × Glorious bar and gives 50,000 Smithing XP. Reaching level 85 Smithing takes 3,258,594 XP in total; the Smithing calculator counts the actions and materials to any target, and the Smithing guide has the Ironman training route. 2 recipes use Dark ice shard, including Augmented dark ice shard and Dark Shard of Leng. It is worn in the main-hand weapon slot at tier 85 as melee gear; compare it with every other piece on the Main-hand weapons list. Dark ice shard is members-only. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 500,000 coins.