When you're out adventuring in Runescape Dragonwilds, having a fully-charged Lifeward bar cover your actual health bar can be an absolute lifesaver. It's fairly cheap and easy to recharge, and while you can't keep popping Wardstones like you can with potions, they're still very handy to have.
Players can make Wardstones for armor in Runescape Dragonwilds fairly early on, but if you want to increase the maximum amount of Lifeward you can have on your character, you'll need to make significant progress through the game's tech tree. Here's what you need to do.
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How to Increase Lifeward Capacity in Runescape Dragonwilds
Simply enough, all you need to do to get a larger Lifeward capacity is to wear stronger armor pieces. The better your armor tier, the more defenses it will offer, and that may or may not include a higher Lifeward cap.
Your starting armor set offers no Lifeward capacity whatsoever. However, as soon as you upgrade to the Reinforced set, you'll get a Lifeward bar with a max capacity of 25 points on top of your health bar. Once you make armor made of Bronze in Dragonwilds, you'll get an additional 25 max Lifeward points.
Interestingly enough, your chestpiece is the main determining factor that affects Lifeward capacity. As far as early-tier armor sets go, you can safely mix and match pieces and still get a decent amount of max Lifeward capacity as long as you're wearing a good chestpiece, though this is generally not recommended, so you don't miss out on important armor set bonuses.
Restoring Lifeward
If you want to top off your Lifeward bar, your most efficient option is to use a Wardstone. A Small Wardstone will restore up to 30 points of Lifeward, and the bigger the Wardstone you use, the more Lifeward you'll restore.
Alternatively, you can eat food to regenerate small amounts of Lifeward. This isn't exactly a reliable way to top off your armor's magic shield, but it's one thing to consider when you're grabbing a bite to eat.
Combat in Runescape Dragonwilds will have players managing their health, stamin, and Lifeward bars as they try to defeat enemies. The latter isn't a total necessity, especially not when you can just craft healing potions to recoup lost health, but having a thick Lifeward bar can save players from strong attacks from powerful enemies that would otherwise kill them in one shot.
Keep in mind that using Wardstones will build up a toxicity meter that, when full, will completely prevent you from using any more Warstones.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
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- April 15, 2025
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