For the pet from Social Slayer, see baby aquanite.Template:Beta

Aquanite

Release date	28 July 2009 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	114
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Slayer level	78
Slayer XP	125
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Always drops	Big bones
Examine text	It has a light on its forehead. What a pretty light... So shiny!
Combat stats LP Max hit 1250 134 with normal magic attack, 250 with special "prayer negating" attack Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 5 (Interval: 3.0 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No Attack style Weaknesses Magic Ranged Stab

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The Aquanite is a Slayer monster that requires a Slayer level of 78 to kill and was announced by Jagex in a Guaranteed Content poll on 17 June 2009 and subsequently released on 28 July 2009. The poll asked players which name for the new monster they preferred: Aquanite, Gilidrixon, Amphibrath, Lanterwyn, or Anglibian. All of the names were suggested by players on the RuneScape Forums thread "Name A Slayer Creature" in "Suggestions - Monster and NPC". The name Aquanite won the Guaranteed Content Poll over Gilidrixon by 117 votes.

Habitat

The Aquanites are located past the Kurasks at the very end of the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon. While there are no requirements to get there, the travel time can be severely reduced with 81 Agility (boostable).

The route, in conjunction with a ring of slaying, is to teleport directly to the Relleka dungeon and simply run using both Agility shortcuts.

Players can also use another, faster way for those without 81 Agility. First, Smoking Kills must be completed before this can be used. Using a Ring of Slaying to teleport to Sumona, players run down the Desert Slayer Dungeon into either the Kurask or Turoth rooms, and use the portal, making players have a little walk to their lair. Otherwise, if players do not want to waste points for buying/making a Ring of Slayer, the Bandit Camp's lodestone or the Al-Kharid lodestone will suffice enough.

Using the Bandit camp lodestone, players will run east to the Desert Slayer Dungeon, or if needed, go down the Smokey Well to avoid unnesscary desert heat damage. If using the Al-Kharid lodestone, stock up at the Shantay pass, and bring either 205-400 coins and head to Pollnivneach.

Strategy

Aquanites can hit up to 134 with their normal magic attack and are fairly accurate, even with large magic defenses. If the player is using the Protect from Magic prayer, they will use a special prayer-negating attack which can hit up to 250. The special prayer-negating attack is used every 10th attack whether you are using prayer or not. Note, however, that prayer flashing almost completely prevents them from using the protection cancelling attack. A healing familiar, food and prayer potions may be useful incase mistakes are made. A Bunyip is recommended, as well as Swallow Whole scrolls, due to the large amount of food the monster frequently drops.

Caution: Aquanites' special attack will deactivate a players' prayers in a similar manner to the special attack of the dragon scimitar, but unlike the dragon scimitar, they only turn it off, instead of preventing the player from using it for a while. Aquanites' attacks can hit fairly hard and are relatively accurate, but with the use of a healing familiar or similar methods, players may fight for long periods of time. However, it is possible to use protection prayer, since your prayer will only be deactivated for a second, and so gear with high prayer bonus may also be worn. There are two effective methods to fight these creatures.

Ranged

• Helm: Full slayer helm/Focus sight (task) > Pernix coif > Armadyl helmet > Royal d'hide coif
• Body: Pernix body > Armadyl chestplate > Royal d'hide body > Black d'hide body
• Chaps: Pernix chaps > Armadyl chainskirt > Royal d'hide chaps > Black d'hide chaps
• Amulet: Amulet of ranging > Amulet of fury > Amulet of glory
• Weapon: Royal crossbow > Chaotic crossbow > Rune crossbow
• Ammo: Royal bolts > Broad-tipped bolts
• Aura: Master Sharpshooter > Vampyrism
• Boots: Glavien boots > Ranger boots > Snakeskin boots
• Cape: Completionist cape > Ava's devices
• Gloves: Royal d'hide vambraces > Culinaromancer Gloves 10 > Regen Bracelet
• Ring: Ring of wealth > Ring of life

Inventory (standard)

• Best healer pouch
  • Scrolls for the healer
• 2 Prayer potions
• 10 medium/high level food

Melee

• Helm: Full slayer helm/Slayer helm/Black mask (on task) > Torva full helm > Helm of netizinot
• Body: Ganodermic poncho > Torva body > Bandos chestplate > Karil's top > Royal d'hide body > Black d'hide body
• Legs: Ganodermic leggings > Torva platelegs > Bandos tassets > Karil's skirt > Royal d'hide chaps > Black d'hide chaps
• Amulet: Amulet of fury > Amulet of glory
• Weapon (stab): Chaotic rapier > Chaotic longsword > Brackish blade
• Weapon (slash)*: Chaotic longsword > Abyssal whip
• Gloves: Goliath Gloves > Culinaromancer Gloves 10
• Boots: Steadfast boots > Dragon boots > Rune boots
• Ring: Ring of wealth > Ring of life
• Aura: Vampyrism
• A slashing weapon should only be used if the player has at least 90+ attack. An Abyssal whip, despite being a slash weapon, has a decent slash and strength bonus, and will kill much faster than a Brackish blade.

Inventory (standard)

• Bunyip pouch (and scrolls)
• 20 high levelled food
• Super (or greater) potion set
• 2+ Prayer potions

Inventory (Prayer)

• 10 Prayer potions
• 5 high levelled food (skip if using Soul Split)

Drops

100% drops

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Big bones	1	1 Always	443

Runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water rune	30–49, 100	2 Common	390–1,300
	Air rune	40	3 Uncommon	560
	Nature rune	4	3 Uncommon	440
	Death rune	3	3 Uncommon	279
	Blood rune	3	3 Uncommon	489
	Soul rune	3–6	3 Uncommon	366–732

Weapons and armour

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water battlestaff	1	3 Uncommon	8,764
	Air battlestaff	1	4 Rare	8,702
	Amulet of ranging	1	4 Rare	98,071

Ranged weapons

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bolts	10	2 Common	910
	Runite bolts	5	2 Common	1,980
	Rune dart	10	2 Common	1,010

Seeds

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Morchella mushroom spore	4	3 Uncommon	1,176
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Cactus seed	1	3 Uncommon	26
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	33
	Avantoe seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,932
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	691
	Cadantine seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,416
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	78
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	362
	Fellstalk seed	1	3 Uncommon	448
	Ranarr seed	1	4 Rare	1,021
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,144
	Lantadyme seed	1	4 Rare	34,675
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	40,284
	Torstol seed	1	4 Rare	79,997

Herbs

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	3 Uncommon	555
	Grimy marrentill	1	3 Uncommon	44
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	675
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,248
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,730
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	4,054
	Grimy kwuarm	1	3 Uncommon	2,507
	Grimy cadantine	1	3 Uncommon	2,516
	Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	8,156
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	8,089

Fish

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Raw lobster	1–3	2 Common	126–378
	Raw swordfish	1–2	2 Common	305–610
	Raw shark	1	2 Common	969

Charms

Please add your charm drop rates to the next template:

Charm drop percentages

No charms
74–75%	9–10%	5%	5%	6–7%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 12,449 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Others

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	500	2 Common	Not sold
	Seaweed	3–6 (noted)	2 Common	1,269–2,538
	Snape grass	3 (noted)	2 Common	1,044
	Pelvis bone	1	2 Common [1]	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Long bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Curved bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

1. ^ Pelvis bone only for Fur 'n' Seek Wish list

Trivia

• The examine text may be a reference to Dory in Finding Nemo.
• The new item that came out along with Aquanite was the Amulet of ranging which increases range attack and magic defence bonuses by a moderate amount.
• There was a safe spot for the Aquanites. If a player was along the east wall and attacked the Aquanite spawned on the west wall, the Aquanite would retreat and not attack. This was later fixed.
• When Aquanites were released, it was possible that a player could set up and use a cannon to kill them; this was fixed by Jagex hours after their release.
• Previously, Kuradal could not assign Aquanites as a task. However, with the Shattered Heart update on 3 March 2010, the ability to be assigned Aquanites can be purchased for 50 Slayer points. Once unlocked, they cannot be removed from the assignments list except through the use of using one of the cancellation slots.
• Its bio-luminescence resembles that of Rocktails, as they have a similar bio-luminescence like anglerfish in real life.
• While attacking, the Aquanite's animation for its magic attack seems similar to that of using a 2h sword on crush setting.
• While using magic protection prayers, if the prayer is on before the Aquanite makes it's attack, and when the projectile reaches you, there is a chance that it will splash, or hit, though no damage will be taken.
• The Aquanite's attack, when it reaches the player and hits, looks almost alike a "splashed" spell, just without the water being very visible.
• Even though Guthan's has a decent stab bonus, the set effect will not overcome the Aquanite's damage.
• It has duck-like webbed feet, a bioluminescent light hanging from its forehead like that of an angler fish, and a head with whiskers like a catfish. This monster, therefore, seems to be a mixture of several different real life animals.
• While fighting Aquanites your character will sometimes become invisible when you are attacked and lose life points. This will even happen while the Protect from Magic prayer is activated.
• This is one of the few higher-levelled Slayer monsters that do not have access to the Rare drop table.