Banshee

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Banshee

Release date	26 January 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	37
XP per kill	58.5 (and 19.3 experience)
Examine text	A tortured screaming soul.
Slayer info
Slayer level	15
Slayer XP	15.5 (3.1 on contract; 18.6 on special contract)
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar, Sumona, Vannaka
Combat info LP Max hit 1,350 108 Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Immune to Poison Stun Deflect No No No Attack speed Undefined Aggressive Poisonous Yes No Attack style Weaknesses Magic Arrows Salve amulet

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Jagex's concept art for the Banshee.

Banshees are Slayer monsters that require level 15 Slayer to kill. Additionally, banshees tend to frequently drop many different types of herbs. Mighty banshees are a higher-levelled alternative, if this is given as your Slayer assignment.

Locations

• Slayer Tower - ground floor (cannot use cannon)
• Desert Slayer Dungeon (mighty banshee, after Smoking Kills)

Strengths and weaknesses

Players should use earmuffs, masked earmuffs, a Slayer helmet, a Mask of Mourning or a Helm of Keening when fighting banshees, or else their characters' combat statistics (including life points) will be severely reduced. Not having earmuffs, masked earmuffs, or a slayer helmet will cause you to be damaged by your Constitution divided by 10 and your character will cover their ears. Agility is also reduced, which can be annoying for players wishing to use the shortcuts in the slayer tower. Banshees have few Life points and do not hit particularly hard. They are undead, so a Salve amulet works on them.

Banshees use a magic attack which hits from a distance. Protect from Magic prayer will work against them, but most players are likely better off using armour with a high magic defence bonus, such as dragonhide armour. Blue d'hide or better renders its attacks basically useless.

Other information

Banshees decrease many stats including: Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Prayer, Magic, Agility, and Summoning.

They are popular for their tendency to drop high level herbs. Aside from banking distance they are a reasonable alternative to the popular chaos druids.

Banshees have a very high restore rate. They will restore 10 life points between attacks with a fast weapon and 20 between slower weapons. They are popular for casting spells such as Weaken on because they will restore the lowered stats extremely quickly, so it can be recast.

As of the Rune Value Improvements update, Banshees no longer drop noted pure essence.

Champions' Challenge

Concept art for banshees.

Banshees are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Banshee Champion, the player must kill banshees until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

Drops

Charms

No charm
89%	2–3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 82,199 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Weapons/Armour

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Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bronze claw	1	Common	1,444
	Off-hand bronze claw	1	Common	328
	Mithril arrow	40	Uncommon	840
	Staff of air	1	Uncommon	2,013
	Iron mace	1	Rare	1,964
	Iron kiteshield	1	Rare	3,464
File:Mystic gloves (dark).png	Mystic gloves (dark)	1	Very rare	Error

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Herbs & Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Air rune	3	Common	270
	Chaos rune	3; 7; 10	Uncommon	456–1,520
	Cosmic rune	2	Uncommon	824
	Fire rune	6; 7	Uncommon	954–1,113

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Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy guam	1	Common	709
	Grimy tarromin	1	Common	105
	Grimy marrentill	1	Common	2,307
	Grimy harralander	1	Common	741
	Grimy kwuarm	1	Common	11,782
	Limpwurt seed	1	Common	5,207
	Marrentill seed	1	Common	179
	Spirit weed seed	1	Common	78,260
	Strawberry seed	1	Common	1,075
	Tarromin seed	1	Common	137
	Wildblood seed	1	Common	189
	Grimy ranarr	1	Uncommon	1,860
	Grimy irit	1	Uncommon	5,008
	Grimy avantoe	1	Uncommon	1,043
	Grimy lantadyme	1	Uncommon	7,551
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	Uncommon	8,476
	Grimy cadantine	1	Uncommon	4,322

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Rare drop table drops

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items such as a ring of wealth or luck of the dwarves are not required to access the table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	500–1,400	Common	500–1,400
	Anagogic ort	20; 40	Common	Not sold
	Thin snail	1	Common	1,074
	Fishing bait	7; 15	Common	35–75
	Pike	1	Common	29
	Iron ore	1(noted)	Common	449
	Eye of newt	1	Uncommon	10
	Santa hat	1–12 (noted)	Always	1,192,527,006–14,310,324,072
	Clue scroll (easy)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit sapphire	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit emerald	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit ruby	1	Rare	Not sold
	Ectoplasmator	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold
File:Champion's scroll (banshee).png	Champion's scroll (banshee)	1	Very rare	Not sold

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	250–500	Common	250–500
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	809
	Uncut emerald	1	Common	2,555
	Uncut ruby	1	Common	1,842
	Uncut diamond	1	Common	4,843
	Uncut diamond	45–55 (noted)	Rare	217,935–266,365
	Loop half of a key	1	Common	11,053
	Tooth half of a key	1	Common	11,538
	Uncut dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,077
	Uncut dragonstone	45–55 (noted)	Rare	543,465–664,235
	Dragon longsword	1	Common	56,212
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	35,861
	Battlestaff	180–220 (noted)	Rare	542,160–662,640
	Rune javelin	5	Rare	905
	Rune platebody	1	Uncommon	37,480
	Rune platebody	15–25 (noted)	Rare	562,200–937,000
	Shield left half	1	Rare	64,399
	Dragon helm	1	Uncommon	58,601
	Rune arrowheads	113–137	Common	14,916–18,084
	Onyx bolts	135–165	Very rare	1,003,725–1,226,775
	Chaos talisman	1	Rare	1,923
	Nature talisman	1	Rare	1,473
	Water talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	164,320–207,296
	Earth talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	12,025–15,170
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	Rare	5,225–7,315
	Raw lobster	135–165 (noted)	Common	47,655–58,245
	Raw shark	225–275 (noted)	Uncommon	321,075–392,425
	Big bones	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	13,804–16,646
	Dragon bones	180–220 (noted)	Rare	384,480–469,920
	Coal	200–1,100 (noted)	Uncommon	22,400–123,200
	Gold ore	90–110 (noted)	Common	52,830–64,570
	Adamantite ore	180–220 (noted)	Uncommon	40,860–49,940
	Adamant bar	14–16 (noted)	Common	24,654–28,176
	Adamant bar	135–165 (noted)	Rare	237,735–290,565
	Runite ore	90–110 (noted)	Rare	127,710–156,090
	Rune bar	3 (noted)	Common	8,955
	Rune bar	45–55 (noted)	Rare	134,325–164,175
	Grimy torstol	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	485,010–592,790
	Grimy snapdragon	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	161,010–196,790
	Super restore (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	125,910–153,890
	Prayer potion (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	130,950–160,050
	Lantadyme seed	14–16	Uncommon	10,164–11,616
	Dwarf weed seed	14–16	Uncommon	11,508–13,152
	Magic seed	4	Uncommon	209,856
	Palm tree seed	10	Rare	396,000
	Flax	450–550 (noted)	Common	43,200–52,800
	Molten glass	45–55 (noted)	Common	27,585–33,715
	Soft clay	450–550 (noted)	Uncommon	188,550–230,450
	Yew logs	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	11,356–13,694
	Yew logs	675–825 (noted)	Rare	112,725–137,775
	Teak plank	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	16,740–20,460
	Mahogany plank	270–330 (noted)	Rare	356,670–435,930
	Blurberry Special	1	Uncommon	12,008
	Vecna skull	1	Very rare*	124,871
	Hazelmere's signet ring	1	Very rare*	1,432,268,388
	Brawling gloves (Melee)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Magic)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Ranged)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Agility)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Cooking)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (FM)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Fishing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Hunter)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Mining)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Prayer)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Smithing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Thieving)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (WC)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3	1	Very rare	Not sold

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These drops are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

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