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Banshee

Release date	26 January 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	23
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Slayer level	15
Slayer XP	22
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar, Sumona, Vannaka
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	A tortured screaming soul.
Combat stats LP Max hit 220 29 (80 without earmuffs) Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes (to players under level 47) No Attack style Weaknesses Unknown edit Salve amulet Salve amulet (e) Slash

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Banshees are Slayer monsters that require level 15 Slayer to kill. They frequently drop 13 noted pure essence, making them an alternative source of essence. 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, or Slayer helmets 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-based melee attack. Their attack can also hit from a distance if players aren't wearing earmuffs. Protect from Melee 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.

On a quick hunt, these creatures can profit a lower level character very well. Depending on the amount of Pure Essence, a lower levelled character can make anywhere from 50-70k per hour solely on the Pure Essence dropped.

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. Crumble Undead also works on Banshees.

Champions' Challenge

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

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Iron dagger	1	4 Rare	16
	Iron kiteshield	1	4 Rare	39
	Iron mace	1	4 Rare	15
	Adamant kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	2,935
	Mystic gloves (dark)	1	5 Very rare	5,599

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	3	2 Common	39
	Chaos rune	3, 6, 7, 17	2 Common	123–697
	Cosmic rune	2	3 Uncommon	282
	Fire rune	6, 7	3 Uncommon	72–84

Charms

Charm drop percentages

No charms
89%	3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 62,657 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	332
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	157
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	56
	Grimy harralander	1	2 Common	463
	Grimy kwuarm	1	2 Common	2,148
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,187
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,721
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	3,940
	Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	7,886
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	9,330
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	2,015

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	13, 26 or 35.	2 Common	Not sold
	Pure essence	13, 23 (Noted)	2 Common	884–1,564
	Fishing bait	7, 15	2 Common	56–120
	Iron ore	1	3 Uncommon	187
	Eye of newt	1	3 Uncommon	7
	Clue scroll (easy)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Champion scroll (banshee)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Uncut sapphire	1	2 Common	1,082
	Uncut emerald	1	2 Common	1,903
	Uncut ruby	1	2 Common	3,112
	Uncut diamond	1	3 Uncommon	7,034
	Loop half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	11,742
	Tooth half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	19,052
	Uncut dragonstone	1	4 Rare	12,885
	Dragonstone	1	4 Rare	10,585
	Dragon dagger	1	3 Uncommon	16,976
	Rune javelin	5	4 Rare	1,215
	Adamant javelin	20	5 Very rare	1,260
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	37,933
	Rune spear	1	5 Very rare	11,988
	Dragon spear	1	5 Very rare	36,917
	Dragon dagger	50 (noted)	5 Very rare	848,800
	Rune sq shield	1	5 Very rare	22,727
	Rune kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	32,404
	Shield left half	1	5 Very rare	65,284
	Dragon helm	1	5 Very rare	59,501
	Adamant bolts	200	3 Uncommon	19,800
	Onyx bolts	150	4 Rare	1,305,000
	Rune arrow	150–200; 500	4 Rare	29,850–199
	Battlestaff	200 (noted)	4 Rare	1,680,000
	Air orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,587,000
	Fire orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,723,000
	Vecna skull	1	5 Very rare	92,454
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	5,311
	Earth talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	19,025–26,635
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	47,950–67,130
	Chaos talisman	1	3 Uncommon	177
	Nature talisman	1	3 Uncommon	193
	Pure essence	500–15,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	34,000–1,020,000
	Nature rune	47–77	4 Rare	5,452–8,932
	Soul rune	20	4 Rare	2,480
	Law rune	45	4 Rare	8,550
	Death rune	50; 121	4 Rare	167
	Blood rune	50	4 Rare	13,900
	Raw swordfish	125 – 250; 1,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	36,000–288
	Raw shark	250–500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	257,000–514,000
	Big bones	150 – 500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	67,350–224,500
	Coal	150–7,500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	38,250–1,912,500
	Adamantite ore	150–800 (noted)	3 Uncommon	214,650–1,144,800
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	11,100
	Runite ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	1,056,000
	Adamant bar	1,000–7,000 (noted)	4 Rare	2,876,000–20,132,000
	Rune bar	1,50,150 (noted)	4 Rare	13,069–1,960,350
	Clean ranarr	33 (noted)	3 Uncommon	75,900
	Clean toadflax	25–250 (noted)	3 Uncommon	88,175–881,750
	Clean snapdragon	30–120 (noted)	3 Uncommon	106,230–424,920
	Clean torstol	10–100 (noted)	3 Uncommon	94,140–941,400
	Saradomin brew (4)	250 (noted)	5 Very rare	64,750
	Watermelon seed	3	3 Uncommon	5,859
	Yew seed	1–50	4 Rare	60,155–3,007,750
	Magic seed	1–6	4 Rare	164,810–988,860
	Palm tree seed	10	4 Rare	1,058,660
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,127
	Torstol seed	1–31	4 Rare	50,268–1,558,308
	Fellstalk seed	2	4 Rare	1,000
	Yew logs	100–20,000 (noted)	4 Rare	53,600–10,720,000

Trivia

• Banshees have become a popular monster for people to bot on. This is probably because they drop noted pure essence or the mystic gloves.
• Unlike other monsters in non multi-combat areas, when you try to attack another Banshee while still in combat with one, it will say "I'm already under attack!" when it normally would say "I'm already under attack."

See also

• Mighty banshee

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