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.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Strengths and weaknesses 3 Other information 4 Champions' Challenge 5 Drops 5.1 Weapons/Armour 5.2 Runes 5.3 Charms 5.4 Herbs 5.5 Other 5.6 Rare drop table drops

LocationsEdit

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

Strengths and weaknessesEdit

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 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 informationEdit

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 worked on Banshees, before the Evolution of Combat update.

Champions' ChallengeEdit

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.

DropsEdit

Weapons/ArmourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Iron mace	1	3 Uncommon	13
	Iron dagger	1	4 Rare	24
	Iron kiteshield	1	4 Rare	44
	Adamant kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	2,832
	Mystic gloves (dark)	1	5 Very rare	6,009

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	3	2 Common	42
	Chaos rune	3, 6, 7, 17	2 Common	123–697
	Cosmic rune	2	3 Uncommon	272
	Fire rune	6, 7	3 Uncommon	60–70

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
89%	2–3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 61,997 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	571
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	255
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	42
	Grimy harralander	1	2 Common	669
	Grimy kwuarm	1	2 Common	2,584
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,368
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,746
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	4,006
	Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	8,478
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	8,202
	Grimy cadantine	1	3 Uncommon	2,724

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	13, 26 or 35.	2 Common	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20, 40	2 Common	Not sold
	Pure essence	13, 23 (noted)	2 Common	1,235–2,185
	Fishing bait	7, 15	2 Common	56–120
	Iron ore	1	3 Uncommon	183
	Eye of newt	1	3 Uncommon	8
	Clue scroll (easy)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Ectoplasmator	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Champion scroll (banshee)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

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 1,115 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,666 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,415 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,695 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 11,590 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,311 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 15,341 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 11,276 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 16,608 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,566 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,240 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,165 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,519 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 830,400 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,190 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 64,765 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,455 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 19,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 30,000–200 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,311,900 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,683,800 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,558,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,565,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 152,134 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,774 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,975–29,365 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,100–72,940 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 207 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 263 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 47,500–1,425,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,440 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 7,950 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,125–297 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 225,750–451,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 65,850–219,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 40,950–2,047,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 244,500–1,304,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,600 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,420,000–23,940,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,051,800 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,003–1,950,450 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 80,784 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 102,525–1,025,250 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 109,410–437,640 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 127,260–1,272,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 159,500 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,723 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 70,161–3,508,050 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 157,483–944,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,122,250 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,314 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 91,888–2,848,528 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 834 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 58,500–11,700,000

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