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For black dragons found in Daemonheim, see Black dragon (Daemonheim).

Black dragons are powerful monsters, and, like all other adult dragons, an anti-dragon shield, a dragonfire shield, or an antifire potion or even both of them is highly recommended when fighting them as it can reduce the maximum hit of their breath from about 5000+ to around 500. They are level 144. They are not as popular as the weaker blue dragons and green dragons, but their chance of dropping the much coveted Draconic visage and the cost of black dragonhide makes them worthwhile to kill. Players must kill a Black dragon during the Freeing Sir Amik Varze part of Recipe for Disaster. A black dragon slayer task can also be completed by killing baby black dragons, the King Black Dragon or the Queen Black Dragon.

Killing Black Dragons may be profitable, as they drop various runes and rune equipment. Each kill is also profitable as their Black dragonhide is worth much more than their bones, as a result of very few players killing Black dragons outside of Slayer. Every kill has a guaranteed drop value of at least 6,042 coins.

Contents 1 Locations 1.1 Taverley Dungeon 1.2 Lava Maze 1.3 Evil Chicken's Lair 2 Strategy 3 Drops 3.1 100% drops 3.2 Charms 3.3 Weapons and armour 3.4 Ammunition 3.5 Runes/Talismans 3.6 Gems/Ores/Bars 3.7 Other Items 3.8 Rare drop table drops 4 Trivia

LocationsEdit

Black dragons can only be found in four locations across RuneScape:

• Taverley Dungeon - Requires dusty key or level 70/80 agility for use of shortcuts (Only 2 are there).
• Lava Maze Dungeon in level 42-43 Wilderness.
• Evil Chicken's Lair after starting the Sir Amik Varze subquest of Recipe for Disaster. (A raw chicken is required to enter the Evil Chicken's lair, but there are two chickens right outside the entrance, and a rope to access the baby black dragon.)
• Daemonheim - Warped floors.

Taverley DungeonEdit

This location is usually not crowded, because there are only two dragon spawns, and it is also a considerable distance from a bank. However, if a player has yet to complete the Sir Amik Varze subquest of Recipe for Disaster, which is needed for the Evil Chicken's lair, this is the best location. It is highly recommended that players have at least 70 agility (65 if you eat a summer pie) for the shortcut to the blue dragons to save yourself a lot of walking. The other shortcut is the "Taverley Dungeon Spiked Blade Shortcut" which requires an Agility level of 80 (75 with a summer pie) to overcome the obstacle. Players under 181 combat may want to bring an antipoison in case they get poisoned by a spider. Use the Taverley Lodestone for a quick banking method. If players want to hunt these dragons, its highly advisable that you gain access to the Evil Chicken's Lair. If a player has been assigned black dragons as a task and have yet to unlock the chicken's lair, its advisable that you kill baby black dragons to finish the task.

It is possible to safespot black dragons, despite their use of a magical attack in addition to their dragonfire; while standing next to the fire obelisk, their magical attacks cannot reach you. 

Lava MazeEdit

The main problem with this location is not pkers (they are rare in such deep wilderness, especially if in an unpopulated world) but the remote location. Antipoison is recommended in case you are poisoned by spiders. You must get past the Lava Maze above, which makes it undesirable for PKers to kill players. The nearest banking spot would be the Mage Arena, but is still dangerous. You can use the Wilderness obelisks to teleport into the level 18 or 13 one to teleport out with a Home teleport spell.

Evil Chicken's LairEdit

This location is arguably the best and most recommended area to kill these monsters. The lair is accessible during and after the Sir Amik Varze subquest of Recipe for Disaster and requires a raw chicken to access. There are two chickens near the altar in case you forget to bring a raw chicken. This is the best location to hunt them, as the Zanaris bank is close by.After the evolution, there is no longer a safespot since dragons can use magical attacks.There are several spawns to satisfy several players. For players who use super-antifire potions are recommended to use it before entering the lair, as one of the dragons spawns close to the portal.

Note: If you haven't finished the subquest, you could still kill the black dragons as many times as you wish. However, the drops will be black dragonhide, dragon bones, and the dragon token. If the player pick up a dragon token and keep it, they would receive normal drops.

StrategyEdit

Main article: Black dragon/Strategies

DropsEdit

100% dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Dragon bones	1	1 Always	2,263
	Black dragonhide	1	1 Always	3,779

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
56–58%	8–9%	25–27%	7%	1–2%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 9,624 kills.
3 charms are dropped at a time.

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

Weapons and armourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Mithril hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	186
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	302
	Mithril battleaxe	1	3 Uncommon	777
	Mithril 2h sword	1	3 Uncommon	1,216
	Adamant platebody	1	3 Uncommon	9,748
	Rune longsword	1	4 Rare	18,488
	Rune sq shield	1	4 Rare	22,731
	Rune battleaxe	1	5 Very rare	24,627
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	37,952

AmmunitionEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant dart	16	2 Common	160
	Rune knife	2	3 Uncommon	210
	Rune dart	10	3 Uncommon	1,010

Runes/TalismansEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	75	3 Uncommon	975
	Blood rune	15	3 Uncommon	2,445
	Death rune	5–50	3 Uncommon	465–4,650
	Fire rune	50	3 Uncommon	500
	Law rune	10–12, 45	3 Uncommon	1,800–8,100
	Nature rune	67–79	3 Uncommon	7,437–8,769
	Chaos rune	90	3 Uncommon	3,690

Gems/Ores/BarsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bar	1–2	3 Uncommon	3,168–6,336
	Steel bar	1	5 Very rare	758

Other ItemsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	129–3,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Perfect black dragon scale	1	2 Common [1]	Not sold
	Runite limbs	1	3 Uncommon	9,215
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Chocolate cake	1	3 Uncommon	244
	Black dragon tail-bone	1	3 Uncommon [2]	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20, 40	3 Uncommon [3]	Not sold
	Black dragon egg	1	3 Uncommon [4]	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare [5]	1,232,961

1. ^ Only while on a Slayer challenge from Vannaka.
2. ^ Only during the Fur 'n' Seek wish list.
3. ^ Only with RDT drops.
4. ^ Must be 99 Summoning.
5. ^ Estimated at 1/13,099 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012

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 1,142 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,792 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,576 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,548 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,668 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,160 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,935 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,966 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,221 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,627 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,270 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,048 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,856 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 861,050 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,145 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,188 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,636 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,850–199 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,303,050 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,665,400 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,418,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 138,745 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,721 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,825–27,755 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 50,450–70,630 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 227 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 270 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 42,500–1,275,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,420 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,150 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,750–302 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 246,500–493,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 67,350–224,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 41,700–2,085,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 227,700–1,214,400 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,500 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,168,000–22,176,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,038,500 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,002–1,950,300 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 74,448 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,050–950,500 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 106,530–426,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 118,420–1,184,200 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 181,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,030 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 71,385–3,569,250 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 160,602–963,612 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,064,590 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,196 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 78,509–2,433,779 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 932 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 56,100–11,220,000

TriviaEdit

• In RuneScape Classic black dragons were the strongest monsters in RuneScape until the release of the King Black Dragon.
• They are the only chromatic dragon to drop the draconic visage.
• Like all other dragons in RuneScape, besides the King Black Dragon, the black dragons received a graphical update on July 5, 2010.
• Black dragons are the only chromatic dragons that are lowest in number, compared to other dragons. There are 4 in the Evil Chicken's lair, 2 in the Wilderness, and 2 in Taverley dungeon.
• They were, for a long time, regarded as the weakest monsters in the game that drop the draconic visage, due to the difficulty in killing Iron dragons and Skeletal Wyverns. Although Frost dragons are easier to kill, they require 85 Dungeoneering and a reasonably higher combat level to fight than Black dragons. Frost dragons use all three types of combat and dragonfire, as opposed to the black dragon's regular attack and dragonfire, therefore making them quite an easy target for Draconic visages.
• Black dragons have a higher combat level than the King Black Dragon despite the latter being considered harder to kill.

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