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Dark beast

Release date	17 October 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	182
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Slayer level	90
Slayer XP	225.4
Assigned by	Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Always drops	Big bones
Examine text	From a darker dimension.
Combat stats LP Max hit 2200 174 (Melee), 80 (Magic) 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 No Attack styles Weaknesses Melee Magic Slash Stab

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Dark beasts are level 182 monsters found in the Mourner Tunnels on the path to the Temple of Light and inside Kuradal's Dungeon. Requiring level 90 Slayer to kill, Dark beasts are the only creatures to drop Dark bows and along with Dragon implings are the only droppers of Death talismans. A dark beast can attack using magic or melee, but it only uses magic if the player initiates combat against the beast or moves away from the beast so that it cannot melee the player. If the beast initiates combat, it only uses melee as long as the player remains in melee range. Since dark beasts are always aggressive regardless of how long the player has been present, players can avoid the magic attacks simply by having Auto Retaliate activated and allowing the dark beasts to initiate combat. This allows players to safely kill dark beasts through use of the Protect from Melee prayer or the Deflect Melee curse. Alternatively, a player can move to a Safe spot and use the Protect from Magic prayer or Deflect Magic curse.

While dark beasts can only be accessed by members, their lower-level revenant counterparts are on both member and free to play worlds.

If assigned as a slayer task, Revenant dark beasts may take their place.

Dark beasts are an often underestimated method of training combat stats. Using prayer prolonging gear, a fast yet powerful weapon, and potions (stat boosting and prayer Potions), players may kill these beasts swiftly, as their defence is only average. The cost of buying the needed potions may be offset by dark bow drops.

Dark beasts have a higher chance to drop Blue charms than most other creatures. The exception being Glacors, which have a 35% chance of dropping Blues, as opposed to 14% for dark beasts, and Tormented Demons, which have a 40% chance of dropping 3 blue charms. However, Glacors and Tormented Demons have more requirements than Dark beasts, making the beasts a better choice for those who do not have any other way of 'farming' blue charms.

Dark Beasts also have a high chance of dropping items from the Rare Drop Table, it is very possible to obtain the high valued rewards even the very rare onyx bolts. Wearing a Ring of Wealth can even further increase your chances.

Locations

• The Mourner Tunnels
• Kuradal's Dungeon

Mourner tunnels

The dark beasts are in the tunnels between the Mourner headquarters in West Ardougne and the entrance to the Temple of Light.

When entering from the headquarters, the player must wear Mourner gear and have the New Key to enter the tunnels from the Mourner headquarters basement. Mourner gear can be obtained during and after the Mourning's Ends Part I quest, but the player must have started the Mourning's Ends Part II quest to obtain the new key and enter the tunnels.

The new key is easily obtained in the Mourner headquarters and can be readily discarded once in the tunnels to free up an inventory slot. Mourner gear is not well suited for fighting dark beasts, so players prefer to switch to prayer or melee gear once in the tunnels. Mourner gear takes up six inventory slots which could otherwise be used more efficiently. The gear is sufficiently time consuming to obtain, however, so many players prefer not to discard it once in the tunnels. This leads players to seek other routes to the dark beasts.

After Mourning's Ends Part II, players can go to the Death altar via the Abyss and then reach the tunnels by going through the Temple of Light. This method requires the Crystal trinket from the quest to be in inventory to reset the light beam in the temple. This route is somewhat long and dangerous, however, since both the Abyss and the temple have aggressive monsters.

After the Within The Light quest, players can have Eluned help them add a Temple-of-Light teleport to their Teleport crystals. This teleport is a very fast and safe way to reach an area near the dark beasts and avoids cluttering inventory with Mourner gear, keys, or trinkets.

Kuradal's Dungeon

The release of Kuradal's Dungeon has made it possible to receive dark beasts as a slayer task by players who have not completed Mourning's Ends Part II. The beasts are located in the second to last chamber of the dungeon, immediately before the iron and steel dragons. However, as with all monsters in Kuradal's dungeon, they may only be fought if they have been assigned to do so by Kuradal.

Players with 90 Agility can speed the rate to get to them, however dragonfire protection is needed because of the Iron dragons that block the way.

The entrance to the dungeon is located in the Ancient Cavern. Players may quickly reach this area by using the ferocious ring's teleport to arrive next to Kuradal or by using the fairy ring code BJQ which will take players near the steps leading up to the dungeon entrance.

Strategy and Tactics

Main article: Dark beast/Strategies

Drops

100% drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Big bones	1	1 Always	449

Charms

Charm drop percentages

No charms
64–65%	9%	4–5%	8%	14%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 48,417 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Black 2h sword	1	2 Common	957
	Black battleaxe	1	2 Common	583
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	197
	Rune 2h sword	1	4 Rare	37,933
	Rune battleaxe	1	4 Rare	24,537
	Dark bow	1	4 Rare	78,673

Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant sq shield	1	2 Common	2,038
	Rune chainbody	1	3 Uncommon	29,640
	Rune full helm	1	4 Rare	20,820
	Rune sq shield	1	5 Very rare	22,727

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	47	3 Uncommon	611
	Chaos rune	10	2 Common	410
	Blood rune	7	2 Common	1,946
	Death rune	3–5	3 Uncommon	501–835
	Law rune	3–45	3 Uncommon	570–8,550

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–2	2 Common	332–664
	Grimy marrentill	1–2	2 Common	56–112
	Grimy tarromin	1–2	2 Common	157–314
	Grimy harralander	1–2	3 Uncommon	463–926
	Grimy ranarr	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,187–4,374
	Grimy irit	1–2	3 Uncommon	1,721–3,442
	Grimy avantoe	1–2	3 Uncommon	3,940–7,880
	Grimy cadantine	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,015–4,030
	Grimy lantadyme	1–2	3 Uncommon	7,886–15,772
	Grimy kwuarm	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,148–4,296
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–2	3 Uncommon	9,330–18,660

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	64, 95, 152, 220, 3,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Attack potion (3)	1	3 Uncommon	216
	Shark	1–2	3 Uncommon	825–1,650
	Death talisman	1	3 Uncommon	3,167
	Adamant bar	1	3 Uncommon	2,876
	Ferocious ring	1	4 Rare [1]	Not sold
	Rune bar	1	4 Rare	13,069
	Curved bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Long Bone	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Court summons	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20	2 Common	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

1. ^ Only in Kuradal's dungeon

Trivia

• Dark beasts were involved in the God Wars, as evidenced by the Revenant dark beasts that are located in the Forinthry Dungeon.
• Dark beasts used to drop normal bones. As of the 11th of April 2012, this is no longer the case. An update caused Dark Beasts to drop big bones instead. This also gave them a chance to drop long bones and curved bones.
• Sometimes, a Dark beast may attack from a distance, making it look as if you and the beast are attacking the air. This is probably because the beast is attacking too fast to start moving, and may be an oversight from Jagex.

See also

• Dark Bow
• Revenant dark beast