Greater demon

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Greater demon

Combat level	92
Hitpoints	87
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	87
Members only?	No
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Max hit	9
Weakness	Magic, Silverlight, Darklight, Holy water
Always drops	Ashes
Examine text	Big, red and incredibly evil. (or) Big, purple and incredibly evil.

Greater demons are strong demonic beings often found in remote places. They follow the god Zamorak. They are the second highest-levelled, most accurate, and strongest free-to-play monster that is neither revenant-, quest- or random event-related. They were surpassed by the hellhound with the update on 16 June 2009. Greater demons are stronger than lesser demons, with highly accurate melee attacks that hit up to 9. Physically, their only difference is that greater demons are larger than lesser demons and have wings that lesser demons do not. With the release of Summoning many players kill greater demons for crimson charms. They also drop better items than their lesser counterparts.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Strengths and weaknesses 3 Training Areas 3.1 Demonic Ruins 3.2 Entrana Dungeon 3.3 Brimhaven Dungeon 3.4 Ogre Enclave 3.5 Lava Maze 4 Tactics 4.1 Entrana Dungeon (P2P) 4.2 Brimhaven Dungeon (P2P) 4.3 Ogre Enclave (P2P) 4.4 Demonic Ruins (F2P) 4.5 Wilderness Volcano (F2P) 5 Drops 5.1 100% Drops 6 Runes 6.1 Weapons and armour 6.2 Gems 6.3 Charms (members only) 6.4 Other 7 Different appearance 8 Before graphical update 9 See also

[edit] Locations

• Demonic ruins in level 45-48 Wilderness
• Entrana Dungeon (no armour or weapons allowed) if you bring runes or make your own ranged weapons you can safespot Greater Demons from the Dramen Tree Area
• Brimhaven Dungeon
• Ogre Enclave (caged)
• Dungeon at the end of the Lava Maze (the dungeon is also wilderness)
• Wilderness Volcano

[edit] Strengths and weaknesses

The hardest part about fighting greater demons is getting to them, as they are found in rather remote or dangerous locations. However, the Wilderness Crater just north of Edgeville is usually uncrowded and has four or five greater demons in the area closest to the entrance into the crater, with a banker very close nearby for restocking on food. Though revenants neither spawn nor patrol here, it is possible for a fellow player to lure them into the area. Note: You should be able to run through the entrance in plenty of time in the extremely unlikely event of this happening. They can be maged or ranged fairly easily in most of their locations, with safespots in the crater limited to over volcanic spots or from behind rocks. Since they are demons, Silverlight, Darklight and Holy water will work effectively when fighting these monsters. Bring good food, however, because their melee attacks are very accurate and can hit frequently even against a character with high defensive bonuses.

Greater demons are very susceptible to magic attacks.

[edit] Training Areas

[edit] Demonic Ruins

One of the best f2p locations there is. For those desiring to stay a long trip, there is a nearby caging fishing spot, ideal for players with level 40 and over fishing. However, be very careful as revenants come here very frequently, most notably the Revenant Hobgoblin, and the Revenant Ork, the biggest threat a low-leveled player can encounter. It is definitely not the greatest place for members, as there are safer and less remote places, such as the Brimhaven Dungeon. For f2p, players also have the option of fighting Greater demons in the wilderness volcano.

[edit] Entrana Dungeon

Bad for melee users. If you wish to use ranged, bring the unfinished bows and arrows and fletch them on entrana. This is the ideal spot for rangers. Mages will find using this location expensive as you cannot bring in staves, just runes. This is not highly recommended unless you are a ranger who has a good fletching level. Melee users will find this place a spot they should go if they do not mind dying repeatedly,

[edit] Brimhaven Dungeon

(Recommended) The main problem with this area is that it is rather far from the nearest bank; however, there is a good number of greater demons here to kill. This is a decent spot for melee users, but not the absolute best for rangers and mages due to the lack of a large amount of safe spots. Mages and rangers can still get by here, though. It is recommended to only go here if you have a reasonable combat (90+).

[edit] Ogre Enclave

Decent spot for Mages and Rangers, It's advised that, anyone who decides to train here, should bring an Anti-dragon Shield as Blue Dragons are located here.

[edit] Lava Maze

This location is in debate as one of the worst locations out of all spots due to the fact it's deep into the Wilderness (Lvl 44). You can also find the lever to the King Black Dragon here.

[edit] Tactics

[edit] Entrana Dungeon (P2P)

Sail to the island carrying some food. Bring a Crossbow string, an unstrung version of the best Crossbow you can make along with the unfinished ammo of your choice, and the equivalent amount of feathers. Another possibility is to bring an unstrung bow along with arrows, which are allowed even when finished. You can also attack them with magic spells, since runes are allowed on the island. Players can further their preparations by bringing dragonleather or regular leather if they have a high enough level to craft it into armour, however is no thread available on the island. You can find needles by searching the haystacks.

Players should not assemble their weapons or armour until after they have arrived on the island, or else they will be barred from entry until they get rid of all their worn and carried weapons and armour. Once ready players should then proceed to the North-west to the dungeon from Lost City and navigate through it, were they will find the demons. There are some stalagmites which can be used for cover as the player ranges the demon.

[edit] Brimhaven Dungeon (P2P)

A strategy for players without Guthan's armour is to bring a Super defence potion. Fight per normal but kill the usually aggressive wild dogs for their bones whenever needed to heal oneself, if combined with the Regen Bracelet players would not need much food at all.

There's a semi-safe spot at the very end of the Greater Demon area in Brimhaven dungeon, where attacked demons will mostly position themselves in a spot where they are unable to attack the player.

It is better to kill Greater Demons when 127 Combat or greater, as the Wild Dogs are unaggressive at that point.

[edit] Ogre Enclave (P2P)

The Ogre Enclave is a good place to range/mage or even melee them with a Halberd without fear of being attacked. Most of the greater demons here are caged. Bring telegrab runes to retrieve drops.
The major downside to this location is that all arrows/bolts are unable to be retrieved by an accumulator making it quite costly to kill them here.

[edit] Demonic Ruins (F2P)

A F2P strategy is to wear full rune or green dragonhide armour (to defend against Revenants's magical attacks) and to bring mid-level food (preferably tuna or better). Optionally, bring Strength potions to deal more damage and get drops faster. Fight as normal. If a revenant appears, do this:

• Revenant comes from the East: On the western side of the ruins is a cross shaped extension. Run into the cross on the south-western square of the southern arm of the cross. This spot is safe from any revenant patrol route. Should it see you and be targeting you, log out and immediately log back in, and simply wait a moment. The revenant will continue on its way. There is no way to be hit in this spot, unless someone lures the revenant inside of the cross. If this happens run OUTSIDE the ruins on the south east side, and get in the corner where the wall meets. Log out and in immediately. This will allow you to be safe again, and give the minimum time for more revenants to possibly arrive.

• Revenant comes from the West: If you're on the eastern side of the ruins, you don't really have to worry about this spawn, as it won't see you UNLESS your standing north of the building. In any case, if it sees you, doing exactly what you would do if it should come from the east will work to avoid it.

Regardless of your combat level, it's advised to hide, and not fight revenants (Especially higher level ones) as just a 1-3 fights will use a large portion of your food.

Fishing spots (Lobsters and harpooning) are available on the eastern coast of the wilderness, which isn't very far from the ruins. However, the stretch here is highly prone to Revenants, especially of the Knight and Ork species, which means escape won't be easy especially when you meet a patrol group.

[edit] Wilderness Volcano (F2P)

Compared to the Demonic Ruins, the wilderness volcano is a better choice. Safe spots are aplenty for rangers, plus a bank is just outside the crater, making banking very convenient. However, the cluster of Greater Demons is surrounded by level 82 Ankous and Lesser Demons and level 122 Hellhounds, which are located near some safe spots, hence making things troublesome for rangers until their aggressiveness wanes. Spawn times are pretty fast too (< 1 min).

[edit] Drops

[edit] 100% Drops

• Ashes

[edit] Runes

• 37, 75 Fire runes (75 more common)
• 15 Chaos runes
• 5 Death runes

[edit] Weapons and armour

• Steel hatchet
• Steel battleaxe
• Steel two-handed sword
• Mithril kiteshield (uncommon)
• Adamant platelegs (uncommon)
• Dragon spear_(m) (very rare)
• Rune mace (very rare)
• Rune javelin_(m) (very rare)
• Rune spear_(m) (extremely rare)
• Rune kiteshield (very rare)
• Rune full helm (uncommon)
• Shield left half_(m) (extremely rare)
• Rune scimitar (very rare)
• Rune med helm (uncommon)

[edit] Gems

• Uncut sapphire
• Uncut emerald
• Uncut ruby
• Uncut diamond

[edit] Charms (members only)

• Crimson charm (most common)
• Green charm (uncommon)
• Gold charm (common)
• Blue charm (rare)

[edit] Other

• 4, 11, 44, 132, 220,310, or 420 Coins (very common)
• 10 Thread (rare)
• 150 Steel arrows (rare)
• 100 Silver Ore (noted) (rare)
• Tuna
• Jug of wine (rare)
• Gold bar
• Chaos talisman_(m)
• Loop half of a key_(m) (rare)
• Nature talisman_(m)
• Level 3 Clue scroll_(m) (rare)
• Tooth half of a key_(m)

[edit] Different appearance

Since the graphic update on demons, greater demons now appear in at least four different variants. Because of this, some new players think one "species" of Greater demon appears stronger and tougher due to it looking more intimidating than others. However this is not true, as Jagex affirms that they are equally strong and tough and all have the same stats as one another.

[edit] Before graphical update

Before demons were updated they had heads which resembled that of a horse,or the old head of all the dragons, as well as long thin limbs, fangs, and a solid red skin tone.

In RuneScape classic, they had reddish-orange skin, with horns like a devil, and did not have wings.

[edit] See also

• Demon
• Imp
• Lesser Demon
• Revenant Demon
• Black Demon
• Abyssal Demon

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Lesser demon	Strongest monster in RuneScape	Elvarg