Harpie Bug Swarm

Release date	30 January 2006 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	90
XP per kill	138 (and 45.5 experience)
Slayer level	33
Slayer XP	35
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Vannaka
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	A swarm of bugs.
Combat stats LP Max hit 2250 6 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 1 45 45 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No No Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes No Attack style Weakness Ranged Crush

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Harpie Bug Swarms are insectoid Slayer monsters that require level 33 Slayer to kill as well as level 33 Firemaking to light the unlit bug lantern. A lit bug lantern is required to be wielded to deal any damage to them.

Players often kill harpie bug swarms as many consider them a good source of clue scrolls (medium), have relatively low defence, and are also a good source for fire runes. They are aggressive to players under level 93. If you use the fairy ring you may want to bring some food because there is a level 83 monster that is aggressive along the way. If you are under level 107 combat you will also be attacked by jogres. You will need some agility to cross the log. If you fail you will be damaged.

Strengths and weaknessesEdit

Harpie bug swarms use rapid ranged attacks and do quite a bit of damage for their combat level. If a lit bug lantern is not equipped any attacks on them will not hit. They are weak to crush attacks.

Alternatively, players can mage or range harpie bug swarms from the eastern side of the stream at the eastern end of their habitat, to avoid taking any damage from them, although this does mean expenditure in terms of runes or ammo for ranged weapons, and using magic is not recommended due to their natural resistance to magical attacks. Note: Ava's device, a reward from Animal Magnetism quest, does not work across the stream to retrieve bolts.

Another place to mage or range them is north of the brown ridge. They will not come too far in between the sea and ridge.

Although not in a multi-combat area, a cannon can be used to take down the swarms in one hit fairly often.

Another viable strategy, for those that have finished the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest, is to use Protect from Melee prayer, and refilling prayer points at the Tribal statue in the village, a short run away. In this case, equipping armour that boosts your prayer bonus is recommended to increase fighting time.

HabitatEdit

They're found east of the Jogre Dungeon. Since Harpie Bug Swarms are located close to the Karamja general store, it is possible to buy food there as well as sell drops. However, if one wishes to use a bank, there is one in the TzHaar City, found beneath Karamja Volcano, and the route is made shorter with the mithril grapple shortcut (53 Agility, 42 Ranged and 21 Strength required) on a peninsula just east of the cliff. If you don't wish to or cannot use that shortcut, you may also bank in Shilo Village after you complete the Shilo Village quest. Also, Rionasta in Tai Bwo Wannai Village can send items to the bank for 10 trading sticks per item, although he cannot take items out of the bank. The bank in Zanaris is also close, if you can use fairy rings (northeast of CKR), as the bank is just north-west of the main fairy ring in Zanaris.

Players can still be assigned harpie bug swarms as Slayer tasks, even if they do not have the 33 Firemaking level required to light an unlit bug lantern. Players cannot use assistance from other players to light an unlit bug lantern, therefore 33 Firemaking is a necessary requirement to enable players to kill harpie bug swarms.

DropsEdit

Armour/WeaponsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Steel full helm	1	2 Common	198
	Steel hatchet	1	2 Common	34
	Staff of fire	1	2 Common	815
	Mithril chainbody	1	3 Uncommon	927
	Adamant helm	1	3 Uncommon	752
	Black 2h sword	1	4 Rare	995
	Steel boots	1	3 Uncommon	718

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
91–92%	2%	6%	0.5–0.6%	0.2–0.3%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 52,193 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	15–30	2 Common	615–1,230
	Fire rune	20,30,60,90	2 Common	200–900
	Death rune	3	3 Uncommon	279

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	30, 40, 160, 200, 230, 275, 430, 490, 720, 1,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Gold ore	1	2 Common	350
	Coal	1	3 Uncommon	278
	Jug of wine	1	3 Uncommon	73
	Clue scroll (medium)	1	4 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.

TriviaEdit

• It is possible to kill the bugs without a lit bug lantern by using poisoned weapons, but this will not count as a kill for Slayer nor give any drops.
• During the 25 October 2011 triple Slayer experience event, these monsters did not give triple Slayer experience, unlike all other tasks.