"Vampire" redirects here. For the former difference between vampires and vampyres, see here.

Vampyre

Release date	14 October 2004 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	88
XP per kill	160, 200, 240
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	40, 50, 60
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn, Vannaka
Always drops	Vampyre dust
Examine text	It looks really hungry! (level 61 and 77) / Where did that come from? (level 72)
Combat stats LP Max hit 2200 176 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 44 44 1 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes, No in God Wars Dungeon if you are wearing a Zamorak item No Attack style Weakness Melee Fire spells

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Vampyres are dangerous creatures found in the Haunted Woods east of Canifis and near the Abandoned Mine. They are aggressive, and will attack anyone. They appear to be a weaker, more animalistic creature than the other vampyres, and can be harmed by all weapons.

They will occasionally bite players' necks, which can sometimes drain combat stats and non-combat stats and will cause the vampyre to recover a small amount of life points. Unlike other types of Vampyre that are vulnerable only to silver weapons, such as Vyrewatch, these vampyres are vulnerable to all attacks.

LocationsEdit

• The Haunted Woods
• The Haunted Mine
• God Wars Dungeon

Hunting and rewardsEdit

Vampyres are usually hunted for the slayer skill. The main reason to hunt vampyres is their relatively high life points and consistently aggressive nature, which ensures good experience per hour, since a player will rarely run out of vampyres to fight. However, the player must have a sufficient defence level, protection prayer and/or healing items to avoid dying. A holy symbol greatly helps when fighting vampyres, as it weakens the vampyres' accuracy and damage.

Vampyres offer mediocre to decent value drops, depending on the price of vampyre dust. Before the discovery of Summoning, vampyre dust had no use and most players refused to collect it. The few who did allegedly made some money in the early days of Summoning, when players levelling up the skill would buy the dust at high prices. The level 72 vampyres are also known to drop clue scrolls very often, a clue scroll is almost guaranteed if you spend at least 15 minutes fighting vampyres.

A good spot to kill vampyres is the south-east corner of the woods, just outside the wall gate of Port Phasmatys. Using a cannon in this area would be useful because there are many safe spots, which include the huge mushrooms and trees, where player may hide and not receive damage.

Some vampyres spawn when a player nears any of the non-attackable spiders in the Haunted Woods. Players can take advantage of this to cause numerous vampyres to spawn.

Players hunting vampyres for Slayer tasks may wish to hunt the vampyres at the Abandoned Mine, due to the presence of leeches in the Haunted Woods which can be frustrating to deal with when trying to finish a task quickly.

Characteristics and historyEdit

Vampyres are savage beasts closely related to other members of the vampyre race, but they are considerably less intelligent, and have much less control over their powers. They are driven by their hunger and a kind of primal rage, unlike the other vampyric beings.^[1] These Vampyres can be harmed with any weapon. It is not known why they differ so much from the other vampyres.

Vampyres reside outside the settlements in Morytania, likely cast out by the more intelligent beings in the area. Most of them can be found in the Haunted Woods and near the Abandoned Mine.

DropsEdit

100%Edit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Vampyre dust	1	1 Always	510

WeaponsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	302

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	3	2 Common	123
	Death rune	2	2 Common	186
	Earth rune	4	3 Uncommon	36
	Blood rune	1–2	3 Uncommon	163–326

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
89–90%	4–5%	2%	3–4%	0.3–0.6%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 6,370 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

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

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	33
	Harralander seed	1	3 Uncommon	9
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	74
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	971
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	12
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Strawberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	359
	Tarromin seed	1	3 Uncommon	4
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	702
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	36
	Cactus seed	1	4 Rare	26
	Avantoe seed	1	4 Rare	1,890
	Morchella mushroom spore	2	4 Rare	588
	Watermelon seed	1	4 Rare	2,010
	Spirit weed seed	1	4 Rare	359
	Kwuarm seed	1	4 Rare	363
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	38,269
	Lantadyme seed	1	5 Very rare	34,922
	Cadantine seed	1	5 Very rare	2,354
	Ranarr seed	1	5 Very rare	1,019

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	44
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,160
	Grimy tarromin	1	3 Uncommon	249
	Grimy guam	1	3 Uncommon	539
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	652
	Grimy irit	1	4 Rare	1,743
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,471
	Grimy avantoe	1	4 Rare	4,128
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	2,507
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	5 Very rare	8,195
	Grimy lantadyme	1	5 Very rare	7,850

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	15	2 Common	Not sold
	Clue scroll (medium)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Earth talisman	1	4 Rare	793
	Starved ancient effigy	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.

See alsoEdit

• Revenant vampyre, the ghost of a slain vampyre during the God Wars who is located in the Forinthry Dungeon.

TriviaEdit

• After the Vampyres' graphical update, some players mistakenly thought there was a graphical glitch in which the upper arms were attached to the body; this is however, not a glitch - it is clearly a wing appendage under their arms, as they are after all, bat-like creatures.
• Vampyres were graphically updated on 17 August 2011.
• The different levels of vampyre each have different sounds when attacking, but they all have the same sound when attempting to bite you.
• They appear to wear a damaged version of a Vampyre Juvinate's outfit.
• Vampyres used to be called vampires, but this was changed on 31 August 2011 in a hidden update for an unknown reason. Not even Mod Ana (Developer of The Branches of Darkmeyer) knows why.

Level 61 vampire before graphical update

Level 72 vampire before graphical update

God Wars Dungeon vampire before graphical update

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