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Vampyre

Release date	14 October 2004 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	61, 72, 77
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 400, 500, 600 74 (level 61), 84 (level 72), 80 (level 77) 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 in God Wars Dungeon if you are wearing a Zamorak item No Attack style Weakness Melee Holy water

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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 then 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.

Locations

• The Haunted Woods (levels 61 & 72)
• The Haunted Mine (levels 61 & 72)
• God Wars Dungeon (level 77)

Hunting and rewards

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.

The level 72 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 history

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.

They were used as warriors by Zamorak since the beginning of God Wars, although new evidence has shown they were merely allies with Zamorak and not actually followers as once believed. They were used again in large numbers in Misthalin/Morytania conflicts during the 4th age. Once the River Salve became a barrier to conquest, however, need for vampyre armies diminished.^{[source needed]}

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.

Drops

100% drop

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

Weapons

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	282

Runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	3	2 Common	123
	Death rune	2	2 Common	186
	Earth rune	4	3 Uncommon	32
	Blood rune	1–2	3 Uncommon	166–332

Charms

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).

Seeds

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	34
	Harralander seed	1	3 Uncommon	9
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	66
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	870
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	12
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	52
	Strawberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	335
	Tarromin seed	1	3 Uncommon	4
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	623
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	29
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	40
	Cactus seed	1	4 Rare	27
	Avantoe seed	1	4 Rare	1,989
	Morchella mushroom spore	2	4 Rare	588
	Watermelon seed	1	4 Rare	1,963
	Spirit weed seed	1	4 Rare	345
	Kwuarm seed	1	4 Rare	311
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	36,586
	Lantadyme seed	1	5 Very rare	34,200
	Cadantine seed	1	5 Very rare	2,038
	Torstol seed	1	5 Very rare	70,221
	Ranarr seed	1	5 Very rare	877
	Snapdragon seed	1	5 Very rare	2,360

Herbs

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	43
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,169
	Grimy tarromin	1	3 Uncommon	225
	Grimy guam	1	3 Uncommon	516
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	612
	Grimy irit	1	4 Rare	1,772
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,557
	Grimy avantoe	1	4 Rare	4,171
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	2,538
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	5 Very rare	8,069
	Grimy lantadyme	1	5 Very rare	7,733

Other

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	785
	Nature talisman	1	4 Rare	255
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	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.

See also

• Count Draynor, who is involved in the Vampyre Slayer quest.
• Revenant vampyre, the ghost of a slain vampyre during the God Wars who is located in the Forinthry Dungeon.
• Sinister Stranger, a vampyre found in the fishing contest area in Hemenster. He is unlike this type of Vampyre and is more like a Dracula type, with weakness to garlic.
• Dessous, a powerful vampyre.
• Ruantun, a heavily weakened vampyre found in Draynor Sewers, who assists the player in Desert Treasure with making a silver pot to summon Dessous.

Trivia

• 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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References