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Waterfiend

Also called	WFs
Release date	3 July 2007 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	115, 134
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	128
Assigned by	Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Always drops	1 Water rune
Examine text	A fiendish embodiment of water.
Combat stats LP Max hit 1260 119 Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? Yes Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes No Attack styles Weakness Magic Magical ranged Crush

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Waterfiends are the elemental cousins of the Pyrefiend and the Icefiend, and may be assigned as a slayer task by Duradel/Lapalok and Kuradal. They are found in the Ancient Caverns which can be accessed by completing Barbarian Training to the pyre ship stage. They may be the least harmful monster in the caverns, but they are no pushovers. Waterfiends attack with both magic and magical ranged attacks, both of which hit reasonably often, and can damage up to 119. The waterfiends ranged and magic attack has a very short attack range; only four squares. Waterfiends are also found in the Chaos Tunnels and within the Ghorrock Fortress during The Temple at Senntisten.

Waterfiends have a very high charm drop rate, especially for crimson charms (around 75%). For this reason, they are targeted by many players who wish to level up summoning quickly.

Waterfiends have extremely high defence against slashing and piercing attacks. They are weaker against crush attacks, but even then their defence is good. They are immune to poison.

Strategy

Main article: Waterfiend/Strategies

When fighting waterfiends, it is recommended to have high magical defence such as Karil's equipment, black dragonhide armour or Royal dragonhide armour. Armadyl is not recommended as it lowers your melee offensive stats. The best armour you could wear would be Ganodermic. Deflect/Protect from Range is recommended as this is their highest offensive attack.

If you are using a chaotic maul it is recommended you use full void melee gear as this will increase the maul's accuracy so you can hit high more frequently. If you can you also want to bring a Unicorn Stallion/Bunyip Familiar. The bunyip is very effective here with the Swallow Whole scrolls as the waterfiends drop lots of unnoted raw lobsters and raw sharks which can be used with the scroll to heal yourself.

Locations

Waterfiends can be found in:

• The Ancient Caverns
• Chaos Tunnels
• Ghorrock fortress

Drops

100% drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water rune	1	1 Always	11

Charms

Regular Waterfiends

Ghorrock Fortress Waterfiends

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water rune	90	2 Common	990
	Blood rune	4–12	2 Common	1,112–3,336
	Death rune	9–19	3 Uncommon	1,503–3,173
	Mist rune	3–10	3 Uncommon	1,428–4,760
	Mud rune	3–9	3 Uncommon	513–1,539
	Steam rune	3–12	3 Uncommon	51–204

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Avantoe seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,191
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	34
	Cactus seed	1	3 Uncommon	39
	Cadantine seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,113
	Harralander seed	1	3 Uncommon	8
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	52
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	121
	Lantadyme seed	1	3 Uncommon	24,157
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	591
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	13
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	51
	Spirit weed seed	1	3 Uncommon	314
	Strawberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	434
	Tarromin seed	1	3 Uncommon	4
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	833
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	32
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	76
	Watermelon seed	1–9	3 Uncommon	1,953–17,577
	Ranarr seed	1	4 Rare	871
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	38,786

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Mithril arrow	90	2 Common	1,890
	Adamant chainbody	1	3 Uncommon	2,608
	Mithril full helm	1	3 Uncommon	629
	Mith grapple	1	3 Uncommon	1,019
	Mithril warhammer	1	3 Uncommon	976
	Rune helm	1	3 Uncommon	11,155
	Staff of water	1	3 Uncommon	786
	Water battlestaff	1	3 Uncommon	8,654
	Sapphire bolts	15	3 Uncommon	540
	Blue d'hide vambraces	1	4 Rare	1,680
	Adamant platebody	1	4 Rare	9,662

Herbs

Always dropped in pairs, with a chance of getting the same herb twice.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–10	2 Common	332–3,320
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	56
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	157
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	2,187
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,721
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	463
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	3,940
	Grimy kwuarm	1	3 Uncommon	2,183
	Grimy cadantine	1	3 Uncommon	2,015
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	9,330
	Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	7,886

Gems, ores and bars

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Mithril ore	1–5 (noted)	3 Uncommon	311–1,555
	Mithril bar	2	3 Uncommon	2,888
	Uncut sapphire	1–4 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,107–4,428
	Coal	1–6 (noted)	3 Uncommon [1]	255–1,530
	Gold ore	3–8 (noted)	3 Uncommon [1]	1,194–3,184
	Steel bar	3 (noted)	4 Rare	2,361

1. ^ ^{a b} This item can only be obtained as a drop at Ghorrock.

Fish

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Raw lobster	5–12	3 Uncommon	645–1,548
	Raw swordfish	5–7	3 Uncommon	1,450–2,030
	Raw shark	3–6	3 Uncommon	3,078–6,156
	Shark	1	3 Uncommon	825

Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	97–692	2 Common	Not sold
	Water orb	5–10 (noted)	2 Common	3,490–6,980
	Snape grass	20 (noted)	3 Uncommon	6,220
	Oyster	1	3 Uncommon	50
	Seaweed	10–29 (noted)	3 Uncommon	2,900–8,410
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	5,311
	Vial of water	5–10 (noted)	3 Uncommon	80–160
	Fishbowl	1	3 Uncommon	335
	Zamorak brew (1)	1	3 Uncommon [1]	1,157
	Cannonball	11–27	4 Rare [1]	2,860–7,020
	Saradomin brew (1)	1	4 Rare [1]	245
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Court summons	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

1. ^ ^{a b c} This item can only be obtained as a drop at Ghorrock.

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	1,107
	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	1,320
	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	1,297,050
	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	91,765
	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	36,250–290
	Raw shark	250–500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	256,500–513,000
	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	1,056,600
	Adamant bar	1,000–7,000 (noted)	4 Rare	2,824,000–19,768,000
	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	1,043,290
	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

Trivia

• Waterfiends had an unannounced graphical update on 5 June 2008 - with this, some of their drops changed. Then, later that day, a system update after Smoking Kills was updated to remove the drop change, only to be changed once again to fix some bugs and change some of the drops that were mentioned on the forums.
• Due to it being a form of water, it is weak to Crush attacks instead of more commonly used melee weapons. This is because stabbing and slashing weapons are generally thin or pointy, and subsequently don't cause as much impact against water as something that is either heavier or has a broader surface area, such as a maul. Same basic principles as throwing a rock into a river to make a splash versus throwing a stick in.
• Waterfiends have a different examine text compared to their elemental cousins, the Pyrefiends and Icefiends.
• The waterfiend's magical attack uses particle effects.
• Most of the Waterfiend's drops are the colour of blue (Mithril bar, Mithril arrows, Rune helm).
• Because they are made of water, the poison immunity may be explained by that, that they can purify themselves from the poison by having running water flowing in their body.
• The fact that Waterfiends are made of water may contribute to their presence in a cave/cavern-like environment.