RuneWeb - Slayer Guide

Slayer Guide

By: Tangerz, Makoto, Slayer tips by Luckk13, additions by Twilight Ray and Mysticallity

(This is a members-only skill.)

Slayer Masters
Slayer Assignments
Slayer Monsters
Slayer Items
Slayer Locations
Slayer Unique Drops
Slayer Tips
Extra Slayer Info
Slayer EXP Quest Rewards

The Slayer skill allows you to kill strange new creatures which would previously have been immune to your attacks. These creatures have been hording treasure for a long time, previously undisturbed and because of that you will find greater rewards from killing them.

The Basics

To start the Slayer skill find one of the Slayer Masters which are located in various places around RuneScape. There are 5 Slayer Masters in total, each categorizing to different strengths. They can be found in Burthorpe, Morytania, Edgeville Dungeon, Zanaris, and Shilo Village. The Slayer Master will assign you to kill a certain number of a specific type of monster, by killing those monsters you will gain experience in the Slayer skill.

Slayer Masters

Slayer masters are the people you are going to be seeing a lot of if you ever wish to progress in this skill. You have to see them in order to recieve your next slayer mission.
Note: The below chart is in order of difficulty (easiest to hardest)

Master	Town	Location	Map
Turael	Burthope	South East corner of the village
Mazchna	Morytania	At the foot of the bridge leading from Canafis to Vampire swamp
Vannaka	Edgeville dungeon	North East corner of the non-wildy part of the dungeon, past the wild gate
Chaeldar	Zanaris	Fairy Queen's chamber (South, near the door that requires a diamond) Zanaris is the "Lost City" of the quest of that name
Duradel	Shilo Village	Fishing shop, up ladder, cross bridge, 50 Slayer and 100 combat requirement

Slayer Assignments

As you've learned, each Slayer Master, when asked, will assign you a various amount of monsters to kill. Each master assigns a different variety of monsters, varying on their skill level. Some monsters are regular NPCs, and others are Slayer-only Monsters (see the next section). Below is a table listing each master and, below the name of the master, a full list of all the known monsters he or she may assign.

Turael	Mazchna	Vannaka	Chaeldar	Duradel
Banshees	Banshees	Abberant Specters	Abberant Specters	Abberant Specters
Bats	Bears	Ankou	Abyssal Demons	Abyssal Demons
Bears	Bats	Banshees	Banshees	Ankou
Cave Bugs	Catablepon	Basilisks	Basilisks	Basilisks
Cave Crawlers	Cave Bugs	Blue Dragons	Black Demons	Black Demons
Cave Slimes	Cave Slimes	Bloodvelds	Blue Dragons	Black Dragons
Cows	Cave Crawlers	Bronze Dragons	Bloodveld	Blue Dragons
Crawling Hands	Crawling Hands	Cave Bugs	Bronze Dragons	Bloodveld
Desert Lizards	Desert Lizards	Cave Crawlers	Cave Bugs	Cave Horror
Dogs	Dogs	Cave Slimes	Cave Crawlers	Cockatrice
Dwarves	Earth Warriors	Cockatrice	Cave Horrors	Dagannoth
Ghosts	Flesh Crawler	Crawling Hands	Cave Slimes	Dark Beasts
Goblins	Ghouls	Dagannoth	Cockatrice	Dust Devils
Kalphite	Ghosts	Desert Lizards	Crawling Hands	Elves
Minotaur	Hobgoblins	Dust Devils	Dagannoth	Fever Spiders
Monkeys	Icefiends	Earth Warriors	Desert Lizards	Fire Giants
Rats	Ice Warriors	Elves	Dust Devils	Gargoyles
Scorpions	Kalphite	Fever Spiders	Elves	Goraks
Skeletons	Killerwatts	Fire Giants	Fever Spiders	Great Demons
Spiders	Mogres	Ghouls	Fire Giants	Harpy Bug Swarms
Wolves	Moss Giants	Green Dragons	Gargoyles	Hell Hounds
Zombies	Pyrefiends	Hell Hounds	Greater Demons	Infernal Magi
-	Rock Slugs	Hill Giants	Hell Hounds	Iron Dragons
-	Scorpions	Hobgoblins	Iron Dragons	Jellies
-	Shades	Ice Giants	Infernal Magi	Jungle Horrors
-	Skeletons	Ice Warriors	Jellies	Kalphite
-	Vampires	Infernal Magi	Jungle Horror	Kurasks
-	Wall Beasts	Jellies	Kalphite	Mogres
-	Wolves	Jungle Horror	Kurasks	Mutated Zygomited
-	Zombies	Kalphite	Lesser Demons	Nechryaels
-	Molanisk	Killerwatt	Mogres	Pyrefiends
-	-	Kurask	Nechryael	Steel Dragons
-	-	Lesser Demons	Pyrefiends	Suqahs
-	-	Mogres	Rock Slugs	Turoth
-	-	Moss Giants	Shadow Warriors	Brine Rats
-	-	Ogres	Skeletal Wyvern	Spiritual Mages
-	-	Otherworldy Beings	Steel Dragons	Spiritual Warriors
-	-	Pyrefiends	Trolls	Spiritual Rangers
-	-	Rock Slugs	Turoth	Warped Terrorbirds
-	-	Shades	Wall Beasts	Warped Tortoises
-	-	Shadow Warriors	Zygomites	-
-	-	Trolls	Molanisk	-
-	-	Turoths	Brine Rats	-
-	-	Vampires	Spiritual Mages	-
-	-	Wall Beasts	Spiritual Warriors	-
-	-	Werewolves	Spiritual Rangers	-
-	-	Molanisk	Warped Terrorbirds	-
-	-	Terror Dogs	Warped Tortoises	-
-	-	Brine Rats	-	-

Slayer Monsters

With the release of Slayer came new Slayer specific monsters. These monsters were specially designed for this skill. These are also the only monsters you can really use slayer items with at this time.

Monster	Slayer Lvl	NPC Lvl	Items Req.
Crawling Hand	5	7, 8, 12	None
Cave Bug	7	6	None
Cave Crawler	10	23	None
Banshee	15	23	Earmuffs
Cave Slime	17	23	None
Rock Slug	20	29	Bag of Salt
Desert Lizard	22	12, 24	Ice Cooler
Cockatrice	25	37	Mirror Shield
Pyrefiend	30	43	None
Mogre	32	60	Fishing Explosive
Harpie Bug Swarm	33	46	Bug Lantern
Wall Beast	35	49	Spiny Helmet
Killerwatt	37	55	Insulated Boots
Molanisk	39	51	Slayer Bell
Basilisk	40	61	Mirror Shield
Terror Dog	40	100, 110	None
Fever Spider	42	49	Slayer Gloves
Infernal Mage	45	68	None
Brine Rat	47	70	None
Bloodveld	50	76	None
Jelly	52	78	None
Turoth	55	83, 85, 87, 89	Leaf-Bladed Spear or Broad Arrows or Slayer’s Staff
Warped Terrorbird	56	81	Crystal Chime
Warped Tortoise	56	96	Crystal Chime
Mutated Zygomite	57	74, 86	Fungicide Spray
Cave Horror	58	80	Witchwood Icon
Aberrant Specter	60	96	Nosepeg
Spiritual Ranger	63	115-127	None
Dust Devil	65	93	Facemask
Spiritual Warrior	68	115-134	None
Kurask	70	106	Leaf-Bladed Spear or Broad Arrows or Slayer’s Staff
Skeletal Wyvern	72	140	Elemental Shield
Gargoyle	75	111	Rock Hammer
Nechryael	80	115	None
Spiritual Mage	83	120-122	None
Abyssal Demon	85	124	None
Dark Beast	90	182	None

Note: Slayer monsters are excellent for training on, even if you are not on a mission. This is because of their good drops and experience.

Slayer Items

While you begin training Slayer, you may realize that certain monsters are hard to kill or don't seem to be affected by your attacks. To fix these problems you need to buy specific Slayer items which affect different monsters in different ways.

Note: These items can be bought from any Slayer Master.

Image	Level	Item	Effect	Cost
	1	Elemental Shield	Protection from Skeletal Wyverns	Elemental Workshop Quest
	1	Enchanted Gem	Enables ability to talk with Chaedlar at long distances	2 gp
	1	Bag of Salt	Finishes off weakened Rockslugs	60 gp
	1	Rock Hammer	Finishes off weakened Gargoyles	500 gp
	1	Spiny Helmet (needs 5 defense to wear)	Protection from Hole in Wall monsters	650 gp
	1	Ice Cooler	Finishes off weakened Lizards	1 gp
	10	Facemask (needs 5 defense to wear)	Protection against Dustdevils	200 gp
	15	Earmuffs	Protection against Banshees	200 gp
	25	Mirror Shield (need 20 defense to wear)	Protection against Cockatrices and Basilisks	5,000 gp
	32	Fishing Explosive	Used to lure Mogres	60 gp
	33	Lit Bug Lantern	Used to fight Harpie Bug Swarms	200 gp
	35	Witchwood Icon	Protection against Cave Horrors	900gp
	37	Insulated Boots	Used to fight Killerwatts	200gp
	39	Slayer Bell	Allows Molanisks to be attacked	150 gp
	42	Slayer Gloves	Protection against Fever Spiders	200 gp
	55	Leaf-Bladed Spear (needs 50 attack to use)	Used for killing Turoths and Kurasks	31,000 gp
	55	Broad Arrows (needs 50 ranged to use)	Used for killing Turoths and Kurasks	60 gp
	55	Slayer’s Staff * (needs 50 magic to use)	Used for killing Turoths and Kurasks	21,000 gp
	56	Slayer Chime	Allows warped terrorbirds & tortoises to be hurt	Obtained in the Path of Glouphrie Quest
	57	Fungicide Spray	Used to kill Mutated Zygomites	300gp
	60	Nose Peg	Protection against Aberrant Specters	200 gp

Please Note: If you do not wear the correct protection, you may get severe stats reductions in Attack, Strength, Defense, Agility, Prayer, Ranged, and Magic. If you do not use the proper finishing weapon, you may not be able to kill it because it will stay at one health until you use the right method to end it's life.

* - The Slayer Staff is a staff that you can obtain from the Slayer Masters. You need at least 55 Slayer to be able to equip this staff. The staff gives 12 magic attack bonus. You need this staff to be able to cast Magic Dart, which are one of the three things you'll need to fight Turoths and Kurasks. This staff is decent too, because it has wave spells, Magic Dart, and Crumble Undead for autocasts.

Slayer Locations

Below are a few maps and info of where you can find Slayer monsters.

Slayer Tower:

The Slayer Tower can be found north of the western entrance to Canifis from Varrock. It is a three-tiered mansion. The Slayer monsters on the first floor are Crawling Hands, Banshees. The second floor has Infernal Mages, Bloodvelds, and Aberrant Specters and the final floor has Gargoyles, Nechryaels, and Abyssal Demons.

Fremennik Slayer Dungeon:

The Slayer Dungeon can be found in Rellekka, southeast of the Fremennik Province. The entrance is past the Troll and her big cauldron. Inside it, there will be many Slayer-specific monsters. They are ordered from the entrance to the end: Cave Crawlers, Rock Slugs, Cockatrices, Pyrefiends, Basilisks, Jellies, Turoths, and finally Kurasks.

Lumbridge Swamp:

The Lumbridge Swamp is the most recent of the three areas where you can find Slayer Monsters. To get inside, you must have a lantern, or a candle, along with a tinderbox to keep it lit. A Spiny Helmet could also be helpful. The Slayer monsters found inside this cave are Cave Crawlers, Cave Bugs, Wall Beasts, Cave Slime, as well as Frogs, Giant Frogs, and Cave Goblins, which are unique to this area, but not Slayer-specific.

Mos Le'Harmless Caves:

The Mos Le'Harmless Caves are located Southwest of the Trouble Brewing Mini-Game Compound on Mos Le'Harmless. You must have completed the Cabin Fever Quest to access Mos Le'Harmless, and note that a lantern is required for the caves. Cave Horrors and Giant Bats are the only monsters throughout the cave.

Miscellaneous Monster Locations

Some monsters are not located in a dungeon with others; but rather their own unique location. These monsters are listed in the table below.

Monster	Area	Specific Location
Desert Lizard	Desert	East of Uzer
Mogre	Mudskipper Point	South of Thurgo's Pennisula
Harpie Bug Swarm	Karamja	Northern Beach
Killerwatt	Killerwatt Plane	Can be accessed by talking to Dr. Fenkenstrain
Fever Spider	Braindeath Island	Can be reached by speaking to Pirate Pete
Mutated Zygomite	Zanaris	West Zanaris
Dust Devil	Desert	Smoke Well in Al Kharid Desert
Skeletal Wyvern	Blurite Caves (Thurgo's Penninsula)	Near the end of the cave
Dark Beast	Light Temple Path	Reached through Mourning's End Part 2
Molanisk	Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon	Entrance to the dungeon in the south of Dorgesh-Kaan or in the Kalphite Lair; must have completed the Death to the Dorgeshuun Quest to enter the Dorgesh-Kaan
Terror Dogs	Tarn's Lair	Terror Dogs await you in Tarn's Chamber of Tarn's Lair
Brine Rats	Sven The Helmsman's Cave	Sven's Caves, AKA the Brine Rat Caves/Tunnels (the tunnels from Olaf's Quest
Spiritual Mage/Ranger/Warriors	God Wars Dungeon	See the God Wars Dungeon page for more info
Warped Tortoises/Terrorbirds	Arposandra Sewers	Dungeon reached by ways of the Path of the Glouphrie Quest

Slayer Unique Drops

Because the Slayer Monsters hoard their treasure, they can drop unique items that cannot be found anywhere else. Everything in the Slayer Tower drops Black/Red Mystic clothing, and everything in the Slayer Dungeon drops White/Gold Mystic clothing.

Image	Item	Monster
	Bronze Boots	Cave Crawler
	Black/Red Mystic Gloves	Banshee
	White/Gold Mystic Gloves	Rockslug
	Black/Red Mystic Boots	Infernal Mage
	White/Gold Mystic Boots	Cockatrice, Desert Lizard
	Iron Boots	Cockatrice, Cave Slime
	Steel Boots	Pyrefiend
	Black/Red Mystic Hat	Infernal Mage
	White/Gold Mystic Hat	Basilisk, Wall Beast
	Black Boots	Bloodveld
	Mithril Boots	Jelly
	Black/Red Mystic Robe Bottom	Aberrant Specter
	White/Gold Mystic Robe Bottom	Turoth
	Black Mask	Cave Horror
	Black/Red Mystic Robe Top	Gargoyle
	White/Gold Mystic Robe Top	Kurask
	Adamant Boots	Gargoyle
	Granite Maul	Gargoyle
	Granite Legs	Skeletal Wyvern
	Rune Boots	Nechryael
	Abyssal Whip	Abyssal Demon
	Dark Bow	Dark Beast
	Dragon Boots	Spiritual Mages

Slayer Tips

The most optimum way to train Slayer is to use Vannaka(Edgeville)/Mazchna(Canifis) for fast levelling due to them giving easily beatable monsters in good quantities. It is wise to speak to Turael(Burthorpe) to get a reassignment if you ever get a difficult assignment, such as the metal dragons. The table below will tell you the recommended style to kill each Slayer Monster. Whatever type of combat is marked with an X - either melee, mage, or ranged - should be used to kill the identified monster. The last column will tell you what kind of equipment you should bring.

Monster	Melee	Mage	Range	Info
Crawling Hand	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear
Cave Bug	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear
Cave Crawlers	-	-	X	Range in Rellekka over the rocks to avoid poison
Banshee	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Earmuffs
Cave Slime	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear
Rock Slugs	X	-	-	Bring bags of salt; bring extra in case you use them up too early
Desert Lizard	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & bring an Ice Cooler
Cockatrice	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Mirror Shield
Pyrefiends	X	-	-	Wear Dragonhide
Mogre	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Use Fishing Explosive
Harpie Bug Swarm	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & bring a lit bug lantern
Wall Beast	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Spiny Helmet
Killerwatt	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Insulated Boots
Molanisk	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & bring a Slayer Bell
Basilisks	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Mirror Shield
Terror Dog	X	-	-	Wear high level melee equipment
Fever Spider	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & Slayer Gloves
Infernal Mages	X	-	-	Wear Dragonhide
Brine Rat	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear
Bloodvelds	-	-	X	Wear Ranged Gear
Jellies	X	-	-	Wear Dragonhide
Turoths	-	-	X	Can be killed using Magic Dart, Broad Arrows, or Leaf Blade Spear; Broad Arrows are most effective; difficult to trap so bring food
Warped Terrorbird	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & bring Crystal Chimes
Warped Tortoises	X	-	-	Wear Melee Gear & bring Crystal Chimes
Mutated Zygomite	X	-	-	Wear Dragonhide & bring Fungicide Spray
Cave Horrors	X	-	-	Wear Dragonhide & bring a Witchwood Icon
Aberrant Specters	X	-	-	Wear prayer-boosting equipment (Monks Robes or Initiate Armour) & a nosepeg; Salve Amulet recommended (specters are undead)
Spiritual Rangers	X	-	-	Wear prayer boosting equipment and use Protect from Range
Dust Devils	X	-	-	Wear Facemask & high level armour or prayer-boosting equipment w/ prayer potions and use Protect from Melee Prayer
Spiritual Warriors	X	X	-	Full Guthan's (Barrows) Equipment recommended to drain HP; high level armour and defence recommended
Kurask	-	-	X	Easily ranged using Broad Arrows
Skeletal Wyvern	X	-	-	Bring an Elemental Shield and either wear prayer-boosting equipment and use Protect from Melee w/ lots of prayer potions or wear high level melee equipment and lots of food
Gargoyles	X	-	X	Bring a rockhammer and either range/halberd the gargoyles w/ Dragonhide or use high level melee equipment (like an Abyssal Whip & Full Guthan's Armour)
Nechryaels	X	-	-	Wear high level melee equipment and/or prayer boosting equipment & use Protect from Melee
Spiritual Mage	X	-	X	Wear prayer boosting equipment and use Protect from Magic
Abyssal Demon	X	-	-	Full Guthan's Armour recommended to heal when HP is low; consider bringing a second set of armour when HP is high to save on armour costs
Dark Beast	X	-	-	Wear high level melee equipment & prayer potions and make use of your prayers

Black Mask

The Black Mask is a rather useful peice of equipment that is dropped by Cave Horrors. The Black Mask provides an attack and strength bonus similar to that of a Salve Amulet whilst wearing it during a Slayer Assignment. The mask also contains 10 spells that reduces your opponent's defence level by 3-10 each time, regardless of whether you are in a Slayer Assignment or if your opponent is another player. When all 10 spells are used, the attack and strength bonus remains. There is currently no way to recharge the spells.

Lastly, some enchanted jewelry, such as the Bracelet of Combat (which updates you with assignment information while slaying), can be a big help to you while you are training Slayer. See the Enchanted Jewelry section of the Crafting Guide for more info.

Extra Slayer Info

There are some other, extra things that you should know about while raising slayer:

Cape of Accomplishment

The ultimate reward for getting level 99 Slayer is not only the great ability you will have in the skill, but the Cape of Accomplishment that you will have the oppurtunity to purchase. For more information on Capes of Accomplishment, see the Skill Capes page.

Related Links

The following links may help you with your Slaying.

Slayer EXP Rewards in Quests

The following quests give Slayer EXP Rewards upon completion.

Quest	Exp
Animal Magnetism	1000 exp
Dwarf Subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	1000 exp
Royal Trouble	5000 exp
Tarn's Lair Mini-Quest	5000 exp
Wanted!	5000 exp
The Path Of Glouphrie	20000 exp
Back To My Roots	23000 exp