Slayer Guide

Introduction

Slayer is a members only skill. The key to slayer is learning the enemy's weakness and killing it accordingly. In slayer, you get an assignment from a slayer master to kill a specific number of a certain type of monster. These assignments can vary from 10 spiders to 199 black demons and depends a lot on which slayer master you choose. To get started on the skill, go to a slayer master and ask for an assignment. He/she will tell you what monster to kill. The slayer experience for each kill roughly equals the monster's hit points. If you kill it with two people, the one that does the most damage will get half the exp and the one that inflicts the final blow the other half. If you do both, or attack it on your own, you get the full exp. Also, there are various monsters that can only be assigned and killed at certain slayer levels.

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Enchanted gem

When you first start slayer you will get an enchanted gem. You can buy a new one for 1 gp at any slayer master. Click on the enchanted gem to communicate with a slayer master. You will talk to the master who last assigned you a task. You can ask for info on his/her location but most importantly, you can find out how many monsters are left to kill to complete your assignment by right clicking it and selecting "Kills-left". This is very useful during a mission, so try to take it with you. The slayer master can also give you a tip about the monster you are assigned to kill.

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Slayer masters

The Burthorpe slayer master is the easiest and the Ancient Cavern slayer master the hardest. Higher masters give more and harder monsters. Each slayer master has his/her own selection of monsters to give as assignment. The slayer masters can assign you either normal monsters to kill or special slayer creatures as explained later in this guide. They will not assign the same monster for your next task. Note: You can quickly request an assignment by right clicking a slayer master and selecting "Get task".

If you get an assignment you don't like, you can go to the master in Burthorpe to get an easier one. You can't change an assignment you get from the Burthorpe master though (or more specifically, you cannot ask for another task when you have been given a task the Burthorpe slayer master himself would give anyway [see list]), so you can't keep changing until you get one you like.

Slayer master locations
Master	Required Level	Location	Map
Turael	Combat 3	Burthorpe In the small house South of the general shop
Mazchna	Combat 20	Canifis To the northeast of the village at the passageway to the haunted woods
Vannaka	Combat 40	Edgeville dungeon At the gate to the wilderness; instead of entering, go East
Chaeldar	Combat 70	Lost City of Zanaris In the throne room, south of the entrance
Sumona	Combat 85, Slayer 35, completion of Smoking Kills quest	Pollnivneach North of the well in a house
Duradel	Combat 100, Slayer 50	Shilo Village Up the ladder of the fishing shop and to the North
Kuradal	Combat 110, Slayer 75	Ancient Cavern Up the steps on the southwest side

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Slayer assignments

Each slayer master can assign you a certain number of monsters. The monsters each slayer master can assign are listed below.

When Kuradal assigns TzHaar, she offers you a choice. You can agree to slay 280 'volcanic creatures' in the Fight Caves.' Additionally, she promises a large reward bonus (25K slayer xp) if you slay TzTok-Jad. Even if you do not manage to kill Jad, you can kill 280 Fight Cave creatures and receive the regular slaying experience for them. Remember, you can just decline the task upgrade, and accept the smaller assignment of regular TzHaar.

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Slayer creatures

There are special slayer creatures which can only be killed at or above a certain slayer skill level. These monsters offer rare drops and better treasure than normal monsters. Locations for each of these creatures are discussed in the next section.

Slayer creatures
Name	Slayer required	Equipment needed	Monster level(s)	Location
Crawling hand	5	None	8, 12 variants 80, 90	Tower, Meiyerditch Caverns
Cave bug	7	None	6, 96	Lumbridge Caves, Dorgesh-Kaan's South Dungeon, Chaos Tunnels
Cave crawler	10	None	23, 138	Dungeon, Lumbridge Caves, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Banshee	15	Earmuffs	23 variant 90	Tower, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Cave slime	17	None	23	Lumbridge Caves, Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon
Rockslug	20	Bag of salt	29	Dungeon, Lumbridge Caves
Desert Lizard	22	Ice Cooler	12, 24, 42	South Uzer
Cockatrice	25	Mirror shield	37	Dungeon
Pyrefiend	30	None	43	Dungeon
Mogre	32	Fishing Explosive	60	Mudskipper Point
Harpie Bug Swarm	33	Lantern	46	Northeast of Tai Bwo Wannai Village
Wall Beast	35	Spiny Helmet	49	Lumbridge Caves
Killerwatt	37	Insulated Boots	55	Draynor Manor Rift
Molanisk	39	Slayer Bell	51	Dorgesh-Kaan's South Dungeon
Basilisk	40	Mirror shield	61	Dungeon, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Terror Dog	40	None	100, 110	Tarn's Lair
Fever Spider	42	Slayer Gloves	49	Braindeath Island
Infernal Mage	45	None	66	Tower, Chaos Tunnels
Brine Rat	47	None	70	Sven the Helmsman's Cave
Bloodveld	50	None	76 variants 81, 126, 146	Tower, Meiyerditch Caverns, God Wars Dungeon
Jelly	52	None	78	Dungeon, Chaos Tunnels
Turoth	55	Leaf-Bladed Spear, Broad Arrows, Leaf-bladed sword or Slayer's Staff	83, 85, 87, 89	Dungeon, Chaos Tunnels, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Warped Tortoise	56	Crystal Chimes	96	Sewer Slayer Dungeon
Warped Terrorbird	56	Crystal Chimes	81	Sewer Slayer Dungeon
Zygomite	57	Fungicide	74, 86	Zanaris
Cave Horror	58	Witchwood Icon	80	Mos Le'Harmless Caves
Aberrant Spectre	60	Nosepeg	96	Tower, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Spiritual Ranger	63	None	115, 118, 122, 127	God Wars Dungeon
Dust Devil	65	Facemask	93	Smoke Dungeon, Chaos Tunnels
Spiritual Warrior	68	None	115, 123, 125, 134	God Wars Dungeon
Kurask	70	Leaf-Bladed Spear, Broad Arrows, Leaf-bladed sword or Slayer's Staff	106	Dungeon, Pollnivneach Dungeon
Skeletal Wyvern	72	Elemental shield.	142	Ice Caves
Jungle Strykewyrm	73	None	110	Northwest of Ooglog. Can only be killed on a Slayer task.
Gargoyle	75	Rock hammer	111	Tower, Chaos Tunnels, Kuradal's Dungeon
Desert Strykewyrm	77	None	130	East of Al Kharid. Can only be killed on a Slayer task.
Aquanite	78	None	114	Dungeon
Nechryael	80	None	115	Tower, Chaos Tunnels
Spiritual Mage	83	None	120, 121, 122	God Wars Dungeon
Abyssal Demon	85	None	124	Tower, Abyssal Plain (fairy ring A-L-R), Kuradal's Dungeon
Dark Beast	90	None	182	Light Temple Path, Kuradal's Dungeon
Ice Strykewyrm	93	None	210	Tales of the Muspah cave. Can only be killed on a Slayer task.

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Locations

There are four main locations where the largest variety of slayer monsters can be found:

• Slayer tower
  Located to the north of Canifis and shown quite large on the world map. The fairy ring CKS will transport you very close to the tower.
• Slayer dungeon
  A dungeon east of the golden apple tree, which is to the east of Rellekka in the Fremennik province. The fairy ring AJR will transport you just outside the cave.
• Chaos Tunnels
  Five entrances are located in the low-level wilderness north of Edgeville and Varrock. This dungeon is unique because its monsters drop more summoning charms than monsters located elsewhere.
• Kuradal's Dungeon
  Located in the Ancient Cavern. The fairy ring BJQ will transport you nearby, after you have repaired it using 5 mushrooms and a spade. The Ferocious ring, obtainable as a drop inside the dungeon, will also transport you there. This dungeon is only accessible while on task a task from Kuradal (requires 75 Slayer and 110 combat; see above), and you can only attack the monsters you are assigned to kill.

Minor locations include the following:

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Equipment

Most slayer equipment can be bought from any slayer master. (Slayer Master shops all have the same inventory. See Slayer Equipment Shop.) The equipment requires a certain slayer level to use and possibly some other level requirements.

For useful, though not required, equipment and items, see our Slayer Aids section below.

Equipment table
Pic	Name	Slayer required	Used for	Other required
	Bag of salt	1	Killing weakened Rockslugs	None
	Rock Hammer	1	Killing weakened Gargoyles	None
	Spiny Helmet	1	Protection against Wall Beasts	5 Defence
	Fire Cape	1	Killing Ice Strykewyrms	Complete the Fight Caves minigame.
	Facemask	10	Protection against Dust Devils	None
	Earmuffs	15	Protection against Banshees	None
	Ice Cooler	22	Killing weakened Desert Lizards	None
	Mirror Shield	25	Killing Cockatrices and Basilisks	20 Defence
	Fishing Explosive	32	Luring Mogres	None
	Bug Lantern	33	Fighting Harpie Bug Swarms	33 Firemaking to light
	Witchwood Icon	35	Used to kill Cave Horrors	None
	Insulated Boots	37	Killing Killerwatts	None
	Slayer Bell	39	Attacking molanisks.	None
	Slayer Gloves	42	Protection from Fever Spiders	None
	Leaf-Bladed Spear	55	Killing Turoths and Kurasks	50 Attack
	Broad-tipped Bolts	55	Killing Turoths and Kurasks	50 Range. Sold unfinished in shop.
	Broad Arrows	55	Killing Turoths and Kurasks	50 Range
	Slayer's Staff	55	Use Magic Dart spell to kill Turoths and Kurasks	50 Magic
	Fungicide Spray	57	Use to kill Zygomites. Starts with 10 doses. Must be reloaded with a Fungicide to get 10 more.	None
	Fungicide	57	Use to kill Zygomites by loading into a Fungicide sprayer to provide 10 doses.	None
	Nosepeg	60	Protection against Aberrant Spectres	None

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Special slayer monster drops

Some slayer monsters drop unique items that can only be obtained using slayer. These items are listed below.

Special note: For White and Gold Mystic, kill monsters found in the Slayer Dungeon, or Desert Lizards. For Black and Red Mystic, kill monsters in the Slayer Tower.

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Slayer Aids and Boosts

Slayer Boosts
Pic	Name	How to Obtain	Use
	Wild Pie	Requires 85 cooking to make from raw chompy, raw bear meat and raw rabbit meat in a pie shell.	Temporarily increases slayer skill by 5 levels. Also heals a total of 22 hitpoints (2 bites, each healing 11 hitpoints).
	Mature Slayer's Respite	Requires 59 cooking to brew from 4 wildblood hops.	Temporarily increases slayer skill by 2 levels. Also heals 1 hitpoint and lowers attack and strength by 4.
	Slayer's Respite	Requires 59 cooking to brew from 4 wildblood hops.	Temporarily increases slayer skill by 1 level and lowers attack and strength by 2 or 3 (depending on level).
	Black Mask	Dropped by Cave horrors in the Mos Le'Harmless Dungeon. Slayer level of 58, a witchwood icon and a light source are required.	The Black mask gives a permanent boost of 15% strength and attack during slayer tasks. It offers additional benefits from the random firing of its initial 10 charges. This effect stacks with that of Dragon Slayer gloves.
	Hexcrest	Dropped by Jungle strykewyrms northwest of Ooglog. Slayer level of 72 required, and a player must have Jungle strykewyrms as a slayer task.	The Hexcrest gives a permanent boost of 15% magic damage during slayer tasks.
	Focus sight	Dropped by Desert strykewyrms west of Al Kharid. Slayer level of 77 required, and a player must have Desert strykewyrms as a slayer task.	The Focus sight gives a permanent boost of 15% ranged damage during slayer tasks.
	Dragon Slayer Gloves	Reward from the Fist of Guthix mini game	Wear these on any dragon slayer task to gain a 10% attack boost as well as 15% more slayer xp per kill. They will disintegrate after 1,000 dragons. Slayer level 70 is required. This effect stacks with that of the Black Mask (as well as the Slayer Helm).

Slayer Aids
Pic	Name	How to Obtain	Use
	Enchanted Gem	Buy from any Slayer Master for 1 gp.	Great to bring on assignments. Ask your slayer master (the one who last assigned you a task) how many monsters you have left on your task, ask where your slayer master is located, or ask for a tip about the monster you are killing.
	NPC Contact Spell	Must be on the Lunar Magick spellbook. Requires level 67 magic, and takes 1 astral, 1 cosmic and 2 air runes per cast.	Allows contact with certain NPCs from anywhere, including all 6 slayer masters. You can ask for an assignment (assuming you have the required combat level for that slayer master).
	Combat Bracelet	Enchanted from a dragonstone bracelet.	Informs you every 10 kills on a slayer assignment when worn.
	Super Fishing Explosive	Player made from Guam and Rubium after the Kennith's Concerns quest.	Lures Mogres like regular fishing explosive, but also does 15 damage to them.
	Karamja Gloves 3	Reward from the Karamja Achievement Diary	Allows you to teleport to the Shilo Village Gem mine, close to the Shilo Village Slayer Master.
	Leaf-bladed sword	Dropped by Turoths and Kurasks or bought from other players	Kill Turoths and Kurasks one-handed, allowing use of a shield. 55 Slayer and 50 Attack required.
	Ring of Slaying	The ability to craft one with level 75 crafting can be bought for 300 slayer points, or an individual ring can be bought for 75 points after completion of the Smoking Kills quest.	Teleports to the Slayer Tower in Morytania, Slayer Dungeon in Rellekka, Pollnivneach, and The Lair of Tarn Razorlor (after completing the Haunted Mine quest.) The ring has 8 charges; after all are consumed the ring will shatter but the gem will remain.
	Slayer Helmet	The ability to make one can be bought for 400 slayer points after completion of the Smoking Kills quest.	Combines spiny helmet, earmuffs, face mask, black mask and nosepeg.
	Full Slayer Helmet	The ability to make one can be bought for 400 slayer points after completion of the Smoking Kills quest.	Combines spiny helmet, earmuffs, face mask, black mask, hexcrest, focus sight, and nosepeg.
	Masked Earmuffs	Combine facemask and earmuffs after starting the Smoking Kills quest. (35 Slayer required)	Protects against Banshees and Dust Devils.
	Ferocious ring	Dropped by monsters in Kuradal's Dungeon.	Deals more damage to monsters inside the dungeon and provides five teleports there.

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Wild Jade Vine

After completing the Back to my Roots quest, players can grow a jade vine in Handelmort Mansion gardens (explained in the Jade Vine mini game box). After checking its health at maturity, it is optional to leave it alone until it grows into a Wild Vine, and then kill it for an extra 2500 slayer experience. Note however that the vine takes a while (a day) to grow into the wild version, and you must be wielding a hatchet and have a pair of secateurs in your inventory while fighting it. Note that it can also poison you. Also, because you cannot be assigned to kill the jade vine, the slayer mask will NOT work on it. After you kill the vine, you will be given the opportunity to plant another one. If the seed does not appear in your inventory, just speak to Horacio.

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Hunt for Surok

The Hunt for Surok is a mini quest that one can do after completing the What Lies Below quest. The mini quest involves chasing Surok Magis around the Chaos Tunnels in order to catch him. At the end of the chase, you will confront Bork, a level 267 Ogre. During the fight, Bork will attack you with melee, while Surok attacks you with Magic. Surok cannot be harmed, so just focus on Bork. When Bork has been damaged enough, he will call his brothers to help him. The four Ork Legions that are summoned will attack with melee, unless they cannot reach you, which in that case they will switch to Ranged attacks. After killing Bork, you will be rewarded with 5000 Slayer experience. Bork will also drop 5 Blue, 7 Crimson, and 2 Green Charms, as well as an uncut Sapphire, Emerald, and Ruby.

After completing the mini quest, you may return to the portal where you fought Bork to face him everyday. Note that you will only get 250 Slayer experience for killing Bork now, although all his drops remain the same. There is a 24 hour waiting period before you can kill Bork again, which applies if you teleport early or die as well.

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Phoenix Lair

After completing the In Pyre Need quest, players can navigate the Phoenix's cave once each day for additional rewards (explained in the Phoenix Lair daily combat guide box). The player must head through each section of the cave gathering new cuttings from the trees, but after the quest, the Reborn monsters in the five rooms of the multi-combat caves are hostile. The Reborn monsters can block players and are very dangerous. You must carry secateurs, knife, tinderbox or other method of making fire, and have five empty inventory slots. After collecting the twigs, making the ribbons, fashioning the basket pyre and lighting it, the Phoenix will appear and attack! You can attempt to kill it once a day for 5 Phoenix feathers, 7500 Firemaking, 3000 Fletching, 1000 Crafting, and 500 Slayer experience, but the first time you defeat the Phoenix you will earn 5000 instead of 500 Slayer xp. Also, because you cannot be assigned to kill the phoenix, the slayer mask will NOT work on it.

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Smoking Kills

After completing the Smoking Kills quest a new slayer master, Sumona, becomes available. To get assignments from her you need a slayer level of 35 and a combat level of 85. She assigns tasks at a difficulty level in between Chaeldar and Duradel.

More importantly, completing the Smoking Kills quest allows you access to a number of slayer rewards, which can be purchased by acquiring points from slayer tasks. All of the Slayer Masters participate in the points and rewards system.

Points

To get points you must complete an entire slayer assignment. After you have done 5 tasks, slayer masters will start to give you points for every task you fully complete after that.

• Mazchna - 1 points
• Vannaka - 4 points
• Chaeldar - 10 points
• Sumona - 12 points
• Duradel - 15 points
• Kuradal - 18 points

If you Burthorpe any task, you will have to complete another 5 tasks again to start gaining points. You also gain additional points at every 10th and 50th task completed without changing. It is recommended to get a task from the highest slayer master you can use for the 10th and 50th task, to maximise your points.

Items and XP

• Buy Slayer XP - spend 400 points to get 10k slayer experience.
• The ring of slaying can be used to teleport to major slaying spots: Slayer Tower, Slayer Cave, Pollnivneach, Lair of Tarn Razorlor, as well as check your progress.
• Buy runes for Slayer Dart - spend 35 points to get enough runes for 250 casts.
• Broad bolts and arrows can be used on Turoths and Kurasks.

Abilities

• Learn how to fletch broad arrows/bolts - add broad arrow heads to flighted arrows, or add feathers to broad bolt tips that you receive as drops or purchase.
• Crafting the ring of slaying (described above) allows you to quickly smelt a slayer gem with a gold bar to make this handy teleport and progress tracker. The gem is returned when the eight charges are used up. 15 Crafting xp is earned from making these.
• The slayer helmet combines a nosepeg, earmuffs, facemask, spiky helmet and black mask; making for the ultimate slaying helmet!

Cancellations

You can spend points to cancel or block tasks. These options are only available when you actually have an assigned task.

• Cancel - you can spend your points to skip a slayer assignment just this time, without taking a penalty to your consecutive slayer task count.
• Never again - this choice will both cancel the task (without penalty) and prevent you from getting the same creature assigned again. You can choose to have up to 4 slayer tasks that you cannot get assigned. These can be removed at any point, however the points used will not be refunded.

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Tips, tricks and notes

• It is better to range some creatures, such as Elves. Other creatures may be in multi-player combat areas. Try a few types of attack and equipment to see what you should use.
• If an assignment turns out to be too hard halfway, don't hesitate to get a new one. You get experience per monster, not for an assignment overall.
• Start with the right slayer master. If you go to one that's too high, you might have to go back to Burthorpe and get an even worse assignment.
• If you can't kill the enemies assigned by the slayer master for your level (the one called by your enchanted gem), try training your combat to a higher level.
• For many assignments, there are variants of the monster that you can kill and it will still count as killing a monster for the task. For example, killing a baby dragon counts towards your assignment just like killing a normal dragon.
• Using a cannon to hit higher does not affect the amount of slayer experience you receive from a kill. So using a cannon is a quick way of training. The cannon cannot be set up in the Slayer Dungeon, nor the Slayer Tower, nor the Chaos Tunnels. Learn about the cannon in our Ranged Skill Guide.
• Training slayer and combat go hand in hand. For each monster you kill as part of an assignment, you receive the normal combat xp as usual, as well as slayer xp.
• If you complete the Tarn's Lair by defeating Tarn, you will receive 5000 slayer xp. This can only be done once.
• For Dark Beast slayer tasks, if you have completed Within the Light quest, you can change the location of your teleport crystal to the Temple of Light - allowing you to bypass using the Mourner's outfit and saving you 5 inventory spaces.

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Cape of Achievement

Once you have mastered the skill and reached level 99 you may want to buy a Slayer Cape from Kuradal in the Ancient cavern.

Refer to the Achievement Capes guide for more details.

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Original Guide by: Empror1

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Last updated on: 09-Feb-2010

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