Abhorrent Spectre

“A hooded wraith trailing clouds of toxic gas. Breathe it in and you will wish you had not.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 27,280 Melee or Ranged XP, or 37,510 Magic XP, plus about 9,105 Hitpoints XP. XP is paid per point of damage and shared out by your stance (a stance that sends half to Defence pays it at Defence's rate of 8). A finishing blow that overshoots adds a little more; poison and Vengeance damage pay nothing; XP bonuses from gear and food add on top.
• Its hits roll from 0 to 31 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Spellguard blocks them completely.
• Soft or unarmoured: Melee and Ranged tear in; Magic only lands normally.
• Putrid: each of its hits that does damage has a 30% chance to poison you. Plague-touched food (auto-eaten in combat) or an antipoison potion keeps it off, and putrid monsters can't be poisoned themselves.

A superior

The superior form of the Aberrant Spectre. With the Slayer unlock Bigger and Badder, every on-task kill of one has a 1/200 chance that the next to appear is this instead. It fights the same way, a good deal tougher. A kill counts once toward your task and gives 136,400 Slayer XP. It rolls its normal drops 3 times, plus a 1.05% chance at one of these:

• Imbued Heart (12.5% of those)
• Dust Battlestaff (43.8% of those)
• Mist Battlestaff (43.8% of those)

It vanishes if you change target, die or log out before it appears. Its kills are counted separately from the Aberrant Spectre's.

Drops

Every row rolls on its own, so one kill can drop several things. Drops go straight to your bank (a pet goes straight onto you). Gear and potions that raise your rare find chance don't change these odds.

Item	Amount	Chance per roll (3 rolls a kill)
Gold	115–290	Always
Unidentified Herb	1	60%
Blackamber	1–2	30%
Seeds	1–2	20%
Gloamleaf	1–2	18%
Marrowmint	1	10%
Tarrowroot	1	6%
White Berries	1–2	5%
Death Rune	1–3	4%
Seed Pack	1	4%
Empty Vial	1	3%
Sacred Oil	1	3%
Uncut Gem	1	2%
Steel Hatchet	1	2%
Mithril Shield	1	1/125
Rare drop table	1 roll	1/128
Adamant Legs	1	1/200
Rune Helmet	1	1/500
Arcanist Hat	1	1/2,000
Arcanist Robe	1	1/2,000
Arcanist Skirt	1	1/2,000

1/128 of kills also reach into the rare drop table.

After a kill the next one appears 2.5 seconds later. Dying costs nothing but time: a 15-second wait before you can fight again. The Agility perks Hot Pursuit and Second Wind shorten both (see Combat).