Bramble Matriarch

“A bramble-armored beast that shrugs off common steel. Only a Marrow Blade, Broadhead Arrows or a Marrow Staff will reach the flesh beneath the thorns.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 32,000 Melee or Ranged XP, or 44,000 Magic XP, plus about 10,680 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 37 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Bladeguard blocks them completely.
• Thick hide: shrugs off Magic; Melee and Ranged hit normally.
• With the Mounted Ravager Head built in your Holding it hits you 10% softer.

Slayer

• You need Slayer level 45 to attack it at all.
• Each kill gives 160,000 Slayer XP, whether or not you are still on task.

What you need

• The right weapon for your style, or you deal no damage: Melee: Marrow Blade, Ranged: Broadhead Arrow, Magic: Marrow Staff (Ranged checks your arrows).

A superior

The superior form of the Thornback Ravager. 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 160,000 Slayer XP. It rolls its normal drops 3 times, plus a 1/120 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 Thornback Ravager'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	240–520	Always
Big Bones	1–2	80%
Unidentified Herb	1–3	50%
Seeds	1–2	35%
Red Spiders' Eggs	1–3	35%
White Berries	1–2	20%
Oak Plank	2–5	10%
Willow Plank	2–5	10%
Maple Plank	2–5	10%
Seed Pack	1	7%
Uncut Gem	1	2%
Rare drop table	1 roll	1/128
Granite Legs	1	1/512
Marrow Blade	1	1/1,024
Marrow Staff	1	1/1,024
Thornback Ravager Head	1	1/6,000

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).