Dust Devil

“A whirling pillar of grit and spite. Nearly every blow lands on nothing but dust unless Reinforced Goggles let you see the creature turning inside the storm.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 2 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 16,000 Melee or Ranged XP, or 22,000 Magic XP, plus about 5,340 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 33 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Arrowguard blocks them completely.
• Thick hide: shrugs off Magic; Melee and Ranged hit normally.
• With the Mounted Dust Devil Head built in your Holding it hits you 10% softer.

Slayer

• You need Slayer level 60 to attack it at all.
• Assigned as a task by Karst.
• On task, each kill gives 8,000 Slayer XP (4× its hitpoints).

What you need

• Reinforced Goggles (utility slot). Without it, it hits up to 3× as hard.
• Reinforced Goggles (utility slot). Without it, only 5% of your hits that land actually count.

Slayer Goggles count as every one of these utility items at once.

With the Slayer unlock Bigger and Badder, an on-task kill can bring out its superior form, the Choke Devil.

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 kill
Gold	150–350	Always
Bones	2–3	Always
Nails	8–20	50%
Air Rune	10–25	40%
Chaos Rune	4–10	20%
Earth Rune	5–12	15%
Unidentified Herb	1	15%
Willow Plank	2–5	12.5%
Maple Plank	2–5	12.5%
Uncut Gem	1	2%
Rare drop table	1 roll	1/128
Adamant Helmet	1	1/150
Adamant Chestplate	1	1/150
Adamant Legs	1	1/150
Granite Sword	1	1/512
Dust Devil Head	1	1/5,000
Dragon Chestplate	1	1/20,000

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).