Marble Gargoyle

“Living stone with a grudge. Blades chip, arrows shatter and spells scatter against its granite hide. Only a heavy maul, mason's work or granite, will crack it open.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 79,040 Melee or Ranged XP, or 108,680 Magic XP, plus about 26,380 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 52 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Bladeguard blocks them completely.
• Heavily armoured: Magic cuts straight through; Melee and Ranged glance off. A crush weapon (a maul) lands where a blade glances.
• Especially weak to crush weapons: ×1.25 accuracy on top of the usual.
• With the Mounted Gargoyle Head built in your Holding it hits you 10% softer.

Slayer

• You need Slayer level 90 to attack it at all.
• Each kill gives 395,200 Slayer XP, whether or not you are still on task.

What you need

• A crush weapon: Mason's Maul or Granite Maul. Anything else does no damage at all.

A superior

The superior form of the Gargoyle. 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 395,200 Slayer XP. It rolls its normal drops 3 times, plus a 3.13% 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 Gargoyle'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	700–1,500	Always
Coal	6–14	80%
Nails	10–30	70%
Mithril Ore	3–7	35%
Adamantite Ore	2–5	20%
Yew Plank	2–4	10%
Magic Plank	2–4	10%
Elder Plank	1–2	8%
Runite Ore	1–2	6%
Uncut Gem	1	2.5%
Rune Sword	1	2%
Rune Helmet	1	2%
Rare drop table	1 roll	1/128
Granite Maul	1	1/256
Blackstone Core	1	1/512
Granite Chestplate	1	1/512
Gargoyle Head	1	1/2,500

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).