Night Beast

“Something big and lightless that lives where the deep caves stop having names. It hits like a falling wall.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 88,160 Melee or Ranged XP, or 121,220 Magic XP, plus about 29,423 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 55 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Bladeguard blocks them completely.
• Thick hide: shrugs off Magic; Melee and Ranged hit normally.
• With the Mounted Dark Beast Head built in your Holding it hits you 10% softer.

Slayer

• You need Slayer level 90 to attack it at all.
• Each kill gives 440,800 Slayer XP, whether or not you are still on task.

A superior

The superior form of the Dark Beast. 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 440,800 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 Dark Beast'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	1,500–3,000	Always
Big Bones	2–3	Always
Death Rune	15–35	40%
Unidentified Herb	1–2	30%
Blood Rune	8–20	15%
Adamant Bar	2–4	10%
Seed Pack	1	5%
Runite Ore	1–2	4%
Rune Bar	1–2	3%
Uncut Gem	1	3%
Rune Legs	1	2%
Rune Helmet	1	2%
Rune Chestplate	1	1.5%
Rare drop table	1 roll	1/128
Dark Bow	1	1/512
Dark Beast Head	1	1/2,400

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).