Skeletal Archer

“A skeleton with a recurve bow and endless patience. It doesn't blink and it never tires. Keep moving so its aim can't settle, and bring a maul when you close; bones this old shatter under it.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 2,640 Melee or Ranged XP, or 3,630 Magic XP, plus about 881 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 7 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Arrowguard blocks them completely.
• Soft or unarmoured: Melee and Ranged tear in; Magic only lands normally.
• Especially weak to crush weapons: ×1.15 accuracy on top of the usual.

Slayer

• Assigned as a task by Vex.
• On task, each kill gives 1,320 Slayer XP (4× its hitpoints).

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	30–90	Always
Bones	3–6	Always
Feather	6–12	Always
Iron Arrow	2–5	40%
Steel Arrow	1–3	20%
Mithril Arrow	1–2	5%
Fire Talisman	1	4%
Chaos Talisman	1	3%

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).