Skeleton Warrior

“Old bones rattling in rusted iron and a faded red rag. Slow on its feet, but it neither tires nor flinches. A maul scatters what a blade only rattles.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 3,120 Melee or Ranged XP, or 4,290 Magic XP, plus about 1,041 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 8 (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: ×1.15 accuracy on top of the usual.

Slayer

• Assigned as a task by Vex.
• On task, each kill gives 1,560 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	40–120	Always
Bones	3–6	Always
Cloth	2–4	35%
Enchanted Splinter	2–4	30%
Iron Ore	1–3	25%
White Berries	1	20%
Iron Helmet	1	5%
Iron Sword	1	5%
Iron Shield	1	5%
Fire Talisman	1	5%
Steel Helmet	1	2%
Steel Sword	1	2%
Chaos Talisman	1	2%
Sacred Oil	1	2%

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).