Dark beast

Dark beasts are monsters that require 90 slayer to kill. They are the only creature in the game to drop the dark bow and the death talisman. A dark beast can attack using magic or melee, but it only uses magic if the player initiates combat against the beast or moves away from the beast so that it cannot melee the player. Since dark beasts are always aggressive regardless of how long the player has been present, players can avoid the magic attacks simply by having Auto-retaliate  activated and allowing the dark beasts to initiate combat. This allows players to safely kill dark beasts through use of the Protect from Melee prayer. Alternatively, a player can move to a Safe spot and use the Protect from Magic prayer.

Although players can kill dark beasts with a slayer level of 90, a combat level of 100 is required to have them assigned to the player as a slayer task.

Dark beasts are an often underestimated method of training combat stats. Using prayer prolonging gear, a powerful weapon, and potions (stat boosting and prayer Potions), players may kill these beasts fairly quickly, as their defence is only average. The cost of buying the needed potions may be offset by dark bow drops.

They are found in the Mourner Tunnels that lead to the Temple of Light, and require partial completion of the Mourning's Ends Part II quest to reach them.

Killing a dark beast grants 880 experience in the attack style that the player is training, as well as 292.6 Hitpoints experience.

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