Brutal black dragon

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Brutal black dragon
Release date	9 June 2016 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	318
Always drops	Dragon bones and 2 Black dragonhides
Examine	It appears intelligent and savage.
Examine	It appears intelligent and savage.
Combat info
Hitpoints	315
Aggressive	Yes
Poisonous	No
Max hit	29
Weakness	Stab, Ranged
Attack Styles	Melee (slash), Magic, Dragonfire
Attack Styles	Melee (slash), Magic, Dragonfire
Slayer info
Slayer level	77
Slayer XP	346.5
Category	Black dragon
Assigned by
Assigned by
Combat stats
	330
	330
	210
	210
	258
	258
	250
	250
	0
	0
Aggressive stats
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
Defensive stats
	+50
	+50
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+60
	+60
	+50
	+50
Other Bonuses
	?
	?
	+20
	+20
	+0
	+0
	+0%
	+0%
Immunities
	Immune
	Immune
	Immune
	Immune
Attack speed
Attack speed

Brutal black dragons are slayer monsters requiring level 77 Slayer in order to be damaged and are a tougher version of black dragons. They are found in the Catacombs of Kourend. Players can kill them as an alternative for a black dragon Slayer assignment.

Players can access the dragons by heading towards the Dragon's Den and running past the brutal blue and red dragons, or alternatively, use the hole found in the Lovakengj House to take them there immediately (this requires climbing up the rope from inside the catacombs first).

Like all brutal dragons, they use Melee, Magic and long-range dragonfire. Using both Protect from Magic (with a couple of prayer potions) and an antifire potion will completely protect players from damage, if players don't stand in Melee range.

Due to the brutal black dragon's unique drop table, it is the best way for ironmen to obtain a dragon spear, as the only other way of obtaining one is through the rare drop table, which has a much rarer drop rate.

Brutal black dragons also have the best generic drop table out of all of the dragons in-game.

Drops

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Dragon bones	1	Always	2,713
	Black dragonhide	2	Always	5,858

Unique

There is a 1 in 128 chance of hitting the unique drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Dragon platelegs	1	Rare (1/512)	161,162
	Dragon plateskirt	1	Rare (1/512)	161,137
	Dragon spear	1	Rare (1/512)	37,226
	Uncut dragonstone	1	Rare (1/512)	13,080

Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune hasta	1	Uncommon	11,867
	Rune spear	1	Uncommon	11,933
	Rune longsword	1	Uncommon	18,606
	Dragon dagger	1	Rare	17,505
	Dragon longsword	1	Rare	59,317

Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune platelegs	1	Uncommon	37,828
	Rune full helm	2	Uncommon	41,176
	Rune platebody	1	Rare	38,473
	Black d'hide body	1	Rare	7,285
	Black d'hide vamb	1	Rare	2,362
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,488

Runes and Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Rune javelin	50	Common	8,750
	Rune dart	20	Common	22,680
	Law rune	75	Common	12,450
	Death rune	75	Common	15,225
	Blood rune	50	Uncommon	18,350
	Soul rune	50	Uncommon	7,300
	Rune arrow	75	Uncommon	5,250
	Rune knife	25	Uncommon	7,825
	Rune thrownaxe	30	Uncommon	6,270

Materials and Consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Anglerfish	2	Common	3,154
	Lava scale	5 (noted)	Uncommon	18,850
	Dragon arrowtips	40	Uncommon	24,320
	Dragon javelin heads	40	Uncommon	38,160
	Dragon dart tip	40	Uncommon (3/128)	123,560
	Runite ore	3 (noted)	Rare	33,507

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	370–2,200	Common	Not sold
	Ensouled dragon head	1	Uncommon (1/20)	10,133
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Uncommon	Not sold
	Ancient shard	1	Rare (1/123.33)	Not sold
	Dark totem base	1	Rare (1/185)	Not sold
	Dark totem middle	1	Rare (1/185)	Not sold
	Dark totem top	1	Rare (1/185)	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare (1/250)	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	Very rare (1/10,000)	4,940,340

Rare drop table

In addition to the drops above, this monster also has access to the rare drop table.

Show/hide rare drop table
	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
	Loop half of key	1	Common	10,307
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	10,840
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	505
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	455
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	679
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,249
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	744
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,800
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,940
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	875
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,220
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,368
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,539
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,470
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,135
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,487
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,758
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,459
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	7,000
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,932
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,627
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,488
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,015
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,933
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,697
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,226

Trivia

• Brutal black dragons are the only chromatic dragons that are Slayer monsters.
• The magic attack of the brutal black dragon resembles Iban Blast.
• Brutal black dragons are the only monster to have two items from the mega-rare subtable of the rare drop table on their standard drop table (rune and dragon spears).
• Upon release, brutal black dragons did not have any slayer requirement and dropped the dragon full helm at the same rate as mithril dragons. Due to player complaints about how profitable they were without any requirements (other than combat) in addition to devaluing a unique mithril dragon drop, an update was added to require players to have 77 Slayer to harm them and removed the dragon full helm from their drop table.