Monster Examine

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Monster Examine
Level	66
Spellbook	Lunar
Type	Combat
Experience	61
Runes	111
Quest	Dream Mentor (plus Lunar Diplomacy)

The interface that appears after casting Monster Examine.

Monster Examine is a lunar spell that requires 66 Magic plus the quests Dream Mentor and Lunar Diplomacy to be cast. It costs 1 Mind rune, 1 Cosmic rune, and 1 Astral rune to cast and grants 66 Magic experience per cast.

Information

The spell gives a large amount of information about the monster examined in four tabs:

Stats

• Monster's combat level
• Current hitpoints
• Current Attack
• Current Defence
• Current Strength
• Current Magic
• Current Ranged
• Max hit (does not count special attacks)
• Main attack style

Aggressive Stats

If a monster does not have a bonus of any kind, it is omitted from the interface.

• Attack speed
• Attack bonus
  • Applicable to whatever melee style the NPC uses by default. For example, casting the spell on Justiciar Zachariah would display an Attack bonus of 200 under the Aggressive Stats tab. This means that in actuality, he has a Slash bonus of +200, as slash is the only melee style he uses.
• Stab bonus
• Slash bonus
• Crush bonus
• Magic bonus
• Ranged bonus
• Strength bonus
• Ranged strength bonus
• Magic strength bonus (A.K.A. magic damage)

Defensive Stats

• Stab bonus
• Slash bonus
• Crush bonus
• Magic bonus
• Ranged bonus

Other Attributes

If a monster does not possess a certain criteria, it is omitted from the interface.

• Informs players whether the monster can be killed for a slayer assignment.
• Informs players whether the monster is a slayer boss monster that can be killed for a slayer assignment.
• Informs whether the monster can be poisoned or is immune to venom.
• Informs whether the monster can be attacked using a dwarf multicannon.
• Informs whether the monster is vulnerable to demonbane weapons (Silverlight, Darklight, and Arclight).
• Informs whether the monster is vulnerable to dragonbane weapons (dragon hunter crossbow).
• Informs whether the monster is a tier 1 (Feral Vampyre, Vampyre Juvenile), tier 2 (Vampyre Juvinate) or tier 3 (Vyrewatch) vampyre.

Cost

Spell cost

Input	Cost
111	305

Trivia

• Upon release, the spell only informed players of the monster's combat level, hitpoints and its max hit (not counting special attacks), as well as informing the player whether the monster can be killed as part of a slayer assignment.
• The spell was improved to display much more information in an update on 12 November 2015, along with some occasional additions.
  • The spell's ability to display Ranged Strength was added in an update on 11 February 2016.
  • The spells ability to inform whether a monster is vulnerable to demonbane weapons (e.x. Silverlight) was added in an update on 14 June 2016.
  • The spells ability to inform whether a monster is vulnerable to dragonbane weapons (the dragon hunter crossbow) was added in an update on 8 February 2018.
  • The spells ability to display Magic damage, as well as informing the player the tier of vampyre the monster is, was added in an update on 24 May 2018.