• 1.0 - Introduction
• 2.0 - The Basics of Slaying
  •     2.1 - The Process
  •     2.2 - Slayer Masters
• 3.0 - Slaying Equipment
• 4.0 - Slayer Monsters
  •     4.1 - Slayer Monsters in-depth
• 5.0 - Basics of Training
• 6.0 - The Slayer Tower
• 7.0 - Frequently Asked Questions
• 8.0 - Experience from Quests

In RuneScape, slayer is a skill where you must prove yourself against many difficult monsters. Unlike other skills in RuneScape where the training is repetitive, slayer is a very diverse skill. Slayer awards experience based on the completion of certain tasks. If you want to explore the map whilst experiencing the thrills of combat, slaying is for you.

Another great reason to explore the slaying skill is slayer masters, who advise you on how to kill certain monsters. This information may help you in the future when entering the mysterious world of slaying.

To begin slaying you must talk to one of the slayer masters. Upon expressing interest in slaying, the slayer master will give you a slayer assignment. The slayer assignment will be to kill a certain number of a certain type of monster. Depending on the slayer master, your assignment could range from 12 birds to 190 dragons.

To help you on this assignment, the slayer master has also provided you with an "Enchanted Gem." If you "Rub" the gem, you will be able to communicate with one of the slayer masters. They will tell you how many more monsters you have to kill, as well as the best techniques to use when fighting the monster. It is recommended that you always bring your gem along due to the information it provides. If you lose this gem, you can buy another one for 1gp from any slayer master.

When you are done with your assignment, go back and talk to the slayer master for another one.

If you get a higher-level assignment that you are unhappy with, you can get a new, lower-level one from the Burthorpe slayer master, Turael. He only changes assignments offered by stronger slayer masters.

Around the RuneScape world, there are a number of slayer masters, which are all represented by the on the minimap. The tables below will tell you where they are located and what the difficulties of their assignments are. The list of monsters beside each master is the list of possible assignments the slayer master can give you.

Please note that you must have level 50 slayer and 100+ combat in order to use Duradel as your slayer master.

Slayer masters assign as few as 10 or as many as 199 monsters. The maximum number increases as you use higher level slayer masters. However, the minimum number does not increase, so it is possible to get 12 dark beasts from Duradel, or 12 birds from Turael (lowest slayer master).

Picture	Slayer Master	Location	Assignment Difficulty	Location Map
	Turael	Burthorpe	Easy	Map
	Banshees, Bats, Bears, Birds, Cave Crawlers, Cave Slimes, Cows, Crawling Hands, Dogs, Dwarves, Ghosts, Goblins, Icefiends, Kalphite, Minotaur, Monkeys, Rats, Scorpions, Skeletons, Spiders, Werewolves, Wolves, Desert Lizards, and Zombies.
	Mazchna	Canifis	Medium	Map
	Basilisks, Bats, Bears, Bloodvelds, Bronze Dragons, Catablepon, Cave Crawlers, Cockatrice, Crawling Hands, Dagannoths, Desert Lizards, Dogs, Earth Warriors, Elves, Flesh Crawler, Ghosts, Ghouls, Hellhounds, Hill Giants, Hobgoblins, Ice Giants, Ice Warriors, Infernal Mages, Jellies, Kalphite, Killerwatts, Lesser Demons, Moss Giants, Ogres, Other Worldly Beings, Pyrefiend, Rockslugs, Shades, Shadow Warriors, Skeletons, Trolls, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies.
	Vannaka	Edgeville Dungeon	Medium	Map
	Aberrant Specters, Ankou, Banshees, Basilisks, Bloodvelds, Blue Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Cockatrice, Crawling Hands, Crocodiles, Dagannoths, Earth Warriors, Elves, Fever Spiders, Fire Giants, Goblins, Green Dragons, Harpie Bug Swarms, Hellhounds, Hill Giants, Ice Giants, Ice Warriors, Infernal Mages, Iron Dragons, Jellies, Jungle Horror, Kalphite, Killerwatts, Lesser Demons, Moss Giants, Ogres, Other Worldly Beings, Pyrefiends, Rockslugs, Terror Dogs, Sea Snakes, Shadow Warriors, Shades, Trolls, Turoth, Vampires, and Werewolves.
	Chaeldar	Zanaris (The Lost City)	Hard	Map
	Aberrant Specters, Abyssal Demons, Banshee, Basilisks, Black Demons, Bloodvelds, Blue Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Cave Bugs, Cave Crawlers, Cave Horror, Cave Slimes, Cockatrice, Crawling Hands, Dagannoths, Desert Lizards, Dust Devils, Elves, Fire Giants, Gargoyles, Greater Demons, Green Dragons, Hellhounds, Infernal Mages, Iron Dragons, Jellies, Jungle Horror, Kurasks, Lesser Demons, Mogres, Nechryaels, Ogres, Pyrefiends, Rockslugs, Shadow Warriors, Skeletal Wyverns, Steel Dragons, Trolls, Turoths, Vampires, Wall Beasts, Werewolves, Mutated zygomites, Brine Rats.
	Duradel	Shilo Village	Very Hard	Map
	Aberrant Specters, Abyssal Demons, Ankous, Banshees, Basilisks, Black Demons, Black Dragons, Bloodveld, Brine Rats, Bronze Dragons, Cave Crawlers, Cave Horror, Cockatrice, Dust Devils, Elves, Fever Spiders, Fire Giants, Gargoyles, Goraks, Greater Demons, Harpie Bug Swarms, Hellhounds, Infernal Mages, Iron Dragons, Jellies, Jungle Horror, Kalphites, Kurasks, Lesser Demons, Mogres, Mutated zygomites, Nechryaels, Pyrefiend, Rockslugs, Suqah, Steel Dragons, Trolls, Turoths, Waterfiends, Wall Beasts, Warped Terrorbirds.

When you reach certain slayer levels, you will be able to fight certain monsters. Some of these monsters may require the use of special equipment. Every piece of slayer equipment is available for purchase from the slayer masters.

Picture	Equipment	Requirements	Uses	Price
	Bag of Salt	1 Slayer	Killing weakened Rockslugs	10gp
	Rock Hammer	1 Slayer	Killing weakened Gargoyles	500gp
	Spiny Helmet	1 Slayer 5 Defense	Fends off Wall Beast attacks	650gp
	Facemask	10 Slayer	Needed to kill Dust Devils	200gp
	Earmuffs	15 Slayer	Protection against Banshees	200gp
	Ice Cooler	22 Slayer	Killing weakened Desert Lizards	1gp
	Mirror Shield	25 Slayer 20 Defense	Protection against Cockatrice and Basilisks	5,000gp
	Fishing explosion	32 Slayer	Lures Mogres	60gp
	Bug Lantern	33 Slayer	Used to kill the Harpie Bug Swarms	130gp
	Witchwood Icon	35 Slayer	Protection against Cave Horrors	900gp
	Insulated Boots	37 Slayer	Needed to kill Killerwatts	200gp
	Slayer Bell	39 Slayer	Needed to attack Molanisks	150 gp
	Slayer Gloves	42 Slayer	Protection against Fever Spiders	200gp
	Leaf-Bladed Spear	55 Slayer 50 Attack	Killing Turoths and Kurasks	31,000gp
	Broad Arrows	55 Slayer 50 Ranged	Killing Turoths and Kurasks	60gp
	Slayer's Staff	55 Slayer 50 Magic	Allows use of the Magic Dart spell to kill Turoths and Kurasks	21,000gp
	Fungicide Spray	57 Slayer	Needed to kill Mutated Zygomites	300gp
	Nose Peg	60 Slayer	Protection against Aberrant Specters	200gp
	Crystal Chimes	56 Slayer	Allows you to attack warped creatures	N/A

When you reach certain levels, you will be able to fight different slayer monsters. Most of these monsters can be found in the Slayer Tower, north-west of Canifis, or in the Slayer Dungeon, far east of Rellekka. These monsters can be very rewarding; however, you must remember to bring your slayer equipment along in order to kill them. Note that killing slayer monsters does not give any slayer XP. The ability to fight these monsters at certain levels, is just a reward. In the table below, please realize that the level given is the slayer level required to kill them, not the monster's combat level.

Picture	Monsters	Level Required	Location	Equipment Needed
	Crawling Hand	5	Slayer Tower	None
	Cave Bug	7	Lumbridge Caves, Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon	None
	Cave Crawler	10	Slayer Dungeon	None
	Banshee	15	Slayer Tower	Earmuffs
	Cave Slime	17	Lumbridge Caves	None
	Rockslug	20	Slayer Dungeon, Lumbridge Caves	Bag of Salt - Use when they are weak
	Desert Lizard	22	Desert south of Shantay Pass	Box of Cold Ice - Use when they are weak
	Cockatrice	25	Slayer Dungeon	Mirror Shield
	Pyrefiend	30	Slayer Dungeon, Smoke Dungeon	None
	Mogre	32	South of Port Sarim	Fishing Explosive
	Harpie bug swarm	33	North-east of Tai Bwo Wannai	Harpie Bug Lantern
	Wall Beast	35	Lumbridge Caves	Spiny Helmet
	Killerwatt	37	Rift on top floor of Draynor Village Manor	Insulated Boots
	Molanisk	39	Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon	Slayer Bell
	Basilisk	40	Slayer Dungeon	Mirror Shield
	Terror Dog	40	Tarn Razalor's Lair	None
	Fever Spider	42	Braindeath Island	Slayer Gloves
	Infernal Mage	45	Slayer Tower	None
	Brine Rat	47	Tunnels from Olaf's Quest	None
	Bloodveld	50	Slayer Tower	None
	Jelly	52	Slayer Dungeon	None
	Turoth	55	Slayer Dungeon	Leaf-Bladed Spear / Broad Arrows / Slayer's Staff
	Warped Terrorbird	56	Slayer Sewer Dungeon	Crystal Chime
	Warped Tortoise	56	Slayer Sewer Dungeon	Crystal Chime
	Mutated Zygomite	57	Zanaris (The Lost City)	Fungicide Spray
	Cave Horror	58	Mos Le'harmless caves	Witchwood Icon
	Aberrant Specter	60	Slayer Tower	Nose peg
	Dust Devil	65	Smoke Dungeon	Facemask
	Kurask	70	Slayer Dungeon	Leaf-Bladed Spear / Broad Arrows / Slayer's Staff
	Skeletal Wyvern	72	Ice Caves	Elemental Shield
	Gargoyle	75	Slayer Tower	Rock Hammer - Use when they are weak
	Nechryael	80	Slayer Tower	None
	Abyssal Demon	85	Slayer Tower Fairy Ring (ALR)	None
	Dark Beast	90	Temple of Light	None

Terror Dog
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	100, 110
	Hitpoints:	83, 88
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Melee

Infernal Mage
	Race:	Human
	Combat Level:	66, 68
	Hitpoints:	60
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic

Bloodvelds
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	76
	Hitpoints:	120
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic based Melee

Jellies
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	78
	Hitpoints:	75
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic based Melee

Turoths
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	83, 85, 87, 89
	Hitpoints:	74, 77, 80, 81
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Melee based

Mutated Zygomite
	Race:	Fungi
	Combat Level:	74
	Hitpoints:	53
	Nature:	Non Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magical melee

Cave Horror
	Race:	Beast
	Combat Level:	80
	Hitpoints:	55
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magical melee

Aberrant Specters
	Race:	Undead
	Combat Level:	96
	Hitpoints:	95
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic

Dust Devil
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	93
	Hitpoints:	105
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic and Melee

Kurask
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	106
	Hitpoints:	97
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	-

Skeletal Wyvern
	Race:	Skeleton
	Combat Level:	140
	Hitpoints:	214
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	-

Gargoyles
	Race:	Animated
	Combat Level:	111
	Hitpoints:	105
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Melee

Nechryael
	Race:	Undead
	Combat Level:	115
	Hitpoints:	105
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	-

Abyssal Demon
	Race:	Demon
	Combat Level:	124
	Hitpoints:	150
	Nature:	Non-Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Melee

Dark Beast
	Race:	Animal
	Combat Level:	182
	Hitpoints:	220
	Nature:	Aggressive
	Attack Style:	Magic or melee

There is no easy way to train slayer like there is in other skills (unless you can afford a cannon). No matter what you do, you are always going to have to fight a large number of monsters.

The Shilo Slayer master gives out tasks of up to 199 monsters per task; most of the tasks are pretty hard to finish at low levels, so high combat level and good melee stats are recommended. If you are an average to high-level player, try to use the Canifis, Edgeville and Zanaris slayer masters.

Cave Horrors have recently found their way into Mos Le'harmless, bringing with them a Black mask. To gain access to the Mos Le'harmless Dungeon, you must have completed Rum Deal and Cabin Fever - you will also need a lantern to guide yourself through the dark caves. This mask gives a +15% boost to your attack and strength levels, however, only when fighting the monsters you have been assigned to as a Slayer task. The number at the end of the name represents the number of times a spell will shoot from the mask and lower any of your opponents' defense by 10%. When the number reaches 0, the mask will no longer shoot spells, but will retain its strength and attack-boosting abilities. Make sure that you wear a Witchwood icon, else you will be dealt 9 damage every few seconds.

If you're a skiller wanting to train slayer, it's possible but difficult. You will need many rings of recoil. Turn off auto-retaliate, bring lots of food, and do Burthorpe tasks. This way, the monsters will be lower-leveled and you won't receive any combat experience. Keep in mind that this is tedious, but besides experience lamps, it's the only way to train Slayer on a skiller.

The Tower is located just north-west of Canifis. To access it, you need to have completed the Priest in Peril quest. The tower is home to some high-level Slayer monsters including the Abyssal demon, which drops the powerful Abyssal Whip. Located in the tower are two Agility shortcuts. The medium spiked chain climb requires 61 Agility, and the advanced spiked chain climb requires level 71 Agility.

Some of the Slayer creatures in the tower are aggressive, and can be dangerous if you come unprepared. See our Slayer equipment guide for the items you need to bring to defend yourself against the creatures.

Aberrant specter (Level 96) Abyssal demon (Level 124) Banshee (Level 23) Bloodveld (Level 76) Crawling hand (Levels 8; 12) Gargoyle (Level 111) Infernal Mage (Level 66) Nechryael (Level 115)

A: No, only one of them works at any time.

A: The total amount of xp is equal to the hitpoints of the monster. That amount will be split given the following criteria: Half for the one that made the most damage, Half for the one that made the hit that killed the monster.

A: Yes.

A: No, A slayer master will not assign monsters that require you to have to complete a quest to attack. For example, you would not have to kill elves if you have not done the Regicide quest.

A: Only if you are assigned to kill them by a Slayer master.

A: Prices are steadily declining even though it's rumored that whip drops are constantly becoming rare. There are plenty of other ways to make quicker money.

• Animal Magenetism: 1,000 XP
• The Path Of Glouphrie: 20,000 XP
• Lair of Tarn Razorlor mini-quest : 5,000 XP
• Recipe for Disaster: 1,000 XP
• Royal Trouble: 5,000 XP
• Wanted!: 5,000 XP

• A Fairy Tale Part II: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 30.
• Great Brain Robbery, The: 5,000 XP for any skill you choose over level 30.
• Legends Quest: 7,650-30,600 XP (7,650 is given to 4 skills from a list of skills)
• One Small Favour: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• Recipe for Disaster: 20,000 XP (A Lamp to grant 20,000xp in a skill of your choice over level 50)