Bal'lak the Pummeller

Bal'lak the Pummeller is one of the Kal'Gerion generals summoned to this realm by Bilrach and is a boss of Daemonheim, requiring a Dungeoneering level of 65 to encounter and fight. He held the title of the boss monster with the highest Dungeoneering level requirement until 19 August 2010, when Yk'Lagor the Thunderous took over.

Bal'lak will use melee, magic, and ranged, dealing up to 200 damage with each hit. He has the ability to attack two to three times in quick succession. In addition, his twin hammers are capable of hitting players twice with one attack. This boss has very high lifepoints but low defence for its level - but if his defence bar is allowed to rise he will begin to take significantly less damage.

When entering the room, players will see a green bar begin to fill at the top part of the screen. This is his "defence power"; every second it will gradually go up and eventually it will become impossible to hurt him. As Bal'lak is attacked he will split rifts in the ground and cause bubbling pools of noxious fumes to appear on the floor. Each pool causes rapid damage to players standing in the 3x3 square surrounding it, similar to the effects of poison. Bal'lak should be lured near one of these pools to weaken his defence, with each being able to reduce up to 30% of his defence bar. It is important to note that this bar determines how much damage is reduced, rather than how accurate your attacks are against him. Occasionally, one might find puddles clustered together. If the player can successfully lure Bal'lak over the cluster of puddles, his defence will be reduced at a relatively faster rate.

To be most effective, teams should agree before entering that whichever player Bal'lak targets then has the responsibility of leading him towards these pools. By this method a good team can stop his defence ever rising past 30% and will find he dies rather quickly. Be careful not to stand on or near the portal itself.

A slower but equally effective strategy is to continually attack him and then use Gatestone Teleport if his defence bar gets too high. Waiting outside the of the room resets the bar, allowing players to enter the boss room again and continue the offensive.

The battle should only take two minutes or less with a party of two. Only an inventory of food and a high-tiered weapon is needed to fight Bal'lak. Protection prayers and deflection curses can be temporarily blocked by this boss, but he cannot deactivate any other prayers and curses.

Stab, crush and magical attacks are highly effective against Bal'lak.

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Trivia

 * Like To'Kash the Bloodchiller and Har'Lakk the Riftsplitter, Bal'lak the Pummeller is similar in appearance to the God Wars Dungeon boss K'ril Tsutsaroth, the leader of the Zamorak army; however, he uses warhammers instead of scimitars as his weapons. This is a placeholder until his graphics update (confirmed on youtube video).
 * His icon on the Dungeoneering skill tab was updated on the date of the Occult floors' release, but as of now he has yet to be graphically updated.
 * He is the highest level free monster, at 528 if 5:5 difficult is selected and a full party of maxed player raids the dungeon.
 * The Smuggler says that Bal'lak's weapons "split rifts in the ground, causing noxious fumes to rise from the level below". However, it sounds unrealistic as with the release of the Occult floors, it may not be possible for magma to rise from the ground as there is another floor beneath the one Bal'lak is on. Also, sometimes Bal'lak makes noxious gases appear far away as seen from where he is standing, which is ridiculous as his weapons are what is causing the ground to crack open and gases are appearing on the opposite end of the room.
 * Yk'Lagor the Thunderous and Bal'lak seem to have a personal grudge against each other, as Yk'Lagor states that Bal'lak's name is pronounced "Bal'lak the Knuckle-Head" in October 2010's Postbag from the Hedge, or Yk'Lagor may just be insulting him because he has a higher rank than Bal'lak.

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