Dust devil

The Dust Devil is a very popular monster for Slayers of level 65 and up. A Face mask, Masked earmuffs, or Slayer helmet is always required to slay them, whether in the Smoke Dungeon or Chaos Tunnels, because of their effects on players without protection. (The Slayer helmet also has the same benefits as the Black mask when the dust devil is your current slayer assignment.)

Dust devils are vulnerable to Ranged attacks. Dust Devils are popular targets for treasure hunters. Like Jellies, they have very good drops in relation to how relatively easy it is to kill them. Dust devils drop the coveted Dragon chainbody, although it is an extremely rare drop.

Players may consider using the low graphics detail setting when fighting Dust Devils, as this will reduce the visual effects of their dust.

Locations

 * Smoke Dungeon west from Pollnivneach in the Kharidian Desert.
 * Chaos Tunnels

Strengths and weaknesses
Dust Devils attack with melee type damage, at close range. Their dusty, gritty attack, even if it causes no damage to hitpoints, has the special effect of greatly reducing an unprotected player's combat skill levels. A single attack can reduce attack, strength, ranged, and magic to 0 while halving prayer. A Facemask, Slayer helmet, or Masked earmuffs completely protects the player from the dust devil's special effect.

Players need at least level 65 Slayer to fight these creatures. The protective facemask, slayer helmet, or masked earmuffs are also required just to survive in the Smoke Dungeon, one of the dust devil's habitats. In the Chaos Tunnels, their other habitat, the protective equipment is only required when fighting the devils themselves.

The Smoke Dungeon has many safe spots where players can use ranged, magic or halberds to defeat them.

Melee is also effective, a good strategy for which is using the spell Bones to Peaches to maximize one's stay in the dungeon. It is possible to use Guthans armour to heal, although players must be careful switching the helm with the face mask, otherwise the dungeon will hit them for 20 damage every 12 seconds or so, only allowing 3-4 hits in before having to switch back to the face mask. Please note that you can only use Guthans armour to heal on nearby Fire Elementals, Pyrefiends, or Fire Giants, as attacking a Dust Devil without a face mask causes your melee stats to be drained to 0, and deals 14 damage to you every few seconds. So Bones to Peaches would be the best method to use.

If the player chooses to use the Chaos Tunnels instead, he/she will still need the facemask to kill the Dust Devils themselves, but since there's no environmental smoke, Guthan's can be used to heal on the Giant Crypt Rats in the next cave to the east.

Drops
100% Drop:
 * Bones

Weapons and armour

 * Dragon chainbody (Extremely Rare)


 * Dragon spear
 * Shield left half
 * Rune dagger (uncommon)
 * 12 Rune Arrows (uncommon)
 * 5 Rune Javelins (semi-rare)
 * Earth battlestaff
 * Red dragonhide vambraces

Runes

 * 37 or 150 Fire runes (usually 150)
 * 2 or 5 Soul runes (usually 5)
 * 5 Chaos runes
 * Nature talisman

Charms

 * Crimson charm (common)
 * Gold charm (semi-common)
 * Green charm (uncommon)
 * Blue charm (rare)

Other

 * 15, 25, 60 or 400 Coins (common)
 * Half of a key (rare)
 * Herbs (very common)
 * Mithril bar (common)
 * 1-2 Ugthanki kebab (unnoted)
 * Uncut gems
 * Steel axe
 * Iron ore