Greater demon

Greater demons are strong, demonic beings often found in remote places. They are amongst the highest-levelled, most accurate, and strongest Free-to-play monster that is neither Revenant, Quest or Random event-related. Greater demons are stronger than Lesser demons, with highly accurate melee attacks that hit up to 9. Physically, their only difference is that greater demons are larger than lesser demons and have wings. With the release of Summoning many players kill Greater demons for Crimson charms. They also drop better items.

Locations

 * Demonic ruins in level 45-48 Wilderness
 * Entrana Dungeon (no armour or weapons allowed)
 * Brimhaven Dungeon
 * Ogre Enclave (caged)

Strengths and weaknesses
The hardest part about fighting greater demons is getting to them, as they are found in rather remote or dangerous locations. They can be maged or ranged fairly easily in most of their locations. Since they are demons, Silverlight, Darklight and Holy water will work effectively when fighting these monsters. Bring good food, however, because their melee attacks are very accurate and can hit frequently even against a character with high defensive bonuses.

Greater demons are very susceptible to magic attacks.

Entrana Dungeon
Sail to the island carrying 8 or so pieces of high healing food. Bring a Crossbow String, an unstung rune c'bow (or lower depending on your range level) and unf bolts of your choice, and the equivilent amount of feathers. Fletch together the bolts, and fletch you chosen c'bow ONCE ON THE ISLAND, NOT BEFORE. Then travel to the n-w and go into the cave, use the stalegmites as safe spots. The food is for when you get hit collecting your bolts.

Brimhaven Dungeon (P2P)
A strategy for players without Guthan's armour is to bring a Super defence potion as well as Bones to peaches runes. Fight per normal but kill the usually aggressive wild dogs for their bones whenever needed to heal oneself.



There's a semi-safe spot at the very end of the Greater Demon area in Brimaven dungeon, where attacked demons will mostly position themselves in a spot where they are unable to attack the player.

Ogre Enclave (P2P)
Another strategy is for players to use ranging or magic against them in the Ogre Enclave, where they are caged and cannot strike back. Players should be aware of the danger of nearby Blue dragons and take appropriate precautions. Ava's Accumulator will not work through the bars of the cage. It is recommended to bring Telekinetic Grab runes to pick up valuable drops.In the North Western corner of the cave there is one greater demon non-caged.

Demonic Ruins (F2P)
A F2P strategy is to wear full rune or green dragonhide armour (to defend against Revenants's magical attacks) and to bring mid-level food (preferably tuna or better). Optionally, bring Strength potions to deal more damage and get drops faster. Fight as normal. If a revenant appears, do this:


 * Revenant comes from the East: On the western side of the ruins is a cross shaped extension. Run into the cross on the southwestern square of the southern arm of the cross. This spot is safe from any revenant patrol route.Should it see you and be targeting you, log out and immediatly log back in, and simply wait a moment. The revenant will continue on it's way. There is no way to be hit in this spot, unless someone lures the revenant inside of the cross. If this happens run OUTSIDE the ruins on the south east side, and get in the corner where the wall meets. Log out and in immediatly. This will allow you to be safe again, and give the minimum time for more revenants to possibly arrive.


 * Revenant comes from the West: If your on the eastern side of the ruins, you don't really have to worry about this spawn, as it won't see you UNLESS your standing north of the buliding. In anycase, if it sees you, doing exactly what you would do if it should come from the east will work to avoid it.

Regardless of your combat level, it's advised to hide, and not fight revenants(Especially higher level ones) as just a 1-3 fights will use a large portion of your food.

Drops
100% drop: Ashes

Runes

 * 37, 75 Fire runes
 * 15 Chaos runes
 * 5 Death runes

Weapons and armour

 * Steel axe
 * Steel battleaxe
 * Steel two-handed sword
 * Mithril kiteshield
 * Adamant platelegs
 * Dragon spear (members-only)
 * Dragon med helmet (members-only)
 * Rune med helmet (rare)
 * Rune mace (very rare)
 * Rune javelin (members-only)
 * Rune Spear (members-only)
 * Rune full helm (semi-rare)
 * Rune chainbody (rare)
 * Rune kiteshield (rare)
 * Shield Left Half (very rare)(members only)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire
 * Uncut emerald
 * Uncut ruby
 * Uncut diamond

Charms (members only)

 * Crimson charm (most common)
 * Green charm
 * Gold charm
 * Blue charm

Other

 * 4, 11, 44, 132, 220, or 420 Coins
 * 10 Thread
 * 150 Steel arrows
 * Tuna
 * Gold bar
 * Chaos talisman (members only)
 * Loop half of a key (members only)
 * Nature talisman (members only)
 * Level 3 Clue scroll (members only)
 * Tooth half of a key (members only)

Different appearance
Since the graphic update on demons, greater demons now appear in at least four different variants. Because of this, some new players think one "species" of Greater demon appears stronger and tougher due to it looking more intimidating than others. However this is not true, as Jagex affirms that they are equally strong and tough and have the same stats as one another.

Extra Information
Currently, the God Wars Dungeon boss monster, K'ril Tsutsaroth is classified as a Greater Demon. If you had a Slayer task of Greater Demons killing it will count towards it. As well as the bonus of the Black Mask/Slayer helm will work against him so long as your Slayer task is Greater Demons.

Before graphical update
Before demons were updated they had heads which resembled that of a horse,or the old head of all the dragons, as well as long thin limbs, fangs, and a solid red skin tone.

In Runescape classic, they had reddish-orange skin, with horns like a devil, and did not have wings.