Black demon

Black demons are large monsters that inhabit a few dungeons across RuneScape. They are combat level 172, jet-black, and have a melee-based attack that can hit up to 16. They are much stronger than their greater demon cousins. When fighting them bring some food because they do pack a nasty punch! They are often set by Chaeldar and Duradel as Slayer assignments, and a good way to kill them is to bring Prayer-boosting gear and Prayer potions, and use the Protect from Melee prayer. The player can also use the Guthan armour set so the player won't need food or prayer potions. If there are lower level creatures next to the Black demons then the player can fight against them to heal himself in case of emergency. Still it's recommended to have at least one piece of food (shark or better) with you for the safety of the player.

Like other demons, they are affected by the magical abilities of Silverlight and Darklight.

Locations
Black demons inhabit the following locations:
 * The deeper half of Taverley Dungeon
 * Underneath Edgeville, in the Wilderness section of the dungeon
 * Chaos Tunnels-- it is recomended that you kill them here if you want more charms
 * Brimhaven Dungeon, right before the Iron and Steel dragons, and with the Bronze dragons.
 * One is fought underneath The Grand Tree as the final boss of the quest.

In each location is at least one safespot from which the demons can be fought safely with Ranged, Magic or a halberd.

100% drops

 * Ashes

Runes and talismans

 * 50 or 75 air runes
 * 10 chaos runes
 * 45 death runes
 * 37 or 40 fire runes
 * 3 or 45 law runes
 * Nature runes
 * Chaos talisman
 * 7 blood runes

Armours and weapons

 * Black axe
 * Black sword
 * Dragon med helm (extremely rare)
 * Dragon spear (rare)
 * Mithril kiteshield
 * Rune kiteshield (semi-rare)
 * Rune longsword (rare)
 * Rune med helm
 * Rune platelegs (rare)
 * Rune spear (rare)
 * Rune 2h sword (rare)
 * Rune battleaxe (rare)
 * Rune chainbody (semi-rare)
 * Steel battleaxe
 * Rune sq shield (semi-rare)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare)
 * Dragon dagger (very rare) chances 1-1000

Ammunition

 * 1-200 adamant javelins
 * 135-345 bronze arrows
 * 5 or 10 rune Javelins
 * 12, 42, or 64 rune arrows (rare)
 * 150 steel arrows

Ores and bars

 * Adamant bar
 * 20 Noted coal
 * Runite bar (very rare)
 * 100 Noted silver ore

Herbs

 * All Herbs

Others

 * 30, 132 or 3,000 coins
 * Defence potion (1) or Defence Potion (3)
 * All gems (except onyx)
 * Tooth half of a key
 * Loop half of a key
 * 1 or 2 Cooked lobsters
 * Gold charm
 * Green charm
 * Blue charm
 * Crimson charm
 * 10 Thread

Trivia

 * Most black demons were level 156 in RuneScape Classic. The boss of the Grand Tree quest was level 175.  It was the strongest quest monster until the release of the Legends quest.


 * The spelling of the regular demon is Black demon with lowercase second word. However for The Grand Tree quest, it is spelled Black Demon with 2 uppercase words.